The stupid house is actually going to be finished soon!! We have banished resident evil and it is going to go on the market as soon as the bathroom is finished. The pictures of the process are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodesihouse/.
Since moving back to PA is actually becoming a reality, I thought it was only appropriate to rediscover my PA roots. Nothing says home to me more than scrapple, so we are kicking off the New Year with some homemade scrapple. I have to make changes to the Mennonite Community Cookbook recipe cause I just dont think I eat liver pudding anymore. So with the substitution of chicken sausage for the liver pudding and chicken broth for the liver broth, I am going to give it a try.
I am going to start making all kinds of homey foods in variations for the non pork, non beef diet that we eat.
Chicken Scrapple
1 1/2 c. chicken sausage
3 qts. chicken broth
1 c corm meal
3 c wheat flour
salt and pepper
Boil broth in a double boiler, add flour and corn meal, bring down temperature and add sausage. Cook slowly for 30 min on double boiler, stirring occasionally. Pour into cake pan and cool. After it is cooled it is ready to be fried up.
This is a variation of Mrs. Frank Gehman of Adamstown, PA and Mrs. Henry Bechtel of Spring City, PA. published in Mennonite Community Cookbook by Mary Emma Showalter.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
A few random things
First, Love to my girl who either has the best luck ever or the worst luck ever.
Second, Boo and hiss to that magazine that claims to make life simple but then runs a great article about the very simple process of throwing out your expensive disposable electronics. I hate all this disposable crap!
Second, Boo and hiss to that magazine that claims to make life simple but then runs a great article about the very simple process of throwing out your expensive disposable electronics. I hate all this disposable crap!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
MARC records
I am looking for cataloging suggestions! When we are cataloging we run into a lot of things that we don't have an importable record for. So we do original cataloging. Today one of our volunteers asked, why would you do that when you can just export from the LOC and import it into our catalog. However, it not working so great for me. I get timed out of the LOC catalog before I ever get a change to do anything with it. Please tell me what I am doing wrong!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
I can't believe it's over
Wow! that was a whirlwind of a summer. I learned all kinds of things, but most of all I know what I want to do with my life. . .
We run to things or away from things for all kinds of reasons. Up to this point I have done a lot of running away. Tied up by things I think I ought to be, I ran with little direction towards someone else's definition of success. I good friend of mine recently showed me just how silly my view really was by making some really bad decisions in his own life. But I also learned about personal success rather than competitive success and that I will only succeed if I am doing what I care about.
We run to things or away from things for all kinds of reasons. Up to this point I have done a lot of running away. Tied up by things I think I ought to be, I ran with little direction towards someone else's definition of success. I good friend of mine recently showed me just how silly my view really was by making some really bad decisions in his own life. But I also learned about personal success rather than competitive success and that I will only succeed if I am doing what I care about.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Censorship at its best. . .
I just saw Disney's Song of the South. It was unlike anything I have ever seen, and I thought I saw it when I was a kid. I guess I just remembered what my parents wanted me to remember like how the leopard got its spots and zip-e-do-da and singing and telling stories. But wow, for all of the blackface I have seen and the Jim Crow art I was not prepared for that. All I can say is thank God that I had no idea what was going on when I saw it the first time. AHHHH!
So that brings me to an actual school topic. I watched a bootleg copy. When it showed up as a donation I nearly fell out of my chair. So I just had to watch it. Generally I think censorship is a bad thing, but this self-imposed censorship that Disney has taken up is not all bad. There could be a little more access to the film for school purposes, when I was deep into American race relations it could have been a very powerful teaching tool. But a teaching tool to college students, not kids and it should not be something you can go to Blockbuster and pick up. So in 2039 Song of the South will enter the public domain.
Usually I think Disney is enemy #1 when it comes to keeping things from the public domain. But on this one, I am with them. So the question arises, what happens in this one instance where the copyright holder wants to keep the art from the public for the publics' good? Because out there in the public domain the work could be used in the worst kind of ways, is it maybe better if Disney could just lock it up in their "vault" and throw away the key?
