CHLA
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Transcript of CHLA
There are startling similarities between Desmond Hume's
time traveling and Billy Pilgrim's time traveling. Daniel
Faraday even goes so far to call it being "unstuck in
time," the exact terminology which Vonnegut used to
describe Billy Pilgrim's experiences.
The novel (and its author) are a question asked on a
game show watched by Michael Dawson shortly before
his third attempted suicide.
Billy meets aliens in the book who can perceive the past,
present and future all at once. They know the universe
will end accidentally with the push of a button; when he
asks them why they don't prevent it, they reply:
“'He has always pressed it, and he always will.
We always let him and we always will let him. The
moment is structured that way.”
This is the same theory of time travel which Lost uses
and which Miles attempts to explain to Hurley (in other
words, what happened happened).
The button on Lost may be a reference to the
aforementioned button that would end the world.
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five:• Acknowledges that homosexual
men were among the victims of the Holocaust.
• Depicts sex.
• Characters (mostly soldiers at war) use the f-bomb in a realistic manner.
Dr. Wesley Scroggins, Associate Professor of Business at Missouri State
Anyone here work at Missouri State?
Dr. Elizabeth Fowler (PhD.)on those who suggested
banning the Harry Potter books:
“You know…anything that dumb people dislike this much is probably pretty good. Let’s
order these.”
• Order Speak from Amazon:http://goo.gl/aSag
• Look up Speak on WorldCat:http://goo.gl/MlJH
Links for Dr. Scroggins:
• On Missouri State’s OPAC:http://goo.gl/eg6x
Links for Dr. Scroggins:
Scroggin’s letter to the editor published 9/18/2010, so that’s
only 11 days.
Kudos to Missouri State’s libraries (and to student
protestors)!
Please: Any time a member of your faculty suggests a
particular book should be banned? Order it immediately.
Perspective…or Narcissism?
DSM-IV-TR = 301.81
ICD-10 = F60.8 (Other specific personality disorders)
DSM-IV-TR = 301.81
ICD-10 = F60.8 (Other specific personality disorders)
Narcissistic personality disorderNarcissistic personality disorder
IBM 5496 Keypunch machine
IBM System/3's Multi-Function
Card Unit (MFCU)
Extended video available at http://vimeo.com/11640057
Hi. My name is David, and I’m a geek
Cheerleaders!
Context
Working with the I.S. Department
• Troubleshoot, train users, develop training materials, and identify user needs.
• Filtering what issues reach I.S.
• Administration of online on-call scheduling system, meeting room reservation system, support of mobile devices, RoboHelp, etc…
Working with the I.S. Department
Making a library intranet portalthat I.S. could live with
• No Web development software
• Must be maintainable by non-geeks
Working with the I.S. Department
Cheap, Easy Way to Try Ubuntu
•Install VirtualBox, install Ubuntu on your virtual machine
http://lifehacker.com/5204434/the-beginners-guide-to-creating-
virtual-machines-with-virtualbox
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/newtoubuntu/C/welcome.html
Heads-up: New version (10.10) drops on Sunday 10/10/10!
Cheap, Easy Way to Try Ubuntu
Free Productivity Tools I Use: PDFescape
http://www.pdfescape.com/• Online tool works in browser
• Great for filling out forms
• Can “edit” protected PDFs
• Useful for marking up a PDF if you need to make notes on an article you’re sending to a patron
– Example:http://davidrothman.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/examplePDFEscape1.pdf
I WOULD NEVER Use: PDFpirate(Because subverting DRM is wrong…)
http://pdfpirate.org/plugins/remove_restrictions/
http://www.ensode.net/pdf-crack.jsf
See also:
Mendenley
Demonstrations:
•Installed app
•Web site
•Bookmarklet
Free Productivity Tools I Use: Mendeley
Free Productivity Tools I Use: cb2Bib
Cb2bib
http://www.molspaces.com/cb2bib/index.html• Awesome for extracting metadata from PDFs (and Web
pages and email alerts!)
• BibTeX output
• If it can’t extract, it’ll help you extract
• If you give it SOME metadata, it can frequently look up the rest for you
Free Productivity Tools I Use: cb2bib
Free Productivity Tools I Use: cb2Bib
(Attempted) Demonstration
Drop.ioUseful when dealing with size limits for sender or receiver of email.http://drop.io
• Simple, easy-to-use interface
• Share even very large PDFs- say up to 15 MBs.
• For legal reasons, we want the download to be password-protected
• File automatically deleted after set number of days passed
Free Productivity Tools I Use: Drop.io
Web-to-PDF bookmarkletshttp://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf_bookmarklet.htmlhttp://www.web2pdfconvert.com/pdf-browser.aspxhttp://pdfmyurl.com/
• Ideal for patrons who know they want a PDF, but don’t know exactly why.
Free Productivity Tools I Use: Web2PDF
