Management starts offering deals like this:
Dec. 23 New Jersey Devils vs. New York Islanders Prudential Center – Newark 07:00 PM
or
Dec. 31 New Jersey Devils vs. Atlanta Thrashers Prudential Center – Newark 05:00 PM (New Year’s Eve Fireworks)
Get 2 – $59 tickets and 2 – $10 Food Cards for only $50 (a $138 value) – Mezzanine/balcony
Or
Get 2 – $85 tickets and 2 – $15 Food Cards for only $90 (a $200 value) – Lower Level
“Like most economists, I am personally obsessed with efficiency, and wasted resources offend me in an irrational way.” – R. Preston McAfee of Yahoo! Research and Caltech in Edifying Editing
Robert H. Frank reminds us what has been known for millennia Talent and hard work are neither necessary nor sufficient for economic success. Paramount to success is luck.
A great description of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) response to Ireland’s fiscal problems.
It’s as if we’re having the following dialogue: “Ireland really can’t afford to pay these debts.” “Here’s a credit line!” “No, really, we just can’t afford to pay.” “Here’s a credit line!” It really is like watching a car wreck.
New York, NY, September 28, 2001 — Debris on surrounding roofs at the site of the World Trade Center. Photo by Andrea Booher. Source: FEMA Photo Library
New Orleans, LA, September 7, 2005 – Neighborhoods and highways throughout the area remain flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino. Source: FEMA Photo Library](http://www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary/photo_details.do?id=19230)
Fun with Facebook My Favorite: Asteroid (even though the time line makes no sense).
For whatever reason, Motorola and Verizon has locked down the Android Operating System on the new Droid X phone. The Droid X is loaded up with crapware that can only be removed if you hack the phone to gain root access. The only known way to root the Droid X is to use Windows.
Thanks to Motorola an Verizon for taking one of the greatest advantages of the Android OS, it’s libre software, and making sure that all but a few never benefit from this advantage.
Its important to view macroeconomics from both a Keynesian, Monetarist, and Austrian views. They are not incompatible, they have varying degrees of influence under various situations. Although following an Austrian prescription of limiting leverage and credit creation during the economic boom may have prevented a severe downturn, Keynesian and Monetary responses limit the ill effects during a recovery.
Some Austrian and blended view readings:
From ROGER W. GARRISON:
Powerpoint Slides using comparing Keynesian Circular-Flow Analysis to Hayekian Means-Ends Analysis.
“The Limits of Macroeconomics,” Cato Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring/Summer), 1992, pp. 165-178.
Others Nouriel Roubini on How to Avoid a Double-Dip Global Recession
Simon Johnson on The Future of Finance: International Edition
Simon Johnson on the Kanjorski Amendment to the The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill
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A must read for anyone not interested in the The 2010 FIFA World Cup starting in 10 days. The 2010 FIFA World Cup if USA sports franchises were substituted for national teams. or ( 2tu.us/26co )
BTW – If you don’t like soccer, you are going to puke if you watch anything on ESPN for the next month. They’ll be broadcasting every game from South Africa. or ( 2tu.us/26cp )
I’m not sure how often I’ll use URL Shorteners now that I’ve discovered markdown. But I’m sure I’ll use them occasionally. I found 2 shorteners than run on software licensed under the GPL (I’m not sure why the AGPL was not used).
TightURL Or use TightURL’s mirror: 2tu.us
The other site I found is ur1 Generator
I wonder if there is an easy way to use a personalized URL Shortener on your own server with a your own domain (e.g. link.glodime.com/1qaz).
-These are two teams that will never give up. No matter what the odds or who scored the last goal, both teams will continue to give it all they’ve got until the last buzzer sounds.
The game was very physical as expected. But it was played very disciplined (and leniently officiated) resulting in fewer penalties than expected (all against Chicago). I expect more aggressive attempts to test the officiating by Philly as the series continues. Expect more contact with Niemi, more hooking, grabbing, roughing and after-the-whistle scrums until the referees start throwing people in the box.
Philly seemed to get progressively more tired as the game progressed. Is Chigago in better shape? Is philly relying to heavily on getting certain players (e.g. Chris Pronger) extensive playing time?
Both teams (coaches) have shown the ability to adapt to opposing teams' strategy and tactics between periods and games through the playoffs. (Philly likes to call their timeout at an opportune moment to adjust tactics mid-period rather than use it to rest players at the end of the game.)
Chicago was able to completely shut down Philly in the third period and sit on a one goal lead after giving up 5 goals in the first 2 periods. This was impressive. Their coach was confident enough to sit back on offense for over half of the third period and focus on defensive play. And it worked! If this is any indication of the rest of the series then Philly will be lucky to get to a game 5.
Philly and Chicago continue to adopting to each others tactics. But the more skilled Blackhawks will edge out the Flyers once again in Chicago. In Philly the Flyers take the first game but loose the second. The Flyers bring the series to 3 to 2 after game 5 in Chicago. The Blackhawks claim Lord Stanley’s Cup in Philly at the end of game 6.
Maybe, if Philly’s home ice advantage was stronger, they could pull this off. But Yahoo’s take on who has the greater home ice advantage says ChiTown’s home ice is a better place to play…
Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals is tonight but Yahoo seems to think
that it will be a repeat of game 1...
Now that I know about it. I’ll use markdown to format blog posts here and hopefully eliminate the odd formatting that has been present in prior posts.
“Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
I take car of part (1), writing text with formatting syntax added.
Posterous takes care of part (2), converting what I write into HTML to create a new blog post formatted how I want it to look.
See Posterous' page on Markdown.
Or Check out the Official Markdown project at Daring Fireball.
