Threat of Punishment Works, Study Suggests

Interesting article in yahoo about freeloaders.   Maybe this has practical application in your family or friends?

“The threat of punishment actually does stamp out freeloaders, tending to transform them into rule-following members of a society, a new study suggests.”

Read more here.

More Random Thoughts

The Kings lost last night but played well for 56 minutes.  Two penalties in 4 minutes killed them…

I’d like to do a PhD in regards to game theory and efficient markets.   Anyone know where I could do this?…

Life without Tioga is ok but I still miss her…

Annette is signing her lease for full-time today…

Tuesday is always noisy at my house with the trashmen coming by…

Tioga

Unfortunately, we had to euthanasia Tioga, our kitty with cancer today.  She was doing very well for a number of months but then just went down hill in less than a week.   I was with her when she passed and she purred until the very end.   She was 13 years old and will be missed.

Tioga on the Staircase
Tioga on the Staircase

Random Thoughts

We went to the kings-preds game tonight.  Kings outplayed the Preds but lost 3-1.  Brownie scored an own goal at the end with the open net…

Kings still looked good and I take hope from that…

LA is still on fire…

I was in a car accident on Wednesday and my ribs still hurt from the experience.  How long before the pain goes away…

Tomorrow we are off to the finals of the “Last Comic Standing” in Palmdale if we can get there….

Maybe this is the week I find a job…

Fire Everywhere

Sylmar is on fire.   New fire in the O.C.  The only thing that saves my house is that a fire has occured last month between us and the fire.  WTF?  Thoughts to everyone affected.

Here’s a picture from last night from the LA Times.

Fire in Sylmar
Fire in Sylmar

Tehachapi

Tomorrow, Annette and I are going to a train trip on the Coast Starlight to Sacramento.  The appeal of this trip is that the train will be going through Tehachapi.   Until this year, Amtrak had rarely run trains through Tehachapi.  In fact, maybe 4 or 5 trains total since 1971.  This week, they are running 4 trains and have run 8 trains prior.  This trip isn’t quite as rare as it was but the trip will still be fun.  This will be “rare mileage” for me since I’ve never ridden a train over these tracks.  As a kid, my dad and I would watch trains in this Tehachapi mountains.  I will be looking for the ghosts of us.

Older Posts

There are now a ton of older posts.  They come from my other two ill fated experiments with blogging.  One was my blog on hockey and other things.  The other was something I did for a few months called grab the pebbles.  I was surprised that someone I worked with didn’t know what Jump the Shark meant.  So, I started the site to be quirky things that I found.  This new site here will be both of these ideas together.

I’m going to need to go back and deal with the photographs, reinsert missing ones and move others to this site.  Regardless, be patient with these older (before 11/2008) posts.