Category: General

  • Letter to the Minnepolis Star-Tribune

    Thank you for running Governor Dayton’s editorial.  The Governor made many good points, however he missed the most important point; that passage of the amendment would constitute a poll tax on the Elderly and other.  Poll taxes have been repeatedly rejected by the Supreme court as unconstitutional on the basis that it violates the Equal…

  • Moving on…

    Just killed our home phone number after 28 years.  All we get anymore are solicitations and political calls.  RIP 1-651-699-9940.

  • Dicks

    I thought that it was interesting how Horsey was just a couple of pen strokes away from making the noses into penises.  It amazes me that people will vote for these guys at all.from Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 27 October, 2012

  • Barack to the future

    In the January 2009 issue of Harpers, an item appeared the readings section called Barack to the future.  It was an excerpt of a letter from a conservative right wing group dated today claiming the the world would be a much worse place now than it was in the first month of the Obama administration.Read…

  • IEEExtreme Programming Challenge

    I was the initial proctor for the 2012 IEEExtreme Programming Challenge at the U of M this year.  The field had expanded from a single team last year to four teams this year.  At this rate, then they will need a bigger IEEE lab at the U next year.

  • Learning the lingo of the ‘near’ east

    ST. PAULROCHELLE OLSONWoe be unto the westerner who crosses the Mississippi River ill-versed in the language of the east metro.  Here then is a visitors guide to the eastern Twin Cities: West St. Paul and the West Side of St. Paul are not the same. The first is a city in Dakota County; the other…

  • Ahrnold

    It looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger had the early signs of Parkinson’s in his interview on 60 Minutes this week.Guess those anabolic steroids aren’t good for you after all.