There's a desiccant in a bottle of multivitamins I have. I have a probably irrational fear of accidentally eating it one day.

Time to get some work done. Maybe someone else's work.

Accosted in Victoria station by a desperate-looking young man begging for the princely sum of £4.80 for a ticket to Margate, Kent, where he claimed to be a student, as he had lost his wallet in London. I am fairly certain he really wanted a ticket and not, say, beer money, for he gestured to a nearby ticket machine and said he didn't want cash, ( Read more... )

Things I wish I had learnt before going to college: you will underestimate the benefits of spending some cash to save time.

Borders Wheelock is the most profitable per square foot!

(and then it promptly shuts down in a dispute with the landlord)

Never mind, Borders Singapore is still solvent!

(and then the other outlet shuts down too)

What store should I doom next with my evil, evil powers.

Representative agents are perfectly fine if there is gross substitution within the relevant consumption baskets. Then one can readily invoke standard efficiency theorems on the subset.

Disequilibrium spreads through substitution.

Another project by East Coast Town Council ( Read more... )

I have taken to wearing a shirt and semicasual slacks on a daily basis ( Read more... )

An Austro/paleo-Keynesian synthesis: prices are set by some essentially exploratory process... that is also heavily skewed by essentially political bargaining mechanisms.

I will never get used to how unsafe other cities feel, especially at night.

I've found that if I crack open the window slightly and direct my table fan at it, the window blinds clattering against the wall make a sound very much like rainfall.

It's marvelous, but also very soporific...