I took off the week of June 1-June 7 for posting my own content, and tried to promote voices of people of color. Today I kept thinking about going back over the week, and doing my normal food related posts, and know what? I’m not going back. Just doesn’t seem to matter right now what … [Read more…]
And the news and the weather are equally disturbing. And depressing. The light brite tree went back up to the attic yesterday (Jan. 2). On New Years Day when I went up to get the plastic bin it’s kept in, there was a big pile of snow on the attic floor. We have an 11-year-old … [Read more…]
I guess. Tuesday was the election and in some respects the good guys won. We got rid of our evil governor here in WI, but as my colleague Meredith said Wednesday, “he’s already sold the farm to Foxconn.” And the map of our state still looks alarmingly red. New York Times WI election results Of … [Read more…]
Or, the weekend, from the normal annoying-ness of middle class life, to more inspirational activities. Friday was evidently my day to blow things up. I was working at home because my last three (out of 24) student advising appointments were by phone. First I blew up a website by installing conflicting plugins. Then I blew … [Read more…]
But maybe I still will. These are my Instagrams from Trump’s 1st hundred days, January to March 2017. My plan was to print them on cloth and then bind them at the top, like a “book” of upholstery fabric samples.
We had a pretty quiet New Years Eve. We walked down to our local good Italian restaurant, Lombardino’s, for a late dinner – the reservation choices were 5:00 PM or 8:45, so we took the 8:45. Even with the reservation we had to wait almost 20 minutes for our table – they were that busy. … [Read more…]
…wearing red in solidarity (although I am at University of WI so it’s just as likely to be seen as badger red), and drinking instant coffee that I already had in my desk drawer, so I’m not going out and spending money. And here’s a slideshow of vacation minder messages, how people say they’re not … [Read more…]
So here I am at another library conference, where I’m sitting in meetings with people talking about metadata before 9:00AM in the morning. Fortunately, I think the fashion for showing screens of code with pointy brackets is fading; instead they’re showing slides with lists of all kinds of technology and environments used to create the … [Read more…]