Archive for February, 2012

A much better direction

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

This is one of the best things I’ve read in a long time, from a New York Magazine cover story on the New Wall Street:

“If you’re a smart Ph.D. from MIT, you’d never go to Wall Street now,” says a hedge-fund executive. “You’d go to Silicon Valley. There’s at least a prospect for a huge gain. You’d have the potential to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. It looks like he has a lot more fun.”

Hallelujah. If we can get the best and the brightest building stuff instead of pushing money around, I think we’ll all be better off.

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Induction cooking essay up.

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

I just posted this week’s essay up at 39 Essays.

It’s a fairly short piece about the joys of induction cooking. If you’re at all a food or cooking geek, you should check it out.

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Sadie loves conditional probability

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

This morning’s conversation with the six-year-old, re: what outfit she should wear to Kindergarten.

“Given that everyone in your school is going to be wearing Patriots gear today, what is the probability that you’re going to want to be wearing your Patriots sweatshirt when you get there?”

I’ve got to lay off the statistics work for a while.

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Encyclopedia Butler

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

I started Sadie on the Encyclopedia Brown books last night. She’s usually pretty quick at picking up stuff, so it’s fun to watch her squirm a little bit as she’s trying to figure out the mystery.

In a couple of months, she’ll probably be solving them before we’ve finished the last sentence…

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Tracking my recipes

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

One of my other projects for 2012 is to get all my recipes digitized. My goal is to code up two recipes a day, so that by the end of the year, I should have them fully digitized and cross-referenced.

You can follow along if you like, by going to Jason Butler’s recipes. I have six up now, and I’ll add a dozen or so a week.

Of course, being a geek, I ended up writing my own custom recipe publishing engine. Of course!

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