July 07, 2008
Haiku for Today (My Camera)
My Camera is
Always close, you might just see
The Jonas Brothers
Who knew...see the photos on flickr.
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June 24, 2008
Haiku for Today (Arbitron)
Arbitron Ratings
Listen to the Radio
And write it all down
Tracking ratings for Arbitron this week (so is Pam and Jeremy). Fun process.
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June 23, 2008
Haiku for Today (George Carlin)
Seven Little Words
You Cannot Say on TV
Thank you George Carlin
Rest In Peace, George Carlin (Died, June 22, 2008 at age 71).
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June 22, 2008
Ludington Lighthouse (Cross Stitch Pattern)
I finally finished the my cross stitch pattern that I created for the Ludington Lighthouse.
You can download the pattern here.
Here is a picture of the completed project.
I am hoping that I will create some other Michigan lighthouses from here on out. Ideally, I would like to create kits that museums could sell. I would just send them to them and they can keep all the proceeds.
I used an excellent freeware software. It is called KG-Chart for Cross Stitch.
For more information on the Ludington Lighthouse, please visit:
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June 11, 2008
Haiku for Today (Baseball Today)
The Mets and Tigers,
Great dreams and hopes this season
Lost in a rough spring
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Haiku for Today (The Zohan)
Adam Sandler in
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Should leave the kids home
We are either the best parents in the world or the worst...because we took them!
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June 09, 2008
Haiku for Today (Jedi)
Were I a jedi
Purchases would be easy
one year same as cash
Inspired by recent furniture shopping!
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June 05, 2008
Haiku for Today (Red Wings)
Noise in HockeyTown
Fans Celebrating loudly
All from lifting the cup
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February 21, 2008
How Everyone Contributes
If you ever wonder about the way that an organization works, you need to look at the way that people behind the scenes operate. At the Kresge Library, we have twenty positions. It is easy, in a library, to focus on the number of "professional positions" that you have, or how many librarians you have one staff. We have 8 (myself included).
But the way that I look at the library is that we all have a role to play and we all contribute to the general success of the operation. While it is sometimes hard to articulate this, one example came over the radio this morning.
Morning Edition's Susan Stamberg did a piece on the Script Supervisor this morning. When a movie is made and acknowledged during the awards shows, like the Oscars, we have awards for actors, directors, pictures, cinematographers, art directors, etc. But there are critical roles in the making of a movie that rarely shine in the light.
For a library to be productive, you need great people doing professional work. You need to convey to everyone that their work is critical to the operation of the unit. This is true if we are working with faculty on a research project, with students on a MAP team, and with staff as well compile course packs. It is also true when we collect the mail, when we check in periodicals, when we update web-pages. I hope I convey that. I guess it is something that we always need to work on.
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Happy Birthday - Papa Smurf
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you...
The smurfs turn 50 this year. Actually, not until October, but it is never too early to plan. See the story from NPR's Morning Edition.
If you need more smurfs in your life, visit the Happy Smurfday Site.
For more about the smurfs, please visit the "about" page.
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February 19, 2008
Chris' Crowd Report for Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
This was from Chris after last night's movie.
I saw a special program showing the animated academy award nominated shorts today. There were about 10 - 20 people. There were no trailers. Here are the shorts, their descriptions, & my opinion on them.
The nominated Animated Shorts:
I MET THE WALRUS
In 1969, fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room with his tape recorder and persuaded him to do an interview.
This was my favorite of the shorts, as i loved the animation & the reality comdinding with comedy. This is I Met The Walrus, my favorite short.
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI
A timid woman boards a mysterious night train and has a series of frightening experiences.
The animation & visuals were very good, & the beginning was funny, but afterwards, It became disturbing & hard to follow. It was still good.
MEME LES PIGEONS VONT AU PARADIS (EVEN PIGEONS GO TO HEAVEN);
A priest tries to sell an old man a machine that he promises will transport him to heaven.
Hilarious & clever, Even Pigeons Go To Heaven & it's pixarish style gave me a fun experience with one lesson. Don't mess with death.
MY LOVE (MOYA LYUBOV);
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
I admired the gorgeous animation & the clever story & visualizations, but it rambled on a bit too long. It also had some elements that children should never see....
PETER & THE WOLF
A young boy and his animal friends face a hungry wolf in Prokofiev's classic musical piece.
I liked this short with it's animation, story, & music. It was just too bad that I had to leave early before the ending, but I won't tell why.It was still good for what I saw.
I really liked these shorts. I hope you do too.
_________________
Step aside remy! There's a new pixar star in town, & his name is Wall-E!
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February 05, 2008
For Marketing, the Most Valuable Player Might Be YouTube
From the New York Times
Advertising
For Marketing, the Most Valuable Player Might Be YouTube
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: February 5, 2008
The Internet, digital video recorders, mobile devices and other technologies are giving a strong postgame presence to the annual roster of Super Bowl commercials.
Follow this link for the full article.
With more and more advertising available via YouTube and other resources, it is easier than ever to find and use advertising in your research.
The trick is getting the file so you can use it on your desktop when you are not connected to the Internet. Previously, I wrote about a great web application that you can use to grab YouTube videos and convert them to MP4 files.
It has the amazingly logical name of: YouTube to iPod and PSP Converter and it is a small program that will download and convert into an MP4 file format among others. Good for your iPod, your PowerPoint, your...well, whatever. This is from DVDVIDEOSOFT.COM and is free.
For students and faculty at the Ross School of Business, there is also Adforum. This database provides access to over 35,000 advertisements in all media. The focus is international. The database has audio and video capability. The source also provides access to news and other information relating to the advertising industry, including agency information. Be sure to log off as directed on the password sign on screen.
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January 24, 2008
The Danger of Making Wagers with your Children
The Danger of Making Wagers with your Children
(yet another thing off topic...)
My son Chris has been dying to see the Eddie Murphy movie, Norbit. This movie ranked among the worst of the year by the critics
and was just another 'sophomoric' movie with a male actor in a ‘big lady fat suit’ as his other role. Here is the description:
Norbit (Murphy) has never had it easy. As a baby, he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong (Murphy). Things get worse when he's forced into marriage by the mean, junk food-chugging queen, Rasputia (Murphy). Just when Norbit's hanging by his last thread, his childhood sweetheart, Kate (Newton), moves back to town. In the comedy "Norbit", he'll show them all that nice guys sometimes finish first. (DreamWorks Pictures)
This move got typically bad reviews and was definitely not appropriate for kids. When it came out on DVD, Chris kept asking to see it and we kept saying NO. Finally, Pam, in what would have been the safest bet of all times, told the boy that if it earned an Academy Award Nomination, he could see it. So…we were both shocked and annoyed to see this the other morning:
Achievement in makeup (see all nominees)
--“La Vie en Rose� (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
--“Norbit� (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
--“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End� (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Norbit is now number two on our Netflix List. Lesson to be learned. Do NOT make bets with your kids…no matter how safe they appear!
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