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Archive for January, 2009

Armchair or a Couch?

Posted in economics, signaling, soul logic on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A phenomenon “raging like wildfire” throughout social networks is nothing more blasé than a chain letter. In the current iteration, folks are asked to write a note listing 25 things about themselves and then tag the note with 25 friends. These friends are then to write up their own list of 25 things, tag another [...]

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Wealth

Posted in oddities on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just overheard at the grocery store :
Hey Mom, they have your favorite kind of water!

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Jeff’s Semi-Regular Aphorisms (III)

Posted in aphoristic goodness on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As occurred to me jogging northward on Forest Lake Way:
When we are ruthless we are often right.

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To Be, or To Not Be?

Posted in language on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

THE NY Times has an op-ed by renowned psychologist Steven Pinker espousing his theory of why Roberts screwed up the oath:
On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Flubber Hall of Fame when he administered the presidential oath of office apparently without notes. Instead of having Barack Obama “solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute [...]

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Bringing Order to Chaos

Posted in economics, science on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

About a year ago when I read Richard Dawkin’s explication of Darwin in The Blind Watchmaker, I was stuck by how analogous the basic mechanisms of natural evolution and economics were. Now I can be sure it was no coincidence:
Ideas evolve by descent with modification, just as bodies do, and Darwin at least partly got [...]

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