HAB

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Web Name: HAB

WebSite: http://oook.info

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...is an anthropologist by training (AB Harvard 1965,MA Stanford 1972, PhD Stanford 1976) and taught for 18 years at AcadiaUniversity in Nova Scotia (Human Geography, Peoples and Cultures of Asia,Cross-Cultural Studies in Music, among other subjects). In 1990 hethought better of it and repotted himself as a reference librarian (MSLISSimmons 1992), specializing in silicon-based life forms. He was Science Librarian at Washington & Lee University from 1996-2005, and since then has been living in splendid otium in midcoast Maine. He says:What I do, what I've always done, is find interesting things and connect people with them. I do it over a very wide compass, often via finding out what interests people have and watching for stuff that fits or --ideally-- is at the fringes of those interests. Success is discovering something and conveying it to its somebody, and finding that it is new, or novel, or unexpected. Another frame: if x interests you, then what will you make of y? I can become interested in a lot of different things. I have a taste for the bizarre and the vivid. I aspire to be a connoisseur of context, a metasource, a serendib.55th Class Report augmented (2019)50th Class Report augmented (2015)Photographic Work (2019)links to FIVE albums of musical improvisations (with Daniel He kalo)on Walter Benjamin (January 2020)Joint Show of Photographs with Broot: Imagining (September 2020)Day-to-day maunderings can be followed via oook blog andLinks to past enthusiasms can be found underCurrent Work and The Old Home Page

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