Southwest High School recently ranked in as the 116th best high school in the nation, the best in Minnesota, and one of the 100 best IB (International Baccalaureate) schools in the world. I think it is just because Dr. Will Smith is the principal. Notable alumni include a cofounder of The Daily Show, 1977′s Miss [...]
The picture on the bottom was taken from the Bear Mountain Overlook and the picture on the top was taken from Google Earth at 48° 52′ 2.49″ N 113° 45′ 3.07″ W 6087 ft south by southwest at 11am-ish. The bottom image was acquired by digitizing the angular distribution of light flux through a cross-sectional [...]
Today I voted in the Minnesota primary elections that determines who the nominee is for each party for the general election. I did not vote for Kelliher because she doesn’t seem trustworthy and she knocked R.T. Rybak out of the race for governor. Otherwise I voted for whoever was listed last because they have a [...]
…are probably three companies you have never heard of, but they have recently been involved in a new Saudi Arabian issue involving BlackBerry phones. I am a Mobily man, or was before my account time-lapsed before I left in May. The staff at KAUST (some of the staff) got BlackBerries that will no longer work [...]
Boulder, Colorado could solve its traffic problem by banning Subaru station wagons. There are no American cars, although gas stations are filled with American Spirits. Budweiser accounts for 50% of Alcohol sales nationwide, but New Belgium seems more plentiful. It is like Uptown in Minneapolis was transplanted into geographically self-confined section of land at the [...]
It was a blast in Glacier. We spent the first night at Cut Bank and then went to Mokowanis Lake area. The picture above is from Bear Mountain. I broke a nalgene while trying to hit a flower, forgot my camera for the final destination, and got a bad blisters on the backs of my [...]
Tag and hide-and-go-seek tag are the same game.
What happened to SimCity? When did video games become movies with intermittent play? Who took away my creativity? There are no more truely open ended game. I miss not having a purpose and having to create one. Slowly cut-scenes became longer and longer. The only survivors remaining are lame MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) that are [...]
These things are too evil – a flying hypodermic needle that silents lands on your skin to drink blood and communicate disease. Yesterday I got to thinking about how scary mosquitoes would seem to somebody not normally exposed if everybody on earth wasn’t at some point in the year. Always squish them from tangentially angles [...]
Why I dislike soccer: every player attempts to win an Oscar every time they fall down. The players in the world cup are assumedly at peak physical condition and yet falling down on grass causes them excruciating pain. I understand that sometimes things happen just wrong to twist an ankle. It annoys me to no [...]
A great New York Times piece on how people often don’t know when they’ve made a mistake.
“if low taxes were the answer, then Mississippi would be a leader in this country.” Great slam from Minnesota governor candidate.
You are NOT an environmentalist if you fly on planes. Crossing the Atlantic cancels out one year of recycling, buying locally, watching Al Gore’s documentary, and owning a hybrid – it is like adding an American to the world. I will be flying a few times this summer.
This is how a sewing machine fundamentally works. I didn’t know, but fixed a sewing machine and learned a thing or two in the process. I have done three sewing projects in a gradual progression towards making something I can use long term. My goal is to make a nice water-proof bag for my new [...]