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Starved Rock State Park
We went hiking with Ben this weekend at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, Illinois. Then, we spent the night at his parents’ house in nearby Ottawa. We ate at a local pizza place, Bianchi’s, (great!) and watched Two for the Money (not so great). Overall a great time and some nice scenery! I’ve put [...]
What Happened to the Buckeyes?
( Clemson andIllinois andMatt's Posts andOhio State andOur Life andPhotos andSports )
That’s what we were wondering after going to see the Buckeyes and Illini play. In case you missed it, the Buckeyes made it out of Champaign with a 17-10 victory. The only answer we could come up with was that Ohio State was trying to avoid injury and limiting their play calling to avoid showing [...]
Pumpkin Carving
In yet another learning experience this weekend, we were introduced to pumpkin carving kits. Admittedly, this does make the process quite a bit more fun since you can carve something that actually looks pretty good as opposed to the traditional triangle-eyed pumpkin face. I’ve put our pics up from the evening, which include several of [...]
New Photo Albums
We just got back from a trip to North Carolina for my cousin Jacob’s wedding and a couple days in South Carolina with Leigh Ann’s family. Hopefully we’ll have time to write more about the trip in the near future, but for now, I wanted to let you know that we uploaded several new batches [...]
Kodak Moment
( Photos )
We are having some tornadic weather in Illinois tonight (like usual), but this thunderstorm has particularly cool lightening. Matt didn’t think I could do it, but I managed to get a picture of the lightening! Check it out…
PHinisheD Photos
To celebrate me being PHinisheD (get it…PHD), Leigh Ann did a photo shoot for me around campus and I put it up in an album. Evidently, my idea of celebration involves making funny faces. Also, Leigh Ann and I took some pics around our apartment last weekend (the 2006_07_SundayAfternoon* photos). Pay no attention to the [...]
Our South Carolina Trip
We took a trip down to South Carolina this past weekend to celebrate the Fourth with Leigh Ann’s family. We were fortunate to be joined by some of our friends from Champaign, Will and Valerie Smith. They’re getting all the travel out of them before Will starts his new job next month. So we rented [...]
Bring Out the Gimp
I played around a little with GIMP this past week. It is the open source equivalent of Photoshop. I like it better in Linux (haven’t tried the Windows port) because it’s much faster than Photoshop Elements in Windows on our computer. If anyone knows of some simple Photoshop or GIMP techniques that you like, please [...]
So You Had a Bad Day
Here’s a link to a blog with some rather entertaining photos.
Caption of the Day
Move along folks. Nothing to see here…just your typical Champaign-Urbana pothole. DOT is supposed to fix it next week. Link to the real story.
World’s Best Skylines
Here’s a cool list by some student of urban planning: the world’s 15 best skylines. Chicago makes number two on the list, just behind Hong Kong! It has a pic of each skyline mentioned.
Family Fun
My family came to visit this this weekend for their annual Spring Break trip to Illinois. I don’t know why anyone would want to “Spring Break” in Illinois, but I guess I must be worth it. Despite the cold weather we had a really great time. Mom, Dad, and Jared arrived on Saturday afternoon and [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Here’s a cool pic of some elephants:
On Poorly Placed Bottles and Logs
This post by my friend Todd had me cracking up! Now, I’m paranoid that maybe this picture was taken when our families were together and there’s a picture out there somewhere with me in a similar pose His pic rivals this one as innocent poses with unintentionally explicit sexual overtones:
Christmas Recap
We had a great Christmas with my family in Columbus, Ohio! We got there around 9 pm on Friday evening (Dec. 23). Saturday, I helped my dad setup his wireless network so we could use our laptop around the house. My main contribution was encouraging him to try a new Ethernet cable despite his assertion [...]
Cool Sports Pics
James Harrison tackles a Browns fan that ran on the field during the Steelers 41-0 win on December 24, 2005. Eric Carriere gets walloped during the UEFA Cup on September 15, 2005.
Caption This Photo
I don’t know much about the new Pope other than that he is one scary looking dude: My caption would be: You only thought Darth Vader killed me at the end of Return of the Jedi. Feel free to add your own captions in the comments.
The Origins of One of The Greatest Dances
That would be Carlton’s dance from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Check out i-Mockery to find out the origins of the dance, which happen to involve Bruce Springsteen and Courtney Cox.
Thanksgiving Vacation Recap
This year we went to South Carolina for the Thanksgiving holiday. We flew in on Friday (Nov. 18) about 3 pm. We carefully chose our flight times this year so as not to miss the Michigan-Ohio State football game. Two years ago, we were flying during the game and I had to watch a recorded [...]
Parent of the Year Award Nominee
This kind of rocks: Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter’s poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.