If you want to be free,
Get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance,
No root, no basis, no abode,
But is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility,
But its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it,
You become further from it;
When you seek it,
You turn away from it all the more. - Linji... Read More
So, I was accosted by a crazy McCain supporter while attempting to recycle various goodies.
This lady was borderline pathological.
Every thing that I said to her about Obama, she responded with "that's too bad you don't know better. I hope Obama doesn't get elected so that you don't have to live with the guilt of ruining the world" (note: I by... Read More
Oh right! The idea that if you change the "rules of the game", you also have to take into account how the players will respond to the rule change.
Lucas posed it in the context of macroeconomic policy -- you can't play with the settings and assume people will respond mechanistically. You have to take into account the possibility of people responding strategically.
This is some "random dude" but he actually captures the feeling (or sound) better then any of the other fuckers I can find on YT. The song is "Jolie Blon" (multiple spelling variations). It'll make your heart hurt.
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Jolie Blon: Henry Choates [Original French version]
I love "Jolie Blon". There was a version I really like of the song but cannot recall who played it at the moment. If I do, and it is still timely. I'll share.
So yeah, I just bought a MacBook Air for school and I feel like an old person trying to figure out "the damn box with lights." It just feels really awkward. I'm not used to Apples. I've been using PCs since pretty much the beginning of their existence. It's going to be interesting having to re-learn all of my short cuts.
think i've seen that last clip before. good stuff.