Comments on: Local Dining 07.30.08

By: baker

baker — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:00:13 +0000

My fiance I ate at craftsman last night. The food was delicious, but they were very understaffed. We waited for 45 minutes for a drink, and were just about ready to leave when she brought it out. We ended up not paying for any of our drinks–2 Oberons for me, and 2 mixers for my fiance. She was very aplogetic about it all.

The wallye was fantastic!

By: Bixby

Bixby — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:45:43 +0000

@Messy Missy

That’s a better nickname than I got. I was Murky Dismal or Bees Knees.

By: mb21

mb21 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:38:16 +0000

@Bixby – mean and messy. Hence the nickname Messy Missy.

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:33:55 +0000

microeconomics is an entirely different beast, and I think dennis is all-too-comfortable applying his lessons from that to the macroeconomic world where they’re not appropriate.

and I’m sure I do have plenty of both macro and mico-economic lessons to learn, but I’ve also done a lot of reading and thinking about macroeconomics and understand the math behind it a lot better

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:32:13 +0000

ok fine, but the dennis tester school of real-world-omg-I-haz-a-job economics does absolutely nothing to improve your understanding of macroeconomics, which is an entirely seperate system that you either have to study a lot or work in a financial field to really understand (neither of which he does)

By: Bixby

Bixby — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:30:46 +0000

Well, I guess I should have pulled my head out of my ass when I was 2 years old and purchashed in 1980 too. What a stupid baby I was.

You were probably a very mean baby too!

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:30:42 +0000

and lunch, yeah. basically when one model doesn’t really work (because of the reasons I stated above), they just keep adding layers and corrections on it. like somehow if you make your model as complex as the behaviour it’s trying to explain it will magically work.

but human behaviour (and the inherent unpredictability thereof) has a lot more to do with economic behaviour than I think models take into account.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:30:11 +0000

has he ever contributed anything worthwhile?

Well, he turns you into a raving fool. But even that's getting a little old.

Man up, wayne, and let it pass...

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:28:16 +0000

I was doing just fine until uncle asshat started his usual bullshit.
can’t you just ban him? has he ever contributed anything worthwhile? or done anthing other than troll? honestly?

By: lunch!

lunch! — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:24:39 +0000

The more I work with economic models, the less certain I feel about our understanding of markets and human behavior. There is a level of complexity to it that is like looking into the Grand Canyon.