Ken Martin’s Blog

She won! Yay!

…with a lot of blog updates. Good stuff! He’s been scanning pictures and uploading video. He’s getting pretty good at this stuff.

Maybe it’s just me with my stochastic interest in history and our country’s founding, but I found this article by Steven Hayward (Reagan’s biographer) concerning Sarah Palin very interesting. What do we really think about “government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

Last episode, we left our heroes (my family) slumbering away their mediocre McDonalds in Louisville, KY. The next morning we raided the hotel’s free breakfast cereal counter - a legendary delight the kids remembered from last road trip; three kinds of cereal! As much as we want! Back into the van and away we went. 700 [...]

…even though today was billed as possibly being the “End of the World”. The Large Hadron Collider is intended to collide a bunch of particles at about ~99.99997% of the speed of light, thus reproducing conditions quite close to the moment of the Big Bang. Some folks are concerned that doing so will unleash tiny black [...]

The last two weeks of August, we had a road trip. Our goal was to make it to South Carolina to visit my dad, and then down to Charleston for a couple of days. Two weeks… ahhhh… enough time to actually relax. I’ve had all sorts of things I wanted to post, but wasn’t sure how [...]

Loved it.

We went to the Star Wars exhibit at the Minnesota Science Museum a couple of weeks ago. Pretty cool stuff. They had some fun hands-on stuff; making maglev Lego cars and programming little robots. My camera wasn’t capable of catching it, but the detail in those models is really incredible. It was also fun to see [...]