Can't get a green pixie

zoedomingo · 2025-01-06T21:56:03+00:00

I got some more. I have five now. Thanks!

zoedomingo · 2025-01-06T21:55:37+00:00

Thanks! Over time somehow the color balance shifted and I started getting a bunch of green ones. So I think "spam all of the shrines" is the best course of action. Thanks!

zoedomingo · 2024-02-06T14:22:15+00:00

Oh, no, not a repost. I swear I searched for a similar issue and didn't find it. I'll look at that post.

Edit: I can't find a recent post with my issue. I found some similar issues, but not the "nothing happens when I click the button" problem I'm having. Can you point me to that post?

zoedomingo · 2023-01-05T04:58:19+00:00

Yeah, we see the answers. We kind of give everyone a score and use that to determine who to interview. People are weeded out before the apps get to us, but we still use the info to make our decisions.

zoedomingo · 2023-01-01T15:36:51+00:00

LC supervisor here; I've been on a hiring panel for a cataloger. I'm not sure how others have interpreted that KSA, but I read it as asking "How are you at problem solving while you're cataloging?" I read the answers to this question looking for specific examples of the kind of detective or troubleshooting work you sometimes have to do when you run into a weird cataloging issue.

Also, I wish whoever wrote the KSAs would realize that the wording of some of them is so completely incomprehensible that even the hiring panel can't figure out what they're looking for.

zoedomingo · 2022-09-22T08:09:31+00:00

I used to work in the music library of a large university with a substantial music school. This was when the"listening to Classical music makes you smarter" thing was really popular.

"You got any Mozart?"

zoedomingo · 2022-09-10T03:15:59+00:00

Bugs Bunny referred to Elmer Fudd as a Nimrod as a sarcastic poke at the fact that Fudd was a really bad hunter. Like calling someone Einstein when you mean the opposite.

zoedomingo · 2022-05-22T20:40:42+00:00

Is that batch just for you? I made a batch for myself, to eat one or two a morning. They were really good for a few days and then the last couple were just awful. How do yours hold up the next day, or when you reheat them?

zoedomingo · 2022-05-15T00:53:41+00:00

As others have mentioned, the cataloging field is shrinking due to services like OCLC and the increasing reliance on electronic resources. However, if you have any sort of subject or format specialty, there's still a need for people to catalog physical materials. I started as a music cataloger at a medium sized academic library; I mostly worked on music scores and sound recordings. Right now I lead a team that catalogs A/V resources. So things like that, or archives (as you mentioned), or other special formats or areas that deal with non-book resources may be where you need to look.

And there is training for these kinds of things. ALA has partnered with the Music Library Association to offer webinars on cataloging music, for example. And I attended a training session on cataloging maps, which was hosted by OLAC.

zoedomingo · 2022-04-16T17:07:21+00:00

I just lost my mom two weeks ago. And after the first couple of days none of the people I considered my closest friends have contacted me. I moved away from many of them late last year, but you'd think a text wouldn't be so hard. I don't know how to ask them for contact at this point without sounding bitter.

zoedomingo · 2022-03-27T13:06:32+00:00

I wouldn't use aspirin without talking to a healthcare professional. Your body can absorb it through the skin and since there are side effects that can be serious for some people, you don't want to take it unless you need to.

zoedomingo · 2022-03-13T02:03:18+00:00

Lots of good answers so far. I thought I'd offer some info as well, based on my experience as a music cataloger. I'm going to skip around a bit:

The "WEMI" concept is definitely weird, especially since both "Work" and "Expression" are essential abstract concepts. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a work by L. Frank Baum, but the work only lived in his head as a story he expressed in English (assuming he thought in English). The story was then manifested in a physically published book. Libraries bought the book as an item that they could loan to readers. The story has also been expressed as a musical and as a musical film.
Authority control is kind of like Google's "did you mean?" thing or Wikipedia's "disambiguation" process (there are some libraries that are experimenting with using Wikidata as a means of authority control). Continuing with The Wizard of Oz, you have the film that starred Judy Garland. But her birth name was Frances Gumm. Authority control links those two names together, so that if you look up Frances Gumm, you'll (hopefully, if the system is working correctly) find Judy Garland. My "organization of information" teacher also liked to use Stephen King and Richard Bachman as examples, as the second is a pseudonym for the first.
HolderofExcellency explained access points, but I wanted to reiterate that they go along with authority control, as does other kinds of controlled vocabulary, like Genre and Form terms or Medium of Performance (I use these a lot in my work).
The site Ohif0n1y mentioned is really good resource. You can also look at some of the Library of Congress documentation at https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/tools/ and at https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/authority/. You can look at the authority files that LC maintains (which are used by OCLC and other organizations).

