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Interconnected and self-governed?
Posted in videos
Tagged colonization of the mind, farming, food industry, interconnected, self-governed
Entrepreneurs and Opportunities
Another worthwhile blog post from my friend on personal finance: It All Started With a Handful of Powdered Drink Mix: Entrepreneurs See Opportunities Others Miss
Bonus: that post includes a stanza from the poem Opportunity by Walter Malone.
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Word Crimes”
This video cracks me up. A few of these “Word Crimes” are rebutted by videos by Merriam-Webster, but that doesn’t change the hilarity of the video.
15 July 2014 in links, videos
Tagged weird al, weird al yankovic, word crimes, yankovic
Forgiveness
Some people have learned to forgive, even in situations where all natural instincts say not to. And that’s a sweet, sweet thing, worth making sure all 67 of my followers have the opportunity to hear about. Check out http://gma.yahoo.com/mother-embraces-daughters-killer-court-121328069–abc-news-topstories.html?vp=1 for the story.
Independence
An 89-year old D-Day veteran was told by care home staff that he could not travel to Normandy. He did it anyway. 🙂
Is it Smart for Me to Take Out Student Loans?
Is it Smart for Me to Take Out Student Loans?
In this post my friend (whose recent post “Do You Want Financial Security or the Appearance of Wealth,” on 30 Dec 2013 on www.micawberprinciple.com, was selected to appear on rockstarfinance.com, a site that describes itself as “A Collection of Awesome Money Articles.”) discusses how to estimate the financial payoff for taking out student loans.
Applying this retroactively to my undergraduate degree and student loans, my payoff time was 0.65 years. In actuality, because I had an incredibly low interest rate, I paid it off slowly, with only an extra $10/month toward the principle, until I was about 2/3 done, then I started paying it off aggressively. My total payoff time in real life was about 4 years.
Ask (and Answer) the Right Questions Before Taking Out Student Loans
Ask (and Answer) the Right Questions Before Taking Out Student Loans
Another finance blog post from my friend. Make sure to give System 2 a bit of a push off the couch. (It helps the analysis if your intended field of study as a grad student pays you to get the degree, as was the case for me.)
What Can You Learn About Personal Finance From Ebenezer Scrooge?
What Can You Learn About Personal Finance From Ebenezer Scrooge?
Another fantastic blog post from my friend’s personal finance blog, exploring our individual relationships with money and how we can change those relationships.
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Tagged Budget, Finance, Money, Money management, Personal finance
Computer programmer teaches homeless to code
Wow. This is pretty cool. I’ve been wanting to do something similar to Patrick for several years now, though I was thinking on a larger scale. Now I feel like, “What was my excuse?” Oh, it was that I didn’t want to do fundraising to start my own non-profit. Props to Patrick, Logan, and Leo!
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- Homeless Man Learns To Code; Creates Successful App (valuewalk.com)
Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance in 7 Words
Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance in 7 Words
From a friend’s personal finance blog comes a fantastic bit of personal finance advice. I’ll give you the 7 words here, but I highly recommend the full article. The 7 words: Place a substantial premium on the future.
The Good Samaritan
Henry B Eyring spoke of the overloaded priesthood holder, referring to the parable of the good Samaritan. This reminded me of one of my favorite poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson:
The Good Samaritan
He comes from out the ages dim—
The good Samaritan;
I somehow never pictured him
A fat and jolly man;
But one who’d little joy to glean,
And little coin to give—
A sad-faced man, and lank and lean,
Who found it hard to live.
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Posted in links, others poetry
Tagged Canaan, Christ, Henry B Eyring, Henry Lawson, Jericho, Levite, overloaded priesthood holder, Parable of the Good Samaritan, Samaritan
If I Were a High School English Teacher…
Darwin city skyline from East Point Reserve by Bidgee
If I were a high school English teacher, I’d have my students write a compare and contrast essay on the Hoodoo Guru’s song Tojo (lyrics) and Santa Never Made It Into Darwin by Bill Cate.
First I’d have them listen to Tojo, with a printed version of the lyrics in front of them, and write their initial impressions of the meaning. Then I’d play for them Santa Never Made It, with the lyrics to reference. Then I’d ask them:
The relative sizes of the United States, Cyclone Tracy and Typhoon Tip, the smallest and largest Pacific tropical storms recorded, respectively
Hideki Tojo
I’d award some bonus points to students who accurately describe who Tojo is; slightly less points for making a good guess. I would also possibly award various levels of bonus points for various levels of answering the question, “What would be required for a computer to understand either song?” It’s probably a good thing I’m not a high school English teacher: my students would have too much fun. Or I’d get fired for not following Common Core.
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Tagged analyzing lyrics, analyzing poetry, Bill and Boyd, Common Core, Cyclone Tracy, Darwin, Hoodoo Gurus, Santa Never Made It Into Darwin, teachers, Tojo