Monday 05/20/2013

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Spectral Studio: 20 Sq M Space Uses Light & Dark as Decor

  [ By WebUrbanist in Design & Fixtures & Interiors . ]

  

  In an Paris apartment with just over 200 square feet, it is almost impossible to imagine anything but the more bare essentials resulting a boring space. But that ... more

Sunday 05/19/2013

• Alison Sommer '05: Passing notes

  

  Passing notes was my favorite "subversive" act in high school (maybe because I could no longer cut class for imaginary cello sectionals ). I'm not talking about little notes that have a sentence or two scrawled on them, like "Sarah loves Chris" or ... more

• Carleton News: Photo Feature: International Festival 2013

  International Festival is an annual celebration of the diverse backgrounds and cultures represented at Carleton. Numerous clubs and student groups present food, dances, music, and skits from around the world. This year, the festival was hosted for the first time ... more

• Erin McKittrick '01: Becoming One with the Mud

  

  Not sure exactly what caused this sort of bizarre sieve deposit along Turnagain Arm.

  It’s silt, really. Pieces of mountains, ground down by the Cook Inlet glacier during the last ice age, and by the smaller glaciers that surround ... more

• Micah Koller '12: The acceleration due to gravity

  

  Hi everyone. It’s been shamefully long since my last post. I’m either too busy and stressed, or having too much fun to bother with it. Anyway, since february, I’ve been working on completing the 36 required laboratory exercises with ... more

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Scooped: 12 Chilled Out Abandoned Ice Cream Stands

  [ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture . ]

  
  Cone in 60 seconds? Though these 12 cool abandoned ice cream stands thought they could take a licking and keep on ticking , they ended up just being licked. ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Glessners Inez and Harry 1942 in Faribault to 1972 in Findlay

  

  I visited Findlay Ohio in 1972 with my mom, Peg Glessner Weaver who was born in Findlay 3 June  1910.  My maternal grandmother here is Inez Chase Glessner, under the street sign of Glessner Avenue and Main Cross in ... more

• Nadya Murray '99: near and faraway

  In the second category: やっぱりoh, Taka. Lately when M does his thing at rehearsal of noodling madly away to himself during breaks, fancy double stops and bits of concerti and A's father's Hungarian stuff and God knows what, it makes ... more

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-19-2013
  Museum + Linn Ridge + Ink. 88 minutes. 12 miles.
  Warm, humid, and windy. Felt a little better. [Week: 80 miles]

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-18-2013
  Hoosier Hills Extended. 82 minutes. 11 miles.
  Warm and humid. Felt pretty tired and sluggish. Slow and easy pace.

• John Tischer '71: Poetry

  
  

  It never happens when I try…

  it’s always an accident….

  it’s not even me…

  it’s the universe, drunk,

  speaking through me…

  it is the fountain of creation

  possessed by everyone,

  owned by no one…

  it is the reason there ... more

Saturday 05/18/2013

• Erik Brooks: Seventies Sleepdog!

  

  
  

  A brand new Sleepdog for the disco-themed  Little Star Montessori School Auction. TONIGHT. 5PM @ The Winthrop Barn. Groovy!

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Find the Perfect Parking Spot Before You Even Leave Home

  [ By Delana in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology . ]

  

  There are countless maps and other direction-finding methods for your smartphone that can help you get to where you want to go – but once you get there, ... more

• Kevin Draper '10: Diss Guy Miss Guy, Vol. 40

  Diss Guy: Dirk Nowitzki

  

  It must’ve been a rough year for Dirk Nowitzki.  The guy missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade, due chiefly to his absence for the first two months of the regular ... more

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-17-2013
  Naperville . 78 minutes. 11 miles.
  Easy run. Felt pretty good.

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-16-2013
  North Central. 16 minutes. 2 miles.
  Easy warm-up with Leslie.

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-16-2013
  Irish Loop. 59 minutes. 8 miles.
  Easy run. Felt a bit better.

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-15-2013
  Town Loop. 30 minutes. 4 miles.
  Easy run. Felt better.

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-15-2013
  Mud + Irish + Palisades + Town. 60 minutes. 8 miles.
  Leg really tight again. Extra slow and easy run.

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-14-2013
  Town + Mud Road. 30 minutes. 4 miles.
  Hot and sunny! Felt better.