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Late January 2020: Snow for Sunday
We had a good snowfall on Thanksgiving Sunday. Jane drove Betty back to Cudahy on some sloppy roads. We had more snow the weekend of the...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 14, 20232 min read
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Winter 2019-20: Memories of cold
The temperature will not go above zero here for another hour, around 11:00 a.m. I woke this morning with my new iPad and decided to...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 14, 20233 min read
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Thoughts on sustaining development
Matt Ridley: "When I was a student here in Oxford in the 1970s, the future of the world was bleak. The population explosion was...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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Hinman College, 1969-1974
On the left is Lehman Hall, much like it looked when I arrived in September 1969. The window on the second floor, above the main entrance...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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December 2019: Scotland 1984 and 2020 (postponed)
Ready for my fifth visit to the great northern European city of Edinburgh. [NOTE: The trip had been booked in late December 2019 for an...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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October 2019: Baby, it's cold outside: Harrison v Laramie
It's cold. More like the Eden 'cold' than I've known in almost fifty years, and that was before the weather report included a 'wind chill...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20233 min read
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October 2019: Dirty work
Creating a loan from mud a lawn and remembering a great college intramural team. They're both "dirty work." The exterior of our new home...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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October 2019: Happy Harrison homeowner
Driving to our new home this week... The past five weeks have been a whirlwind of planes, trains, automobiles and moving trucks. From...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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December 31, 2019: Waiting for 2020
First a warm Sunday drive from Milwaukee, then a small blizzard drive with Dena and Gaby to Crunch for a workout, and now a frosty...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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December 2019: Set for the first Christmas in our new home
Ready for Jane and Gaby to come home for Christmas at Touchdown.

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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November 2019: First snow
Harrison. Our first fall. And snow before Halloween. After three weeks of mild, pleasant weather we had a light dusting of snow...

Peter Lorenzi
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February 2023: Judith Curry
With Jordan Peterson, why the climate change hysteria is wrong.

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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February 10, 2023: Florida v New York
February 10, 2023. More details here.

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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August 209: College search memories
Dad and Gaby on the (Huntington) beach, late March 2016, at the height of height of her college search. We did not even have UCLA...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Summer 2019: Touchdown! We are floored!
Jane Q provided this wonderful update on our new home. Hard to believe that in less than than eight weeks this will be our next home....

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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December 2019: Memories of Jane and musings on choices
Dad does his best Armani ad impression with two-year old Jane in my lap. Sometimes the most casual, spontaneous of photos turn out to be...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Lessons learned, Part One: Learning from my mistakes
Memories from my Binghamton MBA studies, 1973-75. Binghamton University -- at the time I attended (1969-1975) it was the State University...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Lessons learned, Part Three: Last thoughts
So what are we to learn (form my mistakes)? I often told my students that much real learning came from mistakes, more than from...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20231 min read
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Lessons learned, Part Two: Learn from others' mistakes
The 1975 Binghamton MBA lesson of the limited inventory, continued. So if you see the competition offer a new product that produces only...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20233 min read
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Junior business faculty office, University of Kansas 1980
Rotary phone, clock radio, Rolodex, leather day planner, chalkboard -- antiques! I commenced my full-time, professional, professorial...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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