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October 31, 2006
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Courtesy my aunties and their son. What a weird little family I have.
October 25, 2006
bibliographic fun for everyone
If ever you have to help a library patron who is nervous about bibliographies, as I just did, send them to http://www.easybib.com . It does MLA or APA bibliographies for free and has a style guide that walks you through correct citations. It is raaaaaaad.
Janet helped me
Janet and I talked about how to put a thesis into herformal essays. She asked, can I say "I want to convince you...." as a way of starting her argument. I said no, because as readers we already know that she is trying to convince us of what she is arguing. BUT, BUT, BUT, I SHOULD have said, YES, by all means start by writing "I want to convince you [that Geryon's wings represent....]" What a great way to be sure that you know what you want to argue (your thesis) and to be clear about whether what follows connects directly to the argument. Thanks for that idea, Janet!
If that works for you, all you have to do is edit out the "I want to convince you" once you have your thesis and arguments figured out. Say it clearly and succintly "Geryon's wings represent.."
I'm looking forward to reading about Carson's book from your perspectives.
October 24, 2006
EBSCO
Has anyone here ever used the visual search on EBSCO Host before? Its very interesting. For those of us who don't like looking down long lists for what we are looking for, this search puts your results in different bubbles inside a circle. The bubbles are labled by subject category so that you can see what is inside each one. Its a lot easier than looking at a page full of text and you actually go a lot quicker since you can click on articles that you actually want.
Volcanic
October 19, 2006
Tutorials
Here is the link to the computer centers page of links!
They have links for tutorials in photoshop, dreamweaver, flash, css, etc...
Just in case anyone could use a little extra help!
October 18, 2006
Fun links
Salacious pictures of awesome libraries around the world:
Hot Library Smut (totally work safe). It made me even more sad for the state of American libraries; public libraries here are engaged in such a struggle for funding survival there's not much energy left over for architectural pleasures.
And a Naughty Librarian halloween costume. I don't even know what to say about this one, except really. What self-respecting librarian would wear the spines of books? That's so violent and anti-literacy...
both links from the library_grrls community on Livejournal.
October 09, 2006
Who Am I?
another surprise. our second text to bring up the existential question:
Who
am I -
(p.47)
i am relieved to find that the questions so important to me in all of my studies are showing up here. in the process of being surprised, my stereotypes are revealed.... those "digital/techie" people ponder questions of little relevance to my life...
i am reminded that the unanswerable questions are worth considering, no matter the discipline.
On me pense...
Je est un autre.
(p.47)
seems spiritual. ."...Rimbaud argues that "'I' doesn't think," insisting rather that "one" thinks "through him" - meaning that the poet is a kind of transcriber for the poem that comes from "one" an intelligence that is larger than the individual. " seems spiritual.
is it true then, that my intelligence, my spirit, is emanating from something larger. are we all one and the same?
NOT! (i need the hypertext commands here that let that jump off the page). NOT! i hear some say this. i read the article jules posted. in case you missed it, and in keeping with the new spirit of text, i post it again here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/health/psychology/03shad.html?em&ex=1160020800&en=bdb84cc0864e3384&ei=5087%0A
(i need the code that lets mine read something like NYT article - something to work for!)
but, i don't buy it. that scientific methodology is not convincing. what if in fact, our self is not attached to our ego, or our body, but can in fact, witness the stories of our lives, the webs that we weave, from afar. on p. 50, glazier points out that "Gelernter suggests that the "I" is a marvelous fiction engineered for an organism to endure." i would argue that the "I" he is referring to here is in fact our ego and the true self is the one looking down on it all, perhaps the energy coming from that intelligence, orwhatever you prefer to call it, that is bigger than each of us.
when i look at it this way, i'm not so scared. once i let go of my ego, my ideas of what my e-poetry, writing, seminar participation, is "supposed" tto look like according to the academy, i can let myself be written, poemed, danced, moved, changed, without fear.
that's creativity, that's change. and, perhaps, that's the real me. that's who i am.
i can't wait to meet myself...
poetics of e
Although I enjoyed reading Glazier (the first half, anyway, not the second, though), I needed the web in order to "read" the texts he discusses (an armchair and fire were more tempting, however). Later, stuck at the computer for the 5-10:45PM shift, I had time to browse e-poetry, focusing on the form most interesting to me: concrete poetry. The wonderful idea is to make the poetry more embodied, linking the physicality of words to their sense or giving them layers of sense through the use of more senses. Linking the world and the word.
Some finds:
Stir Fry Texts
River