Sarah Palin Quote

This was in the NY Times today online regarding Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS last week.  That heel-stompin’, lipstick totin’ girl can sure go on!  Ouch!  I’ll have to tally up the number of words in that first sentence. “After that recent interview that wasn’t so successful because as I admitted on Fox TV the other day, I was annoyed and I was impatient with some of the questions, and I need to learn to I guess hide to some of that annoyance, some of the annoyance with some of the questions I received was because I…

Misc. update

I have three new sticker ninjas working on metadata this fall, Kat Dwyer ’11, Bridget Montesanti ’11, and Amanda Raddtaz ’11.  All very sharp gals.  Hi, ninjas!! Kevin, I will email tomorrow with an update on $$ details. Correction from Nat: Punjabi taxi driver, not Pakistani. Susan Jane Williams, independent consultant/data specialist, came to campus for two days.  Ouch!  My head is spinning.  We are going to start using a combination of FilemakerPro, Vcat, Excel, and XML for metadata (I think).  The whole thing is a blur. Ha.  Just kidding.  It’s kind of fun.

Pictoplasma in NYC, September 4-6, 2008

After going to Pictoplasma in Berlin in 2006, I had to attend the 2008 conference so close in NYC.  Most of the events were held at NYU’s handsome Skirball Center.  My favorite lecture was by Akinori Oishi (who goes by “Aki”).  I asked if he’d consider doing an exhibition at SLU, so I’ll follow up with him via email in the weeks ahead. Melissa and Carole helped out big-time collecting stickers on Thursday afternoon–115 in all!  Not much political stuff yet, which surprised me.  But a few gems, nonetheless.  Check out my Flickr site for more images (coming soon!).

MoveOn.org

I didn’t think I’d use this blog for politics, but as I’m reading Jane Mayer’s new book, “The Dark Side,” I’m increasingly nervous about the upcoming election for US President.  Check out this list from MoveOn.org with a list of 10 things to know about John McCain.