So that brings me to an actual school topic. I watched a bootleg copy. When it showed up as a donation I nearly fell out of my chair. So I just had to watch it. Generally I think censorship is a bad thing, but this self-imposed censorship that Disney has taken up is not all bad. There could be a little more access to the film for school purposes, when I was deep into American race relations it could have been a very powerful teaching tool. But a teaching tool to college students, not kids and it should not be something you can go to Blockbuster and pick up. So in 2039 Song of the South will enter the public domain.
Usually I think Disney is enemy #1 when it comes to keeping things from the public domain. But on this one, I am with them. So the question arises, what happens in this one instance where the copyright holder wants to keep the art from the public for the publics' good? Because out there in the public domain the work could be used in the worst kind of ways, is it maybe better if Disney could just lock it up in their "vault" and throw away the key?
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Game Theory for the web
Just like Adam Greenfield says, I buy a ton of books from Amazon. But still they recommend things like Daniel Steel or Dan Brown for me to buy. Why????
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Monday, July 9, 2007
At least its not the gibson
After a computer hell weekend, its always good to bring some perspective to your life. I suggest Hackers not only for baby boy Dade (who I believed to be the hotest boy ever circa '96) but for the sheer sillyness of it all. It does raise some very good questions. Like: Why dont we all wear roller blades everywhere we go? Any how come when I connect to a network I dont get to see all of those pretty formulas dancing across my screen. (Maybe the pretty colors would have given me more satisfaction when I finally connected this weekend.)
But seriously, they do say one thing that is actually true. The "hackers" are out for shared information and open access. Maybe we are still working on open access cause we never made that necessary transition to roller blades.
But seriously, they do say one thing that is actually true. The "hackers" are out for shared information and open access. Maybe we are still working on open access cause we never made that necessary transition to roller blades.
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Sunday, July 8, 2007
Public Domain???
It almost makes me rethink who I am voting for in the primaries. Mike Gravel is a hero! Democracy Now's piece on How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published by the Beacon Press is a great retelling of the story. Robert West, former president of Unitarian Universalist Association and Beacon Press talks about the troubles he faced publishing a work that was part of the public domain.
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People and their avatar
I really love this slide show of people and avatars. My avatar was super lame, maybe thats another reason I couldn't get into second life. I wouldn't be caught dead in that crappy shirt my avatar had on.
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Monday, July 2, 2007
I guess you'd call that integrated
Ugh! I have given up on integrating the three and having only one of each tag. In stead of the two or three of each tag, I just have one of each tag.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Stupid Zoom Clouds
Look at my stupid cloud. now I have to go and fix the code and see what the heck is wrong with it. grr
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Missing PA in the Summer
New Mexico is nice, but my home is in Pennsylvania. There is some stuff I really miss being out here. So in an effort to beef up my Zoom Cloud I have added links to some of my favorite stuff in PA.
Folksonomy
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
cuddly like a. . .
book. Today my boss told me that books aren't going anywhere because they are cuddly like a teddy bear and computers are not cuddly at all.
homemade cheese
I made fresh ricotta yesterday. I think I am in love, and I might just go and make my own cheeses from now on.
It was insanely easy.
Scald 2qts. of milk
remove from heat and add 1/2 cup of distilled vinegar.
Let sit, drain the whey.
Its ready to enjoy.
The recipe I used said that if it doesnt turn to curds and whey right away to add more vinegar. I had absolutely no need for this. It turned almost instantly. Don't stir more than one or two times when you add the vinegar, it messes up the curds.
I suggest scalding the milk with a bit of flavor. This time I did spring garlic. The flavor was a little delicate for garlic.
I put the ricotta in some manicotti, which I make all the time. My husband said it was the best ever.
But I have some new ideas on tap. A lavender ricotta to make cheesecake with and a basil one for salads.
It was insanely easy.
Scald 2qts. of milk
remove from heat and add 1/2 cup of distilled vinegar.
Let sit, drain the whey.
Its ready to enjoy.
