As an afterthought to my previous post on economics, I wondered what–if I were in charge–I’d spend some of the extra revenue on; the extra revenue generated if the tax rate extension had not been passed. Paying down some of the national debt is important, but there is one investment that came to mind that…
The previous post reminded me of something that happened in 7th grade pre-algebra: Someone (perhaps me) asked the teacher one day why we used x to represent an unknown quantity. Without hesitation, the teacher answered, "By convention." He then moved on to solve 2x+6 = 16, or whatever the equation was we were working with.…
I had a dream last night that I went back and visited my first elementary school, Macafee Road School, in Somerset, New Jersey. In the dream, the school was entirely different than it is in reality. And I saw a teacher there who was supposed to have been my first grade teacher, but who in…
I woke up this morning to find an email from a computer teacher I had in 9th grade back at George K. Porter Middle School (back when it was George K. Porter Junior High School). He has recently retired and he’s been in touch with my friend Noah and it was through Noah that he…