Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Enjoy this video which sums up my thoughts on birthdays

    Enjoy this video which sums up my thoughts on birthdays:

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-02 14:44:00 UTC

  • MATTERS

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385479425/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkPRETTY MATTERS

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-01 16:26:00 UTC

  • WISH OUR MILITARY WAS THIS VIRTUOUS

    http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-egypt-military-ultimatum-20130701,0,7120476.storyI WISH OUR MILITARY WAS THIS VIRTUOUS

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-01 15:48:00 UTC

  • IMMIGRATION EFFECTS WORLDWIDE

    http://www.voxeu.org/article/global-view-cross-border-migrationON IMMIGRATION EFFECTS WORLDWIDE

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-01 05:41:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: “Enough money” Interesting concept of “enough money” here

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS: “Enough money”

    Interesting concept of “enough money” here. Enough to be happy with little. People use it all the time.

    We lost that in the states. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-30 06:43:00 UTC

  • UNDERWEAR? In Kiev, its not only common but fashionable for women to wear clothe

    UNDERWEAR?

    In Kiev, its not only common but fashionable for women to wear clothes so sheer or nearly transparent that you can read the label on their underwear.

    Not in a creepy Walmart kind of way.its tasteful and elegant.

    You cant find a slip in the stores. 😉 I asked about one for verinika. The saleswoman told me “Our women are not so shy as Americans.” Tone implying that i am naive – stupid even

    Its beautiful really. But I must be too puritanical or something because it makes me uncomfortable. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-30 04:51:00 UTC

  • HUMILITY AND USER INTERFACE DESIGN I don’t feel humbled very often. Certainly no

    HUMILITY AND USER INTERFACE DESIGN

    I don’t feel humbled very often. Certainly not in business. Mostly, when my daughter tells me she loves me, or when friends and acquaintances demonstrate their love.

    But damn. Denis is so freaking good at UI design it’s … humbling. I mean, it’s almost irritating how easy it is for him.

    We scored. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-27 11:17:00 UTC

  • GODS EXIST LIKE NUMBERS EXIST Good video on a topic that I try to popularize. Do

    GODS EXIST LIKE NUMBERS EXIST

    Good video on a topic that I try to popularize. Does math exist? Do numbers exist? If they exist, how? 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-27 07:40:00 UTC

  • ON THE ONE PERCENT There is an ideological war going on over whether the 1% argu

    http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-on-one-percent.htmlMORE ON THE ONE PERCENT

    There is an ideological war going on over whether the 1% argument will actually hold up to scrutiny.

    This really depends on whether you mean the .01% that STAY in the 1%, or the number of people who ROTATE through the 1%.

    Krugman and Delong are making arguments that Mankiw is wrong, and that the 1% are rent seekers.

    I don’t see much evidence of that, but I look at the problem as one of rotation through the group, and I think the other side politically is addicted to the idea that the 1% is part of the financial sector.

    Even then, I”m not sure how many people stay in that position or how many rotate through it.

    I”m not in favor of feeding the financial sector (which anyone who follows me knows) but on the other hand, I don’t know if I buy the 1% argument. I’ve been in the 1% a few times, and I”ve spent a lot of time in the 2-3%.

    But Allora and I also lived on pasta and butter when we had to. 🙂

    Anyway, I”m reserving judgement until I see more data that I can have confidence in.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-27 07:36:00 UTC

  • OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT Nice piece. Pretty accurate. Shows most of the major p

    http://habitableworlds.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/visualizing-the-dark-enlightenment-v-1-5/MAP OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT

    Nice piece. Pretty accurate. Shows most of the major players organized by interest area.

    I should probably be on this list, but since I don’t COMPLAIN, but instead try to solve the PROBLEM of heterogeneous political cooperation post-majority rule, I guess that I don’t qualify. 🙂

    But whining doesn’t solve anything. Any lazy oaf can complain. Any romantic can wish for the past. Any fool can fail to see the change that information and industrial prosperity and consumer capitalism have forced into our social economic and political relations. Any idiot can advocate that his preferred political model is the optimum political model for all others – that there is a ‘common good’ where we have common ends, instead of common goods that allow us to cooperate on means despite having conflicting ends.

    So yes. I’m jealous. 🙂

    (PS: Tongue in cheek: the fact that I’m whining here is an act of self deprecating humor… ok? I’m not that dim. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-27 03:56:00 UTC