The captain wrote down how many fish we had caught (and released), a reminder of Alaska's reputation for decent fisheries management.
11.12am GMT David Anderson is making a fairly decent impression on the Treasury committee, I reckon (reminder, there's a livefeed here).
Given the probable absence of the St Helens scrum-half Kyle Eastmond for the rest of the season with an ankle problem, this was a timely reminder that Myler offers England a decent playmaking alternative for this autumn's Four Nations tour.
Random generosity like this is made for forwarded emails from soppy old people, but it is also touching as hell and is an effective inoculation against misanthropy and a reminder that police officers can be kind, decent people.
What does the reminder that killing civilians is wrong, that all decent and viable societies reject it, add to this? Very little, compared to the danger it brings of playing into terrorism's auto-immune strategy.
It's a timely reminder to shareholders that Citi still faces a hard slog back to decent profitability.
And he kept a notepad for reasons familiar to anyone who travels a lot, including to-do lists with reminders to buy maps and to check where to go for decent lodging and food.
Their encounter provides a slightly too explicit reminder that, for all his wretchedness and misbehavior, Nick is, deep down, a decent guy.
He'll never admit it, but listening to the constant reminders that the Knicks should ship him out for someone with a decent crossover dribble must be tiring.
