Tom’s Diner

This place is on the same block as where I lived in NY. Tom’s (aka the Seinfeld restaurant) is on one end of the block, the cathedral is on the other, across the street. They have horrible Denny’s style food (I think the only worse food I’ve had in NY was campus food). Each time [...]

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this article is really interesting

even though it is kinda long and starts off stupid.
The Moral Instinct
The exact number of themes depends on whether you’re a lumper or a splitter, but Haidt counts five — harm, fairness, community (or group loyalty), authority and purity — and suggests that they are the primary colors of our moral sense. Not only do [...]

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Kimba the White Lion

wiki page
I now have the uniqlo shirt (shown here, kinda) thanks to Sally. Surprisingly flattering too, I think. Uniqlo shirts are so cute!

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Experienced happiness, we learned, depends mainly on personality and on the hedonic value of the activities to which people allocate their time. Life circumstances influence the allocation of time, and the hedonic outcome is often mixed: high-income women have more enjoyable activities than the poor, but they also spend more time engaged in work that [...]

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another interesting article

Gary Becker’s contribution was not to suggest that women make good parents, but to realize that because of economies of scale even a very small difference in innate capabilities could lead to titanic differences in how people actually spent their time. A small difference in relative expertise between men and women would be enough to [...]

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tahini == seseme paste/sauce

not just one equal sign, 2 equal signs! This fact just clicked recently and I need to make lots of cold noodles to make up for the lost time when I couldn’t find any viable seseme paste.
cold noodles (sauce)
2 parts minced garlic
4 parts seseme sauce
3 parts soy sauce
1 part oil 1 part sugar
1 part [...]

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sort of like accountants?

I believe it was computer science that came into existence. It was a field that grew mostly out of engineering schools and attracted more men. Up until then women were doing a lot of the programming. The view at that time was women were good at programming because we were good at detail. IBM was [...]

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Lust, Caution — *Spoiler*

My favorite scene from this movie…the rickshaw scene…so anticlimactic. I realized that the word anticlimactic usually has a negative connotation, but it makes this scene so realistic and so beautiful. It captures the feeling of loss, confusion, and nostalgia…I think it’s the most interesting scene too, because you never really know what she’s thinking, but [...]

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new gary album

I like this song

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