Score for playing chess with old men until 2:15 in the morning.

My friend Luukas's dad just got elected president of Estonia..

Shoot, somehow I didn't realize that when I let Marie-Jo write the sex column in Intermission (we have a column by a pseudonym, Roxy Sass. Intermission is rather, um, light-hearted) that I would have to edit it....:wince:

update: I'm just going to forward it to Betsy, the normal Intermissions editor. I could do the first page, but after that...

"when the yield curve flips, I'll be watching you"

- line from a parody of Fed chair Ben Bernanke set to "Every Move You Make" (as Christy aptly titles it, The Stalker Song), that a couple people in our class were talking about.

I think I just drift from one group of geeks to another. It's funny. I like it.

Yay, I can (sort of) drive stick now! My mom took me to the Civic Center library this morning and taught me, I only went up to third gear, but I can start without stalling, and without shaking the car too much. It sort of makes me humble about driving again...

I'm supremely bored at the moment. I have to read this book called Stocks In the Long Run for my Sophomore College class, which, when not featuring the occasional stupid assumption or philsophical error, is filled with laundry lis upon laundry list of facts, with only sparse grains of analysis in sight. Half of the pages are dominated by graphs and ( Read more... )

My parents and Rachel left this morning, they're taking her to Interlochen. I hope she has fun, I'm sure she will.

But being in the house alone is weird. Especially at almost 4:00 in the morning. And the next two weeks will be lonely :(

And you know...that these are the days...of our lives

- Genesis

Talking about the death of the original author of the textbook they are now co-authoring, two economists write:

"Paul has departed to a better place, one where scarcity no longer prevails."

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. - High school students [in the town] are going to be held accountable for what they post on blogs and on social-networking Web sites such as MySpace.com.

Methinks they should probably rename the town.