Bucky crushed by a Buckeye. Nice to have a #3 QB who is 6-5, 250 pounds, can throw and do all the other stuff. I hope the Buckeyes make the playoffs, but doubt they will.
I've been looking forward to the Pluto flyby for years. Voyager 2's flyby of Triton discovered a more active surface than imagined. What might Pluto teach us?
Military Ridge Road? You may be standing close to where Iowan Herbert Quick observed the following, in 1855:
It was the latter part of March. There were snow-drifts in places along the road, and when I reached a place about where Mt. Horeb now is, I had to stop and lie up for three days for a snow storm. I was ahead of a stream of immigrants that poured over that road in the spring of 1855 in a steady tide…
As I went on to the westward, I began to see Blue Mound rising like a low mountain…, and I stopped at a farm in the foot-hills of the Mound where, because it was rainy, I paid four shillings for putting my horses in the stable…
I drove out to the highway, and…joined again in the stream of people swarming westward . The tide had swollen in the week during which I had laid by….The road was rutted, poached deep where wet and beated hard where dry, or pulverized into dust by the stream of emigration. Here we went, oxen, cows, mules, horses; coaches, carriages, blue jeans, corduroys, rags, tatters, silks, satin, caps, tall hats, poverty, riches; speculators, missionaries, land-hunters, merchants; criminals escaping from justice; couples fleeing from the law; families seeking homes; the wrecks of homes seeking secrecy; gold-seekers bearing southwest to the Overland Trail; politicians looking for places in which to win fame and fortune; editors hunting opportunities for founding newspapers; adventurers on their way to everywhere; lawyers with a few books; Abolitionists going to the Border War; innocent-looking outfits carrying fugitive slaves; officers hunting escaped negroes; and most numerous of all, homeseekers ‘hunting country’ -– a nation on wheels, an empire in the commotion and pangs of birth. Down I went with the rest, across ferries, through Dodgeville, Mineral Point and Platteville, past a thousand vacant sites for farms toward my own farm so far from civilization, shot out of civilization by the forces of civilization itself.
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38 comments:
Congratulations to Ohio State — after crushing us — for making the playoffs.
Is this this where the real estate is near?
Bucky crushed by a Buckeye. Nice to have a #3 QB who is 6-5, 250 pounds, can throw and do all the other stuff. I hope the Buckeyes make the playoffs, but doubt they will.
Here's Althouse's next opportunity to trivialize the achievements of our space program. New Horizons is beginning its historic encounter with Pluto.
Darta, Wisconsin is full of real estate. In fact it's 100% real estate except for some of the water parts.
The satiny blue with the gray mixed in, in the picture looks so delicate.
wow, Scott Walker is on Fox with Shannon Bream, right now. What is with his haircut? odd..
"wow, Scott Walker is on Fox with Shannon Bream, right now. What is with his haircut? odd.."
Maybe it's a tuuumor.
I like Oregon best of the 4 seeds. But if OSU wins, I can brag that my alma mater beat the guys who beat the champs.
Such a dilemma.
Are you thinking of buying farmland and building a house?
@Original Mike.. LOL
I've been looking forward to the Pluto flyby for years. Voyager 2's flyby of Triton discovered a more active surface than imagined. What might Pluto teach us?
Walker has new hair?
I guess he's running.
Did he grow a toupee or what?
OSU made the playoff, so once again my predictions suck. I hope they are sufficiently grateful to Wisconsin, who made it all possible.
So Walker fixed the hair? Stay tuned.
It did seem like new hair and lots of it but sitting lopsided to his left side -- may be it was a misplaced toupee.
I wish I could draw how Scott Walker's head of hair looked for Althouse's benefit..on this very comment interface..
Are there entrepreneurs out there listening -- hey, a startup idea..
I wish I could draw how Scott Walker's head of hair looked for Althouse's benefit..on this very comment interface..
ASCII art?
ASCII art?
Too much effort. Looking for free-hand quick draw type solution.
I thought the Badgers in the Rose Bowl was becoming a trademark.
(looking for)
Like translate my mouse movement over this comment box into a line drawing..
His head IS lopsided. It always was.
Am I cynical enough to believe that Wisconsin threw that game just to make sure a Big 10 team got into the final four?
No.
But I am cynical enough to think about it.
This is scary.. my comment @12:12 about Bream and Walker has already been picked up by google (crawler) for search results.. this is crazy.
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last attempt at ASCII art...
Scott Walker is a conehead?
hehe.. @Original Mike, try stretching it sideways..
Thanks for your post @pm317. I switched over and saw it. I think it was just his hair, but it may have been a misplaced toupe.
Maybe an attempt at a comb over (I sure hope not).
Have you ever mentioned what camera gear you use? I enjoy the images of WI and sites between there and CO.
take the long view
Military Ridge Road? You may be standing close to where Iowan Herbert Quick observed the following, in 1855:
It was the latter part of March. There were snow-drifts in places along the road, and when I reached a place about where Mt. Horeb now is, I had to stop and lie up for three days for a snow storm. I was ahead of a stream of immigrants that poured over that road in the spring of 1855 in a steady tide…
As I went on to the westward, I began to see Blue Mound rising like a low mountain…, and I stopped at a farm in the foot-hills of the Mound where, because it was rainy, I paid four shillings for putting my horses in the stable…
I drove out to the highway, and…joined again in the stream of people swarming westward . The tide had swollen in the week during which I had laid by….The road was rutted, poached deep where wet and beated hard where dry, or pulverized into dust by the stream of emigration. Here we went, oxen, cows, mules, horses; coaches, carriages, blue jeans, corduroys, rags, tatters, silks, satin, caps, tall hats, poverty, riches; speculators, missionaries, land-hunters, merchants; criminals escaping from justice; couples fleeing from the law; families seeking homes; the wrecks of homes seeking secrecy; gold-seekers bearing southwest to the Overland Trail; politicians looking for places in which to win fame and fortune; editors hunting opportunities for founding newspapers; adventurers on their way to everywhere; lawyers with a few books; Abolitionists going to the Border War; innocent-looking outfits carrying fugitive slaves; officers hunting escaped negroes; and most numerous of all, homeseekers ‘hunting country’ -– a nation on wheels, an empire in the commotion and pangs of birth. Down I went with the rest, across ferries, through Dodgeville, Mineral Point and Platteville, past a thousand vacant sites for farms toward my own farm so far from civilization, shot out of civilization by the forces of civilization itself.
Herbert Quick, "Vandermark's Folly"
What's odd is that Quick was writing about events six years prior to his birth.
Oh well, fake but accurate.
Going to have to buy myself this for Christmas. What a neat device.
GM,
don't forget a lifejacket :)
http://www.amazon.com/LifeProof-iPhone-5S-LifeJacket-Float/dp/B00B1GAU52/ref=sr_1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1417992596&sr=1-1&keywords=iphone+flotation
Original Mike said... [hush][hide comment]
"wow, Scott Walker is on Fox with Shannon Bream, right now. What is with his haircut? odd.."
Maybe it's a tuuumor.
Izz not a tuuumor. izz a headache
Beautiful country out there.
Ah! That was cool..
Drill Sgt
good idea. I've dropped a few phones in the drink.
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