October 2009
23 posts
“The mind must always be in the state of ‘flowing,’ for when it stops...”
– Mushin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Detroit is just plain too big. With a metro area population of 4.4 million...”
– The Urbanophile: Detroit: Do the Collapse
“The Yankees are the United States of baseball.”
– The Last Psychiatrist: The New York Yankees: Mission Accomplished
“Art is by its nature wrought, however convincing it is. It has to do with...”
– Lucian Freud@Everything2.com
“What surprised me about Microsoft is that no one has any conception of an...”
– Microserfs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“First, they increase the systemic risk regulation of banks, insurance firms, and...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Day in the Life of a Supply-Side Economist.
“Now that we know how the new Star Trek film handles the continuity issues, what...”
– Pop Culture Zoo - Building Better Geeks! | ‘Star Trek’ – Strange Fascination Fascinating Me
“Nearly every field of human endeavor has a regular prize. And nearly every prize...”
– The Case Against Awards | The New Republic
Campaign contributions and the USA health reform... →
merlin:
moltz:
Hmm, that’s nice, but I’m not sure I can be truly productive until I see a photo of his workspace.
Also, anyone know where I can get the “worn skin of a lesser kudu”? Preferably rev. 2.0?
My friend, John, has made a funny productivity joke, and I wanted to acknowledge that. Good one, J. And be sure to finish reading about procrastination…when you get around to it, right?!...
Geometric Arbitrage Theory and Market Dynamics →
This paper develops a conceptual structure - called Geometric Arbitrage Theory or GAT - embedding the classical stochastic finance into a stochastic differential geometric framework. The main contribution of this approach consists of modelling markets made of basic financial instruments together with their term structures as principal fibre bundles. Financial features of this market - like no...
“Even though Symphony No. 2 is believed to be Brahms’s first symphonic work, the...”
– Shouts & Murmurs: Program Notes : The New Yorker
“Eight rules for writing fiction:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via troubling.info)
“You don’t know what the ideas are until you get them down to the fewest...”
– Persuade xor Discover
“Sometimes the Study Area seemed like a tumor that had burst on the side of...”
– Tent City, U.S.A.
