I'm not saying it's designed to annoy me specifically, but somehow my library's acoustics are piping somebody's earphone overflow into my office just loud enough to irk but not loud enough outside it for me to track down who it is.

I worked at general reference at the HBLL and students were always so fearful about asking after those books. Radiating shame.

Screenshot of article where it reads "this sorry was drafted with the assistance of AI" at the bottom.

On one hand, good for cleveland.com to admit the use of AI. on other hand, why is this buried at the bottom of the article and not in the byline? Also what assistance? What model? These things matter!

Oh, no, it's a religious "time is short". Like, you only have so much life to do this work because the end of the world/your death is coming sooner than you anticipate.

Two moments of culture shock shortly after moving to Ohio for me: Witnessing a couple fresh from a run each order and chug 16 oz of milk at the public market. And working white collar job as only man in department and all my women coworkers having regular, heated convos about college football.

Just like rolling this around here, but I think one real knot is that there's these handwavings about being an international church but a lot of it is really mapping US context on other parts of the world.

I don't have more than a gut sense of this, but one thing I do think is somewhat complicated here is the Church is still very much in the USA mold. So polygamy is not allowed in countries where it is legal. So are we talking if it were legal in the US? But then what about where it's still illegal?

Oh, cool, EBSCO, your new platform doesn't list volume or issue number in results page or item record. Super nice. Very useful. Not at all annoying.

I saw an ad for them yesterday with the tagline "Time is short. We are waiting" with an old timey pic. Is this...a plea? A threat? An excellent tagline for a horror film?

An add for genealogy company with an old black and white photo of a family with the text "Can you hear us? We need your help." written over it and "Time is short. We are waiting." at the bottom.

The context for this is a LDS theological stance that your ancestors are waiting the proxy ordinances you can submit their names for. But honestly, this ad sorta makes it sound like they are ghosts caught in your house. Also "Time is short. We are waiting" could be the tagline of a horror film.

If you want to see how dumb ChatGPT is and what people are saying is cool about it, check out these people awed by "secrets" told to them by models that read mostly like really, really bad self-help nonsense: www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

We all know recipe writers lie about time for carmelizing onions, but why must they also lie about how much a serving of soup is? Every recipe that serves four makes like 5 quarts of soup.

cropped image from old Time magazine. Image of woman in three-quarters view from shoulders up. Caption reads "Bank President Roebling No gusher, she"

This 1937 Time profile of a lady bank president is amazing. First of all what does "no gusher, she" even mean? It calls her "the prettiest" and comments on the color of her eyes. But the best bit is when you can practically hear her sigh when she says there are 75 other women bank presidents.

For a second I was confused about the upcoming biopic starring Eddie Redmayne and Tina Fey!

Scan of old newspaper with headline "New Mystery at "Poison Farm" ... Death lurks in the neighborhood. Image of grim reaper above house coming up from cloud to loom over house with skeleton hands outstretched.

Bring back reporting like this!

Why'd they come back to the US, you ask? They joined the Mormon Church and hightailed to Ohio to meet Joseph, but he'd already left by the time they arrived.

The family story is that they were Tories, which didn't quite make sense to me why it took them until the 1790s to exit, but after I found this I learned that Vermont wasn't a state until 1791, so perhaps that explain part of the timing?

Handwritten document from 1794, declaring Arza Judd's intent to settle in Canada in order "to obtain his Majesties Protection"

Sure you all say you're going to flee to Canada as refugees, but is it a family tradition for you? Arza Judd, my 4th great-grandpa hopped across from Vermont in 1793 to "obtain His Majesties Protection".

I have transformed
the lead
that was in
the tunnel
And which
Newton definitely
hoped
he could
Damn it
It was a mistake
So magick
And so gold

One slightly disarming thing about reviewing books is when they actually publish, it seems like it should have happened long ago--books I reviewed in January are just now appearing out in the wild.

Would have found it more useful it were like "oh, here's some better terms" or "perhaps you should try searching in XXX". But the summary of 5 seemingly random articles has dubious utility, I think.

Currently migrating to PRIMO. Our university (giant) is not turning it on immediately. I spoke up strongly against it because when I tried it out, it was pulling 5 articles with no context, explanation, or rationale of why those ones were "best" for the search.

Ah, yes, the notoriously consistent and clear "Christian views" which do not differ at all between, say, Westboro Baptist Church and the Episcopalians.

Do you think they were using, like, public record searches of properties based on a specific set of surnames? I can imagine this happening if they wanted to find refugees from a specific ethnic background outside of an enclave? Though that would only find homeowners...

I had a joke about Penelope, but it didn't really suit her.

So much AI, mostly all saying things that I'd already heard 50 times.

“While the show is family friendly and Christian-founded, it does deal with some adult themes such infidelity and one of the main characters being a harlot”.

Quite the content warning to read!

original 1936 Betty Crocker painting, a woman in red top with wavy hair and a pinched mouth.

In 1936, marketers really thought this is what "an ageless thirty-two" looked like. Just in case you're feeling like you're aging poorly!

Came here to say the same!

Embracing the Weird: A New Moment for Latter-day Saint Art — Center for Latter-day Saint Arts By Ted Bushman & Kristin Perkins In a photograph staged like a mural, Joseph Smith faces off against Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead. Joseph, recognizable only by his stiff coat, high coll...

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