Well, I didn’t manage to finish off NaBloPoMo very well. Oh well. Here’s a few things clogging up my browser tabs at the moment:
- Ten Myths Conservatives Believe about Progressives. And how to rebut them at the dinner table.
- Climate change impacts are happening faster than the models predict. We are in deep doo-doo.
Tim O’Reilly writes about why he loves Twitter. I especially appreciated:
I don’t know who first used the term “ambient intimacy” but it’s a great description of what begins to happen on Twitter. I know not just what people are thinking about or reading, but enough about what they are doing that our relationship deepens, just like real-world friendships. People who follow me on Twitter learn that I’m making jam or pies, or gardening or riding my bike or feeding the horses, things that I’d never (or rarely, since I’m doing it here) share on my blog. I know a lot more about many of my professional contacts that makes them more into friends. And in the case of my family, who keep their updates private and visible only to a limited group of real friends, we can keep in touch in small ways that mean a lot. I get special moments of my wife or daughters’ day that we might not have shared otherwise. It’s truly lovely.
And a quick update on TheLittleGuy. He had a good Thanksgiving. Some of his Maine family visited him. And Uncle Genehack gave him his first lesson in beer. And TLG handled all the commotion very well. He’s been cranky this weekend – we keep thinking it’s his next (third) tooth coming in, but it hasn’t shown up yet. Tomorrow he starts going to ‘school’ (a daycare that transitions to pre-school over time). I have the usual and expected terribly mixed feelings about that.
Now – three and half weeks until Christmas and I’ve done almost no shopping or prep at all. We are definitely having a tree for the boy’s first Christmas, though. So, you know, send him presents. 
