Dr Boje: I wanted to thank you for the important part you played in my doctoral journey. Dr Alana James, Dr Tojo Thatchenkery and Dr Ken Wall approved my dissertation and defense at Colorado Tech on Oct 6, 2011and have booted me out onto the road to begin the next phase of my journey: applying […]
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Awesome cloudbank last night coming home from Denver
wish i’d have had a camera on the plane last night coming back from Denver the pilot says “we are going to go around this large weather front just east of Denver“ he wasnt kidding. it was early evening so we had evening lighting of a storm front that was 200 miles long from north […]
“Conclusions” about efficacy of Khan Academy
Mark Guzdial‘s always thoughtful blog on issues associated with computer science education, and larger education topics, surfaces this discussion of Khan Academy efficacy. My notes to self: This is why Research is capitalized in Action Research dont confuse activity with results. understand the importance of experimental design and critical thinking about conclusions that may be fairly […]
Leavenworth Thunder post-tournament letter to parents
am very pleased with the girls effort this weekend. we had one bad half in the first game where we couldnt hold on to our lead. we used that experience to talk about the difference between confidence and mental toughness. Mental toughness, we decided is having the will and courage to get back up after […]
experiment with housewives trading the futures during one of the most volatile weeks in the last 50 years
the ladies traded very well, netting 2K for the week, using simple support & resistance levels, with good risk management and money management techniques. they traded 2 indices: Russell2000 and the DJIA, at contract per trade, with an initial risk of 250; they added some practrice tardes in some currencies later in the week fro […]
Trading experimentation: ticks vs price charts
am very pleased and interested in the results of using tick charts in short term futures trading tick charts do a good job of mapping the psychology implied in price changes in a regular wave, calibrated by decisions made, rather than in decisions over time in some ways it is the conceptual equivalent of point […]
Rick Perry: the male Sarah Palin
Obama is as vulnerable as he can be and Romney and Perry are the best the Republicans can do. 4 more years The economy cant be pinned on Obama and the legislative failure is decades in the making. He will be tarnished but not held responsible. The Republicans will run an ideologue and polarize the […]
An intervenee always views interventionist behavior as extreme
the democrats are loud and proud about calling for “shared commitment in raising taxes from those most able to pay” arent those people allowed to say no? will democrats be able to compel the rest of the world to fund our debt since they will soon be in a better position to pay than us? […]
willing to do anything for work…really?
I work for money. I have managed to find 2 careers where i love what I do, but if they stopped paying me, I’d stop doing that because I am a father with kids to feed and work for money > work for satisfaction. until Americans are willing to do the jobs that Americans arent […]
Chickens coming home to roost, find henhouse foreclosed
Here is your entitlement mentality at work. Here are people who don’t understand the meaning of “I am willing to do anything to get a job” but dont realize that this means you have to do work you really dislike. socialism works until you run out of other peoples money, and the globe has simultaneously […]