On the business of life

I'm mostly dumping this here so I can reference it later, but commentary is welcome. This came out of a discussion of the relationship of WiiTID to the profitability of the enterprises that employ people like me:

Profit is like health, to a corporation. You have to have it, and more is good. But it's not the reason for existence.

On the business of life

I'm mostly dumping this here so I can reference it later, but commentary is welcome. This came out of a discussion of the relationship of WiiTID to the profitability of the enterprises that employ people like me:

Profit is like health, to a corporation. You have to have it, and more is good. But it's not the reason for existence.

Life with clan Wex

Yes, we really do have these conversations. I suppose it helps to have one child with an infinite supply of questions and another with an infinite supply of answers. This one from the car ride home last night:

K: Which came first - the chicken or the egg?
Pygment: That's a good question. No one knows the answer to that.
L: That's not true!
Pygment: Oh? Who knows?
L: The chicken knows.
(much laughing)
Pygment: Our children are existentialists.
K: How did the chicken get there in the first place?
L: He walked!
Pygment: OK except L - he's a phenomenologist.
L: I'm a phenomena! Phenomena!
Pygment & me, in harmony: Ba ba da bah-da!

Life with clan Wex

Yes, we really do have these conversations. I suppose it helps to have one child with an infinite supply of questions and another with an infinite supply of answers. This one from the car ride home last night:

K: Which came first - the chicken or the egg?
Pygment: That's a good question. No one knows the answer to that.
L: That's not true!
Pygment: Oh? Who knows?
L: The chicken knows.
(much laughing)
Pygment: Our children are existentialists.
K: How did the chicken get there in the first place?
L: He walked!
Pygment: OK except L - he's a phenomenologist.
L: I'm a phenomena! Phenomena!
Pygment & me, in harmony: Ba ba da bah-da!

Draw your own conclusions

(Yes, I'm Posty McPostalot today.)

http://www.phdcomics.com/blog_images/ng_singles.jpg
- a reproduction of a chart from this month's National Geographic that shows a significant gender imbalance in singles across the country. There are, if these data are correct, vastly more single men in California and on the West coast of the US. Likewise, there are a lot more single women in the eastern half of the country. New York is the biggest imbalance, but Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans and Miami also are shown as having lots more single women.

I have no idea what to make of this.

Draw your own conclusions

(Yes, I'm Posty McPostalot today.)

http://www.phdcomics.com/blog_images/ng_singles.jpg
- a reproduction of a chart from this month's National Geographic that shows a significant gender imbalance in singles across the country. There are, if these data are correct, vastly more single men in California and on the West coast of the US. Likewise, there are a lot more single women in the eastern half of the country. New York is the biggest imbalance, but Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans and Miami also are shown as having lots more single women.

I have no idea what to make of this.