Hey, I wrote a letter to the Manolo shoe blog and he published it!!!1! [link] I am way more chuffed by this than I should be, but it has made my day!

Today is our next irregularly scheduled Onerous Task Day.

Should you choose to play along please join us at 2pm EST / 11am PST and cross that lingering, avoided, onerous task off your to-do list.

Make that call, fill out those forms, read that Faulkner, file those invoices, update your files, enter that data, pill that dog, clean out those gutters and get over the hump of hump day.

Slacker Secret Santas!

You've slacked up until the last day, which is today. If you don't send me any info by midnight, board time, you won't be able to play this year and will have to wait for a whole year in order to be able to join the fun, and, oh, my goodness, I'm turning Santa into a Jewish mommy, so I'll stop now.

Slacker Secret Santas: all of you who e-mailed me should have an e-mail with a giftee name and snail-mail address. Please let me know if there's any problem. Thanks for playing!

Not-so-tiny (yeah, yeah, we've already covered that) Jewish not-Santa.

I've got a new post up at Cocktail Party Physics, The Gift of Science featuring last minute science gifts. Enjoy! (i hope)

Non-Slacker Gifters - tick tock tick tock . If you don't yet have stuff, you need to get moving. International Packages should be mailed post haste and domestic should go in at the latest next week. If you are having any issues, you can email me.

Calling all pet owners tired of schlepping heavy bags of dog food and having to improvise because you forgot to pick up the cat food and/or litter.

I have a personal request that could work out really well for you!

The pet store that I normally work with in exchange for Bartleby’s supplies has sold out to a restaurant, so a significant source of support has gone away. In these difficult times, that hurts more than I like to confess.

However, I found a terrific, inexpensive delivery service that could potentially cover Bartleby’s needs while removing a certain amount of stress from YOUR life at no additional cost to you.

Petflow is a supply service that is super easy to use while offering competitive or better prices on all your food, treat, supplement and litter needs. They deliver it all to your door for a flat, 4.95 UNLIMITED shipping rate. When I think of the time it takes to get to the store and the wear and tear of schlepping the stuff home, $5 seems more than worth it.

The prices are great. For instance, my dog food brand (Taste of the Wild) costs exactly the same as the retail store (but without tax) and the Merrick Lamb Squares I use as treats costs 30% LESS than the store!

When you set up your delivery schedule, (from 1-14 weeks) you can rest assured that your furry friend will always have supplies on hand. You can cancel or modify your order and schedule at any time.

PLEASE consider what it costs you in time, effort, travel, tax AND brain space (my memory ain’t what she used to be, that’s for sure) and then use my dedicated link to remove those cares from your mind!

Order here

If you have any questions, please drop me a line at my profile addy.

I thank you and Bartleby thanks you more than you could know!

The fine print: 1. You must use the dedicated link for me to get credit. [link] 2. Each new user must be a unique customer, with unique shipping and billing address 3. Each new customer must be a recurring customer (one time purchases do not qualify) 4. Each new customer must create a delivery program with at least $30 per shipment 5. Each new customer must have at least 1 valid shipment

My bike team just put together this, I have to say, AMAZING! pinup style calendar to raise money for Moveable Feast of Maryland (who provide food and nutritional counseling, amongst many other things, for people living with HIV/AIDs and breast cancer). We are selling them on our Team Atomic website.

They will make seriously good gifts for anyone who likes pretty ladies and/or bikes!!!

(And, btw, I'm on the cover!)

I'm not sure if everyone's already heard about this, but just in case: If you've ever commented on any of the Gawker blogs - Lifehacker, io9, Gizmodo, Jezebel, etc etc, their user database was hacked and released into the wild over the weekend.

More info is here: [link]

You can check to see if your account was compromised here: [link]

Or just change your password on any of the Gawker sites anyway, just to be sure. More importantly, if you tend to use the same login/password on multiple sites, whether Gawker is among them or not, this would be a good time to change, or someday you'll be doomed to an eternity of inadvertently sending out twitter spam about acai berries.