Telling the whole story of my hearing loss for my own remembrance. Around October 9, I was sitting in an Android training class at work. […]
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Fit vs. Good, Remembrance Day
Another recent Posner post I really liked. In particular his primary philosophical point – when discussing evolution (in any context), one must distinguish between “fitness” […]
Tax Policy and Free Will
I really like Richard Posner. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s always thoughtful and reasonable. He wrote a recent post on wealth and […]
High Tea
Some Menlo Park work peeps were in town so our team went out for high tea. High tea is fun but crazy expensive, at least […]
Sleep, Colors, Language
You know how they use “ou” here in their spellings. Like “favourite”. You know what spelling I find most absurd here? Hoummous. I mean, come […]
Guy Fawkes Day
Remember, remember, the 5th of November. That’s a reference to Guy Fawkes Day, something I knew almost nothing about save that it inspired the masks […]
Malls
Random: Index funds are called Tracker funds here. And they’re not called “motions” to worship songs, but “actions”. Also random: the vast majority of TV […]
Christmas
They’ve started to put up Christmas decorations in London. As you may or may not know, I’m strongly against preparing for Christmas too early, early […]
Halloween, Daily Life
Halloween here: seems like they celebrate it, but it’s not as big a deal as in the US. Kids had no themed activities at school […]
Seoul v London
We spent last week in Korea, as both Jieun and my parents were there, and the kids had a week off from school. Not much […]