Feb 28, 2010

Economics Reasoning

I finally found the notes from MBEC 500 at the University of St. Thomas from Toby Madden (Fed Reserve of Minneapolis):

Some Basic Economic Priciples

  • There is no free lunch

  • The cost of an action is the alternative that is sacrificed

  • The relevant costs and benefits are the marginal ones

  • People respond to incentives

  • Policies always have unintended consequences



The Art of Economics

  • Consists of looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects
    of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy
    not merely for one group but for all groups.

Feb 25, 2010

Traversal


Added tracer lines for objects which I am calling traversers. Added a nice-STII:TWOK type tracer to a moving object which faded over time and distance.

This is part of the g2destiny project at sourceforge.

Feb 24, 2010

Autumn Leaves



Love this track. I don't know who did this first, but I'm pretty sure the base track is in the Czech MST3K / Sandy Frank film (c. 1989) Humanoid Woman. It may have been some of Eva Cassidy's version used in the track.

Update: Autumn Leaves is actually an older song from the 1950s. Nat King Cole's version was featured in a movie by the same name Starring Joan Crawford in 1956.

The film "Humanoid Woman" is actually To the Stars by Hard Ways in its original title.