Archive for the 'Missouri' Category

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Doug Raber – Public Library Director

Doug Raber, a friend and former advisor of mine at both Tennessee and Missouri, is leaving academia to be the public library director in Ferndale, Michigan. The local paper there has the story.
Best of luck Doug, dress warmly.

Comments Off - Posted in Libraries, Library & Information Science, Missouri, Tennessee, Thoughts on Life, UM Columbia and UT Volunteers by Dan

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Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Potentially headed back to Knoxville

I’ve applied for a job in Knoxville. No, I’m not going to tell you what it is, you think I want everybody applying for it? It does tie in my web design skills and library background nicely and I hope I get the job.
I’ve tried the PhD thing twice now, once at UT [...]

8 Comments » - Posted in Knoxville, Missouri, Tennessee, Thoughts on Life, UM Columbia, UT Volunteers, Web Design and Work at Hodges by Dan

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Saturday, May 13th, 2006

St. Louis style pizza

One of the few things I like about Missouri is St. Louis style pizza from Imo’s. It’s a thin crust pizza that may not be for everybody but Stephanie and I like it a lot. We were just discussing today that we’ll miss Imo’s when we leave Missouri.
Well, it turns out that you can [...]

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Monday, March 13th, 2006

Weather and Sirens

I don’t like a state where they have to use sirens to warn you about the weather. We had some nasty weather last night and the tornado sirens went off twice. So we went and hid on the bathroom for a while. The dogs and the cat hid under the bed. I didn’t think I [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Missouri and Thoughts on Life by Dan

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Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Snow

I’ve confirmed that Missouri is a Midwestern state and not Southern. One, nobody has a drawl around here (except me sometimes) and two, it’s cold. The temperature has been below freezing for a week and now there’s at least a couple inches of snow on the ground.
I like snow in the mountains were I [...]

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