The recipe I used said that if it doesnt turn to curds and whey right away to add more vinegar. I had absolutely no need for this. It turned almost instantly. Don't stir more than one or two times when you add the vinegar, it messes up the curds.
I suggest scalding the milk with a bit of flavor. This time I did spring garlic. The flavor was a little delicate for garlic.
I put the ricotta in some manicotti, which I make all the time. My husband said it was the best ever.
But I have some new ideas on tap. A lavender ricotta to make cheesecake with and a basil one for salads.
Jackass or thoughtful anarchist
I love Party Boy. Maybe more cause they are so stupid, but just maybe is it a thoughtful nod to the Diggers of the 1960's.
(I getting right to the next paper for 2000!)
(I getting right to the next paper for 2000!)
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
My Man Howard
Our local entertainment rag (Alibi) ran this article talking to Howard Zinn about the cutbacks in Book Review sections of newspapers. Mr. Zinn is a constant inspiration to me and if I could say I did as much as he did in one month in my whole life I would be proud.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Digital Collection
This video is a little long, but you get the idea. I do love to flip through digital picture collections.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Information overload
My semi-complete list of ongoing library related projects:
1. Move away from major research value at work for our presence on the web
a. Get the teen volunteers to put together myspace- check
b. Create a community board
c. create local link page and in-house access page
d. Get more programs
organic farming
in house and online book discussions
2. Review books about ahhh. . .
a. To save, to digitalize, to conserve, to preserve, to pay, to not to pay
And when I think about all of this all day and all night, then drive to work for an hour every day listening to the same cd, I end up thinking about Black Thought's explanation of what Super Lyricism means to him and what it means to me. And now I am thinking about the balance between ending up like Nicholson Baker and running blindly into the future.
1. Move away from major research value at work for our presence on the web
a. Get the teen volunteers to put together myspace- check
b. Create a community board
c. create local link page and in-house access page
d. Get more programs
organic farming
in house and online book discussions
2. Review books about ahhh. . .
a. To save, to digitalize, to conserve, to preserve, to pay, to not to pay
And when I think about all of this all day and all night, then drive to work for an hour every day listening to the same cd, I end up thinking about Black Thought's explanation of what Super Lyricism means to him and what it means to me. And now I am thinking about the balance between ending up like Nicholson Baker and running blindly into the future.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Food - totally unrelated to school
With the return of running water, I made dinner last night. (The first in like three weeks.) The Los Ranchos market is almost up to speed, but not quite. I did try sunchokes for the first time this weekend. They were quite yummy. A little hard to prepare, but worth the work.
Here is how I tried them out:
Something Spinach Sunchokes
Boil sunchokes for about 10 minutes. Peal and slice thin
Add to a medium heat sauce pan
2 Tablespoons flavored olive oil (Here I used the packing oil of chipotle lemon feta)
Chopped spinach (Here I used half a bag of spring spinach coarsely chopped)
pealed and sliced sunchokes
Saute just till the spinach is wilted, add cheese, toss and serve. (here I used the feta from earlier but any dry non melty cheese would work depending on the flavors you have chosen for the oil)
Here is how I tried them out:
Something Spinach Sunchokes
Boil sunchokes for about 10 minutes. Peal and slice thin
Add to a medium heat sauce pan
2 Tablespoons flavored olive oil (Here I used the packing oil of chipotle lemon feta)
Chopped spinach (Here I used half a bag of spring spinach coarsely chopped)
pealed and sliced sunchokes
Saute just till the spinach is wilted, add cheese, toss and serve. (here I used the feta from earlier but any dry non melty cheese would work depending on the flavors you have chosen for the oil)
Thursday, May 31, 2007
It's a celebration. . .
My husband, the newly crowned master plumber, has returned running water to our kitchen! After a mere three days battling the ill formed drain pipe, we have a sink and the water works! I never imagined I would be so excited to wash dishes. My life is going to return to normal someday soon.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Digitally, I'm supposed to represent
I'm nice with the blah blah blah . .
