Thursday Round-Up

From time to time, I feel the need to post a rambly cattle-call of happenings in my life and links around the web. I should start designating a day to do this and making it something like a regular feature,…

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Perverse Incentives

In the past few years, Emily and I have never quite managed to get our taxes paid in full via check withholding. For a long time, the culprit was the division of her paycheck into two sources of income –…

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Zimmy Wins First BP March Madness Challenge

Congratulations go to Adam “Zimmy” Zimmerman, the grand prize winner of this year’s first-ever Blue Pyramid University Quiz March Madness Challenge. Zimmy wins an Amazon gift certificate and the adulation of hoops bracketeers everywhere. Zim-Zim the Mayonnaise Man News of…

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Things I Learned in Court Today

I got to court about a minute late today, the penalty for which was having to listen to every single other case in the room be heard before mine. While this initially struck me as quite a chore, I’m ultimately…

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Kid in a Candy Store

Today is a little like Christmas, or my birthday before I got old, or going to Disneyland, or going to see a Mariners game. Today I get to tab a tournament. For those outside the debate world, “tabbing” is the…

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