Radio has certain requirements. Sports announcing, too. Dead air is the enemy. Some of the most painful examples to me are long bicycle races (4+ hours) that end in a sprint stage. So until the last kilometer, not much is going on if there’s no breakaway. But 4 hours must be filled with announcing, regardless. Particularly painful if there’s only one announcer, not two.
A quick look around my dwelling shows 6 books that I’m partway through but intend to finish, a couple of which I haven’t make any progress on in at least a year. (Not counting ones I don’t intend to finish, or haven’t started.) Should I invoke a statute of limitations on these 6?
The New Yorker has posted a page of the magazine’s cartoons which were most liked on Instagram.
This one pairs nicely with Parisi’s one above.
Comics I Don't Understand 
The Unread Books conundrum. Every reader/book lover has it. I had to move my bookshelves around, and in emptying them, rearranged them, and unearthed all the books that had not been read or read through. They are piled in a little trolley, imitating a library. The pile is not shrinking. It has been added to. But I’m not giving up on them! For some, it’s been years since they were purchased/begun. But I’m not giving up! If I can keep them in limbo for a decade or more, there’s no rush. Heh.
I thought all of the cartoons on the The New Yorker linked page were quite good! It’s a shame there is a current in some circles to put down The New Yorker cartooning, sometimes in very mean vulgar terms.
I moved last year & spent the year before that triaging books – toss, give away, keep. The heaps ended up being almost equal. So the SoL on my new books is set by the library.
I thought I knew the meaning of SOL, but apparently not. A little help?
I’ve always been a very linear reader, where I don’t like to stop reading something I have started. My “to be read” pile is usually not large at all. In the old days, I’d have the problem of running out of new things and having to dig something out of the old stuff.
Now that I read e-books via my iPad, and the public library electronic services are always open, I just go there and get something when I need.
I thought all of the cartoons on the The New Yorker linked page were quite good!
The spinach one made me laugh. I know how that goes. I was doing bibimbap and included stir-fried spinach. The large bag turned into a small bowl. Fortunately it was just one of several ingredients so it all worked out.
@guero (4): Statute of Limitations?
I got paywalled at the New Yorker link.
Relevant title text for the XKCD comic:
“The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it’s actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.”
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3019:_Advent_Calendar_Advent_Calendar
@Lord Flatulence (7) – That sort of makes sense. Thanks.
Maybe one has to be Catholic to get that first one.
I figured it was safe to use SoL since it was in the post.
I think the Protestants do Advent calendars too. I know Congregational churches celebrate the Sundays of Advent. Anyway, the Advent calendar has a little door for each date, and behind the door is some kind of treat or toy. For the grown-ups, you can also get a beer Advent calendar; a different bottle of beer for each day. It doesn’t fit on the wall but you are probably going to want to put it in the refrigerator anyway.
You’d think someone would come up with a Lent calendar, but there are two problems with that: 1. Easter is a moveable feast so the dates of Lent are different every year, and 2. You’re supposed to give up treats and beer for Lent.
Not knowing the context, SOL can also mean a rude phrase meaning one is completely out of luck.
So I could say that I was S____ out of Luck for not being able to get through the paywall to read the comics.
Maybe one has to be Catholic to get that first one.
I haven’t thought of advent calendars as some sort of Catholic thing. I don’t recall those from my childhood at all. Wikipedia suggests the origin as German Lutherans.
We have an excess of books also – though in some cases there multiple copies of books we especially like in different editions.
The middle bedroom of the three in the house is our home office and library – there 5 6ft bookcases and a half height one. Books are doubled on most shelves. This room’s books include his Bond books, our books on history, my childhood books, and a bunch of others.
In our studio we have 4 6ft bookcases which include my Louisa May Alcott books – plus books by two other favorite authors of mine, our craft books, and our cooking books (room is next to the kitchen. Also craft magazines and history related magazines.
In the basement we have a 6ft bookcase (lost a 4 ft one to a flood during a hurricane a couple of years, but the books survived) and a large plastic box of books. These are movie and theater related books and books related to his former career which he kept (though he got rid of many after that hurricane).
Out in his woodshop – aka garage – are all of his books on all types of woodworking.
Our bedroom has his collection of James Bond books – it is a half height bookcase 5 feet long.
And of course we each always keep a book or two in each of our two “reading rooms”
In general the books are doubled on each shelf unless they are too big to do so and may have third book sitting on its side on top of several books.