Month: April 2008

The IEM is an on-line futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies’ earnings per share (EPS), and stock price returns. The market is operated by University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business faculty as an educational and reseach project. Here is the link: – http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/

Sample chapters of my novel can be read on www.amazon.com

A dog is truly a man’s best friend. If you don’t believe it, just try this experiment. Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of the car for an hour. When you open the trunk, who is really happy to see you!

The fellow in this video has an amazing ability to solve mathematical multipliers. Check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/2xm5fv

A friend, who worked away from home all week, always made a special effort with his family on the weekends. Every Sunday morning he would take his 7-year old granddaughter out for a drive in the car for some bonding time. Just he and his granddaughter. One particular Sunday however, he had a bad cold… Continue reading Young Granddaughter

Anyone who wants to know what it was like living through the Great Depression will enjoy reading a book titled, “Once a Hobo.” It is a biography of a man named Monte Holm (1917-2006) who details his struggles during the Great Depression as a Hobo then making a living after falling in love and getting… Continue reading Monte Holm

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America. MARIA: Here it is. TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ? CLASS: Maria. TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables. TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile?’ GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L… Continue reading Kids are Quick – Teacher/Pupil Exchanges