Bad Marketing: Kellogg says it won’t renew its agreement with Phelps because of his unfortunate tendency to be photographed when ripping a bong. This is a dumb idea.
Good Marketing: “Hi, I’m Olympic athlete Michael Phelps. When I’m blazed out of my mind, whether it be a bowl, blunt, or bong, the first thing [...]
Good Marketing/Bad Marketing
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Imagine
God bless P.J. O’Rourke, the paragon of sarcastic realism, the only tone in which human nature can truly be described. I’m reading his On The Wealth of Nations currently, but this post is not about that fantastic primer to the puzzle of economics (calling it a science seems unfair), but to pass along his latest [...]
Induction junk-tion, what’s your funk-tion?
Just finished reading Wittgenstein’s Poker. It’s something I had wanted to get around to doing for awhile now, but it was easy to put off. That is, until Mr. D Smith mailed it to me. The gesture, I felt, deserved a prompt reading.
Once, long ago, a friend asked me if it would be [...]
Rainy Days, Rainy Thoughts
Quite a rainy weekend. Chicago has very inadequate drainage and consequently the streets are filled with enormous puddles and, if one drives by at exactly the right moment, the eyes can revel in the sidewalk tsunamis CTA buses launch upon curb-hugging pedestrians.
I can’t speak for my other two roommates, but I am relieved the rain [...]
You Ain’t Logic
The glorious experiment that is my classroom has entered into a new phase today: logic. In a rush of geeking out that has been dangerously nerdy even by my standards, I have been constructing logic packets full of graphic organizers and cogent explanations to take baby steps through our thinking processes.
I’m sort of unclear why [...]
