• Reading The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Tainter. What is society? What is complex? What is collapse? More fun than is reasonable. #
  • My definition of pleasure reading seems to have shifted from “fiction” to “anything that is not library & info science.” #
  • A compelling argument for smartcars? Apparently no one wants to buy a Hummer, even if it's only $2. http://yfrog.com/0s7xupj #
  • CH Garden Tour is in our neighborhood for the first time this year. Tourists taking photos of our neighbors' yards. Pretty amusing. #
  • Now THAT'S what I call a longitudinal study: 4,000-Year Study Supports Use of Controlled Burns http://shar.es/mtQ8S via @ybelanger #
  • It's a constant battle to make myself work on stuff at the top of the stack, rather than the stuff at the bottom. #
  • I'm impressed with the handwriting recognition capability of Evernote. It even manages with my scrawl. Even I can't do that sometimes. #
  • @librariankt I hadn't seen that, thanks. It seems to have been started by SILS grads. I'm going to make some calls now. in reply to librariankt #
  • This is the food of my people! Ancestral & adoptive. Shoutout to Neal's Deli. Can the Jewish Deli Be Reformed? http://nyti.ms/9E1jf5 #
  • Re LC acquiring Twitter archive: Now I'm fraught about my tweets being private. The archivist in me thinks I should be part of that corpus. #
  • Office-cleaning update: Have decided to purge all posible paper. If it's online, it goes. Apparently I have faith in something after all. #
  • Cleaning my office. Finding a lot of futurism pieces from late 80s, early 90s. Interviews w/ Wm Gibson, J Lanier. Looks pretty retro now. #
  • Wow do I wish Delicious had existed in the late '80s, early '90s. I'd have so much less paper to clean out of my office now. #
  • Two 4-leaf clovers & one 5-leafer, fresh-picked from the front yard: http://yfrog.com/f13a3j #
  • This is probably kind of weird, but after a long day I'm finding it soothing & relaxing to fold & put away my 4 year old's laundry. #
  • @eliah @lazyphiphi I'm sold. Using Tweetie now. First thing I noticed: I like the pull&release to refresh. Thanks. in reply to eliah #
  • Both Echofon & Evernote on my iPhone are crashing constantly today. WTF? Today brought to you by the letter E, as in exasperating. #
  • I really wanted augmented reality glasses at this meeting today, to give me info about attendees I didn't know, in pre-handshake moments. #
  • Bus + lovely walk thru Pritchard Park. Home to destination: 25 min. Plus I saw a pileated woodpecker in the park. I <3 Chapel Hill. #
  • Off to the SILS Board of Visitors mtg to co-lead discussions on the future of libraries. Bunch of smart people in a room together = good. #

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