1. I'm impressed with credit card fraud detection. False positives rarely occur, but the systems recently found fraudulent but small and routine-looking charges on a friend's account within hours.
2. I installed Linux on my aging desktop. This was a free way to get the benefits of a current operating system, and the contrast between Fedora 11 and Windows 2000 amuses me. Soon I plan to dual boot OpenBSD and Windows 3.1.
3. My new desk is in a place with a tradition of faculty and their RAs eating lunch together. It is a wonderful gesture, but the economists sometimes lapse into conversations about boats or upscale restaurants. The other day while eating my lunch (bought not at the cafeteria, but at the discount grocer Aldi) and listening to a senior economist describe a spouse's five thousand dollar bicycle, I was struck by the realization that my bagel cost seventeen cents.
Friday, September 25, 2009
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