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| Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 | | 10:27 am |
Packers Stock for Tim
You were curious about stock in the Green Bay Packers: http://www.packers.com/history/fast_facts/stock_history/Presently, 111,967 people (representing 4,750,925 shares) can lay claim to a franchise ownership interest. Shares of stock include voting rights, but the redemption price is minimal, no dividends are ever paid, the stock cannot appreciate in value, and there are no season ticket privileges associated with stock ownership. No shareholder is allowed to own more than 200,000 shares, a safeguard to ensure that no one individual is able to assume control of the club. | | Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 | | 9:03 pm |
In Memory of a Good Car
For those who I lived with or interacted greatly with in Minneapolis, this may come as a shock. The red (or maroon as Heidi says) car that I have driven since Freshman year of college is being replaced. It is a 1990 Buick LeSabre that was my grandparents. It was my grandfather's first *new* car, and he was quite proud of it. Many of those in Comstock remember making trips to the Midway after midnight. Or living at the boy house and cramming 8 people in it to get to work and the grocery runs. However, the car has been having problems lately. You may recall that the air conditioning stopped working shortly after I got it. In the past few years the windows have stopped moving up and down without 'assistance'. Occasionally, the starter will grind when trying to turn it over. If we plug a massaging chair into the cigarette lighter, fuses will blow. The heat and/or defrost is none to effective, particularly on days below zero. The brights no longer work, probably for the same reason that the left turn signal doesn't turn off. But the engine still works well and it gets good mileage. Most of these problems were the mechanic's nightmare: intermittent. However the last straw was in the past week when a small column of smoke would appear from the steering column. Just when you had the turn signals on, but still somewhat alarming. And intermettant. So, to replace it we're getting another Buick. A LeSabre. It is 'bronze mist' in color. The air conditioning works, and there is no smoke coming from the steering column. I'll try to put up some photos in the next few days. | | Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 | | 7:23 am |
In other news
In other news, the government is screwing over porn websites. I tried to post this on Tim's site with the article about frying small fish, but it didnt' take. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want every porn website to have access to my social security number if I was a performer... http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67869,00.htmlhttp://www.gapingmaw.com/But as usual, the majority will run over anything the minority could do to stop this... | | Monday, June 6th, 2005 | | 1:00 pm |
Heidi and I will be in the Twin Cities this weekend. Our schedule is pretty up in the air. Is there any times or days that people would like to try and get together? | | Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 | | 6:26 pm |
I'll play along
Where were you when you heard that Ronald Reagan died? At Heidi's brother's. My reaction: "He's finally dead, huh?" Where were you on September 11, 2001? At the boy house. I woke up about 8:00, and found it rather unusual that I couldn't connect to CNN or Washington Post to check the news. Thinking that our router might be down, I went upstairs to check Headline news. Turned it on just to see the first tower fall. My reaction: "HOLY SHIT!". I then woke Tim up. His reaction: "HOLY SHIT!" and come down stairs to check it out. After the second tower fell, I woke Rob and Blake up. Their reaction: "Holy shit!" and went back to sleep. The bus driver let me know that classes on the UM campus were canceled, so I went back to the boy house and watched TV all day. Do you remember where you were when you heard Kurt Cobain had died? At my grandparents, staying with my grandma after my grandpa had a stroke. I hadn't really listened to Nirvana much before that point, and started to wonder why he killed himself. I feel like I understand now. The Challenger disaster: I very dimly remember this, it was in first grade (Which is sad for a big space nut like me). I don't think there was an announcement, but a TV might have been brought in. I remember the Columbia however, my parents called to wake me up and tell me it hadn't touched down. Watched all the images come in. Heidi still can't look at those pictures or the Challenger pictures without hearing the screams. Gulf War I: Just got back from skating with my sister and dad. My mom had it on. I was pretty ambivalent to it. Gulf War II: In Charlotte to get trained on the EDM we just bought for the lab. I was annoyed that they were doing this again, with crappy proof. Turns out I was right. | | Tuesday, May 4th, 2004 | | 9:16 pm |
My colon is normal. No I don't have pictures. | | Friday, March 12th, 2004 | | 9:26 am |
A Sad Day for Wisconsin
