Yesterday I went to a party at Robin Hanson’s. Megan McArdle, Bryan Caplan, Will Wilkinson, Tyler and many others were in attendance, as was my 6-year old.
“How was the party?,” my wife asked…
The 6yr old Reports
Yesterday I went to a party at Robin Hanson’s. Megan McArdle, Bryan Caplan, Will Wilkinson, Tyler and many others were in attendance, as was my 6-year old.
“How was the party?,” my wife asked…
“Bust portrait of William III and Mary in state robes, in two ovals facing towards each other, printed within calligraphic flourishes; a cutting of the top left corner from a official…
Calligraphy Portraits
This paper, “Strive for Minimal Achievement” by Barry Moltz, talks about something I’m learning more and more as I get older:
Stop planning, stop analyzing, stop asking questions, and to see what…
Designer credits to come
Mother’s little helper(s) have been showing up a lot recently:
Raiding the Medicine Chest
Never argue about a grade with a college instructor unless you’re pointing out a simple arithmetic error. In the long run, it will cost you more than you gain. If the grading is grossly unfair, drop…
...goes the old Yiddish proverb. And it works for the spring semester as well as for real life.
As I think of more, I'll add more.
Is it me, or should the spring semester have ended a week ago? Why are we dragging it out for another three weeks?
I see my fellow students in class and around campus and we're all looking tired. I've done some good work in the latter half of this semester, but it's about put me into an early grave, and we're not done yet. I have a paper due Monday, and two more things to hand in for my other class. The final due date for those is May 5 but my goal is to have everything wrapped up by the end of April.
I'm noticing the classic signs of burnout and exhaustion--it's taking longer for me to do what used to be simple things, short attention span, generally low energy except for what I need to power me through the day. Part of this malaise, no doubt, is due to the fact that I have to make up about 13 hours of lost time at my day job this weekend to make up for the day I spend on campus and going to the eye doctor one afternoon. (Mental note: schedule doctor appointments for first thing in the morning or wait till summer.)
Designs by Shepard Fairey
The always excellent Penguin Blog discusses these re-workings of Orwell classics.
New Editions of Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm
No rhyme or reason here. Just looking forward to checking these out in person.
From the Washington Post Spring Books Preview
[Cross-posted to Cliopatria & Digital History Hacks]
One of the distinctions that applied mathematicians make is between linear and nonlinear problems. In a linear problem, you have a set of…
Designer info to come (not yet published)
The placement of the apostrophe and the mysterious period after the author’s name are sure to drive a few of you mad, but I think we can ignore those two…
Printers’ ornaments are…
Printers Ornaments
A good design strategy for alarmist books is to use color to emphasize the important stuff, because, you know, sometimes a 27-word subtitle just doesn’t get your point across.
Parenting, Inc.
In talking to a friend, he remembered that this graduate school adventure started in early 2005, when I investigated getting an MFA in Creative Writing. The next thing he knew, I was at UNC working my ass off on a MSIS degree. How I got here from there went this way, in short steps and occasional large leaps:
Today, in April 2008, I've nearly finished with 24 hours of a 48-hour Master's of Science in Information Science degree. I've not written a short story in a year or so. And I'm barely reading anything that doesn't have eleventy-million citations to its name. I have another 4 semesters to go.
Best decision I've made in a long long time
Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Pembroke, North Carolina, today:
Charles Locklear dined on fried chicken and cabbage as he talked about former President Clinton’s visit. He said it will be a good…
The Britannica Blog has a nice piece on entertainment and violence and reproduces the cover of Harold Schechter’s Savage Pastimes. Whoever found this photo gets a shiny new badge and a new cap…