Archive for March, 2007
Presentation Time!
Each teacher at the American Home must give a presentation on any aspect of American culture sometime during their employment. My presentation is this weekend and will be on Gaming and American Culture. This is my public cry for information and input. Anything you think I should mention about table-top games, RPGs or computer/Internet gaming [...]
Learning after college
Ever wanted to study at an extremely prestigious, expensive, cutting edge university? By the end of this year, MIT will have all its courses available online for free. Every class that some of the smartest and luckiest people in the world take is at your fingertips.
What you don’t get is contact with a professor. Or [...]Job hunting
There are 3 main types of jobs: hourly, salary and contract. I’ve worked hourly jobs since my sophomore year in high school. My experience there has taught me to avoid hourly jobs. Most of them try and squeeze every productive morsel from your body each and every hour you are at work. [...]
RFID me!
Radio Frequency ID is the wave of the future! And by future I mean now! That’s right! Very soon, every passport issued by the US government will have a RFID chip with biometric and personal information on it. This is a terrible idea, but unfortunately a necessary one if we ever [...]
Happy Pi Day!
Today, 3/14 on the US calendar, is Pi Day. To celebrate you should bake a pie and enjoy it at 1:59. I could tell you all about the history of Pi, how people approximated it, or when we learned it was a transcendental irrational number. Instead, wikipedia will give you the [...]
