[cross posted at NPR Check]

Monday meant that there were only 45 shopping days before Christmas, and NPR was in full consumerism mode.

If you were casually listening to Morning Edition, you might have thought NPR was reporting on its own newsreader stars - Montagne, Inskeep, Siegel, Norris, and Block -

"[They]...have names like Mr. Squiggles, Chunk, Pipsqueak....[and] are embedded with a computer chip so they can squeak, chirp and respond"

- and not the $10 MUST HAVE TOY of the season - computerized hamsters:

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I'm getting tired of waiting for my furnace guy. Any of you with old houses and single pipe steam systems know if this is true?

A representative of the company told me that old-house owners have reported great success with his company's product, J-B Weld on old cast-iron radiators.

OK, insulating doors in old houses.

This season is my year to stop up drafts (since the replacement windows are in, the fill is in the attic, the pipes are wrapped, the world's worst crawlspace is sealed up, and all that). So I'm going to go round and stop drafts around plugs and switches, add shrinkwrap to the windows, and so on.

But the biggest issue is doors, because in an old house, which has gradually settled over time, not only are the door frames not truly rectangular, the doors aren't even the same untrue rectangles as the frames. So, how to weatherstrip them?