"Ideas, if professionalized, become precious personal property—: a decline in value produces serious emotions[.]" From Meyer Schapiro in the current issue of the NY Review of Books. Many applications across public and private life. — # 12/23/2008
The Sox won the World Series again last night for the second time in 4 years. This has been an amazing stretch for Boston sports teams and it’s a wonderful payoff for us fans who have stuck it out through some memorable low points. As Bob Ryan is wont to write, these are the good [...]
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
From California, to the New York island
From the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters,
This land was made for you and me;
Nobody living can make me turn back,
As I go walking my freedom highway,
Nobody living can make me turn back,
This land was made for you and me.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I love this place because it is what I’ve made it. I get to choose all the materials, examine them, place them, take them out, learn about them, use them in different ways. All the time this place gets better. Better because each time I’ve learned something new. This is a place of learning. It [...]
I had high hopes for All the King’s Men, and I enjoyed the novel, but I spent a good portion of my reading time adjusting to the fact that the book is less about Willie Stark (to say nothing of Huey Long), and far more about Jack Burden and his relationship to those closest to [...]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Brad, what this meme needs is a tag! All the great memes have their own tags.
Meme Watch: “East African Plains Ape”
I am no longer the only person on the Internets talking about the East African Plains Ape:
Achenblog: Daily Humor and Observations from Joel Achenbach : ...I am happy knowing that some of my [...]
Kathy Murdock with a great post on budgeting. "[O]ne of the biggest ways in which to save money for your family is in your grocery shopping." Amen. — # 01/2/2007
Just violated this in the last aside. Matt Cutts on create a howto tag. — # 01/2/2007
From 2000, good advice on buying a mattress.
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# 01/2/2007
William Henry Channing: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common -- this is my symphony." — # 12/12/2006
For some reason I didn't know about this while it was ongoing, but Merlin Mann has an 8-part interview with David Allen. — # 11/28/2006
From the Zillow blog, a nice post about earthquake-prone areas of the country. — # 11/28/2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Time does a cover story on risk and how we collectively and individually do not manage risk all that well. And yet nowhere in the article does the author acknowledge the media’s role in creating hysteria over low probability events.
Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we’d get pretty good at distinguishing [...]
At about 11 minutes of CalacanisCast Beta 5, "Offices create two things: commutes and politics." — # 11/22/2006
Via Kottke, the Flicker Fusion Factor (note, I know instinctively type Flickr, not Flicker): "The speed, altitude, centrifugal forces, and sensations of flying that we experience in an SUV, a sports car, or, in my case, an economy box, let us feel what it is like to be a bird. This partly explains why we love our cars, preferring this mode of locomotion to any other, even walking and running, for which we are supremely adapted." — # 11/20/2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Via Matt Cutts I see that Google has released an option to post your videos to an “unlisted” URL:
Philipp notes (hat tip to Googlified) that you can upload unlisted videos to Google video now. The webmaster help page for the feature points out that it’s like an unlisted telephone number: the odds of someone guessing [...]
Brad DeLong does yeoman’s work in synthesizing and aggregating an exceedingly interesting debate about income inequality in the US. What is the driving force behind this inequality? I am firmly in the Krugman/Thoma camp on this one, I think policy has more to do with income inequality than education, but more than both I think [...]
Didn’t get to blog tonight. Again. Still some things help to keep it in perspective.
I despair of my blog. It is neglectged at the moment. There has simply been too much going on for it to get attention. And yet that explanation doesn’t suffice. Writing is important to me. It is a sorely needed creative outlet and one that can be undertaken almost anywhere. To give this blog short [...]
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