In my previous house, the previous owners left a folder with information about various known quirks, which came in handy. They also left a manuals for things like the stove and fireplace, as well as contact info for contractors they had used over the years. It ended up being a sort of owner’s manual for the house that we really appreciated. We did the same when we moved out.

My current house… There’s an under-cabinet CD player/radio in the kitchen that I almost never use, and the previous owners left the soundtrack to the Trolls movie in it, so I guess there’s that?

Seriously. I’m in my 40s and this is the first time I’ve ever had any sense of scale for red blood cells. Very cool!

Hooray! I hope you like it. :)

A podcast called Almost Plausible, where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object (such as a ceiling fan, a paperclip, or a toilet brush) and we create a movie plot based on that object.

You can find the show anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Yeah, who the fuck is anti-breastfeeding?

Radiolab has a great episode about Stockholm Syndrome, and how what we think we know is wrong.

That’s still a pretty wild wealth gap, though. The difference between one million and one billion is about a billion.

The Old Reader is pretty close.

Venture capital

Definitely!

Somehow she was up for adoption for three weeks before I adopted her. I truly don’t understand how that’s possible. She’s so beautiful!

I have a podcast that I create with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object—such as a ceiling fan, or a paper clip, or a toilet brush—and we create a movie plot based on that object. The show is called Almost Plausible, and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts.

Not quite what you’re looking for, but I really enjoyed The Taste of Conquest by Michael Krondl.

So here are some timely tips to help protect your location privacy.

The article explains each one in detail, but the list is:

• Disable Mobile Advertising Identifiers
• Audit Your Apps’ Trackers and Permissions
• Disable Real-Time Tracking with Airplane Mode
• Separate Devices for Separate Purposes

I grew up in Hawaii and used to visit Florida because my grandmother had a winter place there. I agree with your comment completely.

Just in case anyone wanted to actually learn something from this…

PS is short for postscript. If you have a postscript after your postscript, it’s a post-postscript, or PPS, not PSS.

As we always say on my screenwriting podcast, there are no new stories.

Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.

Is this how I’m supposed to meet women these days? I’d better get planting.

Yep!