Eric Busboom

Would you be my Friend? Here is Google’s Friend Connect Widget:

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The Perfect 5:00:

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The Perfect 5:45:

Mummification, human vivisection and live burials in a format children can understand. Yes, really. You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Inca Mummy will let parents address most of the uncomfortable questions that don’t involve sex, including human sacrifice, what happens when you yank out someone’s heart, the various ways of clubbing someone to death, and how the commoners should prostrate themselves before their rulers. The authors certainly aren’t operating under a belief in the concept of the Noble Savage. And, it has a cartoonish format and simple text that is suitable for first and second graders. While the book really is disturbing (and disturbing for someone who used to read alt.tasteless on Usenet ), and I’m still not sure when I’d read it with Max, that I’d find this prominently displayed on the “New Books” shelf in the children’s section of the library absolutely thrills me. When the media seems to be failing in its critical role as defenders of open, free expression, we still have librarians who will fight to put whatever they damn well want to on the shelves. Here is another example. F’d Companies is the most profane, nearly obscene, book I’d ever admit to reading, but it is also an important chronicle of the insanity of the late 1990’s. I nearly howled with joy when I saw it on a public library shelf. I could imagine the librarian placing it facing outward, thinking to herself that it would be a poke in the eye of every sanctimonious prude that passed by. God bless her. Don’t forget, kids, child sacrifice is a privilege.

Yes, we play golf to get away from you:

Secret #2: We actually do play golf to get away from you More than 21 million American men play at least one round of golf a year; of those, an astounding 75 percent regularly shoot worse than 90 strokes a round. In other words, they stink. The point is this: “Going golfing” is not really about golf. It’s about you, the house, the kids – and the absence thereof. “I certainly don’t play because I find it relaxing and enjoyable,” admits Roland Buckingham, 32, of Lewes, Delaware, whose usual golf score of 105 is a far-from-soothing figure. “As a matter of fact, sometimes by the fourth hole I wish I were back at the house with the kids screaming. But any time I leave the house and don’t invite my wife or kids – whether it’s for golf or bowling or picking up roadkill – I’m just getting away.”

Although I’d never go back, there are a lot of things I did before children ( the boy and the business ) that I don’t do much anymore, like hiking. Here is a link to Gary Stowell’s website detailing a hike to Carrizo gorge in 1999.

Before child, I hosted an annual iceblocking party at Kate Sessions park. Here is a video from James Hicks, where I explain the physical theory.

I created a new personal calling card, and decided to emphasize"Geek":

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I’ve frequently found that the New York Times will publish articles about scientific research that directly contradict the research.

In this article the NYT reports that:

A 1999 study by Alan B. Krueger of Princeton and Stacy Dale of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation found that students who were admitted to both selective and moderately selective colleges earned the same no matter which they attended. The study suggested that the motivation and drive of the student mattered more than the college.