Thursday, May 30, 2013

My Relative, the Zombie

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A relative of mine is engaged in selling a house and buying a condo, so called the electric utility to arrange the transfer of billing, and ...
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On Public Service, Bureaucrats and Libraries

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Neil Irwin at Wonkblog has an interview with Paul Volcker on his new ideas for governance.  One exchange led me to do a Google ngram , com...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Fading Titans

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First Eastman Kodak went bankrupt, now Sony's electronics business is their Achilles heel. What's the quote from Ecclesiastes?

Harvesting the White House Garden

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This week, they had a harvest event --inviting the kids who planted in April to harvest in late May.  More and more the garden becomes a pu...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny: the Case of Drones

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The "ontogeny" bit is a stray factoid from my 55+ years old high school biology class.  I assume it's been invalidated by now,...

On Giving Up Books

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Stanley Fish, a famous and controversial professor of literature (I think that's right), writes a blog for the NYTimes.  In this pos t, ...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

No GMO Organisms

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The Times has an article today on the search for supplies of commodities which aren't GMO.  Seems to be particularly inspired by Whole ...

Andy Warhol, Hoarder

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I didn't know Warhol was a hoarder, nor did I know psychologists are reconsidering their categorization of hoarders as suffering from OC...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Discovered: The Undetectable Extension Charm and Rolling Thunder

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Wife and I recently watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, on DVD in which Hermione's handbag with its inexhaustible cont...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Capping Crop Insurance Subsidies

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Here's the page from the Congressional Record containing the amendment to cap the federal subsidy on crop insurance premiums.  Essential...