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Well that wasn't fun. Dog was a pita our short little walk so i basically yanked/dragged 95# of rottie mix having a bad day while taking the stroller across streets populated with people taking in cell phones driving 40 in a 25. Babies pulled a lamp down and broke a cfl. Girl has massive diaper rash and is screaming from constipation. During this

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Boy got a bruise on his cheek. Dunno from what. Bed late. Headache. Plus husbands going to scream about the light oh and girl picked up his lens he has laying around and got the cover off. - Christina Pikas - -

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Oh, that's all so awful. I am sorry. I hope everybody gets to sleep and that tomorrow is a much better day. - Christina Pikas - -

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the dog is staring at me.

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maybe it's just a large squirrel - Christina Pikas - -

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clearly of zero relevance to mpow, but this new Chinese archeology journal looks really neat :) http://view.s4.exacttarget.com/...

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just successfully submitted my r assignments for this week... and then looked at the clock.... holy shit... this is why i'm not a programmer... but self efficacy is at a high... help on the forums was distinctly unhelpful so found my own solutions using google and trial and error... not that anyone cares :)

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I do, actually :) I don't have a programming background, but I work as a Technical Writer and I've been on a steep (but fantastic) learning curve. And "help on the forums was distinctly unhelpful" sounds very, very familiar. - Christina Pikas - -

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interestingly... current problem for my R course is ranking hospitals from gov't data... Harford Memorial Hospital ranks worst in MD for heart attacks... when my dad had his (maybe 15-20 years ago), he had my mom drive him across to that one because he thought it was better than closest hospitals... maybe things changed

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Fwd: How #icanhazpdf can hurt our academic libraries http://labandfield.wordpress.com/2013... (via http://friendfeed.com/steelgr...)

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Interesting discussion. Mike Taylor unveils a new side of his character in the comments. Not so sure I love that side. - Christina Pikas - -

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A few years ago a couple of faculty members worked on a plan to organize a regular shuttle to a research university to gather articles. The logistics and funding were problematic (and I doubted people would actually take the many hours involved out their weekly schedule). I think it was the shock of going from a research institution to the little college on the prairie. They've adjusted. Our ILL is pretty seamless and fast, - Christina Pikas - -

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the seductive thing about coding is solving the problems... the point when you've figured it out, and it seems easy, when you were beating your head against the wall trying to get there.

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conversely... the part when you can't figure out what's wrong is slightly soul sucking - Christina Pikas - -

I'm finding paracetamol to be of great help right now :) - Christina Pikas - -

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submitted the second part of the programming assignment but i only have an hour to do the third part.. and next assignment is supposed to be "challenging" (so this one wasn't, i guess)

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Which class are you taking? - Christina Pikas - -

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Done with assignment 2 yay! Not to week 3. - Christina Pikas - -

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Has anyone mentioned the new RSC Chemical Sciences Repository?

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Not sure whether they're trying to be an arXiv (previous efforts in chem have failed) or just putting all their OA in one place for easy browsing (why bother with the effort and expense)... or something negative to do with gov't mandates? - Christina Pikas - -

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Interesting! I wonder if they're going to tie it to ChemSpider somehow? - Christina Pikas - -

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wooo-hooooo... I just successfully submitted the first 2 answers for my computing for data analysis course.

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Im doing one on coursera - and slowly starting to fall behind. - Christina Pikas - -

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ah thanks - will look at it but after I give it a go - wont have someone holding my hand in the future so better learn how to get off the hole :) :) - Christina Pikas - -

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i was fretting about attending a doctoral student meeting and taking vacation and about work that wouldn't get done... asked and was able to attend by phone. meeting lasted 14 minutes. apparently hardly anyone showed up. thank goodness i didn't travel to college park!

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ha ha! Didn' realise you were in that area - had a 7 year sting at UMD - Christina Pikas - -

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I did. But mostly the computer lab on the 2nd? Floor. - Christina Pikas - -

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Heads Up new Science is a Special Issue on Scholarly Communication - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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Anyone able to search Web of Science from within Papers since July/August or so?

