Deficits and Balanced Budgets
No business budgets its year without considering the effect on its net worth.
Author: Robert Hamill
Harrison Bergeron
Vonnegut's dystopia results from enforcing equality of results rather than equality of opportunity.
Monte Carlo with $100,000 in the Stock Market
A Monte Carlo simulation shows that after 10 years, $100,000 in the stock market could be as little as $51,000 or as much as $500,000.
Limits of Perfection
The pursuit of perfection is fine in the abstract, but let me describe one significant implementation problem that should not be overlooked.
Paul Ryan Rhetorical Skill
I was very impressed with Ryan's rhetorical skills and corresponding disappointed in that of his interviewer.
Exxon Profit Per Gallon
Exxon averages $0.85 profit per gallon! Almost one-third of the pump price.
Creative Writing Class
I spent forty hours developing a web site for my project. The regular college students looked aghast. That was more time than they could devote to just one class, but it was my only class.
Exorbitant Privilege
‘Exorbitant Privilege’ is about the benefit to the US of the dollar of being a reserve currency as well as the current problems and possibilities to that status are.
Pride and Prejudice
Lizzie’s face and manner conveyed so many emotions that she could not utter acceptable words for.
Kinds of Words
In poetry, I was stymied when asked to string together long sentences. Recently I came across the idea of dividing words up by meaning function. Now I see a dimensionality to writing that I can…