The last two weekends I, among others, ventured across the state to run the mighty Huron river in Ann Arbor. It was good fun with good people and good students. Beyond that, this post is likely interesting to very few people. Last weekend Todd, Linda, Dennis, Kathleen, Doug, Josh, Jeff… Continue reading
The past two weekends have seen two runs on the mighty Huron river. The following is probably only interesting to a few people who likely don’t read this, so it will serve mainly as a future reference for myself. Last weekend the Huron was running at about 550 cfs. On… Continue reading
For those who haven’t met me in person, I drive a blue Jeep Cherokee. It’s old, it’s rusted, it’s dented, it’s been rolled once and declared totaled, and I don’t do preventative maintenance. I have about a five mile drive into work. Last Friday, about 3.5 miles into the trip… Continue reading
This is the first post coming to you through the WordPress installation on norconk.com. I’ve spent far too much time in the indecision of how to design my site. About two years ago, I had it all set up how I liked it, but then wanted to convert it to… Continue reading
So, I plugged the Zune in and fired up the software. I don’t have the external drive with all my music on it plugged in, but I want to see if I can make some playlists from the songs on the device. Dabble around a bit trying to figure out… Continue reading
I will preface this by saying that I am not trying to jump on the MS sucks bandwagon. If MS really sucked that bad, people would be using Linux. I have tried Linux and I do not believe it is ready for wide spread adoption by people who “just want… Continue reading
I cannot figure out how to make IE in Vista download Firefox. If I select run, nothing happens. If I select save, either nothing happens or it is saved somewhere unknown to me. When I go to tweak internet options, nothing comes up. When I search for any file that… Continue reading
Ron Paul sounds like a right wing nut**. This is coming from me – who intends to vote based on gun possession. His most recent campaign ad basically has him endorsing the use of US military assassination as means of taking care of problems. I remember being in fourth grade… Continue reading
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http://xkcd.com/337/ See, Ride of the Valkyries really does improve anything!