Comments on: Take the Pepsi Challenge: Read a novel http://monicabulger.com/2009/12/take-the-pepsi-challenge-read-a-novel/ The Search Myth: Quality Information is Not a Click Away Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: james http://monicabulger.com/2009/12/take-the-pepsi-challenge-read-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-196 james Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:47:16 +0000 http://monicabulger.com/?p=264#comment-196 gladwell, march 10th arlington. don't think you will be here?? but if so you should already have your tix young lady. gladwell, march 10th arlington. don’t think you will be here?? but if so you should already have your tix young lady.

]]> By: Monica http://monicabulger.com/2009/12/take-the-pepsi-challenge-read-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Monica Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:49:40 +0000 http://monicabulger.com/?p=264#comment-192 Bertil -- Your entire post had me laughing! Thank you. :) Yes, phoning a friend would be the ideal. I've heard of Freedom, but have the misleading belief that I can control my Internet use, so haven't explored it (what an ironic sentence). You raise a good point about trusting Wikis and in a future post, I'll address the "autistic" part of that description, a la Tyler Cowen. (I'm trying to finish Gilead before starting his book, but it's sitting right here on my desk, demanding to be read.) Your Ph.D. thesis is 450 pages? Wow! Well, if you need a friend to look over parts of it, I volunteer. As always, thank you for your insightful response. I owe you a few research articles, which I'll send soon. Bertil — Your entire post had me laughing! Thank you. :) Yes, phoning a friend would be the ideal. I’ve heard of Freedom, but have the misleading belief that I can control my Internet use, so haven’t explored it (what an ironic sentence).

You raise a good point about trusting Wikis and in a future post, I’ll address the “autistic” part of that description, a la Tyler Cowen. (I’m trying to finish Gilead before starting his book, but it’s sitting right here on my desk, demanding to be read.)

Your Ph.D. thesis is 450 pages? Wow! Well, if you need a friend to look over parts of it, I volunteer. As always, thank you for your insightful response. I owe you a few research articles, which I’ll send soon.

]]> By: Bertil Hatt http://monicabulger.com/2009/12/take-the-pepsi-challenge-read-a-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Bertil Hatt Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:38:11 +0000 http://monicabulger.com/?p=264#comment-191 A what? A book? Those printed version of blogs, are they? Funny how they have an update every year or so, like an OS. Wait— :) You should have called me (at least for “insouciant”) or called a friend, really: that way you can get all the gossip (well, not from me obviously); still brag about how culturally advanced you are and get an discussion about ‘begats’ that doesn't involve trusting the opinion of an autistic Wikitroll. More seriously, if your happiness depends on knowing how things end up with Darcy, may I recomend two great applications: Dictionnary (pre-installed on Mac) and Freedom (freeware, by Fred Stutzman, Mac too)? That way, you can still have the opinion of Erin McKean on what are the proper uses of ‘susurrus’ and have no temptation to look on-line. Thanks for the advice, but I've already something better then a novel: a PhD thesis, that I *must* read because no one did, and it is due to the defense comitee before Chistmas. Yay! 450 pages of abstruse conceptual distinctions and misqualified models! A what? A book? Those printed version of blogs, are they? Funny how they have an update every year or so, like an OS. Wait—

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You should have called me (at least for “insouciant”) or called a friend, really: that way you can get all the gossip (well, not from me obviously); still brag about how culturally advanced you are and get an discussion about ‘begats’ that doesn’t involve trusting the opinion of an autistic Wikitroll.

More seriously, if your happiness depends on knowing how things end up with Darcy, may I recomend two great applications: Dictionnary (pre-installed on Mac) and Freedom (freeware, by Fred Stutzman, Mac too)? That way, you can still have the opinion of Erin McKean on what are the proper uses of ‘susurrus’ and have no temptation to look on-line.

Thanks for the advice, but I’ve already something better then a novel: a PhD thesis, that I *must* read because no one did, and it is due to the defense comitee before Chistmas. Yay! 450 pages of abstruse conceptual distinctions and misqualified models!

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