Was quite sure I wanted to use the Asia Miles expiring in 2 days to redeem the Shure SE535 — even though I haven't, in the past year, actually thought that it'd be lovely to have wireless earphones. I use my headphones a lot at work, btu my Etymotics (wired) earphones get used all of 5 times a year.

Then I saw there's a Kindle Paperwhite 3 up for redemption as well. Think I'll take that!

There is still no better app for exporting audio from a video quickly than Quicktime 7.

No idea why Apple had to screw it all up.

Not a bad Christmas party. Awesome vodka, gin, and whisky, and the most loving cat…and lots of dogs ignoring me. Funny role reversal there.

Haven't watched either, will add to the list…

Last week, I was so busy reading that I watched 3/4 of an episode of Billions in 3 days.

Yesterday, I switched to movies. Today, I've watched 2 movies and have 2 more lined up for tomorrow. Older French movies, mostly.

Weird.

Well, at the end of the day it's his business, I just don't want to have to jump ship.

There’s a year of observations, problems, and potential solutions to present.

He’s very good at verbal debate and so far has dodged my comments very smoothly, the few times I’ve been able to drag him out to lunch — he’s also very good at putting off these kinds of meetings.

My background is entirely in academia — the domain of carefully considered writing and a desire to avoid the pitfalls of logical fallacies and rhetoric.

Time to write that most difficult email to the CEO, laying out the problems that will kill the company in the next year and proposing solutions.

Not pleasant, but I’m experiencing first-hand the consequences of inaction on a daily basis…and I have it easy compared to the rest of the team.

Shoes, certainly.