Sal Khan is a Harvard educated CS major with a MBA. He spends his days in the corner of his bedroom creating bite sized tutorials on YouTube, on subjects ranging from Algebra and Calculus to economics and science. “I’m starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught,” […]
Not too long ago I went on another hospital visit. I’m always so nervous on the way, wondering how ill the patient is, if they’ll even want company, if I will be intruding on family members, etc.After learning this elderly patient had no family there w…
Well, not exactly. The music of Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields defies the conventions of any established category. They create their own. Last night’s screening of Strange Powers, was a good time and educational. I want to clarify that I don’t mean ‘educational’ in the stoic sense that one says, ‘yeah, I learned something’ […]
A rather vigorous cold front is forecast to wash through here Monday, bringing a small chance for severe storms and ushering in cooler more June-like weather for the latter half of the week. The SPC Day 2 outlook only shows our area firmly under …
Current readings at the Stafford Regional Airport show a temperature of 90 degrees F with a dewpoint of 73, giving rise to a “heat index” of 99 degrees. Listening to the news media and to various idle chatter one would think that if anyone even d…
TS Alex has formed in the Caribbean. Given the forecasts for the current season this may be the first in a long line of storms. Will it affect us? Not directly, based on the forecast track. Indirectly it could (a) mess with gaso…
Now that we’ve settled into a record-setting June heat the upper level wind pattern is forecast to shift dramatically this coming week. Instead of the west-to-east flow we’ve been experiencing the jet stream is forecast to “kink” significantly th…
After I learned how to calculate how many points I should be eating on a daily basis the questions began… What do I do next? How do I know how many points are in the food I eat? After feeling a bit overwhelmed, a friend came to my rescue. She sent me…
FBurgNews welcomes another contributor to local and personal topics this week. http://www.pointsinmylife.com/ is written by local friend here in the ‘burg. This is great news as I was contemplating writing a post about how some of us haven’t been as good about blogging recently. Maybe I’ll have to try the peanut butter pie post, and […]
Today’s cold frontal passage provides more fodder for my pet hypothesis regarding the “Toilet Bowl” effect regarding the tendency of storms to divide around – and miss – Fredericksburg. As the hypothesis goes, with a generally northwest-to-southe…
