Week 18: Hangin' out with Siri
For
the week of October 9th, I spent 20 hours and 57 minutes being
distracted; 12 hours and 57 minutes writing; 10 hours and 26 minutes on neutral
activities, and 7 hours and 35 minutes on email. I read articles online for 3
hours, 35 minutes.
It’s
interesting, though, to break down where I spend my free time online. In order:
Quora:
4 hours, 18 minutes, 441 pages.
NY
Times: 2 hours, 4 minutes, 50 pages.
Facebook:
1 hour, 54 minutes, 118 pages.
TechCrunch:
59 minutes, 9 seconds, 33 pages.
Yahoo
Sports: 57 minutes, 38 seconds.
Wall
Street Journal: 52 minutes, 45 seconds.
Angry
Birds: 42 minutes
Google:
39 minutes, 242 pages.
Spotify:
35 minutes, 18 seconds.
YDN:
32 minutes.
MercuryNews
blog: 17 minutes.
Yale: Even
artichokes have doubts. Levin outlines Yale’s
fiscal future. Did you know the Cubs general manager is from Yale? Oh, yea,
and he won
2 World Series, too. Should sports
be considered academic subjects?
Sports: Searching for
Steve Bartman. How Kevin
Garnett ruined everything this season. Harbaugh’s post-game
victory speech.
Humor: Shit that Siri Says. More funny
stuff from Siri. Saturday
Morning Breakfast Cereal’s cartoons.
Counterintuitive: Is the secret
to success failure? Why betting systems
just don’t work. Play rock-paper-scissors
against the NYTimes. How
do you make a biased coin a fair coin? The
Moneyball of marketing in politics.
Travel: Please, do not travel here. There’s
probably no pool in the hotel. Uganda
discontent. Japan offers 10,000
tourist trips to boost the economy! Get great
flight search today. Hipmunk? Credit card deals
hot off the press.
News: Did Herman Cain’s 9-9-9
plan come from Sim City? The
one-minute news solution. The rising popularity of the carnivorous
plant. I want to be this guy and watch
the Supreme Court in action. I’m going to save up my money to eat
at Per Se. Why I’m not going to screen
for prostate cancer. The
hottest peppers ever. Tips
on Google search. Trends
on internet usage by Mary Meeker.
And,
please, do not do these 7
things to piss off black women.