and a feeling of calm washes over me

i got past march 29th. and it feels like there is this life of possible leisure opening up on the other side. the compression of time and space that i was experiencing for the last several weeks has suddenly decompressed.…

Query Rosetta Stone

Natural Language One person can be in one or many photos and one photo can contain zero, one, or many people. List all the people who are in photos along with the filename and the description of the photo(s) they…

perhaps too much calm washed over me?

a whole week and nothing to blog? shame on me. i spent a lot of time nursing my sick baby back to health (as the comments to this post will attest). suffice it to say, my laptop is almost feeling…

one step closer

financial information system underway, check. masters paper written, 65 pages, check. masters paper approved by Dr. Marchionini, check. masters paper reviewed by Lucia Zonn, check. masters paper printed on 100% cotton paper, check. masters paper signed by Dr. Marchionini, check.…

and then there was one week

7 years of elementary school (hagen) 2 years of junior high (orville a. todd) 4 years of high school (spackenkill and pflugerville) 4 years of college (unc) 2 years of graduate school (sils) = 19 years of formal education there…

We were raised by television to believe that we’d be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars — but we won’t.

“People start out in life pretty certain that they’re going to end up like David Beckham or win the Nobel Prize. Then, after a few years, they discover it’s quite tough out there – not just in their careers, but…

a kiln opening howto

at the preview for mark hewitt’s thrice yearly spring kiln opening, nearly two thousand pieces of pottery are on display. large planters sit along a walk leading up to a rustic barn which houses the rest. but nothing is yet…

i don’t know enough about the D.O.M.

while exploring dublin core for a final project, i came upon the elegantly simple nc echo dublin core metadata template. in dublin core, every metadata element (like “creator” or “description”) can be used zero, one, or many times to describe…

have a hamburger for me

tonight we saw gillian welch and david rawlings from 10 feet away. so good. why don’t i have any of their cds? imagine the stage at cats cradle with an oriental carpet and two mic stands, and a table with…