Cav's Place

I have recently found myself saying a couple of times that I know exactly what I want that money can’t buy, but have no idea what I want which could be bought. That doesn’t mean I don’t know the product categories. I know I want carpets for my room and a good video card and […]

This post is going to be a collection of thoughts regarding this season and all the consumerist insanity and stupidity it generates, so I’m going to move from one to another rather quickly. They are just my usual thoughts about these things, so it seems rather pointless to delve deeply into them yet again. Giving […]

I wrote that putting a price tag on nature according to the monetary value of the services it provides to humans can be useful in persuading authorities and companies to care for it if all fair methods fail, at least until cheaper methods of providing the same services become available. It’s obviously wrong to look […]

Since their pockets are one of the many things humans think with when their brains can’t handle the complexity of the process, which is often, a lot of things can be accomplished by using money to generate a response. Humans are just animals, after all. Offer something they greatly desire and they will come to […]

This post has been sitting in my drafts for a very long time and it’s not about being an open book, but actually about books. The title comes from a question I saw on OkCupid once, which asked where would you choose to place a glass of water if you had to let go of […]