Monday, October 10, 2005
Ex Machina
Another reason to love Brian K. Vaughn! I picked up the first volume of this series over the weekend, and it's really very cool and engaging. If, like me, you are bogged down with reading you *don't* want to do (I'm slogging through heaps of paper whose trees of origin gave their lives so I could be sedated by reading about metadata), then grab a comic like this--it's the perfect antidote.
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My personal conception of Hell prominently features reading "the stuff you have to read."
While listening to Peter Cetera and Barbra Streisand warbling the Barry Manilow songbook.
Shuddering,
-Joke
"And we've got nothing to be guilty of/our love/could climb any mountain . . . "
i *told* you to blow off most of the metadata reading, silly woman. all twenty articles say basically the same thing. just read the dublin core stuff. would i lead you professionally astray?
I know, I know . . . but there's so much reading that even SKIMMING it is taking forever. And the fact that I continually doze off while skimming makes things that much worse . . .
...would it be of any help to you guys if I told you I can find books all by myself and return them on time and/or replace them properly?
-J., who hates Barry Manilow's music more than the death of a thousand cuts
P.S. I'm not sure that "metadata" is even a real word.
of course "metadata" is a real word, you Philistine! It must be, or the hopes and dreams of thousands - nay, millions - of librarians will go up in smoke. We all long to organize, tag, catalog, and (digitally if possible) preserve information resources -- and yet I spend my days as a college ref librarian looking up phone numbers and clearing paper jams. The ideal of "metadata" gives us something to cling to, damn you!
I did more with metadata when I was a tech writer than I have since.
and you came and you gave without taking...and I sent you away, oh, Mandy...
Well, frankly, the word "metadata" sounds like a lewd, disco-dating service.
-J.
Her name was Lola...
...Lola Falana?
-J., convinced Barry Manilow is played in Purgatory as well
or at least on the Hellevator...
Hellevator Music. I am SO stealing that.
-J., brazenly shameless plagiarist
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