TV

Thank god for Tivo. We decided to start watching ‘Heroes’ this fall, although we have been too busy to watch much TV. So we started ‘Heroes’ a week ago having all of them on the Tivo, and so we have been obsessively watching all the episodes. Tonight, we catch up to the [...]

Materialism and self-esteem

Fascinating:

In one of the first studies to focus on the development of materialism among children, Deborah Roedder John, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, reveals that a young person’s level of materialism is directly connected to their self-esteem.
Researcher finds materialism in children and adolescents linked to self-esteem
A little [...]

Yes to Joan Robinson

mental_floss Blog » 7 Geniuses and 1 Entire Science That Never Won the Nobel
Been overwhelmed with life again.
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Neat

Keisuke Hirano: Econometrics Haiku
via: www.marginalrevolution.com

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Hockey

Of course.  One of my favorite players below

Happy

about who I am married to. There are too many reasons. Here is a word list

Lovely
Calm (quite important because I often am not.)
Intelligent
Laughs
Funny
Trustworthy
Brilliant
Sexy
Joy
Fun
Indulgent
…

But I do,

I do wanna grow up.  And I did.  The song still makes me happy, though…

Today’s happiness

is L.’s joy with wearing pigtails.  A scant 6 months ago, they hurt  her head.  Not anymore.  She can’t wait to put them in, and is awfully happy with herself when she wears them.

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I vote for Anna Schwartz

St. Louis Fed: WP 2007-048A “The Impact of Milton Friedman on Modern Monetary Economics: Setting the Record Straight on Paul Krugman’s ‘Who Was Milton Friedman?’”
I saw her discuss a paper once at a conference.  At 75 years old, she was an intellectual tiger.  And correct.  An intellectual hero.  So today, she is what makes me [...]

Reading

How could it not make you happy?
One of my earliest memories is reading in the bed under the covers. And always getting caught. I shared a room with my sister, and she was always clever enough to turn her flashlight off first. So I was always getting into trouble.
The first book I [...]