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Sep. 27th, 2005 11:29 amFor the latest news :( on our house hunt, see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jducoeur's post from 9/25. The inspectors are faboo, the news they gave us was not. Back to the drawing board - or at least the MLS system.
Sunday night after the inspection, we met up with my inlaws, who are in town for a conference on telemedicine. Sandy was feeling like Italian food, so we went to the North End to a restaurant called Carmen, recommended in the Zagat Guide. Sandy had roast pork,jducoeur had the steak with gorgonzola, Dave had mushroom crespelle with bolognese, and I had tagliatelle with shrimp in a basil cream sauce. All delicious, and mine was the best. D&S were surprised to learn that Carmen does not serve coffee and dessert - one is expected to join the throngs on Hanover St. for cannoli and espresso.
(Note to self: go back to Caffe Vittoria, and get the pistachio ice cream again.)
Dave and Sandy are getting seriously involved with the Democratic Party in their home town. How long til one of them is put forward for City Council? or National Convention representative?
My latest Internet discovery is a spiffy tool called LibraryThing, which allows you to catalog your own library by searching the Library of Congress and Amazon for copies of matching records. The interface could use some work - for instance, if you're working your way through all the works by a given author, Lois McMaster Bujold for example, you have to search individually on each book, you cannot select multiples from the list window. Which is painstaking. The owner of LibraryThing is making rapid advances in his under-the-hood tools and server power, which is a mercy because it's getting Discovered (I found it through a mention in Making Light). I hope LibraryThing survives to get out of beta. It's not clear what Tim has in mind for the future of the tool - we might yet find he sells it out to a marketing concern who wants to find users with strong collections in science fiction, writing, librarianship, and medieval history, and market to them (in which case, I'll toggle "on" the Privacy bit and stop adding records!).
Once we've moved and more of my books are out of their boxes, I'll really dig into the data entry stuff. Right now, it's just got books I can see from my desk chairs, or which I remember packing last weekend :) So if you go and look at my catalog you'll think it pretty unbalanced. Shrug.
jducoeur's post from 9/25. The inspectors are faboo, the news they gave us was not. Back to the drawing board - or at least the MLS system.Sunday night after the inspection, we met up with my inlaws, who are in town for a conference on telemedicine. Sandy was feeling like Italian food, so we went to the North End to a restaurant called Carmen, recommended in the Zagat Guide. Sandy had roast pork,
jducoeur had the steak with gorgonzola, Dave had mushroom crespelle with bolognese, and I had tagliatelle with shrimp in a basil cream sauce. All delicious, and mine was the best. D&S were surprised to learn that Carmen does not serve coffee and dessert - one is expected to join the throngs on Hanover St. for cannoli and espresso.(Note to self: go back to Caffe Vittoria, and get the pistachio ice cream again.)
Dave and Sandy are getting seriously involved with the Democratic Party in their home town. How long til one of them is put forward for City Council? or National Convention representative?
My latest Internet discovery is a spiffy tool called LibraryThing, which allows you to catalog your own library by searching the Library of Congress and Amazon for copies of matching records. The interface could use some work - for instance, if you're working your way through all the works by a given author, Lois McMaster Bujold for example, you have to search individually on each book, you cannot select multiples from the list window. Which is painstaking. The owner of LibraryThing is making rapid advances in his under-the-hood tools and server power, which is a mercy because it's getting Discovered (I found it through a mention in Making Light). I hope LibraryThing survives to get out of beta. It's not clear what Tim has in mind for the future of the tool - we might yet find he sells it out to a marketing concern who wants to find users with strong collections in science fiction, writing, librarianship, and medieval history, and market to them (in which case, I'll toggle "on" the Privacy bit and stop adding records!).
Once we've moved and more of my books are out of their boxes, I'll really dig into the data entry stuff. Right now, it's just got books I can see from my desk chairs, or which I remember packing last weekend :) So if you go and look at my catalog you'll think it pretty unbalanced. Shrug.
