Monthly Archives: March 2009

A trip to Windham in March

By MattK | Published: March 25, 2009
I’m taking a trip to Windham between March 27th and March 28th. Off for only my second snowboarding trip of the season. How old have I become?
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The Dark Passenger

By MattK | Published: March 23, 2009
At the party, Blakely said that she had always wanted to do something new, like write a movie. I make things happen, so I got her to imagine a thriller that we could easily film in NYC. She’s probably a bit sick of the subject by now. You can read The Dark Passenger [...]
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What I’ve been reading in February

By MattK | Published: March 4, 2009
February has been a banner month for reading. A bumper crop of beaming books brought me a bounty of smiles. I started out with autism and ended with the midwest. First I read One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘The Kid’ Ungar, a biography of the best poker and gin player ever. [...]
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Some good advice to my friends who are terrified of this job market

By MattK | Published: March 3, 2009
Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school.. Many of my friends are considering this sort of move. It’s a sucker bet for a number of reasons that Penelope outlines. My basic argument is her last one. Graduate school forces you to overinvest: It’s too high risk. In a world where people did [...]
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