Saturday night, Trenton, Luke, Eli, and I went to It’s All Greek To Me for dinner. Trenton and I had been there before for lunch, and loved it. The host/chef/waiter is this big, friendly, bald Greek man with a mustache who inserts “please” two or three times into every sentence. The menu had changed slightly […]
Read more...Month: April 2010
endorphin junkie
Trenton really deserves all the credit. He recently started a new running program and it has totally inspired me to get my ass back in shape. At Carleton, we had easy access to the rec center, and working out was never really an issue. The biggest inconvenience (besides the 8 minute walk across campus) was […]
Read more...Love things. Use people.
Love things. Use people.
Read more...“If you made the unfortunate mistake of underestimating your hunger, you will be unable to enjoy the final third of your sandwich because you will be too busy being afraid that there will not be enough of it. Every wonderful bite is filled with the painful realization that it is bringing you closer to having […]
Read more...On buying an Odwalla with a bottle of wine
Java barista: “Something to line your stomach before you…?” me: “Before I poison it?” Java barista: “It’s not poison! Jesus even tells Timothy–it’s in the scriptures–Jesus tells Timothy to have a glass of wine before dinner to help with his stomachache. It’s in the scriptures!” me: “Then it must be true!”
Read more...Dunning-Kruger
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads […]
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