Billy Idol is headlining this year’s Ribfest in Naperville, Illinois. I can’t decide if this makes me feel really old or just kinda sorry for Billy Idol.
Proud to announce that Our Tween the Percussionist is on to a new instrument: the cowbell.
We’ve done our due diligence as parents and introduced her to this.
Totally digging this Samurai Jesus take on the miracle at Cana.
It’s cold.
Chargers-Pats game on, muted. Remembering that (1) I generally haven’t missed football, (2) I don’t miss having my heart broken by the Chargers, and (3) the Spanos family can still bite me.
Reading: In San Diego, a Quandary Over the (L.A.) Chargers (New York Times)
National media picks up on the dilemma of many of us San Diego fans torn over the team’s success. Personally, I’m rooting for Rivers and Gates, but that’s about it.
Reading: What’s the last song you want to hear before you die? (Washington Post)
Need to think about this one. I vacillate between the entire “Rubber Soul” album and the “Charlie Brown Christmas” soundtrack, or maybe early Springsteen.
And so ends another Pokemon Go Community Day with the tween. Evolved one of the scores of Totodiles I caught into a Feraligatr. I renamed it, as is my wont.
Reading: Social media addicts ‘have same personality traits’ as drug addicts (Independent UK)
Reading: Don’t Reply to Your Emails: The Case for Inbox Infinity (The Atlantic)
I thought I was just being lazy about not answering email. Turns out I’m just managing my stress levels.
Reading: Trump’s Typos Reveal His Lack of Fitness for the Presidency (The Atlantic)
”Nearly every time he puts thumb to keypad, he exposes that he has never progressed beyond the mentality of the precollegiate, trash-talking teen.”
Reading: The astonishing effects of the shutdown, in 8 charts (Vox)
Another dinner in the books at the Golden Pheasant. (Elmhurst, Illinois)
Can’t decide what’s worse: the 10-year-old practicing the cymbals or the husband playing the “Baby Shark” video on his phone.
Friday Five: “The epidemic of distraction” … and the Pips. (garciabuxton.com)
Reading: Millennials Don’t Have a Monopoly on Burnout (New Republic)
As a Gen Xer who has lost count of how many times I’ve burned out, I can concur that, yeah, it’s a societal thing.
Reading: The Death of the Sick Day (The New York Times)
The shifting definition and expanding mobility of the office — thanks to remote work and the rise of contractors in the gig economy — is also making the sick day somewhat passé, at least for some jobs.
Reading: Smartphone users warned to be careful of the Antichrist (BBC)
”Every time you use your gadget, whether you like it or not … somebody can find out exactly where you are, exactly what your interests are and exactly what you are scared of.”
Insert Facebook joke here.
Reading: ‘Voice of the forest’: George the snail, last of his kind, dies at age 14 (Guardian)
This is actually a sad story of biodiversity in danger. Also sad to see no funeral will be held.
Sifting through old photos. I believe F was in second grade when she tried to explain feline visual powers.
Reading: What’s behind the confidence of the incompetent? This suddenly popular psychological phenomenon. (Washington Post)
Oddly enough, interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect has spiked in recent years.
Reading: Opus Dei paid $977,000 to settle sexual misconduct claim against prominent Catholic priest (Washington Post)
Sigh.
My Micro Monday recommendation (first one in a while): @MissPidge, a fine artist, serial photographer, and creator of New Yorker-style cartoons who just joined MB. Deb makes two people I actually know F2F here on Micro.blog, and I can definitely vouch for her interestingness. :)
Totally want one of these “It’s an honor just to be Asian” T-shirts.
Finally lying down after falling off our porch earlier this afternoon. Didn’t hit my head, fortunately, but I lurched my head forward to avoid exactly that, and now the base of my neck hurts.
At least it was a mild day today. 😐