Stuart Eugene Thiel


Greetings.

I'm Stuart Thiel, Chicago ex-lawyer, not Stuart Thiel, Montreal Web ace.
(No relation. Oddly enough, we both have brothers named David Thiel. (They're no relation, either.))

(Added June 2005: Apparently there's yet another Stuart Thiel, an architecture student at the University of Florida. We're multiplying!!)

If you're thinking maybe you know me, I'm the guy who:

Was born in Washington DC in 1955;
Grew up in Epping Forest, near Annapolis, Maryland;
Attended, among others, Key School, Rolling Knolls, Bay Country School, Annapolis High (class of '72), and
Anne Arundel Community College;
Was a mediocre Civil Air Patrol cadet;
Served in the U.S. Army, 8th Finance Co., Bad Kreuznach, '73-'76;
Graduated from Cal-Davis, class of '79;
Did graduate work in economics at Duke ('79-'80) and Wisconsin ('81-'86);
Taught economics at Washington State University, '86-'93;
Attended Michigan Law, Summer Starter, '93-'95;
Practiced corporate (tax) law, Chicago, '96-'03;
Taught economics at DePaul University, Chicago, '03-'07;
Eased into semi-retirement, July 2007.

curriculum vitae

e-mail: stuart.thiel -{{at]]- gmail.com Pages on this site (all is original content written by me):

Marvin Gardens' Monopoly Page
Chutes and Ladders
The Optimal Strategy for the Penny-Nickel-Dime-Quarter-Dollar Game (as taught to my daughter in the second grade)

QWERTYUIOP: Words you can type using only the top line of typewriter keys
ETAOIN SHRDLU (Letter Frequencies for three novels: Tom Jones, Bleak House, Women In Love)

A Day at the Bank: A Dialogue inspired by Groucho and Chico
Clevinger's Hearing (a short skit adapted from Catch-22)
The Cold Christmas Cat (A realio trulio children's story -- no tricks)



Here are two adventures-at-sea by William Clark Russell. Russell was very popular in the late Victorian era. Conan Doyle, famously, depicted Dr. Watson whiling away a stormy afternoon engrossed in one (alas, neither Doyle nor Watson gave us the title). I copied these for Project Gutenberg a while back, but somehow I could not satisfy them that the
books had been published before 1923 (and are therefore in the public domain), even though Russell had died several years earlier.

The Frozen Pirate (1883)
The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877)


Project Gutenberg did e-publish my scans of two classics by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

The Path of the Law (10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897))
The Common Law (1881)

Links (you'll quickly notice a theme):

BartCop
BuzzFlash
Daily Howler
The Daily Kos
Eschaton
Josh Marshall
MaxSpeak
Smirking Chimp
TBOGG.com

Here are my contributions to the genre:

Professor Pollkatz's Pool of Polls
Slander: Liberally Lying About Liberals
Dr. Limerick's Daily Limerick (an archive of daily limericks from October 2000 through July 2002)