Since I am "doing something" about the records and archives of village library I checked out a few other libraries approaches to making records public or semi-public. The San Francisco Public Library makes mostly descriptions available on-line. While they do have some records available digitally, the bulk of their collection requires in-house examination. On the other hand the Rowan Public Library makes the text of some records available along with selected scanned images of the documents. These are very different approaches to digitalizing records and archives. I think both methods have their merits. In the interest of simplicity I like the San Fran system much better. But for our records I think that it is the best way to deal with copyright and such. I might get this figured out eventually.
Since I am "doing something" about the records and archives of village library I checked out a few other libraries approaches to making records public or semi-public. The San Francisco Public Library makes mostly descriptions available on-line. While they do have some records available digitally, the bulk of their collection requires in-house examination. On the other hand the Rowan Public Library makes the text of some records available along with selected scanned images of the documents. These are very different approaches to digitalizing records and archives. I think both methods have their merits. In the interest of simplicity I like the San Fran system much better. But for our records I think that it is the best way to deal with copyright and such. I might get this figured out eventually.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
the internets and twitter and such
I feel like I have heard a lot about Twitter lately, but I don't get it at all. I don't know anyone's life who is so interesting that I need constant updates of their life. I mean maybe if David Blaine (but his blog isn't even that exciting) was my best friend or something but otherwise it can all be saved for email and phone calls. My mom still sends me mail too. The Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization, a David Weinberger blog, touches on tags, the internets and the most confusing thing to me Twitter.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Information goddess
I didn't pick the most glam career ever, my friends constantly question my thought process. (Somehow Erika Rhodeside, Village Librarian is not as hot as Erika Rhodeside, Attorney at Law) But with a title like Information goddess how can I not be fly?
I know that I'm the hottness but what do you call yourself? check out David Rothman's blog to pick your title.
I am in love with the January issue of Library Journal (the first I have actually ever read).
I know that I'm the hottness but what do you call yourself? check out David Rothman's blog to pick your title.
I am in love with the January issue of Library Journal (the first I have actually ever read).
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I'm just that hard core
I know a great tattoo shop in Oakland, and I have been wanting a new tattoo. . .
www.mcphee.com/items/11696.html
Library Journal shared this hard core link with us in their January 2007 issue!
www.mcphee.com/items/11696.html
Library Journal shared this hard core link with us in their January 2007 issue!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
my new best friend, freeware
This weekend my husband made the change to Ubuntu on his laptop. We haven't talked much these past few days. . . We are both in our own overwhelmed computer science world. But tonight my husband had me check out Ubuntu-Women and I am suddenly inspired. Maybe it is to much Kuhn, but I feel like, yeah its going to be hard to change to open source, but I think i will feel good about myself at the end of the day, I will have done the right thing. I am not going to do anything just yet, at least not on my school computer.
I do have other avenues to pursue my new found love of freeware. My boss has asked me to "do something online with all of the scrapbooks and village stuff and what about a wiki or a blog or myspace. . ." (we just went to a very good emerging technologies seminar) So, never turning down a fun project I have decided to "do something." As a side note about me, I have some database creation experience, little webpublishing experience and no previous library experience. So, I started off with what I know, Access. Within 15 minutes I had decided to scrap the Access plan and began to search for something. As I left it today, I have three test articles scanned and linked to my desktop in an excel file, a wetpaint account setup and nothing but my determination to "do something" about this interesting village collection. I think tomorrow I am going to call the tech guy. . .
I do have other avenues to pursue my new found love of freeware. My boss has asked me to "do something online with all of the scrapbooks and village stuff and what about a wiki or a blog or myspace. . ." (we just went to a very good emerging technologies seminar) So, never turning down a fun project I have decided to "do something." As a side note about me, I have some database creation experience, little webpublishing experience and no previous library experience. So, I started off with what I know, Access. Within 15 minutes I had decided to scrap the Access plan and began to search for something. As I left it today, I have three test articles scanned and linked to my desktop in an excel file, a wetpaint account setup and nothing but my determination to "do something" about this interesting village collection. I think tomorrow I am going to call the tech guy. . .
