Category: random
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Sweet victory over the Cornhuskers
Ah, the day is always sweet when the Cornhuskers lose a football game. Last year, it was a 60 point loss to the Red Raiders of Texas Tech, their worst ever in school history. This year, it was their first homecoming loss since 1968. Sweet. Growing up watching Nebraska roll over Kansas State every year…
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Japanese Hot Dog Art
Hey, bored and looking for some creative excitement? How ’bout creating some hot dog art? Better yet, make a stopmotion movie with your own hot dog art characters! This Japanese website has great photos and even instructions (with helpful diagrams) on how to create these amazing shapes. Those who follow through here may never look…
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Intentional Time Shifting
I hardly watch any TV at all. This is probably part of the reason why my continued home lobbying efforts to purchase a TiVo have met with both surprise and resistance. Because of the hurricane Rita coverage, I spent some time this evening flipping through channels. Good grief, there is so much trash on regular…
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The face of hunger
I stumbled upon Kevin Carter’s 1993 photo of a starving child in the Sudan this evening, which won him the Pulitzer prize in 1994. Corbis owns the rights to the original photo, (Vulture Watching Starving Child) according to the Pulizer Prize’s official website (a source I consider reliable). There are copies of this photo circulating…
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Here in America?
This article, “An AP Essay: Is This Happening in America?” says a great deal. Too often we look at images of people in Africa, in “the developing world,” and smugly think how sad that scene is. Now we are looking at images of U.S. citizens, on U.S. soil.
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Consequences of warmer water
I read this article in National Geographic’s August 2005 edition: “In Hot Water,”. I know meteorologists are not of one mind, there are lots of differing opinions out there. But this person’s perspective is pretty sobering, coming off the 5 Florida hurricanes of the 2004 season and now Katrina. According to the author, we are…
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Reflections on Katrina
How small we are, and how little we truly know. What a thin line there is between civilization and barbarism. How mighty is the hand of God. The power of the ocean dwarfs our meager abilities to comprehend and perceive. What an opportunity we now have to reach out. To care for our neighbors. For…
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Farewell to a good friend
At 7:20 pm Central time today, August 26th, 2005, we said goodbye to a good friend and longtime member of our family. Popi was 15 years old, and had brought great joy and love to all the members of our family. He will be dearly missed.
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Fun with 43 places, 43 things
My friend Mark Umstot told me earlier in the summer about the website 43 things, where you list up to 43 different goals you have in life and can see what other people share that goal, and what else they want to do. Last night I had a lot of fun (basically wasting time I…
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Welcome to my new blog home!
After using iBlog as my primary blogging tool since July 2003, and a Bloglines blog for my educational technology updates, I have decided it is time for a change. Server-based blogging tools are superior, in my mind, to software based tools that rely on FTP or another transmission method to upload blog content. The main…