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Membership Committee Meeting Sunday 8am - 10am

June 24th, 2007 by lsmith

The Membership Committee was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 8am on Saturday morning. What more do you want?

Able Chair Pat Ensor got through the two hour agenda with flexibility and grace. She brought news from ALA including discussions and evaluation of the re-branding of our Open House as LITA 101 and its inclusion in the general information for new conference attendees at the beginning of the conference program and in other promotional materials. The idea seems to have brought many new faces to the Open House on Saturday. Another ALA initiative includes ideas for recruiting students and Committee members will be scrutinizing the report on this idea, which includes developing LITA contacts on campuses with Library and Information Science Programs.

The Committee discussed our possible connections with the newly formed Assessment and Research Committee, reviewed the Open House and discussed future plans, reviewed the Happy Hour and got a volunteer to host the midwinter event in Philly, and the LITA booth, all on-going efforts.

Along with ALA, LITA Membership Development is looking at schools as our target for recruitment of new members, and we’re exploring retention ideas. We’re interested in Second Life as well. We were approached by the Denver Forum organizer Mary LaMarca , and will get together some ideas and activities for that event.

One retention idea we’ll be developing is the LITA 201 concept, a session that will provide how-to and how-I-did-it-good practical information for those who have gone through the newbie stage and really want to grow into LITA leadership positions.

Jun 8
¿Sabes mami?, quería debatir, pero mi libertad de expresión no me deja, o sea…, tú sabes, ¿okey?

Por: Omar Montilla (Aporrea)

- Sabes mami no me vayas a regañar, yo quería debatir, pero tu sabes mami que no estoy acostumbrado, porque siempre impongo mi criterio, o sea, que quiero que me oigan pero yo no oigo a nadie, o sea, porque sabes que no hay libertad de expresión, o sea, mejor dicho si, pero no, tú me entiendes, ¿verdad, mami?

- Te entiendo mi bebé, pero involúcrate más en el negocio, mira que tu papi fue a jugar golf y la secretaria parece que es chavista no sea que cobre un cheque, tú sabes, ¿sabes? Mira, mi amor, ¿y los exámenes?

- Mal mami, como será de grave que tengo miedo hasta de los exámenes de heces. Pero no te preocupes que hablé con el Decano y el Rector y nos van a reprogramar los exámenes y además, mami, ¿sabes? parece que nos van a reconocer los créditos, o sea, por las marchas y las guarimbas, o sea…, tu sabes que mi Universidad es muy estricta y full selectiva.

- Ánimo mi cielo, a propósito, el sábado es el baby shower de Dorothy Auxiliadora, ¿sabes?, será recontraguauu! Y déjame decirte que…

- Tú sabes mami que no queríamos debatir en un recinto cerrado con esos tierrúos chavistas, ¡qué horror!, ¡guácatela!; pero pelamos gajo, mami, porque no sabíamos que eso era muy demasiado finísimo en cadena nacional de radio y televisión, mami. De todas maneras, tampoco íbamos a debatir para que todos nos oyeran, me entiendes, mami, o sea preferimos debatir en las calles y en los barrios. La próxima cita será en La Dolorita, El Carpintero, Bloques de la Vega y Cochecito, donde seguramente ganaremos de calle, porque contamos con full calor popular.

- Muérete que si, beibi, ¿y no te dio un telegele? A propósito en el happening de Christhiancito Jesús los centros de mesa son de lo mas chic, preciosos.

- Mejor dicho, pensándolo bien mami y me estremezco, o sea, ¿sabes?, creo que pelamos ese boche, porque, fíjate mami, que a Chávez le dieron unos segundos por televisión y ahora es presidente. Imagínate mami si le hubieran dado 10 minutos, o sea que a lo mejor sería presidente de los Estados Unidos, ¡qué horror!, imagínate, entonces adonde íbamos a ir entonces. Sabes mami, sudo frío, mami de sólo pensar que Miami…, mejor no lo digo, porque es pavoso.

- Darling, cuídate, mira mi honey, tu prima Jennifer Clementina regresó del postgrado en Boston y…

- Mami, pero soy un pelín de descuidado, se me olvidó por allá la última página de mi discurso, o sea, tú sabes, ¿sabes?, o sea, ese que escribí yo y que es de mi propia inspiración, que me dieron en Ars Publicidad, o sea… sabes, ¿tú crees que se hayan dado cuenta de algo?

- Mira mi amor, estoy contigo, estoy preocupadísima con la irritacioncita esa que tenías en la uña, ¿te molestó?

