Friday, May 21, 2010

LIS Wordle

Last week was the first week of classes. One of our assignments this week was to come up with three indexing terms for an article we were to read. After reading the article and listening to a video created by the professor, I decided to play around and create a Wordle for the chapter.

The result was interesting.

Wordle: Subject Analysis in Online Catalogs

Friday, May 14, 2010

Blackberry Winter

Before I forget, Tuesday morning there was frost on the windshield and blackberries are in bloom. This should be the last cold spell. Amazing how it always seems to work.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Floods

In the 25 years that I've lived on this farm, I've never seen it flood this bad. The pond had a foot of water washing over the dam. The muddy drain at the edge of the woods was a creek 8 feet wide. Meadowbrook Road was impassable even at 10:30 last night.

At my house we had 6.99 inches in less than 24 hours. If you want to see inches across the state check out the CoCoRahs web site. Volunteers across the country record precipitation daily. Since it is volunteer not every county is represented, but there are still a lot of dots on the map.