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
itry, but man, have you see wii?
iwaste
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2007/03/iwaste.html)
This article is a great example of the things that I think about as both a consumer and as an archivist. What will happen to all of this information being put on these disposable forms of technology? I have to admit I grumbled when my minidisc player became obsolete and every time a new gaming system comes I get a little sad (I have drawn the line at gamecube because it only stuck around for like a minute and I love Mario. But if Wii has a little staying power I may have to go get it). For me as a consumer, it is a battle between my desire to not be wasteful and my love of pushing newer, cooler buttons. But in my career I think about all of the microfiche machine, betamax and the 8 track players. Sure there are master tracks for things, but consider for example of music recorded from 1890 to 1964, which the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library says are "nearly inaccessible to scholars, collectors and the general public for noncommercial uses(www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/sound)." I'm working on my small part to keep track of disposable knowledge.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2007/03/iwaste.html)
This article is a great example of the things that I think about as both a consumer and as an archivist. What will happen to all of this information being put on these disposable forms of technology? I have to admit I grumbled when my minidisc player became obsolete and every time a new gaming system comes I get a little sad (I have drawn the line at gamecube because it only stuck around for like a minute and I love Mario. But if Wii has a little staying power I may have to go get it). For me as a consumer, it is a battle between my desire to not be wasteful and my love of pushing newer, cooler buttons. But in my career I think about all of the microfiche machine, betamax and the 8 track players. Sure there are master tracks for things, but consider for example of music recorded from 1890 to 1964, which the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library says are "nearly inaccessible to scholars, collectors and the general public for noncommercial uses(www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/sound)." I'm working on my small part to keep track of disposable knowledge.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Blog it out
I have actually spent time wondering who has time to blog. With work, school, a house that is falling down and a very strict no fast food rule it always amazed me that people have time to build up their my space account or blog or both and then have a second life too. But now I have time to do it because it is for school. . .
I work at a really great community library in Corrales, New Mexico. (www.corraleslibrary.org)
There is a pond at the library, from which I fished a five year old out today. We have three coys that the kids can't get enough of.
My Husband and I are remodeling our partial adobe in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Every project has been a challenge. We found a window to no where in our kitchen and the adobe walls disintegrate at the slightest touch. This is what my kitchen looks like today:
Someday soon I hope to have a kitchen again!
Because in a house where there is no fast food and in a town where good take out is non-existent, cooking has become one of my favorite things to do. I try very hard to buy local, planning each week's meals around what is available at the farmers markets. With Spring comes the return of the full market in New Mexico and I couldn't be happier. The growers don't have much yet but even the sparse Spring market is better than the Winter. After a very uninspired winter of food, I am ready for the market. I have also decided to learn to can this summer too, to avoid the supermarket blues mid-February. So please share your canning tips here! I would love to hear all about your local markets too! What is your area's specialty? What do you do with it? And I will tell you all about Red or Green, pecans and everything else New Mexico produce has to offer.
I work at a really great community library in Corrales, New Mexico. (www.corraleslibrary.org)
There is a pond at the library, from which I fished a five year old out today. We have three coys that the kids can't get enough of.
My Husband and I are remodeling our partial adobe in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Every project has been a challenge. We found a window to no where in our kitchen and the adobe walls disintegrate at the slightest touch. This is what my kitchen looks like today:
Someday soon I hope to have a kitchen again!
Because in a house where there is no fast food and in a town where good take out is non-existent, cooking has become one of my favorite things to do. I try very hard to buy local, planning each week's meals around what is available at the farmers markets. With Spring comes the return of the full market in New Mexico and I couldn't be happier. The growers don't have much yet but even the sparse Spring market is better than the Winter. After a very uninspired winter of food, I am ready for the market. I have also decided to learn to can this summer too, to avoid the supermarket blues mid-February. So please share your canning tips here! I would love to hear all about your local markets too! What is your area's specialty? What do you do with it? And I will tell you all about Red or Green, pecans and everything else New Mexico produce has to offer.
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