Ethan Gates @The_BFOOL@digipres.club

The good news: thanks to car troubles, I got to ease back into work today by writing a ton of emails from the comfort of home (and the car's all right in the end, too!)

The bad news: whirlwind 48-hour trip to New Orleans last weekend (featuring sick plane baby coughing straight into my face) has left me with a persistent cough that still endangers returning to the office tomorrow! 👍

I wonder if buying a space heater for my office is acceptable use of a p card

How do y'all keep track of terminal commands that are super handy but you will still probably only use them once every ~3 months and completely forget the flags/syntax/regex in the meantime

Yesterday a random Knowledge Services librarian found that book on hold for me in a random pile, probably put in limbo at some point since I left said university months ago

I have no idea who or how someone even found this book, but both they and this other librarian who personally walked it over to ILL for me are the best ❤️ (2/2)

Librarians are awesome story:

About a year ago I was working on a research project and couldn't find a book - it was cited in another book, but had no WorldCat record, there was no online trace of its (Moscow-based) publisher, the Slavic-language specialist at the university library was even stumped. I put in a request for acquisition anyway with what info I had, because what the hell

(1/2)

Are there any good blog posts/resources out there you know of that are like @bitsgalore 's Preserving Optical Media from the Command line guide but for hard drives?

http://blog.kbresearch.nl/2015/11/13/preserving-optical-media-from-the-command-line/

Are there any existing/openly available controlled vocabularies for cataloging computer hardware?

Love having a whiteboard again so I can peer into my own soul https://digipres.club/media/4fJiDqX4sobO0M49-tM

No I don't *need* to use the hockey puck mouse but how could I not https://digipres.club/media/1v4FIPEfPBXJQtum2Ck

Around and around and around we go https://digipres.club/media/77JPJy5tQLUrc0RQGg0

Is it possible to have an Ubuntu desktop environment that doesn't eat ~1.5 GB of RAM out of the box *and* whose design looks fresher than 2010 or are those the options

Just going to leave this here:
http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

After a couple months of giving Gmail's "improved" interface a shot, I switched my default view to "Basic HTML" and it's nice to remember that the web is supposed to be fast now

Got all excited about following the BitCurator User Forum via livestream today and then was frustrated for the past two hours that no links were appearing

Just remembered that they're on the West Coast

Might need to break my "no coffee after noon" rule

Severely disappointed by going to watch Netflix's new season of Great British Baking Show and realizing that "Collection 5" = Season 8, that is, the new Mary Berry-less edition

I distinctly recall seeing a piece that they had acquired distribution for Season 3 (which originally premiered prior to Netflix's "Collections 1-4") - anyone know when that is going to be available? (And more importantly for those of us who obsessively catalog their viewing habits....how it will be numbered/sequenced??)