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Happy New Year, my friends. I'm hoping to blog more often this year, starting off with a retrospective on 2019 soon. “Soon.”

And with that...

Why 2020 Is Looking Dangerous for Wine Lovers (Food & Wine)

Take a glance through the comments opposing this tariff on the U.S. Trade Representative’s site. You’ll see that they come from salespeople who are worried their jobs will be impacted, wine store owners who may have to lay off staff, wine importers who are worried that after 20 years in business they’ll be forced to close up shop, servers and staff in restaurants that sell European wines—regular people with jobs whose livelihoods will be thrown into question by a draconian penalty in service to a dispute that has nothing to do with their businesses at all.

If you love wine and don’t feel like an unrelated trade dispute should restrict your freedom to buy the bottles you love best, or simply find the possible cost to American businesses alarming, you should tell the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which is required to accept comments from the public until January 13. Contacting your representative would be a good idea, too. Email your representative here. Comment at the U.S. Trade Representative’s site here.

You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you (The Oatmeal)

Core beliefs are the beliefs which people cherish the most deeply. They usually develop from childhood and are compounded by life experiences. Core beliefs are inflexible, rigid, and incredibly sensitive to being challenged.

This wonderful comic about how we don't absorb facts and evidence is a wonderful reminder that humans are, first and foremost, an emotional, irrational, and tribal species. Add to that the dramatic impact of all the claims randos on the internet make, and we have the disinformation and misinformation chaos today.

How we re-wire ourselves and future generations to get to facts and truths, along with reputable institutions and government that protect us from deceptive narratives, will be the challenge of the future.

Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back (FiveThirtyEight)

”...[W]e came to see all of this negativity from people who were highly religious and increasingly didn’t want a part in it.” This view is common among young people.

During my waning days practicing Christianity, I would remark that American Christianity would be a better version of itself if two things happened: 1) it dramatically lost political and cultural power, and 2) it liberalized.

I think both things are happening, but not without a bitter fight. See American Evangelicals thoroughly compromising pact with the most un-Christian president ever. Speaking of that...

Trump Should Be Removed from Office (Christianity Today)

To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior. Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency. If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come? Can we say with a straight face that abortion is a great evil that cannot be tolerated and, with the same straight face, say that the bent and broken character of our nation’s leader doesn’t really matter in the end?

Better late than never, I guess.

The Claim: Drinking Alcohol With a Meal Prevents Food Poisoning (NY Times)

THE FACTS: Recent studies have found that a little alcohol may help ward off heart disease and slow dementia. But an old wives' tale suggests another reason to indulge in a drink or two with dinner: preventing food poisoning.

A few weeks ago, I cooked and ate pork tenderloin that I worried was undercooked. It could've been the case, or my mind may have taken a hold over my body, but I started to feel mildly ill. The thought came to my mind, “What if I just have a few glasses of whiskey? Wouldn't alcohol kill bacteria that cause food-borne illness?”

And thus, I stumbled upon this article from 2005.

#fridayfinds

What makes dogs so special and successful? Love. (Washington Post)

If you show dogs in MRI scanners objects that remind them of either food or the presence of their owners, you can see how their brains light up. And the reward centers of the brain light up more strongly to signals that say “Your owner is nearby” than to signals that say “You’re going to get a piece of sausage.” That’s really strong evidence inside the brain that the presence of a beloved human is rewarding to a dog in itself.

Everyone who knows me and Amy knows how much we love Louie. It helps that we really believe he loves us back, and that belief is reinforced by his behavior. Dogs are unique among non-human animals because when they look humans in the eyes, oxytocin levels go up. That experience alone makes for a special bond between dogs and humans.

You may have heard us say it before: dogs are way better than humans. Their love is unconditional. Don't take dogs for granted.


Does anyone else find it mind-blowing that much of Christianity went from subversive, anti-imperialist, non-triumphalist, grassroots, and organic to... this? Just me? OK.

These people can legit bust a move, though.

