Category: A & M San Antonio
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Wed Jan 27 2010 Mark Steyn seems on his way to becoming our new Tom Wolf, the premier American writer. He wrote the best eulogy for Bob Hope I read and has a great piece on Gene Hackman, the improbably movie star of my generation. If Steyn wants a radio gig, he can have one,…
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Friday Jan 22 2010 Intermediate Accounting Classes As you know Blackboard has not been accessible to all of you yet, I do not know when it will be. Send me an e mail and I will e mail you the pastina template with the questions for monday dennis.elam@tamuk.edu I do not normally use the blog…
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Perhaps my Dean of Students at Texas State was right when she remarked, Dennis I don't think it will ever be for them like it was for us. What she was referring to was the low tuition that made college a do able adventure as opposed to what it has become, a financial chore. While…
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This passage is self explanatory. Most of you are aware that I lived and worked in the oil fields of West Texas for many years. Safety is always a primary concern. Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to try and make people aware of fires as a result of 'static…
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Wed Jan 13, 2009 Will on line movie rentals help spur e book downloads, I report you decide with this update.
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Malcolm Gladwell has become one of our best selling authors. I have read Outliers and just finished Blink. This book is all about first impressions, and that means really fast first impressions. The TSA harasses people at airports. The Israelis are trained to look at people's eyes and determine who is the most likely person to…
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A good rule of thumb is that tuition rates will increase at about twice the general inflation rate. During any 17-year period from 1958 to 2001, the average annual tuition inflation rate was between 6% and 9%, ranging from 1.2 times general inflation to 2.1 times general inflation. On average, tuition tends to increase about…
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Well so much for cowboys and where the west begins, Texas tops the list of US universities offering courses on vampires. Literature, sociology, you name it. UT Austin, the class is now at 250 and growing, TCU, and gads, Texas Tech now offer courses on our they live by night friends. You heard it on…
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The first step to good writing, in my opinion, is good reading. And with that in mind I highly recommend columns by David E. Davis, even if you are not a gearhead. Davis writing career really got going at Car and Driver in the 1960s, he left for an ad agency, came back and quit…
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Thursday Dec 17 2009 The Apple site has two interesting stories about Abilene Christian University and Univ of Washington using iPhone and iTouch to connect with students. The story says that the Univ of Washington app has been downloaded in 33 countries. The electronic book wars are heating up with Barnes and Noble Nook Amazon Kindle…
