Pictures from Italy, Round 2: Florence

The pictures from Florence are now up! I promise I'll add captions as time and motivation permit. In the meantime, check out the new gallery.

Filed under: Website, Pictures, Travel on December 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Pictures from Italy, Round 1: Venice

Yes, yes. I know we've been remiss in sharing tales of foreign lands and awesome foods. I've been working on the trip log since we got back (when time presents itself) and I promise to have it done by New Year's. In the meantime, enjoy a new photo album of our pictures from Venice.

Filed under: Website, Pictures, Travel on December 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Good Money After Bad? More Money Proposed for Education

As the statewide referendum showed us last month, Utahns feel very passionately about education despite the varied ways in which we all want to improve it. One solution is as old as the education system itself: spend more money. Certainly there has to be an appropriate level of financing for our education system to succeed, […]

Filed under: Politics on December 18th, 2007 | 8 Comments »

And the Geek shall inherit the earth.

Merriam-Webster choose "w00t" as its word of the year. Halo fans everywhere are celebrating with drunken riots.

Filed under: Geek, Tender Lumplings on December 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

If You Give a Rat a Stadium

I'm sure many of you have read the children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. In it, a young boy does what the title suggests, yet this action leads to getting the mouse a glass of milk to go along with it. This eventually snowballs into a complex chain of actions that wears […]

Filed under: Politics on December 11th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Restaurant Roundup: Ames, IA

The Midwest solidly earned its reputation for harsh winters. After just a few days in Iowa, I can see that Utahns have it rather easy. We usually don't have that kind of cold until mid-January and only for a few weeks. In Iowa, it's so cold that the snow turns almost directly to thick sheets […]

Filed under: Food, Travel on December 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

A Quick Note From Ames, Iowa

It's 16ºF here. There's supposed to be 4 inches of snow tomorrow. I think I picked the wrong place for a on-site.

Filed under: Travel, Work, Tender Lumplings on December 5th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Thanks for your support!

The final votes are in in the Bloghive Advisory Board election and I won one of the seats! Thanks to everyone for your support. I highly recommend checking out the final results to see how the votes ended up being tabulated.
On a side note, I have to say that I'm really impressed with this […]

Filed under: Politics, Website, Utah, Tender Lumplings on December 4th, 2007 | 1 Comment »