argh

I have four papers due next week, I did two presentations yesterday, and I am tired just thinking about all of it.

Went to Houston for Memorial weekend to see my little brother graduate from high school. He is off to Texas Women's University (yes, they take men too) to study occupational therapy. There were terrible thunderstorms on Monday, so all flights were delayed, and we didn't get home until Tuesday morning at 2 am. Ahh, life. It was so much fun getting five hours of sleep and then getting up to give those presentations. From all accounts it all went well; I don't really remember. :)

My family is moving to Moscow June 1. My step-father agreed to go on a four-year posting. The one hitch it that the ONE international school in Moscow may be too full to make my little sister, so if she doesn't get in, my mom and sis will stay in Houston for the school year. That would suck, so we are hoping a spot opens up soon.

Two more weeks of school... and then hopefully an internship and two summer school courses. Taking four classes this quarter has been a ... challenge... I've learned how to make Sangria, and have been making it by the pitcher.....

California Materials Exchange

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/CalMAX/

From the website:

"CalMAX ... a free service designed to help businesses find markets for nonhazardous materials they have traditionally discarded. CalMAX helps businesses, industries, and institutions save resources and money."

blogs get ISSN numbers

Is Blogging Serializing?

Posted on: April 26th, 2007 by Matt Raymond

I got an email this morning from a colleague in the Office of Communications, who said that she was speaking to our “guru of ISSN numbers.” Here is the upshot:

Today she told me that after much debate, catalogers had decided that corporate blogs published regularly are in fact serial publications and therefore should have an ISSN number. The Library should be a model for all catalogers, she said. She promised to read and assess your blog and communicate further. Many bloggers have been requesting ISSN numbers. You may already have an ISSN number.

I thought it worth throwing this one out to the larger community, especially given our growing librarian and cataloger readership.

Should this blog and others have an ISSN number? What are the pluses and minuses?

I can certainly see the pride of having an official “number.” But I also know the blogosphere is, by and large, a notoriously independent — and sometimes cantankerous — place. Would bloggers chafe at such an identifier? What guidelines should govern who does or doesn’t get assigned an ISSN? Do any blogs already have an ISSN?

from http://www.loc.gov/blog/

crazy cool

http://www.craftzine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/plastic_grocery_bags_into_knit.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954

When sheep go BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/blacksheep/internationaltrailer/


It seems that in New Zealand, the scariest animal around ... is a sheep.

Yarn Shop Directory

http://www.dailyknitter.com/shops.html

Commerical Pattern Archive

http://www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/COPA/about.html