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“In the latest Fox News survey, respondents were asked, “Would you be willing to give up some of your personal freedom in order to reduce the threat of terrorism?” For the first time since 9/11, more of those polled said no than said yes.” — Preventative Measures (New Yorker)
“Maybe I’m becoming super blonde. Platinum blonde!” — CR, upon accepting the fact today that he now has one gray hair
Second consecutive #classy Saturday night.
Monitor upgrade. #likeaboss
“A dirty house means a clean conscience. Actually, that doesn’t make any sense.” — CR’s words of wisdom this morning, as I reflected on our dirty house. A riff on his mom’s sweet saying, “Cold hands, warm heart.”
“The city announced the biggest expansion of its recycling program in 25 years on Wednesday, saying all hard plastics would be accepted. This includes shampoo bottles and clothes hangers as well as countless toys and other household objects.” —
City Expands Recycling Program to Include Hard Plastics (NYT)
Did you know about this?! Even caps can now be recycled!
Here’s the updated list of things that can now be recycled in NYC:
PLASTIC (rigid plastics)
(via nyc.gov)
I’ve listened to two Fresh Air segments this month that included clips from the guests previous interviews in the 90’s: David Sedaris and director Noah Baumbach. In both instances, there was talk about how it’s interesting now to think of where they were coming from at that time because they didn’t know all the things that were going to happen to them and how they were about to change.
I like the thought of myself today and how I don’t know all of the great things that are going to happen next. It also reminds me of the articles from the beginning of this year about how we always underestimate how much we will change in the future.
Google Wallet Update Allows Users to Send Money Through Gmail Attachments
This sounds very useful to me.
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