Category: Skunch
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Lt. Frederic Hargesheimer
A fascinating and well written article in today\’s Strib on a 90-year-old WWII Minnesota veteran named Fred Hargesheimer It\’s long, but worth your time. It\’s surprising no one has written a book or made a movie about this (yet). If you\’ve come across this after the Strib link has expired, or are looking for more…
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commuter toss
wanna know why i don\’t like commuting? read this. points to note: a) the dude did this in front of his kids. classy. 2) the dude drives a pickup. shocker.
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Morality Play
I was at the Physical Therapist the other day (long story… shoulder sugery… a story for another time), sitting patiently in the waiting room when I spied a copy of Time Magazine. Time is always good for a interesting article or two so I picked it up. I flipped to a story titled What Makes…
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prepare yourself
i\’ve been a serious web-surfer for well over a decade now. i check numerous sites, numerous times a day. i do a lot of searching via google– i have my technique down, no ticklin\’ or nothin\’. i have seen many, many, many images online. and, today, in doing a little research on arm muscles, i\’ve…
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Wisconsin – More Than Cheese… Really!
Minnesota\’s lovely neighbor to the east has decided that it being a new year, it\’s time for a new slogan. I thought I\’d try to give them a hand… Wisconsin: Eat Cheese or Die Wisconsin: Come Cut Our Cheese Wisconsin: America\’s Sausageland Wisconsin: We\’re below Superior Wisconsin: Blaze Orange isn\’t a color, it\’s a state…
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redneck desserts
so there was a restaurant (and i use the term loosely) named \”the blue horse saloon\” about five miles south of northfield in a subhamlet (?) called millersburg. prototypical small-town bar– lots of pennants, free popcorn, good burgers, lots of beer. also, it was attached to a convenience-type store called the millersburg store. it was…
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metawork
wadE has previously described his role of project manager being akin to a professional babysitter, and– given that i work with PMs daily– i can\’t disagree. and while he equates my usual business analyst role to living in hell, i would much rather work as a BA for free than be paid to be a…
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it most certainly has a hemi in it
i am always an advocate of not wanting to paint with too wide of a brush, because stereotypes can be really damaging. that said, this research goes further in proving my theory that 95% of jackass moves on the roads are done by idiots in pickups. (p.s. my dad, the safest driver i\’ve known, and…
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don\’t be a scrooge
wadE forward one of those \”put down your answer and forward to your friends\” e-mails today about Christmas. instead of forwarding back to a bunch of people, i thought i\’d just post answers here. hey, easy way to get something fresh on the site! woo!
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The Question Is Moot… Or Is It?
A friend of mine at work were discussing the various nicknames we could use as code to discuss our various coworkers. We\’ve had a lot of turnover recently and needed a fresh batch of names, as well as revisit some of the new ones.