Among the things I learned this week:
* There are 500 demonstrations per day in China. (Courtesy: New York Review of Books)
* The Chinese pioneered goldfish. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)
* There’s no obvious way to get around the new USPS requirement to enter a destination address into a computer system to mail a package. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* At least some USPS employees deny the existence of the Mail Isolation and Tracking system. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
Among the things I learned this week:
* The New York Yankees air dry their laundered uniforms, and visiting teams have laundry facilities and staff. (Courtesy: NYT)
* Motion detecting towel dispensers use D batteries. (Courtesy: Personal experience)
* Cull is the term for a lobster missing a claw. Pistol is the term for a lobster with no claws. (Courtesy: Cull & Pistol)
* October is considered an appropriate time to start selling Christmas ornaments. (Courtesy: Kennedy Center)
* RSAP (Renoir Sucks at Painting) Movement. (Courtesy: NYT)
* USGS uses Twitter and other social media data to supplement seismic instrument data to detect earthquakes. (Courtesy: Fellow Party Attendee)
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Terrible—>Fantastic
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4
Nomi, Klaus – Encore!
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Cathedrals – Cathedrals EP
Shapeshifters – Sound Advice
Mynabirds, The – Lovers Know