Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • Einstein was right you know. It’s all just a matter of working on the problem re

    Einstein was right you know. It’s all just a matter of working on the problem really hard for a lot longer than anyone else (is willing to).

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-21 18:24:00 UTC

  • We scored an amazing apartment today. We’ve been living in an enormous (palatial

    We scored an amazing apartment today.

    We’ve been living in an enormous (palatial) second floor walk up apartment, or the past year, with eleven foot ceilings right on the main street, and it’s fully serviced by the hotel. They want to up the rent to what is probably a market rate, but which is just too high for me to feel comfortable with.

    V found two great apartments. The first decorated perfectly and in an amazing building, but the rooms are a little too rectangular – enough to bother my spatial OCD. The second is brilliantly designed with a circular hall, and has a large round turret window living room, heated floors, and a perfect master, guest bedroom and office.

    And its a six minute walk from the office. 🙂

    AND I CAN PARK MY CAR UNDERGROUND!!!!!!!

    Now, you know, if it was a year ago the place would have made me uncomfortable despite the wonderful concierge. But you know, you sort of adjust your expectations.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-21 17:17:00 UTC

  • Dear God. Thank you for smart women. Well. To be honest. Thank you for women – i

    Dear God.

    Thank you for smart women.

    Well. To be honest. Thank you for women – in general.

    I mean. They are the most wonderful thing you ever made.

    Better than beer. Better than chocolate. Better than puppies even.

    But thanks for the smart ones in particular.

    It’s like finding special surprise-colored m&m’s just for me.

    🙂

    (love you V) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-21 05:03:00 UTC

  • (personal) Never realized that my aversion to conflict, which drives my interest

    (personal)

    Never realized that my aversion to conflict, which drives my interest in politics and political economy, was part of of the Aspie-thing, rather than just a reaction to how my father treated my mother and us. I feel that I have to protect everyone (its terrible really) and that I just wish conflict would end so that I didn’t have to. Aspies particularly don’t understand interpersonal, emotional conflict. It’s very distressing. It’s incomprehensible. And we don’t like things that are incomprehensible. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 09:58:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 04:42:00 UTC

  • Enough Said

    Enough Said.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 04:25:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-17 06:07:00 UTC

  • LIBERAL ARTS? Um…. My undergrad degree is in Fine Art (BFA in art history). Al

    LIBERAL ARTS?

    Um…. My undergrad degree is in Fine Art (BFA in art history). All the business and engineering stuff is just to make money to consume and experience beautiful things. I had no intention of being a ‘starving artist’. Are you kidding? Poverty sucks.

    (Same for academia. Why On Earth Would You Do That? )

    Philosophy, Economics, History, Science VS Art and Literature.

    The first three are necessary to comprehend the last two. Otherwise, they’re just masturbatory entertainment under the guise of study.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-15 05:51:00 UTC

  • I must be doing something right if the old-guard-progressive-libertarians shy aw

    I must be doing something right if the old-guard-progressive-libertarians shy away. 🙂 ‘Cause they got ‘nuthin. That’s why.

    Thank you Vincent J. De Roeck for the multiple bits of insightful advice you gave me at PFS. In particular (a) on the church (b) on progressive libertarians.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-15 05:35:00 UTC

  • I used to be such a patriotic lover of my country. Past tense. 🙁

    I used to be such a patriotic lover of my country.

    Past tense. 🙁

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-13 06:30:00 UTC