Progressive Odyssey

Recently, (OK, a few weeks ago), the NY Times published a little opinion piece showing how the stock market has faired under Republican vs ...

Katie and I saw Wall•E this past weekend and we both loved it.  (We almost always see our movies at the cheap theater, thus the five month w...

... is done.  Almost done.  Lots of details that threaten to take weeks to get around to doing (like putting moulding back in and cleaning t...

We've been looking for a sibling for Basil for several months now and today we found her.  She's an English Springer Spaniel (just l...

I was telling a friend of mine who teaches chemistry at WSU about my experience with the intimidating hazard diamond this past Sunday and h...

... I haven't seen any signs for the incumbent (the USA) running for Kansas.  Come to think of it, I think this might be an uncontested ...

Why is McDonalds an Olympic sponsor?  I mean, I know the pragmatic such a relationship exists: McDonalds has a lot of money that every natio...

This past Thursday was my first day in class for my Master's degree.  I am now officially a graduate student at the famed Wichita State ...

On my way home from work today I saw this landing at one of Wichita's airports: This is the airplane the flies the fuselage of the 787 ...

I don't follow politics super-closely.  This is probably going to be one of the few politically-oriented posts I do. I heard an intervie...

Basil woke up on Monday morning with the sniffles.  I don't know why it didn't occur to me that dogs can catch something like a cold...

This Monday, for the first time, Katie rode her bicycle to work with me.  We had done a practice ride a few Saturdays ago and "it wasn...

This news is a few months old but the local chain grocery store started to produce tortillas in-house again!  This particular store has has ...

Sorry Sister, but we stumbled across this photo in Land's End and have to blow the whistle on your modeling gig.  I'm sure it was go...

Using half the amount of water when making my first batch of root beer.  (The results were not good.) Using twice the amount of sugar in the...

This American Life , still one of my favorite radio programs/podcasts, created an excellent story on the sub-prime meltdown/credit-crunch.  ...

A co-worker of mine sent out an email yesterday saying that she had free tickets to a concert here in town for the first four who were inter...

Since its spring and we don't have many flowers blooming yet, I decided to do my part by posting a few of the flower pictures I've t...

Check out Flickr for the latest pictures of Basil, our puppy.  These were all taken in the past few weeks and are therefore are somewhat rec...