Staying Alert
How to stay alert when you have to sit at a desk for 9 hours straight and wrangle a big mess of qualitative, anecdotal information into something resembling a quantitative risk assessment.
(Or: the peppiest, most melodious and motivating mp3s I have on my computer at work, thanks to the sweet sweet world of music blogs and intermittent flash-drive transfers from home. No, it's not in any sort of specific order other than how iTunes randomly mixed it.)
Andrew Bird - Heretics
David Kitt - Don't Fuck With Me
Fela Kuti - Shakara
Big Sir - The Pistol Chasers
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
T. Rex - Jeepster
Peter Bjorn & John - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
The Shins - Australia
Andrew Bird - Two Way Action
Wilco - Theologians
Michael Haves & Chris Thile - Air Mail Special
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - This is Us
Allen Toussaint - Last Train
Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out