Category: General

  • Election Day

    Today is the day that you get to participate in the democratic process and vote for the leaders that will represent you for the next two to six years.Minneapolis/Saint Paul Star-Tribune, Sunday, 5 November, 2012Do they think we don’t remember who screwed us over and hollowed out the middle class?  People just like Romney!Choose wisely,…

  • 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…