Saturday, January 31, 2009
You’ll forgive me for not recapping the usual disclaimer about how I don’t really know wtf I’m talking about, since clearly it hasn’t stopped me and won’t stop me. So, that said, this article by Megan McArdle is the best thing I’ve read on how to think about the stimulus package. This is a nice [...]
Does this complicate matters?
In an article that P.A.T would probably approve of, Bruce Sterling gives reasons why 2009 is a sensible year to panic. Hat tip Cory
Thursday, January 29, 2009
As part of the heady intellectual atmosphere around here, we get to listen to Fox News in the cafeteria at all hours. This morning’s hard-hitting journalism was a rant against schools not teaching children cursive anymore. Even better than the raw retardation of this topic as serious news was the way the argument was framed. [...]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
This is what I’m working on.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
This blog post, from internet-social-research person danah boyd, probably won’t interest you, in and of itself. She’s talking about a study she co-authored on the ‘dangers of the internet’ to children: For the our Task Force Report, I helped create a Research Advisory Board Literature Review where, along with the tremendous help of Andrew Schrock, [...]
From Tom Robbins via this guy: “Neoteny” is “remaining young”, and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it. Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals — although a [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
You know that LSH frequently deals with the big issues, so in that vein, and without me influencing you either way, I’d like you to please tell me if someone who worked at McDonalds could be considered a ‘chef’ or not. How about at a pizzeria? Dairy Queen? There’s a lot riding on this, so [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Every writer stuffs himself, and the people he knows, into his work. Other writers disguise this better than me, since I often use real names as a sort of tribute to the people who inspired me enough to pull chunks of them into a character. This is probably stupid, because it raises the question of [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I mention from time to time how I try to be grateful for what I have. Usually this comes when I find myself in a foul-ass mood, when I am literally on the cusp of a tantrum. And in these moments, I try to pick apart what it is that’s brought me so low. Usually [...]