The Schrug

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Looks like the handy red envelopes are not Post-Office-friendly. ZDNet has the story.

Pandora is very, very cool. I got a surprise today, though, while listening to a radio station I had seeded with the Crash Test Dummies and other rather mellow bands. Pandora decided that I like music with “basic rock song structures, a subtle use of paired vocal harmony, extensive vamping, paired vocal harmony and minor [...]

Sox-Yanks is about as close to nirvana as you can get in sports. But watching last night’s game was something akin to having your yoga class led by Richard Simmons. The role of “Guy you want to hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat” was played by Joe Morgan. Here is [...]

It’s far too easy to spend way too much time editing your own Facebook profile and looking at what your friends are up to. Now there are third-party applications available on the site, promising to suck up even more time. See this blog entry from ZDNet for more info. So far I’ve added file sharing [...]

My brother got me an iPod nano for my birthday. (I think it’s the first Apple-manufactured device I’ve owned in 10 years.) Now I have to decide what to put on it besides music. So far I’ve subscribed to four NPR podcasts: Car Talk Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me Fresh Air Krulwich on Science [...]

Yeah, my wife and I are Survivor fans. And we were both aghast when Dreamz broke his promise to Yau-Man. I would really like to know what it is like inside Dreamz’s head. He’s got some serious cognitive dissonance processing skills. I think he is actually able to convince himself that he had certain motives [...]