Finally
23
Oct
2006
This American Life, on podcast, for free. Practically cause for celebration.
Also, Threadless is having a two-day sale, so I’ve got some shopping to do.
Here in Katie’s Head
I’m only in it for the coffee mug
21
Oct
2006
I’d be much quicker to make a pledge to my local public radio station if they had a cooler coffee mug this year.
My own word fugitive
12
Mar
2006
I was listening to All Things Considered on the way home from work on Friday (because somehow, no matter how early or late I leave the newsroom, All Things Considered is airing). The segment was about “word fugitives,” the totally stupid term some lady invented to describe yet-unnamed concepts (in fact, the term word fugitive is a word fugitive in itself, which is dorkily meta).
For example:
Reader Allan Crossman, of Oakland, Calif., asked: “I’m looking for a term that describes the momentary confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a cell phone rings and no one is sure if it is his/hers or not.”
Wallraff say that with ring tones, “you’d think that that would be history even by now. But no, people still experience ‘pandephonium.’” Or is it ringchronicity, ringxiety — or even fauxcellarm?
Yeah, whatever. I was annoyed that rather than coming up with words that have true utility, people were wasting time coming up with really dorky words for things that obviously don’t merit naming, or else they would already have been given a name.
But just now, I realized that I have a word fugitive of my own, a concept that desperately needs a name. I need to know what to call it when I honestly, truly plan to spend my day doing homework, but then a new batch of Nexflix discs arrive in my mailbox, and I watch movies all day instead of working.
Oh wait, that’s called weekend.
So I prove my point. Word fugitives = lame.
New iPod (aka “Since you don’t care about my job”)
04
Sep
2005
Because I felt compelled to spoil myself this week, I now have a new 30 GB color-screen iPod (yay for Apple refurbs).
I’ve finally started checking out podcasts, although I’m finding it hard to find casts that keep my attention. So far the only ones I really love are all from NPR, particularly On the Media and Science Friday (not that this should come as any surprise given my geeky background). I’m broken-hearted that This American Life is only podcastable for Audible.com members.
I’ve a long history of soliciting recommendations of what music to listen to, and now I’m asking for podcasts. Bring on the tips.
I heart NPR
24
Jun
2005
Since I became a commuter (love that out-of-town internship), I’ve started listening to NPR on the drive. I never really thought that I’d listen to Marketplace on purpose.
Today on Morning Edition, they continued coverage of Congress’s love-hate relationship with public broadcasting. They mentioned one legislator who suggested that NPR is just commercial-free news for the affluent.
You know, that kinda annoyed me.
