It’s not every day that you come across sentences like the following:
“I’m worried that that good will will be undone”

If I were a non-native English speaker, such wording would probably blow my mind.
Ok, maybe it’s not so weird, but it just tickled my funny bone.
Taken from a New York Times article about the recent resignation [...]

One of the movies we watched over the holiday weekend — on Thanksgiving Day, actually — was The Incredibles.  We’ve seen this movie many times but I still enjoy it.  One of my favorite quotes from the movie is when Helen Parr is driving her son, Dash, home from school after he got in trouble [...]

Several times over the past year or so, I have offered up criticisms of OCLC. OCLC is a staple of the library world, especially here in the U.S., but its reach is global and it is expanding all the time. The simplest or most concise way of expressing my criticisms is to say [...]

My wife is married to a fool. Yes, that’s me. Why am I fool? Well, there are several reasons, but the one that has hit home to me recently is that for years I have put most of my efforts into things that won’t last. Like creating a wonderful, intricate ice [...]

A few weeks ago I decided to give Google Adsense a try.  I put one small piece of advertising in a widget on the lower righthand column of FML, just to see what happened.  I have a lot of ambivalence about advertising.  Have I sold my soul to…Google?  I really don’t know what to think.  [...]

Now that I am working in a corporate library, I decided to try membership in the Special Libraries Association (SLA).  This is, by far, the most predominant membership organization among my peers in corporate libraries, and I wanted to understand and explore what SLA has to offer.  One of the first things I discovered is [...]

I have been sick for a week now and I am sick of it. I wish there was a way that I could build up my immune system. All of the kids except Keegan have been sick — for the second time in as many weeks — as well.In other news, in the [...]

Yesterday I was feeling pretty low with a cold. We were supposed to visit my family downstate but cancelled that trip. I feel badly that we had to do that but it was the right decision. I’m feeling better this a.m., which is good. I found it hard to believe when [...]

True story. On the shuttle bus to the train station, the woman behind me turned to the only other passenger and said: “So I got an email today with a photo of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and some others, standing with their hands on their hearts and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Except Obama [...]

Surely the news from last week about some Congressmen unfavorably comparing the Library of Congress to the likes of Wal-Mart and UPS was one of the stupidest things I have ever read. I was genuinely shocked by the level of ignorance and, well, stupidity…shown by Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), [...]