The Great American Eye-Exam Scam (The Atlantic)

When I last went to an eye exam at a storefront optician in the United States, for example, the staff gave me the hard sell on glasses that would have cost hundreds of dollars, as well as on contact lenses that were much more expensive than identical ones sold by online retailers. Thankfully, I knew that two laws, one passed in 1997 and the other in 2003—which had, incidentally, been loudly opposed by the AOA—gave me the right to demand a copy of my prescription. I stood firm, and later went online to order perfectly fine glasses and contact lenses at a fraction of the price. But how many customers give in to heavy-handed sales tactics?

The kicker:

It is little wonder, then, that American optometrists spend a lot of money on lobbying. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, for example, the AOA spent $1.8 million on lobbying and another $1.4 million on campaign contributions in 2016.

C.R.E.A.M.

FBI says FaceApp is a ‘potential counterintelligence threat’ because of its ties to Russia (9to5Mac)

The FBI considers any mobile application or similar product developed in Russia, such as FaceApp, to be a potential counterintelligence threat, based on the data the product collects, its privacy and terms of use policies, and the legal mechanisms available to the government of Russia that permit access to data within Russia’s borders.

Unless app developers in Russia or China expose their app's code for public review, I don't knowingly download apps from those countries. Yes, it's a burden, but a few clicks before downloading apps like this to determine the country of origin is a good practice. As soon as I saw FaceApp show up in the news, the first thought I asked was, “This is perfect fodder for face data collection.”

Crying in H Mart (The New Yorker)

My grief comes in waves and is usually triggered by something arbitrary. I can tell you with a straight face what it was like watching my mom’s hair fall out in the bathtub, or about the five weeks I spent sleeping in hospitals, but catch me at H Mart when some kid runs up double-fisting plastic sleeves of ppeong-twigi and I’ll just lose it. Those little rice-cake Frisbees were my childhood: a happier time, when Mom was there and we’d crunch away on the Styrofoam-like disks after school. Eating them was like splitting a packing peanut that dissolved like sugar on your tongue.

Michelle Zauner is a popular indie rock musician, who goes by the moniker Japanese Breakfast. Ironically, she's half-Korean. I'm a fan and a supporter. This is one of my favorite songs of hers, and it's best played loud. I've followed her emotional and cultural journey after her mom's passing in writing and interviews, and it's endeared me to her and made me more proud of Korean culture. I read her piece last year, but thought I'd share it here again. It's a tearjerker. She has a book coming out (psst Esther) that fleshes this journey out.

#fridayfinds

Every Matt Damon Movie Performance, Ranked (Vulture)

Damon has shown a certain pragmatic efficiency in his choices of roles, valuing respected directors rather than taking huge risks on passion projects himself.

🤷🏻‍♂️ Enjoy.

Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights (Amnesty International)

The tech giants offer these services to billions without charging users a fee. Instead, individuals pay for the services with their intimate personal data, being constantly tracked across the web and in the physical world as well, for example, through connected devices.

A key reason why I blog, and why I specifically use the Write.as platform, is to express myself through an alternative means where I have to pay for the privilege to do this.

But I'm not in the clear. I'm half-committed. While I have fully disconnected myself from all of Facebook's grasp, Google still has me captured. I love YouTube. And while I've flirted with the idea of paying for an email account (with the likes of ProtonMail or Fastmail), Gmail still houses all my emails from the last 15 years. I collaborate with Amy using Google Docs and Sheets. I know what's happening in my life with Google Calendar. And Google's search is just way better than the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo.

Marias Massacre (Wikipedia)

...the U.S. Army raid was a massacre of mostly women, children, and elderly men[...]

While Amy and I were vacationing in beautiful Montana earlier this year, I lay awake one night unable to sleep. So I opened up the Wikipedia app (I fucking love Wikipedia) and read about the history of Montana.

After 30 minutes my heart was heavy, full of anger and sadness. What a way to try to sleep.

This country was founded and expanded on the blood of many innocents. The only appropriate response to anyone who claims America is a Christian nation is to laugh in their face.

21 Restaurants to Try Along Atlanta’s Buford Highway (Atlanta Eater)

Buford Highway is a gourmand’s paradise featuring foods from nations like Vietnam and Korea to Mexico and Colombia

Sorry to the non-Atlantans this listicle doesn't apply to (unless you plan to file this away for when you visit 🙂). Being close to Buford Highway is one of the best perks of living in Brookhaven. Looks like there are a bunch of places I still need to check out.

