I wrote about this before in a post entitled "intimate desktop photography" which gets quite a lot of Google hits. I think people who get to the post are really disappointed to not find one damn frilly thing.

Everyone was out of town this weekend which allowed me to
play the opening riff of Blackbird over and over for 20 minutes, but it also
gave me a chance to gorge on podcasts. I listened to them while I organized the
garage, cleaned long neglected parts of the house, worked out and drove to and
from my interactions with the outside world.
In addition to my regulars here are three new favorites:
Berkeley's History
5, the history of Europe from Renaissance to the present. The course is
taught by Carla Hesse who is direct, charming and alive. I even liked listening
to her housekeeping section at the start of her first lecture because in it she
outlined how to learn. "Don't be frustrated by weirdness," she said." Weirdness
is the moment when you learn something." Carla Hesse
KCRW's To the Point on the Bush tax cuts, the
deficit and the election. I like Warren Olney. I've been on his show. That's
not why I'm recommending this. He had good guests and touched on all the
important political and economic issues. The section on electric cars was a
bonus.
David Hacket Fischer talks about George Washington's
crossing of the Delaware as a part of the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History podcast series. Perhaps I liked this because
I know so little about this period.
I downloaded all of these through iTunesU but you can also
get them from their various web sites.

From an Anthony Lewis lecture
My wife sent me a text the other night "not sure if I can get a can." She meant cab (though to be sure, can is in short supply in this economy). It was the latest in a series of auto-correct mild amusements. When I try to respond "yay" to an email or text message, my Blackberry steps in and sends "gay" which makes me seem very 1940s.
Ages ago, I asked people working the Twitter to offer some of their auto-correct nightmares. Here are some of the responses:
@kscincotta: @jdickerson - My phone keeps trying to change "Yankees" into "wankers". #correxmenot
@nancyscola: iPhone changes my mom's nickname, Joojee, to "Hooker"
@thenote: Kagan is Jahangir on my Droid
@ sacca My iPhone corrected "AT&T" to "Ayatollah".
@ zachroth92 'yeah' being changed to 'yeshiva'!
@JonHenke I once had this happen "you should turn that room into a murderer". Or a nursery. Your pick.
@JonHenke: My Droid used to change "fyi" to "dying"
@Sutebia I live you.
Tmerrifi congatulating a Duke grad on their win I wrote "Dulles!
derektixx once typed "in a loud bar need me?" ...to "in a loud bar need men".
@andylevy iPhone changes OMG to IMF.
@FeistyShelia
iPhone also corrects to "ducking" "Cynthia" which adds to
my grouchy.
My colleague Farhad Manjoo wrote a piece about how the cell phone's autocorrect software works and why it's getting better.
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And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled







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