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Adventures in reading about neuroscience
Kevin has a really impressive ability to remember numbers. He often chides me for not knowing many phone numbers by heart when he does. I blamed that on the fact that he was a very late adapter to cell phones while I'd been using stored numbers for years, so I didn't feel any particular need to memorize them. But a while ago it somehow it came up ( Read more... ) -
My contact at Groupon
I was asked to do a story for Patch.com on a crop of new Groupon clones popping up in Chicago's North Shore, pairing with a recent trend for more Groupons in that area. I'd featured Groupon in a story for RedEye a while back and decided to look it up and see who I'd talked to there and see if I might be able to talk to them again ( Read more... ) -
A Year in Books, Movies and TV
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Netflix Meme
Go to Netflix, reblog the Top 5 Recommended Fields for you. (Note: Your Netflix may go to a different home page, you need to go to http://www.netflix.com/MemberHome to see the weird categories ( Read more... ) -
All cats love a good laser pointer
Kev and I went to ZooLights tonight, an annual event put on by Lincoln Park Zoo between Thanksgiving and New Years. The zoo stays open late and trees are covered by dancing lights and there are tons of lit up animals around. The most clever this year was a dragon that breathed fire in the direction of some trees that would react by lighting up ( Read more... ) -
No more princesses
I just read a story reporting that "Tangled" will be Disney's last fairy tale musical for the foreseeable future. The article cited a host of reasons from both Disney execs and experts. They said that the archetype of a woman being taken care of by a prince is outdated. They also said that little girls no longer want to be princesses, they want to ( Read more... ) -
I'm in a club
I'm reviewing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm for The Onion A.V. Club so today I dug up the list of PR contacts handling the product and sent the following e-mail ( Read more... ) -
"Please don't dream tonight"
I've been watching "Fringe" and in one of the episodes Peter says he used to have really bad nightmares but by saying "Please don't dream tonight" to himself three times before going to bed managed to just never remember his dreams for a decade. I told Kevin that I wouldn't take that deal. I like remembering my dreams, even if I often have ( Read more... ) -
If good news and bad news have to balance, I'll take this outcome any day
The last few weeks I've been interviewing and doing stuff for a job I was applying for, which would be creating stories and other content for a pair of Web sites belonging to two local radio stations. Things moved very fast and I went from having an interview Friday to a second interview Monday to being told Tuesday I was one of two final ( Read more... ) -
4 a.m.? Seriously?
So it's down to me and one other person for the job. The hiring people decided the best way to narrow it down was by having us actually do the job. So they sent us a list of wire stories and told us to pick two, clean them up and provide art for both. We got our stuff Tuesday and needed to have it in by 10 a.m. this morning ( Read more... )