Deodorant ad from 1935 explains that you smell

Tommy, we do this! [link]

Oregon State University and Yale both encourage a convenient, tech-savvy and library-friendly method for students to ask librarians reference questions: The text message.

Nobody's asked about interneurons yet, but we get 3-4 questions a week. (We get LOTS MORE via IM; texting is new this semester.)

Hockey? Seriously? (A cute pic of a baby hockey fan.)

I would say a good 50% of our IM questions are not from our students and of those, 90% are looking for legal advice or for us to send them a copy of something that we can't (or won't). Many of the student questions boil down to the same thing.

I sort of despise the IM service.

Gronk.

Safe travels, msbelle.

Cutiehed Matilda and kitty.

Abby's spring break doesn't start until Friday, but we're looking forward to it. In-laws are coming in two-and-a-half weeks which means I need to get off my ass and finish the last bits of unpacking. Why is it that the last half-dozen or so boxes are always the ones you dread the most?

My mom used to (and Hec still does) fry up the little hole, a perfect little burst of crispy buttery yum.

That's what you use to dunk in the egg yolk!

Dammit. We're out of eggs.

I added scrambled egg to my stir fry last night. Yum!

K-Bug lovs to make "egg toast" and always makes sure to fry up the "hat". Mmmmm, wonder if I can convince her to wake up early during the week and have one ready for me before I go to work. Doubtful, but maybe over the weekend.

Our IM is a wild success. It's pretty much 100% campus community (some grad students and faculty as well as ug, who are the majority) and while there are predictable ones (how to get into databases from off campus comes up a lot!) a lot of them are exactly the same type of interactions we'd have at the reference desk, i.e. "I have this paper... I need scholarly journal articles, where do I start?"

I had no idea there were people who *didn't* fry the hole! Why waste all that buttery goodness???

Voyeur West Hollywood: Michael Steele Spent GOP Funds At Club, Lavish Hotels

The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong has basically won the morning with a story about RNC Chairman Michael Steele's lavish lifestyle on the road. Strong reports that Steele "once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel," and has run up some substantial tabs at some of our nation's nicest hotels. But if you ask me, he sort of buried the lede... probably strategically! Because look what awaits you in paragraph six:

Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.

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Strong focuses primarily on Steele in his article, noting that he declined requests for an interview. He reports a fair share of off-the-record, internecine disgruntlement, however:

Complaints, almost always expressed off the record, have been bitter. "This is not somebody who is out recruiting candidates," said an aide who worked closely with Steele. "He is not meeting with donors. He's not asking for money. The guy is writing his book or doing his speaking gigs, or whatever the hell else he fills his days with. Those are his priorities."