. From Twitter: . So much for my theory that the main use of masks is to keep slobs from sneezing in people’s faces. Maybe masks are useless even to keep superspreaders in check. . Scott Imberman @imbernomics Am at farmer’s market and someone literally pulled down his mask to sneeze 3:50 PM · Aug […]
From the Frieden Tuesday seminar today:
This post is to keep track of things my household is doing out of worry about covid-19. Comments welcomed as to what might be excessive or insufficient. 1. Put tissue boxes in every room. 2. Require visitors (e.g., Connell girls, home church guests) to wash hands when they visit. 3. We bought a glass thermometer […]
This is a stub. We need more typos. Typos add indivdiuality to writing style. We have too few people whose letters show their personalities like Admiral John Fisher’s. He did not have typos, I think, but the effect is similar. Back in 1912, Fisher was using 2012’s teenager abbreviation, though not in too impious a […]
This is for notes on churches and pestilences. ########################## See also Pastor Doug Wilson on the Authority of the Church to Require Masks ###################### It is one thing to forbid [services] for a time, upon some special cause, (as infection by pestilence, fire, war, etc.) and another to forbid them statedly or profanely . . […]
We submitted this to Economic Theory yesterday, after being rejected at Econometrica. Comments welcomed. “Splitting a Pie: Mixed Strategies in Bargaining under Complete Information,” with Christopher Connell. We characterize the mixed-strategy equilibria for the bargaining game in which two players simultaneously bid for a share of a pie and receive shares proportional to their bids, […]
Anybody know what this is? It was about eight inches long, sunning on mulch next to a spruce.
I had never tried pokeweed before. It is easily identifiable late in the summer, by its huge size (five feet+) and bright blue berries. At that time, though, it’s not good eating. In fact, the berries and roots are always deadly, and the various parts get worse over the summer. The books say to eat […]
“Duke University to Suspend Contributions to Employee Retirement Funds” Mike LaChance Thursday, May 14, 2020 . The 10% of salary over $285,000 or whatever is a trivial pay cut for a few people. It is deisgned to obscure the big pay cut for everyone, the size of which isn’t mentioned. Suppose Duke pays 5% of […]
Pastor Foster raises a good point, which can be expanded upon. Or, rather, raises a good question: When should someone be agreeable, and when disagreeable? How, in particular, should a Christian act? I think I am somewhat of an expert on this, being known variously both as an unusually agreeable person and an unusually disagreeable […]