Progressive Odyssey

We've been working with Basil to train him to go and get the paper in the morning; we anticipate this trick being very handy for the com...

David Leonhardt must have been reading my blog because, on a nationally syndicated radio program ( Marketplace ), echoed nearly exactly (a...

That's how I'd describe this video; its an example of everyday amazing. There are cooler videos out there, I'm sure and other p...

I know I just wrote about this a few posts ago but one of my favorite podcasts ( Planet Money ) mentioned a report that effectively gave a ...

I've ranted about this before : I have no love for the health insurance I currently have. There are many things to complain about but t...

"I'm addicted to feeding the squirrels."

I recently found an interesting report outlining how the income and expenditures of the federal government broken out by state. In partcular...

My first lecture has come and gone as a instructor at Wichita State University. It went well. Despite the late hour of the class (5:35pm to ...

Two days out of the week I have long days at school, about twelve hours on campus. While I was waiting for my last class of the day I notic...

Yesterday I got a few more keys to add to the growing ring, today I was given another and received training on how to use the projector syst...

I was in a discussion with a friend recently about the national debt, a topic that we are both concerned about. I was trying to point out t...

My wife just got done watering our maple tree in the backyard. It is a full, mature tree but due to the weeks of high heat (highs at 95...

I found out yesterday around lunch time that I will be teaching my first course at WSU this fall, CS 194 Intro to Digital Design. The appo...

This month has been extremely busy with trips to Oregon, Colorado and Missouri and I'm just now working on getting life back in order. ...

What you see above is a bit of grass seed that has been aggravating one of our dogs, Basil, for the past few weeks. When we first noticed...

I had a bit of free time on my hands and accidentally discovered Blogger's easy to use site designer and with a little bit of fiddling, ...

Katie got this little container for holding plastic bags from Wal-Mart yesterday. We hang onto our plastic bags for dog-related purposes an...

Both our dogs are English Springer Spaniels , a breed whose original purpose was to help in hunting water fowl. Its not surprising then, th...

This past spring, in an attempt to save ourselves some money, hassle, and discomfort, we decided to purchase and install an attic fan. Kati...

Our friends were making a move this last Wednesday and I volunteered to help them out. I have no classes during the summer leaving my sched...