“The ability and willingness to discern fact from fiction.” —Reddit user brookish, responding to the question, “what is slowly phasing out in 2022?” There’s a pair of issues, related to my job and profession, that I’ve been thinking about lately. The first is how technological advances successively layer on top…

“We’re all living in a prequel.” —Tony Gilroy A library discovery layer, in concept and execution, is many things to many people. It presents integrated results from a variety of sources, publication types, and material formats. These are complicated systems, with more moving parts than can usually all be running…

“I don’t think Senator Dole is too old to be president. It’s the age of his ideas that I question.” —Bill Clinton (at the 1996–10–16 Presidential Debate) There’s a point in every car’s lifespan, long before it becomes a priceless antique, when keeping it running simply isn’t worth the expense…

“Humans are mortal. They seem to need a sense of continuity to give their lives meaning.” — Data, ST:TNG If you have a few thousand dollars to spare, you can buy a pair of small hand weights made by the fashion designer Louis Vuitton. I know this because someone posted…

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” —John 8:32 Before we talk about digital lending, controlled or otherwise, let me first elaborate on what I mean by “All-In” here. The term is used in poker, if you’re not familiar with it, for when a…

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” —Daniel 5:27 It’s dangerous to go alone. We can’t do everything ourselves. I don’t deal directly with server back ups, for example, no sooner than does our Business Officer store the money for my library’s budget in dollar bills under…

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” —Robert J. Hanlon There’s a point at which special effects, robotics, and the like advance beyond what is obviously a clumsy attempt at mimicking for example the appearance and mannerisms of a live human to become a good enough…

“You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words.” —Syme in 1984 Whether or not the Electoral College and the United States Senate were designed to placate those in slave states, it’s difficult to look at the de facto malapportionment of power in our democracy these days and wonder…

“Just avoid holding it in that way.” —Steve Jobs, responding to a customer reporting a signal loss on their iPhone 4 when it was gripped near the top The video game company Blizzard Entertainment recently announced that its bungled launch of the updated version of Diablo II was partially due…