Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution looks at why we can’t buy whatever drugs we want, for whatever reason we want, and comes up with a number of good reasons. This one is huge: 4. Parents cannot be trusted with their children. I would add 5. Drug interactions! Tyler hits on all of the practical reasons [...]

I’m designing a little voltage controlled synthesizer board, but unfortunately there’s something wrong with my circuit and it literally hurts to listen to. I mean, it sounds pleasant enough, but the harmonics on the edge of the range of hearing are super, super loud. These nearly inaudible harmonics cause extreme ear fatigue, so much that [...]

Last Monday I went to the Julia Nunes concert in Minneapolis. It was awesome! I threw up a bunch of photos on 8 eyes. I have a bunch more video that I have to sort through; unfortunately I didn’t get the best two songs on video. Boo! Chalk it up to inexperience and bad planning [...]

Been thinking about a quote I heard recently. Don’t remember the exact quote or who it was by, but the gist was “everyone wants to imagine how much fun they would have living in the middle ages, but no one imagines that they would be a serf” or something along those lines. Someone with more [...]