Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- But I was told Three Mile Island and Microsoft were bad.

- Take Something Away. Good advice.

- The Pixar story rules. (Via Tim Ferriss)

- Foundations: Why Britain's economy has stagnated. Long read.

Flotsam and Jetsam

 Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

If 2020 was to have a sequel to 2014's Too Many Cooks it would have to be called Too Many Kooks... If President Trump wanted to troll Kamala Harris he could pardon any parent that was jailed as part of California's controversial Truancy Law - a law Harris as District Attorney supported... Who knew? Erwin Schrodinger didn't even own a cat... Can't help but think that if I tried to write a Raymond Chandler-type noir book I would call it The Woman with the Larry Bird Mustache... I seriously spend time wondering if the Harry Potter movies could have been better if they were made by Pixar instead. Perhaps someday Pixar will get the rights to reboot the series... Hard to believe but the last head coach of a Cleveland Browns team to win an NFL playoff game is none other than Bill Belichick. And it was against the Patriots... George Orwell's 1984 had the "two minutes of hate" meanwhile modern America has the "hour and a half of hate" but we call it the Presidential Debates... 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Here's my thoughts on the World Series: I'm rooting against the Astros because of the way they handled that female reporter from Sports Illustrated but I want Mattress Mack to win his bets although I'm not going to subject myself to a four hour game if there's any football on that I can watch instead... I'm going to hell for laughing at this (make sure the sound is on)... "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."- Thomas Huxley... Hard to believe but the last head coach of a Cleveland Browns team to win an NFL playoff game is none other than Bill Belichick... Heh heh - vintage birth control... I seriously spend time wondering if the Harry Potter movies could have been better if they were made by Pixar instead. Perhaps someday Pixar will get the rights to reboot the series... There's less than 100 days until the Super Bowl and I'm still wondering where the hell did the summer go?... Who knew? The first scientist was a woman. Before Mary Somerville - people were called "men of science"... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Holy crap!

- The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer.

- Total badass!

- The danger of booze-making gut bacteria. Microbes can produce so much alcohol that people become drunk - and sustain liver damage - without touching any booze.

- Interesting look at the relationship between Disney under Bob Iger and Pixar under Steve Jobs. Written by Bob Iger.

- The Rusney Castillo deal (largest contract ever given to a Cuban defector) remains a strange side-note for the Red Sox. Highest paid AAA player ever?

- Business and life success lessons from Jeff Bezos