Jeff, do frozen grapes work for you?
They do a decent job, thanks for reminding me. I'll have to get some and freeze 'em up.
Well, I think I'll turn in. Treatment tomorrow at 6:00 AM. Talk to you all later. It is really good to be back on the board.
We missed you, Jeff!
I think it is also my bedtime.
I've known a few folks who went to Simmons, including a PhD student at Syracuse who taught my searching class. Sounds exotic, doesn't it. It was actually all about dialog and Lexis, which were harder to search five years ago. Anyway, he was great and said nothing but good things about Simmons. They should provide a good all around. Sending application ~ma, not that you'll probably need it.
Yay for library school!
It was actually all about dialog and Lexis, which were harder to search five years ago.
I was just talking about that the other day -- someone who hadn't used it in a long time asked me if I "know how to use" Nexis. I was like, dude. There's nothing to know anymore!!
So true. I could do command line searching with the best of them for a while there. It was so fun using the free practice account in dialog. One person in class got a search wrong, and it would have cost over $500 for this dinky search, if we had to pay for it. Free is good.
I don't even mean to say you don't still need to know how to construct a good search, but I definitely remember using cheat sheets for all the secret codes of how to search.
Yeah. The $500 thing could happen today.
I'm glad I could help, Beej! Feel free to email my profile addy any time if you have any questions.
A headline in the Chicago Tribune that concerns me: Sewage warnings for Chicago River
(OK, that was actually the text of the link to the story.)
The river is the cleanest it has been in decades. But people riding the popular downtown tour boats or canoeing the concrete-lined channels soon will see warnings above each of the 241 pipes that pour untreated human and industrial waste into the river's murky flow after heavy rains.
OK, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that untreated human and industrial waste being poured into a river is a
bad
thing.
Coincidentally, there was also a story about Dave Matthews in the
Tribune
today: [link]
Ben & Jerry's recently unveiled its spring line of flavors, and the makers of Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia have introduced a new taste that's likely to be a hit -- except perhaps in Chicago.
Dave Matthews Band Magic Brownies.
For those who recall the incident of last August, you have to think that everyone involved -- ice cream maker and band members alike -- could have picked a less-disquieting flavor.