I’ve started yet another blog, this one about bicycle commuting, aptly named Bike Commuter through the Boston Biker blog network. I’ve been thinking about starting a bicycle blog for a long time and have dragged my feet about it but with spring coming in, this is as good of a time to get started. I [...]
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29 Mar
New Bicycle Blog
Posted by Liam in Boston Life and Culture, Metapost. Tagged: Bicycle, Bicycle commuting, Bicycle Safety, Boston, Commuting, Commuting and Advocacy, Jamaica Plain, Local, Metapost. 1 Comment
5 Apr
Boston & Me: 30 Years Together
Posted by Liam in Boston Life and Culture. Tagged: Boston, Family, History, Local, Metapost, Museums, Photographs. Leave a Comment
This week marks yet another anniversary in which the number of years being marked is increasingly baffling. 30 years ago on Easter weekend my father took my sister and I for my first visit to the city of Boston (Easter was on April 6th that year so let’s just say we arrived on April 5th). [...]
28 Mar
Ten Years @ The Library
Posted by Liam in Libraries and Information Sharing. Tagged: Archives, Boston, Libraries, Local, Metapost, Records Management. Leave a Comment
Ten years ago today I began work at Baker Library at Harvard Business School, my first library job. Ten years later I still work in the same building albeit I have had three different jobs (officially), survived a two-year renovation working in a windowless warehouse-like interim building, and find myself 21 out 53 staff members [...]
4 Dec
At last, a 935th Post
Posted by Liam in Metapost. Tagged: History, Holidays, Metapost. 1 Comment
Sure, blogiversaries are so uncool, but blogging itself is uncool these days too. So let me uncooly celebrate the third anniversary of Panorama of the Mountains with a look back on the past year. Three big projects of which I’m proud of are my Top 100 Favorite Books of All-Time, Top 100 Favorite Albums of [...]
31 Dec
2008 Year in Review: Favorite Books
Posted by Liam in Book Reviews. Tagged: 2008, Books, Lists, Metapost, Reviews. Leave a Comment
Here’s my annual list of my ten favorite books read in the year. As always, this is merely the best books I read this year not books published in 2008. For previous years see 2007 and 2006, and of course Every Book I’ve Ever Read are cataloged in Library Thing. The Worst Hard Time by [...]
28 Dec
2008 Year in Review: Movies
Posted by Liam in Movie Reviews. Tagged: 2008, Lists, Metapost, Movie, Reviews. Leave a Comment
Listed below are all the movies I’ve watched in the past year. Much like last year, I’ve rated all the movies on a five star scale. Five stars is an all-time classic, three stars is the baseline for an enjoyable film end-to-end, one star is a bad movie with perhaps one good sequence or performance. [...]
4 Dec
At last, a 671st Post!
Posted by Liam in Metapost. Tagged: History, Holidays, Metapost. 1 Comment
Today Panorama of the Mountains celebrates its second birthday. Hurrah for me! Now I’m the parent of a blog in it’s terrible twos. A lot’s changed over two years, but much has remained the same. Here’s what Panorama of the Mountains looked like on January 11th, 2007, the oldest page saved at the Internet archive. [...]
19 Nov
Meme: Dewey Decimal Classification Name, plus Blog Analyzers
Posted by Liam in Frolics and Frivolities. Tagged: Libraries, Links, Memes, Metapost. Leave a Comment
Via Phil Bradley, a quiz to convert your name into a Dewey Decimal Classification class. Liam Sullivan’s Dewey Decimal Section: 002 The book Class: 000 Computer Science, Information & General Works Contains: Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations. What it says about you: You are very informative and up to date. You’re working on [...]
18 Nov
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Posted by Liam in Metapost. Tagged: Holidays, Metapost. 2 Comments
I remember being seven years old when the realization came to me that in just…three…years I would be ten and I’d be so old and wouldn’t be able to play and have fun anymore. It’s good to get one’s midlife crisis out of the way early because now that I’m five times seven I’m much [...]
3 Nov
Link of the Day Reaches 500
Posted by Liam in Link Dump. Tagged: del.icio.us, Links, Metapost. Leave a Comment
Today I posted my 500th link in my link of the day series on delicious. The story that gets the honor is this article about Harvard refusing Googles terms for book scanning in hopes of preserving open access to the scanned works. I started Link of the Day on February 25th as a cleaner and [...]
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