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Entries from September 2007

The tipping problem

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

This is actually an interesting problem for most people in most situations. A tip is left at the end of the meal in the restaurant, but in almost all cases, the patrons will never see the same waiter/waitress again, even they do some time later, the waiter/waitress may not remember the patron. this leads to […]

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Tags: Inefficient Market

Family life and work

September 16th, 2007 · No Comments

There are two types of faculty that appear to be in sharp contrast with each other

those whose work is everything, they either do not have a family and/or kids, or their spouse takes care of their kids close to 100%.  
those who work from 8 to 5 (or some regular hours), then they take care of […]

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Tags: Faculty Life · Live Long and Be Happy · Kids