Title Varies Slightly

My post on disability-related discrimination for Blogging Against Disablism Day tomorrow

Keep watching…. I’ll also be retagging some older posts.

Check out the new video podcast from SQPN,That Catholic Show!

Sorry, no captioning yet… anyone who wants to volunteer to do that or provide transcripts for greater accessibility would probably be very welcome!

It’s true. The model for tenure is in the Bible; specifically, Genesis, chapter 27.
Jacob works for seven years to get the desire of his heart, Rachel. And he believes he has succeeded. But the morning after the wedding night, he discovers he has married Leah, her sister. He must work another seven years for Rachel. [...]

and that may make my an anachronism. Or not.
It’s Wednesday, so that means an email from ALA Online with lots of fun (yet conceivably work-related) links, like this one from Web Worker Daily on “Six More Reasons to Use a Paper To-Do List.”
While I realize that pencil and paper have real limitations, and are not [...]

 
 
PTPL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2007
 
Potomac Technical Processing Librarians (PTPL) announce the availability of two $1,000 scholarships for future librarians interested in technical services. Students living or working in the PTPL membership region (DC, Maryland, Virginia) and who are currently enrolled in an ALA-accredited program, including distance education programs, are invited [...]

Husband: This is the third book in the series.
Wife: I just wish I could remember the first book. I don’t even remember the title.
Me: [Butting in]: And don’t you hate it when you go ahead and get the first book and you get halfway through the first chapter, and then you remember…
Wife: Yes! Then you [...]

“Please excuse [TVS] for being absent from school; she was picketing the Federal Building.”
As it turned out, Mom didn’t get to write that note for me, although we were both looking forward to it. For some reason, school was out that day? It must be a trick of memory, because I would have sworn the [...]

Tasteless humor: It’s not just for Don Imus anymore. Below, a reproduction of a press release from the National Center on Independent Living.
Boycott Hate
On Monday, April 16th, 2007 Center for Independent Living of North Central Florida staff at the Ocala branch office received a call from a consumer who was concerned about a street sign [...]

Today, some news agencies are publishing family reports that Cho Seung-Hui had been diagnosed with autism as a child.
So now, some people have found the peg on which they will hang the whole explanation of his anger, the shootings, the death. We now try to explain great evils in medical or sociological terms, and here [...]

We’re out of plastic bags (imprinted with our name and hours– promotion meets protection). So… it’s raining hard for the first time in days and days. How much would you like to bet that by the time the new bag order shows up we’ll be in clear skies?
The first bus I tried to catch this [...]