After the Peak

1. Keep in better contact with friends
2. Get out of debt
3. Get in shape
4. Get to a point in my life where I can have guilt-free free time

Why is it these times that I always know exactly what I want, exactly how to get it, and exactly how I want to live my life, are always the times I’m too drunk to actually do any of it?

Nothing pisses me off these days like Apple-fan-boyism, so I really want to set the record straight on something.
The iPhone did NOT start the touch-screen revolution.
There are only 5 million or so iPhones that have been sold.
On the other hand, there are over 70 million Nintendo DS’s that have been sold, it’s been around since […]

Life comes from dirt.
Cleanliness only leads to death and destruction.

A Singles Map of the United States

The commentary about this map on the blogs I’ve seen mention it has of course discussed causation, and I guess one of the leading but questionable theories is that there’s “more growth opportunities” in the West and therefore men are more likely to venture off there.
I think there’s […]

If it was good, then the ending isn’t happy. Even if it was bad, the ending is at most relief.
The market is not efficient. Obviously not. And it couldn’t be anyway, because equilibriums never really exist. So obvious in some contexts, yet completely overlooked in ones that count big.
I have the beginnings of a thesis […]

I’m having new thoughts about Fight Club’s ending that I haven’t had before.  It’s more tragic now.
What I mean is before now I always thought of it as a love story.  The narrator starts out living an unfulfilled life and then he meets a soulmate.  But sometimes when you resonate so strongly with someone and […]

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/07/strange_doings.php
…we’re going to give Israel $30.4 billion in bribes in order to get them to not object to our decision to sell $20 billion of advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia, who is arming the people we’re fighting in Iraq.

Ok, no joke at all now, Britney Spears just got crazy HOT:
http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20011773_1,00.html
The sad people who are out of control are all her supposed “fans” and all the other “concerned” people who are looking down at her and her recent behavior disapprovingly.  I love to see a celebrity who was known for a squeaky clean image […]