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djfiander

@djfiander@code4lib.social

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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misty, to random
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Another fun thing I'm reminding myself of with the CD-ROM stuff I'm writing: there's some real-time timekeeping data that has the current relative position inside the track... and sometimes that goes backwards.

djfiander,
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@misty what a mess. I hope DVDs learned from this

adr, to random
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Here i am at seedy pierogi bar, or what passes for seedy in Ottawa anyway. Note Joust machine in background. Joust is tops.

djfiander,
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@adr I've been there. C4L North at the university, i think

adr, to random
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@hiringlibrarians holy shit am I violently offended by this entry (as always, it ain't about you, you're a treasure). https://hiringlibrarians.com/2015/06/04/join-the-church/

djfiander,
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@adr @hiringlibrarians "We define 'hireable' as 'willing to live in Hawai'i, but will reject non-Mormon candidates" definitely sounds like a you problem.

platypus, to random
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Extremely off the cuff conference thoughts -- I know people book venues years ahead of time, but at this point it really seems like conferences need to put something in their contracts that allows them to cancel without penalty if the locality passes legislation which will make the region unsafe for attendees.

djfiander,
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@platypus a minor tangent: You know how behind the pharmacy counter where you go to pick up your prescriptions there are shelves with random "over the counter" stuff that you need to ask for, but don't need a prescription for?

I noticed last week that in those shelves in my Canadian drug store is a whole shelf of big friendly-blue coloured boxes proudly labeled "Plan B".

mattblaze, to random
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In bringing charges against former president Trump, Special Counsel Smith has created a dilemma that threatens to further divide our already fractured nation.

I mean, of course, should the future federal Indictment Day holiday be celebrated on the anniversary of the date of the grand jury's filing, the date it was unsealed, or the date of Trump's first court appearance? Or should it be observed on a Monday, to guarantee all Americans a long weekend?

I hope we can resolve this peacefully.

djfiander,
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@mattblaze how about orange jumpsuit day?

TechConnectify, to random

Realizing I don't have a perfect handle on how Trek-universe artificial gravity functions, it just occurred to me that incidents involving turbolifts falling down the shaft seem... silly

djfiander,
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@TechConnectify Especially since that's a problem that Elisha Otis solved in the middle of the 19th C.

djfiander,
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@siderea @TechConnectify I mean, they also seem to think that force fields are a perfectly good way to put a window into the side of a spaceship. Because no starship has ever lost power for even a second.

djfiander, to random
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Not helping!

djfiander, to random
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The biggest problem with burning everything down, however much we may want it, is obviously the impact on the air quality.

elibtronic, to random
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I'm listening to Atari Teenage Riot if that tells you anything about how my day is going.

djfiander,
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@elibtronic @adr Covenant https://youtu.be/ws7-N_BHitU

djfiander,
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@elibtronic @adr Rammstein instantly cancelled: https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/other/rammstein-concert-tour-rocked-by-sexual-assault-claims/ar-AA1cfmKG

coral, to random
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I feel like I should be sorry about this, but I just got the breaking news alert that Pat Robertson is dead, and I said, out loud, to an empty room, "Good."

djfiander,
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@coral I didn't know he was still alive

djfiander, to random
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Leaving the house is highly overrated

djfiander, to random
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Wait. It's only Wednesday. Crap

platypus, to random
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I'm not a retrocomputer, but damn I look at things like the PDP-8 and I get the urge to do that analog/digital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

djfiander,
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@platypus Computers used to be a lot more stylish. I kind of miss it, even with the weird 70s colour scheme

djfiander, to random
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My furnace says that it's time to replace the air filter (right in the middle of a wildfire special air quality statement), but I'm out of air filters?!? How annoying.

djfiander,
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@pbinkley usually I add long term consumables like that to my shopping list as soon as I start using the last one. Not this time, obviously

pbinkley, to random
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I'd tell you more but the pic of the last page of the memo that I took in the Library of Congress a few years ago looks like this

djfiander,
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@pbinkley classic

helenczerski, to random
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Imperial units are a pain all round, but I cannot even begin to describe how maddening “thousandths of an inch” are. OH LOOK.. AREN’T DECIMALS USEFUL? I suppose that some other weird subdivision of an inch would be worse, but really, if you can cope with thousandths of an inch, what’s so hard about a centimetre? #units #rant

djfiander,
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@helenczerski yup. 0.1 inch is a standard division that's used in the electronics industry for various dimensions as well, like spacing between pins, etc.

dsalo, to random
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Asking for a me: Fellow aging librarians, what's the most obnoxious, bullyragging "every library must Library 2.0 OR ELSE" screed that you recall?

Boosts welcome.

djfiander,
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@dbs @dsalo @AMD Ok, EW.

djfiander, to books
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Aliette de Bodard. The Red Scholar's wake.

Space opera and factional politics swirl around the growing romance between a pirate ship mind and one of her captives.

I've been reading a lot of f/f fiction recently for some reason.

djfiander,
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TJ Klune. 2019. The house in the cerulean sea.

Good, but I think that Under the Whispering Door is better. Slow burn gay modern day fantasy romance with found family and a struggle for acceptance.

The burn is so slow that all the other characters are getting annoyed with them for not recognizing it, which is always fun.

#bookstodon #gay #fantasy #sff #urbanfantasy #books

djfiander,
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Pat Murphy. 1999. There and Back Again.

An extremely thinly veiled pastiche of The Hobbit. Amusing, well executed, but not worth seeking out unless you're a completionist of one sort or another.

#bookstodon #books #scienceFiction #sff

djfiander,
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Martha Wells. 2023. Witch King.

A rich fantasy world in which a demon and a witch awaken after having been imprisoned for a year, and set out to find their companion and determine who imprisoned them. Self contained, but there is a lot of room for sequels or just more books in the same world.

Book cover always look so much worse on monochrome eReaders

#books #bookstodon #fantasy

djfiander,
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Ann Leckie. 2023. Translation State.

A new book by Leckie is always a joy to read. She returns to (a new part of) the universe of Ancillary Justice for a space opera with lots of action that's also an exploration of family, and identity, and gender. "I'm a princex in disguise!"

Started it yesterday, finished today. Forgot to eat.

#books #bookstodon #sff #ScienceFiction

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Sangu Mandanna. 2022. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

Modern witches, romance, enemies to lovers, found family, secrets.

I was so engrossed, my Fitbit thought I was asleep. Read it in one sitting.

#books #bookstodon #reading #fantasy

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