#fridayfinds

Last night, Amy and I engaged in a spirited conversation about what makes for a breakout mainstream artist. Ed Sheeran and BTS were the main vehicles for our conversation.

Is Ed Sheeran really that special? I don't find a single noteworthy or interesting thing about him or his music. And yet, Amy happily sings his songs, while I begrudgingly complain.

It is my belief/hypothesis/theory that talent alone is no recipe for success. I also believe that talent is a quarter a dozen. That is to say, while not every single human has talent worth paying attention to, it's more prevalent than we assume. I have remarked in the past that there are plenty of legitimately talented people in the world who will never be known for their talent except to a few friends and family simply because they did not make it a point to play on a stage in front of strangers.

I believe the far greater determinant of success is drive and determination. I may scoff at the many bands and performers who grace music venues, get millions of views on YouTube, and don't have “the talent that I do.” But they're doing that, and I'm writing this blog post. They had drive and determination.

I've been told I'm “very talented”. Friends have described me as “one of the most talented people they know” when they introduce me to other people. Why has that label been put on me?

I suspect it's because I publicized my talent. I spent much of my life playing and performing music. And by performing, I mean playing in front of strangers on a regular basis.

In high school, I played in a jazz quartet with my friends at coffeeshops around town. We actually gigged. We made money playing in front of strangers.

In college, much of my public performance stopped. I played bluegrass with a high school friend who went to the same college as me, and I think we had intended on playing around, but church got in the way. I met some guys in a band who needed a keyboardist and played one night with them, and then never again because my pastor told me not to do it. So I spent a good amount of time writing songs in my room. I'm not sure if I had intended to make them public and get my name out there. Church would've gotten in the way, I suppose.

After college, much of my “performing” was leading worship in front of a congregation for a year.

And in my later young adult years, I spent 3 years playing in an unknown local indie band and the farthest we drove to play was Chattanooga. Pretty stinking cool by one measure, and a massive failure by another.

In 2019, my acoustic guitar lies behind me in a case collecting dust. My electric guitar is in its case, along with my amp and gear, in the guest bedroom collecting dust. My neighbors and many of my coworkers don't know I'm musically talented. New friends I've made in the last few years don't know I'm musically talented.

Maybe talent is only really talent when you have drive and determination.

#talent #edsheeran #bts

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb (Vice)

The bad news, which went unstated, was that I had unknowingly stumbled into a nationwide web of deception that appeared to span eight cities and nearly 100 property listings—an undetected scam created by some person or organization that had figured out just how easy it is to exploit Airbnb’s poorly written rules in order to collect thousands of dollars through phony listings, fake reviews, and, when necessary, intimidation.

Be careful out there, folks. Do your due diligence. I've used Airbnb enough times, and have had an overall satisfactory experience. I won't stop using it when appropriate. But it's still an “adolescent” service with a lot of variables that the company can't seem to account for. The good ol' hotel room removes a lot of the uncertainty, that's for sure.

10 Tips to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet (NY Times)

“Oh yeah — and don’t use Facebook.”

Microsoft Japan’s 4-day workweek experiment sees productivity jump 40% (CNBC)

The experiment, which also incorporated self-development and family wellness schemes, recorded largely positive feedback from employees, too, with 92.1% saying they liked the four-day workweek, according to the firm.

I had a short stint of randomly asking people at the office if they'd be open to a 4-day 10-hours-a-day work week. I got more “yes” than “no” because the perk was the 3-day weekend. But why did I expect that we'd have to have a 40-hour workweek? Why didn't I suggest sticking to 8 hours? 40 hours was a labor movement innovation. Maybe, in this day and age, a new labor movement needs to promote an even healthier work-life balance.

4-day, 8-hours-a-day work week then.

Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds (NPR)

Using an international database on adolescent achievement in science, mathematics and reading, they found that in two-thirds of all countries, female students performed at least as well as males in science.

Yet paradoxically, females in wealthier countries with more gender equality, including the U.S., were less likely than females in other countries to get degrees in fields like math and computer science.

