Monthly Archives: January 2010

Education: A quarter too far

In September 1944, the Allies conceived of an operation to quickly end World War II by launching a massive, combined airborne and ground offensive in the German-held Netherlands to seize several bridgeheads across major European rivers and thereby expose the German heartland to the threat of Allied attack. The operation, code named Market Garden would […] Continue reading

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Farming: And everything broke

The farm I am helping run is successful and debt free because my in-laws ran it in a very particular way: they stayed out of debt as much as possible and kept their machines running for a long time instead of constantly replacing them with newer and more expensive models. Their farm is a model […] Continue reading

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Technology: One step closer

For those who don’t follow tech news like I do, the 2010 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now in Las Vegas. CES is like the technology version of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit but much, much cooler. Today at CES, ASUSTeK, one of my favorite PC technology […] Continue reading

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Art: Hooray for F-stop

So, two years after buying a digital SLR camera, I attended a lecture for my photography class today that I think definitively explains to me how to make the thing work the way I want it to. Depth of field … Continue reading Continue reading

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Art: Hooray for F-stop

So, two years after buying a digital SLR camera, I attended a lecture for my photography class today that I think definitively explains to me how to make the thing work the way I want it to. Depth of field … Continue reading Continue reading

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