If you’re a nerd over 30, you’ll probably laugh at this. If you’re a younger nerd, you had to be there. If you’re not a nerd, why are you reading econ blogs on a beautiful Friday afternoon?
HT: Don Boudreaux
If you’re a nerd over 30, you’ll probably laugh at this. If you’re a younger nerd, you had to be there. If you’re not a nerd, why are you reading econ blogs on a beautiful Friday afternoon?
HT: Don Boudreaux
Jan 20 2008
Last week, Alex Tabarrok (who is co-authoring a principles textbook with Tyler Cowen) asked me for good examples of non-monetary incentives. Perhaps the best response is: "Do what I want, and I'll be your friend." Depending upon who makes the offer, moreover, there may be large secondary effects: It's good to be fr...
Jan 18 2008
Tim Besley's Principled Agents? is supposed to get a full issue's worth of attention from The Review of Austrian Economics in the near future. Here's my review essay, and here's my favorite part (endnotes and references omitted):[P]olitical agency problems are often a byproduct of voter irrationality. The principals ...
Jan 18 2008
If you're a nerd over 30, you'll probably laugh at this. If you're a younger nerd, you had to be there. If you're not a nerd, why are you reading econ blogs on a beautiful Friday afternoon? HT: Don Boudreaux
READER COMMENTS
Independent George
Jan 18 2008 at 4:28pm
If you’re not a nerd, why are you reading econ blogs on a beautiful Friday afternoon?
Well, I might be a nerd, but that’s irrelevent because, with wind chill, it’s -10 degrees Fahrenheit outside on this beautiful Friday afternoon.
Josh
Jan 18 2008 at 5:31pm
Hm, I’m under 21, and this resonates with me. Very funny video.
tim
Jan 18 2008 at 5:46pm
Ah memories. I was a beta tester for AOL back when it was Quantum and partially owned by Apple. I abandoned it by 1993 after 4 years. While funny I hate to point out one flaw – in 1994 – AOL did not provide access to the “internet.” It was a self contained proprietary system. I don’t think AOL provided limited internet access until at least 1996 or 7 if even then.
TGGP
Jan 18 2008 at 6:05pm
I’m a nerd well under 30 and I thought it was funny. I didn’t have access to the internet until years later but I knew people who did and their experience seemed similar, though at the time quite cool.
Troy Camplin
Jan 18 2008 at 6:31pm
Now that would ahve been an annoying show! 🙂
Marcus
Jan 19 2008 at 4:56am
C00L, M4N. Th4T WuZ T0T4LY L33T!!
Mark Nau
Jan 19 2008 at 10:45pm
Yeah, there’s lot of old 70s and 80s movies where a key point of tension is inability to coordinate and communicate at critical times. Totally incoherent plot point in the age of ubiquitous cell phones.
“Munich” has a good scene that relies on this same plot element.
Rob
Jan 21 2008 at 1:54pm
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Rob Micensky
Jan 22 2008 at 12:36pm
I was the only 14 year-old I knew who had his own GeoCities page and could use HTML….
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