Faded Memories
All I remember of one of the few records I owned as a child is a line that ended one of the songs. Save your Confederate credit cards. The South’s gonna r...
Category: General
Statistical Enquiry of the Devil’s Playground
Certain laws and regulations, and policies related to those, have a non-trivial impact on statistics which are not normally thought of in concert with those law...
New York City Department of Kafka
What the fuck? We hear from New York City school teachers about a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report ther...
Air Conditioners
The Big Sister had an informed response to the President’s suggestion that we send our children to school all year. They’d have to buy air condition...
Incentives to Comment
Isn’t a shame that the only people with any incentive to comment are trolls or spammers?
What Makes Them So Special?
Why is it that banks can create money out of thin air but I can’t?
Live! (on TiVo)
We’ll be watching the pomp and circumstance with the kids this evening, perhaps with a tub of popcorn and some hot chocolate.
Must Be Nice
I get the feeling that Rick‘s new job involves daily posts to his site.
Charitable Giving
As I pay the last set of bills before the New Year, I also make final charitable contributions. There are some guidelines that I use to select to which charitie...
Slow Banking Day
Odd. All of the banking sites I use are slower than molasses in winter. The rest of the Internet is responding fine. I’m finding this intriguingly strange...
Now Where Did I Read That?
Dear Google, where did I read that thing I remember reading a few days ago? Can you find it for me? kthxbye. Google’s goal is to organize our information....
Full vs. Abbreviated Feeds
It has been some matter of argument in what passes for the blogosphere for some time whether or not full-content feeds are better than partial-content. Some of ...
The Value of an Automobile
It is said that an automobile loses half of its value when it drives off the dealer’s lot. That is, the price that is willing to be paid for it, now that ...
Expanded Horizons
I used to follow about 300 or so websites, but pruned that back to about 10 and my friends’ shared items in Google Reader around two years ago. My job res...
Breaking News: Entropy Exists!
The Economist reports that the broken windows theory of policing is correct. I think some theories are controversial only because the people who start the contr...