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Poverty is the pipe dream of the destitute
This is well worth listening to – Tyler Cowen’s conversation with Alexander the Grate – a long term homeless/NFA person in Washington DC – an engaging conversation.
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The Programmer’s Credo
As seen somewhere I can’t find again
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This should be a yard sign
The conditions of modern affluent Western life have nothing to do with your exhaustion, save this: you are privileged enough to believe you were owed something better. You were born by cruel chance, and you’ll die by terrible certainty, and you will be exhausted for the rest of your life.
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I’ve been discovered
It turns out that I’m the cause of all the world’s problems.
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Quote on the day
From Kevin Williamson
If you get enough clowns in one place a circus will break out.
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Quote of the day – Fargo Version
The problem in America is – No one wants to do the job they got, they all want to be president and not sweep the floor.
From Gaetano Fadda in Fargo – season four
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Recent Gizmo
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Quote I’m pondering
From Freeman Dyson, in this video
Around the year 2000 it became cheaper to collect information than to process it.
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Adage of the day
The dry fisherman and the wet hunter wear the same expression.
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Quote of the day from Freeman Dyson
I might have posted this before – but it stands true –
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
The logic being that if wrong you’ve at least eliminated one possibility in the process of figuring things out – if you’re vague you haven’t.
