Feynman's Messenger lectures

Bill Gates has purchased Richard Feynman's messenger lectures with his own cash and made them available for everyone. Richard Feynman is one of those rare heroes of mine.

I went online to try and buy the only deodorant I like but my Citi credit card rewards no longer allows me to choose the amazon.com gift certificates I love. Now instead I can purchase the same items from Citi's rewards site and they'll be fulfilled by amazon. The only problem is that I can pay $17 for a 6-pack with the gift certs, but on Citi's site they now want to charge me the equivalent of $39 (at a "special price" down from $44!) for the exact item, and shipped from the same company! The audacity would be amazing if it wasn't so disgusting.

Capitalizing maliciously on people's ignorance is one of the things I find disgusting about human beings. (But I am also an investor in Citi since Citi is a member of the S&P 500...ugh.)

Wesley's law

The number of exclamation marks used in a facebook status update is inversely proportional to how exciting the status update actually is.

Rest now, Vivian.

Sleepsong - Secret Garden, Bre...

Frontline: Storm over Everest is phenomenal. Those tents just shake. You can stream the whole thing from Netflix.

It's amusing that you cannot legally discriminate in a workplace, but on dating sites you just check a box that says, "I don't want to talk to black people" and that's completely acceptable. I wonder if there's a checkbox on Indian dating sites for only dating members of certain castes. Or maybe there are few Untouchables that have computers right now, I don't know.

And it's also weird that paying people for sex is illegal, but paying people to have sex if a video camera is there is kosher.

I picture Ben Bernanke having a recurring nightmare where he realizes he still lacks the crucial information on the cause of the Great Depression, but he is pulled into a plane, into a complicated cockpit, and he sits down and discovers that the knob he needs to turn, the mechanism that will fix everything doesn't exist.