The Centaur at Volos

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Centaur skeleton in a display case
The Centaur at Volos as it was displayed in Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

I’ve always been a fan of the Centaur. It was there on the first floor of Hodges Library when I was a graduate student, when I worked there on the 6th floor in Systems, and remained there long after I left to go to the College of Communication and Information / School of Information Sciences.…

Cleaning up my Twitter account

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To me X will always be Twitter. My first Twitter post, I really don’t remember if they were called tweets at that point, was April 9, 2007 and the content of that Tweet was “work”. Highly valuable words for posterity. Since that time I’ve posted:
Tweets – 863, Replies – 211, and Retweets – 419

With AI, ownership of content is getting very blurry.…

Cleaning up and moving around

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Lately I’ve been cleaning up things in my little corner of the online word. Digital clutter and inertia are dangerous things. In the physical word, there are limits to clutter. You most likely have limited space and things eventually reach a point where you (or some one else) has to deal with the clutter.…

Library Monk Returns

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Added March 4, 2026: That 2025 return was short lived. Take two.

I started this blog/site in 2003, shortly after finishing my master’s degree in information sciences, and beginning a PhD program. It’s now 2025 and I’ve still got the site but there’s been a break of about 15 years since I posted anything here.…

Thoughts circa 2003 – 2012

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Added on March 4, 2026: The impulse to clean things up in 2025 didn’t last long. Trying again in 2026. When did the future become now? Typing 2026 seems weird and now 2030 is a date that has come up in normal conversation.…