neurotic_squirrel

1. I spent a week playing this categorization game at thomaswc.com: Make 45 groups of 45!

2. A Wikipedia spiral led me to read about James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister from Boston who joined the Civil Rights Movement and was murdered by white supremacists during the Selma marches. People then spread misinformation about the events leading up to his death and claimed that he was murdered by other civil rights workers. He would be 99 now if he had lived.

3. Books: Most recently I finished rereading Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. I think it's the strongest of the original Foundation trilogy, and even Asimov's overuse of "men sit in chairs and explain things to each other" scenes worked for him--in one scene a succession of men explain a different contradictory theory of events to everyone else, only for all of them to be proven wrong in the next chapter. I also enjoyed the use of real-world parallels: thesis defense, World War II mobilization, nice Jewish couple from Brooklyn (my father had to point the last one out to me).