It’s not often that a baseball game is moved TO Boone for weather. BOONE, N.C. - Due to last weekend’s rain and snow rendering many of the state’s college baseball fields unplayable this week, Appalachian State University baseball will host High Point TODAY (Wed., March 4) at 5 p.m...

The Winston-Salem Journal has a piece on Appalachian adjunct professor Jack Martin, who teaches classes on sustainable transportation and resource management at the university. Martin’s hobby? Hypermiling.    By day, Jack Martin is an adjunct professor at Appalachian State University who tea...

When it’s 17 degrees in Boone, it’s hard to believe that baseball season is underway, but the Mountaineer’s seem more than ready for the 2009 season. From GoASU.com: FOREST CITY, N.C. - Led by another stellar performance from its bullpen, Appalachian State University baseball compl...

I am getting tired of listening to all of the pundits saying that the current decline resembles the 1974 bear or the 1987 bear markets.  How about looking at some data!  So, I used my TC2007 market price history database to compute how much the Dow Jones Industrial average declined in prior bear m...

Meredith has updated her “Sex in the Electric City” blog. It describes her Valentine’s Day. And if yours really stunk, you need to read hers because it will make you feel so much better! Here is an excerpt: “Last Saturday was Valentine’s Day. The day of love, so I was looki...

I know that the GMI has kept me and, I hope others, out of the long side of this market since at least August 2008, the last time that the GMI was 4.  I prefer the GMI to be at least 4 before I commit many IRA funds, and especially my university pension,  to the long side.  Since the GMI fell bel...

The GMI-R climbed to one (of 10).  There were 9 new highs and 214 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Monday.  The last time we had over 200 new lows was on January 20th.  In contrast, the most daily new highs this year was 20, on January 2nd.  The QQQQ completed the 13th day of its curre...

It’s a new weekday, and that means a new Fan Of The Day! Permit me to introduce Michael, a proud Beta Clone shirt-wearin’ 7th Son fan! Too cool for school! Your name or handle: Michael Gydian Hoff Your location: Nyack, NY, USA Website, Twitter, etc.: http://twitter.com/Gydian0 Your hobbi...

A quick post to get this down while it’s still buzzing in my brain… I’ve been called a savvy storyteller and marketer. I’m neither the best storyteller or marketer out there, but I know I’ve done some spiffy things with words and community. I take credit when I think I ...

Meet Ozzy, our first Fan Of The Day — and I couldn’t have picked a better Beta Clone Army infantryman to get the ball rolling! Thanks for kicking off our new site feature, Ozzy! Your name or handle: Ozzy Your location: Morgantown, WV, USA Website, Twitter, etc.: http://twitter.com/ozzy Y...