phi kappa

i KNEW it!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 | economics | No Comments

Solow <3 slow growth!

Caffeine

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | technology | No Comments

one computer caffeine for my computer friend, one normal caffeine for
me because i’m normal.

http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

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The Quote of the Day

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | economics, life | No Comments

At 10 am, we already have our winner.

“Auch im Steuerrecht muss für Liebe Platz sein”

(“In fiscal law too there must be place for Love”)

Thank you, Frank Hechtner.

And the new motto is…

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | economics, life | No Comments

I’ve choosen my new motto for this exam session.

Ladies and Gents, i present to you the motivational item winnig this
semester’s competition.

"I set sails for the edge!"

Inspired by the song "Token of Time" by Ensiferum

That would be all.

a small courtesy reminder

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | economics | No Comments

Paul Romer =! John Romer =! Christina Romer

You’re welcome.

Tags: not as obvious as it may seem

The game of “what if…”: Episode I

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | politics | No Comments

Dear reader, in this post, slated to become the first of a series
of witty commentaries about world affairs, you’ll find
booooring politics. Consider yourself advised. There be
dragons.

Wouldn’t it be cool if people just stopped being as stupid and liars
as they are?
Consider the case of the zimbabwean “elections”. The UN moved to
declare the elections a farce and illegittimate, only to be stopped by
a South African veto. Reasons given? The “Security
Council [is] not in the business of certifying elections”.
Ahhhhh COME ON! Why in the world is it a country near Zimbabwe, with a
lot of economic interest there, the only country to feel compelled to
point out the limits on what the Security Council is supposed to do
and what not?
I ask thee, o reader, have they discovered a sudden passion about
formalities? Is this the time to be picky about topics, foremost of
all THIS topic?

I really would feel better if South Africa just stood up and said “Oh,
we know you think Mugabe is bad and he orders all sort of nefarious
stuff and people die because of him, but we do a lot of business there
and well, we sorta like him. We are better off with than without him.
So just shut up criticising him, please? We don’t care about dead
politicians over there, we have our abundant share of them, we don’t
care if people starve, we only care about our own interest.”

It’s a position i would exclude them from every international
organisation for, but at least i would respect it.

Instead, they unleash a bullshit bonanza about what the Security
Council is made for. That’s like saying “we think that you’re all
stupid ”

And that happens all the time. See Russia and Kosovo, see China and Burma.
I know everyone is going to ejaculate “ohhh but this is politics
stupid!!1!1!”. I know. But wouldn’t it be cool if, just in these
occasions, everyone would stop to bullshit and speak the truth about
their actions?

(p.s. this is a procrastination post. i really should do something else.)

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Can you tell the difference?

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | life, technology | No Comments

Compare and see.

See the full gallery on posterous

Tags: photo

Remind me, oh remind… Gmail

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | technology | No Comments

Because you will not find this easily on the web. Incredible as it sounds.

For our dear Robots: This is the Google Notifier 1.9.97 for Mac. ( also: GMail Notifier Google Notifier GoogleNotifier.dmg )

Click here to download:

GoogleNotifier(2).dmg (559 KB)

you’re welcome.

Tags: google notifier

Ohhhh yeah more Lenore!!!

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | life | No Comments

From the uberlord of comic genius, Ladies and Gents, i give you:

http://community.livejournal.com/lenore_comics/

Tags: lenore

Technological disorientation

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | technology | No Comments

I’m soooo very tempted to change my current digital companions.

Right now, i have a HTC Wizard with WM6, a iPod nano 8 gb and a Powerbook.

What i would love? A Macbook and an (old) iPhone. Should i? Should i not?

Pros:
– One device less to carry around
– A faster Mac (with Windows so i can sell my old Acer)
– a Camera that’s actually usable
– Would be cool.

Cons:
– Still no UMTS
– None of the devices i currently have is really broken
– Nobody’ll buy the powerbook with its shaky screen
– Nobody’ll buy the nano 8 gb at the price i would ask (argh)
– …which leads us to… PRICE!!!! GRRRR!!!!

Well, if the AR project turns out ok, then i will have a serious
thought about it.

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