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Jessamyn West
@jessamyn
Rural tech geek. Researcher. Proud member of the librarian resistance. Collector of mosses. Enjoyer of postcards. ✉️ box 345 05060 ✉️ She/her.
Oct 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Not every drop-in time is a romp. Today I had an older man trying to get into his email account, the one he'd been using to apply for jobs. He'd left his job at the post office and was looking for work and it was slow going. He had no computer, just a phone, his wife's phone. His landlord had set up his email account (he & his wife lived in a refurbished carriage shed) but he couldn't get into it. His password was one of those that was written down with some upper and some lower case letters, but he said "Nope, it's all lowercase but the first letter"
Jul 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Will return to drop-in time tweets soon. Here's my experience w/ a gig job for one of those geek-named sites. During early-COVID I signed up with a few tech gig sites figuring why not. I get regular emails with "jobs" mostly hours away from me. Weds a guy texted me w/a job nearby Job was Mac support. Guy clicked something, Mac flipped out, couldn't get online, needed anti-virus run &c. I said I was busy Weds but could do it Fri. They said okay, sent me to gig website to confirm. Gig paid $45/hour. Not great but nearly 3x what library pays for same work.
Jan 3, 2022 • 80 tweets • 31 min read
2022 Booklist. Book 1: Rosewater. Another winner by Thompson about a strange alien... thing that crops up in Nigeria and the people who try to make sense of it. A bit herky-jerky in the chronology, but not a major issue. Last year's list Kindle cover of Rosewater b... Book 2. While Justice Sleeps. This was a fun political thriller even though it laid out who the bad and good guys were pretty early on and didn't vary much from that course. Good legal intrigue. If you wished Grisham were better, or had decent female characters, read Abrams book. Kindle cover of While Justi...
Jan 3, 2021 • 46 tweets • 22 min read
I wrote 143 Wikipedia articles last year. Mostly bios or library-related stubs, usu. part of a @WikiWomenInRed or @NewsWiki1 project. Here's where I'll keep my list for this year. First up: Delaware suffragist, clubwoman and educator Nellie B. Nicholson. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_B.… Last year I tried to make sure every state library association and every state library had a page. Many of them already did. But now? They all do. 🎉

Stub for comics writer Kevin Panetta. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Pan…

(srsly, mute this now if this is not your jam)
Jan 5, 2020 • 28 tweets • 11 min read
2020 Booklist. Book 1: Acceptance. Excellent wrap-up (tho with no closure and wasn't expecting much) to the Southern Reach trilogy. A little more understanding on what was going on and a lot more time tromping around Weird Florida. 2019 list is here: Kindle cover of Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer featuring a drawing of an owl flapping and losing some feathers Book 2: The Green Mountain Boys of Summer. A comprehensive lovingly-researched book about every Major League baseball player who was born in VT (and a few others who made their homes here). Mostly early baseballers, so a lot of old VT history as well. Cover of Green Mountain Boys of Summer, edited by Tom Simon featuring a painting showing Larry Gardner (I think) sliding into a base.
Jul 2, 2019 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
Book 65: The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook. I learned a lot about Jerome Cardano and quantum physics. However the central conceit of the book was, though clever, ultimately distracting. (Prev 6 mos of 2019 booklist here, this list was too long: ) cover of the quantum astrologer's handbook by Michael Brooks featuring some cool looking astrology/astronomy diagrams Book 66: Exhalation by Ted Chiang. A really great assortment of "What if things were the same but a little bit different? How are people?" stories. Great moods. Thought provoking. Came with my favorite short story feature: blurbs at the end "Why I wrote this" for each one. Exhalation by Ted Chiang Kindle cover showing the title evaporating into little dots
Jan 9, 2018 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Drop-in Time 2018! Six folks plus E who got to teach someone how to cut and paste today! Here he is helping Judy sign up for Twitter. Depending how you sign up for Twitter it may or may not require a cell #. Judy didn't have one, I lent her mine. a woman sitting at her laptop with a young boy helping her out. E doesn't really know what Twitter is but he knows the President acts up on it, and he is a quick study. My other students chimed in "I don't care what other people had for breakfast!" and I was like "How do you even know that is a thing?"
Nov 28, 2017 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Hey hey drop-in time! This is Irene. She just came in to talk. She bought a new (desktop) computer at Best Buy. They said her old hard drive was "unsalvageable" (it was working when she brought it in). I suggested 2nd opinion. older woman looking at list of notes, and me. Her main issue was how the new Outlook is different from Outlook Express. She wanted it to do one thing it wouldn't do. I searched help forums to determine, she was right, it won't do that thing. I suggested workarounds.