Not great pics, but at least I saw him before the man with the net and bucket started standing on a ladder and prodding away at him. ( Zzzz... )

Power hasn't gone out for over two months. Guess we were due. Posting via iPod difficult if workable. Grrr. Edit: and we're back, just long enough to drain the tiny EPS on the server, so let's see what we lost this time.

Just stopped by the Taco Bell in the Union and the very-overworked guy -- the only guy there -- said that the entire staff'd been fired today and he was treading water until his manager found someone to help him ( Read more... )

K-State's Ron Prince resigns. Huh. Curious timing. Still, am not seeing it anywhere else on the blogosphere or the cookie cutter media yet....

Two Kansas State University anthropologists are the authors of the first-ever cultural history of the Wabanaki, indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting what is now protected as part of Acadia National Park on the coast of Maine. The work is now available on the Web site of one of the nation's major national parks, Acadia National Park in Maine ( Read more... )

Attention bicyclists of the world ( Read more... )

Ever since College Publisher bought New Digital Group (previously Digital Partners) in 2005, campus newspapers that choose not to design and host their own sites have had essentially one company to turn to that would provide those services for free in return for an online ad sharing agreement. After an acquisition the next year by mtvU, the college ( Read more... )

This answers the questions of "How do you feel?" and "How was your week?" and "Which is your favorite of all the storm pictures?" all at the same time.


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Sorry for fixating on the nasty atmospheric phenomena for the last 36 hours, y'all. It's still quite alienating to see campus with half the trees on the north side either uprooted or creatively rearranged. And there's yellow insulation everywhere, for miles, on sidewalks, attached to cars, drooping from power lines ( Read more... )

Photo galleries of damage in Chapman and Soldier. Information on damage in Manhattan:
...Miller Ranch area: We can now see that our preliminary statement of 30 homes being leveled to the foundation wasn't correct. We estimate there were 15 homes that were "leveled." Numerous homes in the fairly new residential area received major/serious damage ( Read more... )