Joshua Kennon New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall November 8 2003 - DSCN1903

Performing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the New York Philharmonic

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One of the benefits of our relocation to the West Coast was going through boxes and containers dating back to early childhood, discovering things that we didn’t realize we had; toys from our nursery, birthday cards from elementary school, choral music from high school and college.  This included migrating old computer archives before destroying the physical drives, resulting in large amounts of data we now need to organize and catalog over the coming years as a part-time personal project

Tiny Inflation Calculation Methodology Changes Are Going to Result in Billions of Dollars in Wealth Transfers

Tiny Inflation Calculation Methodology Changes Are Going to Result in Billions of Dollars in Wealth Transfers

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Politicians, central bankers, and academics around the world are engaging in a conversation that could have massive real-world consequences for both middle class families and retirees; conversations that could result in substantially higher taxes, and/or substantially reduced benefits for entitlement programs such as Social Security, depending upon how the matter is resolved.  The average American is not paying attention to this at all.  It matters.  This is a technical debate that will transfer huge amounts of wealth from various stakeholders depending upon who prevails.

Daelmans Stroopwafels

Stroopwafels Have Become My Obsession

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I want to officially thank the people of The Netherlands for one of their greatest contributions to human civilization: the Stroopwafel.  How I managed to go 36 years of life without ever experiencing the joy that is this amazing combination of toasted waffle, caramel, cinnamon, and vanilla is beyond me.  My Stroopwafel obsession has gotten to the point that Aaron laughs at me because I just can’t help myself.  It’s so bad that because I try to limit my daily consumption of sugar, I actually look forward to going to bed just knowing that I can get up and have another Stroopwafel.  This is out of control.