I need to work on my masking technique, but I think it turned out pretty good. It’ll be fun to add smaller ones closer to the floor for the, well, small one.

/martin

It’s a girl! And a big one, 55cm/4255g (1.8ft/9.38 lbs.). I’m a bit wary about posting pictures, I’m predicting that today’s toddlers will end up as information hermits since their life will be documented digitally from day zero. Also I feel that internet exposure, like religion, should be opt-in. But I’ll do it just this once.

One of her names is Pi (or π, or 3.14159…). Stating that it was an irrational choice did not go down well with my more mathematically inclined friends. Although π is infinite the jury is out on whether it’s normal or not. So, her name might be a superset of every finite sequence (e.g every name, place, …), but we’re not sure yet.

So, we finally found a new apartment. Two weeks before the baby was born we got the keys and “we” started frantically to move our two apartments into the new bigger one. We have ~1800 books (1426 + ~400). Go backpain!

There is a deck (available to residents) adjacent to our own mini deck-on-the-roof where the view is truly awesome. We are happy.

What, no one figured out that giving loans to people that cannot pay back was bad idea? Or that speculating in other people’s speculation could cause instability? Come on!

There’s some great mathematics in economics, I’m sure. But once you act on it, the conditions change. Certainly interesting, but please do not try to make it sound like it’s comparable to physics or engineering. I used to compare economics to predicting the weather, but clouds do not watch the weather channel, freak out and start raining.

But ok, the real problem is not the theories, although a lot of them do seem to start with “given that …” and then some conditions that do not exist. The problem seems to be that Beavis and Butthead are doing the trading. Homo Economicus … yeah right.