{"id":4070,"date":"2021-01-05T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2021-01-05T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:05:15","slug":"twenty-odd-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-odd Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wende posed a Convivial Question for this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are 20 years into a brave new century.<br \/>\nRemember when 2000 rolled over and we all thought there weren&#8217;t gonna be enough digits to keep the internet from crashing? So much history has rolled by, over and around us . . .affecting each of us in a myriad of ways.  <\/p>\n<p>\nWhat has the impact of these years been on you and your inner life?<br \/>\nHow might you be a different person from the one who saw in that new century with all the zeros? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo I went to my shelf of journals and found the volume that includes 2000 and read through that year and into 2001, and so I have data to help me note some ways in which I am <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a different person<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>grandparent<br \/>retiree<br \/>photographer again<br \/>last of a sibling set<br \/>yogi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>no longer<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>avid Appalachian Trail hiker (we finished the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/gnq1i67e7yq3b87\/AT.pdf?dl=0\">11-year odyssey of day hikes<\/a> in 2003)<br \/>GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Evangelist<br \/>in the role of Librarian and Professor<br \/>engaged with liberal arts colleges<br \/>working on Global Studies\/Stewardship<br \/>entangled with digital library initiatives<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li>recognizably the same<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>omnivorous quester<br \/>bibliophile<br \/>cyberspace participant<br \/>hypertext author<br \/>foodie<br \/>walker<br \/>&aelig;sthete [in a good way&#8230;]<br \/>collector<br \/>heathen<br \/>musician<br \/>watcher from the sidelines<br \/>Mocker [Ringo&#8217;s answer when asked if he was a Mod or a Rocker]\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, folks, for 20 years it&#8217;s been ODTAA (One Damned Thing After Another). Some things I discovered in the journal entries: few of the films I watched 20 years ago are memorable (most left no trace); I noted lots of boring meetings; lots of travel; lots of (less boring) task-focused meetings; lots of consultations, many leading to Web documents; a wide variety of courses and workshops taught; schemes to change the World around me hatched; weekends on the Appalachian Trail, lots of driving north and south from Lexington VA to trailheads. It was a very full and satisfying life, and so is its 2021 successor.<\/p>\n<p>\nSee some examples of my Web-based record keeping, ca. 2000: <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/musics\/hickmank1.html\">&#8216;Protest Music&#8217; for Brooks Hickman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/giswork\/hollows.html\">Hollows and other place names: a toponymic excursion<\/a> (examples of GIS work), <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/fluency\/index.html\">on Information Fluency<\/a>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/tlrg\/index.html\">Teaching and Learning Resouce Group<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/scilib\/sciinfo.html\">Tracking Scientific Information<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/technol\/pro2.html\">Technology and American Frontiers<\/a> course, <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/webhistory.html\">A History of the Web at W&#038;L<\/a> (2000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wende posed a Convivial Question for this week: We are 20 years into a brave new century. Remember when 2000 rolled over and we all thought there weren&#8217;t gonna be enough digits to keep the internet from crashing? So much history has rolled by, over and around us . . .affecting each of us in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,48,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convivial","category-remembered","category-tempora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}