Evan in Evanland
The ballot for world’s cutest frog only has one candidate.Continue Reading
The Fundamental Attributional Error
It’s important. Four Cognitive Biases That Undermine Compassion (Medium / Rohan Williams) Podcast: Season 5, eposide 8 of the Radical Candor podcast (I haven’t listened all the wa y through yet, and I’m not familiar with the podcast, but it started well) https://youtu.be/lI7mBplMAMs?si=ZOUbfSeH_OmAHR8k&t=124Continue Reading
Cool Plants – native
iNaturalist page with local plants rust weed – apparently suited to drier/sandy/well-draining conditions, seems to be relatively uncommon near Springberry. found this article: Rustweed – Three weird secrets apparently resembles several similar plants: Old World Diamond Flower’s nearest report is in East Raleigh, near a creek a short distance alongContinue Reading
Things to Know about Jonathan and Cats
He needs to be acknowledged like a person living with you would: say hello to him when you arrive and goodbye when you leave, and introduce visitors to him. Seriously: introduce visitors to him first thing. This will let him know that a) you know the person and have aContinue Reading
Some Podcasts to Try
99 Percent Invisible: the impact of design and architecture on our lives, especially in places we might not notice it. The episode about air conditioning relates to Nesta’s sustainable future mission, thinking about how new home technologies have shaped where and how people live. London School of Economics LSEIQ Podcast:Continue Reading
Videos beloved by foster cat Jonathan
This is a good one: birds eating an appleContinue Reading
Other Online Comforts
Daily Dose Of Internet YouTube videos comedians in evaluation phase no longer in evaluation phase Drew Lynch – ughContinue Reading
Mandatory Comedy
Fun is mandatory. Without it, why do anything interesting at all? Sources of new sketch comedy videos Studio C YouTube list BYU page Stuart Laws YouTube Chris & Jack YouTube Home Classic sketch comedy videos Tracey Ullman’s Show YouTube Season 1 YouTube Season 2 Youtube TBTNews BBC page Kids inContinue Reading
Working with Me
Communication Protocols: For detailed information and scheduling, I prefer e-mail. Texting is fun, but exhausting. There are days when I will have to wait hours before texting you back. Every Monday, I go incommmunicado. Necessary, but I realize it’s annoying for others. I’ll evaluate the information you bring before IContinue Reading
Jonathan seems to be fine.
16 July 2023: I was busy, so he brought three pompoms to my desk, one after the other, to make sure we could play a LOT of fetch once I was done. I finally noticed them, and he instantly got into position to chase one down the stairs. I haven’tContinue Reading