Need a good college? Samford is on another one of those nice good-value lists. Samford’s overall rank was 80th and is second cheapest in terms of total cost per year, fifth in need-based aid and just eighth in average debt at graduation. So there’s a good value, if you’re looking for a place to attend, consider Samford.
I’ve been in recruiting mode lately, can you tell?
Meanwhile, The Yankee’s alma mater also made the list, Fairfield University, was ranked 85th.
Another fun set of statistics I found today, Wall Street Journal is trying to parse out what your cell phone says about your spending:
The average monthly credit card bill was $6,872 for iPhone users, compared to $5,693 for BlackBerry users, $5,330 for Android users and $5,076 for Windows Mobile.
Happily none of the data in this piece applies to us. We couldn’t afford it, even if you cut the numbers into much, much smaller fractions.
We have a 21st Century problem in the newsroom this evening. The heater is blowing cold. This isn’t unusual. The nice people from the facilities department loaned us some space heaters, with strict rules to be sure to turn them off and unplug them whenever we looked away from them. I think someone suggested that it would be a good idea to turn them off even if we looked askance at the heaters.
When it got cold, we tried out our new toys. That warmed things up a bit.
We learned that the circuit didn’t care for two space heaters. The breaker tripped twice, so we went to just one heater, which warmed things up half as much.
Could be worse. I’ve worked in newsrooms and studios were it was so cold I could barely type. Ours tonight was merely just chilly.
Here’s retrograde fun: These last two days I’ve become aware of the number of clocks for which I’m responsible. I, like you, am disappointed we don’t have better logic chips for every device so these clocks can’t all change themselves. They’re so used to changing anyway, what’s one more tock?
After a certain point precisely matching up your clocks can be a challenge, but that just comes with the territory. To make it a little less tedious I’ve come up with a new game. In the fall I like setting my clocks over a series of several days. You should try it. It feels like you gain a lot of hours that way.
In the spring I concede the point and do them all at once.
