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Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

  • The new US TV year

    I’ve been watching (via the magic of the internet) a few of the new TV shows for this year from the US. A few thoughts (in order from worst to best): Jericho: Interestingly enough being aired the same week on Channel 10 here in Australia. Sadly, that’s the only interesting thing about this derivative bit…

  • Wiki-nteering

    I’ve made up a fun new game to play on Wikipedia, called Wiki-nteering. First, you decide on an article that’s the target (let’s say the orienteering page). Then you hit the ‘Random Page’ button, and try to find your way to the target page using the fewest clicks possible. You can only use the main…

  • Winston with a shoe

    Winston with a shoe Originally uploaded by Exasperated Calculator. Here’s another picture of the kitten, as well as a quick test of a new way of posting photos to the site. Update: Hmmm, the picture seems to be blocked from Treasury, but everything else works well.

  • Back from Perth

    After a very long night, I’m back in Canberra from Perth. The flight back was packed with West Coast Eagles supporters, in search of any flight to the East coast in order to make their way to Melbourne. Which suggests that there’s just way too much money going into this mining boom. Anyway, I’ll post some…

  • At least my excuses for not updating this site are getting better…

    Apologies once again for the lack of updates. This time I do have a good excuse (well, for the last couple of days, at least): I’m in Perth at the Conference of Economists. Presented my paper yesterday, and it seemed to be well received. However, as a result me and my email are separated, and…

  • Winston on the hunt

    You know what this website needs? More kitten!

  • Most surprising test result ever

    Yes, I know. Why did I score so low? Another one while I’m here:

  • I am a bad, bad blogger

    Sorry for the lack of content this past week – I’ve been sick. I’ll be trying to do better, so look for more stuff from tomorrow.

  • The Birthday Cat

    Helen’s present to me this year was this lovely kitten: His name is Winston (as he’s a British Shorthair). A few more pictures:

  • Working for the PNG government

    The PNG Department of Treasury has some positions vacant. From the list: Assistant Secretary(GEP) K31,289 plus other allowances Or about $16,000 Australian. I don’t think I’ll apply… (Of course, that’s about 18 times PNG’s GDP per capita, while I only earn a bit over two times Australian GDP per capita).