Archive for the ‘economics’ Category
Saturday, February 12th, 2005
If you commit a crime, that is. Because forensic geologists will, uh, track you down. Or so says Raymond Murray, author of Evidence of the Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Invstigation. He tells some good true-crime stories. As an academic, he's found a career applying ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
This New York Times story, linked above, relates how customer services lines are monitored "to assure quality assurance" -- even when we're on hold. So be careful! Fortunately, most of the worst things I've said were about Barnes and Noble's dismal prices, selection, customer service, etc., when on ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2003
People are killing each other over black-market cigarette sales. Surely some will respond to this by advocating stricter laws and taxes on cigarettes. Idiots.
The Salvation Army volunteers outside of supermarkets would do better, I suspect, if they did not constantly ring their bell. Instead, they should pause ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2003
Quote of the week:
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. -- Bertrand Russell
Article of the month is The Onion's Americans Demand Increased Government Protection
from Themselves, which for some reason I cannot find on ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2003
My car was covered with a layer of ice this morning. It's hard to explain the satisfaction of removing it with the scraper. I could not stop with just the windows. It was like excavating my car, as if it were an ancient artificact. But there ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003
I cannot recall a week where so many people are mismatching days of the week with the day of the month, for example, scheduling meetings, people say Thursday, April 5, or Wed., April 3. Now the latter makes some sense, as it would be good if April 1 were ...
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Sunday, December 29th, 2002
Apparently everyone has taste memory except me. Maybe this is why I don't eat much, or weight much. There must be some research on this....
A couple of years ago when was first able to sell the New Focus stock I had, a friend of mine said to ...
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Thursday, August 1st, 2002
I go into my local supermarket and ask if they carry tennis balls. They guy says "probably not", but I should check aisle 10. There, they had full size basketballs, footballs, ping-pong balls, Nerf balls, etc. No tennis balls. Another store had min-volleyballs, something I've never seen before. Go figure. ...
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