Comments on: june 15 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/ the sketchblog of Catherine Hamilton Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:39:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Catherine http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-750 Catherine Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:18:00 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-750 And, I misnamed this monkey earlier in the comments: this is Bud, not Corn. I had been looking at the photo and, while drawing, decided that the face was a different shape than Corn's, and surely enough, went I went back to check the original reference, it was someone else. Bud, this is Bud. Undoubtedly named by a hippie post-doc. And, I misnamed this monkey earlier in the comments: this is Bud, not Corn. I had been looking at the photo and, while drawing, decided that the face was a different shape than Corn’s, and surely enough, went I went back to check the original reference, it was someone else. Bud, this is Bud. Undoubtedly named by a hippie post-doc.

]]> By: Catherine http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-749 Catherine Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:14:26 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-749 Key for me is to search Catherine, not Cathy. Numero uno, baby! Except there is an imposter from the UK who, while definitely holding seniority, mucks up my first page a bit. Mark is saddled (addled) with a dizzying array of like-named, albeit inferior, minds out there. Further complicated by the fact that he not only knows something about everything but also has done a little of everything - reading his CV must be like pouring through a dissertation. Here is a link to his radio show: http://wicn.org/podcasts/inquiry & blog/info: http://wicn.org/blogs/marklynchwicnorg Def NOT the amateur photographer!! Key for me is to search Catherine, not Cathy. Numero uno, baby! Except there is an imposter from the UK who, while definitely holding seniority, mucks up my first page a bit.

Mark is saddled (addled) with a dizzying array of like-named, albeit inferior, minds out there. Further complicated by the fact that he not only knows something about everything but also has done a little of everything - reading his CV must be like pouring through a dissertation. Here is a link to his radio show:
http://wicn.org/podcasts/inquiry
& blog/info:
http://wicn.org/blogs/marklynchwicnorg

Def NOT the amateur photographer!!

]]> By: Catherine http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-748 Catherine Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:02:59 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-748 I think I really need to get a silver sweater-vest. Like right now. Banana daiquiri sounds like a yellow-brick road to a nasty hangover, tho. I'm gonna google you and see how many hits I get... I think I really need to get a silver sweater-vest. Like right now. Banana daiquiri sounds like a yellow-brick road to a nasty hangover, tho. I’m gonna google you and see how many hits I get…

]]> By: Jesse http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-747 Jesse Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:27:42 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-747 NSFW librarianism! This is the best discussion board on the planet. Also means it's time to say that I've indeed read Rory's book and enjoyed it and to bring up pu-erh tea (which tastes like drinking old books) and Borges again (terrible to reread LABYRINTHS and find your fifteen-year-old self as entangled in Borges as any Borgesian somnabulist in a minotaur-maze) and dreams of underwater libraries with sunlit atria. But I can't do it. Brain is dead. The only thing I'm fit to mention is that trying to guess which of the world's various Mark Lynches Mark Lynch is has caused me to create a super-hero: Anyone can take up the mantle of Quaestor (impedimenta include a half-mask in midnight blue, a silver sweater-vest, the Antikythera Mechanism, and a banana daiquiri): armed with seven soul-stones containing the essences of failed search engines, he/she has the ability to transform the wielder into anyone with a Web presence who bears an identical name: "This is a job for sassy boomer Cathy Hamilton, author of BoomerGirl Diary!" "This is a job for Mark Lynch, accomplished photographer of semi-clothed men!" But you guys get to have all the fun. Trying to become Quaestor when you're the only person with your name on the Web results in convulsions, catalepsy, death. Mask drops to the ground. Smell of burned zeroes. NSFW librarianism! This is the best discussion board on the planet. Also means it’s time to say that I’ve indeed read Rory’s book and enjoyed it and to bring up pu-erh tea (which tastes like drinking old books) and Borges again (terrible to reread LABYRINTHS and find your fifteen-year-old self as entangled in Borges as any Borgesian somnabulist in a minotaur-maze) and dreams of underwater libraries with sunlit atria.

But I can’t do it. Brain is dead. The only thing I’m fit to mention is that trying to guess which of the world’s various Mark Lynches Mark Lynch is has caused me to create a super-hero:

Anyone can take up the mantle of Quaestor (impedimenta include a half-mask in midnight blue, a silver sweater-vest, the Antikythera Mechanism, and a banana daiquiri): armed with seven soul-stones containing the essences of failed search engines, he/she has the ability to transform the wielder into anyone with a Web presence who bears an identical name:

“This is a job for sassy boomer Cathy Hamilton, author of BoomerGirl Diary!”

