I cannot agree more with the first sentence of this Empire article on Emma Thompson: One of the best things about the Harry Potter franchise is surely the fact that the perfect people have been cast in every role, no matter how much screen time they get. This is certainly true for the main recurring …
Courtesy of fellow Chicagoan knitter Bonne Marie Burns, this chuckle: How Many Dogs Does It Take to Change A Light Bulb? Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we’ve got our whole lives ahead of us, and you’re inside worrying about a stupid burned out bulb? Border Collie: Just one. And then …
Courtesy of Mike Giberson, this press release from the Michigan Customer Choice Coalition states that “Michigan’s electric restructuring laws are the only reason why companies have increased reliability by building new generating facilities in Michigan, which is still a net importer of electricity,” said Barry Cargill, chair of the coalition and vice president, government relations …
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Stephen Karlson at Cold Spring Shops picked up on the connection between auctioning air time slots and paying to cut in line. Very cool. The most direct link between those two ideas is another proposal from my former colleague, and Reason’s founder, Bob Poole. Bob has long been an advocate for time slot auctions, the …
I forgot to mention my husband’s hypothesis: crowding flights into popular time slots will increase the popularity of building an additional runway at O’Hare, a proposal that has been extremely controversial as it would involve the paving of substantial portions of a couple of nearby towns. UPDATE: Gary Leff has a post that builds on …
COTC is at Trommetter Times this week. Lots of interesting posts!
Friday afternoon, I’m scheduled to come home from a couple of fun and successful days of work in Washington. Because there’s a lot going on at home, I wanted to get home early so I could do some work around the house and still enjoy an evening with the Knowledge Spouse. So I’m on a …
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While I’m mentioning the Capitol Hill Campus workshops, I should mention that I am doing one tomorrow entitled “State of Our Energy Markets”. Should be an interesting conversation.
… with such thought-provoking and innovative posts as this from Tyler Cowen on the market value of different aspects of real estate. Not surprisingly, bathrooms add considerably to the market value of the property. Tyler’s got all the links to the academic literature he’s discussing, so I won’t reproduce them here. Interestingly, we have been …
My Italian friends Fabio and Federico (yes, that’s really their names) tell me that the Italian equivalent of “too many irons in the fire” translates to “too many things boiling in the pot”. I love it. Except that I feel the heat of the many things boiling, and posting may therefore be somewhat curtailed over …
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