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I feel like a real blogger now—we have our first spam comments!
The filter seems to be doing a good job, but if something goes awry and your comments disappear, feel free to let us know.

They are few and far between, but good librarian jokes do make it into the comics. Pearls Before Swine, Dilbert, and Frazz have had a few good runs, and there’s always Unshelved.
I’m unfamiliar with the web comic xkcd, but Advantages to Dating Librarians has been circulating the library blogosphere for a few days, and has [...]

I complain a lot between mid-May and mid-September. It comes with living in a paved over stinky swamp. Since everyone has heard the negatives, I thought would find some nice things to say about east coast summers. I came up with three.
(1) Everyone goes on vacation. Rush hour almost disappears, the office is quiet, and [...]

An article was released in Technology Review today that presents “the” map of the Internet. It’s atomically oriented: the dense center consists of a small set of network nodes that are the core of the Internet, and the outer rings are lesser networks and nodes. While the article is technical and makes some [...]

Happy birthday to me! Matt took me to the fancy 2941 last night, one of the few around here that has top-notch reviews from both Washingtonian and the Washington Post.
I knew I was in for a good time when we drove up to complimentary valet parking and Matt said, “I’m confused… am I driving on [...]

Happy Birthday Allegra! Let the partying begin!

About a month ago, there were two major fires in town. The huge blaze at Eastern Market hogged the news, but D.C. librarians know there was a greater loss at the Georgetown Public Library.
Local retailer Propper Topper released tee-shirts today to support the library restoration, and that they have the best design ever. Who can [...]

I am becoming an advocate of online grocery shopping. Living in an urban area, working nine and five, and sleeping normal hours means there is never a good time to go to the “real” grocery store. It’s crowded and chaotic, and despite my gourmet tendencies and my love of wandering aisles, I can’t hack it.
I [...]

The Fug Girls are so on my wavelength today. I’ve been plotting the demise of Ned (a tragic accident, of course!) since I was 12-years-old.
If you don’t read Go Fug Yourself, take a look before you write me off as shallow. The writing is brilliant.
I will risk further lameness by admitting my excited anticipation of [...]

With all you wonderful people posting such wonderful comments here, we decided we need to get the comments RSS feed link posted on our site. Since we haven’t figured out where and how to post it yet (it has to be sexy - of course!), I thought I’d distribute the address here for now:
http://ajmatt.com/blog/comments/feed/
In [...]