Archive For February, 2012
Sorry I’ve been slacking on the blog lately. I’ll be dark a couple weeks but promise to come up with some good stuff in March. Thanks for sticking with me.
Price discrimination is generally frowned upon in most fixed marketplaces. If a pound of apples is $1 for you at the grocery store, it should be a $1 for everyone, right? But like I learned from my “stand-up economist” professor, price discrimination can result in more trade and more efficiency, always good things. Hotwire is [...]
It’s like $3 hydrotherapy. The water helps bring clarity, I think because there aren’t any other distractions. What do you do when you’re stressed?
The other day I was curious how much we spend on food. We’ve been fortunate enough to never have a strict grocery “budget” per se; I mean we’re not eating caviar, but we’re not eating ramen either. And I’m like pretty awesome when it comes to maximizing my Safeway Club Card savings. I looked at [...]
Having recently canceled my XM radio again, I’m back with 103.3 FM. This is the country station for Modesto/Stockton. There’s nothing in the Bay Area so I’m thankful to pick up their signal from the Central Valley. The only problem is they take their branding way too far. The call sign is KATM, and the [...]
Why should kids have all the fun? An indoor trampoline park recently opened near us, and we thought it sounded pretty awesome. So we went on Friday afternoon. Slightly awkward being the only child-less adults there but whatevs. You can’t not have a good time on a trampoline, right? It was a little cheesy but [...]
