Archive for March, 2008

The Friday Gathering – Spring Break vacation edition

Photo by: Iain Cuthbertson
This has been a wonderful week for me. I’ve been off from work all week, spending spring break at home with my family. The weather has been absolutely wonderful here in the southeast. The temperatures tomorrow are supposed to be in the 80s!!
This week, we’ve worked on the house [...]

The last lecture and brick walls

Photo by: star5112
My wife recently sent me a link to a to a video clip from an episode of Oprah where where Professor Randy Pausch from Carnegie Mellon University reprized a lecture he did for his students call the last lecture. Carnegie Mellon asked their professors to do a lecture for their students, as [...]

Gazelle Intensity: How fast is it?

Gazelle Intensity is a term coined by Dave Ramsey that refers to how a Gazelle reacts when being pursued by a Cheetah. The concept of Gazelle intensity is even found in scripture.
One of the queries I seem to get fairly often is: How fast is gazelle intensity? Based on the number of [...]