Overheard walking back from class:
Category Archives: Passing thoughts
Why economics bugs me.
I had a bit of an epiphany this weekend about economics. More accurately, I had an epiphany about why it is that economics rubs me the wrong way as often as it does.
Let me get the disclaimer out of the way up front: I’m not bugged by all economists. I’m probably not bothered by all economic theory or claims flowing from it. Heck, there’s a good chance, in the village of ScienceBlogs, that I am the village idiot as far as economics goes, and that what bothers me is misuse of economics rather than economics itself.
That said, I am still bothered.
Not as Serene as I might be …
… or as some of my fellow ScienceBlogs bloggers are. Nay, it would appear I would be slightly more at home on Babylon 5 (although it required a tie-breaker to make that determination).
I trust the good folks at the Seed Spaceshipyards will find a way to make a craft that will suit all of us (including other outliers like Orac and Chad).
Just because you lack opposable thumbs doesn’t mean you can’t have online friends.
I don’t know how we’re doing closing the digital divide between rich and poor, but it looks like the divide between humans and cats is getting narrower.
I’m pretty sure the moment when every cat has a webpage of his or her own is one of the early signs of the apocalypse.
I’m overthinking this
Sign on the door of the San Francisco Zoo’s “Insect Zoo” building:
No food, drink, gum, or smoking in the Insect Zoo.
No smoking I understand (an indoor space in a part of the zoo aimed at children — and it’s California). I’m less certain about the gum (but no one wants to step in it).
Why no food or drink?
Are they worried it will attract bugs?