Posts from the “Dumbth” Category

Urban Dictionary: Highlingual – The belief that, when high, you can speak two or more languages http://t.co/F9sjt3Y77j -> There hitherto unplumbed relationship between football passing direction and politician orientation http://t.co/14SOuKvnIS -> Oh, ugh: Psychology tops SDSU list of most popular degrees among 2013 graduates – http://t.co/wrikqz1606 -> That sound you hear is every VC in [...]

Tableau to start trading tomorrow with symbol “DATA”. Nice. Love those guys. -> Like services such as Wealthfront, but wish there was an uber-Wealthfront that managed allocations to LendingClub, CircleUp/Angellist, etc. -> Frontline: The Retirement Gamble – http://t.co/ip8xqqyGwC -> Today in “ewww”: Human feces taint more than half of U.S. public swimming pools | http://t.co/FVGlfXHLSD [...]

Diana Deutsch’s ‘Sometimes Behave So Strangely’ is the crack cocaine of looped audio http://t.co/zVDwEOveuh -> Watching Penguins/Senators, and explaining the deep mysteries of Evgeni Malkin to the offspring -> Jay Peak VT claims 350” of snow this season, more than Steamboat CO or Squaw Valley CA – http://t.co/IQvPkykCgY -> New @MenInBlazers podcast out. A reminder [...]

The 'IKEA Effect': How people overestimate the value of crap they assemble themselves – http://t.co/6eHfbQK1RF -> Good news for losers everywhere: Players in a winning team run a higher risk of suffering an injury – http://t.co/gDW3dGvQbq -> Tried to explain Bloomberg data story via analogy to Unix, “finger” & “.plan”. Might as well have been [...]

Vig: You mean them little cubes you put in hot water to make soup? Archie Gates: No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup. -> Chamonix Storm Riding with JP Auclair. Superb. http://t.co/bMtR3ss1zp -> Which NWS Offices Have the Hardest Job Making Forecasts? Monterey and Los Angeles – http://t.co/HsfzKJsPjb -> [...]

Reversals, expletives, & impossible returns: Yes, I beat @corytv in ping pong Thursday at Linkedin. Networks fighting over rematch rights. -> [Audio] Saul Perlmutter on the Ever-Expanding Universe http://t.co/HTA4Onptyf -> Sad news RT @nytimesbusiness: Alan Abelson, Barron’s Columnist and Editor, Dies at 87 http://t.co/lAMNJVb6pV -> So strange to see people talking about future of blogs [...]

Amusing how many people thought I meant Renaissance Fair http://t.co/duQ6AZAK2g when asked about Renaissance Weekend https://t.co/Yydg2gv54N -> Anyone ever gone to one of these Renaissance Weekend events? Verdict? -> Missed this, but actually kinda agree: Steve Jobs Would’ve Bought Tesla – http://t.co/u8830s7ELG -> Had to send a “FAX” today. Does this also mean Wham is [...]

Entire squadron of electricians working here today. Am in awe at their ability to work on live circuits all day long with zero fatalities. -> Unsettling to have fires this size so early in year in SoCal: Springs Fire Grows To 6500 Acres http://t.co/OchA7AGMsw -> Talking to Americans: Belief in biblical end-times is stifling climate [...]

Video of the Thiel/Andreessen debate at Milken this week on whether innovation is dead – http://t.co/OBuqCDEYEt -> Moderated fun panel yesterday at Milken with @dpatil @slavin_fpo @messina2012 & @mckinsey_mgi Thanks all. -> Ducked out of Milken conf yesterday at lunch with @ruffoloj to Sushi Dokoro Ki Ra La in Beverly Hills. Outstanding food. -> The [...]

Panoramic shot north from roof of Beverly Hilton in LA http://t.co/cBNgTm4vjv -> Talking to Americans: One in five Americans believes that Obamacare has already been repealed http://t.co/2Skvn6RsqG -> QotD: “America must be for entrepreneurs what Canada is for hockey”. (An industry than can provide Don Cherry employment?) -> Ominous: “[T]he last 20 years has been [...]

If had known Suarez biting & getting 10-game suspension would elicit performance like today’s from LFC, would have suggested biting sooner. -> A "peace map" of Britain: Avoid Lewisham – http://t.co/zZ8hNikn37 -> Paul Krugman ( http://t.co/bAJrf1nPvD) vs Ken Langone (http://t.co/fexotfv8yv ) is noisily amusing -> Super set of weather photos, old and new – http://t.co/aLHpTJHEVg [...]

The physics of terror – http://t.co/64gO6IKha5 -> Modeling all of the European professional football: Where the does the Premier League Rank? http://t.co/4QZDrQcE5S -> QotD: "I've told the Tesla service division that their job is never to make a profit" http://t.co/sxfdStWuLr -> Wrt my earlier likelihoods question, the key is whether the test’s 25% false negatives [...]

