On Ask an Archivist
@singstrix By which I mean to say, mostly, is it more like "aaaahhh get away from our precioussss" or like "a'ight, more visibility!"?
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On Ask an Archivist
I work for an academic 'publishing' company (we put together academic collections of various subject areas, web-based, aimed predominantly at universities) -- getting archival material is always a laborious process, because Archives Are Messy, essentially. Does the archive have a finding aid? Is it remotely fleshed out or useful? Who can we get to film the material, who can grasp both the delicacy of the physical objects but the scope of what is useful for the indexer/researcher? Will the archive let us digitize parts of their collection? We love being able to get already-digitized materials, but for, say, letters/diaries collections.. unlikely. (Archives probably strongly dislike our editorial department.)
How does An Archivist opine re: archival material being digitized and made available to scholars online?
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On The Finger-Wave Hair Tutorial
@cmonster I usually have a pixie with long bangs/top, and I did a slightly less-good version of this (bobby pins, didn't have clips) several years back for a formal occasion. DOOO IIIIT.
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On Why Do We Still Live Here, in This Repulsive Town?
@Nonsynchronous noooo, some of the stuff on the Once soundtrack is so hopeful! (to me.) ((well, maybe just Falling Slowly.))
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On Why Do We Still Live Here, in This Repulsive Town?
I broke up with a juicebox I'd been with for 8 years, Dec. 2010. Immediately upon leaving after one of our breakup talks, the radio assaulted me with:
- Joni Mitchell's 'River'
- Annie Lennox's 'Why'
SOB SOB SOB, you make me feel so bad but also I am a bad person, SOB
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On Why Do We Still Live Here, in This Repulsive Town?
@frigwiggin I am hella late to this discussion (I left the tab open on my work computer) -- JoCo's "When You Go" makes me cry during breakups (even if I'm the one leaving), when people die, just.. all the time. Less now than it used to.
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On I Have That: Snatiation
@le mango Yes, I get these looks of sympathy for solo hiccups as if they'll go on forever.. and then people just look confused? I very rarely get normal hiccups, and I can't remember when I first noticed that I hiccup a couple times daily! (Possibly related, but unlikely: I almost never burp, and I can't make myself burp, much to elementaryschool Singstrix's chagrin.)
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On I Have That: Snatiation
@annejumps@twitter I didn't know there was a correlation! It does seem to happen with every meal, regardless of how fast or slow I eat, and it always stops at a max of 3 hiccups (I asked Mr. Singstrix, and he doesn't think he's ever heard 4 outta me). I have had GERD issues in the past, but to my knowledge they're somewhat short-lived episodes...buuuut I also haven't seen torso specialist to see if I have secret minor reflux most of the time.
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On I Have That: Snatiation
I have satiety hiccups. Usually just 1-2. (Get out of here, freak, we only allow snatiation in this comment thread.)
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On Ask an Archivist
@theharpoon My company does set collections up behind a paywall, yes. Libraries, K-12 schools, and universities -- predominantly -- can subscribe or purchase outright access (to my understanding! I'm an indexer, which is a hybrid of like.. data entry and subject expertise). Also to my understanding, said archives are paid royalties, etc. etc., but it is not the free information sharing we-the-scholars would prefer.