can’t find my Nobel Prize
Daniel Kahneman was being interviewed in his home and was asked whether they gave him a physical price when he won the Nobel Prize in Economics. He said yes, and that he could show it to the interviewer, then went into his bedroom and started looking in drawers, but he …
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What I haven’t been all day
Allison: “Do you know what I’m not, and I haven’t been all day tired?” (the answer was “tired”)
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Uncle Ed’s man cave
At Allison’s graduation party last night: Lisa (mom): “Keira, tell Auntie Allison where we are.”Keira (3 year old): “Uncle Ed’s man cave.”
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Phoneless
This is a painful post for me to write… I was moving my keyboard, let it slip from my hand, and it landed on my phone, which is now pitch black. 🙁 I sent it in to Samsung for repair. If things go well I’ll get my phone back in …
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Euphorbia invasion
Shortly after we moved to San Carlos, a plant emerged from the ground. I love the way it looks and I love that we didn’t water it for two years and it survived. Apparently it’s a Euphorbia: A couple of years ago I noticed that in the Spring the plant …
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Glotón
TJ’s checkout lady: so you buy lunches for a group of people?Me: No, that’s just for wife and me…
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Shredding Sandals
Allison and I are learning a new running technique, ChiRunning, and are excited to attend a ChiRunning workshop on Sunday. We’ve been reading a book about it. So today, as I was running some errands, I had the idea to try the technique on the way back to my car. …
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how far to Chipotle?
I’m traveling in San Diego. I went to a Target to get a couple of things I needed (shopping in a place other than Amazon took me way longer than necessary… I spent 10 minutes just looking for a bar of soap until a person who works there told me …
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sleep vs bed time
Cool graph showing my total sleep as a function of bed time. For me, bed time is key! Now I need to figure out whether there’s a relationship between sleep and absentmindedness…
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decommissioned scissors
I’m not even going to try to explain why we’re going to be short a pair of scissors this week following a mistake I made in the order of events while prototyping (I mistakenly left the fishing line through the scissors handle, if that makes any sense). Sorry Al.
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