Not since listening to recordings of Dylan Thomas' reading of "Do not go gentle..." have I had such an appreciation for the spoken word as listening to Robert Petkoff's audiobook narration of David Foster Wallace's "Pale King".
Having spent the greater portion of my work life thinking about growth analysis the past few years, it's quite amusing to me to look at Google Analytics and see that the retention rate for https://t.co/WtXuJvioZA is identically zero. The perils of posting only twice a year...
I'm guessing that the replacement for plastic straws on to-go cups will be sippy cup lids, which I'm also guessing will most likely be made out of more plastic (because of increased structural needs) than the straws and old lids they're meant to replace.
Finished listening to the 300th episode of "The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps", and now nearly caught up: only 4 episodes to go. Another new intro music, moved from Medieval to Byzantine tradition.
Intermediate Theorem of Otherness: Everyone else is in a filter bubble, but not me.
Advanced Theorem of Otherness: Everyone else's actions have unintended consequences, but not mine.
After watching the Beauty and the Beast musical twice over the weekend and talking to a friend, it finally dawned on me that LeFou literally means "The Fool".