tylercowen
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Now that music stores are gone, will they make CD packages easier to open?
about 2 hours ago
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Katz to Koestler: “We all have inferiority complexes of various sizes, but yours isn’t a complex—it’s a cathedral.”
about 2 hours ago
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Art Tatum: "I don't feel that I have all the technical facilities that I would like to have."
6:46 AM Nov 14th
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Type "cowen marginal" into Google and it suggests "time management" to complete the query.
10:33 AM Nov 12th
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Against all odds, Grant Hill seems to have achieved a mature (and healthy) version of his old form.
5:29 AM Nov 12th
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Twitter now reports "(2)" - or whatever the number of new tweets is - so I decided to keep the window closed altogether, to get work done.
4:17 PM Nov 11th
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Jason Kottke: "And all have that dizzying sense of otherness and surprise common to great books, an affluence of vitality."
6:35 PM Nov 10th
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@: the hottest dish in the DC area is probably a Korean seafood soup/gloop in Annandale.
3:34 PM Nov 9th
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*V* suggests that invading aliens will hire a PR firm, though not a subtle one.
6:33 PM Nov 7th
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Montaigne: “Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.”
5:59 PM Nov 6th
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Jimi Hendrix's best work was on rhythm rather than lead guitar.
8:13 PM Nov 4th
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@: Schnabel and Richter also have good recordings of Beethoven's *Tempest* sonata.
7:02 PM Nov 1st
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Bill James and Bill Simmons are two of the greatest living social scientists. Seriously.
7:22 AM Oct 31st
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Will try to dress up as Andean peasant for Robin Hanson's costume party tonight.
6:49 AM Oct 31st
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@: I was poking fun at Bryan.
12:52 PM Oct 29th
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Wikipedia: Anthropologist Margaret Mead described Beloit as "America in microcosm."
12:06 PM Oct 29th
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Bryan says: "Why don't we just drop the phrase "relative status" and call it excellence?"
5:38 PM Oct 28th
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I don't trust Carter, an aging Kobe, or Garnett's knees, so put me down for San Antonio. LBJ still needs wing man.
12:47 PM Oct 27th
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Buying random French box sets in jazz, blues, gospel, at Paris HMV is an excellent music strategy.
2:28 PM Oct 25th
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Philosophical MR reader tells me I must see *Astroboy* -- true or false?
2:25 PM Oct 25th
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