Lynne Kiesling OK, I *love love love* my job, love being an economist, love teaching, love talking to policymakers and firms about technology and policy … but I am having serious career envy of Lisa Gold (as represented at her new blog), who did research for Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle trilogy. If I got this …
Lynne Kiesling One of the things I like about publication is that I don’t ever seem to lose that childlike fascination that Steve Martin had in The Jerk when he saw his name in the phone book and declared “I’m somebody!” With that same childlike fascination I am pleased to announce that you can now …
Lynne Kiesling And it’s called Anathem. It’s an interesting made-up word, reminiscent of both “anthem” and “anathema”. The marketing blurb: Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians–sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable “saecular” world that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms …
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Lynne Kiesling I am studiously trying to ignore the presidential season, but Alex Massie’s Wodehouse-ian gloss on Hillary Clinton (and, tangentially, Mike Huckabee at the end) really made me laugh, and has enough of a grain of truth in it to be insightful. In my sourer moments I find myself persuaded that Bertie Wooster’s verdict …
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Lynne Kiesling The attention has taken a turn for the literary here in KPLandia … perhaps it’s the upcoming PBS broadcasts of the ITV productions of all of Jane Austen’s novels. Here’s a great find for those of you who like to multi-task and listen to audio books (during exercise, knitting, driving, etc.): LibriVox. LibriVox …
Lynne Kiesling A delightful little holiday diversion: T.C. Boyle’s short story I Dated Jane Austen is available to read at his website, complete with woodcut comic illustrations.
Michael Giberson There’s been a lot written about game-fixing in basketball lately, but not much about an obvious game fixing episode in World Cup Quidditch. That is to say, not much written about quidditch match fixing until now. Phil Birnbaum fills the gap at the Sabermetric Research blog. And then there was the suspicious episode …
Lynne Kiesling Very good. Lots of action, plot twists and resolutions. Does justice to the Arthurian and hero themes, without overdoing it (to my taste). Not perfect. But well worth the price of admission. I’m sure I’ll think of more later, but these are my initial thoughts. More below the cut, with spoilers …
Lynne Kiesling It’s 5 PM out here in Montana, where I am at the moment, and I’ve finished the first ten chapters. More after the fold, with oblique spoiler references, so don’t click through if you are concerned.
Michael Giberson Today I did something new. Something I’ve never tried before. I walked into the local Barnes and Noble bookstore and bought a diet book. I’ve never really though of myself as overweight. For most of my life I haven’t been overweight. For the last few years, however, I have thought of myself as …
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