Quote of the Day

This is the abstract from a 30 year old paper by Paul Krugman.

This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to.an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved.

The last sentence was so great I had to stop and post this. Via Just An Earthbound Misfit and Free OCR, which worked perfectly this time.

The original document is an image. To get the text into this post, I:

• selected the area containing the text and I wanted,
  
• copied it to the Windows clipboard,
  
• pasted it into a new image in the Microsoft Paint program,
• saved the image as a TIF file on my desktop where it would be easy to find,
• opened the file using the Browse button on the OCR web page, and

Presto! Plain text!