Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: February 2005

  • States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile

    CBS News | States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile | February 16, 2005�14:00:07 “Drivers will get charged for how many miles they use the roads, and it’s as simple as that,” says engineer David Kim. Seeing as how I’m living in California I thought I should comment on this article that made the news a…

  • update and our founding fathers

    I discovered the other day that WordPress 1.5 has been released and so I upgraded my blog, Blacksheep to it. So far I’m loving it. It has a “static pages” function which I’m using to create a project gallery. Very cool. And it has some really good comment spamifiers, which will be utilized, for sure.…

  • Hero

    I finally got a chance to see the movie, Hero last night. I think it just might be one of the best movies I have ever seen. A beautiful film, all around. The cinematography is breathtaking. The director’s use of color throughout the film is brilliant. The story is fantastic, and seems to capture the…

  • Writing for the LIS

    I went to a CARL mini-confernce yesterday and the program was on writing for the LIS profession. The speakers were really great and it lit a fire under me to consider writing about some things I have done at Santa Clara that might be of interest. I have a couple of things I’m thinking about.…