My Dream Talk Show Panel*

Here are the panelists:

Will Leitch

Angry Buzz Bissinger

Contrite Buzz Bissinger (please read through to the bottom)

And this guy.

*And fuck you, Bob Costas, for getting two of the four of these on your show. Oh, and also fuck you for turning every postseason 5th inning double into the fall of the Berlin Wall. You make the Masters hype seem like, well, a run-of-the-mill blog post.

Don’t think or do: explore!

OTP, dear reader, has recently become fascinated with productivity.

As a concept. Not really as a lifestyle, yet. I’m easing my way in.

But anyway, I keep finding all kinds of great websites to peruse while procrastinating, most of them having to do with productivity and the pursuit of its enhancement. Today, that website is Tools for Thought.

The thing I like most about the site is that it names all the behaviors that we are doing that makes us unproductive so that we can deal with them. It’s a little bit like therapy for the unproductive person.

Anyway, i suggest you try it out. I’m sure that it will become as fun a crutch activity for you as it has for me.

Via 43 Folders

I wish I knew about this when I was teaching Venn Diagrams.

indexed

I wonder if Jessica uses the hipster pda?

So far, So good.

Via Graphjam.

Just join Scientology Already.

So I’m watching ESPN (Yankees vs. Indians), right? And I see the crawl has a new word on the left hand side, one with more letters than I’m used to seeing: C L E M E N S.

Oh, come on! He gets his own crawl category now? What the hell is that? Seriously, I just want Roger Clemens to join Scientology (you can’t convert to a science fiction club) so that we can all go, “oh, okay. Now I get it. Humph.”

Also, what’s this about him having a relationship with a country singer? Unless it’s Toby Keith, I don’t care.

Wake me up when Al Cowlings is driving him across the CBX.

Always time for a Wire-related post

OTP used to live in Charm City, and will forever have a soft spot for that magical land of John Waters films and David Simon works.

Here’s a fun little post about one of the newest Baltimore Ravens, via Deadspin.

It does, however, pain me to know that Tom Zbikowski will have to share the field with a player named “Big Dick Bandit,” who, in a logic could only be spawned at the University of Miami, is not a gay escort.

“Girls With Herpes Love This Song”

At least that’s the review that Paul Ford gives to a SXSW (That’s South By Southwest, Dear Reader, if you’ve been living in an undisclosed location) song. He listened to 48 hours of free MP3′s and reviewed them all: in six words or less.

Check them out here.

Via 43 Folders.

I’m Href affectionate for 43 Folders

As I continue to figure out wtf I’m blogging for, I just keep thinking about all the time I spend online. Sports, politics, policy, education, humor, email, etc. I also have yet to get myself really into the habit of using my RSS reader effectively, too.

So it occurred to me that what I might need is some sort of productivity managment. I looked at Bento, and I might still get it (man I’m turning into a Mac nerd), but for now I’m flitting about the web looking for little “tweaks.”

Then I happened upon this dream of a site. I saw the hipster PDA and it was awesome.

Much like the Minimalists article on fancy kitchenware, this article caused a sea change in how I think about productivity. Right now, I’m in love with my Rhodia pads, and I hope that this is a relationship that will last, but I fear the ones I use now are too big, and I need to get the smaller ones. If only the minis were lined, and not graph….but anyway.

Back to my point. I love the 43 folders site. They are clearly helping many cut through the bullshit of the organization industry and helping people simply get shit done.