Archive for the 'General' Category

Government by the people?

Monday, September 15th, 2008

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”?

I feel fine…

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

…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 [...]

So then I went to Oshkosh

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The EAA air show in Oshkosh in Wisconsin, that is. flyGarmin was going to be released to the public for the first time in conjunction with the beginning of the air show. Garmin had a Monday morning press conference announcing all sorts of stuff, and flyGarmin was on the list. I was pacing around the [...]

flyGarmin launches

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

I know that may not mean anything to you, but that’s a big project I’ve been working on at work for the last many months. It’s been a fun, complicated project focussed on making it a lot easier for pilots who use Garmin equipment to keep their equipment up to date. It let’s pilots enter their [...]

OK, kids. I’m back.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Life is settling down. A big web site release looms. Wordpress 2.6 is installed, with whatever shiny goodness that brings. And I can blog from my iPhone. And I have things I want to talk about. Stay tuned…

890 Wakefield Avenue, Saint Paul is for sale!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Our house is still for sale and you should buy it! Follow the link and find out more!

Atari Ska… This One’s For You, Parks.

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Ska music created entirely with old Atari game sounds. Seriously.

What is this thing?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

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Mark, και, και ευθεως, and my week.

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

The gospel of Mark has an interesting little structure. A whole bunch of the verses start with και, which is often translated “and” but can be, and often is, left untranslated since it’s just there to keep the story going from point to point. So, it’s something like “…and then they did this, and then [...]

The view from my office this morning

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Snapshots never really do justice to how pretty something like this is. Tiny whispers of snow which soon emboldened themselves into big fluffy flakes. Peaceful and dreamy. Twenty minutes later it was bright and sunny. I love having an office window. :)