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Pew just released the results of a one year study of political attitudes and media habits. Their conclusions reveal the obvious: Are tightly clustered around a single news source, far more than any other group in the survey, with 47% … Continue reading →

I must stop posting leaf pictures, but I thought of a cool label for this one.

A few days ago Cindy and I were riding through the woods and came across an interesting sight which she captured with her phone and uploaded the picture to Facebook. Andrew, a friend we made while in Russia, misunderstood Cindy’s … Continue reading →

North Dakota College Students It has come to my attention that an ad agency has requested a file containing the email address you were required to establish through your university. You may have consented to the release of your personal … Continue reading →

We are selling our home and leaving North Dakota. You may or may not have gone through this process, but it is not fun. We have lived in this house for 35 years and accumulated a lot of stuff. Getting … Continue reading →

A recent post to the Thesis Whisperer proposed that there should be a mandatory retirement age for “older academics”. The focus of the Whisperer blog is to offer advice to younger academics and I sometimes wonder whether posts such as … Continue reading →

Your first trip to the dump is a right of passage. Here is the official account of grandson Porter’s introduction to the dump. The first thing to be learned about taking garbage and recyclable stuff to the dump is the … Continue reading →

My son-in-law has decided I need some purpose in retirement. Knowing my fascination with coffee shops, he thinks opening a shop here in the North woods would be just the thing. He did locate an appropriate location near Target stadium, … Continue reading →

The first major task of my retirement has been the preparation for moving. Not much fun. If I did not believe the task had an end, I would have kept working. Some people believe we should clean house in Washington every … Continue reading →

I post this picture to dispel the unfair stereotype that we academics have no practical skills. For the third consecutive year, I was able to install this device without help. Note that the installation required I use a screw driver … Continue reading →