Sorry the blog has been so epically dead in the last few days and weeks. I’ve just been really busy. But hey, here’s some news! Thanks to the tireless efforts of Becky’s friend Sundari at Sustainable Food Denver, our trio of chickens now has a path to citizenship! Monday night, the Denver City Council passed a proposal that will allow… Read more »
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When we last left the #ZombieWAC, it was on life support after the near-death experience of almost losing Utah State and San Jose State to the Mountain West. That followed on the heels of seemingly getting a new lease on life that would allow it limp forward for some time as an Island of Misfit Mascots Division I Programs From… Read more »
The bridesmaid jinx is over! For the first time since 1994 — when I was in seventh grade — a Newington High School athletic team is the Connecticut state champion. And for the first time since 1980 — before I was born — it happened in a CIAC-sponsored sport, breaking a streak of twelve consecutive CIAC title-game losses in my… Read more »
Apple products often look like they are from the future, and Steve Jobs is going to take that same design approach to the design of Apple’s new campus in Cupertino. The massive new building (roughly as large as the pentagon, although only consisting of a single ring) would house up to 13,000 employees in a four story structure featuring curved… Read more »
Moments ago, almost immediately after the polls closed at 7pm, the Denver Post projected the City Council president, Michael Hancock, as the winner over the former state senator and political scion, the ex-Governor’s son, Chris Romer, in the Denver mayoral runoff. Here’s a pretty picture I took earlier today that has nothing to do with that: UPDATE: Hancock’s “feel-good story”… Read more »
The wild and deadly tornado season of 2011 rolls on, with Southern New England — my old stomping grounds — the latest target. Check out this incredible video of a tornado crossing the Connecticut River in Springfield, Massachusetts: At least four people are dead in Massachusetts, in what’s being called the state’s worst tornado outbreak in a century. And the… Read more »
Turns out our friends to the north can teach us a thing or two about budget surpluses and paying off debt. Canada has lowered its national debt from 67% to 29% of GDP since 1993 and run a budget surplus every year between 1997-2008. How? By cutting spending on many gov’t programs in absolute dollar terms (as opposed to cutting… Read more »