2008s

I think this is my longest post ever: BOSTON, MA - November 13, 2008 -The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) (www.childrenslibrary.org), which is the world's largest collection of children's literature available freely on the Internet, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Google to augment its vast collection of public domain children's literature with public domain titles digitized using Google's state-of-the-art scanning technology. The result will be the addition of potentially thousands of scanned, searchable children's books to the ICDL. As part of the agreement, the ICDL and Google will share their public domain titles making them available via the ICDL and Google's Book Search. ...

I updated my CV.

This video illustrates why I didn’t get to sleep until 3AM early Sunday morning. I think it is great that we have the rec center and that it gets used. But, I’d like to see the city rent it out to groups that respect the neighborhood. For some reason, Baltimore City Parks and Rec rents out the Virginia S Baker Rec center to groups that stay until after midnight. Usually, the bass from the music is so loud that we can FEEL it in each room of our house. It makes sleeping hard and earplugs don’t work because it is bass. ...

I found this while looking for a new ring tone for my phone: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Screenshot of new blog, originally uploaded by gregwalsh. Here’s the new look for the blog. It is 90% Messy Desk by laptop geek. I’m slowly changing the pics at the top to be more personalized. I had a Newton Messagepad 2000 up there but took it down…I didn’t like its angle. UPDATE: I actually made a portfolio for my web site that looked similar to this. I might re-update that with a look like this. ...

Small Craft Advisory 2, originally uploaded by gregwalsh. We were supposed to go on a sailing trip this weekend. Unfortunately, there was a small craft advisory with winds gusting up to 25-30 knots. That is entirely too much wind for our boat.

This is a test. Sorry to the two people that read this.

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As part of my doctoral funding, I work for the International Children’s Library. I’ve been doing a lot of community building by answering the very interesting e-mails we get as well as answering and contributing to the forum. This week, I posted a How-to on making a scary mask. It is a tie-in with the New Zealand book Sydney and the Sea Monster by David Elliot. It’s a fun book…you should check it out. ...

I know I don’t update this blog often and I know that I don’t write about food ever…but holy cow, did I go to a good fast food restaurant today. While we were headed for Target in Middle River today, we went looking for a place to eat lunch. We stumbled onto Original Fish & Chips. It was really good. I had a combo of fish, chicken and chips (it included hush puppies, too)…Ann had the chicken. We both liked it and, although not nutritious per se(trans fat free), we like supporting local businesses. ...