Shark’s Teeth
We’re visiting my parents in Florida this week. One of the places we like to go when we’re down here is Englewood beach. We go there to collect shark’s teeth. This was a good...
Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
We’re visiting my parents in Florida this week. One of the places we like to go when we’re down here is Englewood beach. We go there to collect shark’s teeth. This was a good...
I just ran into Typealyzer. You point it at a blog and it tells you the Myers-Briggs type indicator of the author. It thinks we’re INTP, which is probably a pretty good approximation of...
I mentioned Ed Catmull the other day in this post. Yesterday, in this post, I talked about Andrew Lo’s thoughts about planning for failure and containing it. So here’s Ed at Stanford Business School...
I recently attended an interesting talk by Andrew Lo of the Sloan School. He does research on how human behavior factors into economics and the limitations of the classical economics model that people are...
Peter thinks we need more Ferraris around here. This is the hood of a 1961 Testarossa we saw at the Lime Rock vintage races a couple of years ago. Isn’t it pretty?
I’m currently reading Stewart Brand’s latest book, Whole Earth Discipline. It’s basically about how he has changed his mind on the environmental effects of: Urbanization Nuclear Power Genetically Engineered Crops I’ll talk about the...
Based on the Supreme Court’s recent decision that corporations have the same rights as individuals, a PR firm in Maryland has announced that it is running for congress. From the NYTime’s Economix blog. ...
The kids have a bunch of fancy video game hardware. But one of the games they’ve spent the most time playing recently is one that I used to play on a VT100 almost 25...
It’s that time of year again. The President has rolled out his budget proposal for 2011. That’s the beginning of a fairly drawn out process. In a couple of weeks the CBO will add...
We went to see the Mark Morris Dance Group last night. They were performing a set of dances based on Mozart piano pieces. Morris always seems to listen to the music more than most...
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