http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/ This is a place for John Tyler Connoley to post pieces that are shorter than the essays at http://tylersturn.com en-us 2009-11-20T02:11+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1258682897.shtml The Powerblogs website, which hosts this blog, is going out of business as of November 30th. So, I'm moving to blogger.... John Tyler Connoley 2009-11-20T02:11+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1258682542.shtml I recently had a reason to go through my old poetry, and I found this poem, which I wrote in 2001. It had potential but wasn't quite working. So I took... John Tyler Connoley 2009-11-20T02:11+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1256236680.shtml Last Saturday, during the day, Rob and I took the Second Class bus from Oaxaca, where we were vacationing, to Teotitlan del Valle, an artist community about twenty miles outside the... John Tyler Connoley 2009-10-22T18:10+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1249160400.shtml ... John Tyler Connoley 2009-08-01T21:08+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1226159607.shtml This morning in the shower, I was thinking about a letter I wanted to write to President Obama. (I write a lot of letters to my representatives in government.) Then I... John Tyler Connoley 2008-11-08T15:11+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1224972968.shtml As John Connor's son, I was a little taken aback by the RFP from the Pentagon titled "Multi-Robot Pursuit System." According to this document, the government is looking for someone... John Tyler Connoley 2008-10-25T22:10+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1222356088.shtml The worst thing about John McCain's silly idea to suspend his campaign until an economic package is hammered out is that it's adding to the panic. Remember the story of Chicken... John Tyler Connoley 2008-09-25T15:09+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1222286651.shtml Those who prefer a well-regulated, European-style economy are gloating these days about the meltdown on Wall Street. It would be easy to assume that the events of the last few weeks... John Tyler Connoley 2008-09-24T20:09+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1221577947.shtml I found this article on the dangers of email quite interesting. I turned off my auto-download feature a long time ago, so I'm not worried about wasting "8 1/2 hours... John Tyler Connoley 2008-09-16T15:09+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1220675349.shtml Today, like every good Northern European in Silver City, I made my annual visit to the skin doctor to have my moles checked. I had a rash on my upper lip... John Tyler Connoley 2008-09-06T04:09+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1220638868.shtml from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.... John Tyler Connoley 2008-09-05T18:09+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1220024685.shtml For what it's worth: According to an article written by Joce Berg, et al, and published in the International Journal of Forecasting (there's a journal for everything), prediction markets, like... John Tyler Connoley 2008-08-29T15:08+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1219878697.shtml When I was in Junior High, I read the Asimov Robot and Foundation series, and became enamored with the Cities. These were mostly underground complexes that stretched over vast swaths of... John Tyler Connoley 2008-08-27T23:08+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1219795272.shtml As a believer in free markets, one of my favorite prediction tools is Intrade. The idea of Intrade is that people are allowed to buy and trade shares in things... John Tyler Connoley 2008-08-27T00:08+00:00 http://tylersturn.powerblogs.com/posts/1219794137.shtml As the name of Joe Biden was bandied about in the past few weeks, and then when he became the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, I kept getting him confused in my mind... John Tyler Connoley 2008-08-26T23:08+00:00