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2/18 guh. My first day at work since last week. had the flu. My room and the tv room smell like sickhouses. In german: Krankenhausen?
2/12Last night I saw Djs (somebody) and Beau spin at my neighborhood Irish bar. some great beats. quite crowded. And it was one of thes "on" nights, you know, where I jst felt pretty fab. I was with my good friend who's into jungle and is also a super-genius history-of-science person. She and I rocked out and danced like maniacs, said hi to all the folks we knew and met new people whom we expect never to hang out with in the real, daytime world. I ran into another friend of mine outside who was freestyling and saying hi at the same time but as i composed on the way home: You can't have a a conversation with some MCs because their minds are flying solo, you know dance is how I flow, not romance, I'm out late with no date but my grrrl Laura cuz she's sure of herself like me; we'll be tired cuz we been hired to get up early in the mornin; 8:30 we'll be forlorn and on the T, hope no-one gets creepy, our eyes sleepy, holding our coffee takin a little drink clutching our handbags like Tinky Winky. werd.
2/10 AND my Prof. just called to tell me that I explained the concept of the hegelian dialectic so well, he couldn't have explained it any better. awww yeah.Today I had to give a presentation on Nathan Rosenberg on transfer of technology and development. After I was done the guy sitting next to me said it was the best presentation he'd ever heard! woohoo! I guess I hid my stage fright pretty well. Actually, it was informal enough that I wasn't too nervous. And I didn't have to stand up in front of everyone. Still, that's pretty kool.Oh and R.I.P. for Wassily Leontief, who died last Friday night. The New York times obit was pretty good, mentioning casually that he "seemed to grow more liberal with age." The same appears to be true for Simon Kuznets, also a Nobel Prize-winner (check out his Nobel essay. Very interesting stuff, also more readable than much of his earlier stuff). What does this say about so-called 'liberal' approaches to economics, hmmm? Although i would dispute the word liberal, which implies a certain ignoring-the-root-of-things, make-nice mentality. Maybe one could conclude that mature intellects, in this case both based in incredibly extensive empirical research and analytical reasoning, tend to develop an attitude about a planned economy and about national priorities, that is not in favor with mainstream neoclassicals today. I can factor this into my earlier discussions of Marx's intellectual devleopment. Look at what these folks were doing at the END of their lives. I think this is particularly true for people who do vast amounts of research and must take lifetimes to assimilate and make sense of huge amounts of data. Activists don't always age as well. hmmm.... |