For better or for worse, our house’s sound system is based on Apple’s Airplay system. We have Homepods in most rooms and it works great. When I wanted to have music on our outdoor porch, however, I couldn’t find any … Continue reading
I was the luckiest of Bill Harvey’s three children — luckiest because, as the oldest, I got to know him the longest. I feel so profoundly grateful to have had this man as my father. He taught me so much, and … Continue reading
I created a simple paper VFR flight planner and like to keep it on my kneeboard for VFR flights. I think of it like a checklist of things to research and write down before any flight, and a scratchpad to … Continue reading
Last weekend, after landing the airplane following an ideal flight on a clear, cool, cloudless March day, I performed the last element of my typical post-flight ritual – entering the flight into my logbook – and realized that I had … Continue reading
One perk of my job is that I am occasionally asked to give a short talk to Undergraduate finance students on what to expect when they enter the work force at a finance or investment company. I developed this short … Continue reading
I have had three Kindles, and none of them have been able to reliably sustain a connection to my home’s wifi network. My setup is as follows: * Airport Extreme * Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite After many hours of research, … Continue reading
What follows is a lightly edited, but mostly stream of consciousness, diary of our recent trip to Thailand. We took many pictures on the trip, despite the fact that my camera broke a couple of days into the trip. I … Continue reading
Solid state drives finally got cheap enough to tempt me to buy one. But my quandary was this: my old hard drive contained 700+ gigabytes of data, while the new SSD only can accommodate 64 gigabytes. I figured it out; … Continue reading
I have a friend who is contemplating buying a first house with his girlfriend. Having owned two houses, and having purchased both while involved with girlfriends, I thought I could share some thoughts. Names changed to protect the innocent. [Friend], … Continue reading
I was looking for an article on leveraged ETFs on marketwatch.com. So I searched the site for the phrase “leveraged ETFs.” Check out the first two results: