My kids come up with the funniest things to say sometimes.  This morning, for example, Tristan was watching something on TV about the baby beluga whale that was recently born at the Shedd Aquarium.  He rushed upstairs to tell me, with great excitement:  “Dad!  Did you know that zoo we went to recently has a [...]

We live in an area where there are more lakes per square mile than anywhere else in Illinois.  We’re used to seeing a lot of water.  Now, thanks to a ton of rain during the past two weeks, we have even more water.  In fact, we have too much water and hundreds of houses in [...]

There are many things I’m still getting used to in terms of corporate vs. academic librarianship.  One of the differences is the types of information/current awareness sources that can sometimes be found in the corporate environment.  For example, I regularly read reports from Outsell, Inc. and find almost all of them very useful and instructive.  [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while now about writing down some of the things I knew or experienced when I was younger in comparison to what my kids experience or will experience.
Here is what I could think of (there are lots more that could be added):
Kiwi fruit — I can remember when we [...]

I’ve had a subscription to PC Magazine for a while now.  Honestly, it’s a mixed bag.  Sometimes it contains really useful information; other times, it just seems like a forum for tech writers to blow hot air.  (Case in point, the terrible article written a few issues back by the previous editor-in-chief, Jim Louderback, predicting the [...]

I was excited to read about a Flickr photoset of pictures taken of various areas within technical services at the Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan.  (Seen via librarian.net.)  This photoset provides a lot of insight into how books and other material are received and processed in technical services in a large library.  [...]

One of the things about blogging that I have yet to figure out is the etiquette of commenting, or more specifically, responding to comments.  This goes for comments people make on my blog entries, as well as comments that I make on other people’s blogs.
It is really important, in my mind, to pay attention to, [...]

After finishing up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows early last week, I decided it’d be fun to re-read the whole series as well as watch all of the movies from the series that we have so far.  Friday night after work, I was home by myself — a rare event — so I decided [...]

I’ve never participated in a meme before, but I kinda like the one I just found in a very serendipitous way on a blog named Bella Dia.  (This is a blog I have to tell Michele about, if she doesn’t know about it already.  Michele is a blog-reading fiend when it comes to blogs like [...]

Last night was special because I was able to pick and eat the very first ripe tomatoes of the season from our small garden.  The plant that is furthest along in terms of ripe tomatoes is the ‘Lemon Boy’ variety, which is a yellow tomato.  Keegan and Michele agreed with me that it tasted very [...]