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My dreams have typography. Gill Sans medium-weight, to be exact. I cannot begin to imagine why; I quit using Gill Sans years ago because it's overused.

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Born to the Purple Squirrel is nearing completion. If you're interested in writing an introduction/foreword/afterword and willing to license it CC-BY, give me a yell. http://purplesquirrel.dsa...

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Forgot what she told me, mostly / but I remember one thing she said / "You may slip and call some lousy fuck your friend / but in the end / you'll come out even / then, tell your story."

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Deb Talan, "Tell Your Story Walking" - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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But I don't wanna waste the words / that you don't seem to need. / When it comes to wanting what's real / there's no such thing as greed.

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Over the Rhine, "I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time" - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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"Never," said Kareen with passion, "ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear."

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Bujold, A Civil Campaign. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

Word. - laura x - -

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If you or someone you know would be interested in teaching a course in reference online this fall, please let me know. The person we had planned on just backed out.

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I would absolutely be interested (and I DM'd you). - Meg VMeg - [ 1 ] -

yay! will be in touch! - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 1 ] -

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Deadpan Snarker extraordinaire, the one and only, bentley!!!!

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:D - bentley - -

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"I once thought—I only found this out when I grew old, understand—that there is no more terrible fate than to become the mentor. To be able to tell how, yet not to do. To send your protégé out, all bright and beautiful, to stand your fire . . . I think I've found a worse fate. To send your student out knowing damn well you haven't had a chance to teach enough. . . ."

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Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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#LSWsurvey Ten-dollar words you just can't stand?

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"Crepuscular." What a crapulent word. It gets used a lot in 19th-20th c. gooey-romantic-orientalist Spanish-language poetry, and I just cannot with it. It's gross. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Double-plus to all three of 'em. Also "ontological." - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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There is something to be said for tenacity...

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Over the Rhine, "The Laugh of Recognition" - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Feeling a warm glow of righteous virtue because I told our coll-dev librarian not to buy any of Primary Research Group's lousy reports.

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Forms a company called the Secondary Research Group. The first publication might called Current Cites & Incites a Riot. - Joe - -

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I second that. - waltcrawford - -

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I tell myself too many times / Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut

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Annie Lennox, "Why" - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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bump - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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And my heart hit a problem, in the early hours, So I stopped it dead for a beat or two. But I cut some cord, and I shouldn't have done it, And it won't forgive me after all these years!

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KT Tunstall, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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Interesting times. I'm seeing more and more folks tiptoeing away from Beall. E.g. http://www.openaccess.man...

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https://twitter.com/simon... is where they explicitly say "we don't rec Beall's List any more." - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I see some minor flags for the journal, but I think it is more positive than negative. - Joe - -

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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Ondatra iSkoolicus's feed, Cycles & Human-Powered Vehicles
After ankle and knee pain for the last couple years, I have been making myself ride one gear down from where I would have before, and it seems to be working. (I also learned I can't bike in soft-soled shoes. Oh, well.)

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I'm glad you found something that worked. While I wouldn't bike in really soft shoes, I do bike in athletic shoes. I no longer bike in hard leather-soled shoes after an accident where my dancing boots slipped off the pedal, landing my coccyx right on the end of the bike seat. I was in excruciating pain for weeks. Couldn't sit. - Spidra Webster - -

owwwwwwwww. mostly I bike in Keen sandals, so not too far from athletic shoes. I had some thin-flexible-soled walking shoes, and for whatever reason those just killed my ankles riding uphill. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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We sent Derrick to Italy. Maybe now we need to plan a group trip...

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I like the way you think. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I've been to that Dublin! To a conference, even! - Julian - -

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Does this work? I tried to leave a comment on an LSW post and it didn't let me...

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