"Up with which I shall not put!" Winston Churchill

Salt & vinegar for me.

Imaginary Worlds

www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org "How we create them and why we suspend our disbelief" Binging this podcast got me through the pandemic.

Terms & Connectors searching, what we used to call Boolean, will always be a critical skill in legal research. If you can't translate your issue into a T&C search, you don't understand it well enough to research it. Also FIELDS (called SEGMENTS on Lexis).

Boo!

I finally remembered to read @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social 's annual New Year's Eve blog post ON New Year's Eve. Looking forward to her next book, but willing to wait as long as it takes.

It's because General Motors wanted to be in the same time zone as NYC to make banking easier.

#LawLibrarians, applications for the 2025 Teaching the Teachers Conference Beginners' Bootcamp are open now through Jan. 17th: elibrary.law.psu.edu/tttconference/

This conference, designed for law librarians who are newer to teaching, covers cognitive science, backward design, assessment design.

How to make writing a priority:
Write for 30 minutes every weekday morning _BEFORE_ opening your email program. It's amazing how fast it adds up.

@marthawells.com has become famous for writing the Murderbot series, but her Raksura books will always be my favorite!

A surfeit of skunks!

Many museums have Nydias, and they came in a variety of sizes. I fell in love with her at the art museum at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

It's kind of like meditation, you get into the rhythm of passing the bobbins back and forth. It take just enough concentration that there is no room in my brain for stress.

I wear some of it, some of it is framed. Also wedding handkerchiefs, but I need a lot of advance notice.

I've always wanted to make lace, my English gran tried to teach me tatting, and then I found bobbin lace as an adult. I am a terrible ballet dancer, but it taught me to point my toes and turn out my feet great for SCD. It's the ancestor of square dancing with no caller, and the men all wear kilts.

This @glaucomflecken.bsky.social has always been my favorite!

Bobbin Lacemaking
Scottish Country Dancing

Cant wait, I love the How I Lawyer podcast!

They had a contest what to name the terminal: WALT = West Automatic Law Terminal. It had a key with a key on it for key number searching! And you could stack your dot commands so it would log on, sign in, find the case, print it, and log off in about 30 seconds.

You can't do serious research with out an INDEX!

You can't make this stuff up!

I initially planned to say nothing about Babel’s inexplicable disqualification from the Hugo Awards. But I believe that these cases thrive on ambiguities, the lingering question marks, the answers that aren’t answers. I wish to clarify that no reason for Babel’s ineligibility was given to me or my team. I did not decline a nomination, as no nomination was offered. Until one is provided that explains why the book was eligible for the Nebula and Locus awards, which it won, and not the Hugos, I assume this was a matter of undesirability rather than ineligibility. Excluding “undesirable” work is not only embarrassing for all involved parties, but renders the entire process and organization illegitimate. Pity. That’s all from me. I have books to write.

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Hi @kateelliottsff.bsky.social - I have received your author newsletter on the new platform. Cheers.

Google killing Reader led to the downfall of the internet. That's when it all started to go to shit.

May not work in a large class. I put in my syllabus that students can email me a thoughtful question about that day's reading. It's some thing I can count. I open class with them as an introduction to the topic. This year I also realized that it teaches them how to ask an informed question.

My law students have never heard of RSS. I miss Google Reader every. single. day.

They look like voles to me.

Older law prof rushes into library. "Heather, there's a typo in the citation. It says F.3d." I escorted him to the shelf to show him 999 F.2d and 1 F.3d. All the other series stopped at 300 or 500. Sad that I will never see a volume of F.4th as my library has cancelled our print subscription.