- I caught up on my HBR queueueueue (she knew how to start spelling it, but not how to stop.) I think there might be one of you out there that looks at my google reader starred items, and probably stopped looking because it’s been about 80% Harvard Business Review. That’s because in the past three days, I’ve caught up on about 90+ entries. It’s actually a really interesting – and totally non-nauseating! – source of business news / info / trends. I recommend it, actually. Many posts are applicable to more than just their primary subject, talk about the personal as well as the personnel, and some don’t read like business articles at all.
- Apropos of the VP debate, which I did not watch, but read the twitter feed while it was going on: an excellent post which I’ve seen referenced on Facebook, but I finally got around to reading through metafilter, about the difference between opinion and argument. A difference that a lot more people need to learn, really. Some of us (me) need to be reminded of it occasionally, as well: I am in charge of finding reasons why I am right, no one else.
- Also through metafilter, GLOSS: an online resource for “lessons [that] are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills.” The language selection is actually quite impressive – all the usual suspects with others like Pashto, Urdu, Punjabi and Hausa as well. Time to polish up my German skills, and learn some French, too.
- Two blogs that I’ve recently added to my list: Study Hacks (through Wandering Scientist, but I think it might also have ben mentioned elsewhere, maybe Gretchen Rubin) but I started reading back through it for posts like this. Number two: Raptitude. This piece, posted to metafilter I believe, lured me in. This piece made me stay for coffee.
- The office manager in my building is totes going to make one of these using all first gen (i.e., Keaton) sets. Just a reminder that nerds are awesome.
- And a bonus: if you use dates as file identifiers, like many of my projects do, you probably (should*) use the (YY)YYMMDD format. If you do that for today, you’ll notice something that think is nifty that everyone else probably really doesn’t care much about: 20121012. Twenty-twelve-ten-ty-twelve. Yes, I am easily amused.
*This keeps things like correspondence, which I generate in massive quantities, and deposit tickets, which I also produce rather prolifically, together by date in chronological order. So you don’t have April-August-December-February-January-July-June, or worse, January-October-November-December-February. When you produce a LOT of these files, these things matter.
Also, I did this today. I will NOT tell you how long it ook me to figre out how to take a pictureof my phone case with my phone Just send coffee.
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