Thursday, January 29, 2009

If the Neighbor's Grass Always Looks Greener, Rip out Your Lawn and Plant Wildflowers

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Everybody complains about the finance industry, but nobody does anything about it. Everybody complains about the advertising business, but ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

John Bell, In the Accelerator, With the Polarizer

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Last night I had a dream I was playing a card game with my son. It was an interesting game: each card had a piece of Dirac notation on it....
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Demand is not Just a Function of Price

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The only interesting part of my Feedburner stats that is interesting to me is the part that tells me how visitors landed on this page. Usua...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

After-Dinner Ruminations in the Highest Bobcat-Land

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[This entry is somewhat general (uncharacteristically so, I hope.) I have more specific things to say, but I'm thinking out loud. Also...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Reconciling Living with Strangers

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I've been re-reading David Foster Wallace, both as a way of grieving him and as an escape from other, more pressing, grief. Wallace was...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

And I Suggest Using the Linux Kernel Next Time

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The Economist had an article on disease causing genes in a recent issue. Common sense tells us that ... the older a gene is, the more likel...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Whip Deflation Now!

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Everybody's talking about deflation all of a sudden. I was a month and a half early , I guess. (Okay, okay, it was a footnote, but sti...