Oh right. I’m supposed to take pictures of my food in restaurants before I eat it.

It was good.

#tbt

Not an action shot. She was sleeping.

My morning view.

Yes that’s my stomach she’s on.

Made to the end of the week but Gracie captures my feels.

Snowghazi supplies.

Snow drifts say: YOU SHALL NOT PASS

“Everything the light touches is my kingdom.”

Korean beef and bok choy from Elsa. This is how you #snowghazi

In position for blizzard. “Papas, I don’t care if it doesn’t start for another day.”

I keep this on my desktop.

Install:

brew install postgresql
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
gem install lunchy
### Start postgres with lunchy
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.3/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

Setup DB from SQL file:

### Setup DB
lunchy start postgres
created $DBNAME
psql -d $DBNAME -f '/path/to/file.sql'
lunchy stop postgres

Starting and Stopping PostgreSQL

lunchy start postgres
lunchy stop postgres

may run into trouble with local socket… try this:

rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid

Connecting with R

# make sure lunch start postgres in terminal first)
require(dplyr)
db <- src_postgres(dbname=$DBNAME)

Inspired by seeing this post and thought I should toss out what I do.

Just another day at the office.

How I’m given samples at home.

A few thoughts:

1. This is a very interesting way to take advantage of a number of existing Amazon technologies–primarily their payment processing and review system.
2. Services are an increasingly important part of the economy and is less subject to commoditization. This is Amazon dipping into a massive growth area by commoditizing discovery and payment. It also offloads some of the risk from both sides of the transaction. It’s very bold, possibly brilliant.
3. If you have tried to find a reliable carpenter, electrician, plumber, house cleaning service, etc lately, it should be obvious the value that Amazon can provide. Even as a subscriber to Angie’s List, which has been invaluable, finding reliable, affordable, and quality services is still a frustrating experience.
4. This is why technology companies get huge valuations. It is hard to anticipate just how technologies to become the first online booksellers will lead to a massive number of accounts with credit cards and a strongly trusted brand. It is hard to anticipate how book reviews and powerful search andfiltering become the way you find people to come into your home and fix a toilet. But truly, it’s hard to anticipate the limits of a company with massive reach into people’s wallets that scales.

It has been said a thousand times before, but I feel the need to say it again. So much of what Star Wars got right was creating a fully realized, fascinating world. As much as stunning visual effects that have largely stood the test of time were a part of that story, it was how Star Wars sounded that is most remarkable.

Watch that trailer. It has moments that look an awful lot like Star Wars– vast dunes in the middle of the desert, the Millenium Falcon speeding along, flipping at odd angles emphasizing its unique flat structure. But it also has a lot of elemetns that are decidedly modern and not Star Wars like. ¹ I think what’s most remarkable is I can close my eyes and just listen. Immediately I can hear Star Wars. The sounds of Star Wars are not just iconic, they are deeply embedded in my psyche and embued with profound meaning.

I first had the opportunity to see Star Wars on the big screen it was during the release of the “Special Editions”. There is nothing like hearing Star Wars in a theater.

Apparently I can’t be trusted.

Some of that home made ravioli from the other night.

Because of the primacy of equity as a goal in school finance system design, the formulas disproportionately benefit less wealthy districts and those with high concentrations of needier students. … because of the universal impact on communities, school finance legislation requires broad political buy-in.

I think it is worth contrasting the political realities of constructing school finance law with the need and justification for state funding of education in the first place.

The state is the in the business of funding schools for redistributive purposes. If that wasn’t required, there’s little reason to not trade an inefficient pass through of sales and income tax dollars through to communities that could have lower sales and income taxes (or state sales and income taxes) replaced with local sales, income, property taxes , and fees. We come together as states to solve problems that extend beyond parochial boundaries, and our political unions exist to tackle problems we’re not better off tackling alone.

There are limits to redistributive policy. Support for the needs of other communities might wane, leading to challenging and reducing the rights of children with new law or legal battles, serious political consequences for supporters of redistirbution, and decreased in economic activity (in education, property value). These are real pressures that need to be combatted both by convincing voters and through policy success ¹. There are also considerations around the ethics of “bailing out” communities that made costly mistakes like constructing too many buildings or offering far too generous rights to staff in contracts that they cannot afford to maintain. We struggle as policy experts to not create the opportunity for moral hazards as we push to support children who need our help today.

Policy experts and legal experts cannot excuse the needs of children today, nor can they fail to face the limits of support for redistribution or incentivizing bad adult behavior.

More adventures in our completed kitchen.

Note: This is what every meal in my house is like when @edure is around and we have a functioning kitchen.

That’s @edure nailing it again.