The market just keeps growing. It might be time to start a brewery. And don’t be tricked by impostors such as Blue Moon and Goose Island.
Bullish on Craft Beer
Author: Sam Kornstein
Merry Christmas
From my Mom. Original source unknown.
Zeno’s Christmas Eve
Via xkcd: But what happened the day before? And where’s Zeno’s arrow?
The Canine Blues
Sorry about the title. It’s bad.
Happy Hanukkah
Shades of Green
TripAdvisor has gone public: Eleven years after it began life above Kosta’s Pizza in Needham, and seven years after it was acquired by Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp. for about $200 million, TripAdvisor is finally gaining a NASDAQ listing of its very own. The company starts trading tomorrow under the symbol TRIP, and it will also be included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. I briefly worked for TripAdvisor one summer when I was an undergraduate. It was a great place to work. One anecdote always stuck with me. I don’t even know if it’s true, but I heard it from at least two people while working at the firm. The CEO, Steve Kaufer, supposedly hates the shade of green
Mary’s “Virgin” Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbor
Some New Science Mnemonics, via xkcd:
Day Bow Bow
Via my brother:
Remembering Kim Jong-Il
From Kim Jong-I’ll Looking at Things: looking at a sweater looking at rice looking at a soft drink looking at an engine looking at coal looking at x-rays looking at cheese
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings at the Wilbur Theater – December 13, 2011
I’ve had a good week of music. I saw Ryan Adams last Thursday, the White Owls Monday, and then Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Tuesday. It was the last show of Gillian and David’s tour, and they put on a spectacular show. I’ve never seen someone play the guitar as deliberately as Rawlings does. He closes his eyes and just dominates the fret board. I recorded a few clips. Here’s ‘Look at Miss Ohio’: Look at Miss Ohio And here’s ‘I’ll Fly Away’ from the ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ soundtrack: I’ll Fly Away