In college I was fortunate enough to fly - and float - on NASA’s “Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunity Program” (R.G.S.F.O.P. for …short). Basically you get in an airplane and climb and dive from 24,000 to 34,000 feet. The peaks of this roller coaster ride create weightlessness… watch the video for an explanation and more.

Yes, this is a little off topic from my usual investing podcast. But isn’t this NASA program awesome? We showed this video to several hundred students in elementary and high schools. I think inspiring students to study hard, technical topics is a wonderful thing for any country’s educational system.

-JAW
I’ve been wanting to upload this for a year now, and I finally got to it. If you like what you see.. leave me a comment. I’ll post more videos. (-; And thanks to NASA, our many, many, many, sponsors, as well as Professor Tan!

CSS is something most of us in web development understand. But so many people still hate it. Why such an awkward response for something that makes sense after you get past the awkward tweener period? I love to teach. Especially tech. I just learn so much more that way. So here’s my CSS training for when you know css, but you want to connect the pieces together a little more.

At work we can have “Lunch and Learns,” where someone demos and astounds us as we happily munch on free food. I’ve done a few in the past, but now it’s time to ratchet it up. This is such an awesome (and underutilized) way to turn us into a consulting powerhouse. Goal: one lunch and learn per month as long as I’m working in the office.

Download:

• Zip file of the demos css tweener html css files lunch and learn.zip
• Powerpoint presentation css training tweener.ppt
• Pdf version of the presentation css training tweener.pdf

Or… look at some of my beautiful slides. Look what you’re missing if you don’t download the presentation.

Meaningful CSS

Meaningful Pages

The often misunderstood box model

Grab a cheat sheet

Get the css cheat sheet here

The coolest thing happened twice while I was teaching, I looked out at my coworkers, and every eyeball was looking right back at me rapt with attention. It may have been because I have the tendency to move a little too fast through examples, but I like to think they were really interested and I was doing an awesome job.