Does Not Compute

Even as I read The Black Swan for the first time, I’ve already read it. I’ve listened to several in-depth interviews with Nicholas Nassim Taleb since the book came out in 2007, and he’s had a recent resurgence in attention as the credit crisis fits his titular metaphor aptly.  Despite my familiarity with the main [...]

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Read Eating

Nelson Mandela is an icon of statesmanship, a principled activist who spent decades in jail for his efforts to bring an end to apartheid and the start of multi-racial democracy in South Africa.  In addition, he can also help me with the ladies!
A similar survey carried out in December for the National Year of Reading [...]

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Two Countries Separated by What Again?

Readers who follow politics probably heard about the minor gift exchange kerfuffle betwixt British PM Gordon Brown and Barack Obama.  Now, as some feared, Brown has discovered he can’t view his gift of 25 American movie classics because the DVDs are encoded only to play in North America.
Readers who follow me probably recognized this regional [...]

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Dipotism

The visit to the CEO uncle has now yielded sweet and salty dividends:

Sorry for the lack of posting recently, but I’ve got one in the pipeline that I’m sure to finish while munching on some chocolate peanut butter pretzel dips.

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Even More Praise of the Internets

Two members of the GMU mafia who have done much to shape my worldview in the past few years, Robin Hanson and Tyler Cowen, did a Bloggingheads “diavlog” together (quite the portmanteau, diavlog, no?). Here’s a taste of the topics:
Tyler vs. Robin on the merits of cryonics (12:23)
Does fiction weaken your grasp [...]

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