“This is a job for Mark Lynch, accomplished photographer of semi-clothed men!”

But you guys get to have all the fun. Trying to become Quaestor when you’re the only person with your name on the Web results in convulsions, catalepsy, death. Mask drops to the ground. Smell of burned zeroes.

]]> By: Catherine http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-746 Catherine Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:51:54 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-746 I was a research librarian @ the RISD Library for a few years, and was a stacks and special collections supervisor. No librarian degree, though, so I wasn't a librarian for reals (keep credit where credit is due). Details are very NSFW. I was a research librarian @ the RISD Library for a few years, and was a stacks and special collections supervisor. No librarian degree, though, so I wasn’t a librarian for reals (keep credit where credit is due).

Details are very NSFW.

]]> By: Mark Lynch http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-745 Mark Lynch Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:10:53 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-745 Why am I not surprised? Not (da-dum) a "PUBLIC" Library???? It was funny about the interview w/Scott Douglas. He is still a librarian at the Anaheim Public Libes. He was amazingly quiet from the get go, so much so I could barely hear him, and then I finally realized: I think he was talking from the Front Desk! If you were a Public librarian, did you do a STORY TIME? Details please! Hey! hey! we're the hominids, Mark Why am I not surprised? Not (da-dum) a “PUBLIC” Library????
It was funny about the interview w/Scott Douglas. He is still a librarian at the Anaheim Public Libes. He was amazingly quiet from the get go, so much so I could barely hear him, and then I finally realized: I think he was talking from the Front Desk!
If you were a Public librarian, did you do a STORY TIME?
Details please!

Hey! hey! we’re the hominids,
Mark

]]> By: Catherine http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-744 Catherine Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:24:12 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-744 My first job was as a librarian, BTW. My first job was as a librarian, BTW.

]]> By: Mark Lynch http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-743 Mark Lynch Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:37:40 +0000 http://mydogoscar.com/birdspot/2008/06/15/june-15/#comment-743 (home and full of Doxycycline: a mega dose. Yum!) JESSE: Excellent memory! Outstanding! That IS Rory's book and if you haven't read it, do so. Rory and I have some mutual friends and I interviewed him initially about the PINK HEADED DUCK then about The Congo. Rory is a wild character, one of a kind. He tried to convince me to go with him to the remote island of St. Helena to look for the giant Earwigs rumored to be found there. Later, he started to do reporting from the most human-caused dangerous spots on the globe, like the Sudan, hanging with Quadaffi and even the IRA. At that point, I wished him well, but haven't read anything recently by him. He sent me these prints of the first photographs of Lhasa taken by an outsider. He came across the negatives in some market place somewhere. Ah, the people that drift in and out of your life! CATHERINE: Geekiness and Aspergers: See: NERDS: WHO THEY ARE AND WHY WE NEED MORE OF THEM by Dr. Anderegg. (interviewed). It's his contention that, yes there may be SOME connection, but actually far too many people are trying to label nerds/geeks AS Asperger's folk as a way of further maginalizing geeks. Like all the people that suggest Bill Gates has Aspergers. RE: LIBRARIAN GENES: Upcoming on my show is an interview with Scott Douglas, public librarian who has written a great "tell all" about the job titled QUIET PLEASE! "ABBA DABBA ABBA DABBA" Mark (home and full of Doxycycline: a mega dose. Yum!)

JESSE: Excellent memory! Outstanding! That IS Rory’s book and if you haven’t read it, do so. Rory and I have some mutual friends and I interviewed him initially about the PINK HEADED DUCK then about The Congo. Rory is a wild character, one of a kind. He tried to convince me to go with him to the remote island of St. Helena to look for the giant Earwigs rumored to be found there. Later, he started to do reporting from the most human-caused dangerous spots on the globe, like the Sudan, hanging with Quadaffi and even the IRA. At that point, I wished him well, but haven’t read anything recently by him. He sent me these prints of the first photographs of Lhasa taken by an outsider. He came across the negatives in some market place somewhere. Ah, the people that drift in and out of your life!

CATHERINE: Geekiness and Aspergers: See: NERDS: WHO THEY ARE AND WHY WE NEED MORE OF THEM by Dr. Anderegg.
(interviewed). It’s his contention that, yes there may be SOME connection, but actually far too many people are trying to label nerds/geeks AS Asperger’s folk as a way of further maginalizing geeks. Like all the people that suggest Bill Gates has Aspergers.

RE: LIBRARIAN GENES: Upcoming on my show is an interview with Scott Douglas, public librarian who has written a great “tell all” about the job titled QUIET PLEASE!

“ABBA DABBA ABBA DABBA”

Mark

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