[	mood	|	anxious	]
[	music	|	Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright	]

The Falkland Islands had plenty of whales, but they're mostly void of timber, and burning whale oil to render whale oil seemed a little silly. So how did the settlers make their Falkland outposts survive? "Francois, throw another penguin on the fire!" Yes, as it turned out, penguins made surprisingly good kindling, thanks to layers of protective (and, apparently, highly flammable) fat beneath their skin. And it didn't hurt that they're so easy to catch. Penguins are flightless and unafraid of humans, so anytime the rendering fires got low, whalers simply grabbed a penguin or two and tossed 'em in.

"[Argentina's] military laid down 25,000 landmines along the beaches and pastureland near the capital city to deter the British from reclaiming the area. So far, these landmines haven't killed anyone, but the well-marked and fenced-off explosive zones have made for prime penguin habitat. The penguins aren't heavy enough to set off the mines, but because sheep and humans are, the little guys have the minefields all to themselves. ... After all, signs warning "Keep away from the penguins" will never be as effective as "Keep away from the penguins - or die."

[	mood	|	nervous	]
[	music	|	Mysterious Ways - U2	]

Meetings are an integral part of organizational life; however, few empirical studies have systematically examined the phenomenon and its effects on employees. By likening work meetings to interruptions and daily hassles, the authors proposed that meeting load (i.e. frequency and time spent) can affect employee well-being. For a period of 1 week, participants maintained daily work diaries of their meetings as well as daily self-reports of their well-being. Using heirarchical linear modeling analysis, the authors found a significant positive relationship between the number of meetings attended and daily fatigue as well as subjective workload (i.e. more meetings were associated with increased feelings of fatigue and workload).

[	mood	|	curious	]
[	music	|	How Lucky Can One Guy Be - Indigo Swing	]

It's easy. Waltz 3-step to 3-beat, first beat is downbeat: 1-2-3. Cha-cha is a 4-step to 4-beat, but the downbeat is the 2nd beat: 2-3-cha-cha-cha etc. Foxtrot is a 3-beat dance to a 4-beat time, so it's 1-2-3-and 4-1-2-and 3-4-1-and 2-3-4-and etc. Triple-swing is the same (rock-step triple-step triple-step rock-step), unless you add a grapevine or a promenade which adds a fourth beat. Tango is a 3-1/2 step dance to a 4-beat, unless you omit the toe-tap, in which case it's a 2-step, unless you add a twirl, in which case it's a 5 3/8-step. Rhumba is a 4-beat, pi/2-step dance if your shoe size is odd, or sqrt(-3) if your shoe size is even. See? Nothing to it.