假如我是劉先生

Disclaimer: All the following did not happen

At a press conference:


Reporter: What are your feelings now that 1.3 billion are sad that you could not compete the other day?

Mr Liu: You see, I do this stuff because I like it, I enjoy it, not because 1.3 billion people want me to do it. Make this fact clear, will you?

Tomorrow, if I decide to be a marathon runner, that is what I will do, and I won't do what people want me or expect me to do, or even what my country wants me to do, have I made myself crystal clear?

Reporter: Will you compete again in four years?

Will you marry in four years, who knows? And who would plan that far anyway. Again I might decide to compete in the marathon event in 2012.

Reporter: What is your future plan then?

No, I do not have a plan, the government has a plan, the police has a plan, I DON'T.

Next question please...

林行止、香港、會計師

「香港怪現象之最是會計師經常評論政經事務，此為世界所無的香港畸態。」

The above line appears in Mr Lam's column today. Right on. More here.

My Mentor

In reviewing this book written by my former thesis advisor Richard Wagner, Peter Boettke wrote in the Austrian Economists :

"Wagner is perhaps the best political economist in the Viriginia School tradition, and he is amazingly creative in the way he utlizes the history of ideas (in politics, philosophy, sociology, and economics) and contemporary streams of research (Austrian, public choice, new institutional, economic sociology, agent based computational modeling, emergence studies, etc.) to address the intricate matrix of institutions and human behavior that produce social order."

Wagner was a student of Nobel Laureate Jim Buchanan and he once told me he was Ronald Coase's, another Nobel Laureate, research assistant while at graduate school.

覆讀者明：感謝您的支持，想不到兩年多後仍有人記得何洋這名字。那兩年爬格子歲月可能真的沒有白費。

記招

X -- 記者
Y -- 天才

X: 可否說一下你 n 歲入大學的感想？
Y: N*N = N to the power 2

X: 和比你年長的同學溝通有困難嗎？
Y: 你不是比我年長嗎？你說我們溝通有問題嗎？

X: 你最敬佩的人是...
Y : Fischer Black

X: 什麽？誰？可否再說一遍？是不是你老爸？
Y: Oh no, forget it. Next!

What's New at My Alma Mater?

New faces, many of them.

Read more here.

In case you don't know, one of my former teachers is having an on-going, on-line book forum on his blog, here is the first installment.

I Wish I Were Him

But I am not. Here is Gary Shiu.