Today for lunch...

2008-12-01T17:31:00.000-08:00

Today for lunch I had a chicken salad sandwich, baby carrots, and some chips. While masticating, I reflected on the journey of our twenty-three things. I am glad the Library allowed us to participate in such a learning endeavor. I would definitely enjoy doing something like this again. Some of these things were new to me and some were not. Of the new ones, I think Delicious might be one of my favorites. I liked being able to look things up with other people's tags. My least favorite (maybe least understood) thing was Twitter. Now that this is wrapping up, I'm going to go back and take another look at that one. Maybe I'm missing something. There are a couple more I plan on revisiting, as well. But don't plan on reading about that here. From now on, this blog is only about what I had for lunch.

2008-11-29T12:55:00.000-08:00

After lunch I played around with Moldi. I searched eFlicks and tried to cue up The Hair Brained Barbers cartoon. I downloaded the Overdrive software then downloaded the cartoon which I can view until the expiration date. I did not successfully get the cartoon to play. I think I.T. has the computer locked down to some extent and Overdrive did not load properly. I did get MOLDI to work at home once but it has been a long time.

2008-11-29T12:30:00.001-08:00

Today for lunch I had meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy, and green beans. Before that, I checked out 3 podcast directories listed on learn and play. My favorite of the three was podcastalley.com. It had nice categories to look through. I found a lot of restaurant and food related podcasts there. I am tempted to do my own toddcast and call it Today for lunch. What do you think?

2008-11-24T17:23:00.000-08:00

So I had a miniature roast beef sandwich and some baby carrots for an evening snack since I ate lunch early today. Then I played with YouTube. I viewed a very touching song from the eighties that my coworker, Julie Hunt, shared with me a few weeks ago. It is a bittersweet love ballad that kind of brings tears to your eyes. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. I have embedded it into the bottom of my blog for your enjoyment. You can also find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1cVGrXXjw

2008-11-24T11:25:00.001-08:00

After my delicious lunch, I played around in the Tool Box of CML's Power Tools page. I stumbled upon the "Make" blog. This site is full of things people can build employing technology. Some of these are just the sort of little projects I would actually enjoy doing. Afterall, who wouldn't want to make a bike light out of an empty Parmesan cheese tube? http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/universal_bike_light_batt.html

2008-11-24T09:31:00.000-08:00

Today for lunch I had yogurt with mixed berries and granola, and peanut butter crackers with honey. A few days ago I stumbled upon a cool Web 2.0 resource called Urbanspoon: http://www.urbanspoon.com/c/33/Columbus-restaurants.html You can use this resource to find places to dine near most cities. I looked up restaurants near where I live and found a couple I didn't even know about. I tried one listing, Lin's Wok, and it was very tasty. This resource would be useful for Librarians to point out-of-town visitors toward. It would also come in handy when I go on vacation.

2008-11-11T11:26:00.001-08:00

That was one delicious and nutritious club sandwich. In fact, since my last post of about an hour ago, I found that I had enough energy left over to explore Google Docs. I played with the spreadsheet and the word processor. The spreadsheet is much more powerful than I was anticipating. It has lots of built in formulas and charts like excel. The word processing part is also very usable. I am pleasantly suprised by these web apps.

2008-11-11T10:24:00.000-08:00

Today for lunch I had a Club Sandwich, baby carrots, apple sauce, and pretzels. That gave me the energy to post my blog URL on the Learn and Play wiki.

2008-11-04T13:47:00.000-08:00

Today for lunch I had a chicken salad sandwich, baby carrots, and two chocolate chip cookies. Later in the day, I checked out some library related wikis. I have used wikis before so this was kind of familiar to me. It was interesting to see some different examples of how people are utilizing this technology. The Hilliard Library is organizing it's Christmas Party on a Wiki. How cool is that?

2008-11-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had pizza and salad. While dining, I reflected upon Library 2.0 and the thoughts presented in the five articles. One major message is that technology is evolving and we, as library workers, need to stay ahead of the learning curve. There is a definite trend toward not just making information retrievable on the internet but rather using technology to bring the right information to the user at the right time - push, instead of pull technology. Another trend is toward making collaborative knowledge/information available in the internet. Worldcat and Delicious are just two examples. To me, technologies that support this are very powerful and could do much to further society.

2008-10-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had pizza. After lunch, I played around with the whole tagging/social book marking thing on CML's L&P del.icio.us account. My immediate focus is to forge ahead and get caught up with Learn and Play. Once there, I will revisit this site as I find it very powerful. My favorite thing so far is that you can use other peoples' tags to mine for new resources on just about anything. I popped in a couple of words esoteric to the scientific community and was amazed by the results. It picks up where Google leaves off.

2008-10-24T13:42:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had fried chicken, french fries, and cole slaw. After lunch I played with Twitter some. FYI my username there is buckeyetodd but don't expect to find me there very often. Sorry, but I just don't get this one...

2008-10-21T09:38:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a hamburger and fries. I also had time today to check out LibraryThing. I added some cookbooks to my catalog. I'm always looking for ways to kick lunch up a notch. Some of these cookbooks I've used and a couple are still on my list to try out. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/buckeyetodd What a neat way to keep track of your reads and get ideas!

