Nephew #1 arrived yesterday evening while I sat a mile away talking with the manager of San Benito House and, apparently, challenging people to a Scrabble game later today. Nephew #1 is a much lighter sleeper than the rest of us, which causes him frustration, and when he gets frustrated he sets out to determine how much noise is required to make everyone exactly as light a sleeper as he.
Fortunately, I'm on Chicago time, so getting up at 5am PST (7am CST) does not bother me. And it gives me some time to read the articles that crossed my inbox overnight:
- Talking Points Memo has released the Golden Duke Awards, given out to the best examples of corruption during the past year. Susie Bright's ballot was especially entertaining this year, as was Dan Savage's.
- The Atlantic Cities Blog rounds up their favorite maps of 2013, including Dustin Cable's dot map of everyone.
- After UPS and FedEx botched their roll-out of Christmas deliveries this year, can we take a moment to realize the private sector has problems too? (In fact, it's worth keeping in mind that the worst bits of government incompetence in the past year were actually farmed out to private companies.)
- I'm not the biggest fan of Upworthy, but sometimes they have amusing posts. Yesterday one was about patronizing women's ads.
It's still an hour before dawn here, so I'm rocking out the nearly-empty Peet's, about to resume some client work. I promise another photo of the ocean before I return home tomorrow.
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