St. Pat's Day
I cooked up the corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes in the crock pot along with a pub can of Guinness to celebrate the day.
I've been watching a Frontline episode about the upcoming crisis caring for the elderly that are older than 75. Some of these people are looking very frail. Despite being former doctors and nurses, they are no more prepared for their own aging care and death than anyone else. Apparently to reduce your chances of dying in a home you need to have at least three daughters or daughters-in-law. I'm reminded again how skewed my social circle is - I almost never interact with the elderly or children.
I've started listening to the Moth podcast through iTunes. There are some fascinating stories including one about a fireman's experience failing to save someone and a woman who dates a fireman just before 9-11.
This American Life has a great explanation of the U.S. Financial Crisis. Totally worth listening to in order to understand why sometimes we have to support unscrupulous bank executives to avoid a total financial meltdown.
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1285
Just finished the Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card. I enjoyed a lot of it since I like alternative histories (especially pre-civil war ones), but it did end rather abruptly as the reviewers on Amazon said that it would. Not sure what I'm going to read next, but I'm reading whole series that I've had on the shelf for a while instead of buying a lot of new books. Probably will read some of "Listening is an Act of Love" that I got as an NPR supporter gift.
Humanoid robot to replace fashion models.
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=100425&newsChannel=oddlyEnoughNews
Some disturbingly human-like robots in Japan.
I joined the Couchsurfing network today. Madpiratebippy used it to find places to sleep on her cycling trip through California. I'm hoping to find some hosts in Dallas and other places I might travel to. Even having some folks to do activities and eat with could be interesting. Most of the folks on the website have traveled extensively.
www.couchsurfing.com
Tags: alvin maker, couchsurfing, robots, the moth, this american life
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