CheerGyms.com Open Team Expenses and Review

I thought it would be worthwhile to publish my expenses for my college team last year. This is useful for anyone who is interested in calculating whether or not you can afford to an open cheerleading team. I cheered for CheerGyms.com. They were a good team and I will talk about my pros and cons a bit lower, but first lets look at the expenses. Expense Cost Tuition and Competition Fees, including uniform costs $1,209.81 Nationals Hotel Bill $104.00 Gas Costs to travel to practice. Assuming 3 practices a month (to account for holidays and weeks off), cost of 2.50/gallon, and 20 miles/gallon on the car $405.00 Gas for nationals, same figures as above, traveling distance about 404 miles $101.00 Gas for local competitions in Sacramento $80.25 Total $1,900.06 This is just the hard numbers and I’ve gone a little soft on the miles and gas price. The point, however, is still relatively strong: I spent nearly $2,000.00 no an open team last year. I had a good time, but that is really expensive, so I’ve decided not to cheer again next year while I try to get my finances in order. ...

June 21, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Percentage of Mac Use by University of Virginia Students

Daring Fireball has a link to the a study of the computer statistics for the student body of the University of Virginia. You can find the article here. The most interesting chart for me is the last one about the number of Macintosh users versus Windows users. The table is interesting, but I would also like to see the percentage of user population, not just the hard numbers. So here is the same data put in percentage of user base using Mac OS and Windows. ...

June 10, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Crazy Cheer Parents

I was reading this cheerleading blog today when I came up to a quote that I have to pass on. The article is part of One Two Down Up, a blog for a cheerleading coach who doesn’t make their identity easily known. (I could probably find it, but I’m too lazy) One of the articles is about Cheer Parents, The Ups and Downs of a Cheerleading Coach: Those Crazy CHEER PARENTS. ...

May 18, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Bookmarks for April 23rd through April 24th

These are my links for April 23rd through April 24th: The Skeptical Hypochondriac :: Worrying About Health News Since 2009. – Category Inflation at the Webbys – Waxy.org – Remind me never to partake in this nonsense. NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer – Fluid Images — Unstoppable Robot Ninja – Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008 | Review Feature | Typographica –

April 24, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom

Bookmarks

These are my links for April 22nd from 21:01 to 21:01: Deaths, injuries raise alarm at cheerleading’s dangers – The Boston Globe – This post talks about the importance of Cheerleading safety especially in the state of Mass. It is an interesting piece, but I feel that people who advocate safety for cheerleaders sometimes go to the extreme and over regulate the sport. My classic example is the double full, which used to be legal in college, but due to safety restrictions has now been made illegal. Many people were landing it fine, some weren’t. Better training would be a better solution than complete restriction.

April 22, 2009 · zacharyzacharyccom