{/end of April Fools jokery} I’ve been encouraged to make a blog posting regarding the death on March 30, 2005, of the stand-up comedian Mitch Hedberg. According to information posted at thedotdotdot.com — which, btw, is really funny when you say it out loud, but that’s neither here nor there, he died at the age …

Yes, I think I’ve decided there are people out there who have WAY too much time on their hands at work. Witness the iTreoPod. 🙂

The listservs I monitor professionally are rarely as active with errata as on April 1st. Here’s some more evidence for you: Exhibit 1“I just got this from one of my professional lists, and I thought I would pass it along. It’s a mock up (heavy on the “mock”) of a library newsletter from the University …

Here’s a few nifty April fools sites I’ve seen today: Google Gulp, a new beverage from Google, modeled after their GMail Valparaiso, but look fast, because it “fixes” itself after a few seconds University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, but again, it “fixes” after a few seconds This is something that comes up annually on my …

I’m going to see Kathleen Madigan at the Improv in Addison tonight. She’s hilarious! Yay! 🙂

This morning (moments ago, actually) I got a phone call from the organizer of the university Web geek conference I’m attending for the second time this July. I may have mentioned (though I can’t remember now if I have or not) that I had submitted an abstract for a session on user testing — meaning …

I got an e-mail at work today that made me chuckle. Here’s what one of my Web people said to me today: “Thanks, Liz. I imagine you seldom have a dull moment!” How true, sister! Another one that made me laugh today was in response to my e-mail about that bizarre ampersand thing: “Lovely – …

I could rant about the fact that it took me 40 minutes to drive less than seven miles on interstate 35 today, but nobody likes to listen to other people rant about traffic. I could rant about the fact that I have to spend another four hours of my personal time at practicum tonight, but …

Lest you think it went unnoticed, I’d just like to point out that the blog had its 10,000th page view this weekend on Saturday sometime. I think that’s so cool. A little scary, but so very cool.

I just finished up with a shift that brings me to 73.5 practicum hours (but who’s counting? ha!), and got my midterm evaluation from my site supervisor. He just handed it to me and said, “No surprises here.” Checks all the way down the “excellent” column. Also, in other random MLS updates, I found out …