Death panels aside, we're still doing fine up here. Amadea is still isolating but is feeling quite a bit better, mostly just tired. My new job is going well. Wedding preparations continue.
That's great that she's feeling better already. It was 8 solid weeks before my Baltimore friend finally got back to normal from her breakthrough infection.
I just noticed the title. Anyone remember some kind of scifi 80s series where they said "ten-ten"?
Nah it was some kind of sci-fi thing with little gnome people or something.
No it was really obscure. I can't even recall a specific episode or plot just the phrase.
I recall Fran Leibowitz trying to translate Oscar Wilde's letters into CB slang. The 70s were a different time.
The Adventures of Tintin. You probably got fooled by the French accent.
Does anyone have any podcast recommendations? I'm still working at home and doing some really mind-numbing things. I've been listening to the virology today podcasts, partly because I like the Science but also because they have great banter and talk about other cool things.
I want something that involves people talking about things. I found a lefty health policy one I kind of like called Death Panel. I want something like an audio version of unfogged, where I feel like I have people around during the day.
Suggestions?
I recall Fran Leibowitz trying to translate Oscar Wilde's letters into CB slang. The 70s were a different time.
Isn't that just an earlier iteration of Texts from Jane Eyre?
If you want English politics, Oh God What Now and its cousin, The Bunker are quite amusing.
Does anyone have any podcast recommendations?
It's infrequent, but I've liked With Friends Like These.
Riding the bus was the one thing left that I used to do regularly that I haven't done since Covid. Today I rode the bus! I got on and realized that the bus driver and I were the only people on the bus wearing masks.
(we were also the only people on the bus)
By the time I got off the bus there were 5-6 other passengers all wearing masks.
Riding the bus was the one thing left that I used to do regularly that I haven't done since Covid. Today I rode the bus!
I drove to work today; I'd rather take the bus, and am trying to decide how much I want to let this current wave drop off before I feel comfortable taking the bus.
You could do like peep and beat everyone until they wear a mask.
22.2: I'm the same -- I'm not ready to start riding the bus to work. I just rode the bus home from the auto repair shop -- knowing that at that time and place the bus would be pretty empty. For those here who remember my every comment, I got on the bus at Graceland today.
Memphis is a long way for a car repair.
Sinica is usually pretty good, had a great interview with Tooze in August. Little Red Podcast is also often good
It's a few years old, but I liked Maddow's Bag Man podcast, detailed account of Agnew's corruption and prosecution.
French History podcast with Gary Girod
Assane Diop's Afrique press podcast, French.
Carmen Arisegui when she does a topic I'm interested in, pretty much always need background followup and a relisten to absorb much. Her episode about AbimaEl Guzman's death in Sptember was good recently.
Basically I like good production values and either prepared scripts or informed conversation, prefer relistening to something that was dense to listening to people exchange flyby opinions. I don't like the common faux-casual intro/framing style.
I've taken the train (infrequently) in DC and just recently Philly. Both philly train rides someone was enjoying a blunt on the train.
Aristegui not Arisegui. She's Mexican, podcast in Spanish.
I hear good things about Cocaine and Rhinestones (the podcast, that is), and my Emmy-nominated friend does The Francis Effect and also Things Not Seen.
Unless you are between cars or trying to point out that while everyone else on the train had a great reason to murder the dead guy, they can blame it on some random gangster for all you care.
I was with my dad, during neither ride was it me.
Revolutions. Jay and Miles X-plain the X-Men.
26.1 link please
Age of Napoleon podcast is great
I rode the bus on Saturday to go to an outdoor restaurant. Good mask compliance except one guy. I have not taken the train, because Ibeorrt about being crammed under ground. The bus on a Saturday evening wasn't too full. Also, the trains don't feel safe for non-Covid reasons. We've had derailments and a major escalator malfunction.
There's also this one-- he claims investment in widespread literacy under Deng as a driver of subsequent improvement in China. Good thing we're not letting Covid mess up poor kids' educations.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1289062927?i=1000479498125
On the bus now. I continue to be amazed at how thoroughly some people socially distance(d), e.g. 22. I cut back greatly on it, even going so far as to get a car for the first time in ~10 years, but even so I doubt I went a month in the past 2 years without riding a bus at all.
Thank you all for the recommendations.
I continue to be amazed at how thoroughly some people socially distance(d), e.g. 22.
I was working remotely until the summer. Bike commuting during the summer, but now the weather is starting to shift and I need to decide between driving more, taking the bus, or sucking it up and biking anyway. In a normal year I'd start taking the bus, because even if the rain isn't that bad biking in the dark both ways is a lot less nice.
39: I took a bus in March 2020, then one train - maybe in April during the 3week shut down period with only one other person. Then no public transit until last Saturday.
Spending the evening with 37000 strangers.
If they don't go any further in the playoffs, this is still a good win.
Been largely avoiding internet procrastination thanks to continued move/renovation drama (10 days post move, many many things remain undone, with no timetable for when they will happen, and the contractor is ghosting us) and the start of the semester. Meanwhile KaKania is in the midst of another corruption scandal.