Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Using adjustment brush in Lr for skin retouching

http://lightroomkillertips.com/better-realistic-skin-retouching-lightroom/

How to fake multi selection in Balsamiq

https://support.balsamiq.com/tutorials/multipleselection/
https://forums.balsamiq.com/t/balsamiq-not-allow-multi-selection-in-some-components/1108

Sunday, April 3, 2016

NY Times article about travel rewards programs off the beaten path

"Travel rewards programs you may not know about - but should"
http://www.stashrewards.com/
preferredhotels.com
prioritypass.com

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Excel: how to sort a set of data on another worksheet by reference


  • Copy a range from Sheet1 to Sheet2, but do Paste Special and choose link
  • Enable developer mode, and create a Macro with the code from this page:
    • http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/583935-how-change-relative-values-absolute-mac.html
  • Select all the cells you pasted a reference to and run the macro once
  • Then select the cells on Sheet2 and sort them - wha la!

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Didn't know there was this org

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/these-christian-teachers-want-to-bring-jesus-into-public-schools--legally/2016/03/12/bfd95986-dfd3-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html

Monday, March 7, 2016

Great tension photos

http://www.aarontilley.com/

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

For getting true gain/losses after selling Adobe ESPP or RSUs

This information can be found in the eTrade in the Understanding Your Cost Basis Information for Lots Sold After section. That section can be found by going to:
  •  Employee Stock Plan Gains & Losses  (Account - > My Stock Plan -> My Account tab -> Gains & Losses) and filter for the last tax year. Expand the Sale details for the ESPP stock
    • The section: Understanding Your Cost Basis Information for Lots Sold After …. has the cost Acquisition Cost and Ordinary Income Recognized

RSU Stocks:

For the RSUs  just need to add the actual cost of the stocks at the day that was vested. It also can be found as Ordinary Income Recognized in Understanding Your Cost Basis Information for Lots Sold After section.


Friday, February 26, 2016

Methods for getting attention from large groups

Google search: how to get the attention of a large group
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/science-society/gaining-attention-large-group
http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activity/large-group-attention-getters.html
http://appliedimprov.ning.com/forum/topics/1503280:Topic:16633
http://www.experientialtools.com/2012/03/16/large-group-facilitation-tips/
http://www.edutopia.org/groups/classroom-management/737576
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip54.html