The tone alarm blasts me out of a dead-sleep, uninterrupted for the past couple hours, and I am so exhausted at first that I stand at the pole hole shaking my head before sliding down to the apparatus floor. As I’m stepping into my boots and pulling my suspenders up over my shoulders Anthony is reading over the speaker, “We’re filling out a second source on Fifth Avenue between 19th and 20th.” Continue reading ‘The End of a Night Tour’
Monthly Archive for March, 2006
The latest Providence Business News has a story on ProvidenceGeeks (I posted earlier about some photos from that interview).
This is a greasemonkey script that, when browsing a book at the Amazon.com bookstore, will pop up a link on the page to check the Providence Public Library’s catalog for that book.
Something must have changed on Amazon.com that caused the regex to break on my first version of this script, so i’ve re-written it to be a bit more forgiving. Download it here.
This script is a good compliment to Library Elf.
Tuesday; May 2, 2006 [UPDATE]: PPL has updated their online catalog software and you can download the new script using the links above. You’ll need to update the script if you want to continue using it.
Clearly, those of you who think higher education is a waste of time and all that self-reflection just leads to more liberals can choose to wallow in misery and just ignore this link. For the rest of you though, it’s a decent but over-simplified review of the Seligman/Csikszentmihalyi stuff that you’ve heard me mention in the past.
It’s amazing how sometimes a song truly does take you away to another time and another place and sometimes a place you’ve never been. My latest favorite vehicle for this removal of the present is Steve Forbert’s Romeo’s Tune. I don’t know where it takes me to, but it’s not here… In my hunt, so far, all I can figure is it’s somewhere near the place that Lionel Ritchie’s Easy (Like Sunday Morning) drops me off at.
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