October 15, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:We aim to please
Readers have requested more pictures. Here's a black and white snap that didn't make the head shot cut.
As you can see, my desk is not going to be nominated for any Good Housekeeping awards.
Diet Coke, The breakfast of champions.....
the pic looks great. but remember a clean disk is a sign of a cluttered and dirty mind.
Posted by: Frank Martin on October 15, 2003 05:31 PMGorgeous she may be, but what a piker at messy desks! You can still see the surface; ergo, it's not really messy.
:-)
Posted by: Kirk Parker on October 15, 2003 07:53 PMBut you're beautiful! Why have you hidden yourself from us for so long Meg, er..., I mean Jane. Right off the the bat we know you're brilliant. Then we learn you're tall. And now we see you are beautiful. Brilliant, beautiful, and tall. We are not worthy...
Posted by: Steve Chamberlain on October 15, 2003 10:11 PMMy first visit to your BLOG.
You write thoughtfully about economics and I look forward to reading more.
Nice to SEE your symmetry, however.
Regards.
mt
For some reason I thought you were blond. My God, you're beautiful (but don't even think it; I'm taken).
Posted by: Roger Sweeny on October 15, 2003 10:36 PMAye, Jane is indeed pretty, but methinks you all may need to get out a wee bit more.
Posted by: Bob Dobalina on October 15, 2003 10:54 PMLeonardo's The Annunciation. Now that's a classy lady.
Posted by: Michael Ubaldi on October 15, 2003 11:38 PMJust saw your picture for the first time. Have to say you are really beautiful. Are you really 6'2" tall?
Posted by: madman on October 16, 2003 12:26 AMJust saw your picture for the first time. Have to say you are really beautiful. Are you really 6'2" tall?
Posted by: madman on October 16, 2003 12:27 AMGlad I ain't the only gal around with a cluttered desk! Nice picture...
Posted by: Rhesa on October 16, 2003 12:55 AMI think Bob Dobalina hit the nail on the head :)
Posted by: anony-mouse on October 16, 2003 12:58 AMCaptions?
ZZZZZZZZZZZ...Oh yes, Brad.....Oh, Leonardo, you're here too?...
"Huh? What? Umm, yeah. No, I was just resting my eyes."
Posted by: onlykidding on October 16, 2003 03:20 AMThe photographer has a good eye. What could have easily been just a color snapshot of a workspace is instead a nicely composed b/w portrait of no small interest. Well done.
Posted by: rastajenk on October 16, 2003 08:06 AMGee, how's it feel to know a bunch of blog-dweebs are going to be abusing themselves to your picture?
Posted by: eric on October 16, 2003 08:42 AMSome pictures aren't work-safe. This one isn't home-safe, at least not for us married guys. ;)
Posted by: Jay Manifold on October 16, 2003 08:46 AMBet you guys are jealous that she's never declared her love for you.
But I'm not going to comment in case my wife reads this.
Posted by: Rob Lyman on October 16, 2003 09:58 AMMegan's desk is not messy, or at least if it is she is a Rank-Amatuer at messy desks (that is the official international classification).
Yes, I can attest to the fact that Meg is both 6'2" tall and she was blonde as a child (at least when she was about 2 and 1/2).
I would like to know how the new apartment is.
Posted by: Kate on October 16, 2003 10:21 AM"Hands off! She's mine! Mine, I tell ya!
Mine mine mine mine..."
"Hands off! She's mine! Mine, I tell ya!
Mine mine mine mine..."
Wow. Not only are you lovely, but that's a great photograph. Almost enough to make me become a libertarian. ;)
Posted by: Jim Causey on October 16, 2003 01:08 PMI'm in love. More pictures please.
Beautiful, intelligent and cultured...perfect.
Ay she's beautiful and brainy, with the sexy glasses. But she's a mouse abuser, check out the sad smudged thing on the pad. I can imagine the popping of plastic heard when she crushes it while reading the latest in the comments :)
Posted by: Chris Sandvick on October 16, 2003 01:30 PMI think it would be nice if you would style your site like Jennifer Aniston's or Diane Lane's. Specifically, you should include a photo gallery. Action shots are nice. A few suggestions: you doing your nails, brushing your hair, playing chess, playing golf, playing tennis, swimming, diving, running around at the beach, playing vollyball (at the beach), shopping, washing your car, emptying wastebaskets, cooking steak, mopping the floor, taking in the mail, cleaning out the garage, killing wasps, brushing your teeth, putting on your make-up, talking on the phone, digging in the garden, adding RAM, shelving books, shopping, riding your bike, daydreaming, dreaming, listening to music, etc. These are just a few ideas, I am sure you have your own.
