I’m an artist August 8, 2008
Posted by Niels in : Personal , 4 commentsEveryone looks at abstract art and thinks, “I could do that.” So when Craig and I moved up to Seattle we bought some paint and our own canvasses. Why pay thousands of dollars for someone else’s artwork when you can do it yourself for a fraction of the price? It only took us a year to get around to it, but we finally cranked out a few pieces last weekend. I believe it was the first time I have painted anything since about third grade. The house is going to look so classy with artwork on the walls.
My first piece:
Miles per gallon don’t matter August 6, 2008
Posted by Niels in : Personal , 3 commentsMiles per gallon is a flawed metric. I actually care how much money I’m going to spend to travel a given distance, not how far I can go on a certain amount of gas, . In other words, gallons per mile is the actual metric that matters to nearly all consumers.
The problem, as this graph shows, is that MPG and GPM are inversely related, which throws off all our intuitions. Improving your gas mileage to 15 mpg from 10 mpg will save you vast quantities of gas, which switching from an already efficient 35 mpg car to a 50 mpg hybrid will hardly make a difference at all.
Your thoughts?