March 2008
19 posts
February 2008
27 posts
“…my inbox was literally flooded…”
– A freelance journalist who really ought to know better.
“Physics with friction is not as beautiful. But you need it to get rockets off...”
– Richard Thaler on the pragmatism of Obama’s economic advisors, as quoted in The New Republic’s article The Audacity of Data.
“But you can never get [four times as much output as the implementers estimate],...”
– Joel Spolsky, in his description of evidence-based scheduling, which applies the Monte Carlo method to estimating project completion dates.
Julian Beever's pavement drawings →
Spend some time with the anamorphic illusions.
“If I have a dog with some pedigree paperwork, and I lose the paperwork, I still...”
– Steve Yegge illustrating the superfluity of metadata.
“Finance types, stock types, cut my capital gains taxes, eliminate the death tax,...”
– Heavily excerpted from Rob Long’s What It Means to Be a California Republican, on NPR’s Day to Day.
“I’m not sure how some people consider a picture of a Crystal Skull in a movie...”
– Editor’s note at The Movie Blog
“Recent doctorate means overeducated and underemployed.”
– Me, on page 14 of Not Quite What I Was Planning, the six-word memoir anthology edited by Smith Magazine.
Happily, that memoir is now a year-old memory.
“Mike Huckabee’s weekend schedule looked like a list of tour dates for a...”
– Robert Smith on NPR’s Morning Edition
