So, my friend and co-worker Chrissy is afraid of ghosts. And sharks. This weekend I mentioned this to Robert and he got a great idea and called her, anonymizing his call. His whole end of the conversation was basically "Hello? This is the ShaAaAaAark GhoOoOoOost." End call ( Read more... )

I came across this today, and I really like it, so here it is:
( Many will consider this dry. )

I wish I had accomplished more this year. Here's what I did.
( Read more... )

In October of 2008 I started an email and gchat correspondence with a high schooler from Chesterfield named Alex. I met him on the local magic forums, stlmtg.com. It was there that I discovered that we deeply disagreed politically. He seemed like such a smart kid, I felt that a few email conversations might be enough to bring him around to an ( Read more... )

11:53 AM Alex: hello?
11:57 AM me: hey
11:58 AM Alex: are you busy?
 me: not really
12:00 PM Alex: I gave up social democracy recently
12:01 PM me: oh?
  what system do you presently favor?
  and what made you let that go?
12:02 PM Alex: answer to q2 is reading Zizek, Debord and Kropotkin
12:03 PM me: I can def get behind anarcho communism much more than ( Read more... )

This will be short. I just want to get this down for posterity. A couple hours ago, I made the finals of a tournament where first prize was an Ancestral Recall. I wound up getting the Recall. It was a Grand Prix Trial, for a GP I don't plan on going to, and second place was 24 packs. My opponent wanted the byes, and since you are not allowed to ( Read more... )

My friend Vroman wrote this ( Read more... )

I have just changed my facebook info page's Religious Views to "Prisoner's Dilemmist."

This is a reference to the classic problem, the Prisoner's Dilemma (I shrink at the thought that I am insulting my reader's intelligence here ( Read more... )

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/is-a-wave-of-scuppie-shoplifting-upon-us/

thoughts?

Wall Street too skittish to lend right now? Borrow from silicon valley!

This article is incredible. After reading it, I immediately left a positive review on google for the pizza hut I'd visited the night before.

Also, approx. once a week I post on the Show-Me Institute's blog. Check it out.