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07 May 2010 ~ View Comments

The Daily Beast Recognizes Dartmouth as a Top Producer of Tech Talent

This month, The Daily Beast pointed out in “Tech’s 29 Most Powerful Colleges” and it had Dartmouth at the top. As The Beast says, Our goal was to identify which colleges, compared student-for-student, have turned out the most undergraduates destined for high-tech greatness. While our results included many prestigious names, the rankings produced surprises as [...]

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17 February 2010 ~ View Comments

Cool Green Stuff

As Kermit used to say, “it’s not easy being green,” which is why i thought these items were pretty cool… First there’s a new Puma phone that was announced this week at MWC (the largest mobile conference in the world) and instead of trying to compete with iPhone/Android and trying to do everything it’s just [...]

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16 November 2009 ~ View Comments

Adrian Peterson is Amazing

Check out some of the runs from last week’s game against Detroit. He’s getting more and more Barry Sanders-like

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26 October 2009 ~ View Comments

In-N-Out Burger

Image by pescatello via Flickr Just finished reading the book In-N-Out Burger by Stacy Perlman about the creation of the iconic burger joint. The book has some great stories about the original founders. The husband/wife team Ester and Harry Snyder worked tirelessly and with lots of integrity to create a burger joint focused on “doing [...]

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16 September 2009 ~ View Comments

Getting Beyond ‘Z’

Was reading The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine the other day and it had some great quotes from Theodor Geisel, a prominent alum and extremely successful author under the name Dr. Seuss. While at Dartmouth, Theodor was editor of Dartmouth’s comedy magazine called The Jacko. That is  until he got caught drinking on Easter eve and got [...]

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07 September 2009 ~ View Comments

LA, You’re Fired!

The fires in LA are both incredible and sad. The sight of them is unlike anything i’ve seen. Take a look at this video that Toby put up (click on it to watch video): It makes me reflect on my time here in LA.  As some of you know, i’m moving to Denver in the [...]

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24 July 2009 ~ View Comments

Jonny Flynn and the Timberwolves

There’s been lots of talk about Ricky Rubio and all the he could potentially bring to the twolves.  And while i think he’s pretty special, I’m also very excited about Johnny Flynn.  What happened on draft day is that the the Timberwolves had ranked Flynn as #1 on their board of people they thought they [...]

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22 May 2009 ~ View Comments

Joe Mauer is Awesome

Image by Keith Allison via Flickr Let me just repost what Aaron Gleeman wrote yesterday.  It should be no surprise to anyone that Joe Mauer is my favorite player in baseball.  The guy is  a total stud: Mauer is such a great hitter that batting .417 or getting on base at a .500 clip during [...]

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06 May 2009 ~ View Comments

Bill Simmons to be Timberwolves GM?

Two of my favorite things are intersecting today.  My love for The Sports Guy and for the Timberwolves could turn into a marraige as he’s launching a campaign to be the Twolves GM.  The Star Tribune did an interview (via email) with him here. I personally think he knows the intricacies of the league, the [...]

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24 April 2009 ~ View Comments

Babel Tales by Peter Funch

This is pretty cool.   A Danish photographer, Peter Funch, who lives and works in New York City has created a photo series called “Babel Tales” which consists of pictures of people passing New York City street corners. Every photo is an edit of several photo’s he took at exactly the same spot in a period [...]

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