- No mami, pero fíjate, o sea, después que salimos nos tuvimos que montar en unas patrullas de la policía. Sabes mami, fue de lo más deprimente, y eran unos carros con unos asientos de plástico. Mami, casi me muero, pero de la vergüenza, o sea, que menos mal que me agaché para que no me vieran por televisión. Eso estaba full, repleto y lleno de camarógrafos.

- Yo te lo dije que te llevaras a Jaime, mi chofer, con el mercedes negro, porque la camioneta júmer está en el taller y no la entregan hasta dentro de dos días, pero ahí está tambien el be-eme-doblevé, el jaguar está rallado en el guardafango, tu sabes, tu papá, echando para para atrás, le dio al poste del jardín.

- Mami, una pregunta, ¿tú crees que me haya rayado entre mis amistades? Eso sería demasiadísimo chimbo y fú.

La cinta se terminó y no pude seguir oyendo. Menos mal.

Internet: www.lapaginademontilla.blogspot.como

Correo: omar1montilla@gmail.com

Air Force Jet Crashes Near Hondo

February 22nd, 2007 by Glenda

T-38An air force pilot suffered only superficial injuries after ejecting from his T-38 jet shortly before it crashed about 45 miles west of San Antonio on Thursday.

http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2007/02/25/texas_news/state06.txt

 

 

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Inside the Latest Harry Potter

July 23rd, 2007

Warning: This post contains plot spoilers on the latest Harry Potter book. Skip reading this post if you have no intention to know the possible contents of the new book. But if you do, please continue.

I always thought of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series as one of the biggest triumphs in the literary world of recent times. It’s not because of the profits raised from the books’ phenomenal sales. More importantly, it inspired non-readers to take interest in books at a time when the only thing people seem to be reading are tabloid headlines, shortened cellphone texts, and friendster message board titles.

The newest addition to the popular series - - should help renew interest in reading books. And this seemed the case Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsas thousands of Harry Potter fans snapped the first copies of the novel last July 21, 2007.

Last Thursday, Beryl and I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I don’t know why but the Umbridge character always reminds me of UP President Emerlinda Roman.

I was only able to read until The Order of the Phoenix, which is the fifth book in the series. I wish I can read the last two books too before both are shown in film. So now, I will have to content myself with the reviews of other people.

Its interesting how leaks on the new book’s contents proliferated the internet even before its official release:

In the final days before the world learns whether Harry Potter lives or dies, spoilers — or those pretending to spoil — are spreading on the Internet. On Tuesday, the Web link http://www.zendurl.com/h/hallows/ displayed what the site claimed to be a seven-page epilogue and scanned photographs of the table of contents from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coming out Saturday under ultra-tight security. Similar information appeared Monday on http://spoilerboy.googlepages.com/home. Associated Press

Inquirer Lifestyle columnist Ruben Nepales shares one such spoiler in his Sunday column:

“Hagrid is killed by Professor Snape during an attempted ambush of Ron and Hermione. The latter two escape, but then encounter Voldemort who duels with Hermione. The latter is killed in order to protect Ron. Harry triumphs over his enemy but Hermione pays the ultimate price for it.â€

Could this be real? We can never be sure until we see the pages with our own eyes. But already Emma Watson, who plays Hermione, is reacting to the yet unconfirmed spolier:

‘Today, a couple of journalists told me that there’s this guy who claims to have been able to hack into J. K. Rowling’s computer,’ she shared. Putting her hands on her chest, she continued, ‘He’s saying that Hermione is going to die. I was like, ‘Oh God, that’s awful.’ I actually found myself feeling sad. I have not really contemplated on her dying. I always had the sense that she’d make it.’

…The actress is emotionally attached to her character not only because she has been playing her all these years. ‘Hermione and I are very similar in quite a lot of ways,’ she explained. ‘We’re both very stubborn, determined, loyal, bossy, academic and a bit of a feminist.’

Meanwhile, some religious zealots try in vain to peddle its indiscriminate criticism of the Harry Potter. No one seems to be believing them in this matter though. The final Potter does not disappoint, one of the first few reviews by BBC News said.

Inquirer Lifestyle writer Ruel S. De Vera also hails the seventh Potter novel, saying that it’s “a satisfying, reader-friendly celebration of all things Harry Potter.” He shares:

The sixth book, 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,†had ended somberly with the death of Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore and Harry pondering the bleak future. But in this final chapter, Rowling implements sweeping changes in the world of Hogwarts as the resurrected Lord Voldemort’s Death Eaters move against the Order of the Phoenix’s forces.

How sweeping? Entire platoons of characters, both beloved and benighted, are mowed down, the casualties coming so suddenly and furiously, it will disconcert even the hardiest readers.

Harry had spent the morning completely emptying his school trunk for the first time since he had packed it six years ago,†Rowling writes. But when Harry plunges his hand into his trunk, he pulls it back to discover it is bleeding.

