Tim’s Blog

I was reading a blog post at work by an Engineering Manger who was writing about an article in Wired magazine. The title is Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up. The premise of the story is when we don’t believe the results of some of some action, it may be that the results were [...]

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So a victory was had yesterday for proponents of “real math” in the Seattle School District. In a ruling by Superior Court Judge Julie Specter, the Seattle School Board was called arbitrary and capricious for selecting the “inquiry-based” Discovering Series math for its high school math textbooks. The school board decision, by the way, was [...]

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I am severely lactose intolerant. Not that I hold a personal grudge against the dairy based complex sugar, it’s just that my digestive system has decided it doesn’t want to deal with it anymore.
If you didn’t know, lactose, as I mentioned above, is a complex sugar found in dairy milk made up of the simple [...]

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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it. You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it. Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else. Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving. The worst thing [...]

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When we refinanced our mortgage last we went through Wells Fargo. We got a decent rate and the process was fairly painless. As part of the process we were talked into opening checking and savings accounts. And based on that we qualified for their PMA program, which came with special benefits (which I don’t think [...]

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