Jan 1, 2018
Video from Patrick Henderson's Meet the People
I was on Patrick Henderson's Meet the People across the lunch hour today and had a great discussion about taxes and some the new changes coming out of December's tax bill. We…
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Dec 31, 2017
Appearing on WBOL on New Year's Day, Let's Talk Taxes
Good news everyone! Spend New Year's Day listening to me to talk about the effects of the new tax bill, especially on Baltimore and its residents. I'll be on Patrick Henderson’s Meet…
Dec 30, 2017
A New Way of Teaching Math
I am teaching Finite Mathematics again this spring. The class is a bit different from other mathematics courses. We have a rapid fire approach and attack a lot of different practical problems.…
Dec 28, 2017
Unlocking the Box
There's a legend that David Hewlett, the H in HP, was working after hours. Stephen Covey tells the story in The Speed of Trust , Hewlett stopped off one weekend at a…
Dec 22, 2017
How The Tax Bill Won't Create Jobs
I pointed out on Facebook that the new tax bill will wreck the economy. Someone challenged me to demonstrate why. Well, that's fair. Let's take a look, specifically, at the job-creating aspects.…
Dec 11, 2017
The Return of the GEDI
While I was at NASA Goddard last month, I saw the awesome ICESat-2, which is going to shoot lasers down at the ground. But shooting lasers at the ground is so awesome,…
Nov 28, 2017
County Council Seeks New Member for Board of Appeals
As I've said before, I don't often talk about land use. But here's a bit of news. The Board of Appeals has an opening and the County Council has put out a…
Nov 24, 2017
ICESat and ICEsat-2
So as I mentioned a few of weeks ago, I got to spend a Friday at NASA Goddard, chilling and talking about their new projects. One of the projects we learned about…
Nov 13, 2017
Ethohistorical Note on Dharma
Like Buddhism, Jainism sprang from the fount of dharmic religions in India, more than two thousand years ago. Each stands apart from traditional Hinduism in that they reject the Vedas as written…
Nov 9, 2017
Lottery Luck in the Tax Proposal
The new Republican tax plan has a lot of people up in arms. Mostly rightly so, but I had a realization today about just how bad it was. Imagine a hypothetical winner…
Nov 7, 2017
XSEDE is Awesome
I'll be writing about my trip to Goddard in the next week or so. But first, I feel like I should write about this Comet I have been playing a bit with.…