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There was a thread on this on the EZProxy listserv. I think the recent WoS changes broke the connection, so you'll have to wait for Papers to fix it. I'll see if I can find it. - Christina Pikas - -

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ohhhh... interesting. because i had seen an older message about needing to get some web services turned on from TR. the person i was helping with this just said it's fixed in papers 3 beta but there are so many other issues with that he's going back to 2.6.x - Christina Pikas - -

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some asshole at mpow (yeah, i guess there must be one here) got us cut off from Wiley by using a bot to batch download... we're gonna hunt 'im down. grrrr.

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We get cut off from something at least once or twice a year. - Christina Pikas - -

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Is the US government a good partner for linked data services? - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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DOE OSTI sites are still up. DTIC is up. ntrs appears to be down?

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Best/recommended ontology for bibliographic data? I see bibframe and bibo - looking for an owl file ... Mostly to describe journal articles (not whole books) - Tia

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oof. I think there isn't one besides BIBO. I see calls for one pretty often! - Christina Pikas - -

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I'd look at the British Library's data model for serials. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bl.uk/bibliogr... ; title="http://www.bl.uk/bibliogr... ; They don't use a single ontology to describe journals, and you might choose not to adopt every aspect of their model, but I think it's a very good one. - Christina Pikas - -

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Gov't call for proposals has a requirement that proposer have an h-index over 18 (or... ). topic is Psychology. our psychologists think that's pretty rare. A way to search for psychology and sort by h-index? researcher id and scopus don't appear to have a way

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Would this help? <a rel="nofollow" href="https://addons.mozilla.or... ; title="https://addons.mozilla.or... ; - Christina Pikas - -

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My day so far: 3am up with boy. 4am up with boy and girl. 5 am still up with boy. 6 am hand boy off to man who snuggles up with boy and proceeds to sleep for another 1.5hr. 8am: pick girl up off off sidewalk where she has fallen on her face. Clean up bloody mouth and hands. Daycare.

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Come in to work. Hard drive was to fries to duplicate. New hard drive to be loaded from scratch from backups but it will take 2 days - Christina Pikas - -

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on no you didn't! you told /g/ mck to see the SIGMETRICS list?

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I am laughing heartlessly here. - Christina Pikas - -

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Now, the NISO webinar, not sure, but there may be some who would like/can attend that as an institutional subber to NISO. - Christina Pikas - -

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Toddlers who haven't napped adequately are destructive and dangerous. Particularly in packs

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Ow. She just bit my toe while climbing on to the coffee table - Christina Pikas - -

I cannot even imagine packs. I have two bruises on my arm from biting caused by my removal of the toddler from the table. - Christina Pikas - -

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and honestly, i'll start working soon :) but i just got an email from maryland to "impact a student this fall"... so they want me to knock one over to make them fall? only if they piss me off!

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AAAARRRGH! oh really? " QuestionStorming – Framing The Problem 2 November 2011 In his book The Myths of Innovation (see my review), Scott Berkun highlights the importance of framing problems creatively. Finding the right problem is as important–if not more important–as coming up with a solution quickly. Berkun writes: Discovering problems actually...

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requires just as much creativity as discovering solutions. There are many ways to look at any problem, and realizing a problem is often the first step toward a creative solution. To paraphrase John Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, a properly defined problem is partially solved. (p. 128) - Christina Pikas - -

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huh - but that bit about the ddc isn't in the original (well on page 130 - can't see 128 in gb) <a rel="nofollow" href="http://books.google.com/b... ; title="http://books.google.com/b... ; - Christina Pikas - -

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I used to work at the Navy Yard - but I haven't been into building #197. It's a military base, yes, but it's not like it's somewhere where infantry trains or something. it's administrative - acquisitions - and historical stuff.

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it's not like all active duty military carry side arms all day long working in an office. and it's not like the civilian employees don't vastly outnumber military there at NAVSEA - Christina Pikas - -

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Got more than a foot off my hair

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What happens when you think in the metrics system? You look for actual FEET in the picture! - Christina Pikas - -

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Post I would like to write: New trend for linking external and internal information - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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