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Joanna turns 36 today, well in America her birthday is tomorrow but since she was born across the dateline it’s today.  She’s hoping her family gets to call so she can quote the Conchords and tell her mum it’s not her birthday.  But since I haven’t forgotten here’s a list of one thing I love about her for each year she’s been alive:

1. Her accent.  How can you beat it?

2. How kind she is to live so far from friends and family just to be with me.

3. How the kids fight over who gets to jump in bed with her … Continue Reading

Surprisingly even with that title, this is a book about economics.  This was probably one of the best books I have read in a long time.

The book title comes from the theory that if people who are not infected with an STD were to have more sex everyone would be safer.  Note that it’s not them that would be safer but the population in general.  Therefore since the individual risk is all borne by the person who decides whether or not to have sex, people have less sex and partners than would be “good” for society.

Interesting stuff and just the … Continue Reading

I wanted to read this book before I saw the Will Smith movie.  According to reviews I read about the movie it was totally butchered and had the opposite moral message that the book did.  I haven’t seen it and I’m happy that I read the book first.
I’ve always loved Asimov books.  Since we’re past the dates that many are set in it’s interesting to see how much the push into space was overrated as the direction technology would take.  In the book there are space stations and mining colonies on far away asteroids, people have developed hyperspace engines with … Continue Reading