BQ#9

Fall 2008

Available on request for members.

Content:
Bamboo Boomerangs by Stephane Marguerite
One of the biggest threats to humanity is undoubtedly the unlimited exploitation of the earth's natural resources. One of those resources is hardwood, particularly the tropical species of wood...
That Other International Sports Competition by Roselle Kingsbury
The final celebrations of an international athletic contest filled with drama, sportsmanship, and recordbreaking were held right in the Hagget Dorm on the University of Washington campus last night...
Reflections by Bob Burwell
The Boomerang World Cup competition has come and gone. I planned for some time to go to Seattle and be a part of the activities. I have been retired for six years now and am reliant on a fixed income. Occasionally I skim a little from a small superannuation nest egg to cover me for special events. Over the last number of months I and millions of others have seen that nest egg shrink significantly...
How the Goldmembers experienced the worlds by Tibor Horvath
At breakfast we discussed our goals for this world cup. We being the Goldmembers the Canadian boomerang team or more precise John Cross, Emmanuel Dumont, Stephane Marguerite, Eric Promislow, Louis Poirier and myself. We were split between reaching the top ten and not coming last. I think our expectations were reasonable...
Cut Credits Cards in style by Golbguru
Dave Ramsey is going to be happy with me for writing this post. Normally, I don’t subscribe to Ramsey’s psychology and I don’t recommend cutting up credit cards (at least not valid, unexpired ones that can still be used). But, I was just re-reading one of my long-time favorite books “Physics for Entertainment” and suddenly thought of using credit cards for one of the *entertaining* experiments suggested in the book...