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Entries from April 2009

50 years of ‘hunkerin down’

“Nothing like a chair shortage to spark a nationwide squatting trend. That is exactly what happened in 1959 when a bunch of University of Arkansas fraternity brothers decided to make their chair-lacking displeasure known by “hunkerin‘” all over campus. The funny looking practice spread throughout Southern colleges and then eventually throughout the entire country.” Source: [...]

Categories: Humor · Odds & Ends · The Net

Spring in St. Paul miniGallery

Categories: Photography · Saint Paul · Spring

First Robin of the year

Categories: Photography · Spring

Life, with a side of Zen.

My friend Gina and I were finally able to get our new podcast, “Life, with a side of Zen“, up and running.  We had a lot of fun coming up with the concept and preparing everything from the smallest details on the website and coming up with the name (it took forever to find one [...]

Categories: Tech · The Net

Judging

Susan Boyle, auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent, proves why we shouldn’t jump to judge people so quickly.  What an absolute inspiration, she is. Embedding the video has been disabled by the user who uploaded it, so to watch the seven minute video, click here.  You won’t regret it.

Categories: Inspiration · TV · The Net