end of winter csa

The end of our Nov–Dec Vicki CSA is here, and we were able because of travel to get last week’s box and this week’s together. So we now have an abundance of root vegetables, four dozen eggs (er, well, after brunch… a little less than 3dz), and a lot of apples.

• lots of carrots
• red potatoes
• broccoli
• beets
• turnips
• onions
• sweet potatoes
• chard
• apples

Next on my list of things to code

Kinney, S. K. and D. B. Dunson (2007), “Fixed and random effects selection in linear and logistic models,” Biometrics (63), 690–698. (PDF; R code)

We also compute credible intervals for the random effects variances; whereas, there is no good approach for estimating uncertainty for PQL [penalized quasi-likelihood] variance estimates, or other frequentist variance estimates. In addition we are able to simultaneously compute marginal posterior inclusion probabilities for both the fixed effects and random effects and correctly locate the true model as the one with highest posterior probability.

black cake

I predict some of this in my future…

crazy american policy bundles

and crazy Ron Paul, from motherjones.

some LTH roundup from today

• new szechuan
• spoon thai and some other thai with erik m. we have to go to spoon instead of sticky rice next time.
• spring world discussion including the secret mushroom menu

Threadless is amazing

Just when I think I am satisfied with a nice collection of fun tshirts comes along something that I don't think I can live without.

Great Neighborhood Restaurants

gmap mashup from LTH; complete text list

apsa: check.

This is a confirmation email to let you know that your 2008 Annual Meeting paper proposal has been received by APSA.

PROPOSAL TITLE: Unmasking the ECJ: National Governemnts, Appointment, and Strategic Justices

PAPER ABSTRACT: Rulings of the European Court of Justice have profoundly affected member states, national governments, and European citizens. The court by some accounts has seized power and overstepped its bounds, or by others, duly done its delegated duty. Almost always “the Court” is treated as an agent of the member-state principals. I argue that member states view not the full Court, but their individual appointed justice, as their agent – despite the court's mask of formalism and the secrecy afforded by its en banc decisions. I show that governments use their power of appointment as a measure of control over the ECJ. I propose a dynamic measure of justices’ preferences that exploits the fact that while justice-votes are unobserved, the organization of the court into panels (subsets) systematically reveals information about individual voting behavior. I show that justices are re-appointed or replaced as functions of information available to the national governments who appoint them. Finally, I explore the role that member state “observations” (briefs submitted to the court) play in justices' decisionmaking, and in terms of what national governments learn from tendering observations and then seeing the court’s ruling.

Submitted to the following divisions:
Div 14 Div. 14 - Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies
Div 11 Div. 11 - Comparative Politics

things to make

• green curry with chicken and eggplants
• prik khing with chicken or beef and longbeans
• leang soup with bamboo shoot, mushroom
• salad of cilantro, mint, tomato, mung bean sprouts, dried shrimp
• cabbage sprouts and tofu with oyster sauce
• a vegetable lasagna for the freezer (spinach, mushrooms, ricotta)
• smoked chicken tamales
• pan fried tofu with marsala cream sauce; salad of romaine, pomegranate, satsuma

things to make this week

• Yeast-raised cornbread
• curried celery root soup
• umbrella-cookies
• quick-fried yu choy & bekana with “brown” sauce
• assorted sweet potato things: ancho-honey; mashed with parmigiano
• garlic naan
• radish parathas

• vanilla-chocolate bread
• pumpkin mousse
• pecan tarts
• butternut squash soup

gobbblllllle

gobbblllllle
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet

When to refinance

via Mankiw

Principles of OS design

I can’t find a better excerpt than the one from /. :

Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn't succeed all the time. Vista goes out of its way to be Vista and enforce the Vista way. You must conform regardless of the implications.

I haven’t yet used Gutsy on a desktop (or upgraded from Feisty on my MythTV), but it sounds like enough of their/gnome developers have finally used OS X to appreciate the “get out of the way” principles that largely drive Apple human interface design. Nowhere of course is it better distilled and applied than in Quicksilver (“Act Without Doing”)

Economists Explain the World, again

More wacky instrumental variables: is leaded gas the next tv-and-autism?

Goat curry

I haven’t made it yet but I certainly plan to soon.

OMG so annoying I agree!

Could the entire subfield of American politics please stop talking about the 77th Congress or the 103rd Congress and start talking about the 1941-42 Congress and the 1993-94 Congress and so forth? This would just make everybody's life easier. —Gelman.

Chicken Paprikás

I have been asked for my tasty chicken paprikás recipe. It's so simple a dish I cannot claim ownership – the one I learned from my grandfather is not really any different from June Meyer's excellent version here. I usually serve it with simple dumplings:

• two flour
• two eggs
• some water (half a cup? more?)

Mix in a bowl with enough water to make a medium-sticky dough. Using a large pot of well salted boiling water, cut dumplings with a spoon directly from the bowl (it will come off easily in the water). I usually do this in two or three batches, skimming them out so they are varying levels of chewy.

Informational Cascades!

in nyt!

Gumbo

Gumbo
Originally uploaded by gay.goy.gourmet

the end of the jerk chicken, m&k andouille, tons of okra. Built on a roux of delicious bacon fat.

foodlist

• gumbo (chicken, andouille, okra)
• black beans and rice
• mushroom risotto
• polenta with goatsbeard blue cheese (!)