I really enjoyed Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Great read. Born to Run is a book about the Tarahumara people of the rugged canyon country of Northern Mexico. But it’s also a book about history, business, nutrition, biology, evolution, individualism and community, [...]
Gotta love March Madness… all the games, the buzzer-beaters, the upsets, the cinderellas. And I’ll admit it, unless it’s a Husky game, I don’t even follow college basketball until Selection Sunday. Then it’s bracketology time! With some websites offering big prizes for correct brackets, including CNN SI’s $10 million prize, I thought that someone with [...]
It turns out the people who don’t care about Jesus (or any other deity) appear to make better choices when it comes to obeying the law. There is an oft-cited (if outdated) study of the U.S. prison population that found only 0.2% of inmates described themselves as atheist. Recent estimates put the population of atheist/agnostic/secular/non-religious [...]
Daylight savings time last weekend. While the lost hour sucks, I’ve been enjoying the extra evening daylight. Did You Know? Daylight savings time gained widespread use during World War I as a measure to conserve coal. The theory was that if it was light out longer, people would burn less power lighting their homes in [...]
We received this ad for mobile dog grooming in the mail the other day. Seems like an interesting business model. I’d just like to point out that the dog in the picture (not Mochi) looks considerably less happy than the dog in the company’s logo. She clearly does not like her haircut! I’m glad they [...]
Obviously no one can say for sure, but there are three factors at play that could put downward pressure on property values in the near term. 1. Supply. Nationwide, lenders are sitting on a backlog of approximately 1 million foreclosed homes. Under pressure from Uncle Sam, and in the interest of minimizing their own losses, [...]
