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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Today's weather was quite nice, so I biked to my office to work out. As I was getting ready to leave, out of my cube window I saw (what I assume to be) a father teaching his son how to drive. I knew it was so immediately ...
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
A verbose telling of a short story. That is, it took longer for me to write about it than for it to occur:
Arriving home Thursday evening there was a man in silver late model Toyota Corolla parked across from my garage. It was dark, and I estimated ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Late Saturday morning I road my new snazzy bike around Boulder and observed a few notable items. (1) I leaving a store where a man was asking for directions. He'd left his car running with the door open just outside the store. Sure he'd be in ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
On Saturday I went to the credit union on the north-west corner of 55th and Arapahoe to deposit a couple of paychecks. Only the drive-in tellers were open, and I hadn't endorsed the checks, so I started to do so on a ledge near the tellers. Soon after ...
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Late last August I completed yet another season of the University of Colorado faculty/grad student/staff softball league, defended my PhD dissertation, and left Boulder for Washington, D.C. for a technology & science policy fellowship at the National Academies. In short, that didn't work out, so I began looking for jobs ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
A few weeks ago I was at a red light when a man driving a Datsun (not Nissan) 280 Z pulled up in the lane to my left. It was silver with shiny chrome hubcaps, and was in excellent condition. According to a Wikipedia page, this car was produced between ...
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
After meeting a friend for lunch I returned to my car to find the meter still had 12 minutes remaining. It occurred to me how absurd it would be to stick around for that time to "get the most for my money," but still, I had the thought, which is ...
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Monday, December 26th, 2005
Yes, tradition. My mom has a new menorah, lights candles and recites prayer with Chanukaah prayer book her hand. I look on, with the Chinese take-out menu in my hand. Speaking of the holiday, The Leevees write and perform amusing songs about Chanukaah, or however you spell it, which they ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Last week he spoke at the Brookings Institute. I asked him the following question, which in nicely recorded on the transcript. It took me a while to figure out how to ask the question. My first thoughts were to be intellectual about it, but then realized that the best ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
I learned from Will Wilkinson's blog that economist Thomas Schelling won the Nobel Prize in Economics. I'd first read about his works through the term "Schelling Point" in an article by David Friedman.
Oddly enough, I think I experienced this phenomenon yesterday with my landlord. A few weeks ago the ...
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