Category: General

  • Original Dickens Serializations

    Discover how many of Dickens’ novels were originally published, in serial form, at the Charles Dickens Digitization project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  See an example of The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Public Radio International’s The World.

  • Is it over yet?

    this dose of paranoia courtesy ZDNet Tech Update Today, Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:22:40 -0800

  • Bush Presidential Library

    I jokingly asked my High School friend Louis the librarian, “So how large a library will they be building to hold Bush’s coloring book collection?”  And his response was:I envision it as an amusement park.  You know, the Guantanamo torture chamber, the Shattered Economy Coaster (it just goes down into the abyss), Dick Cheney Gun…

  • Obamicon me

    Mostly blue with a little red, just like me…via obamicon.me

  • Yes We Can

    We have a new president!  Bush is gone.  Now the hard work begins to clean up the mess.

  • Rhythm

    Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.Elvis Presley

  • Fresh Start Friday

    Long ago, when I first started my career, I worked for Radisson Hotels International at the Corporate Office, and my boss, Tom Nalley, used to come by every now and again on Friday, and remind us that, “Today is ‘Fresh Start Friday’, so I’d like to have you clean up your workspace before you leave…