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Going through my old pregnancy filter here, I now wish I had named my kid Alabado, as I may have done, inspired by a work project lo these many years ago. Alabado!!! It's makin' a come-back.

So, I had a reference question on one of the 1-folder collections- by/about a Native American, circa 1820: manuscript letters and such. The query was: what is it? Much of these 1-folder collections don't warrant further detail. Hey, they're in the OPAC- that's usually as good as it gets. However, I believe in some options for on-demand cataloging. This one hits some important bits that will likely mean repeat viewings: woman's studies, missions (it's big research point here), Native Americans.
There are only 25 items, so I'm going through and DACS-ifying the crap out of it. I'm adding a twist so each item is clearly delineated in its bibliographic and physical description. There are a lot of annotations after the fact that are valuable. I'm also including the first line of the writing just for a taste. I only got through the first 2-3 items, but it's a nice, contained activity that is really all about the archives. I had been ultra-focused on processing books the past month+, but sometimes you need a break.

When I got home, asciikitty and I dealt with some of the peripheral living room ornaments and the majority of my art supplies. All packed, taped, and labeled. There was some serious inner-box Tetris Fu. Mwah hah. We are magic. The living room has started to look strangely uncluttered and shifting into eerily empty, now that I have all the CDs stowed that were going to be stowed in mega-book storage. I have to determine what else one can use CD shelves for other than CDs.

Another thought is that when I eventually find a new place to live, I want to be able to have the art supplies more readily accessible. The drawers I had were  good, but not very inviting. Probably not that exact example, given the aesthetics committee just made faces as he went by, but... as the Devil's Advocate points out: fast and cheap. ("I dated her once" -aesthetics committee).

But that's another day.

It's Wednesday, which means lunch with lifecollage  (Kermit flail-y arms, yaaaay!). The topic of podcasts came up up. I listen to several. People other than lifecollage  may find knowing about these podcasts to be a good and helpful thing. Also, if you listen to any, you can tell me what you like and why. So, the list with descriptions under the cut because ye gods this got long:

Geek a Week
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Memories of the Future
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The Moth
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The Nerdist
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NPR: 7am news summary
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NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff For 5-10 Minutes On Average
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Radio Free Burrito
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Save Love
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This American Life
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Honorable mentions but not in current rotation:
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OK. that took a lot longer to get written out than I expected. But worth it. Did I mention that I work alone in an office and have 2 hours of daily commute? With that in mind, I also have some sort of backlog which I don't feel compelled to finish. You will also see that one show often feeds into another.
ETA: why can't I write this prolifically for the work blog?! (rhetorical)

... if you like the Old Spice Guy (and his writers), which I do.
They decided to make videos in answer to comments on FB, Twitter, and YouTube comments. I haven't determined exactly how many there are, but it's like crack. I just can't stop!... except to write this. 

This is 100% shadesong 's fault this time.

I forgot my belt. I'm going to Marshall's when they open up because a belt is not an option for these pants. Woe!

A photo journal entry to prove my point. ( cut for bandwidth )

Sorry I had no visual evidence of the Top Hat weekend most recently passed. I'll do my best to recreate the whole ensemble or one even better later.

First- Here's my pumpkin this year. I totally cribbed from Neil's site today, as I was not coming up with any ideas of my own. But hey- I can free-style draw, which gives me some cred.


And this year I finally did zombie librarian.
          
My companion is still at the party so couldn't give her consent to the photo posting, and generally she's against such a notion. Ok. the fake blood itches after it's dried. Time to rinse and then enjoy the extra hour of sleep! 
Oh- there was rock band at the 2nd party of the night, by the way. They did  Still Alive and  Skull Crusher Mountain before breaking into The Beatles. :) 

So, I already spammed FB with two bits of humor in the past 15 minutes, so I'm spreading the love into different formats.
So, thanks to my stalking Felicia Day's Twitter feed via RSS, I found this YouTube vid. Flashmob! Gold pants! ...Stop- Hammer Time.
This almost qualifies for the meta tag.

After one irritating experience with some numb-nut briefly trying to convince me the governor resigned as an April Fool's joke (and I just gaped at him until he said just kidding- I was walking towards the state house where there was an inordinate amount of cameras and helicopter noises -and there's frequently both)-
Anyway, after that, I've noted some fantastic spoofs -
Tor's main page - and their press release about Neil Gamain.
Whole Wallet's main page actually sparked Robin to come up with a new recipe (thanks, ceo ) - he also pointed me to the Tauntaun sleeping bag that my cousin then linked to a bit later in Facebook. If I needed a sleeping bag ever, I would have a hard time  not getting it.
Gmail's new feature
Someone else reminded me of Alanis Morrisette's cover of My Humps on YouTube.

Thus far the Tor offerings have been my favorite. Oh, and the sleeping bag. (Do you have to sleep in the helmet and goggles, though?) I know a lot of these pages will disappear after today, but oh well. I mark them for posterity anyway. If I find any more before the end of the day, I will append.

Appended!-
Expedia's cheap flights to Mars (via mangosteen  via lifecollage ) Squee!!!
Further Tor humor found via Whedonesque: FOX cancels Joss Whedon. (snerk)

Today's Non Sequitur : (click to embiggen)