Introduction
I grew up as a kid who was obsessed with aerospace, taking classes in Aeronautical Engineering, infatuated with model and R/C planes, helicopters and rockets, playing with the earliest computer flight simulators, all with the long term goal of one day becoming a Naval Pilot. Years later my eyesight would deter this goal, but nevertheless, my first love was always flight.
My second love - as possibly the nerdiest kid in the entire world at the time - was the stock market, and I very much loved to grab the often immediately discarded business section of the Star Tribune off the ground and scan through the markets data pages, looking for the previous day's closing price for the handful of stocks I knew by ticket symbol, reading the news of markets and companies, keeping up to date with the latest trends.
