We currently have 2 young raccoons in foster care at our house. One of them (Wild Thing) is very wild having just come into WildCare recently at 11 weeks of age. The other one (Pansy Boy) came in around the same time at 9 weeks old after being raised (illegally) as a pet [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2006
Over-Commitment Central
Why is it that weeks can go by where Steve and I look at each other Saturday morning and speculate on what we want to do with the day, but every couple of months there is a weekend that is absolutely over-committed?
Aaron is coming to the Bay Area for California Extreme next week and Steve [...]
Part-Time Policy Wonk
For the few of you who might be following my other blog, I should note that I changed the URL to http://platypi.com/policywonk/.
Independent Verification,
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I Told You So!
One of the greatest single moments of the SLA conference happened when I was at the Young Professional’s Happy Hour making small talk around the bar. I mentioned that I had been to 2 other SLA conferences, Los Angeles and Nashville. One of the guys in the group commented that [...]
Public Access to Environmental Information: Government and Grassroots Actions
Coming into the home stretch now and it’s getting harder and harder to get to the sessions and to make any meaningful sense of them. Perhaps I should reserve my postings until I have a chance to recover, but then I’d probably never get to them. Best to get to them when they [...]
Headin home…
In case anyone is reading this, I’ll be heading home soon. Hopefully traffic on 280 and the bridge won’t be too bad. When I get there I’ll probably feed the cats and do a little laundry, perhaps even reformat a computer for wildcare. I’ll be back at work again at 10am for a [...]
Night Time is the Right Time
There were a great many social distractions to choose from last night. I started the evening out at the SLA Awards Reception on the USS Constellation. The ship is very cool to walk around, particularly seeing just how small the officers’ quarters really were. They did have their own little rooms while [...]
Meeting with the Vendors
Eli Edwards has posted on the SLA conference blog about an epiphany she had for first timers on the Expo Hall. I also had an epiphany that I would like to share. Like Eli, in the past I have always funded my own way to the SLA conferences and was never in a [...]
Open Access and Public Access
In spite of the title, the speakers for this session spoke very little on the concept of Open Access initiatives and instead focused on various public access initiatives of the government. The first speaker was David Gillikin, Head, MEDLARS Management Section NLM; mainly he spoke about efforts like Medline and MedlinePlus. He also [...]
Study: Polar Bears Turning to Cannibalism
Not to be a downer, but my God people! This is just god awful! Can we admit there’s a problem now!?!?!?
From Discovery News:
Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and [...]