Back in June, I posted about my foray into GoodReads. At the time, I simply posted some “short versions of immediate impressions”. I was convinced that my time with GoodReads would be short, that I would quickly grow frustrated with it and move on. In part, I formed this opinion because I dove into it without a real sense of scope or mission. I had joined GoodReads on a whim, because a couple of friends had, and I had not really thought through what I wanted to get out of the site. After a couple months of on-again-off-again usage, I figured out how it fit into my overall plan; I could use it to track the books in my personal library, to track books I had taken out of our local library, to track what I was reading and when, to record my thoughts as I went along and then convert those notes into full reviews, to find other interesting books, etc. I suppose that is the site’s mission after all. Which is not to say that I do not still have some critiques. Read the rest of this entry »
The Gibson I understand. The Vermont Atlas? Makes perfect sense. But the TMNT action figures?
Just a brief figure to illustrate Comcast’s on-going craptacularness:
So yeah. Even without getting into the specifics (i.e., price & download speeds) we can see the areas of discrepancy that might cause an educated consumer to be … well, rather alarmed.
Burlington Telecom: if you’re listening: hurry up with the wiring in my neighborhood.
In response to me calling someone smart:
I’m not smart, just not terribly stupid.
From a friend:
It’s a weird world where my trolling through Facebook looking for people that I got drunk with over the previous weekend could not only be characterized as, “work,” but was specifically condoned by my boss.
Thinking thoughts (from a self-inflicted homework assignment):
We have come all the way from attempts at great literal fidelity to the author’s style, to high-level translations of flavor. Now if this happens already in the first sentence, can you imagine how it must go on in the rest of the book? What about the point where a German landlady begins shouting in her German-style Russian? How do you translate broken Russian spoken with a German accent, into English?
–Hofstader, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (p. 380)
Not necessarily new. But he really captures something that seems to sneak into my thoughts early and often and across contexts.
currently playing: Moustik “Disclosure”
- teh m00se is out of surgery. and doing well. eating “adult foods” like popsicles, she reports. we all like good news.
- Flickr seems to be down and seems to have been for hours. which (among other things) means that you’re probably not reading this until well after it’s been published. we all hate bad news
- Leaving in the a.m. for a trip. We’ll miss my folks, who will be hear using our place as a staging area for my brother’s Champlain College foray.
- Tip: Ian McDonald’s River of Gods is awesome. (So far…) Recommended. Highly vs. not will have to come later.
- Reminder (to self): don’t stress
If you’ve navigated here via the link off B^2: welcome!
Yes, our library rules. In addition to their awesome set of tools, they also have free wi-fi. You can see a panoramic shot of its College Street-facing side here. Thanks for stopping by.