The Legislature has passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages and anything "significantly similar", like civil unions. The rules for a constitutional amendment in Wisconsin are: 1) Simple majority in assembly and senate on two consecutive legislative sessions. 2) Simple majority public vote. What bothers me the most about this is that we haven't learned anything in the past 150 years. We had a debate like this with polygamy in Utah from 1850-1890. We had this debate when Nevada allowed divorce in the early 20th century. We had this debate in 1960's about inter-racial marriages. Now we are having it again. And again a vocal majority is using the same tired arguments against the minority. There's a reason that judges are ruling against this. The purpose of appointing judges for long terms is to allow them to make decisions based upon right and wrong, not what is popular. Current Mood:  angry | | Monday, March 1st, 2004 | | 9:07 pm |
Festies beware
From Heidi-rose: Here's a test for those who wonder how pure they are in Ren Fest terms. The questions for men and women can be answered by either gender if you ask me. How many times have I gone rose smelling? Jen- don't answer that! Here is the result of your Renaissance Purity Test. You answered "yes" to 119 of 145 questions, making you 17.9% FaireFolk pure (82.1% FaireFolk corrupt). According to the scoring guide, your renaissance experience level is: A Renaissance Faire Addict To The Armory's Purity Test Page Go to the Armory Home Page The purity test SCORING SYSTEM is maintained by John DuBois. The TEST you took is not stored by or in any other way associated with The Armory. If you wish to comment on it, you should return to the test page or the page you found its link on and try to determine who the author is, so that you can send a comment by email. http://members.tripod.com/~whitedragon/renpure.htmlother tests http://www.armory.com/tests/purity.html | | Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 | | 9:52 pm |
Kitties
We have a new cat. She's 7 months old and black with a few white patches. For a poor quality picture, check out: www.cae.wisc.edu/~acreuzig/kitty.jpg We've decided on the name Shadowcat. The other names we came up with: Grimalkin, Onyx, Obsidian, Tenar, etcx never seemed to fit right. Last night she spent the night sleeping on our heads and purring. She likes to have her belly rubbed, which is a nice change. She's 1/3 the weight of our other cat, Titania, who is tolerating this very well for a cat of 12 years. | | Thursday, February 12th, 2004 | | 9:33 pm |
My first trip to the Capitol since 4th Grade
I skipped out of work for most of the day today. The Wisconsin State Assembly has introduced an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage or "any institution significantly similar to marriage" (Amendment AJR66 if you're interested). So in reaction to "activist judges" they introduced a vague law open to interpretation to remove domestic partnerships and/or civil unions. Sad. And as was demonstrated by some same-sex couples that went to file for marriage anyway, complete overkill. So I went to speak against this amendment at an assembly forum. It was my first direct intervention in our democratic process (I consider voting to be rather passive). It was definitely interesting to see. I learned a lot about how our government really works. Most of those arguing in favor of the amendment trotted out the standard excuses of leading to polygamy, being bad for families, against god's will, etc. Those against the amendment brought out the arguments of equal rights, that children are not affected adversely, that this is an inappropriate use of the constitutional amendment process, and that our legislature has spent an inordinate amount of time on this topic. I was amazed at the difference in articulateness people from of both parties. Unfortunately, the 3-5 minute rule on each person was not enforced, leading to people from both groups spending 10-20 minutes on their rambling speeches. So I was unable to speak, but provided a written statement. I'm entertained to see the civil disobedience in San Francisco. I'll be curious to see what happens there. Current Mood:  goodCurrent Music: Les Miserables | | Wednesday, January 28th, 2004 | | 7:49 am |
Bad Space Week
Yesterday began the bad "week" for the US space program: Jan 27 1967 - Apollo I fire. Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee killed in a fire on the launch pad during a test. An electrical short in the cabin, pressurized with pure oxygen caused an uncontrollable fire. Manned flights did not resume for nearly two years for redesign. Jan 28 1986 - Challenger Explosion. Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe killed in an explosion 73 seconds after liftoff. Below normal (27F) pre-launch temperatures caused the rubber seals in the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) to fail. A jet of flame from one of the SRB's burned away the lower strut holding the SRB to the External Tank. Upon failure of this strut, the SRB pivoted about the upper strut, cracking the oxygen tank. The resulting explosion shredded Challenger, sending the crew cabin (which remained relatively intact) into the sea. The shuttle program did not return to flight for nearly two years. Feb 1 2003 - Columbia disintegration. Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Ilan Ramon killed 7 minutes from touching down in Florida. During liftoff a part of the External Tank falls off and strikes Columbia's wing. This is not the first time that part of the External tank had fallen off. Debates occurred for the two weeks Columbia was in orbit if anything should be done to check the damage that it may have created. No action was taken. The damage led to the disintegration of the left wing and subsequent tumbling and disintegration of the orbiter. Tests performed after the disintegration showed that for a similar wing section and similar sized piece of the External tank caused a 16-inch diameter hole. The space shuttle program is "planned" to return to space in October. | | Sunday, January 25th, 2004 | | 2:52 pm |
