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I once bought a house from a man named Michael Levine, a musician who scores movies, TV shows, etc. Afterward, we became e-mail pals. Last year, when Freakonomics was first published, he wrote to say that Levitt’s research reminded him a good bit of his father’s research. His father, Solomon B. Levine, was also an economist:
My dad (now 84) was an expert on Japanese labor relations, a somewhat narrower field than Levitt’s but equally full of surprising truths that were in opposition to conventional wisdom.
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Zook74 posted a photo:
This guy looked a little too clean, so I added some drybrushed "detail" to give him a little rougher look....
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The first is that a lot of our day is spent doing stuff that seems urgent but really isn't.
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A few years back we executed a mission that involved repeating time. Ever since then I've wanted to try something that stopped or slowed down time. How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time (or not moving at all)? I decided the Home Depot on 23rd Street in Manhattan was the perfect place to try this out for two reasons. 1) The assonance in "Slo-Mo Home Depot" sounds funny. 2) The mere existence of a Home Depot, an enormous behemoth of a store, on our tiny island is hilarious. It also helped that the store is located on the exact same block as the Best Buy we invaded earlier this year.
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Inspired by the Brunching Shuttlecocks’ Geek Hierarchy and Penguin Pete’s How to totally fake being a geek, I thought the hierarchy of programmers needed documenting.
* Note: Ruby programmers consider
themselves superior to everybody, but
are not aware of the existence of non-
web languages so on this chart come in
above Perl Programmers
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Reading British GQ on a flight from Rome to Home (Rome's fantastic. As an Aussie friend said to me recently: “you can take any turn and discover a history lesson”). The Biggest Idea I came across comes from Chris Carmichael, the coach of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong who said: “The last one percent most people keep in reserve is the extra per cent champions have the courage to burn.” Magnificent thought.
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An Oregon judge has ruled that fixed-gear bicycles -- which use the rider's leg-power to brake them -- are illegal, and must be outfitted with traditional lever/caliper brakes.
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Wherever you're reading this, take a look around. Is that space the way you want it? Or, have you wished it was different. It is possible (as I found) that with a minimal investment of time and focus, to create a workspace conducive to enhanced control, productivity and efficiency.
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zRyu posted a photo:
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magneto:~ scarr$ crontab -l
30 9 * * * /usr/bin/open /Applications/OmniOutliner\ Professional.app
0 18 * * * /usr/bin/open ~scarr/Documents/Lists/Recurring\ Tasks.oo3
0 18 * * * /usr/bin/open ~scarr/Documents/Lists/KinklessGTD.oo3
[Digression]
The above crontab entry is actually kinda whack.. On the first line OmniOutliner opens at 9:30am alone, but to my advantage it'll open with the last list I had up (as specified in the prefs pane). The second and third lines specify files to open rather than OmniOutliner, but I could just replace that with the entry specified for 9:30am and it would work about the same.
[/Digression]
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Similarly, a Texaco executive in 1996 complained of "surplus
refining capacity" and wrote that "significant events need to occur to
assist in reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline."
And so enters....
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The scooter has an electric motor powered by a (Li-)ion battery. If the Fhybrid is ever put into production, the idea is to charge the battery with a fuel-cell system, which would derive its energy from a tank of hydrogen. While scientists are working to make such systems more efficient, obtaining hydrogen (by splitting it out of water) is for now too costly to be practical. Scientists disagree whether it will ever be viable.
The prototype scooter uses a simulated fuel-cell to recharge the battery.
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Mike_fj40 posted a photo:
This was taken a few months before I was hired. I was hired by Mike Murray on the far right...