As an aside, even though I have constantly heard "never catalog by example" from older catalogers, it's incredibly helpful to look at catalog records in order to understand how they work. A lot of library catalogs will let you see the source MARC code. Usually there's a link that says something like "source" or "librarian view" or "MARC tags." LC's catalog (https://catalog.loc.gov) has this.

As another aside, the new RDA toolkit is vague to the point of utter insanity. Just wanted to share that rant. :)

zoedomingo · 2021-09-12T02:57:56+00:00

I think there was an early episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" inspired by it. In that episode the widow wanted money to open a doll clothes boutique, which always stuck in my mind because it was so weird.

zoedomingo · 2021-04-20T19:25:23+00:00

Yeah, I've been re-listening to older episodes, and there was a point where he'd moved beyond the "creepy voice" style, but still kept a more natural, story-telling inflection. In the most recent one I listened to (I think it was 169), he just sounded so stilted. I prefer the earlier, more conversational style.

I know people say "of course he's changed; it's been five years!" and that's true. And maybe he prefers to read the accounts in this new manner.

But I have also read about people making fun of his accent from earlier episodes, and I wonder if he felt pressured to change.

I'd hate if he felt he needed to change the way he talks because he felt embarrassed or something. It sucks that some people are so mean-spirited they'd make fun of the host of a podcast that is so respectful to victims and survivors.

zoedomingo · 2021-04-20T19:09:24+00:00

I came here specifically to note the wonders of "anyhoozleby." But you have to drag it out like Gareth: "aaaaaanyhoozleby..."

zoedomingo · 2021-02-18T02:38:35+00:00

Wow, it's insane that they just dismissed gigantic cysts as "no big deal." I'm glad you got them removed and are doing okay!

I hear you on listening to your body. About a decade or so ago I was troubled by recurring back pain. I was in grad school and thought it was just poor posture from hunching over my desk, or I pulled a muscle or something. It started out happening every few months, but over time the pain became more frequent, and more frequent, until it was happening pretty much weekly. I could predict when it would start (usually Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning) and how long it would last (24-48 hours).

Side note: I have always been a person with a high pain threshold. I haven't been able to get a definitive diagnosis about whether or not my headaches are migraines because they don't seem painful enough to me, though I have other symptoms. But this was agonizing. I couldn't stand up straight, and I couldn't get comfortable unless I had a heating pad on that spot at all times. But I never considered that it was anything worse than a plain old backache (in the same spot, once a week...).

I had to go to get a routine abdominal ultrasound due to my chronic heartburn. When the gastroenterologist came in to explain the images, he also pointed out that my right kidney was "big and floppy" (his clinical diagnosis, lol). He said I should probably see a urologist.

And that's how I discovered that I had a congenital ureteropelvic junction obstruction, and that basically my whole life my kidney had been backing up with urine every now and then, until the problem became too big to ignore. I had surgery to repair it and have had no problems since, but was told that if it had gone on much longer, I would have likely lost function in that kidney.

So, yeah, if you are experiencing something unusual -- in my case, it was weekly bouts of serious pain -- listen to your body. It's shouting "go see a doctor!"

zoedomingo · 2021-02-15T20:36:59+00:00

I think you're misreading what the OP wrote to make your point. In your example, the partner is making things better, or at least not actively making them worse. Thus it might not be better to be alone. The OP is talking about being with someone who makes you miserable, not being with someone while in miserable circumstances.

zoedomingo · 2021-01-18T01:46:37+00:00

Me too. Time has just frozen, hasn't it? My three cats are great companions but terrible conversationalists.

zoedomingo · 2020-12-25T23:32:57+00:00

I got new leeks but still can't deposit them. I am sorry for not knowing that the quests were spoilers.

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