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- Retirement talk seems to have gone pretty well… It was probably the tie. #
- US to require all cars have brake-override. Great. I feel so much safer. Personally I'd prefer we just banned engines. #
- The handyman from Beven and Brock was a sociology major, liked the play Copenhagen, and also metaphysical quantum mechanics… #
- I realized today that my black bike actually makes me want to dress up when I ride it. #
- Is Facebook really censoring a NYTimes article about gay marriage in DC? Or is a link-shortening glitch? http://nyti.ms/crWznQ #
- Saying goodbye to the Internet for about 10 days. I'm sure it will be fine without me. #
- Retirement talk seems to have gone pretty well… It was probably the tie. #
- US to require all cars have brake-override. Great. I feel so much safer. Personally I'd prefer we just banned engines. #
- The handyman from Beven and Brock was a sociology major, liked the play Copenhagen, and also metaphysical quantum mechanics… #
- I realized today that my black bike actually makes me want to dress up when I ride it. #
- Is Facebook really censoring a NYTimes article about gay marriage in DC? Or is a link-shortening glitch? http://nyti.ms/crWznQ #
- Saying goodbye to the Internet for about 10 days. I'm sure it will be fine without me. #
In my previous post I described the stock and bond markets by analogy with a casino, but you might reasonably question the validity of that analogy. Are market returns really as unpredictable as coin flips? The real payoff probability distributions obviously aren’t binary; what do they actually look like?
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Continue reading ‘Links for the week of February 26th, 2010′
- Rode up the toll road into the clouds, home before the rain, squeezed oranges, chicken soup, talked science, society, shared spaces. #
- Given 2 simultaneous deadlines, is it better to work on both things in parallel, or serially? I wish I knew. #
- Hallelujah, my thesis is now findable via Google Scholar! It must really exist if Google knows about it: http://bit.ly/bEqXSF #
- Oh Amtrak, I would gladly accept your slowness if you were convenient and comparable in price to Southwest Airlines, but you are not. #
- Made (dumpster) banana bread w/ zest from (salvaged) naranjas agrias, and flaxseed. Breakfast for before climate and media talk tomorrow. #
- Made a poster for a conference I'm not going to. Working on my talk for next week. This retirement seems a little bit like employment… #
- Pasadena Babalon was good. A kind of Caltech/JPL/Pasadena folk art/history. We need more of that kind of thing. #
- Laid low all day long by some stupid stomach bug. Now missing @CICLEorg party too
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Continue reading ‘Links for the week of February 21st, 2010′
- Spoke-n-Art ride was great. Bought 2 Mayan posters, 3 tacos. The Propaganda Porteur served me well, dumpster chicken, ganja in San Marino. #
- Signal lost. Searching… #
- RT @AlexSteffen: Why Bill Gates' #TED talk was the most important environmental statement of the year so far: http://bit.ly/9NfKsM #
- If only I had a network cable, I could play some music to drown out the screaming Asian couple next door while I napped. Ah, technology. #
- Dressed up like someone who's trying to look like a science geek. #
- Just found the last bits of my Dr. Science: Uncertified Financial Planner costume, outfit, thing. I'm so not ready for a job interview yet. #
- I'm apparently closer than I thought to being officially persona non grata at Caltech. What can I say? After 17 years, it's about time! #
- The first of a few posts on my Retirement Investing for Scientists and Engineers talk: http://bit.ly/cyA2gh #
- Hmm. Caltech Social Science PhD student who interned at the Fed is coming to my retirement investing talk. But then, what did I expect? #
- Multitasking is so not my strong point. Maybe I need to get in touch with my feminine side. #
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Continue reading ‘Links for the week of February 11th, 2010′
- What better way to avoid the Superbowl than brunch with friends and building bicycle wheels with dynamo hubs? #
- Ugh. Working on this paper is giving me thesis flashbacks. #
- Pasadena's bike plan draft is out. Check it out and give feedback on Feb 23rd at 6:30pm in City Council Chambers: http://bit.ly/9VMwR5 #
- Deadlines are for quitters… #
- I'm giving a talk on retirement investing for scientists and engineers at Caltech: http://bit.ly/bkezAn Please come heckle! #
- Considering changing the licensing on all my photos to be Wikipedia compatible CC-BY-SA instead of CC-BY-SA-NC. #
- Hyperactive sauerkraut fermentation all over the counter. Website migration scripting. Where's my coffee? #
- The always dripping shower makes me feel like I live in a cave. That, and the 10°C inside air temperature no matter how nice it is outside. #
- On my way down to @CICLEorg HQ to talk like a web monkey. #
- Whoa, post-meeting pre-dumpster nap ran into overtime. So much for my freegan evening. Guess I'll do some more web monkeying. #
- Anybody want to come out with me for the Spoke(n) Art ride tonight? http://bit.ly/cKVJJI #
