I apparently missed this great Day Job Interview among the deluge of spam. This is the seventh installment in the Day Job Interview Series. Robert, Cataloging Librarian 1. Where do you work, and what do you do? I work in front of a computer at a desk (lacking cubicle walls) in an office in a library in a large, land-grant, public university. I am a cataloger, which means I create records that go into the catalog which facilitate subject, name, keyword searching and ultimately access of library resources in both physical and digital formats. 2. How long have you worked there? Counting my tour of duty as a graduate student, eight years. 3. Does your job require regular hours? If so, what are they? The usual 9-5ish business hours. 4. Do you like what you do? Do you respect it? I love the theoretical core of my job – helping those that seek information find it as easily as possible. It gives me a great feeling that people are finding and experiencing new ideas because of my work. I am playing but a small role in the learning/researching process, but yes, I do respect that. 5. What’s the best part...
Slate has a fascinating little architectural slideshow of "DisneyTown," Celebration, Florida. While I still find the whole concept of DisneyTown (okay, the whole concept of Florida) terrifying, Slate (in its usual fashion) manages to be even-handed. Check it out....
When Bill Clinton suggested his cabinet look like America, liberals thought that didn't just mean the colors and creeds of America, but our sense of fairness and duty. But suddenly conservative commentators love the narrow-minded definition of affirmative action: New York Post commentator Deborah Orin quotes scholar Stephen Hess: "Why would they vigorously oppose the first black woman to be secretary of state and the first Latino to be attorney general?" The Reagan-worshipping OpinionJournal marvelled that "It boggles the mind that 36 Democrats would vote against the first Hispanic attorney general." It boggles my mind that equal opportunity has been twisted into equal opportunism....
This will be a recurring feature where the media just doesn't get it, and their headlines read the wrong side of an issue. Just before Bush unveiled his Social Security plan, instead of jumping on the fact that everyone under 55 would face benefit cuts, the media wrote headlines like these: Sources: Bush Plan Won't Affect 55 and Up (ABC News) Bush Soc. Sec. Plan Protects Those Over 55 (Kansas City Star) Older workers' benefits protected in Bush plan (Houston Chronicle) With a liberal media like this, who needs Rush?...
If you haven't already noticed, posting on the main page is sporadic (euphemistically speaking), but some signs of life persist in Gustoland at Jennifer's blog, Teapot Dome, or nephew Kenny's blog Sherman's March. Now I'm going to go take a shower to wash off the self-promotional grime. So... dirty......
