Let’s Start the Countdown Early

There are approximately 3,456,000 seconds until the end of this year, fifteen hours until the end of my current job, and approximately 47,040 working hours until the end of my career, give or take a few years.

What are you going to do with your time?

My main New Year’s resolution will be to judge all media outlets (and writers) by their worst moments, not their best. — brad plumer (@bradplumer) December 27, 2017

I’m gonna… I dunno, finally quit paying for that gym membership I haven’t really used much in a while?

I just heard some real bad news
What happens to the children of single mothers who get arrested? Surprise, the efforts are haphazard and the outcome is terrible.

Twitter just banned a bot trying to help it clean up its Nazi problem.

A modest proposal from a Texas doctor: Make these freeloading infants get a job.

Non-sad news
Excellent (and amusingly titled) profile of home-cooking guru Kenji López-Alt and his next venture.

Boston loves iced coffee. It’s nine degrees outside right now and I’m drinking iced coffee myself. It’s kind of our thing.

Cultivating interest
Everysecond.io: A visualization of things that happen around the world in one second.

Cultivating joy
This is a very good way to introduce a new puppy to your elder dog.
Cat said Nooooooope.
Tiny dog on a kickboard.

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