A.K.A. Physics Envy

Advice

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 07:52:00 -0400

"
. . . the two most important discoveries in medical history are penicillin and washing hands (which stopped the spread of infection from one mother to another by the midwives who delivered most babies before 1900). What’s more, my friends counsel, there’s no better advice on how to live longer than to quit smoking and buckle up when driving. The lesson: advice doesn’t have to be complicated to be good."

No free lunch

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:32:00 -0400

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-20/socialism-worlds-greatest-generator-poverty

Quotes on War

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:25:00 -0400

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. Sun Tzu

Last Bear Market 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:59:00 -0400

“No tree grows to Heaven”

Hmmmm.

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Sun, 7 Aug 2016 08:57:00 -0400

Nobody wants to read it

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Sat, 6 Aug 2016 00:36:00 -0400

"Sometimes young writers acquire the idea from their years in school that the world is waiting to read what they’ve written. They get this idea because their teachers had to read their essays or term papers or dissertations. In the real world, no one is waiting to read what you’ve written. Sight unseen , they hate what you’ve written. Why ? Because they might have to actually read it."

Mish: bad ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Sat, 6 Aug 2016 00:33:00 -0400

Bad ideas never go away. And the overwhelming desire to implement bad ideas leads to compromises that make things even worse.

Gore Vidal

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:57:00 -0400

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

-- Gore Vidal

New Age Dingbats

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:53:00 -0400

When someone announces they are a "non linear thinker," it usually means they are about to apologize for losing the book you lent them. J. Ellensburg.

Krugman contradicts his textbook

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:01:00 -0400

Ep. 6 Enough About Denmark Already: Here’s What Krugman and Sanders Left Out

23 October 2015

http://contrakrugman.com/ep-6-enough-about-denmark-already-heres-what-krugman-and-sanders-left-out/

Is Denmark a good model for the United States? Krugman thinks so, and claims the large welfare state there, combined with that country’s prosperity, disproves free-market claims about the impoverishing effects of heavy government spending and intervention. To make his case, Krugman has to contradict his own textbook from six years ago. It isn’t pretty, folks.

Rule 1

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:27:00 -0400

"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"doing something about guns"

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:01:00 -0400

America has had two wide-scale experiments in banning "sinful" items that existed in profusion. How did prohibition and the war on drugs turn out?

Easy way out

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:55:00 -0400

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Mark Twain

I am a staunch monarchist :)

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:47:00 -0400

'For WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is like choosing between two sexually transmitted diseases.

"Well, you’re asking me, do I prefer cholera or gonorrhea?" he said in an interview with Democracy Now. "Personally, I would prefer neither."'

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:01:00 -0400

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson

3 by Sherman

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:44:00 -0400

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

---William Tecumseh Sherman

Lucky Jim

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:00:00 -0400

“... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.”
― Kingsley Amis,

DYI: Fabric design and production

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:10:00 -0400

All of the WOVNS textiles are manufactured in the US by way of Jacquard weaving, all on looms in a patent-pending method. This allows for production to scale up easily—with a minimum purchase being only one yard of fabric. It also means these are not topical applications of design, but actually woven images. Founders Dena and Chelsea Molnar (identical twin sisters) are veterans of the New York design industry. Together they sought to develop a system that enables creativity, access and immediacy. But there's another benefit, as well: reduced waste. With such precise control over how much of any textile is produced, independent designers can acquire only exactly what they need. Altogether, it's a first-of-its-kind platform with many obvious benefits

http://www.wovns.com/

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:13:00 -0400

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; and enough ammunition to change the things I can."

Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:05:00 -0400

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:57:00 -0400

Steven Pressfield

A Wish

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:43:00 -0400

A Russian peasant named Nikolai had one cow.
His neighbor had two. One day, Nikolai's cow died. He worried about how he was going to feed his family.

The great spirit felt compassion for Nikolai . The spirit came down to earth and said to the unfortunate peasant, "I grant you one wish. Anything you want, power, wealth, anything."

Nikolai said, "Kill my neighbor's cows."

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:32:00 -0400

Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana,
long winds in Wyoming,
shade of elms and maples in New England.

Archibald MacLeish

A poem lovely as a tree

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:26:00 -0400

"I think that I shall never see  

A poem lovely as a tree."  

https://youtu.be/gdpJ-akDGdw

SpeedTree® special effects for games.

https://youtu.be/blLsxunFq2A

SpeedTree® special effects for high end movies..

Harold

non-attachment

noreply@blogger.com (Moses) — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 07:51:00 -0400

"In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that “non-attachment” is not only better than a full acceptance of earthly life, but that the ordinary man only rejects it because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for “non-attachment” is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

Orwell