baroqueMorales

I found this neat web-based language translation engine called Fagenfinger, which allows you to copy text into a box and get a rough (but improving) translation of a website. Maybe I can use this to explore foreign-language sites that seemed completely undecipherable ...until now.

A defining characterisitc of my 30's (I'm currently 31) has to do with a pervasive feeling of "information overload" but perhaps this is just common to all urban people living in the modern age. It just seems that as the pace of my life seems to quicken, due to increased responsibilities, overall productivity as a working adult and my ability to organize,sort and seek information. Part of this is also due to being a working mom/administrative professional. My primary job is to keep other peoples' complex schedules, and information organized. At work, I access up to 10+ programs simultaneously, work with raw data such as numbers, charts, publications, statistics, copy confidential and archived information using a wide variety of "network shares" and database systems. I also find myself applying my professional organizational to my home life, (then blurring the line between work and "life") the house requires constant upkeep, the boys can't f...

Well, tonight I just wanted to post a brief update so that Google, the company behind blogger, won't feel neglected. "Google, I want you to know that even though I'm not a high-frequency poster, I continue to think about you daily." What I'm up to: Working of course. I just registered for 9 credits of my first quarter of the iSchool and now searching for books that have to be special ordered. Such as "Theories of Information Behavior." This autumn, I'm also taking "Internet Technologies." and have started reading "The Rough Guide to The Internet" 2006 ed. by Peter Buckley and Duncan Clark, which simply demystifies the history, use and terminology behind the internet, which most of use take for granted, but still really don't understand very well. Soon, I'll be a bonifide geek that knows how Wi-Fi actually functions (configuration/troubleshooting) that comes with maintaining ones own systems, while one of my co-worker...

As I further explore the role of Library and Information Science professionals in social context, I found this interesting Yahoo group called "Librarians in the Movies." Through this group one can follow the relatively narrow topic of film and media representation of people involved in LIS work. This link above goes to short, filmed interviews produced (by Google) that solicit information from professional librarians about accessing/finding information using Google at a recent A.L.A conference. Google also has a group targeted to librarians to help them use Google searching techniques and products more effectively called The Google Librarian. There is some obvious cross-promotion at work here, as Google strives to make traditional paper books "searchable" by scanning them and putting "everything" online. It makes me curious about the company itself, and I wonder what it would be like to work for them?

For any of you that have yet seen or heard of this strange, new comic force, I give you the home page of Eugene Mirman . He is currently on "THE COMEDY MEN FROM TOMORROW TOUR" W/ Michael Showalter (Stella, Wet Hot American Summer, The State) and Leo Allen (Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central Presents, former SNL writer) Local shows include: Sat-Jul 22 Seattle, WA Sonic Boom Records in Ballard (5pm) Sat-Jul-22 Seattle, WA Chop Suey www.chopsuey.com (9pm) I find him absolutely charming and original (hence the gratuitous promo) and am looking forward to meeting him on Saturday as potentially introduced by a dear friend.

I attended The Evergreen State College during for the last 2 years of my undergraduate degree. I've long kept this fact on the "downlow" because Evergreen seems to be highly lauded everywhere but in Washington State. I've just recently become involved in raising the profile of TESC alum in Seattle from basically non-existant to...? I recently joined the Seattle Greener's on Yahoo idealistically thinking that we might come to some more formal collective organizing. We have a vision of creating the professional and personal network common in much larger schools. While Evergreen is growing and becoming more mainstream, it's still our way to build something socially useful, especially if it doesn't currently exist. Do contact me if you're a TESC alum and interested in getting involved or attending on the various local gatherings planned for this Summer. Jennifer Morales UW dMLIS Admitted autumn 2006 TESC c/o 99'

Was the initial day of my existance. That makes me 33, or as my son said this morning "That makes you a factor,..I mean a multiple of 11." We laughed about that. Since Eric is working today, yesterday I came home all stressed out, anxious and ready to go to the gym, but he sabotaged that by having mini-corn-dogs hot and ready when I got home, chocolate mousse, a funny card, and books wrapped in plain brown paper and pretty purple ribbon (that I still haven't opened yet) from my favorite bookstore. He said "is there anything else your birthday slave can do for you? We then watched the riveting "Brokeback Mountain." The night was too short. Sigh.