Tim's Blog - Part 2

Please, Teach Real Math

By admin, on February 5th, 2010

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 split . . . → Read More: Please, Teach Real Math

Yea for Yami Lactose Free Yogurt

By admin, on February 4th, 2010

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 sugars . . . → Read More: Yea for Yami Lactose Free Yogurt

You Cannot Multiply Wealth by Dividing It

By admin, on January 25th, 2010

“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 that . . . → Read More: You Cannot Multiply Wealth by Dividing It

Watch Out for that Wells Fargo Interest

By admin, on January 23rd, 2010

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 we . . . → Read More: Watch Out for that Wells Fargo Interest

There’s No Starbucks Like Home

By tim, on October 21st, 2009

Debbie and I recently took a trip to Las Vegas for a little R&R. The weather was not as nice as we had hoped. Kind of windy and partly sunny. But all in all it was a fun trip.

While we were there we went to the Starbucks in the hotel we stayed at. Generally you expect . . . → Read More: There’s No Starbucks Like Home