watching construction of a new dormitory on campus and starting to get a little curious about construction materials sourcing

RIP, my frequent double scull partner Ellen Spear. The obituary is nice. I got to see the rowing side of her, that side of her was focused and very tough. We raced together this summer; cancer went fast enough to leave all of us who rowed with her in shock. www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/b...

A good friend described to me meeting in 2012 or thereabouts with some billionaires who supported Obama in 2008 but had turned on him by 2012. He said the billionaires told him that President Obama had been way too mean to Wall Street, he had said some very, very hurtful things about Wall Street.

Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.

wishing you and yours a very happy Halloween

Operación Rosario II

Brawndo steam’s got what catapults crave

If the Democrats want to win elections, they must run on correlation is causation

Stanford ‘95 still has some wheels

Were pornographic faxes ever a thing?

woke up early this morning but no calls from Sweden yet. my phone is on

Many people are asking me who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. While I don’t know for sure, this year I think that it will be Satoshi Nakamoto, or Emmanuel Saez.

In Massachusetts it is illegal to sell a rabbit with dyed fur. malegislature.gov/Laws/General...

same

a lot of my friends are saying this

Advice I got from a professor: “It can be ok to do drugs while you study, and it can be ok to take an exam on drugs, but it only works if you study and take the exam on the same drugs. If you try to take an exam on different drugs from your study drugs then it doesn’t work.”

questions mount

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Some of the enthusiasm for Charlie Kirk has seemed a little Astro-Turfed to me. The genuine grass-roots affection on the right these days seems to be for the true lunatics and the raging antisemites.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

20th and C NW

juH'a' Dabbogh vavma', quvjaj ponglIj. wo'lIj cherlu'jaj. juH'a'Daq qo'vamDaq je che'jaj chutlIj. DaHjaj maHvaD jajvam tIr ngoghmaj yInobneS, 'ej maQagh 'ach nuQIHbogh nuvpu' DIbIjbe' vaj ghobIjneSQo' 'ej ghotlhu'moHneSQo' 'ach mIghwI'vo' ghotoDneS. Hochlogh wo', HoS je, ngay' je Daghaj. qaSjaj

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Bedeutende Neuerfindungsreise

every morning I wake up and thank the good lord that I am not so famous that it would make news when I ate a sandwich off an airport or a bus station floor

In light of recent events I am suspending the part of my economics course where students receive extra credit for undergoing sex reassignment surgery. The course syllabus is being updated and I expect that information about alternative extra credit opportunities will be available soon.

just what you would expect a cyborg Pope to say

However else others might eulogize Charlie Kirk, my obituary for him starts with “He dedicated his time and his talents to cheerleading for this despicable autocrat.”

Before and after morning fog on Charles River burns off.

tfw the president of the united states of america breaks capitalism while you’re commuting to work in the morning

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I Am Literally The Walrus

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the MBTA, consistently on the absolute frontier of railway technology, using termites to weld sections of railway together