Nifty article from the BBC on a Portugese winemaker trying to balance the old school tradition of port-drinking with the need to rebrand it and market it to youth. But what caught my eye was this: “We have to adapt … Continue reading
“Ramsey’s method looks like something new to me: not a marginal change of behavioral preferences, but a monster-sized one. Adherents are converted, financially, in the same way that some convert religiously.” Chris Blattman talking about financial conversion. Conversion’s a funny … Continue reading
Think of all the things that we forget over the course of 1000 years. Then think of the fidelity and consistency of orthodox Christian doctrine over that same period of time. It’s quite remarkable. At the very least, it is … Continue reading
At Save on Foods, the clerks carry knives. They carry them on their belts, hung in little pouches, nestled in among the pens and little notepads. Knives. I saw one clerk there who had a dark green apron fastened beneath … Continue reading
Q)What do you call the fat French Aardvark? A)L’ardvark Q)What do you call a quarter-pound French Aardvark? A)A Royale. Q)What do you call a quarter-pound French Aardvark that you make bad jokes about? A)A Royale with cheese. Q)What do you … Continue reading
AmbaSewa wrote: “I currently post comments on a fairly regular basis on four blogs. Two are the blogs of total strangers. Mind you, the totality of their strangeness is reducing- one particularly blogs prolifically.” There’s a weirdness that comes from … Continue reading
They both exist in measurable quantities. They also both exist with varying qualities. Energy has a quality. It can be organized or disorganized, and it can degrade from organization to disorganization without requiring more energy. But it canot increase its … Continue reading
Let me tell you a story. I have called it an internet story, and while it is a story that takes place on the internet, it is really a story about people. It’s a story about a man who built … Continue reading
Seth is brilliantly right today. Ask any software developer, though, and they will tell you that Seth’s postulated 2 percent is invariably much greater. 2 percent is the minimum. The baseline. It only goes up from there. Generally, however, programmers … Continue reading
The first vehicle I pushed out of a snowbank was a hybrid. The driver seemed embarassed. He said, “I’m sorry, I only have one gear”. To be fair, it would be reasonable to ask what the snowbank was doing in … Continue reading