Year: 2009

While stumbling around the Internet today I bumped into this article [via Newser] on a new line of preppy menswear that Harvard is endorsing. Some interesting bits: Harvard Yard — a lawn we imagine makes a nice resting ground for Harvard students to repair glasses, wipe down their pocket protectors, and memorize an extra few… Continue reading Clearly, One of Us Doesn’t Have Any Fashion Sense

Just got back from a long weekend in Sunnyvale, CA for Carnegie Mellon’s incoming student orientation. It was a fun weekend – filled with seminars and workshops. Nancy went with me and spent the time visiting her family. The orientation opened on Friday morning with class pictures and a “mixer” activity designed to help students… Continue reading Carnegie Mellon Orientation

Driving to work today I saw a license plate holder that said the following: I see it, I want it, I throw a fit, and I get it While obviously intended to be funny, the sentiment struck me as a glorification of selfishness and childishness and that one would not consider putting such a sentiment… Continue reading Contrasts

Today was the day I decided to break in my new pressure canner by doing beets. We planted two rows of beets and most of the seeds sprouted so we had tons. We started off using the beets by making Borscht and beet salad. They were really good but we grew tired of beets pretty… Continue reading Beets

I just got the reading/course material for classes this fall. I have two classes: Elements of Software Management and Metrics for Software Managers. The books for the Metrics class are: Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results The books for… Continue reading A Little Light Reading

Sam has been asking me since before last Winter if he could have a lemonade stand. I took the day off today because we were originally planning to go and pick blackberries; however, the blackberry farm said the berries wouldn’t be ready until next week. A hot summer day with nothing else to do? That… Continue reading Lemonade Stand

The nicknames are gone. They just sounded dumb and they were too hard to maintain. It was also impossible to prevent commenters from using our real names. I am making one concession to anonymity though: I have removed all instances of our last name from the blog.

The part of raising a family I don’t really enjoy dealing with is that of injuries. This past weekend we had another trip to the instacare to fix another injury. It was Luppin’s turn to get some stitches. While I was mowing the back lawn Luppin and Samuel were in the front yard playing around.… Continue reading Stitches

It’s been a few years since we’ve been to the 4th of July parade in Provo. If you’ve been to one of these parades you’ve been to them all so there isn’t really any need to keep going each year. Of course, we’ve been enough times in the past that we’re considered the “experts” on… Continue reading BYUFan’s Guide to Reserving a Good Parade Spot