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Monthly Archives: May 2009

David vs. Goliath

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Great Gladwell article up over at The New Yorker about David vs. Goliath. Gladwell articles follow a particular pattern that goes like this: Example A: (The pressing basketball team as David) Thesis: (David can’t fight Goliath by his own rules) Example B: (Lawrence of Arabia as David) Thesis elaboration Example A cont: (History of basketball [...]

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Underspecified trivia

Monday, May 11, 2009

Trivia question at Caribou today: “What is the most difficult score to obtain while bowling? Hint: it’s not 300.” Normally I _always_ give an answer, even if I’m only guessing. But today I’m not going to bother, because I know I’d wind up sounding like a complete tool. Why? Well, first you’d have to define [...]

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Where money comes from

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Rushkoff, from a post on Boing Boing today: But the notion that enterprise and production starts with banking is just another artifact of Renaissance-era currency monopolies. Back before the first central banks, production and yield actually created money. (That’s what all this hoopla about complementary currency is about.) Money was not lent into existence by [...]

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All or Nothing

Friday, May 8, 2009

A few years ago I got obsessed with behavior patterns. The idea came to me from software design, and came to software design through architecture, but really it needn’t have had such a pedigree. Take a look at your day to day living and the ways you keep fucking it up, and patterns will surely [...]

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If only

Thursday, May 7, 2009

there was some way to figure out why the United States is so full of obesity and diabetes! (Thank god they don’t have donuts on there.)

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Not nothing

Monday, May 4, 2009

This is one of those posts to get back into the swing of things. The more time passes the more overwhelmed I find the prospect of catching up on all the cat-blog stuff. But then I remember Wes’s Law, which says, more or less, that doing _something_ results, eventually, in accomplishing everything. Or something like [...]

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