TL;DR: it has less to do with biology, and more to do with societal structures, expectations, and genderizing interests.

The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous (NY Times)

The wealthiest Americans are paying a much smaller share of income in taxes than they did a half-century ago. In 1961, Americans with the highest incomes paid an average of 51.5 percent of that income in federal, state and local taxes. Half a century later, in 2011, Americans with the highest incomes paid just 33.2 percent of their income in taxes...

And now Michael Bloomberg has decided to enter the race. There was a point in the past where I would've gladly entertained his candidacy. However, I've come to believe very strongly that the greater our income inequality is, the higher the chance for societal instability becomes. The last thing we need is for obscenely wealthy men to tell us they can fix our problems—or buy their way into the White House.

#fridayfinds

The Secret Ingredient That Improves Meat Every Time (NY Times)

At this point, I suspect that half of you are salivating subconsciously while the other half are quite consciously suppressing a gag reflex.

The former. I'm going to try this ASAP. Sounds delicious.

Code Switch Twitter Thread (Twitter)

This has to be one of the most fun uses of Apple's Animoji I've ever seen. Black and brown folks talking about how they have to “code switch”: change the way they talk depending on who they're with.

Amy and I really enjoyed the Marché one (the third post)—and not just because she's from Atlanta.

Beautiful Phone Wallpapers (Heroscreen)

I really like these wallpapers. Hope you do too.

Running Is My Therapy and My Nutritionist Is Kale (The New Yorker)

My nutritionist is a single leaf of kale that whispers affirmations to me. My dentist? A toothbrush. His partner? Dr. Listerine.

My Google Maps is the direction that moss grows on trees. My Waze is the orientation of the stars. My Apple Maps is tasting the wind.

My maid’s name is Roomba; my other maid’s name is Broom. My barber is a hand mirror and some rusty shears. My gardener is Mother Nature and the fucking rain.

This was... interesting.

If You Rest, You Rust? Study Finds Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline (StudyFinds)

Benjamin Franklin, some rando dude from like thousands of years ago, said, “Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is always bright.”

But also:

“For cognition among the elderly, it looks like the negative effect on social engagement far outweighed the positive effect of the program on nutrition and sleep,” Nikolov theorizes. “Or alternatively, the kinds of things that matter and determine better health might simply be very different than the kinds of things that matter for better cognition among the elderly. Social engagement and connectedness may simply be the single most powerful factors for cognitive performance in old age.”

There was a very popular New York Times article in 2012 about the elderly on a Greek island that live unusually longer and are healthier than expected. One critical factor? Social bonding.

#fridayfinds

Vanishing: More Than 1 in 4 Birds Has Disappeared in the Last 50 Years (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds)

The study quantifies for the first time the total decline in bird populations in the continental U.S. and Canada, a loss of 2.9 billion breeding adult birds—with devastating losses among birds in every biome. Rosenberg, who leads joint research initiatives by the Cornell Lab and American Bird Conservancy, says these study results transcend the world of birds.

“These bird losses are a strong signal that our human-altered landscapes are losing their ability to support birdlife,” he said. “And that is an indicator of a coming collapse of the overall environment.”

And

Not all the news out of this analysis is dire. Some groups of birds are doing well, and for good reason—governments and societies have invested in saving them.

What's more human than causing a devastating mess everywhere and having to clean it up afterwards?

The Christian Right Is Helping Drive Liberals Away From Religion (FiveThirtyEight)

...[P]rominent political scientists have concluded that politics is a driving factor behind the rise of the religiously unaffiliated.

I have one of many untested and pattern-matched hypotheses that the more irreligious we become, the more we'll look to non-religious institutions like government for moral leadership.

Yes, I'm irreligious and, yes, I believe in more government action. But I'm not happy about my hypothesis. That's where I'd find agreement with a conservative. But if we don't want that to happen, then people need to find the type of community, moral guidance, and leadership that used to belong to religious institutions in other places. And religious institutions, by and large, have immensely failed in providing that in recent decades. Conservative religious communities are doomed to accelerate this “fall” by digging in their heels, both theology and politically. It is my opinion that, if they haven't already, they will fatally cut themselves and bleed out.

