codyg1985’s Think Tank

Take a look at these two articles from two different newspapers dealing with the announcement of Bevill State Community College president Harold Wade retiring. First the article from the Daily Mountain Eagle:
Bevill State Community College President Harold Wade, who oversaw mergers to create a landmark regional community college, announced Thursday he is retiring Aug. […]

It gets hot around here in August.  This August has been especially hot, for it has been 100 or more degrees for over a week now.  Fortunately, it is not very humid (humidity has been around 15-20%), so it does not feel as bad outside as it would normally during the summer, but it has […]

Apparently, the United States, along with Finland, Germany, and Australia, has dropped out of an international study to be conducted next year that is designed to compare the math and science scores of high school students from around the world. When the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) was last conducted in 2003, […]

One of the most common mistake I see on the web is the use of the word “loose” where the word “lose” should be used instead. Here is an example from an ArsTechnica article (emphasis added):
You can restore things to their rightful order via the Keyboard & Mouse preference panel, but then you loose […]

I thought these questions I found from this comment thread were interesting enough for me to quote here:
1. Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks — he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the […]