Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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The Diet
OK, not a good couple of months. Time to take this seriously now.
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Weight: 110.0kg Brunch: Steak Sandwich Dinner: Ham & Cheese toasted sandwich Snack: Dried apricots Exercise: 18,636 steps Resolve: Very high
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Second round effects – a primer
From the Los Angeles Times: Bird flu has killed 134 people around the world, sickened hundreds more and forced the culling of millions of poultry from Vietnam to Nigeria. Now it is smashing the world of badminton. Which, of course, is why it’s usually a fools errand to try and forecast these second round impacts…
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The WWDC is coming
The Apple World Wide Developer Conference is on next week (7-11 August), and starts with Steve Jobs doing his annual sermon to the faithful. Traditionally he’ll be announcing some shiny new products. This is then the appropriate time for wild speculation about what will get announced. Here are some guesses and thoughts for myself [Updated…
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Lego update
I’ve finished the star destroyer… Some pictures of the construction in the rest of this post.
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Ever wondered ‘do I have that book or not’?
Brilliant ‘new’ (well, new to me) feature for LibraryThing: LibraryThing Mobile. At last you can check to see if the book you’re looking at is in your catalog or not. Well, so long as you’ve kept your catalog up to date, that is. So when will someone make a DVDThing???
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Today’s laugh
From The Register: “I had the company solicitors give your contract the once-over. As impressed as they were about the numerous strange clauses in your contract – their favourite being the extortionate penalty payment for remaining at work after a UFO sighting in the vicinity of the building – they believe that there’s nothing to…
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Is Stupid better for sales assistants?
Over at Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen is suggesting that stupid sales assistants might be better for smart consumers: Customers cannot talk for so long to a stupid person. So if you know what you are doing, you might prefer that the sales people be stupider. Stupid people will spend more time, in percentage terms, helping…
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Stupidest lawsuit ever
No further comment needed: A Northeast Portland man is suing basketball superstar Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for a combined $832 million. Allen Heckard filed the suit himself, June 29th in Washington County Court. Heckard says he’s been mistaken as Michael Jordan nearly every day over the past 15 years and he’s tired…
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New Toy
(Yes, I have more money than sense). Update: Of course, it goes without saying that my buying this implies that my wife is a very wonderful, tolerant person. Who helped me save $100 off the price, too.