How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last (NY Times)

...[T]he concept of “slow fashion” has emerged over the past decade as a kind of counterbalance to fast fashion. The idea: slow down the rapid pace of clothing consumption and instead buy fewer more durable items.

OK two questions in response to this “guide”:

  1. What are some good, reasonably-priced, slow fashion brands?
  2. Why not promote used clothes (thrift, consignment, etc) shopping?

#fridayfinds

It has been a very long time since I last updated my blog. So consider this a vomitus of life updates and random musings.

1

Amy and I will be upon our 4th weekend in our new home. We very much enjoy our new home, but have spent the majority of our mental and emotional focus on selling the old home, which is officially on the market as of yesterday, October 10, 2019. Whatever amount of relief I've felt hitting this marker is now partially lost to the anxiety I feel about how long it'll sit on the market, especially with the winter holidays approaching.

Some wonderful things about where we live now:

  • Amy's commute has been significantly reduced from 1.25-1.5 hours to 30 minutes, and that makes me feel a ton better.
  • We lived close to friends at the old house, and we can still say the same at the new house—even closer.
  • We're surrounded by living and shopping convenience. Decatur, for its hip charm and intown delights, is short on convenience. This place has it in spades.
  • It's always been hobby of mine to shit on Buckhead, a “neighborhood” littered with high-rise corporate buildings and expensive condos, mansions, luxury cars, douche-y rich people, and bad traffic. I somehow did not realize, until I moved here, that I'm about 10 minutes away. Life is funny.
  • Our neighborhood is quiet and pleasant, and our neighbors are sweet. We live in a cul-de-sac, and everyone in it seems to be fairly interconnected in each others' lives? We're not so used to that.
  • Louie refuses to walk more than 5 minutes in our new neighborhood. It's frustrating. New environment, maybe?

2

You know what I've been thinking about for a while now? What's the difference between Americans exaggerating/impersonating Italian, Russian, or French accents and us exaggerating Chinese or Japanese ones? Why is it distasteful or offensive to impersonate the latter but not the former? I'm not making any value judgments yet..

3

Speaking of judgments, it's one of the most “misspelled” words I see written. In the U.S., it's judgment. In the UK, it's judgement. But I see a lot of Americans spelling it the UK way. So then is it actually misspelled if you're in one country and spell it the other way? Or are our arbitrary differentiations ultimately meaningless aka who gives a fuck?

4

Elizabeth Warren continues her in rise in popularity, the polls, and prediction markets. It makes me very happy. But politics is fickle, so I'm looking to see when she has her first big political blunder. The pundit class speaks often of her inability to attract Black and Hispanic voters. I'm not worried yet. They're a cautious bloc and want to stand behind someone who they can feel safe about winning. The first four primary contests will be a major deciding factor.

5

Donald Trump is a waste of human flesh. A disgrace of the highest order. A historic stain on the office of the Presidency. The GOP is an abhorrent party, led by a loathsome Senate Majority leader in Mitch McConnell, and a toothless House Minority leader in Kevin McCarthy. And their support of Donald Trump only stands via self-preservation and their supposed fear of “the base.” If the Republican base really stands behind Donald Trump, then the Republican base is some combination of uninformed, misinformed, and unpatriotic. And the thing that kills me the most is that I fear it does not matter. We'll see. Here's hoping that a coalition of liberals, progressives, libertarians, Never Trump-er conservatives, moderates, and independents can do the right thing in 2020.

6

American Evangelicalism: what a pitiful and irrelevant expression of Christianity it has become.

7

Succession. What a show. Will be the #1 show for me in 2020. No contest. The acting is stellar, and the writing superb. But I've realized something about TV and film that I love. There's a much greater chance I'll love the show if the plot centers around characters' story than conceptual exploration. Why did I love Arrival? It wasn't because of the aliens and their novel language. It was because of Amy Adams' character's emotional arc and journey. Everything else is window dressing. The character must always be the main focus.

Back to Succession. It's in its second season. And it's still really good. Again #1 of 2020. But it's not as good as season one. Why? Because season one was an exploration of the people's relationships to one another, their own struggles, etc. Season two focuses on the family's business much more, and it loses steam a bit for me.