Eplaining the arcane mysteries kf Dexys Midnight Runners to the offspring -> Europe's ageing population – graphic of the day http://t.co/hPl9e3Vx1B -> Econo-debate: Is there a shortage of STEM workers in the United States? http://t.co/YG5iI2VU5X -> This Tuesday likely saw the coldest major league baseball game in history – http://t.co/PXem3GgZh0 -> Kowloon Walled City: Life [...]

Top 20 most well-read cities in U.S. is interesting, but would like to see bottom 20 http://t.co/VEloIcKmFx /v @timoreilly -> Find myself reminding AAPL zealots that co already plays in 4 of 5 largest CE categories http://t.co/07klobrXkA -> Today in Terrorist Special Pleading: Terror plot suspect says Criminal Code 'not a holy book' – http://t.co/WnBeirCOtm [...]

Lionel Messi's Tough Night http://t.co/8G7Iw3xaTj -> RT @Squawka: GRAPHIC: Messi heat map vs Bayern. Weak. http://t.co/yVX3FbNbaC -> I thought I was the only one who made up Fake Coachella Bands. Apparently not. http://t.co/YWrYddkiyb -> Awful initial AAPL analysis today: 1) Beat #s that were higher 2 weeks ago, 2) Lower margins, and 3) Q3 revs [...]

Baseball player 'steals first,' confounding all scorekeeping software http://t.co/YpY0xoeiPK -> Challenging beliefs in sports nutrition: are two 'core principles' proving to be myths ripe for busting? http://t.co/10C2iuOGQ5 -> Beach house Saturday. I'm told people like this sort of thing. http://t.co/ZkSvZReeV0 -> Talking to Americans: Czech Republic is not Chechnya, diplomat points out http://t.co/IcICzVRUaT ->

World Snooker Championships start this weekend, so here's Ronnie O'Sullivan's crazy-fast 147 – http://t.co/cjKr7P28fR -> “I am a Mentat, You do not withhold information or computation lines from a Mentat.” – Dune (1965) -> We’re at insufferable point in breaking news cycle when journalists pass time by eating their young, & then complaining about the [...]

Meant to post this sooner, but huge congrats to my friend @parand on Xpenser being acquired by Coupa. http://t.co/nvfUj3bRVl -> Nicely done new Bloomberg site on technology companies around the world (and outside U.S.) http://t.co/U2eXriPx3a -> Nice! MT @chr1sa: New @3DRobotics site, store, manuals. http://t.co/TYjGldMBrm (obDisc: Investor) -> Medium-term weather forecasters exist to make equity [...]

Applies to all conferences: Why Are International Conferences so Bad, and What Can Be Done about It? – http://t.co/mR9B3jsOiU -> Vaccine development for H7N9 flu problematic – http://t.co/mDEKYu6cXe -> Job Growth vs Economic Growth in California http://t.co/DlegFiXZ4s -> In happier non-tax news, excited about a couple of investments that @defrag and I are closing at [...]

Another day, another cloud security breach: Linode hosting service resets all passwords http://t.co/0qJyX8YlQj -> Notes from meetings. http://t.co/WOqIlFwWlt -> Loneliness, anxiousness, and substance use as predictors of Facebook use http://t.co/n9c6upzOVP -> The zoo hypothesis: We are in an extraterrestrial's petting zoo – http://t.co/ZnmmDD0xGw -> Just realized i have zero idea what top CPU speeds are [...]

Cheap Mortgages Are Hiding the Truth About Home Prices – Businessweek http://t.co/kWTobjdOPH -> Amusing that a new currency whose main supposed advantage is its decentralized nature is flailing because it’s too centralized. -> For my many sins, I am on a packed, 3.5 hour Southwest flight. Again. -> Laughing in the Face of Death: A [...]

Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones was like Mickey and Mallory Knox joining the Society for Creative Anachronism -> 100 mi/h+ wind gusts on Mammoth Mtn last night. Fun. http://t.co/zMNMujX3cc -> Animals, influenza and humans as 8% virus – http://t.co/QHbRxfkBYV -> Truly impressed at how iTunes so regularly finds ways to underperform my already [...]

Wonderful documentary: Rise of Silicon Valley http://t.co/ESFWKnP9sB -> From a Japanese TV gameshow, Lionel Messi vs "RobotKeeper". How could it not be … strange. http://t.co/XCJHC14CVc -> A central puzzle in behavioral finance is why behavioral finance nags won’t shut up about behavioral finance. -> It would be about 20 min work to make this postmodernism [...]

Breaking the 4th Wall – Movie Supercut – http://t.co/aoWihEyTDV -> Peaking at 25.6 ft, US NE swells were larger during last week’s storm than during Hurricane Sandy http://t.co/SyhdeW8upj -> Luis Suarez will be best player not to win if overlooked for EPL Player of the Year award. Discuss. http://t.co/mGRj461pwZ -> Neither. RT @emilychangtv: Samsung vs [...]

Martinussen er ikke her akkurat nå. Ringe tilbake senere, takk. -> There is a sub species of highly evolved Wordament players out there. If attacked by 4×4 grids of scrambled letters I know where to turn. -> Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and that both of them are wrong … -> A [...]