northern wisconsin provides excellent opportunities for unplugging from the internet, resting and relaxing. even though, the internet is only a few houses away. high speed internet is spreading it’s tentacles wide and far, so that even outside of minocqua, wisconsin, on a small lake, high speed is available.
i drove from my parent’s cabin to my [...]

after a long and heated discussion about politics and the economy with my uncle and grandpa last night, which ended with my grandpa saying “we’re still buddies, right?” (”yes, of course we are!”, I replied), I’ve found something I agree with republicans on.
john culberson, republican representative of texas is waging a battle over the use [...]

I just finished reading “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. I started reading the book earlier this year, but couldn’t find the time to finish it up during the second semester of the school year. As it turns out, it was one of the picks for our summer reading for [...]

Books I’m hoping to read this week:

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

we’re planning to make a bench out of old skis. preparations started this evening with the removal of the bindings:

we’ll see how things go this week.

minnesota monthly just named their top 18 burgers in the state.
i want to try them all.
it’s on my list of todos.
since they haven’t heard of the internet yet though, they haven’t posted the top 10 online. here’s a hint: they pick Matt’s  number 1.
have you been to Matt’s? waaaayyy too many hipsters. pretty decent burger [...]

i’m trying to come up with a grand unified theory on social networking. i signed up for friendfeed on a whim the other day, after coming to the realization that using google reader was not designed to keep track of your friends on the 27 different services they use.
poking around on friendfeed, i started to [...]