codyg1985’s Think Tank

This year’s college football season has been a season of ups and downs. This last week of the regular season has proven to once again turn the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system on its head. Here are the BCS standings coming into yesterday:

Missouri (11-1)
West Virginia (10-1)
Ohio State (11-1)
Georgia (10-2)
Kansas (11-1)
Virginia Tech (10-2)
LSU (10-2)
USC (9-2)
Oklahoma […]

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 […]

Why does the traditional public elementary school in the United States only teach the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic?  Sure the methods taught in elementary school are enough to get by in middle school, high school, college, and beyond, but it isn’t enough to excel at those things.  What about speed reading?  What about […]

As the part-owner of the technology community Next L3vel from 2002 to 2004, I made a lot of decisions that affected a lot of people other than myself.  I enjoyed playing a small part in creating a small footprint–a paw-print–in the realm of technology during those years.  However, now that I have hindsight on it, […]

Yesterday I went to a American Red Cross blood drive. As a member of Tau Beta Pi, I was to either donate blood or sit in front and have people sign in to donate blood. I found out yesterday the real reason why there is a blood shortage and why the American Red […]

Today is March 14th, or 3-14. Get it? Today is known as Pi Day. For those of you who don’t deal with Pi everyday, it is the number which approximates the circumference of a circle whose diameter is exactly 1 unit. Pi pops up so much in my homework and […]

According to this Daily Mountain Eagle article, the Jasper City Council has pledged $1 million in incentives to attract an undisclosed company to build a manufacturing plant in northwest Alabama. The plant could employ at least 1000 people. The site being considered is not very far outside Walker County. The following quote […]

I was sitting at the Sonic near the intersection of Jordan Lane (Alabama Highway 53) and University Drive (US Highway 72) eating and watching the traffic flow (or not) through the intersection during the evening rush hour. I sat and watched as many as fifteen cars turn from Jordan left onto University even as […]

After watching this documentary by the BBC called “Parallel Universes,” I have some questions that I felt were unanswered by the documentary.  I’m sure that in order to completely understand the theory I would need a firm grasp on the mathematics and physics that are at work here, and that would require me to change […]