Day three, the day in which we had a home base and in theory had planned for a pretty simple day, yet I still managed to spend most of driving... Started out the day getting harassed by the breakfast lady, bright and early. She made my waffles and dispensed abuse. In a good, friendly way, but still. It was pretty early in the morning, thanks to Lindsay. The breakfast at the Motel was pretty
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I was doing my generalized clicking around this afternoon and saw this FriendFeed comment (originally via Twitter) “How much does an annual library subscription to the top 20 closed-access journals cost? Lets start a virtual library for non-scientists.” I was all set to comment “Hey there aren’t really individual prces for a lot of those journals because of bundling and bla bla bla” but then realized someone else had gotten there before me and included a link to just such a list.
I had not seen the University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communication price list before but there it is in all its resplendent glory. Bill Hooker ran some analysis on these numbers back in March (start here if you are truly a numbercrunching fanbrarian) and draws some interesting conclusions. If you really like this sort of thing, you really should put Open Reading Frame in your feed reader.
The pizza looks pretty good, but it's difficult to see the excessive corn meal. I've had pizzas like that and don't care for it either. Corn meal can too easily be overused. I can get addicted to gelato. I just go mad trying to decide which ones I want to try. Talk about choice overload.<br /><br />Patiently waiting for the next installment.
Well, it sounds like the trip is coming along pretty well. No real hick-ups per say (like getting stranded on the side of the road at night during a storm and being eaten my cannibal villagers). I hope it continues well and you two can find a great place to live!