http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog The adventures of life are meant to be shared. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:18:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's be honest, this presidential election is nothing but an image war.  The new, sleek and beautiful vs. the old, gruff and ugly.  Of all the people out there who tell polsters they're votiing for Obama, how many actually know anything about his past?  Sure, there've been the laughable, easily ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/08/28/do-you-know-enough-to-elect-barack-obama/ I may get into analysis of this conflict in a future post, but for now, watch this tough as nails Georgian reporter continue her live broadcast after taking a bullet from a sniper. Her name is Tamara Urushadze and she's reporting from the war-torn town of Gori in the ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/08/14/video-sniper-shoots-georgian-reporter-during-live-broadcast/ My wife and I enjoy watching "So You Think You Can Dance" and were excited to see that they were coming to Salt Lake City to search for talent this year.  The Salt Lake City episode aired tonight and it wasn't long before I saw a familiar sight.  Anyone involved in ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/05/28/utahs-brett-banford-representin-on-so-you-think-you-can-dance/ During the May 20, 2008 Tooele County School District Board of Education Workshop Meeting a motion was made to accept the resignation of 40-year education superstar Superintendent Mike Johnsen.  He thanked the Board for the appointment that was made three years ago and showed emotion as he talked about the ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/05/20/tooele-county-school-board-says-farewell-to-superintendent/ I've been planning a big Obama post now for a while, but haven't yet found time to organize my thoughts into a thorough, coherent post. When I do it, I want to do it right. It's no news to anybody at this point (well, except maybe Hillary) that Obama's coronation ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/05/13/right-vs-left-in-the-blogosphere-and-obamas-57-state-tour/ In 2007 a funny thing happened.  People began expressing their opinion on education issues like never before.  (I have no study to back that up, it's just something I noticed and as I've talked to others they have noticed it too.)  It probably had a lot to do with the ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/05/03/blogging-about-education-issues-not-popular/ I think my family is pretty cool - of course I'm biased. Heather gave a wonderful talk in church today on Easter Sunday. She's a spiritual woman and I'm very proud of her. My kids sang with the primary and they both did so well, especially my ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/03/23/bragging-about-family/ I just want to warn anyone thinking about attending the new "more-than-just-lasers" U2 show at the Clark Planetarium that it sucked. Even the great music of U2 couldn't save it, it just sucked. I wish I could say it was cool, but I nearly walked out. The ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/03/16/u2-lasercgi-show-crap/ As promised, here is some old video of another trip we took to Gooseberry Mesa, this time mostly shot and edited by me. It was really hard not to edit further as I was prepping it for upload to YouTube, since after so long I started to be overly ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/03/12/more-goosberry-mesa-adventures/ A few years ago my friends (John, Matt and Chan) went biking at Gooseberry Mesa in Southern Utah. John and I filmed the whole thing and John made this video that makes me wish it were spring already! I love this video! I'll upload another Gooseberry trip ... http://www.desultorythoughts.com/blog/archives/2008/03/07/goosebury-memories-make-me-want-spring/