Everest Eating Society's Revenge

January 14, 2013

"In short, you should try harder all the time."

Golf advice, but it applies across the board.

4 months ago

January 8, 2013

Krugman on the trillion dollar coin

There seem to be two kinds of objections. One is that it would be undignified. Here’s how to think about that: we have a situation in which a terrorist may be about to walk into a crowded room and threaten to blow up a bomb he’s holding. It turns out, however, that the Secret Service has figured out a way to disarm this maniac — a way that for some reason will require that the Secretary of the Treasury briefly wear a clown suit. (My fictional plotting skills have let me down, but there has to be some way to work this in). And the response of the nervous Nellies is, “My god, we can’t dress the secretary up as a clown!” Even when it will make him a hero who saves the day?

4 months ago

“I took this at work today. These are the treadmill desks that precisely zero people use. I understand the one on the left, but the one on the right…”

4 months ago

"You already have a TV. Everybody does."

4 months ago

Google's Eric Schmidt Feigns Interest in North Korean Computer Lab

4 months ago

July 14, 2012