Fun new toy

So I took the plunge and bought myself a personal computer! Not only that, but I jumped the PC ship and am now a proud Mac user. I finally made the decision to just do it when my work computer "exploded" yesterday and is currently in an endless loop of restarting. Computer help won't be around until monday morning, and then are notoriously slow in responding...

Fortunately, I was able to email myself a copy of the game theory paper I am working on for ET, so once I finish downloading LaTeX, I can get to work on this baby. Unfortunately, the LaTeX for Mac program is massive, and I am stuck at the library until it is finished downloading.

In other news, I am about to embark on baking my fourth pumpkin pie of the past couple of weeks for a party tonight. I baked one yesterday for NJ's surprise party, and, in some sort of game theory-induced daze, started making the crust, not the filling. Since I had already made the crust several days ago, I have committed myself to at least 2 more pies...yum.

Fun new toy

So I took the plunge and bought myself a personal computer! Not only that, but I jumped the PC ship and am now a proud Mac user. I finally made the decision to just do it when my work computer "exploded" yesterday and is currently in an endless loop of restarting. Computer help won't be around until monday morning, and then are notoriously slow in responding...

Fortunately, I was able to email myself a copy of the game theory paper I am working on for ET, so once I finish downloading LaTeX, I can get to work on this baby. Unfortunately, the LaTeX for Mac program is massive, and I am stuck at the library until it is finished downloading.

In other news, I am about to embark on baking my fourth pumpkin pie of the past couple of weeks for a party tonight. I baked one yesterday for NJ's surprise party, and, in some sort of game theory-induced daze, started making the crust, not the filling. Since I had already made the crust several days ago, I have committed myself to at least 2 more pies...yum.

Fun new toy

So I took the plunge and bought myself a personal computer! Not only that, but I jumped the PC ship and am now a proud Mac user. I finally made the decision to just do it when my work computer "exploded" yesterday and is currently in an endless loop of restarting. Computer help won't be around until monday morning, and then are notoriously slow in responding...

Fortunately, I was able to email myself a copy of the game theory paper I am working on for ET, so once I finish downloading LaTeX, I can get to work on this baby. Unfortunately, the LaTeX for Mac program is massive, and I am stuck at the library until it is finished downloading.

In other news, I am about to embark on baking my fourth pumpkin pie of the past couple of weeks for a party tonight. I baked one yesterday for NJ's surprise party, and, in some sort of game theory-induced daze, started making the crust, not the filling. Since I had already made the crust several days ago, I have committed myself to at least 2 more pies...yum.

Getting somewhere, maybe

I know I have been blogging only sporadically, and I won't even try to fill in all the holes (sorry) but I did meet in person with ET yesterday (!!!) and it was helpful. I'm pretty sure I'm now doing the math right (basically you substitute in other things so as to avoid the lovelies I was talking about below).

Now I am trying to sign the manager's response to an increased proportion of penalties, and I am totally stuck. There ought to be a way to boil it all down to things that I can compare, but I keep not quite getting there...

Math

Does anyone know how to solve for comparative statics in a strategic interaction?

My attempts at figuring this out are landing me with such lovelies as (dL/dM)(dM/dL) or (d/dL)(dL/dM). Is the first just 1? What about the second? Aggcgh!

Or am I caught in an endless loop?

Weird

The plane crash in NYC today that killed the Yankees pitcher is down the street from my parents' apartment. I spent a very scary few minutes between the time I heard of the crash (in the car, on the radio) and speaking with them. I wish NPR had realized how many people they were freaking out by saying only that it had crashed on East 72nd street... There are thousands of families whose expat loved ones got to experience a bad fright.

Does help keep everything else in perspective, though.

Grrr (what else is new?)

So I was supposed to talk with ET this morning at 9 am. Guess what? He didn't pick up the phone. And of course I was nervous and so focused on my conversation with him that I am having trouble being at all productive.

grrr. grrrr.

I wish he would just sign off on my friggin' dissertation so that we never have to talk again!