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my mom fell again and broke ribs, shoulder, stuff in her face... of course they didn't go to the ER immediately but waited until after breakfast the next day to go to an urgent care... just like my grandmother - horrible osteoporosis

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but my mom was conscious of it and did weight bearing exercise (casually) and ate calcium and had dexa scans and shots and whatever... but she's still breaking bones all over the place - Christina Pikas - -

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Oh, that's scary. And frustrating. Hope she heals up ok. - Christina Pikas - -

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Wiley removing books from Knovel mid-semester makes them look bad... and petty and screws librarians widely (though not me directly)

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wait what? got linky? - Christina Pikas - -

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"As I am sure you may know, effective April 1, John Wiley & Sons removed access to ALL of their digital tools present on KNOVEL’s platform due to the sale of KNOVEL to Elsevier BV. Apparently there was some warning that this was to occur, but for many of us this message came way too late and not loud enough. May I ask if this happened to you as well, and if so, how/when were you warned this would happen? Here at [university], within a short period of the removal, I was contacted by two engineering faculty members who were using e-versions of textbooks from Wiley via our KNOVEL access in their courses to teach and their students were relying on the digital copy as their textbook. You can imagine the surprise of our users when they discovered the book they were using had disappeared from our online catalog! At this juncture, it is only 2 days into the tap having been shut off, and I fear that many more may come out of the woodwork to “blame the library” for a lack of service. If you are in the same situation, I would appreciate hearing how you got the word out to your patrons. - Christina Pikas - -

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i shouldn't work in the library. too dangerous. went to look for SP design patterns, read a chp on text mining twitter with R

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[drrubidium] got a shout-out from SNL! Sort of... http://skepchick.org/2014...

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i enjoy April Fools day shenanigans - particularly those that are sweet, cute, or clever...

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so do I. it's, um, not exactly a popular opinion. - Christina Pikas - -

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I'm cool with them if people aren't doing them as an excuse to be mean. Fun and fluffy or a by of satire is fine, though. - Christina Pikas - -

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this person at work is driving me up a wall

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ugh why aren't you using ie - Christina Pikas - -

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and it's like ie that's a few versions back because newer ones don't work with some physical plant ticketing system or other - Christina Pikas - -

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Autocorrect tried to correct acl to rack - that is an entirely different injury, lol

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i'm gonna make RR's head blow off: posting on code4lib about how his faculty want to use researchgate instead of the repository

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i didn't post, i read a post. - Christina Pikas - -

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What has been written so far about RG and OA? Looking for some good analysis and opinion pieces. Our researchers want to know if they should be on RG (we aren't an academic institution). They say their colleagues at other orgs are telling them, "oh, my paper is up at RG." I want to educate them about the processes of self-archiving if they don't already know about it, but I know RG is going to come up as well. - Christina Pikas - -

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omg the nap bus is idling out front... trying so hard not to throw myself under it

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spoiled by our very helpful IT helpdesk. had to contact the parent institution's one and got totally different treatment.

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will he never take a nap at home again? Mr. 2 - I can see in the monitor - has all his clothes off and is apparently going to try a head stand. Imma hafta go up there... sigh. work at home fail.

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Sorry for laughing. The image from your kid's bedroom is so familiar to this parent. - Christina Pikas - -

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please don't say that word, i don't even wanna think about it. *hides under desk* - Christina Pikas - -

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Confused. Thought snowstorm wouldn't amount to much but looks like >5" and daycare is closed. Then went and ran on treadmill but I run on Tuesdays and not Mondays :/ didn't feel as rested? Confused.

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9" measured on the deck. o_O - Christina Pikas - -

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I like this ad featuring a woman shipbuilder: http://www.huntingtoningalls.com/about... - next time I need to commission a destroyer, I'll consider hiring Ingalls :) (my last destroyer was built in Maine, but it was built 20 yrs prior)

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if WoS truly only changed the interface and none of the mechanics changed, then why analysis tools all over the place broken?

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are the analysis tools screenscraping? - Christina Pikas - -

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we use the api and it looks like it broke for a bit, too, but no, these were supposed to be using records saved as txt - Christina Pikas - -

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We've been approved to have a little information kiosk (?) in a makerspace... We plan to have a dashboard page on a laptop with links to relevant resources, a laminated or similar flip book of quick tips and useful info, and a small collection of print books

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so far for print books we're thinking like books on electrical components and electronics, arrl handbook, but also maybe a basic book on prototyping, one on brainstorming activities??? any suggestions? - Christina Pikas - -

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there will be lots of high powered computers there because of the interest in modeling and simulation... but how to encourage crowdsourcing hmmmm.... interesting. - Christina Pikas - -

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In honor of her 2nd birthday celebration this afternoon, ms 2 decided to kick off her nap by removing tights and diaper and crapped all over her crib.

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Go To Hellman: The DMCA Takedown of a Feynman Lectures eBook Converter - http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014...

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grr. editor comments are awful,too - Christina Pikas - -

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Recommended in a book! - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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"Pikas is a force of nature." - Christina Pikas - -

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M and I both heard son say "pears, bitches!"

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There's a chance though that asshat is really "outside" - Christina Pikas - -

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Pikas research day 2014 poster - http://www.slideshare.net/cpikas...

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New book at my library : killer fros

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But cover pic is woman with v straight hair? - Christina Pikas - -

Oh, there's a t made with a pick ax that you can't really see. Too bad the blog with the covers is out of business - Christina Pikas - -

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doncha hate when you're compiling a literature search report and realize you forgot an obvious search... sigh... it's already overdue

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besides -- yuck on all the business "reports" commissioned by large IT/telecoms trying to sell innovation/collaboration/byod/security tools - Christina Pikas - -

i hit bs bingo with one report that had the following in the title: byod, collaboration, innovation, big data, analytics - Christina Pikas - -

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Enough already with the computer-generated papers! - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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This just in: that horrible smell might be the handle of the pan on the back burner on fire and not just something the husband is doing in the garage.

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is US men's speedskating overhyped? is it the suits (I doubt it)? did they not concentrate? maybe we just don't have the talent right now

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Silencing women - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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