As the Death Eaters mount a takeover of the Ministry of Magic, Harry finds himself both a fugitive and a combatant, trying to elude Voldemort even as he tries to find the horcruxes (vessels containing fragments of the Dark Lord’s soul).

“I shall attend to the boy in person,†Voldemort declares. “That Potter lives is due more to my errors than to his triumphs.â€

As with the earlier novels, there is a magical puzzle at the heart of “Hallows,†that of the three mystical artifacts called, well, the Deathly Hallows.

But this rather pedestrian conundrum isn’t particularly gripping, as there is so much going on that readers will instead concentrate on the character work Rowling engages in. After all, readers will frantically keep guessing who will join Dumbledore and Sirius Black in the afterlife, eager to find out whether The Boy Who Lived lives or not.

Likewise, Inquirer Contributor Eldric Paul Peredo writes: “Hallows is from beginning to end a thrillsome chase between Harry and his nemisis, the evil Lord Voldemort.”

He continues:

Voldemort, fully restored to his carnate self with the help of Harry’s blood, is in congress with his Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor, discussing a new plot to kill the boy wizard. Hogwarts teacher Severus Snape, remembered as Phoenix leader Albus Dumbledore’s killer, provides the information on Harry’s transfer into safer quarters by members of the Order.

Meanwhile, Phoenix members are at No. 4, Privet Drive, putting a decoy plan in order. Constrained by the Magic Ministry’s regulation of all magical travel, they resort to the least magical choice: brooms.

With a Phoenix member on Voldemort’s side, however, the transfer is almost thwarted, with Harry again facing Voldemort for the third time since their encounter at the graveyard during the Triwizard Tournament. Harry’s wand, twin of Voldemort’s, protects him from the latter’s power, but the costs to the Order of the Phoenix this early are dear.

The chase begins.

Indeed, the intensely fascinating ending for the popular seven-book series. Deathly Hallows should be a deserving ending for a series that is now compared to C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia and J.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.For me, what is inside Harry Potter’s latest offering will still have to be seen. But whatever happens in the much-awaited conclusion, I know that Harry Potter will continue to be remembered and read in times to come. Image from the Weekly Reader

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Platypus

Take greasemonkey to the next level with platypus. From the site:

Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser — “What You See Is What You Get” — and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they’ll be repeated the next time you visit the page. Editing pages to suit your needs is dandy — but making those changes “permanent” is the real payoff.

Some of the things you can do with Platypus include:

  • Remove parts of the page you don’t wish to see.
  • Move a part of the page to a different location.
  • Change the style and format of page elements.
  • Modify all the links on the page using a regular expression.
  • Insert your own HTML code.

For those of us (myself included) who have not taken the time to learn how to compose a greasemonkey script, here is an easy to use took that will do it for you.

Posted by Yaakov Ellis on June 2, 2005 at 12:39 in
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from: she sells sanctuary - Gianna
Wednesday, 28th Feb, 2007 10:00:00
I’m so jealous of those of you who could go see Anna Broinowski’s doco on Norma Khouri, Forbidden Lie$, which premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival the other night. Anyone see

Gawker takes stalking to the next level

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What do you get when you mix Google Maps and Gawker’s regular Stalker feature?

We’re guessing the most apt term is “Privacy Invasion 2.0″.

Looks like Stalk-tastic fun for New Yorkers. Sadly, those of us on the left coast are stuck in the dark ages of celebrity tracking until Defamer launches its own PrivacyWatch map.

James and I checked in on Eric late in the evening yesterday and had a good chat about the initial M4 experience. James recorded it and although the Skype cloud was kind of stormy last night, I think we got most of it. Hopefully he’ll be able to massage it into shape and get it posted soon. In the meantime, Eric has been documenting his experience in a series of digital photos and podcasts so take a look and a listen if you’ve been curious about the new Toshiba Tablet PC.

On a related note, Eric is lobbying hard with the folks at x1 and Mindjet to get together and work out an indexing solution so that x1 can index and search all the MindManager maps on a system. If you use MindManager and have been hoping for a full index-and-search solution, drop by Eric’s blog and leave a comment on this post.

Automatix2

Posted in Ramblings on January 21st, 2007 by Richard Yoo

Automatix2 makes Ubuntu Linux even more useful…

Although Ubuntu comes with lots of applications that can be installed on your desktop, there are still some applications that are available only from third-party repositories. Finding all these repositories and installing these applications manually is very time-consuming, but fortunately some people have created a script called Automatix2 (which is the successor to Automatix) which automates the task for you. It comes with a graphical interface so that you can run it from your desktop, and this tutorial describes how you do it.

Installing Popular Applications On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Automatix2

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