The first car I ever owned was a 1973 VW Kombi camper, purchased in 1989. I don’t...
Year: 2011
Xbox 360 won out in the end. PS3 has the Blu-Ray, but I’m just not that concerned...
Quoting from an earlier comment from fellow gentleman Ruffus: “I’m really hoping that David still does a...
This week on the op-ed page of the Washington Post three senators debated the how best to...
After the first batch of 2010 league posts was whittled down, there are 40 posts left. Any...
Apparently this ad ran in the New York Times last Friday (Black Friday) but I didn’t...
I did it. Fifty thousand words and a few to spare as of early yesterday evening. It’s...
Bob Costa’s rant about end zone celebrations being symptomatic of the disintegration of American society is probably...
In the comment thread of an earlier post I said this: One of the things that’s so...
Crying babies. The Economist weighs in, Megan McArdle responds via Twitter. Three things:
Manichean rhetoric is employed, nuance is jettisoned, and catchy sloganeering reigns supreme. To believers in the primacy...
Incentives are a funny thing; they’ll sneak up on you if you’re not careful. Back in the...
I expect that this is going to be a somewhat unpopular post, judging by the feedback I’ve...
A collapse of the Eurozone would be a disaster of 1929-like proportions. But what’s for us in...
(Part 1 can be read here.) In July of 2003 I went to Kenya on a commissioned promotional...
There is a semi-grand blogospheric pseudo–tradition called opposite day. On opposite day… atheists do their best to argue...
RTod’s post reminded me of this story. When I was in the second grade, there were three...
A project update, in no particular order: We formed a new company for the build: The Montauk...
I still think Romney’s going to win the nomination, but it’s going to be damn fun watching...
This weekend, we took our daughter to see The Muppets, her first time watching a movie in...
