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Category: Socionomics
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2012 I noticed a Maserati GT parked at the neighborhood tennis court while walking Bentley this past weekend. Gee massive cross drilled rotors to handle the (I would guess) 175 mph top speed, unless it is electronically limted to less than that. Hm does one really need this to get down our…
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Monday Jan 23, 2012 A look at the reports in today's WSJ and elsewhere indicate that Gingrich cic not just beat Romney in S Carolina, he whalloped him across the board in multiple categories. Now Romney plans yet another series of 'attack ads' on Gingrich in Florida. Hmm, didn't that just fail in S Caroilina?…
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Sunday Dec 4, 2011 I, and several million others, thoroughly enjoyed roaming the world in Ian Fleming's tales of the great British agent James Bond. Fleming wrote for the London Sunday Times. He took a month off each year, vacationing in what must have been the then laid back island of Jamaica in the 1950s. He…
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Another Tradition Bites the Dust Texas A&M's last Big 12 game and the 118th meeting between these bitter rivals before the Aggies depart for the Southeastern Conference next season was a thriller befitting one of college football's oldest and most storied matchups. College Station AP 11/24/11 UT Austin won the game 27-25 with a time…
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Monday Nov 21, 2011 The film premier of the first of the last two books in the Twilight series was this past weekend. The movie took in $283.5 million world wide in just three days. 80% of the ticket buyers were women. Twilight had a midnight showing last Thursday to kick off the premier. I…
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Monday Nov 21, 2011 I have posted this excerpt from Emerson's essay on Gifts at this time over the last few 'Black Friday' shopping seasons. He wrote these essays from 1830-32. Note the relevance of the first two sentences. Gee nothing has changed. You can google 'Gifts by Emerson' to read the entire passage. Already…
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Monday Nov 21, 2011 Nassim Taleb is the author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. Here he makes some socionomic observations. Are people depressed by reading bad news or do depressed people seek bad new? Note the comments, he is dismissive of other methods but this is an interesting read.
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Thursday Nov 17, 2011 Few to no students at Texas A & M San Antonio subscribes to the Wall Street Journal. Too bad. Two days ago I made a post on great designers, leading off with Leonardo da Vinci. Today on page D7, Masters of Men and Machine reviews a gallery exhibit in Rome on…
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Monday Nov 7, 2011 Here is a description of the Spring 2012 show Touch starring Keifer Sutherland. The plot is pure Stephen King fantasy psycho kinetic thriller. He sounds a bit like the girl in Firestarter or Danny in The Shining. Touch features an autistic son who only communicates mathematically. I don't see a start date…
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Monday Nov 7, 2011 Take a quick read on Mish's Global Economics column, that would be the Monday Nov 7 post. Box Score Greece is forming a new government. Italy's Berlusconi is likely out this week Portugal, Spain, probably in the near future. The folks in France and Germany are increasingly unhappy with Sarkozy and Merkel, Expect…
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