8

The new Terrace House is cool too.

Here's a list of initial political principles I'd base my fantasy administration's policy proposals on, if I were POTUS.

I'll add more (or remove existing ones) in future posts.

...Yes, these are the things that occupy my brain.

Ready? Let's go.

  • The greater the income inequality, the greater the societal instability. The greater the societal instability, the greater the likelihood of insurrection.

  • Laws should be written to favor a balance of human interests and natural ecosystem interests (plants, non-human animals, wildlife, etc.) as much as possible.

  • Liberty is expressed when healthcare, education, food, and housing aren't existential concerns.

  • A stable family is the cornerstone of a healthy American society. “Stable” doesn't only mean heterosexual parents.

  • We must do everything in our power to reverse climate change, immediately.

  • The American Constitution should be easier to change.

  • We should prioritize economic growth by investing in our children before investing in short-term GDP growth.

  • Systemic racism is a real and pernicious disease that must be educated out.

  • Scientific research and learning should be of paramount importance.

  • Government jobs should be enviable and offered to the brightest and most hardworking minds.

  • American public schools should be the envy of the world.

  • Mass transit > personal transit.

  • Humans are fundamentally irrational, and economic policies should reflect that.

  • American companies must prioritize business value to society over shareholders.

  • Americanness is about intangible values, not about tangible traits.

Should You Take Your Shoes Off at Home? (NY Times)

On the one hand, wearing shoes in the house is a tough proposition for me. Sure it's cultural, but I can't get past thinking how much nastiness people are bringing in from the outside. And when I see people on TV wearing shoes on the bed or putting their shoes up on the couch, it makes me very uncomfortable.

On the other hand, I grew up playing rough-and-tumble outside, sat and rolled around on streets and sidewalks, climbed trees, and played around storm drains. Maybe that's why I don't suffer from bad allergies. I always took my shoes off though.

Atlanta belongs to the roaches now. We merely live here. (Atlanta Magazine)

Plenty of my fellow Atlantans have, anecdotally, observed a worse-than-usual cockroach season this year. They’re dropping from the ceilings at night and landing on our faces. They’re setting up shop inside our liquor cabinets. They’re assembling armadas around our front doors. “I see them scurry through the streets at night,” Catie Leary, a downtown Decatur resident, tweeted recently. “One flew and landed on my shoulder last week. One crawled across a book I was reading, and I considered burning the book. Fear lives in my heart at all times.”

I live in an old house, in a very wooded neighborhood, in Decatur. I see cockroaches on our streets scurrying about at night. We get regular pest control. I still see a cockroach once every 3 weeks.

“I don’t think there’s a house in Georgia that hasn’t had signs of a Smokey Brown cockroach infestation in the walls at some point in time.”

Good luck, everyone.

Hillsong worship leader clarifies he hasn't renounced faith, but it's on 'incredibly shaky ground'. (Christian Post)

“Why is the Bible full of contradictions? No one talks about it. How can God be love yet send four billion people to a place, all ‘coz they don’t believe? No one talks about it,” he wrote.

For me, moving from conservative evangelicalism, to liberal theology, and then to atheism, has allowed me to process my departure more effectively. Reading liberal theology helped frame the Bible, theodicy, and culture in a much more generous way before it eventually gave out as well. Sounds like Sampson is doing a cliff dive. And reading more about his journey, he keeps deleting Instagram posts challenging Christianity. Why? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I used to love Hillsong's music a lot. And I remember watching Marty (and Joel and Darlene) lead worship on their DVDs with awe and envy. Then things started to fall apart when I realized Brian Houston essentially preached a prosperity gospel, their lyrics promoted an individuistic Christianity, and my disdain for megachurches and high-production worship services started to increase.

The Ways We Watch (Washington Post)

Now, we watch “television” on our cellphones. We stream movies on computer screens and through video-game consoles. We invite people over to Netflix and chill, and that has nothing to do with watching TV...

...After endless debate, we’ve landed on the 11 types of “television” viewers who exist in our brave new world. Which one are you?

Add a pinch of The Second Screener (Wikipedia's the best companion) and a dash of The Avid Reader, and you have me.

#fridayfinds