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Obligatory Happy New Years
Jan 01 2005, 13:13 EST [updated Jan 01 2005, 15:45 EST]
Happy New Year. Not too much to report from here, the only notable at the party last night was when a guy tore into bobsalive and me for being liberals. I'm not sure how he got that idea, but he kept venting despite the fact that we were laughing our ass
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100th Post!
Dec 31 2004, 14:48 EST [updated Dec 31 2004, 14:54 EST]
That is all.
Okay, not quite all. 99 posts in 73 days of operation under the new system ~= 1.3 posts a day. Not bad at all.
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The Overhead of a Republic
Dec 31 2004, 14:07 EST [updated Dec 31 2004, 14:22 EST]
In The Costs of Competitive Duplication I mentioned the money spent on politicking could be considered "advertising" overhead. bobsalive and I talked about this out of band a bit but never developed it into a full post. Someone else did, mises.org bring
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A Very WASPy Christmas (5 images)
Dec 31 2004, 02:08 EST [updated Jan 01 2005, 19:23 EST]
.. which is how I like em. It turns out Christmas is hard to photograph. Using a flash on outdoor pictures of house lights just doesn't work. With the flash off it looks like white lights on black velvet. Our street lined with luminaries on Christma
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Bad economics all around
Dec 30 2004, 10:55 EST [updated Dec 30 2004, 12:44 EST]
Christopher Wesley at mises.org has an article that yet again exposes cretins who think Bastiat's broken window theory is garbage. This time the yahoo was on NPR's morning edition. You can listen to C. Fred Bergsten here.
Short version of the NPR repo
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Intelligent Design at Volokh
Dec 28 2004, 14:00 EST
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy they have a (short) critique of Intelligent Design. ID is a relatively recent movement that says evolution is way too chancy, and therefore the universe needs a designer. It does not say anything one way or the other about cr
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Your week in Quickies
Dec 27 2004, 13:21 EST [updated Jan 07 2005, 18:54 EST]
Neuticles
[bobsalive]
Dec 26 2004, 19:47 EST
This company sells artificial canine and feline testicles to replace those removed
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Travel-blogging
Dec 26 2004, 16:18 EST [updated Dec 27 2004, 02:12 EST]
My return flight to New England was on US Airways and scheduled to go through Philadelphia. Several weeks ago when I booked the flight, this seemed fine.
In retrospect, flying on an airline that has declared banctrupcy twice in the last two years and
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Hold 'em
Dec 24 2004, 00:23 EST [updated Dec 24 2004, 00:36 EST]
I played for the fourth time tonight, and I'm sure bobsalive who is a more seasoned regular could have ran the table, but damn I love this game. Fifteen dollar buy-in, eight guys. My fortune was loaves and fishes in the first five hands, I doubled my st
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Volokh on MSNBC
Dec 23 2004, 02:39 EST [updated Dec 23 2004, 02:56 EST]
Just caught Eugene Volokh on a rerun of MSNBC's Abrams Report. (aside, the poll question "Is Iraq on the Brink of Civil War? is running 80% Yes). The transcript isn't up yet but should be available here tomorrow. Volokh.com is currently down so I don't
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Somerville News
Dec 22 2004, 12:37 EST
The Somerville News is a blog (and paper?) about Somerville, Massachusetts. I don't check it often, so here is a roundup.
Air America was on my doorstep at the Someday cafe, broadcasting live last week. Free coffee and an appearence by Barney Frank. N
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Pajama blogging
Dec 21 2004, 14:26 EST [updated Dec 22 2004, 06:38 EST]
I was at work until 3 AM this morning, got up at 9:30, and immediately went on a conference call. Since I'm working in pajamas and slippers at noon, I figured I should blog, too, to round it all out.
Not that I have anything to say except I'm in my pa
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Costs of Competitive Duplication
Dec 21 2004, 11:37 EST [updated Dec 21 2004, 14:37 EST]
In a Slashdot Rent-A-Bike thread I saw this comment which reads in part:
A statistically small fraction of poorly socialised people, generally children, will vandalise the system. Depending on the resulting costs (as compared a so-called free market ap
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MP3 Home Audio
Dec 19 2004, 12:35 EST [updated Dec 19 2004, 20:37 EST]
A friend recently asked me if he would be able to convert his music collection to mp3 easily and relatively cheaply. My response touched on several topics, and so here it is:
You definitely can get rid of all your CD's and for a lot less than $2K.
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Your week in Quickies
Dec 18 2004, 07:19 EST
Chow Yun-Fat, Pirate
[bobsalive]
Dec 17 2004, 06:52 EST
'Hong Kong action hero Chow Yun-fat is set to star in the upcoming sequels of bo
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2003 Favorites
Dec 16 2004, 02:34 EST [updated Dec 20 2004, 13:47 EST]
This blog had an older incarnation as a one man affair. I don't think I'll resurrect all the old posts but I was browsing the .txts and here are my favs (just the title for bits where the whole thing doesn't add much) reverse chronological order:
I c
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NYT Year In Ideas
Dec 15 2004, 23:19 EST
The New York Times Magazine recently ran a feature called The Year in Ideas which is twenty one-pagers on various memes. Here is my take on some of them
The Benign Corporate Oligarchy
A flattering piece about google. The gist is that Google's f
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Green Energy is Cheap!
