Wednesday was our last day of vacation. For breakfast we headed to visit with Elisabeth’s friends George and Rita, who we hadn’t been able to see earlier. Elisabeth with George and Rita. Fortunately, since our flight didn’t leave until 8:30 pm MDT we had quite a bit of the day to do some last minute… Read More Vacation: Day 8 (Travelling Home)
[Ed. note: these events took place on Monday, July 16th. We are now back in Indiana and working on finishing up posting about the last few days of our vacation.] Monday we decided to visit Zion National Park, just a short drive from where we are staying in St. George. Several friends had mentioned that… Read More Vacation: Day 6 (Zion National Park)
Our first full day in St. George was a blast! We began by sleeping in. 🙂 It was great, since we hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep in the several previous nights. We are now staying with the Wrights just outside of St. George. (Pastor Wright is the pastor of the church here in St.… Read More Vacation: Day 4 (Saturday in St. George)
The third day of our vacation began with us leaving the Bryce Canyon area, headed for St. George, Utah for the rest of our vacation. We took our time getting back, with lots of detours and exploring along the way. This is the general store in Tropic, Utah, where we stayed. We began by exploring… Read More Vacation: Day 3 (Pt. I: Exploring)
Our first day of vacation was pretty grueling. We spent pretty much the entire day (and then some) traveling. Our first flight left Indianapolis a little after 4 pm. We had a short layover in Denver, and arrived in Las Vegas around 7:15 pm local time. From there we had to get our luggage and… Read More Vacation: Day 1 (Traveling)
It’s hard to believe, but ICA‘s senior graduation is tonight. I gave a final exam today, with the others in the first half of next week. After that it’s just a matter of getting grades done and turned in, and we’re completely done with the school year! It’s hard to believe I’ll soon have my… Read More End of the school year
Here’s a link to a very interesting article in the IEEE Spectrum on asymmetric warfare, explaining how our military focus on technology was crucial for success in the Cold War and Gulf War I but may have led to the wrong conclusions in fighting low-tech asymmetric opponents in Vietnam and Iraq. At the end the… Read More Asymmetric warfare
I guess I haven’t posted since before spring break. Wow. It didn’t seem that long. These past two months have sped by incredibly fast. I don’t have time to remedy that just yet, but hopefully one of us will be able to post an update on our lives soon. I just got back from going… Read More Quick update
A large portion of this school week is being taken up administering achievement tests. On Friday we have an early dismissal for the beginning of spring break, and it’s looking to be a pretty packed vacation for us already. Friday night and Saturday we’ll be at a church Couple’s Retreat in northern Indiana. Then on… Read More Spring break
This is really cool. Some German scientists have created a 3D face modeling program that allows them to map any face to a digital model and then manipulate facial expressions and other details. There’s a good bit of technical jargon at the beginning, but later they illustrate by manipulating some actual famous faces.