Posted by: Joel on October 16, 2003 07:17 PMDear Jane:
A beautiful mind AND face. You cast pearls before swine, but the ultimate cruelty is cheating us out of a look at your beautiful green eyes.
Maybe next time, a quick glance at your soul?
Posted by: Monte on October 16, 2003 08:43 PMThe big book to the left is Neal Stephenson. The one next to it popular fare, maybe Postrel. One of the books stacked on the back shelf is Hayek's Constitution of Liberty.
Posted by: peal on October 16, 2003 09:25 PMMaybe next time, a quick glance at your soul?
Her soul is currently trapped in an obsidian urn that I keep on my mantelpiece. It's a trick Screamin' Jay Hawkins taught me before he passed. Viewing hours by appointment.
Posted by: Brian on October 17, 2003 12:40 AM"Her soul is currently trapped in an obsidian urn that I keep on my mantelpiece. It's a trick Screamin' Jay Hawkins taught me before he passed. Viewing hours by appointment."
You were duped, my friend! Screamin Jay Hawkins was an insurgent Kikuyu tribesman who sold obsidian urns filled with alligator wine, not souls.
Besides, obsidian is translucent and amorphous, which is incompatible with asymmetrical information.
Posted by: Monte on October 17, 2003 01:57 AMBut mightn't we press for some new pictures of your obscenely cute children? It's been quite a while.
Posted by: Jane Galt on October 17, 2003 07:26 AMWow, all those brains, and looks, too!
So, will we hearing:
"Yeah, I read 'Asymmetrical Information' .. but only for the economic stuff..."
Right.....
Megan is indeed quite attractive, but, assuming that picture accurately represents her, is unfortunately not exactly my type. It's funny how attraction works, isn't it? It's a bit difficult for me to express, but did you ever instantly know you were going to like and trust someone for a long, long time?
Maybe you only read their blog for a short while but it seemed that you had known them your whole life, as if there were a timeless connection between you.
As you read these words and remember those amazing feelings, it's good to know that sometimes life has a way of making us remember those things, right prior to discovering that we can experience those feelings again...
With me... in my experience, it's the kind of thing that can't be forced and no essay or words can create it. Words and appearances are only expressions, the vehicles that contain the essence that moves us. It can only happen naturally as the expression of an energy between two people, but when it does...it's just like that feeling of incredible bonding, when all the barriers melt and drop way, and two people come together, fused into one spiritual essence, the mingling of energies feeding one to the other, building and increasing and intensifying, mingling into an expression of aliveness that words can initiate but never capture fully.
It has instead to be indulged inside your own imagination...dwelled on, contemplated, experienced, deep, deep inside you. I do not know if you are the kind of person that can imagine enjoying that that kind connection, with someone wonderful who deeply moves you.
But if you could envision the possibility and feel it opening now before you, drawing you irresistibly forward, how powerfully could you feel that urge to learn more?
Posted by: Lonewacko: I Blogged Across America on October 17, 2003 10:54 AM*blinks at the post above hers* Right. *backs away slowly*
Anyway...Silly! Took you long enough to start posting pictures! Now, does this mean I don't have to block out your face from BloggerBash pictures anymore? ;)
Posted by: Ravenwolf on October 17, 2003 02:44 PMRemind me to email you a picture of my desk, once I figure out where it is. Right now it (at least apparently; don't want to assume too much) supports a large Dell monitor, a monitor for my HP workstation, two meeses, a couple of keyboards, a telephone, several coffee cups (variously Dilbertian and program-related, and containing unique and highly complex lifeforms), notepads containing everything I've done over the last three years or so...the rest is obscured.
Good photo. Since the comments on your appearance have already been...done and done again, I'll restrain myself.
Posted by: David Perron on October 17, 2003 03:00 PMYou are freightening looking. Which is to say you look like my ex-wife. You're not, are you?
Posted by: Bill Kaplan on October 19, 2003 02:30 PMFirst visit to your site. Who's your daddy? Just kidding...good shit. I've blog rolled it.
Posted by: SageOne on October 23, 2003 11:29 AMAye carumba! As lovely as I (and many others, it appears) had imagined. Thanks, Megan!
Posted by: david on October 28, 2003 01:05 AMWell, the Blog Chicks Pix collection inspired by this post created a huge surge in traffic for OTB and many of the gals linked--with a couple of prominent bloggers noting a surge of 2000+ visits yesterday alone. Your name and this post are linked at the very top of it but, oddly, if your referrer log at the bottom of the page is right, you got only a 100-odd hits. Hmmm.
Posted by: James Joyner on October 29, 2003 08:17 PMComments are Closed.