Techie Manager

Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., was right on the money when he predicted the current economic problems back in 2006. Too bad the bozos on Fox News did nothing but laugh and make fun of him.
Also note that Schiff was Ron Paul’s economic advisor during the 2008 election.

I forgot just how strange and cool quantum physics can be…

Fantastic.

Interesting interview with P.J. O’Rourke on Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.

An excellent editorial by Carl Hiaasen in the February 17th Miami Herald.
Florida’s plucky refusal to embrace 21st century education is one reason that prestigious tech industries have avoided the state, allowing so many of our high-school graduates (and those who come close) to launch prosperous careers in the fast-food, bartending and service sectors of the [...]

Very interesting (and fairly brilliant) comparison of Fight Club to Calvin and Hobbes.
Flash forward to the timeframe depicted in Fight Club. Calvin/Jack has reached an all-time low. He has done everything society has told him to do but is completely void of happiness. Hobbes, newly adjusted as “Tyler Durden” (after all, grown-up Calvin would no [...]

God help those who do not help themselves.
– Wilson Mizner

This is ridiculous…

This sort of thing is why I stopped watching TV news years ago.
P.S. Go Ron!

From Wired.com:
2. Schrödinger’s cat
A cat is trapped in a box with radioactive material, a Geiger counter, and a mechanism rigged to release poison if particle decay is detected. According to Erwin Schrödinger, the cat exists in two probable states. But that doesn’t track with reality (cats are not both alive and dead). Proposed in 1935, [...]

Great article from David Wong – why 99.99999% of the world’s population are “one-dimensional characters” to us:
Picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if you wish. We’ll call him Slappy.
Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey [...]