Nerd alert!

June 2, 2006

Not in my wildest nerdy dreams (whatever those may be!) did i ever think i would grow up to know people who write thesauri, dictionaries and glossaries! 

But Dang Namit! i look around and realize that my friend Mim Pearse used to write dictionary definitions for a livin’, then i spent time with some metadata people who went and wrote searching schemas based on a bunch of key word thesauri type of thinggies (you can see their knowledge did not quite rub off!), and today I went and looked at Arizona Richard’s (Pearce-Moses).

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology

and now i feel all fuzzy, informed, & nerdy. i’m also wondering about the circles i’m in and the company i keep! 

Richard - your thingamahwho glossary has been a real help!  You are helping us rascally geographers begin to understand what you wild archivists are all about, or at least sayin’!  I feel tears welling so i gotta go now! sniff! wipe! wipe!  And are the Pearse’s & Pearce’s related!

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  1. Richard’s post got spaminated so I poste it here!

    Well, this was a treat!!!

    I don’t know if the Pearse and Pearce clans are related. Pearce is my mother’s maiden name. I think the came to the US not long after the Mayflower. Family lore has it that the Pearce family owned the Mayflower (always superior ).

    Was at a colloquium this week in DC (still in the city tonight), and Kevin Glick was here, too. We were talking about you last night and how much fun it is to work with you. I hope you make it back to Phoenix some time.

    Thanks so much for turning me on to How to Lie with Maps. A source of several good terms (which I hope I got right — do check the defs for isopleth and choropleth). But just generally interesting. In another life, I could have been a cartographer.

    Here . . . let me share a fun link that a friend sent me today. Just click and drag . . .

    http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

    Comment by Administrator — June 2, 2006 @ 11:00 pm

  2. Ah you boyz are gonna make me blush!
    Luv the link!
    And i think i coulda made an archivist!
    Best i can do is read your glossary ;-)

    Comment by Administrator — June 2, 2006 @ 11:02 pm

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