John OverholtRight after I agreed with the students that I was very lucky to have such a great job we discovered a live bug that I had to scoop up and save for the Preservation Librarian and I heard one of them say “I knew there had to be a catch.”
Margarita Nafpaktitis
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@quinnanya How can *anybody* not fail at that??????
Daniel Bellingradt 
About forgetting or losing your eyeglasses in early modern Europe: Poor thing, have you lost your glasses again? Have you checked the book you were reading? Most often, when you forgot where you put your eyeglasses to, someone found them between the pages...
The history of reading had a chapter about forgetting eyeglasses in books, and about historians and librarians finding traces of these lost eyeglasses.
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I wish I could find a better picture of this than this tiny one I saw on Tumblr, but every librarian and conservator is nodding their heads hard right now. https://www.tumblr.com/conservethis/724460576135413760?source=share
@quinnanya Had no idea how those two words were going to come together in a post… I think you’re 100% right, btw.
mssprovenanceMedieval cut-and-paste: the rubricator put the red and blue section number "XLVIII" in the wrong place, so the owner of the book cut it out and stuck it in the correct place, lower down the same margin:
(Oxford, University College, MS 55 https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_13037)
Ethan WatrallSuper cool. Generate 3D printable, tactile map tiles https://touch-mapper.org/en/
The secret to comedy is timing, and I just got the payoff to a hundred year old joke. I was listening to the Blank Check podcast on Buster Keaton, which mentioned that the title of his short “One Week” was a play on “Three Weeks” a scandalous 1907 erotic novel.
We have a novelty fake book called “Four Weeks: A Loud Book” with a cap gun mechanism inside, and when you open it, the cap fires. The joke is that you were trying to steal a look at a sexy book and got very dramatically caught.
@mazarine I've seen and loved her work for years. What a shocking loss. How devastating for her family.
Huzzah for Stanford Graduate Workers Union (SGWU) publicly launching a unionization campaign! Grad students unionized while I was in the PhD program at the U of Michigan, and I immediately saw improvements in my quality of life: an aaaaaaalmost-liveable stipend (instead of not-at-all-really-liveable) and better health insurance that included domestic partners.