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Feline gives my wife a full kitty moon. Says wife, "You might as well throw a shoe at me, cat." |
@MayorRTRybak in Wash. Post (http://is.gd/bCg1): W/o transit push, stimulus plan "rebalances our transportation strategy toward roads." |
House Fin. Services Chair Barney Frank: "I have this rule: I don't think about things where nobody cares what I think." http://is.gd/bbmb |
Experimenting with PeopleBrowsr. A little sluggish, but I like the tagging/grouping features. |
Returning a call just now, I'm told, "You must be in DC. Only you people work so late." |
Finding used copies of an out-of-print mid-'80s pop CD on sale for $50-100 tests my goody-goody practices about online music purchases. |
Do 4-day weeks stifle innovation? http://is.gd/av9o Also, how's UT's experiment going? http://is.gd/avah Interested in reax from UT pals. |
MI Gov. Granholm's lesson for tough times: "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." http://is.gd/9TH7 |
Another coffee spill! Time to switch back to decaf or get new glasses? Fortunately my laptop seems to like coffee as much as I do. |
GOVERNING colleague Josh Goodman explains why this is a good time for Gov. Napolitano to get a new job: http://is.gd/9Bcf |
Were the pilgrims failed socialists? http://is.gd/9B7H (EmpowerTexans via @lpin) Awaiting the "Drunken History" version: http://is.gd/9B8I |
...More wire copy than I remember, but it's a holiday weekend -- and it's still a heftier read than many papers I see in my travels. |
Visiting NC allows me to read the N&O print edition, a former employer. Still well-edited/written/designed, despite the industry's woes. |
Explaining Facebook/Twitter to my father and stepmom. No sale. "Why wouldn't I just call someone if I wanted to know what they're doing?" |
Post's Applebaum on Mumbai: This "initial moment of total ignorance" is "a reminder of some things we learned" on 9/11. http://is.gd/9uSo |
Thanksgiving tweets: cooking turkey, bodies recovered, shopping list, lists of injured, parade, condemnation, "gratitude, love and calories" |
Establishing facts in fast-moving stories--9/11, Katrina--just takes time. Social media propels information. Still a market for context. |
Sorting thru a jumble of confusing news and social media reports from Mumbai. |
Making cranberry sauce for tomorrow evening. |
Economic observation: My un-submitted work expenses are out-performing all of my other investments. |
