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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Made Me Laugh
I was just browsing through a web site of economist jokes, and found one that I thought worth repeating:
Three econometricians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The first econometrician fired, but missed, by a meter to the left. The second econometrician fired, but also missed, by a meter to the right. The third econometrician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "We got it! We got it!"
Three econometricians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The first econometrician fired, but missed, by a meter to the left. The second econometrician fired, but also missed, by a meter to the right. The third econometrician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "We got it! We got it!"
Friday, September 27, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Four Weeks, Four States: The County Count Moves On
On August 29, I stepped off a ship at Nawiliwili, on the island of Kaua'i, to claim the last county in Hawai'i. (Technically, there is a 5th county there, but it's a leper colony on Molokai, and outsiders aren't allowed there; so I'm not counting that one.) Today I had dinner in Aroostook County, Maine, the last county in that state. In between I finished going to all the counties in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. So: 4 states in 4 weeks. A small triumph, I suppose, and I've now been to well over 80% of all the counties in the country.
I still don't know what I'm going to do about Alaska....
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