{"id":113,"date":"2004-11-19T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T22:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-11-30T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T22:01:59","slug":"brain-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/brain-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain strain and odd animal appartitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/dero.jpg\" alt=\"A dero by Jermaine Rogers\" ALIGN=right \/>Today, I was in and out, mostly in, at <a href=\"http:\/\/ils.unc.edu\/nhprcfellows\/symposium.htm\">the NHPRC Electronic Records Fellowships Symposium.<\/a> Max and TJ did a great job taping all the talks and we&#8217;ll have them online in due time.<br \/>\nWe also had a delightful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\">Journalism and Mass Communications School<\/a> meeting in which all searches were approved with little discussion. We are hiring excellent folks!<br \/>\nThen at lunch, I heard a brain-straining mind-openning talk by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.db.dk\/lb\/\">Lennart Bjorneborn<\/a> of Denmark on his webometrics work and on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Small_world_phenomenon\">Small World Phenomenae<\/a> and distributed knowledge organization and  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-organisation\">self-organizing structures<\/a> on the Web.<br \/>\n[more on this and on the Symposium later]<br \/>\nDuring breaks, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/all3.jpg\">a gorilla, a giant rabbit, an armadilla also giant,<\/a> and a large mouse<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/apebunny.jpg\"> running around on the quad <\/a>between the Wilson Library where the Symposium was held and Manning Hall where I live and Lennart&#8217;s talk was given. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/pointing.jpg\">They invited me over<\/a>, but then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/dillo.jpg\">had a disagreement with the armadillo.<\/a> And we went our separate ways. They were not far from the place where <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/index.php?p=73\">I ran into the energy witching group a few weeks back.<\/a><br \/>\nOdd occurances continued. As I went to my car to go home, I found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/twins.jpg\">a car the exact same make, model, year and color of my car had parked beside me.<\/a> The only difference was that the other car had a parking ticket on it and mine didn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nLater Tucker and I went to Weaver Street Market where we ran into 103.5 WCOM&#8217;s Jacques Menache (he&#8217;s also the ArtCenter founder and an old friend) who took us on <a href=\"http:\/\/communityradio.coop\/\">a tour of Carrboro&#8217;s new low power community FM station.<\/a> The building is an old branch bank and Jacques has ingeniusly moved the drive-in window to the studio so that the  on-air DJ has a great view of the street. The station&#8217;s antenna which has about a 10 mile range is up the road above our house. It&#8217;s on the high point of Southern Village in the soccer field behind Mary Scroggs Elementary where Tucker went to grades 1 &#8211; 3. If you are a music or radio person in this area, drop by and lend WCOM a hand.<br \/>\nOur evening ended with a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wootinit.com\">our favorite toy store Wootini [sorry their site isn&#8217;t up quite yet]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/lifestyles\/story\/1842528p-8162820c.html\">[but they did great a good write up in the News and Observer]<\/a> where a big party and art show were underway. The occassion was the release of a new comic-based toy designed by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jermainerogers.com\"> Jermaine Rogers.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/jermaine.jpg\">Jermaine was there signing posters and making odd faces<\/a> &#8212; he is famous for his rock posters which include an ongoing story with some mysterious characters in them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigposters.com\/phpBB\/viewtopic.php?topic=26601\">A race of underworld bears called Dero are the subject of the toy.<\/a>  DJ Uzi was spinning and playing music too. The whole place was full of folks who could understand what was up with custom evil bear toys. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/tuckerjermaine.jpg\">Jermaine was kind enough to sign some posters for us despite Tucker&#8217;s antics.<\/a> On the way out, Tucker found a freehand drawn sign directing folks to the show which had blown off into the corner of the building and brought it home (since it wouldn&#8217;t stick up any more). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/brainstrain\/Dero.jpg\">Our Dero likes to stand on it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was in and out, mostly in, at the NHPRC Electronic Records Fellowships Symposium. Max and TJ did a great job taping all the talks and we&#8217;ll have them online in due time. We also had a delightful Journalism and Mass Communications School meeting in which all searches were approved with little discussion. 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