Like mother, like daughter...

Spent the evening with D and Mo, had a lovely time...I am completely and hopelessly enamored of these two, I really am. They're both absolutely amazing (and by amazing, I mean gorgeous, intelligent, witty, funny, charming and all those types of things) women, and they're unbelieveably adorable when you get them together...it's endlessly fascinating to see their similarities and commonalities. I have the most incredible time out with them, there's never a dull moment, and one only runs the risk of just the very slightest twinge of carsickness... [sigh] I will eventually kidnap them to Europe, mark my words! Wandered Eastland Mall for a bit, that was an interesting little place...never seen an ice skating rink in a shopping mall before, let alone at the bottom of an open three-story atrium. Tres bizarre.

After an aborted attempt to hit Tremont for some sort of mystery concert (although it did seem pretty dead there), we hit The Perch at the Charlotte Comedy Theatre for an improv show, which was side-splittingly funny, much more so than I would have guessed. A lot of racial (surprisingly high Asian percentage in there too, the funny bastards) and a LOT of overtly gay humour, but some of it was really quite clever...may even try and make it back next week...In fact, it was funnier than the last time I was at a comedy club, which happened to be in Manhattan a little over a year ago. We're at this random club there, near Chinatown, and who should come on stage like later in the evening, but Ellen Cleghorne, possibly the least famous (perhaps also the least funny...coincidence?) SNL alumnus in recent memory. No one ever knows who she is when I mention her, it's quite sad, really.

Earlier in the day, (right after I got up, as a matter of fact!) I did receive a reply from Professor (Doctor) Phil regarding my economics password query. Thanks to Rusty for his efforts to reach me with his suggestion...a good one, but incorrect. here's Dr. Phil's reply:


Hi,
The word is "physioeconomics". I was having fun coming up with adult
questions, I indulged myself a bit there. The word can be found on the site
on "the editor" page:
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/credits/editor.html. The word is
mostly used by non-English speakers, especially in Russia, and a few obscure
academic areas. It does not even have a definition page yet.
The truth is, this is the first edition of the site. We will be adding about
400 languages and timelines, and some higher quality content soon; esp. for
medical and historical references. The site today has alot of "filler" until
we do a full update. We will also let people set preferences so they can
choose what they see, etc. Thanks for using the dictionary and spreading
the word.
Cheers,

Phil

Philip M. Parker, Ph.D.
Editor, Webster's Online Dictionary - The Rosetta Edition
Eli Lilly Chair Professor of Innovation, Business & Society
INSEAD
Bd. de Constance
77305 Fontainebleau, France
www.insead.edu

Academic email: phil.parker@insead.edu
Secretary: Joelle Fabert 33-1-60-72-4977
joelle.fabert@insead.edu


So there you have it, straight from the proverbial horse's mouth...here's the short text from the link he references:


The Editor

Philip M. Parker is the instigator behind Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition (www.websters-online-dictionary.org). Phil is an avid collector of dictionaries and encyclopedias with a special interest in those published during the French Enlightenment. In addition to being a bibliophile, he is the author of the Cross Cultural Statistical Encyclopedia (which includes Linguistic Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference, Greenwood Press), and Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth (MIT Press). He is currently the Eli Lilly Chair Professor of Innovation, Business and Society at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France & Singapore). He has taught courses and been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, MIT, Harvard University, UCLA, UCSD and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of Business and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania.


Turns out he's written a book by the same title, so he's just in a way plugging his own work. But still, I have to say that I'm impressed that the head guy actually wrote me back and in less time than it took me to sleep. Not too shabby. The answer/word itself is a bit anticlimactic, though, especially since we had all those man-hours into it. Hell, you'd think ONE of us would have plugged physioeconomics in just on a hidden-in-plain-view/captain obvious kind of guess. Alas, maybe we can get started on world peace next.

Good job on all the help, we'll have to come up with something else to keep all those overachiever brains in top form...

So I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and the episode from a couple weeks ago has the bad guy as the soft spoken, unassuming token Asian guy...who just so happens to be a murderous kinky swinger sex fiend! Nice. In all fairness, I HAVE only watched the first half, so it could still end up not being him. But the damage is done, I can't even look in the mirror anymore without thinking "Murderer! Pervert!" My Twinkie Asian self-image is ruined!

Getting ready to type this post and hit the sack, when who should IM me but Cali Jen...chatted for a good couple hours, THEN got this post together, and will be snoozing "here pretty quick", as my Iowan friends used to say.

It's been an interesting sort of day, indeed.