Category: Work
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Need moar tech!
I recently purchased a new laptop (Acer Aspire S5) and installed Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS on it. It took some fiddling (I needed to uninstall DMRAID from the command line before I could install the new OS: sudo apt-get remove dmraid) but, eventually, I replaced Windows 8 with Ubuntu on my new machine. I work in…
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Little boxes on the hillside
There’s a high school on the Lehman College campus. It’s new: it was established in 2002, I believe. The building it occupies, however, is not so new. In fact, it’s a repurposed space. On the scale model of the campus (constructed by a student decades ago) on display at the library, the school is labeled…
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I become what I always hated
Reading the article Teaching Good Sex in the New York Times Magazine reminds me that I’m still very much interested in educating our youth about human sexuality. However, I still don’t know how to incorporate that into my career as an academic librarian. There has to be a way to do both… right?