Baseball great and Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died today after suffering a stroke earlier in the week. The Twins outfielder was one of the great players of his time who had his career cut tragically short by glaucoma. Now his life is also brought to a premature end (he was only 45). Baseball will miss thee, Kirby....

OK, so I'll try to keep things a little lighter after a couple of serious posts. I'm not even going to talk about the abortion ban that was signed in South Dakota today and is bound to get to the Supreme Court eventually. Maybe in the future, but not going to go there today ( Read more... )

No, I'm not kidding. The story came out today that there is video and other evidence that Bush did, in fact, know about the impending crisis of Katrina in New Orleans. This despite telling everyone four or five days after Katrina hit that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Yeah, you mean no one except for the FEMA chief, ( Read more... )

Today marks the beginning of two new bans in the state of Indiana. I don't quite get either of them, though, so perhaps someone can explain to me how these make sense ( Read more... )

It's been a few days since my last update, so here's a summary ( Read more... )

I got this in an email and thought it was pretty interesting. Read this question, come up with an answer and then open the LJ cut for the answer. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right, and I didn't get it right either ( Read more... )

Just hit "send" in my email to turn in my take home final for my class. With 2+ hours to spare. :) So no more accounting or ABCs for me. By ABCs, I mean activity-based costing, of course, which was actually one of the more interesting and useful topics covered in the class. At least from a business perspective. The basic idea is that you look at ( Read more... )

I don't know who out there might be interested, but I might be able to get a couple people a free four-day pass for GenCon Indy, assuming you are willing to put in a few volunteer hours. Interested? ( Click here for details. )

Just a quick lunch update to wish all the engineers out there a Happy Engineers Week. I didn't even know such a thing existed, but apparently, it does, and it's this week. My work celebrated by bringing in doughnuts and a coffee bar with special flavored coffees, lattes, and espressos. Not bad at all!

Well, back to work.

Well, as promised, he kept it pretty short tonight....about 1/3 of a regular class. Passed back the papers. I must have really underestimated myself on this one.....I figured at best I would get a B+. Well, turns out I got an A. Yes, the same paper that I said "It sucks." about just one week ago. The same paper that "in no way reflects my knowledge ( Read more... )