Podcasts, audiobooks, closing thought

I don't listen to podcasts much, but have at times appreciated these:

1. Entitled Opinions, with Robert Harrison
2. In Our Time, with Melvyn Bragg
3. Radio Open Source, with Christopher Lydon
4. Naked Scientists, with Dr. Chris Smith

Haven't listened to audiobooks at all, yet. Maybe if I win the iPod!

Closing thoughts: I'm reminded of my first date with the woman who married me. Emotions included nervousness, of course, and a sort of quasi-reluctant amazement, and a sense that this could be the start of something tremendous -- or the start of a tremendous blunder.

The ELL showed us so many trees and branches, so many ways to save time and to lose time. There are so many social sites, YouTube offerings, Flickr options. There's not enough time to maintain one's own blog, let alone read many others. I remain uncertain how much energy to allocate for it all. But that can be said of any education.

I believe the historian Thomas Carlyle was reputed to be the last man to have read all the books available to him. I don't long for such an era, an era of vastly reduced choices. But I would prefer to be less awash in information... since most of it isn't worth the time it takes to figure out it's not worth the time.