Queenkv’s Brainpickings

The Race for the White House is on!
We are less than a month away from the first Presidential debate. In the control booth, I had fun working with all our live reports from the DNC in Denver and the RNC in St. Paul…Keeping up with all the juicy sound bites and timing out my morning [...]

FREMONT, CALIF — I went jogging around Mission Blvd this morning. I forget about eating healthy on my Cali trips. So I try to burn off calories with my running shoes.
I’ve also managed to keep up my Eat Local Challenge in the Bay Area. It’s easy to do when so many vegetables and fruits [...]

I found this link on Romensko’s blog: NU still negotiating to open campus in Qatar - Campus.
There are some interesting changes underway at my alma mater. I happen like the idea of expanding the journalism program to the Middle East. The students would gain so much insight and experience in that part of the [...]

I saw this on Digg and I had to watch it for myself.

The Daily Background » Blog Archive » Video- “The Viewâ€? co-host doesn’t know if the world is round or flat. Good grief — I understand the need to take care of your children, but to use it as an excuse for ignorance? [...]

OK — this is a new thing I’m trying out. I kicked started the daily blog feature on my del.icio.us account. That means all the links I’ve bookmarked for the day will be posted around 10:00 PM, nightly. I thought it was kinda neat to have that coincide with my newscast. Basically, these are links [...]

After the 10:00 News, I like to unwind from work day with the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. All the snarky comments and crass observations I keep pent up in my brain during my work shift often ends up being exploited in a comedic skit or two on these shows. It’s a relief to [...]

It’s difficult to function with out my daily cup of coffee. It’s probably something I should give-up for Lent next year. However, I suspect my non-Caffeinated attitude could be considred a work hazard.
My mom introduced me to coffee drinking. She mixed-up hot coco and coffee as part of my breakfast, before I had to hit [...]

Last night, Ted Koppel made a cameo on the Daily Show. The dude rules and I was thrilled to visit the Nightline studios during my last quarter for Medill. It’s always charming to see a journalism giant like Koppel express himself so bluntly. Check out this clip!
The man behind Praire Home Companion has some kind [...]

I still have a wicked headache from my cold. Grrr….
I’ve been babying myself - sleeping in until 10, eating well and watching plenty of TV. Mark has been an angel; taking care of Daisy and me.
And Daisy has been Daisy.
I launched a new Project 365 blog on my birthday. Oral Fixations will have a [...]

Yesterday, as I was chilling in Topeka, I was also checking out national news online, on TV and on the radio. CNN, MSNBC and other networks aired some amazing video of a tanker fire on the MacArthur Maze: the interchange connecting the East Bay to San Francisco.
The elevated roadway that fell carried eastbound traffic [...]