Archive: 2013
January 2013
- 02: I Think We Can Speed Up the Drive to Vegas
- 02: Outsourcing is the Most Short-Sighted Business Decision in History
- 02: Newport Harbor Lights
- 02: Tax Rate Hike and Increased Unemployment Payments on the Same Day
- 03: Are Daily Stand-Ups Harming Your Team?
- 03: The Honest Politician
- 04: Thomas Jefferson Solves the Country's Obesity Problem
- 04: 2012: The Year in Books
- 08: Virtual U.
- 08: Napping in Sunshine
- 11: Thomas Jefferson on Why Your Health Insurance Premium is Going Up
- 16: Why Kyrie Irving is a Better Basketball Player Than Anyone in My Family
- 20: Thought That Has Been Thought Out
- 20: Poems I've Read Recently and Liked
- 20: Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
- 23: Screw Economics
- 24: Let Me Tell You What Really Happened
- 24: Shooting the Messenger
- 27: Kobe Bryant, 1978-2013
- 27: Life is Losing
- 27: Coursera Recommendations
- 28: Academically Speaking, I've Still Got the Geedus
- 29: Money
- 29: To Be Safe, Never Say Anything to Anyone
- 30: Confidence
- 31: USC 75, UCLA 71 (OT)
February 2013
- 06: Skepticism
- 07: Mad Libs
- 07: Online Porn May Make You Forget
- 08: Preaching to the Choir
- 12: Facing It
- 12: Poems I've Read Recently and Liked
- 13: Philosophy of Mind
- 17: More People I'm Sick Unto Death Of
- 17: There is a Difference
- 18: Not the Same
- 18: Jerry Buss, 1933-2013
March 2013
- 01: Courage
- 02: At the McDonald's Drive-Thru Window
- 02: The Lesson of Travel
- 02: Belief
- 02: Dare to Be Wise
- 02: Listen
- 03: Risk
- 04: Thousand Oaks
- 05: Technical Debt for PMs
- 06: High Dropout Rates for STEM Majors is NOT a Problem
- 07: More People I'm Sick Unto Death Of
- 08: Two Kinds of People
- 09: Generalists Are Better Than Specialists
- 09: Engineering Humor
- 09: EppsNet Book Reviews: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
- 10: The Epps Ratio
- 10: More People I'm Sick Unto Death Of: Diversity Flacks
- 16: Estimation is Evil
- 17: Socrates' Apology
- 17: Our Children Can Drink Water From Broken Bowls
- 18: Overheard at the Walmart Jewelry Counter
- 19: Overheard at NASA
April 2013
- 01: Advice From My Dad
- 01: Intellectual Giftedness is Not Necessarily Hereditary
- 01: Ocean's Trilogy
- 04: Thanks Anyway
- 04: Manager
- 06: Willpower
- 07: See You in Hell
- 07: Celebrity Photos
- 08: Give a Man a Mask
- 10: Poetry Madness
- 11: EppsNet Book Club
- 11: If I Am Out of My Mind ...
- 11: Home Runs
- 12: Food Trucks
- 12: HW's Movie Reviews: 42
- 12: Riddle
- 14: But THIS Guy, He Might Be For Real
- 14: Watch Out for the Gospel of the Times
- 14: Every New Feature is a New Failure Point
- 14: Opting Out
- 14: When I Was a Child
- 15: Staples: That Wasn't So Easy
- 16: To Be Useful
- 16: Seamless Integration
- 18: These People Who See Right Through You
- 18: Occam Has Mislaid His Razor
- 18: Who Farted?
- 20: Demonizing Bogeymen
- 20: The Lightning-Bug and the Lightning
- 26: He Stopped Loving Her Today
- 27: Always Costly
- 28: The Gettier Problem
- 29: Good News, Bad News
- 30: Are You Experienced?
May 2013
- 02: Bullitt
- 02: Progress
- 05: Thirsty Pug
- 05: You Sat There All Your Life
- 06: Great Wealth Will Not Change Who I Am
- 06: A Waiting Game
- 07: Willing to Try Anything
- 07: Praying vs. Screaming: A Comparative Analysis
- 08: More People I'm Sick Unto Death Of: Alternative Medicine Advocates
- 09: Goals for Today
- 12: Happy Mothers Day!
