Please deposit another 25 cents

All the soda machines on campus are Pepsi.  This is good, because I’m not a fan of Coke, and I really prefer Mt Dew.  But this semester I’ve noticed a lot of people walking up to the machine feeding it their dollar, scratching their head, cancelling their transaction and taking their money and walking away.  [...]

Back from commercial break in 5…4…3…

I just got back from spending four days in the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming.  It is beautiful country.  We stayed just above Freemont lake, above Pinedale (if you know the area at all) and the weather cold not have been more perfect.  Too bad I come back to Salt Lake in time for 100 [...]

Hail to the King, baby.

This is a huge pile of hail. By hail I mean marble sized balls of ice that fall from the sky. You know, hail. Hale? Hell? No, hail. This happened yesterday whilst we were having some kind of freak summer storm. It rained buckets for a while, got [...]

Utopia

Or: My connectiosn is faster than yours is! Naah nah nah naah naah!

This is my speed at the office, now. Neat, huh? I’m trying to get the same service, Utopia, at home, too. But there is some delay getting it out to my area. What a pain in the ass. [...]

I Know Kung Fu

This semester has been intense. 14 credit hours all crammed into 11 weeks. Actually, half my classes were 11 weeks and the other half were 8. The last week of class is here and the last three months is feeling like I’ve been hooked up to the computer and had all the course [...]