Every time I see one of the websites that say “Free Money! Millions in grant money going unclaimed!” I want to shoot my monitor. This is for my friend who has been a community college instructor for 30 years and has probably asked me 25 times, How DO you get grant money? Why don’t you…
In The Christmas Choir, a nun asks a Wall Street businessman volunteering at the homeless shelter what the meaning of life is. He guesses to be happy. She says, “The meaning of life is to be useful.” I thought of that this week when someone on twitter commented on all of the different activities I…
Logan can kiss my wrinkled, grey ass. I’m 54 years old. I don’t say I’m 54 years young or you’re only as old as you feel because some days I feel 92. I feel zero impulse to go get a facelift or any other procedure to make me look younger so I can compete with…
@xek tweeted that “Almost everyone who does twitter stats is a fucking moron”. I was going to say that no one really knows what the hell is going on when it comes to social media, but I believe his estimate adds a greater level of precision. For example, the tweet reach tool tells me that…
Let’s make a deal. Would you trade me 30 years of your life for this house in Malibu? Say, you are 25 now, so, instead of living to 78, you’d live to be 48. Would you trade? If I threw in a really nice car, all the newest computers, iPhones, big-screen TVs and a new…
Since it’s the international year of statistics, I felt a little guilty that I have not done that much in the way of statistics lately. However, I think that is true whether you are an engineer, statistician, biologist or whatever, within a few years after your Ph.D. (at most!) you find lots of your time…
Some days, the world seems to be divided into two groups; idiots who annoy me and people I haven’t yet met. The largest group of idiots who annoy me are those that tell me how much they want to help small business. This includes most government agencies at all levels and just about every non-profit…
Before you decide you want to start a business, be sure you understand the difference between: Doing whatever you want. Owning a business. Not having anyone tell you what to do. Here is what I wanted to do in the past month: A lot of php A lot of javascript Write a new computer game…
If you know of any African-American women executives (or are such a person yourself), please read on … Shanetta was a student in my Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis class last year and is certain to be someone you’ll hear about in the years ahead. Help her out now and you can honestly claim to have…
It is the International Year of Statistics so all statisticians are obligated to tell you why statistics are so rocking awesome. Here is my two cents worth – I’m not a morning person. No, you have NO idea. I feel bad about it sometimes when I am having my lunch break at 10:30 pm, but…