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Evangelizing The Evangelist

By Chad ⋅ May 5, 2007 ⋅ 32 comments

This blog was supposed to be about the opening of summer movie season. It was supposed to be a hip, geeky, yet cynically detached commentary on the marvel that is big budget summer movies, and how they take over my mind even at age 30.
That will have to be another blog.
Friday night, we went [...]

A Wiki-mencement Address

By michael lee ⋅ May 5, 2007 ⋅ 20 comments

Today is graduation day at ye olde APU, and it represents my first complete cycle of teaching. The graduating class of 2007 were freshmen in the fall of 2002, when I taught my first class of Intro to Music Tech as an adjunct.
From the very beginning, this blog has tried to give a little something [...]

Groupthink: Send the Songs, My People!

By michael lee ⋅ April 14, 2007 ⋅ 39 comments

OK, kids … everybody know what time it is? That’s right, it’s time for you to help Mr. Michael Lee do his work! For free!
Settle down, kids. No, there are no snacks. No, Timmy, I will not cut you in for points on the backend … Timmy, where did you learn about that kind of [...]

Mega Super Lotto Time!

By michael lee ⋅ March 5, 2007 ⋅ 44 comments

The estimated jackpot for tomorrow night’s Mega Millions Lotto is 355 Million Dollars.
26 Annual payments of $13,653,846.
Assume a 40% tax rate, that’s $8,192,308 per year after taxes.
$22,444 per day.
$62 each and every minute.
Our ING savings account gets 4.5% APR. Interest on just the first year’s payout would be $368,653.86
If you invested the entire amount at [...]

Groupthink: Music Small Groups

By michael lee ⋅ February 21, 2007 ⋅ 91 comments

APU School of Music is relaunching their summer small groups.
Back in the day (pull up a rocking chair and a glass of lemonade, you youngsters), APU used to put together groups of singers and instrumentalists, pack them into vans, and send them off across this great nation to sing in churches, schools, camps, wherever they [...]

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