I am an alum of the University of Idaho and had a really good experience there. It was a fun place to go, it challenged me as a student, I made some great friends, and it prepared me to enter the professional world.
Here is a short video the University produced. It really captures what the University of Idaho is about.
University of Idaho “Discovery”
I have never played the Nintendo Wii before and in watching all the hype and discussions, I didn’t think that I would like it.
But after playing on my sister’s Wii this holiday, I am becoming a believer and see why it has become so popular.
I have played Wii Sports, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and Big Brain Academy and I am enjoying it. I am slowly getting Wii Sports, the Olympics. They are fun and challenging, and the Big Brain Academy was just plain hard.
My wife has been playing with me and it is something that we are considering buying, just by this short exposure to it. I think that this is something that our whole family can play together. My four-year old daughter was even having fun playing Wii Golf with me.
I would like to know what you think, but I think that Nintendo has a winner here. I just wish they would make more of them so I could get one tomorrow.
Because of the holidays, posts will be limited the next couple of weeks.
I am going to be taking some time off and enjoying family and friends. I won’t have too much time to put together posts for this blog.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a good New Year!
It is interesting. I am watching Fox News and they are using Macbook
Pros. I think they are the only on-air news anchors using a Macbook
Pro.
The others I have seen have all use PC’s.
I wonder what led to them to use Macbook Pros? They sure look slick and
professional on the set.
Today marks the first annivesary of the first of two blizzards to hit Denver over Christmas last year. It was plain nasty around here.
I had to pick my sister in-law up from the airport. It just started to snow on my way there. It took me 30 minutes to get to the airport and two hours to get home. It was not a fun day.
The forecast for this year, warm near 50 degrees. The next chance for snow is tomorrow and it is only for a couple of inches.
We need snow here in Denver, I am just hoping that we don’t get 30+ inches at one time.
The Endless Campaign – WSJ.com
This is an excellent op-ed by Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush.
The Iowa caucuses are 14 days away, with the New Hampshire primary five days later. And what follows from there won’t be pretty. The way Americans are selecting our presidential candidates in 2008 is, frankly, a mess.
I would agree with this. States who have traditionally been later in the process have worked to move themselves up to be more relevant. To keep their place at the beginning of the process, Iowa and New Hampshire have moved themselves up earlier in January. There were even rumblings that Iowa or New Hampshire would hold their election between Christmas and New Years. That would have been ridiculous.
What Rove is advocating is that we have a longer primary process, spread out over a couple months and not a couple days. There is a chance that we will know who will win the election by late February or early March (or we may not know at all going into the conventions) and we will have a long, stale summer leading up to the conventions at the end of August and early September.
Rove sums it up best at the end of his op-ed, “Longer, earlier and shorter — at least when it comes to selecting our presidential candidates — is not in the country’s best interests. The presidential primary mayhem and next year’s seemingly endless general election campaign will be compelling evidence for reform.”
