Year: 2013

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‘Seven Nights Seven Days’

How can you tell that it has been a busy summer? When the sticker on your windshield says you’re almost due for an oil change less than a month after your previous one. Among the highlights, the four-hour trek north to the Irishfest in La Crosse. There’s something about hearing Irish and Celtic music in […]

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Web design and development

Shared: Enough with the JavaScript already!

Great SlideShare from Nicholas Zakas. (via A List Apart) My favorite part is slides 18 and 19. Enough with the JavaScript already! from Nicholas Zakas

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Pop culture

Hollywood blew up my hometown

My hometown of Plano, IL has experienced a lot in the last 20 years. It’s doubled in size as the county in which it sits, Kendall County, became one of the fastest-growing in the country in the 2000s. The football team won back-to-back state titles in 2006 and 2007. Perhaps the coolest development occurred in […]

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General

Bamboo lawn stakes

I’ve been spending the past few weeks up to my eyes in mulch and dirt whipping the yard into shape, and I found a surprisingly helpful tool. I don’t remember even buying these, but with them I was able to trench borders that actually could be mistaken for circles and straight lines. And no, you […]

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General

‘He’s going the distance’

When is a humblebrag more humble than brag? When there’s video proof! After a week of grey skies and soggy ground, the sun is out. My office has an informal, lunch-hour 40-yard dash competition each year, and I was around for it this year. I didn’t fare too badly–5.81 and 5.83 in my two tries–and […]

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General

Photos from after the deluge

I  shared some photos of near-flooding on the Rock River in Moline on Tuesday. At the time, flood levels were supposed to come close to official flood level, but then subsided. So much for that. After two days of heavy, heavy rain, river levels have risen dramatically. Many area hydrographs show similar data to the […]

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General

Summer, Autumn, Winter and Rock River Flooding

Sure, technically the Rock River isn’t above flood stage right now at its measuring station in Moline, Illinois, but it’s been close enough for long enough this spring. Fun fact: six of this location’s ten highest recorded floods have occurred in the past 20 years, and the top 12 floods at this location all have happened since […]

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