1. I've really come to enjoy Jill Sobule's performances on TED (probably my favorite website). Last night, I downloaded her "Live at Joe's Pub" show, attractively priced to move at $0.00. The sound quality is great, and it's been a fun listen so far.

2. I took another step toward getting in touch with my inner Tyler Cowen today. Mike and I went to A-Tan's for lunch. I'm certainly no food expert, but we enjoyed it and will probably be back. The wonton soup was especially good, and Mike reported that the hot & sour soup was also excellent. Mike got right to the heart of the my failure to recognize the relevant conditional probabilities in our end-of-meal exchange over fortune cookies:

Me: (reading Mike's fortune) "A shooting star tonight brings good luck tomorrow." So does this mean that a shooting star will certainly appear tonight and then bring you good luck tomorrow, or is it conditional, saying that you will have good luck tomorrow if there's a shooting star tonight?

Mike: It's conditional. It's also conditional on fortune cookies not being a load of crap.