2008-10-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a roast beef sandwich, potato salad, baby carrots, and a peanut butter cookie. I enjoyed all this while admiring the new sign I posted on my blog. Do you like it? I made it with an image generator that can be found at this address: http://atom.smasher.org/bar-b-q/

2008-10-14T13:37:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a ham and swiss sandwich, potato salad, baby carrots, and a cookie. I looked over the RSS and blog feed finders after I dined. I did not spend a lot of time with any one as I need to focus on getting caught up. I did search each feed finder for library and found some things that I will revisit at a later date. Just for poking around, I really liked Blogline's top 1000 list.

2008-10-08T11:14:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had half of a smoked turkey sandwich, Babybel cheese, fresh fruit salad, and a cookie. I enjoyed reading some RSS feeds in my new Bloglines account while dining. Kind of cool... I can use this technology to efficiently feed my brain while I use lunch to feed my body.

2008-10-07T12:24:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a smoked turkey sandwich, a mini-round of Babybel cheese, applesauce w/cinnnamon, and baby carrots.

2008-10-06T10:08:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had vanilla yogurt with mixed berries and granola and peanut butter crackers with honey.

2008-10-04T12:21:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had two double White Castle cheeseburgers and an order of onion chips.

2008-10-01T17:29:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a breaded pork chop, baby lima beans, and potatoes roasted in olive oil and rosemary.

2008-09-17T10:44:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had filet migon with sauteed mushrooms, rice pilaf, lima beans, and a small chocolate Frosty.

2008-09-14T09:22:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a smoked turkey sandwich, potato salad, and baby carrots.

2008-09-12T10:08:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a chicken sandwich, potato salad, and baby carrots.

2008-09-12T06:30:00.000-07:00

Something technology related, eh? Hmmm... That's easy but what's it got to do with what I had for lunch? Well, it's an egregious breach of protocol but here goes anyway:

I've been very fortunate lately to be involved in a different sort of learn and play for The Library. I've been working with a small group of people who are working on all things necessary to make it possible for the Library to provide instant messaging (IM) for its customers. IM will be one more exciting way that customers will soon be able to communicate with us. Our small group has temporarily divided into two smaller groups. One subgroup is exploring how best to apply our new technology to help customers i.e. P&P, training methods, best practices, etc. Macrina Gilliam and I comprise the second subgroup. We've been having a blast learning about and testing various technologies to find the very best solution for The Library's needs. It has been very exciting to explore these technologies and to get them working. In fact you can see some of our work on both our blogs. Here's a link to Macrina's blog: http://www.skydivinglibrarian.blogspot.com/ The various "Ask Here" boxes that you see come and go on our blogs are different technologies we've been testing. As we continue testing, feel free to start a chat with us when you see "available" status on either of our blogs. It would be a good chance to see and play with what will be coming soon to a Library near you! Be forewarned though that it could be Macrina, me, or even someone else who may be chatting with you as those boxes all communicate with our "test library." It is just a matter of who is working the "test library" at any given time.

Okay, lunch is only one hour away. Hmmm... I wonder what I'll have...

2008-09-08T13:19:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a smoked turkey sandwich, baby carrots, applesauce with cinnamon, and an oatmeal raisin cookie.

2008-09-04T09:48:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had macaroni and beef and peanut butter crackers with honey.

2008-09-03T13:16:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had coconut shrimp, french fries, and a side salad with ranch dressing.

2008-08-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

And here's a cool third party app that utilizes Flickr: http://www.delivr.net/ It takes images from Flickr and makes free e-cards and greeting cards out of them. Just think, I could use this to make Christmas cards that contain images of delicious holiday lunches. How exciting!

2008-08-29T12:18:00.000-07:00

Okay, so here's a link to a nice photo I found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stinky_harriet/429223981/ Click it to find out what Stinky Harriet had one day for lunch!

2008-08-29T10:02:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had chicken parmigiana, a side of spaghetti, and a salad of mixed greens, iceberg lettuce, roma tomatoes, and cucumbers with italian vinaigrette dressing.

2008-08-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a western style omelette, hashbrowns, a multigrain english muffin with strawberry preserves, and a glass of orange juice.

2008-08-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a hot dog with mustard and relish and vanilla ice cream.

2008-08-25T10:02:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had boneless breaded chicken breast, mashed potatoes with light gravy, green beans, and a roll with butter.

2008-08-23T10:17:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had leftovers (more filet mignon with sauteed portabella mushrooms, roasted new potatoes with rosemary and olive oil, and grill roasted corn on the cob).

2008-08-21T09:07:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had filet mignon with sauteed portabella mushrooms, roasted new potatoes with rosemary and olive oil, and grill roasted corn on the cob.

2008-08-19T10:05:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had pizza and salad.

2008-08-18T10:23:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a smoked turkey sandwich, baby carrots, applesauce, and a cookie.

2008-08-15T11:06:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a skinless fillet of haddock, french fries, cole slaw, and a roll with butter.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

2008-08-14T17:20:00.000-07:00

Today for lunch I had a ham sandwich, baby carrots, apple sauce, and a cookie.