There's no better exercise than biking in winter. Current Mood:  exhausted | | Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 | | 8:37 pm |
Space writings
Started a new semester again. I think it will go ok. Hard but ok. Starting to strike a balance between research and homework, and trying some new strategies to use my time more effectively. It doesn't work so well at home, however. Heidi's doing ok, her debut directing performance wraps up this week. Unfortunately it wasn't advertised well, so not too many people have showed up. But the actors and board members like her work. Some people from the Wisconsin Community Theatre Associate talked with her too. Tim asked me a bit ago to talk about Bush's Space Program. As an Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Graduate, and a Graduate Student in Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics, he thinks I may have some insight into this issue. ( Space ) | | Wednesday, January 7th, 2004 | | 11:38 am |
Kitty is Gone
We decided to let Musto go this morning. Nothing they had done had improved his condition, it was just getting steadily worse. They think it was probably liver cancer. When we got there to say goodbye, he was having trouble breathing and his eyes were fixed and dialated. It helped to know we were making the right decision. (Now to figure out where the $3800 bill is going to come from) "I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside of me" - Calvin & Hobbes Current Mood: drained | | Tuesday, January 6th, 2004 | | 9:54 am |
Slightly improving kitty
Musto's still in the hospital, but they have managed to get a feeding tube in him. He has Fatty Liver Disease, which is when a cat stops eating and starts living off of stored fat. Cat's livers don't react well to this and effectively shut down. So getting non-fat food into him is a critical part of his recovery. Unfortunately, his blood still isn't clotting. He's not hemmoraging internally, but it's still worrysome. All the stress of this has caused me to become sick, so I'm staying home today with our other cat, Titania. Current Mood: exhausted | | Sunday, January 4th, 2004 | | 11:38 pm |
Sick Kitty
One of our cats, Musto isn't doing well. He's been increasingly lethargic since we got back from the Holidays at my parents. We took him to the animal hospital this morning and he's going to staying there for a while. He's heavily jaundiced (yellowing of the skin due to liver malfunction) and his blood isn't clotting well. So we're worried about him. On the plus side, when we called a bit ago, he's still alert and they've given him some plasma to help with the clotting. Hopefully he'll respond well and we'll be able to pick him up in a few days. | | Friday, November 14th, 2003 | | 8:05 am |
| | Sunday, November 2nd, 2003 | | 10:54 pm |
Heidi
Heidi's going to get to direct The Odd Couple, starting rehersals in two weeks. The shows will be in January. She's very excited. I'll get stuff done at the lab. | | Sunday, May 4th, 2003 | | 11:42 am |
Last Call for Tickets
Last call for tickets. Jen, how many should I order for you? Not much else new. Working frantically at the end of the semester. I have two papers due friday, a presentation tomorrow and a final next Sunday. That's right, Sunday. The papers are going ok, I don't think the test will go as well. Other than that not much new. My sister had surgery to repair the MCL she tore. That went well, her physical thearapy is progressing well. My grandmother will be going for knee replacement this summer. Current Mood: busyCurrent Music: Pink Floyd - The Wall | | Sunday, April 6th, 2003 | | 10:01 pm |
Anniversary
Heidi and my anniversary is coming up soon (yes it does sound strange) and we were planning on celebrating it in the Twin Cities. As part of this trip, we were thinking of going to the Twins vs. Seattle baseball game on Saturday May 31 at 3:05 PM. If anyone else wants to come along, it would make the time more entertaining and fun. We're thinking of getting Lower Reserved Tickets ($21 each). So if anyone would like to come along, we could get tickets as a group. We'll probably be around Friday night till Sunday afternoon. We wouldn't mind getting together with people outside the game too. If there's a time and place we could sort out, that would be great. Otherwise things are ok. Heidi's show was canceled Saturday after two of the cast members were in a car accident. They're ok, but one was in pretty rough shape for a while. The roads were pretty bad so I didn't make my planned trip to Mosinee for D&D. Oh well, it was nice to have time together with Heidi. Some of my friends from Mosinee stopped by on Thursday night and it was nice to reminisce and talk. Current Mood: happyCurrent Music: Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around |
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