I’m bad at physics. I went to an engineering school and I majored in math and I almost majored in chemistry so people thought I was supposed to be good at physics but, no. Put me in front of a free-body diagram and I react with this sort of blind scared incomprehension, forces are supposed [...]
Entries Tagged as 'lita board'
Newtonian mechanics, and the LITA election
May 4th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
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three vignettes about connection
October 28th, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Long, fascinating article in this morning’s Boston Globe about the meningitis outbreak. One of the things that most caught my eye about it is the CDC’s role as a manufacturer of leveraged coincidence. A doctor in Tennessee who happened to have the right background and insight to ask for an unusual set of tests. A [...]
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LITA board blogging: why they got it wrong about the secretary role
June 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
As I do, I went to both LITA board meetings, and ended up with pages of notes. And I could, if you like, blog some of the actual content of the meetings. But it turns out the blog post that’s been writing itself in my head this last day has centered entirely on this one [...]
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In which I comment on the LITA board and transparency.
February 24th, 2012 · 20 Comments · Uncategorized
I just had the pleasure of spending an hour listening in on a streamed LITA board meeting. I have somehow, and entirely to my shock, become a diehard LITA politics junkie; I’ve been to almost all the board meetings for the last three conferences, and I appreciate that LITA is feeding my addiction — er, [...]
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ALA11 takeaways
July 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
So I just posted this whole thing about how to win at conferences that you’re attending conferences for personal/career reasons, and I promptly went to an ALA where I had work responsibilities and it was different and I’m not even totally clear on how it was different. Except that I worked for, like, 25 hours [...]
