Race to the Finish
So really, it becomes about who can get their product to market first. Start your engines.
Entries by wadeferd
Pulp Fiction
Ok, this is me stabbing this site in the heart with a needle full of adrenaline. Or maybe the image we’re looking for is a that of my car refusing to turn over and be violently push started down a hill. Either way…weddings are in motion, elections are coming up, bike are being ridden, so […]
Remembering College
Oh the angst. The unbridled righteousness. The awesome and unwieldy aspirations. The poor choices in plaids and hairstyles on my part (of which there will be no photo evidence).
Kids These Days
From Chabon’s recent compilation of essays on manhood. Kids write their own manuals in a new language made up of the things we give them and the things that derive from the peculiar wiring of their heads. …When he was still a toddler, Abraham liked to put a glow-in-the-dark bedsheet-style Lego ghost costume over a […]
Tarkin Doctrine
From the Lord Vader School of Business Administration. It’s pretty clear at this point the Emperor can do pretty much whatever he wants. He could have installed puppets in the Senate. He could have continued to dominate it and made an ongoing token effort to deal with their bullshit (which is really what government is […]
Perspective
Putting those large, red mountain charts into context.
Cobbles
Beautiful footage of the Paris-Roubaix cobbles. That’s a lot of punishment for both tire and rider.
Debt
So apparently every post World War II Democratic president whose completed their term(s) in office has reduced the federal debt. Huh.
Coal’s Cost
When viewed from a fatality per power perspective, the nuclear option still looks very good.
Staying Urban
From the Freakanomics blog, featuring Ed Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. Certainly for anyone who’s a parent, like myself, the suburban school districts offer huge enticement to leave cities. And this is really a question of how we’ve decided to structure […]