Librarian; interested in digital privacy, notemaking, annotation, workflow, ebooks, comics, current events, & reading. Views my own; occasional crank.

Joined March 2009
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Downloadable file for those who want to hang this up on the fridge (plus a slightly updated map with more Easter eggs): flickr.com/photos/wsdot/5533…
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WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.
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I’ve been informed by folks on this site that The Hobbit and now Jane Austen are too difficult for teens. I can’t stress enough how condescending this is to teenagers. You’re taking away all the things that might bring them joy and leaving them with no pastimes but scrolling.
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Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water!!
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Updated the front yard book box :-)
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I just ran our newish car into a concrete column in the library parking garage dropping something off. #IYKYK (Did I mention right in front of my spouse?)
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Once more it is the night before the #EdibleBookFestival and I am regretting the book I chose.
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Just two more #CougsGive gifts unlocks our $5,000 challenge for the #WSU Libraries and the @WSU_Press! Gifts will help support student services such as the Libraries' "digital making" Dimensions Lab. cougsgive.wsu.edu/giving-day… #GoCougs
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Artemis II: the ultimate getaway vehicle
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My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks
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I know it is a small thing, but, in these dying days of the open web, it is lovely that such a large proportion of famous poetry is online, mostly due to a $100M gift from Ruth Lily, who loved poetry (even though she never got any of her own published) poetryfoundation.org/poems/g…

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For #WSU Pokémon aficionados - all @Nature journals are available to the #WSU community via the #WSULibraries (just search "Nature Pub. Group" in Search It) Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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This me.
If you live with someone who has ADHD and you hear them say, “I’m going to put this somewhere safe,” you need to stop them immediately. Because that item is about to disappear into another dimension. You will not see it again. Start the search party now.
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Lorena O'English-a work in progress... retweeted
Well, here we are. Another beam holding up democratic mass culture drops out. But I literally can't imagine my childhood without these.
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Every five years I remember my @CSPAN #CSPAnniversary, and this year it's been 30 years! Where do the years go? It was along ago, during my @VoteSmart time....
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WSU’s community engagement efforts across the state are nationally recognized by the Carnegie Foundation. WSU is one of only 277 institutions recognized by the national organizations and first earned the illustrious distinction in 2008. news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01/13…
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