I am a proud papa! Carl graduated yesterday magna cum laude from Wartburg College. It seems like only yesterday I gave you "bear" on the day you were born. This Fall you head to Johns Hopkins University and their Masters in Internation Relations Program. Enjoy your first year on their Italian campus … and the second in Washington DC (our government could use your help!). (graduation video)
This is what vacations are all about … after all … the Northstar Nerd got to see and touch The Beverly Hillbillies' Truck … thus one more vacation post! The College of the Ozarks has a great museum, which among other things has … (click to view full sized).
There is a relatively new initiative to get historical photographs out of famous museums curator's vaults, and make the images freely available to you. Thus, if you would enjoy a jaunt back through history, whether it be via the …
… then take a look! You can also explore by tag or search. The initiative is known as The Commons and is hosted on Flickr. Given I am known as the Northstar Nerd, I leave you with one image I found. Take a close look at the boat in the foreground … from the 1880's in Sweden! Viking influence is still apparent!
Wartburg College is a fantastic college located in small town Iowa, but sometimes the need to protect the farmers of Iowa gets rather humorous … and this comes from a man whose family has proudly raised "Hoeg Hogs" for generations (except me … the web nerd). Upon inspecting the email (click to expand image), you will see the correspondence avoids any mention of the word "swine" or "flu" in the "all parents" email title. Quite frankly, with a title like N1H1 Information I surprised I even opened the darn thing!
Hey IBM Labs … many of the comments on your YouTube video about Watson playing on Jeopardy are not in the best of taste. I thought you (i.e. IBM) would appreciate a video response from the Northstar Nerd, particularly if my video was on target and in good taste. It's been 24 hours … post my video response! (Netizens … help me get my HAL 9000 video response posted!)
And my video response … submitted but not posted by IBM.