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up and down burn
I will write more later, but I figure I'd repost what I wrote for my Flickr set, a set of photos that will be fairly small, unfortunately ( Read more... ) -
the staring contest
While there may be a myriad of methods to alleviate boredom, it's hard to think of a more effective one than sheer depression. Although they say time flies by when you're having fun, nothing makes the hours fly right by quite like the utter and indifferent numbness to time itself ( Read more... ) -
how I got my act together
Early this semester, when talking to Prof. Ortega, the chair of SJSU's economics department, it became apparent to her that I wasn't the same confident person she'd spoken to a few semesters ago. That guy was so sure where he wanted to be, had a good idea what he needed to do, and knew he had what it took to get there. But here I was now, plagued ( Read more... ) -
career update
Okay, as I've mentioned, I'll get my Master's in Economics from SJSU in August. This is assuming I pass Section II of the comps, but I have an A+ so far in the class which that section covers, so that should be no problem (as long as I study). What comes afterwards?
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contemplating a tattoo
For the longest time, I've wanted to get a tattoo but couldn't decide what to get. Something that permanent ought to say something about me, and as I'd gone through a lot of changes in the past few years, I wasn't really sure what would be right. Most of my ideas involved fish, like maybe in a Pisces or Yin Yang arrangement ( Read more... ) -
a poem about free markets
As I may have mentioned, this will be my last semester of coursework at SJSU (although I won't get the degree itself until August, due to paperwork issues). So I'm faced with the question of what I should do afterwards, as I am still rather undecided between policy and academia. One of the policy options is the Koch Associates program, which is ( Read more... ) -
what I've been up to
Sorry that I've been remiss. Here's a quick recap ( Read more... ) -
Why libertarians should care about campaign finance reform
For your edification, here's another work in progress. As some of you might recall, I used to volunteer a little for the California Clean Money Campaign. This is an issue where I'm still trying to figure out the best solution, and an issue where I am in opposition to most libertarians, who are in opposition to any spending limits because that would ( Read more... ) -
anthropomorphizing corporations
This was a topic I'd been researching on and off (mostly off) for a long, long while (and indeed, I currently have the movie The Corporation rented out, which, although heavily biased to the left, makes some good points). The topic came up on an e-mail list among the SJSU econ folks regarding Google and China, and I sent a very truncated version of ( Read more... )