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tweet didn't come through - but cool new article from folks at MPOW provides explanation of space weather effect that could have (in part) caused communications failure that led to Takur Ghar battle in AFG. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...

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I remember when the last author was asking us for all kinds of info on the battle and we were very curious why someone who studies space physics wanted to know about AFG battles. Very interesting, IMO. - Christina Pikas - -

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i still find it embarrassing when MLS/PhDs send copyrighted works photocopied from books to listservs open to the whole world.

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Or journal articles. With open to the whole world, do you mean archived and findable at a known URL so that it will sit there forever? - Christina Pikas - -

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What methods do people teach in the social sciences for evaluating things that are not exactly scholarly journals but aren't exactly magazines like The Economist?

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I think some basics apply to all sources, and they're more rhetorical analysis than anything: who wrote this? who was the audience? what evidence is provided? does the argument it provides make sense? is this source likely to be a persuasive one for my readers for this particular writing purpose or should I drill deeper? I could evaluate a Tweet that way! :) - Christina Pikas - -

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Lovely weekend camping with the twins and my sister. So refreshing to have a partner to help with their care and with cooking, cleaning up. Weather was perfect. Hiking was awesome (prob last time with them in backpacks when they got tired. Great s'mores.

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Hi from a hammock at our campsite after finishing a short but strenuous hike with a 31# toddler on my back.

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OT: I hope what comes out of the Peterson thing is support for fathers and parenting classes, etc., not his or others disengagement from caring for children.

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WRT NCTA ads: No. - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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Random thing: when husband and I first got married he kept giving me stronger and stronger feedback that the cornbread wasn't right. So I would go to my southern living magazines and moms recipes and grandmothers recipe - still not right. Cast iron pan in oven with melted grease in the bottom - the corn shaped pans- everything.

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Then, visited his aunt in buffalo and he asked her to help me (I was affronted but was curious at his point). She pulled out a packet of -essentially- muffin/cake mix - Christina Pikas - -

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sign me up for the cast-iron stuff!! yum!! (and lol) - Christina Pikas - -

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one of the Oculus guys just gave $31M to University of Maryland. Wow. Too bad the iSchool graduates aren't as wealthy as the CS ones.

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I actually had that convo with Da Boss as we were walking back from lunch with one of our grads who's pondering a startup. *g* - Christina Pikas - -

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kids today: According to Pew, 62 percent of the under-30 set believes there's "a lot of useful, important information that is not on the Internet." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...

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There was a great article somewhere, recently, about how people have become less willing to answer their phones (even cell phones), and less willing to complete phone surveys (due to privacy/fraud concerns), and I wonder how that affects the Pew studies, especially generational ones like this. - Christina Pikas - -

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I call it "wisdom". - Christina Pikas - -

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Ugh. Had to convert cribs to toddler beds today because mr 2 keeps climbing out and climbing in with ms 2. It's going to be a rough night but dont know what else to do.

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Good luck! Peter's been in a bed for ages--he never would sleep in a crib. Usually actually he climbs on top of his changing table, but a few times lately I've found him asleep on the sofa. - Christina Pikas - -

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today's experiment: fail. They are super tired, so I sat in there with them for a while - made them crazier even though I escorted them back to their beds with no emotion and no chat, little eye contact.... So let mr2 try to sleep and extracted ms2. mr 2 tore the place up for an hour then fell asleep on the pile of clothes he made. got ms2 to sleep afterward. - Christina Pikas - -

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90f and feels like 105f. Yep. Still no a/c except room unit in baby's room

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Did you see the informatics based intro to programming with Python coursera? I'm reading through the text now - it might be more what we're looking for. https://www.coursera.org/course...

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Interesting! I hadn't seen that but I've added it to my watchlist. I'm starting <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.coursera.org/... ; title="https://www.coursera.org/... ; in a few days -- Ray's taken it and he says it's got more of the basics that I've been looking for too--plus gets you to create games. I figure a couple more intro classes and I might actually feel like i can do some of this stuff! - Christina Pikas - -

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Games isn't really my thing either but it's at least a "real" product (something else I gripe about with programming). :) - Christina Pikas - -

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Some people in this house didn't come from frugal people: threw away old worn out t-shirts and bought rags. Smacks forehead to reset (metaphorical wouldn't abuse spouse)

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I will admit to preferring cloth diapers to old clothes as cleaning rags, so I buy those when I need them. - Christina Pikas - -

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I am amazed - on a listserv (posts weirdly arriving out of order) someone actually defended a publisher for obvious exchange rate profiteering because they fund events at SLA. I can't even.

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exchange rate profiteering is when a (mostly) UK publisher charges US the highest the dollar was for the entire year - even if only at that level for an hour. So say it's usually 1:1.1 but one day something weird happens and it's 1:1.8. they'd charge the 1.8 for the year. - Christina Pikas - -

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Government cost recovery gone awry: PACER and NTIS - http://scientopia.org/blogs...

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Maryland announces new MLS advisory board. Good. School, public, university libraries and government and private archives represented. Good. Some men, more women. Good. No one from for-profit corporations or SLA or law firms or medical libraries. Not so good. Of course, Maryland has not really targeted law librarians or medical librarians, afaik

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We need as an industry to do CRM better, yeah. I get this kind of internal inquiry constantly, and the reason I usually can't answer is that I see upwards of a hundred students a year and I. cannot. remember. them. all. Much less where they all end up. The perfect person could be right under my nose and I honestly wouldn't know because the name doesn't ring a bell. YOU SUCK, DUNBAR LIMIT. - Christina Pikas - -

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a tiny bit of soooprize end of the fy money FTW! (our fy goes with the gov't)

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now, back from camping, at work, beautiful day, beautiful weather. son of a bitch.

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but cute thing ms. 2 said... I caught my marshmallow on fire. She was like: "oy, she burnt it" It was hilarious. And oy? - Christina Pikas - -

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Cold and wet in a tent in a cool park with hiking trails the babies and I can't enjoy

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Rain forecast through the day and over night. May stay later tomorrow o make up - Christina Pikas - -

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i just did the equivalent of making a cow out of hamburger: took pdf from web > export to excel.. and it did. with everything in its own cell.... whooooaa ...dude.

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Buy a lottery ticket on the way home? - Christina Pikas - -

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so CHORUS and PORTICO have reached an agreement - I guess the publishers are trying to even keep DoE from having to have a dark archive

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"(New York, NY August 18, 2014) The not-for-profit digital archive Portico and CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) have entered into an agreement to support the preservation requirements of the policy memorandum released in February 2013 by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This policy directs United States federal agencies to develop plans to make articles reporting on the research they fund freely available to the public immediately or after an embargo period, and highlights requirements needed to ensure long-term access to this research through preservation." via liblicense - Christina Pikas - -

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ProQuest Flow for Google Docs... that's a pretty cool idea. I just wish, wish,wish these features were added to RefWorks instead!

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i missed that, link? - Christina Pikas - -

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I asked our Flow rep, and she confirmed that Flow is ultimately to replace RefWorks, but they won't kill RefWorks until Flow is full fledged. It's essentially RefWorks 2.0, in Alpha.... - Christina Pikas - -

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RT @DesignUXUI: 99% of #programming tutorials on the web https://twitter.com/DesignU...

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i love that i learn something new and weird every day in my job. so far today: intumescent fire putty. It's putty that gets bigger when hot so it blocks fires from spreading through cable passages through walls and around doors. pretty cool stuff.

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Voice search for toddler cot kept coming back with Thoeler cocked. I know I have an accent but ffs

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