wikipedia is your friend
I'm currently taking a statistics class that is definitely pushing my ability to fit in school with the rest of my hectic life. Unfortunately the largest problem I'm having is that the statistics class before this left me with little to no knowledge as I had an absolutely useless teacher. So without a basic understanding of some of the background, who do I turn to? Well, the UoP textbooks focus on indepth background and real-life examples to teach typically and what I really need are some quick english explanations and a math example or two.
As luck would have it, I have this whole Internet thing here. I can search for each item on google and find some on-line college examples from other schools, as well as indepth explanation on wikipedia.
The class discussion question I just answered on one and two-way ANOVA required some background that I was lacking. Instead of spending two hours re-reading chapters from the books last class I was able to brush up on wikipedia and a few state school websites to supplement and I can speak intelligently about it.
How did we survive before the Internet? Can you imagine how far society can advance if we can continue to link together all this information in a more logical and user-friendly way?
Eddie, just don't make any Web 2.0 references there =). Happy Birthday by the way.
i love the internet
So here I was reading RSS feeds of the news and something popped up about Matt Leinart buying a house in Chandler. I thought it would be interesting to see where, and in the article it mentioned he already owned a house in Ahwatukee.
I happen to know Ahwatukee extremely well since I have ridden my bike in just about every square inch of the rich home areas as they tend to be on the hills. So, rather than just moving along I looked in to it.
Matt Leinart bought his 6,826 sq ft house at 11633 S Warcloud Ct, Phoenix, AZ 85044 in June 2006 for $2.4million. It is right off Kachina Dr. where I've taken friends and family to look at Christmas lights, and I've ridden my bike a few hundred times. I think it's less exciting to know a football player owns a house less than three miles from my old house than it is to know I could find out where it was in about two minutes.
I really do love the Internet.
Also, if you haven't already tried it I suggest using http://del.icio.us
for your bookmarks. That involves less exciting people, but will probably prove more useful than various Maricopa County websites and zillow.