Lynne Kiesling Sitting in the Manchester, NH airport, coming home from a way cool conference on new frontiers in emergent order research … the brain is too full to think of anything along those lines for a post! But courtesy of The Manolo,, I’ve found a new fashion read: The Thoughtful Dresser, by writer Linda …
Michael Giberson From the Economist‘s Free Exchange blog, on blogging: [W]e should expect those with strong resumés but lackluster ideas to abstain from extensive blogging, while those whose critical and analytical skills run ahead of the experience and education categories on their CVs should embrace blogging as a means to signal their exceptional fitness. We …
Lynne Kiesling My best wishes and good vibes to those in the fire zone in California. I hope the winds calm down soon. The thing that really disgusts me is that three of the San Diego fires were set intentionally by an arsonist. What kind of sick person does that?
Lynne Kiesling I’ve not been the diligent writer here lately, for three primary reasons: I’ve been working on a book manuscript, we’ve started our house renovation and moved to a temporary apartment, and I’ve been spending a lot of time on a new course prep for a new job. But I’m slowly crawling out from …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday we had a terrible micro-burst in my neighborhood; it didn’t go rotational so it really wasn’t a tornado, but the winds were up to 78 m.p.h. at Wrigley Field. I was sitting in one of the second floor front bedrooms at the desk, writing, when the sky went greenish-black. A whistling wind …
Michael Giberson The Washington Post Food section ran an article with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at GMU, blogger at Marginal Revolution, and author of Discover Your Inner Economist. An economist at George Mason University, Cowen has rather unusual criteria for restaurant selection. He doesn’t first look at the menu, the ambiance or the reviews. …
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 In anticipation of Movable Type 4.0 coming out of beta in the future, I have started thinking about feature, content, and design changes that might be desirable here. My short list: I am considering going back to a two-column format, which will make the side column waaaaaay long, because I don’t really want …
Michael Giberson Re: “The Electric Power Retail Access Hard Core” Last week I quoted from an EnergyBiz Insider column, “Perfecting Retail Markets.” Today, EnergyBiz Insider printed a letter-to-the-editor in response from Tom Casten, Chair of Recycled Energy Development LLC, a cogeneration outfit. Casten leads off with an important question: How do entrepreneurs and markets work …
Following Up: Perfecting Retail Markets, Pjm, Iceland Read More »
Michael Giberson I have a post up at Midas Oracle about some research into the effects of picking an outcome on the enjoyment a person gets from watching a contest. Here’s the first part: “When people make these predictions, they have this little sliver of doubt – ‘What if I’m wrong?,’” [Stephen] Nowlis says. … …
Does Picking a Winner Lessen the Fun of Watching a Contest? Read More »
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