- 13: Mothers Day is the Biggest Headache on the Calendar
- 14: Word of the Day
- 15: First World Problems
- 17: Steven Miller Out
- 19: Excerpts From President Obama's Commencement Address at Morehouse College
- 19: A Good Picture
- 20: Dance Like Nobody's Watching
- 20: This Is My House
- 21: Happiness
- 22: In the Desert
- 22: How Effective is Prayer as a Tornado Survival Tactic?
- 23: There Was an Old Woman
- 26: To-Do List
- 27: Best Tip for Stress Reduction
- 28: An LSU Football Fan Reacts to the Cam Cameron Hiring
- 29: Shocking News About Soccer
- 29: Do Users Care About Your Latest News?
- 30: Drive Me to the Junkyard in my Cadillac
June 2013
- 01: I Wish
- 03: See You in Hell, Game of Thrones Fans
- 03: I Have Tried to Behave Decently
- 08: We Know What You Like: Cox
- 15: Dogged by Protesters
- 15: You Say Anarchy, Sir, Like It's a Bad Thing
- 16: A Glutton for Punishment
- 16: Happy Fathers Day
- 17: Boring a Lot of People For a Long Time
- 17: Fishy
- 20: Banning Racial Preferences in California Helped Everyone
- 21: James Gandolfini Will See You in Hell
July 2013
- 01: Aside
- 01: EppsNet at the Movies: Mother
- 04: Dilbert: Dating in 2018
- 04: Things That Scare Other People's Dogs Do Not Scare Our Dog
- 05: 1984 is Here
- 08: Homicidal Cab Drivers: Another Reason I Prefer to Just Stay Home
- 11: Joyce Carol Oates Gets Slammed
- 13: As Gently as You Can
- 14: Jane Lynch, Gay Divorcee
- 20: British Humor
- 20: Here is Your Wakeup Call, America: Detroit Just Went Bankrupt
- 20: Blacks Benefit Most from 'Stand Your Ground'
- 21: Voting is Overrated
- 22: But I Didn't Mean It
- 22: I See a City That's Coming Back
- 25: Emily Dickinson Attends a Writing Workshop
- 25: I Am Seeking
- 27: Across U.S. Companies, Tax Rates Vary Greatly - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
- 28: Do You Want to Take the Human Race to the Next Plateau?
- 30: You Don't Understand How Phones Work
- 31: You're Gonna Like the Way You Look
- 31: I Wuz Homeshooled
- 31: Doing What He Loved
August 2013
- 01: Question
- 01: Agile, ALM, and Agile 2.0 — Putting the Cart Before the Horse?
- 02: Dog Eat Dog
- 03: Amateur Design
- 04: Do People Recognize Beauty in Everyday Life?
- 04: Minimizing Retention
- 04: Chaconne
- 06: U.S. Workers Outperform Offshore Staff
- 06: Another Saturday Night
- 06: Profiling
- 07: Pictures of Food
- 08: Software Estimation Options
- 09: Certifications
- 10: Things That Don't Make Sense
- 11: Can You Hate Both Political Parties Equally?
- 11: EppsNet at the Movies: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- 12: Were They Boxers?
- 12: 3 Questions That Get All Women Excited
- 13: Inexplicable Things Happen When You Buy CLIF Bars by the Box
- 14: Doing What He Loved
- 15: We Need More Voter Suppression, Not Less
- 15: Rearview Cameras in Cars
- 17: Is the Medication Working?
- 17: How the Willis Tower Got Its Name
- 19: Hot August Morning
- 19: Targeting the Wealthy Kills Jobs
- 21: Elmore Leonard, 1925-2013
- 22: Tipping Points
- 24: The Kind of Outside-the-Box Thinking That Pays Dividends in Hollywood
- 24: A Tradeoff
- 25: A Lot on My Plate
- 25: The Price is Right
- 25: Animal Cruelty
- 25: More People I'm Sick Unto Death Of
- 27: Do Something Different
- 30: Comedy Pug
- 31: Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
- 31: Sin and Folly
- 31: What You Don't See
September 2013
- 01: Forget What You Can't Bear
- 02: The Unexamined Life
- 02: The Life That Exhibits Itself
- 03: Seeing the Thing Through
- 04: See You in Hell, New Orleans
- 05: I Killed a Guy in Florida
- 05: Eating in Restaurants
- 05: Ronald Coase, 1910-2013
- 07: Taco Warmer
- 08: The Aliens Have Landed in Irvine
- 12: Diagnosis
- 12: If You Quote Poetry at My Death, I Will Haunt You
- 14: A (Nearly) Perfect Murder
- 14: At the Drive-Thru
- 14: See You in HEL
- 14: The White Lexus Strikes Again
- 19: Husband Descending a Staircase
- 19: Interview Tips: You're a 10 in Everything
- 21: Gay Divorcee Wants $94,000 a Month
- 30: Do You Have a 'Right' to Health Care?
