The Thing You Like/are Good At Is

During The Whole 'jeopardy' Experience, I Felt Like I Was Living A Bit Of A Double Life, I Would Be Secretly Flying Out To L.a. To Tape New Shows, Hoping That None Of My Coworkers Would Notice The Absence And Figure Out What Was Going On. 'jeopardy' Tries Very Hard To Keep Their Secrets.

I Remember One Of My Last Shows, The Final Jeopardy! Clue Was Something Like 'these Two Boys' Names Are Top 10 Boys' Names In The U.s., They Both End With The Same Letter, And They're Both Names Of Jesus' Apostles.' Now, Obviously That's Not A Knowable Fact.

You Watch An Old 'jeopardy!' And The Categories Alone Are Very Plain. 'poetry,' Or 'movies,' Or 'physics.' If You Watch It Now, Though, There'll Be A Theme Board Where The Categories Are All Hitchcock Movies. Lots More Jokes, Lots More High-concept Categories And Questions.

Sure I Have A Cell-phone, So I Don't Have To Remember Everyone's Number Anymore, But That Really Wasn't A Core Part Of My Brain.

There Must Be Something Innate About Maps, About This One Specific Way Of Picturing Our World And Our Relation To It, That Charms Us, Calls To Us, Won’t Let Us Look Anywhere Else In The Room If There’s A Map On The Wall.