January 2008
Confirmation
How do I know I’m an early freak? Because this morning I overslept by forty minutes, stopped at the bank to deposit a couple of checks and stayed to get a new credit card, got breakfast at the deli, and I’m still the first one at the office.
No, you don’t want to know what time I normally wake up.
Ill-advised techniques
So as it happens, I turned 27 on Sunday. As I was drinking my first cup of coffee around 9:45am, I got an automated phone call. This is not unusual - we get a lot of robocalls from some fucking carpet installation company, and I’m also on a bunch of charity and museum call lists. (Thanks, NPR!) But as it happens, this particular robot lady claimed to be representing a dentist, who wanted to...
Imprecision
I subscribe to a couple of Wired feeds, and earlier today an article called Apple’s ‘Green’ Notebook Doesn’t Impress Environmentalists popped up. Without even reading it, I knew it had to be something about Greenpeace - which reminded me that I really wish people would stop conflating individual organizations (like Greenpeace) with environmentalism as a whole. It’s...
January spring
New York is in the middle of a couple days of freakishly warm weather. Yesterday was in the low 60s, and my weather widget claims it’s going to get up to 68 today. We’ve got the apartment windows open and I’ve been walking around in a hoodie instead of a giant winter coat, which is lovely but extremely disorienting. When I wake up in the dark and hear the sounds of the East River...
The Year in Nerdery
This year I finally switched over from my motley collection of bookmarks and RSS apps to Google Reader, which I love and now use for everything. By far my favorite new subscription this year is Morbid Anatomy, which is one of the best blogs I’ve ever seen. Other things I added this year and like include Monoscope, Inspiration Boards, Skull-A-Day, Stephen Fry, Passive Aggressive Notes, and the...
So classy
I don’t know what disgusts me more: that “Do you think a woman can be as effective a President as a man?” is an actual, non-ironic “Political Debate” question on Facebook, or that 21% of people who responded said no. Even though I’ve found the site itself valuable for getting back in touch with old friends and classmates, I think we’re nearing the point at...