Good Morning – December 2, 2021

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Good morning! Happy Thursday. 🌧️

It could be snow but it’s too warm so it’s just cloudy and kind of a damp day.

Cloudy, drizzle and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 3 am. ☃️

I probably could have taken the express bus 🚍 to work but I was running a bit late and it’s kind of drizzling morning so I might have gotten wet walking 🚶 down to the express. Plus I’m a bit dressed up for work today – I have an event to go to later, assuming that I can get a ride there.

I haven’t heard from the shop yet 🛠 beyond them having the three tires ⚫ but at this point I assume it will be next week before they are installed. I kind of figured that. It will save gas ⛽ not having the vehicle on the road. This weekend doesn’t look that great.

I looked at my time bank 🏦 and it looks like I could take off another week before the year is done. I might take off the third week of the month to go out to the Finger Lakes or maybe part of the week to the Adirondacks. 🗻 Or maybe some shorter trips. Winter camping is fun but it can be cold and the nights are long. A lot depends on the weather and how much snow 🌨 there is.

468- Alphabetical Order

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468- Alphabetical Order

11/30/21 by Daniel Semo, Joe Rosenberg

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/132021017
Episode: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/3bb687b0-04af-4257-90f1-39eef4e631b6/episodes/a1ce92f9-bc95-4feb-966b-eb65ff8f76ac/audio/128/default.mp3

In much of the western world, alphabetical order is simply a default we take for granted. It’s often the one we try first — or the one we use as a last resort when all the other ordering methods fail. It’s boring, but it works, and it’s so ingrained that it’s hard to imagine not using it. But despite its endurance for most of its history, the alphabet wasn’t initially used to order much of anything. Judith Flanders, author of A Place For Everything, a history of alphabetical order, says that in societies like ancient Rome and early medieval Europe, writing implements were still rare. So what mattered most was organizing knowledge in a way that helped you to memorize it. And that was usually much easier to do in the order you naturally came across the information, like: chronologically, or by size, or geography, or region, or hierarchically. Alphabetical Order