Accidental Geography on Facebook
I’ll admit to a certain vanity with Facebook: I’ve been trying to build an audience for my blog, using a Facebook page to import blog entries and inviting just about everyone who’s a friend to follow the page. Facebook very nicely provides “insights” (analytics) on interactions with the page – number of comments, ratings, and [...]
Organic vs Inorganic Growth
The Hockey News has a great video interview with Mike Cammalleri, newest Canadien and likely linemate of Gionta and Gomez. He addresses his performance in Calgary as a function of having Iginla on his line, what life will be like on the under-six-foot line, and how the Canadiens will find their identity. The Habs are [...]
Nerd Defined
You know you’re a nerd when: You use epsilon in a sentence (and not in the Paul Erdos “kids are epsilons” malaproprism). Your golf game is much more runge-kutta than gutta-percha, not that it makes any difference. Your kids don’t have tantrums, they go non-linear. You have more than one t-shirt with an equation on [...]
Summer 09 CD Frenzy
Every summer, I try to make a pilgrammage to the Princeton Record Exchange. My affiliation with Barry and his floor-to-ceiling crates of vinyl goes back to the spring of 1980, when I was a wide-eyed high school senior who happened into this used record store that just opened on Nassau Street. I never looked at [...]
Everything You Know Is Wrong, Kind Of
Firesign Theater once put out a comedy record called “Everything You Know Is Wrong” that paints contemporary culture in frankly bizarre comedic brush strokes. In some ways, that’s how I felt about 11pm last night, seeing Gionta going north, Madden going to the Second City, Clemmer heading south and Big Mike Rupp (oh, how I’ll [...]
Free Agency Bubble in Montreal
Imagine this scenario: you buy a big house, because the market is hot and you had a good year over the past twelve months. And a year or two later, your income is down, the overall housing market is down, and you’re saddled with those mortgage and tax payments, and start looking for places to [...]