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Friday, February 14, 2014
Somewhat Amusing
If training this year is slow, at least I can enjoy a hangover reward from 2013. I just got this e-mail today. It appears I am ranked 796 out of ~18000 in my age group around the world for "Ironman Overall." I have not a clue what is the ranking algorithm, although it clearly includes a bump for the number of races run. Thus, I am 1670 of ~10,000 in the world in full IM races but much more competitive in overall -- even though my finish in Tahoe was much more competitive than my average finish in the two races (Tahoe plus Timberman) that I ran.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
A Run
No attempt at crafting a lyric title this time. Just the word "run" is poetry enough.
On the first day with temperatures above freezing in what seems like months, I joined the school running club for 6.2 miles from school, around the downtown canal, along the White River (aptly named this winter!), and back across campus on mixed pavement, slush, snow, and occasional ice-and-water. J__, J__, and I broke off the front of the pack. Thankfully they still respected my age, infirmity, and weakened lungs. Good conversation, a comfortable pace, and a comfortable temperature.
I concentrated on careful leg turnover and a light touch on the ground and for the first time since maybe last July I'm done with a run and feeling none the worse for wear.
Readership be warned: excessive blogging under the header "today's run was awesome!" may be on the return.
On the first day with temperatures above freezing in what seems like months, I joined the school running club for 6.2 miles from school, around the downtown canal, along the White River (aptly named this winter!), and back across campus on mixed pavement, slush, snow, and occasional ice-and-water. J__, J__, and I broke off the front of the pack. Thankfully they still respected my age, infirmity, and weakened lungs. Good conversation, a comfortable pace, and a comfortable temperature.
I concentrated on careful leg turnover and a light touch on the ground and for the first time since maybe last July I'm done with a run and feeling none the worse for wear.
Readership be warned: excessive blogging under the header "today's run was awesome!" may be on the return.
Comcast-Time Warner
Looking forward to discussing Comcast-Time Warner merger this evening on Chicago Tonight on WWTW,
Will also be doing 400 word op-ed for Tribune on the topic. Since its due tomorrow by 2PM that will be next blog post.
What are the odds of a consent decree that looks a lot like Comcast-NBC Universal and doesn;t do a whole lot for competition?
Will also be doing 400 word op-ed for Tribune on the topic. Since its due tomorrow by 2PM that will be next blog post.
What are the odds of a consent decree that looks a lot like Comcast-NBC Universal and doesn;t do a whole lot for competition?
Foot Dr.
Well, the foot doctor grudgingly cleared me to run a bit, starting Sunday. I promised to (1) not run every day, (2) be careful, (3) stick to the treadmill, and (4) to avoid hills, holes and acceleration. Next appointment in two weeks, orthotics, I think. . . Woohoo!!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Cutest Antitrust Email Ever
Hopefully this is real and not one of you messing with me.
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Hi Dr. Waller,
My
name is Alysse and I am a seventh grader at Riviera
Hall Lutheran School located in Southern California. I am doing a
research project on Anti-trust laws, Standard Oil, and John D.
Rockefeller and wish to ask you two questions. From my research, I feel
that you would be someone experienced enough to offer insight
into my topic.
Please respond to the following two questions:
1. What is the main reason why an antitrust lawsuit
was filed against standard?
2. Why did John D. Rockefeller go into the oil business,
and how did the business become so big?
I am so grateful for your input. I chose this topic
because I wanted to learn about it and research it, and your input would be so valuable to me.
Please respond to this as soon as you can, and I
appreciate your time helping me with my project.
Sincerely,
Alysse Hatakeyama
Monday, February 10, 2014
MRI and What's Next
I've been rather quiet relative to the past 4 1/2 years on this blog because I have not had a run, or a ride, or even a swim that I'm just dying to gush about. Prediction: that is about to change.
Today was my MRI. I will bet $10 (takers? You are probably safe -- I bet on the Broncos last week) that the diagnosis is "tendinosis." I will move quickly to blame co-bloggers on a theory of electronic contagion. Tendinosis is, of course, a degenerative problem in the tendon caused by overuse, the cure for which is less use.
My cure will be different use. I'm planning to run in two ways: shorter and faster and longer and slower. I want to find some trails that disappear into the woods and do not emerge until long after the batteries on my iPod wear down. The next day I want to set a few PRs in distances that I deeply fear, like the 10K, 8K, 5K -- even 2 and 1 mile. I'd like to win my age group a few times and run long miles with no competitive goal whatever. I hope to break last year's record of three runs with co-bloggers. Four? Even five?
I've now been in off mode since early October when I ditched my plans to run the Rehoboth Beach marathon. I think I have decided that the way back to "on" is to redefine the term, for a while at least. Breaking three hours can wait until 2015.
Today was my MRI. I will bet $10 (takers? You are probably safe -- I bet on the Broncos last week) that the diagnosis is "tendinosis." I will move quickly to blame co-bloggers on a theory of electronic contagion. Tendinosis is, of course, a degenerative problem in the tendon caused by overuse, the cure for which is less use.
My cure will be different use. I'm planning to run in two ways: shorter and faster and longer and slower. I want to find some trails that disappear into the woods and do not emerge until long after the batteries on my iPod wear down. The next day I want to set a few PRs in distances that I deeply fear, like the 10K, 8K, 5K -- even 2 and 1 mile. I'd like to win my age group a few times and run long miles with no competitive goal whatever. I hope to break last year's record of three runs with co-bloggers. Four? Even five?
I've now been in off mode since early October when I ditched my plans to run the Rehoboth Beach marathon. I think I have decided that the way back to "on" is to redefine the term, for a while at least. Breaking three hours can wait until 2015.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Competition Law
Okay, I know I usually only post here about running, or, more recently about not running. But today I'm going to post about competition law. I have been wondering recently about the status of the antitrust course in the modern law school curriculum. When I was in law school everybody took it. But that was back in the 1980s when folks didn't yet realize that the Reagan revolution was permanent.
By the time I went on the teaching market, I proposed to teach antitrust, but most schools' priorities were elsewhere. One school that made me an offer said they didn't think there was sufficient student interest to even offer the course. Since Spencer left Brooklyn many moons ago, the hole has never been filled. Indeed, the gap has existed for so long that my colleagues don't even realize that it exists.
In my view, antitrust is foundational. It is the one place in the law school curriculum where we expose law students to the basic economics of business regulation and market structure. My fear is that our students get haphazard exposure to these topics at best. The modern paradigm is financial services regulation, which is devoted to preventing fraud rather than addressing market structure. Students get bits and pieces of theory about global markets in an international trade course, but there are too many other things going on in that course for that to be sufficient.
I guess my question for the group is whether this is a problem at one school, or is it a deeper problem in the law school curriculum??
By the time I went on the teaching market, I proposed to teach antitrust, but most schools' priorities were elsewhere. One school that made me an offer said they didn't think there was sufficient student interest to even offer the course. Since Spencer left Brooklyn many moons ago, the hole has never been filled. Indeed, the gap has existed for so long that my colleagues don't even realize that it exists.
In my view, antitrust is foundational. It is the one place in the law school curriculum where we expose law students to the basic economics of business regulation and market structure. My fear is that our students get haphazard exposure to these topics at best. The modern paradigm is financial services regulation, which is devoted to preventing fraud rather than addressing market structure. Students get bits and pieces of theory about global markets in an international trade course, but there are too many other things going on in that course for that to be sufficient.
I guess my question for the group is whether this is a problem at one school, or is it a deeper problem in the law school curriculum??
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