… and I’ll tell you why. This is only one of a many commercials like this. You may have seen one from Sprint that’s very similar: three people are stuck on a ski lift, and the commercial talks about how these three people have awesome Sprint phones so they can visit an alternate reality (be [...]
I’ll continue the gasoline story soon, I promise! First, I want to share a video from the talent show at GSPP (my graduate program.) It’s a tongue-in-cheek commentary on efficiency and equity in economics, described by its creator, my colleague Jay, as … superficially an allocation problem. But the subtext is really about contrasts in [...]
I’ve been meaning to upgrade my computer for a while now. Although I’m very happy with what I have now–a nice AMD 64-FX processor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 hard drives adding up to 570 gigs–my hard drives are filling up with music and movies and I don’t want to get rid of anything. The [...]
As I’m sure everyone is now well aware, Michael Jackson died yesterday from cardiac arrest. When he was first admitted to the hospital, there was some confusion as to his condition: TMZ reported that he had died, while other media outlets said he was in a coma. To supplement TMZ’s reporting, many looked to Twitter [...]