Dec 15 2004, 21:53 EST
This was on slashdot a week ago, an article at the Houston Chronicle reports that green energy (wind, solar) costs almost the same as dirty power (coal, oil).
Green Mountain Energy gets the power it sells from wind turbines and hydroelectric plants and
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Chandler Slips
Dec 15 2004, 20:20 EST
If you aren't big into Open Source or Python you can be forgiven for never having heard
of Chandler,
an application that means to be all things to all people (email, calendar, collaboration, caching).
I've been following this class of applications clo
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Blog, now with more Blogging
Dec 15 2004, 00:27 EST [updated Dec 15 2004, 01:09 EST]
Expect a quick rash of posts and more regular posting in the future for I have found ...
MOZEX
Just a little plugin that lets you launch emacs (or vim, or whatever) for any text area in Firefox. This means familiar keys, spell checking, and everything
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Packet8 feedback
Dec 13 2004, 00:34 EST [updated Dec 14 2004, 18:31 EST]
I have a packet8 Voice Over IP (VoIP) phone I got on John Patrick's say so. Aside, his books are a bit hand-wavy but he is widely respected, and he got my friend a job at IBM's Alpha Works - the "skunk works" of IBM. I would say packet8 just plain doesn
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Your week in Quickies
Dec 08 2004, 15:25 EST
Dude
[bobsalive]
Dec 08 2004, 11:26 EST
'A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and
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Freeway to Serfdom
Dec 08 2004, 02:39 EST [updated Dec 08 2004, 03:03 EST]
The Freeway To Serfdom is a libertarian Canadian blog by a transport worker. As seen on Instapundit linked Carnival of the Canuks. Nice to see not everything is hate speech there yet. O'course a post on his frontpage dives into hockey,
I thought I c
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Political Afilliations of Fictional Characters
Dec 07 2004, 18:38 EST [updated Dec 21 2004, 13:36 EST]
The title of this Zogby Poll speaks for itself.
Santa Claus 'a Democrat', Ebenezer Scrooge, Grinch 'Republicans', New Zogby Poll Finds
Now for the Santa Claus pick, could it be because he represents the fictional promise of free stuff? Just asking.
Th
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I hate OnDemand
Dec 07 2004, 17:03 EST [updated Dec 08 2004, 03:56 EST]
My cable has "On Demand" - the thing that lets you pick from selected movies and shows to watch whenever you like. When it works it is nice, no more flipping through the movie channels and settling on the one you wouldn't mind seeing. Great idea, terrib
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Honorable Order of Saint Barbara
Dec 07 2004, 13:24 EST [updated Dec 08 2004, 03:01 EST]
Congratulations to fellow blogger and my brother andrewdied who was recently added to The Honorable Order of Saint Barbara (or can you get a medal without the order? the page doesn't draw a distinction [Update: confirmed, one implies the other]).
Sain
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Thief!
Dec 07 2004, 12:43 EST
OK, just a coincidence but I'll stomp my feet anyway. David Brooks has a new column The New Red Diaper Babies which might sound familiar to you, I wrote a post on Dec 1 titled Red Diaper Babies.
The content isn't similar, he talks about birth rates in
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More Treo Media (3 images)
Dec 05 2004, 12:09 EST [updated Dec 05 2004, 19:08 EST]
A few people got together at a friend's house Friday night. We played some cards and there was some drinking involved. Things got a little errr.... silly and I felt the need to try out the new phone's camera.
At one point, an experiment was condu
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Wonderfully Treolicious (1 image)
Dec 05 2004, 07:30 EST [updated Dec 05 2004, 12:28 EST]
I received my new Treo 650 two days ago and I like it a lot so far. The screen is gorgeous, the Palm PDA side of things works really well, and the phone reception and audio quality seem good(time will tell).
The PDA functions are well integrated with
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You know what I want? (2 images)
Dec 01 2004, 23:12 EST [updated Dec 02 2004, 02:26 EST]
I told this story of a decade ago at Lehigh-Lafayette but I didn't have the pictures to prove it until Thanksgiving. I have three brothers and no sisters. We shared one bathroom. After dinner one night we were informed the bathroom was being remodeled a
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Angel of Mercy (3 images)
Dec 01 2004, 19:48 EST [updated Dec 01 2004, 20:33 EST]
When I was home for Thanksgiving (I'll stop starting every post with that soonish) I passed through Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. A golden age railroad building the main chamber being an open span 100Ft high with pillars to match. The highlight is
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Red Diaper Babies
Dec 01 2004, 17:47 EST [updated Dec 07 2004, 13:02 EST]
Is the meaning of "Red Diaper Baby" still obvious to people today? Now that the CCCP is gone, "Red" usually means "US Republican" instead of "Communist" (and no, if you are a lefty you don't get to pretend Communists are right-wing). I'm reminded every
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