Lynne Kiesling There are several ways to commute to Evanston from our house, and none of them is particularly simple or superior to the other. Usually I take the #22 bus 10 blocks down Clark to Belmont, where I catch the Evanston Express train. The KP Spouse, on the other hand, takes the #22 bus …
Lynne Kiesling When I was back in my hometown in December for a conference, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the future for US Airways. Bankruptcy, etc. Over dinner when I got home I speculated to the KP Spouse about whether or not Pittsburgh would be an attractive city for Southwest Airlines. …
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Lynne Kiesling We’re having comment goofiness here at KP (and of course the timing couldn’t have been worse), so please be patient. Thanks! UPDATE: Fixed. The KP Spouse absolutely, completely, unequivocally rocks.
Lynne Kiesling Teaching today and Thursday (we’re starting Wealth of Nations today, yay!), running experiments all week, and I have an obnoxious head cold that is interfering with my sleep. Light posting is the likely consequence. Stay warm!
Lynne Kiesling Wired also has an article this morning about VinoVenue, a wine bar in San Francisco that opened in September 2004. The cool thing about VinoVenue is that you buy a smartcard and go around to the stations, inserting your card and having a taste automatically dispensed. The card records which wines you tasted, …
Lynne Kiesling Wired has an interesting article today about creative means of cell phone shushing, linking to the SHHH cards that I discussed here in December.
Lynne Kiesling I am following Will Wilkinson’s lead (which can sometimes be tantalizingly dangerous!) and putting my entire online music collection on shuffle to see what comes up. For some reason my party shuffle gave me 12, so I report them in order here: 1. The Verve, “Neon Wilderness,” from Urban Hymns 2. De/Vision, “6 …
Lynne Kiesling When in the DC area I’ve always tuned to WHFS, and the KP Spouse credits WHFS with contributing to the development of his taste in music that kept us up talking until 2AM on our first date (and many times since!). Although it had gotten to be a shadow of its former self …
Lynne Kiesling Today the Chicago Sun-Times is running a story by Mary Wisniewski about the Energy Smart Pricing Plan, a residential demand response program that has been running in northern Illinois for two years. One of our many long-cherished preconceptions of the demand for electric power services is that residential customers do not respond to …
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Lynne Kiesling Instead of doing what I should be doing today, I am sidelined with a bug and an almost-migraine that I am trying to keep in its “almost” state. First bad headache in six months. So I’ve done a little housekeeping, including adding two new sites to the link list: Ramble On from Courtney …
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