Joe and I drove back from Charlotte, singing Christmas carols most of the way.
I had a UPS package by the door when I arrived. It was Vivian’s and Jeff’s Christmas gift. Yay!
I worked from 12:00 – 8:00 today. Loretta postponed our 3:00 meeting until next Monday at the same time.
I did 1.5 crossword puzzles tonight. I only did half of the second one, not because it was too hard, but because it got too late, and I got too tired.
Podcasts I’ve listened to over the last few days:
| ♥ | Time Wasted: Didn’t Interest/Entertain Me |
| ♥♥ | Time Well-Spent: I Found It Interesting/Entertaining |
| ♥♥♥ | Time Invested: It Fascinated/Delighted Me |
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| Slate Explainer Podcasts | Can Carbon Clean Up a Polluted River? | ♥♥ |
How Does Activated Carbon Work? By Daniel Engber. An explosion at a Chinese chemical plant two weeks ago spilled a 50-mile slick of benzene into the Songhua River, which provides drinking water for the city of Harbin. After the accident, the Chinese government made plans to ship 1,000 tons of activated carbon to the city’s water treatment facilities and to dump m ore carbon straight into the river. How can activated carbon clean up a spill? |
| Slate Explainer Podcasts | Why Does a White Flag Mean Surrender? | ♥♥ |
Why does a white flag mean surrender? By Brendan I. Koerner. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, when faced with too much food—or too much family–you may have waved the white flag. How did waving a white flag come to mean surrender? |
| ABC News Money Minute | What’s on Santa’s List? | ♥ |
Retro toys and fully functional tech for kids top this year’s wish lists. |
| ABC News Money Minute | Shopping On the Clock | ♥♥♥ |
“Cyber Monday” finds Americans returning to the office for online shopping. |
| Slate Magazine | Beware Drug Companies Bearing Books | ♥ |
Truth Is Stranger Than Phiction: The drug industry’s literary misadventure. Slate contributors Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer report on a novel commissioned by pharmaceutical lobbyists that was supposed to scare readers out of buying drugs from Canada. Now, after a falling out between author and patron, the villlain in the piece IS a drug company. |
| Slate Magazine | So, Do You Sudoku? | ♥ |
My Days Are Numbered: I’m addicted to a Japanese logic puzzle. You will be, too. Seth Stevenson takes the latest newspaper puzzle craze for a spin, gets hopelessly addicted, and tells you why his heart still belongs to crosswords. |
| Slate Magazine | The Bicycle Diaries | ♥♥ |
Nobody Bikes in L.A. (But they’d be a lot happier if they did). Slate senior editor Andy Bowers reveals why Los Angeles, an almost pathologically bike-unfriendly city, is in fact a great place to commute on two wheels. |
| Ebert & Roeper | Reviews for the Weekend of November 26 – 27, 2005 | ♥♥ |
Reviews of RENT, ELLIE PARKER, JUST FRIENDS, YOURS, MINE AND OURS, THE ICE HARVEST, DUANE HOPWOOD |
| 43 Folders | Goin’ on a Media Diet | ♥♥♥ |
Two simple things you can do this week to reclaim your attention and start enjoying the I/O in your life again. |
| 43 Folders | A Phone Made of Human Ass | ♥ |
Everything—including this piece of crap phone—will eventually break. Prepare yourself by capturing what you want to be different next time. |
| 43 Folders | Weekly Wrapup | ♥♥ |
A marathon wrapup of the week, including: redesign notes; popular posts; interesting stats; and a promise to you, the home podcast listener. |