Actuary with Milliman, Inc. specializing in disability and group life insurance. Reader, writer, poet and runner.
Portland, ME
Joined October 2011
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Also the tall bookshelf in my home office....
"There's only a handful of poetry libraries in the world, and the Poetry Foundation’s sprawling 30,000-volume library in Chicago is one of the most impressive collections."
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Recommended reading, especially for my Cleveland friends. A great memoir of a struggling English major who takes a job in a Cleveland steel mill. I'd driven past the mill 1,000 times on I-71. Here, finally, is a chance to see inside. @skrticx @oneofmanymikes @derfbackderf
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Looking for some humorous reading? Or a crime novel? Or maybe just something starring an #actuary? Well, you're in luck. Here's my review of two Finnish novels by @antti_tuomainen that fit all those criteria.
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Looking for some humorous reading? Or a crime novel? Or maybe just something starring an #actuary? Well, you're in luck. Here's my review of two Finnish novels that fit all those criteria. @Actuary_Dot_Org
contingencies.org/the-finnis…
C'mon, fellow actuaries. 2,000 years isn't 20 decades. It's 200 decades, or 20 centuries. Not sure if that's a math lesson or a Latin lesson.
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I've written a few essays about Wallace Stevens, and his careers in insurance and poetry. Here's a link to my review of two interesting books about this brilliant and fascinating poet. (Download the pdf to read it).
milliman.com/en/insight/wall…
Poets have strange biographies almost as a rule, but Wallace Stevens' stands out. He worked his entire life as an insurance executive, kept his personal life completely out of his poetry, and didn't publish his first book until he was 44. youtu.be/f2Djdm_Ykww
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Sometime I forget just how beautiful numbers can be. Here’s a wonderful example.
Start with 82 and go backwards to 1
8281807978777675747372717069686 7666564636261605958575655545352 5150494847464544434241403938373 6353433323130292827262524232221 2019181716151413121110987654321
...this number is prime!
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Great sports feature article. And not only because it contains the phrase “jerk filter”. nytimes.com/2022/12/06/magaz…
When this site disappears you can find me in the phone book. Now let me explain what a phone is. And what a book is....
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Biology seems oddly out of place here.
The @TatteredCover bookshops at the Denver airport aren’t that big, but twice this year I’ve walked in and immediately found a book I hadn’t been able to find anywhere else. What sorcery is this?
Fascinating difference between what voters want and what legislators act on. It passed by ballot initiative in Maine and was still blocked by then Gov Paul LePage. Probably a big factor in his worse-than-expected loss yesterday to Janet Mills.
Here’s my nominee for all-time Browns fan. It’s Abe Abraham, who prowled the end zone for decades in a brown suit retrieving extra points and FGs. He died in 1982. RIP
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The rise of remote work arrangements will be a more fundamental change to the job market than the direct impact of the pandemic. Here is one of the ways in which it is good news. nytimes.com/2022/10/25/busin…
Tried to buy a banana at O’Hare today for $1.67 in exact change. Three managers and 5 minutes later they still had no idea how to accept cash. Finally let me have it for free, even after I offered a card. Not sure this business model is working.
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My #actuary friends won’t be surprised that this was the 1st page of the 1st book I opened at the store today. By Robert Service.
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