Emptying the suitcase before going home

We have meetings until noon today. I'm going to go to the airport early with the hopes of getting on an earlier flight home. I have one conference call in the early afternoon, but I can call in from the airport.

Friday the 13ths are good days to spend a while wandering the net, looking for new Pogo resources. Not a lot new this time around, but the Wikipedia summary is getting better.

This prejudice map is based on a Google query for an ethnic or other type of group, identifying what a group is known for: "germans are known for *", for example. Here's one for Finns and another for Mainers.

This may be of interest only to folks in the Boston area and maybe not even then. Charles Laquidara is returning to local radio with a one-hour segment on WBOS. No word about Duane.

So, Levi's is bringing out a line of iPod-controlling jeans. Some items don't need a punch line.

I've been alternating between sleeping too little to sleeping too much. I'm on the too-much phase right now. If the too-little part of the cycle returns, I'll try out these tips. (Recent studies have indicated that the tryotophan in turkey is not likely to make us sleepy.)

As the disclaimer notes, don't try this at home. (Thanks to Dave Barry's blog.)