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My Father's Paper 13 Feb 2007 | 04:03 pm
After my last post, I was curious: was there any trace of my father's illustrious career in all of the world wide web? I took some serious googling but I finally found this: Abstract : Wind-tunnel te...
Death of the Greatest Person I'll Ever Know 11 Feb 2007 | 04:52 pm
It happens to nearly everyone at some point in their lives: the death of the greatest person that you will ever know. Of course, most of you will not know it at the time. The loss will only really hit...
Tax Cuts, Minimum Wage Hikes, and Perpetual Money Machines 11 Nov 2006 | 06:11 pm
The Democrats have come to power and straight away they are going to make a priority of raising the national minimum wage (which has not be raised in many many years). I was wondering why this would b...
Idea Contests 7 Nov 2006 | 04:10 pm
In my previous post, I mentioned as an afterthought an idea for giving partial protection for creating entirely new types of products that cannot be completely protected by a patent. I gave the pumpki...
Pumpkin Carving Kit Part II 3 Nov 2006 | 03:49 pm
A year ago, I wrote this nice piece about my son’s Halloween pumpkin and the nice pumpkin carving kit (Pumpkin Masters) he used to carve it. In that piece, I wrote of the reasons why an entrepreneur m...
Worst Jobs In History 10 Oct 2006 | 08:13 am
From the always excellent India Uncut is this link to a BBC TV show about the worst jobs in history. Here is an example: As a fuller, you are expected to walk up and down all day in huge vats of stin...
Free Parking and Waiting Costs 15 Aug 2006 | 10:22 am
I haven't been blogging regularly for some time and have considered stopping blogging altogether. I will delay that decision for a little while. In the meantime, I have one more post that I would like...
Should We Tax Transactions Between Family Members? 19 Jun 2006 | 12:25 am
There is an interesting post on Half Sigma about why we should keep estate tax: The general rule is that whenever money is transferred from one party to another, there's a tax. If a hard working midd...
A Gaur 26 May 2006 | 09:53 am
Here is a picture of a Gaur: It is a very large relative of the domestic cow - it is not so closely related to buffalos and such.
OPEC Loses Control Again 20 May 2006 | 03:07 pm
Last August I wrote: OPEC, the oil cartel, has temporarily lost control of world oil production. I say temporarily because I have no doubt that OPEC could quickly increase production by simply drilli...
