This reminds me of a passage in the book "Naked Economics" where the author is trying to explain something about supply and demand and uses an example of some utopian town where everyone is a highly educated academic. The question is, "who will take care of the garbage?" The answer is, "the garbageman. And he's the highest paid person in town."
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Mar 01, 2006 4:09:29 pm PST #745 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Jesse - Mar 01, 2006 4:12:36 pm PST #746 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I keep reading the phrase "the cut direct," and now I want to (a) use it and (b) give it to someone.
aurelia - Mar 01, 2006 4:18:02 pm PST #747 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Chopsticks.
Tom Scola - Mar 01, 2006 4:21:58 pm PST #748 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I have on occasion eaten Cheetos with chopsticks to avoid getting my fingers messy.
Jesse - Mar 01, 2006 4:23:01 pm PST #749 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My old roommate used to eat everything with chopsticks, after having spent some time in Japan in high school. Pancakes with chopsticks was my favorite.
msbelle - Mar 01, 2006 4:30:26 pm PST #750 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
It has come to my attention that several of the Oscar movies are on my cable on demand movie thingy. Now playing: The Constant Gardner.
The plan is to watch at least half of it tonight and finish it off in the morning.
tommyrot - Mar 01, 2006 4:35:39 pm PST #751 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Constant (Except for the Overnight Pause) Gardner.
Scrappy - Mar 01, 2006 4:42:14 pm PST #752 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Tommyrot made me snort lemonade up my nose.
billytea - Mar 01, 2006 4:47:33 pm PST #753 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What does "adjusted for IQ" mean? That having a high IQ means you're supposed to earn more money, and if you chose not to, then that's bad?
It sounds like they mean in a statistical sense, which would involve them regressing incomes against IQ in some kind of survey deal. Of course it's on average, and will remain so until Jessica Simpson is housed in a dumpster. So the statement says that scientists, on average, are the furthest below the average income that would be expected given their IQs and working incomes. Frankly, I think if they are the lowest of all, that sounds pretty bad to me. I'd regard it as a characteristic of the job, though, not the scientist. Who I'm hoping is good enough at maths to make an informed decision on such matters.
Strega - Mar 01, 2006 5:01:48 pm PST #754 of 10001
Yeah, that article seemed...odd.
Today, you can't spit in the street without hitting a millionaire and oftentimes it is simple wages that got him or her to that point.
I mean, what?
And then the out-of-nowhere reference to Goethe. Weird.