October 2013
- 01: Newton's Cradle
- 02: Reality is Not Optional
- 08: ObamaCare Winners and Losers
- 15: The School of Dysfunctional Parenting
- 15: Cleaning on the Day Shift
- 16: And So it Goes
- 19: Snakes. Why'd it Have to Be Snakes?
- 19: We Named the Dog "Indiana"
- 20: How to Talk to Anyone: 6 Rejoinders for All Occasions
- 20: Everyone Was Equal
- 21: When Will Snowden Denounce Russian Spying?
- 21: Which Experts Predicted a Red Sox-Cardinals World Series?
- 24: Mates and Dates
- 26: The Most Spectacular Libraries in the World
- 27: Lightning's 6 Keys to Marital Bliss
- 30: Some Links
- 31: Politics: The Profession of Scoundrels
- 31: Thank You for Smoking
November 2013
- 10: Six Drucker Questions that Simplify a Complex Age
- 10: EppsNet Book Reviews: The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- 10: Marilyn Monroe Was a Size 12 and Einstein Was a Moron
- 11: More Words and Phrases I'm Sick Unto Death Of
- 15: The Best-Laid Plans . . .
- 17: Fast Work
- 17: Both Sides of the Case
- 18: Obama Did Not Lie
- 19: How to Save a Lot of Time in Interviews
- 22: Clifford Nass, 1958-2013
- 22: Heredity
- 22: World Ends: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit
- 24: Great Moments in Presidential Prevarication
- 24: Enough of the Mealy-Mouthed Obamacare Excuses!
- 29: Indian Givers
- 29: Three Classes of Men
- 30: It Is Hard Living Down the Tempers We Are Born With
- 30: Are Walmart Employees Underpaid?
- 30: Why Aren’t Women Interested in Computer Science?
- 30: What Satan Lacked Was a Strategy
- 30: Belly of the Whale
December 2013
- 01: Another Smoking Gun on "Keep Your Coverage"
- 01: IRS Refunds $4 Billion to Identity Thieves
- 01: Waving Bibles at Scientists
- 04: Nobody Realizes
- 04: The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates
- 06: Friends Are Inconvenient
- 06: A $15 Minimum Wage is Not Going to Help You
- 07: We're Still Smarter Than You Are
- 07: The Surest Way to Corrupt a Youth
- 08: The Antidote for 50 Enemies
- 09: ADHD in the Making
- 09: Bettie Page Reveals All
- 09: Passing the Cloudera Hadoop Certification Exam
- 10: Unconstrained Thinkers
- 10: 150 Years and Counting
- 12: Which Experts Predicted a Florida St-Auburn Title Game?
- 12: All Projects Should Be Early
- 12: Farewell, My Lovely
- 13: Making Life Look Good
- 15: Vintage Photos Of Hollywood Dressed Up For Christmas
- 15: My Horoscope
- 17: A Display of Interest, However Shallow
- 17: The Fine Art of Tough Love
- 17: Kids Should Study Math and Science, Say Adults Who Never Studied Math or Science
- 18: Plans for My Lottery Winnings
- 18: Lottery Update
- 19: We're Supporting Tolerance and Inclusion by Telling People to Shut the Hell Up
- 20: Japan, Day 0: Floyd Mayweather at Panda Express
- 22: Japan, Day 1: Osaka Castle, Todai-ji Temple, Kiyomizu Temple
- 23: Japan, Day 2: Kinkakuji Temple, Nishijin Textile Center, Tea Ceremony, Bullet Train, Atami
- 24: Japan, Day 3: Atami, Lake Ashi, Owakudani, Mount Fuji, Shinjuku
- 25: Japan, Day 4: Tsukiji Fish Market, Asakusa, Imperial Palace, Odaiba, Christmas
- 26: Japan, Day 5: Snow Monkeys, Yudanaka
- 27: Japan, Day 6: Matusmoto Castle, Travel Day
- 28: Japan, Day 7: Ginza
- 29: Japan, Day 8: Walking in Tokyo
- 30: Thoughts on a Turbulent Flight
- 31: 30 Feet Away
- 31: Topics for 2014
- 31: 2013: The Year in Books