{"id":1307,"date":"2009-02-27T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2009-02-27T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T12:45:31","slug":"doodle-while-you-work-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/02\/27\/doodle-while-you-work-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Doodle While You Work Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/27\/business\/27deal.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">you&#8217;re the proud owner of somewhere in the neighborhood of 1\/3 of Citigroup<\/a>, and it&#8217;s only costing you $25 billion or so.  No doubt this will lead to lower mortgages, lower credit card interest rates, and, in general, a much better life for all of us little people.  Funny, I don&#8217;t hear a whole lot of Republican outrage over it (but then maybe that&#8217;s &#8216;cuz I have a hard time listening to Republicans, since they&#8217;ve spent the last eight years or so pissing in my ear).  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/ondeadline\/2009\/02\/a-flood-of-prot.html\">Rocky the Snakehead fish has apparently gotten a stay of execution<\/a>.  DEC stormtroopers were expected to raid Rocky&#8217;s home yesterday, and take him off to be killed (and then presumably pan-fried with a little garlic and olive oil), but the DEC chickened out when Rocky and his owner garnered a great deal of support from the community.  Hey, we love our fish up here.  They still insist they&#8217;re coming for Rocky; they&#8217;re just waiting for the publicity to die down a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for the doodlers among us.  Turns out, if you doodle your way through boring meetings, presentations, conference calls, and the like, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/02\/090226210039.htm\">you&#8217;re actually more likely to remember what went on<\/a>.  Being a lifetime doodler, this is good news.  Not that I really care about remembering any of this boring drivel, but because it justifies the activity (plus it looks like you&#8217;re taking copious notes).  No news on whether doing the crossword puzzle has similar benefits, Sue.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up on Bill Maher tonight, Alan Cumming, who is apparently an actor &#8211; maybe I&#8217;ll recognize him when I see him &#8211; formerly funny and now kind of a dick, PJ O&#8217;Rourke, San Fran mayor Gavin Newsom, and the one, the only, George Snufalufagus of the Goebbels network.  And we&#8217;re down to the final four episodes of Battlestar Galactica.  <\/p>\n<p>No joy in Friday this week, since we have to get up early and move my stepson tomorrow.  Bummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, you&#8217;re the proud owner of somewhere in the neighborhood of 1\/3 of Citigroup, and it&#8217;s only costing you $25 billion or so. No doubt this will lead to lower mortgages, lower credit card interest rates, and, in general, a much better life for all of us little people. Funny, I don&#8217;t hear a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}