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Some really great information from the University of Minnesota on vegetable gardening in the north star state.

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/dg1422.html

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Could the last four months be the best in Wisconsin sports history? I think it may have been.

- Oct. 16, 2010: #1 ranked Ohio State is soundly beaten at Camp Randall, paving the road to the Rose Bowl for the Badgers.
- Jan. 1, 2011: #4 Wisconsin plays #3 TCU in the Rose Bowl.
- Feb. 6, 2011: The Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl XLV.
- Feb. 12, 2011: #1 (and undefeated) Ohio State visits the Kohl Center. Florida is the only other school to knock off a #1 (also Ohio State) in both football and basketball in the same academic year.

So soak it up Wisconsin sports fans; who knows if we’ll ever see something like this again.

Why does Mike Ditka always look like he’s about to cry? Because he knows deep inside himself that the Bears Still Suck. No matter how you shuffle the cards it’s pretty obvious that the Bears are terrible. If they knew how to get Fly Like a Cheesehead they might have a chance, but it’s likely that we will just see more of the same from Jay Cutler. Bears fans just need to accept that they never have had a good quarterback and never will.

Madison, WI

In my ten years of hanging out at Camp Randall this was by far the best victory I’ve experienced. The 2003 Schabert/Evans touchdown pass was epic, and OSU was just coming off a national title win, but that game was far closer than this one. Wisconsin scored on the opening kickoff and retained the lead throughout despite a very good rally attempt by the Bucks in the second half. My hope is that this win shook the rust off of some of our fans and made them think that maybe we can go to the Rose Bowl or contend for a national title (someday). My takeaways from the game:
- Tressel is now 4-4 against Wisconsin.
- OSU allowed their first 100 yard rusher since 2008.
- Tolzien was sacked six times by OSU last year. This year, zero.
- There were a number of high level recruits in attendance Saturday night. One can only hope they walked away with a favorable impression of Madtown.
- Wisconsin is 41-4 at home over their last 45 games.
- Wisconsin has won 26 of their last 29 night games.
- The OSU defense was ranked third in the nation heading into the game. Not anymore.

It was part choreographed dance show, part light show, and part fashion show all combined into something never seen before. The soundtrack and corresponding choreography is broken into distinctive themes, from a grand sounding kick line number to upbeat techno. Perhaps the best part comes towards the end, when the lit up rooms turn into a dancing figure. (It’s important to remember that the light blocks are rooms in a building and not something on a screen; in some sense the video doesn’t do it justice).

You can watch the video here; the show doesn’t start until halfway in. If you watch closely you just might see me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcOGnW2eC7c&feature=related

My first attempt at a fall garden. Let’s see how this goes…

Remove the old walls, ceiling, and floor with a pry bar. Secure or cap the electrical lines.

Bummer. Last season MLB.TV promised a sync feature that would allow users to listen to the radio feed while watching the TV feed. For example, I could listen to the AM620/Bob Uecker audio and it would sync up with the video. Pretty awesome, huh? Well, the feature never really got off the ground last year and this year it’s not even mentioned. I just hope they haven’t completely abandoned the idea. I’d rather listen to Uecker with no video so I guess I’ll just go with the MLB app on my iPhone.

I watched King Corn the other night. If you’ve watched Super Size Me or read Fast Food Nation or In Defense of Food you’ll get the idea. In short it’s about two college buddies from Boston who decide to raise an acre of corn in Iowa from seed to harvest to find out what happens to the corn. Some interesting takeaways:

- Many Americans are made out of corn! Seriously. They do an isotope analysis of the filmmakers’ hair.
- Most corn farmers today can’t eat what they grow. The corn is largely inedible and its ultimate purpose is to be turned into sugar.
- Beef cattle are not designed to eat corn, but that’s primarily what they’re fed. After six months on a corn diet a cow will die, which is why they’re shoved into packed feed lots where they can barely move and fed corn for five months before slaughter. Buy grass fed beef.
- 1 in 8 New Yorkers is diabetic. Sugar = Death. Think twice before reaching for that daily soda.
- Corn (usually as HFCS) is in nearly every processed food. Read the labels.

To better food.