This season has had a lot of beautiful trees in Eugene.
Beautiful trees in Eugene
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Category Archives: Other Journals
Eugene YMCA
This photo of a food truck in front of the Eugene YMCA says so much about the YMCA business model. Clearly the institution is about business. First and foremost it’s in the business of selling subscriptions. Subscriptions to access. Not life-changing results. Not better communities. Not pathways towards longevity.
It’s kind of just a little bit like salt in the wound when we realize that they stuck a vending machine in front of the workout center in the kid drop-off zone.
It’s just gravy to see a bio diesel sticker on the front of the truck and a gasoline power generator in the back. There is no sense of Green at all.
We can all be grateful that the operator rinsed his hands without soap for three seconds after he took his smoke at 6:13pm.
He loves a cuddly blanket
A new piano
The new piano.
Chasing subsets
One of the beautiful things I see when I fly are sunsets. Today was no exception. The camera never seems to do the beauty justice.
New mouse buttons
12 months after getting new mouse buttons for my laptop I finally installed them. So much relief going on here.
Moving Apple notes
When I airdrop a note it moves it to iCloud and then changes the date on the recipient’s note to the date the message was received rather than created.
Academic Heritage in MARC records
I have long wondered how I might encode information contained in the https://academictree.org in MARC Authority Records. Obviously via MARC relator roles the information might be encoded within the bibliographic record. However, looking at the MARC 510 field on the linked record https://lccn.loc.gov/no2004069960, it seems that the MARC 500 field on authority Records might be used with several of the sub-fields.
Converting DC Subjects to Schema.org
DC has the ability to specify subjects such as UDC, LCSH or DDC. How would these be converted to schema.org?
{
"@context": "https://schema.org/",
"@type": "Book",
"name": "British Isles - A History",
"about": {
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"@id": "https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E48m7BJXdrm3XY4Xv86d88WGt3",
"name": "British Isles",
"termCode": "941",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/"
}
}
Language Documentation Gear
I have been investigating some new video equipment for language documentation. Currently highly recommended is the Osmo Pocket 3 and the GoPro Hero 11 (as this has GPS embedded whereas the GP12 does not). It is not entirely clear if the GP13 has GPS or not.
Also my microphones need some attention. I need some endcaps and some windscreens.
I have been thinking about using updating my capabilities for recording and regularly recording Katja Playing Music.