Lynne Kiesling I enjoyed our visit, although I don’t think I could have afforded to stay much longer! Even a Swedish gentleman sitting with us at the conference gala dinner said that Swedes think Iceland is expensive, and that’s saying something! This is my favorite picture of downtown Reykjavik (taken from the top of the …
Lynne Kiesling Want to listen to your favorite Internet radio today, like Soma FM or WOXY? You can’t; they are silent. This is what we can expect permanently if the proposed Internet royalty rates, which discriminate against non-broadcast, online-only stations, take effect in mid-July. Soma FM and WOXY are participating in Save Internet Radio’s Day …
Lynne Kiesling Yes, we finally arrived in Iceland Thursday morning … not in Chicago fuming (fume? moi?). Strolled around Reykjavik, had a coffee, had lunch at Cafe Victor (which is in an old building in which the King of Denmark used to keep his falcons), which is a place I’d certainly hang out if I …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday’s bad East Coast weather resulted in a ground hold for BWI flights, which resulted in our inbound Southwest flight being over two hours late. Even though I called Icelandair’s customer service and had them enter our flight number and expected arrival into our record, they gave our seats away when we didn’t …
Lynne Kiesling I am off today to the 2007 ISNIE meetings in Reykjavik, Iceland. The program looks great, and I am looking forward to presenting my paper on retail choice and end-use technology in electric power. I am also looking forward to seeing good friends, visiting Iceland, and maybe buying some Icelandic Lopi wool … …
Lynne Kiesling Today’s Wall Street Journal has an excellent article from Rebecca Smith on pay-as-you-go electric service (subscription required). Mr. Price, a retired computer programmer, drops by the office of his local utility, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, every six to eight weeks and pays enough to cover a month or two of service. The …
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Lynne Kiesling A game-theoretic analysis of one of the most enduring conflicts between men and women: toilet seat up or down? This paper in the Science Creative Quarterly provides a game-theoretic analysis that incorporates the cost of the domestic dissent, specifically, the cost to the male of the yelling that will ensue when the female …
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Lynne Kiesling I am off to my old stomping grounds for a few days of KP Spouse family reunion, and seeing some of my old colleagues and friends. To plant a seed for discussion upon my return, here’s an event that I’ve been thinking about a lot in the past few days: Lala, which started …
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Lynne Kiesling Through my various wanderings in the past week I have come across two fun little shopping-oriented sites that I like: Little Splurge, which highlights little (and no-so-little) finds for fashion, home, travel, work, etc; and Paperclippy, focusing on office-friendly fashion finds. These two cute sites are great examples of Internet filtering; there’s so …
Lynne Kiesling On Friday another retail electricity rate increase took effect in Maryland, bringing the total increase in retail rates since the removal of price caps to 70 percent. This increase has occurred during a time when natural gas prices have risen by almost 100 percent, so the cost of generating power (particularly peak hour …
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