http://blog.dworin.net 100% Pure Awesome Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:32:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Friday night I had friends over for dinner (this is not the same as a dinner party for reasons that are too complicated to get into).  The Dinner Impossible challenge: two guests were vegetarian, one would only eat fish, and another gets stomach aches from spicy food. I also wanted ... http://blog.dworin.net/2009/01/04/dinner-impossible-men-dont-have-dinner-parties/ Why does this guy... remind me of this guy... http://blog.dworin.net/2009/01/04/boiler-room-20/ The Swedish Kronor (SEK) has taken a steep slide against the U.S. Dollar since it was announced that Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in October.  So much so that an article linked to by Greg Mankiw was off by over $200k in estimating the price of the ... http://blog.dworin.net/2008/12/09/currency-collapse-and-the-nobel-prize/ CEO of E-Discovery software Catphora tells Death by Email the top ten phrases in emails  that tell lawyers interesting things: "I could get into trouble for telling you this, but…" "Delete this email immediately." "I really shouldn't put this in writing." "Don't tell So-and-So." Or, "Don't send this to So-and-So." "She/He/They will never find out." "We're ... http://blog.dworin.net/2008/12/04/10-things-not-to-write-in-e-mail-when-breaking-the-law/ Arranging to deliver the ransom for the Ukranian ship captured by Somali pirates, and to receive the ship and hostage crew in return is a delicate matter without a legal framework to reduce the counterparty risk (sort of like a drug buy): More from market-design guru Al Roth's new blog. http://blog.dworin.net/2008/12/03/risks-in-pirate-ransom-transactions/ A request for help on Apple's support forums: Please help! I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) ... http://blog.dworin.net/2008/12/02/best-iphone-glitch-ever/ A random picture I took outside my friend's office window last night: [caption id="attachment_269" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="A view of the West Loop at night."][/caption] http://blog.dworin.net/2008/12/02/west_loop_at_night/ The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is considered the best in the United States, and 7th in the world, by a recent survey of music critics: "Actually, this will be a surprise because a lot of people in America would, as a knee-jerk reaction, would rank the New York Philharmonic at the top," ... http://blog.dworin.net/2008/11/24/chicago-symphony-orchestra-best-in-usa/ The Co-Op Casino in Ann Arbor, MI (my home during graduate school) has been robbed, reports The Onion: Thus far, no firings have been made or even suggested, but the casino's members have agreed to beef up oversight measures by replacing the position of casino pit boss with a 15-person pit ... http://blog.dworin.net/2008/11/18/treetown-casino-robbed/ You began by saying that it is an exciting time to be an economist. I agree—not because economics is about to be replaced by psychology, but because of the big questions we are now struggling to answer. What are the fundamental causes of poverty? Are there solutions? How do ideas, ... http://blog.dworin.net/2008/09/09/behavioral-economics-big-deal-or-big-hype/