Ohio ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

After the offseason of infinite pain, football tickets arrive!

Aug

2011

Thank goodness that tickets arrived in the mail today! We can get back to playing football and enjoying the games, and quit focusing on all the activity off the field. Despite all the offseason turmoil, or maybe because of it, I am actually looking forward to this season quite a bit. There is an uncertainty ...

OSU scholarships for Marion County residents

Feb

2011

For about the 10th year now we are providing funding for scholarships for Marion County residents and Marion County high school graduates. We’ve used different mechanisms in the past, but for the last 5-6 years we’ve done this through the OSU financial aid office as need-based scholarships for Marion County residents or Marion Country high ...

What I've been up to — Ohio, Europe, Studying…

Oct

2009

Some silence in last month. Spent a lot of time enjoying family and central Ohio, fall is the time to be in the state with football, color changes, often good weather, etc. And when not in Ohio, I was in Helsinki (recommended: Hotel Glo, Fazer Cafe), Stockholm (Lydmar Hotel, Vasa Museum, Sture shopping area, Skogskyrkogården, ...

More Great Things about Central Ohio — Part 4

Sep

2009

* “Pink Moon Cupcake Bakery”:http://www.pinkmooncupcakes.com/. My sister turned me on to this one, I never would have found the place otherwise. Awesome cupcakes in a quaint old town. * Lawns. My gosh do people love their lawns here. Even modest houses have gigantic expanses of grass, all lovingly tended. People spend half their weekend mowing. ...

Ohio Hiking Trail resources

Sep

2009

Been digging around a bit for more trail resources. Came across some useful sites. A lot of these are primarily bike trails over old rail and canal ROWs but still pretty interesting: * “The DNR”:http://ohiodnr.com/?TabId=11915 summarizes trails across all state properties, including length and difficulty. Helpful because trail length does not correlate with park size ...

Great things about Central Ohio — Part 3

Sep

2009

OK Central Ohio doesn’t have a lot of huge national forests or national parks, and so at first I thought hiking opportunities were constrained. But now I’ve stumbled across all these “state nature preserves”:http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/860/Default.aspx and some of them are pretty darned big — plenty of ~100 acre preserves, and some huge ones — Blackhand Gorge ...

Great Things about Central Ohio, Part Two

Sep

2009

* Crickets and Cicadas. Man I totally miss these in Seattle. Sitting out in the evening here, you almost need earplugs, the crickets and cicadas kick up such a ruckus. Very cool. * Lightning Bugs. Wrong time of year for them, but another great bug. Chasing these in the early summer is an experience not ...

Great things about Central Ohio

Sep

2009

* “L&P Cake and Candy Shoppe”:http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=bakery+bellefontaine+marion+ohio&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=1148308129879636741&li=lmd. Seriously maybe the best frosted sugar cookie ever. * “Crum Strawberry Farm”:http://www.pickyourown.org/OHcolumbus.htm. After eating their strawberries, I resolve to never buy grocery story strawberries again. * The entire scene Saturday night at the Horseshoe. The tailgating, the friends and family, the stadium, the game. Tough ending but what a ...

Demographics and long term competitiveness in college football

Aug

2009

Article in today’s WSJ about “Fasting Dying Cities” and Ohio is all too well represented (though Canton is growing, what is the story there??). So let’s look at the big picture — college football competitiveness. It is not so much that Ohio and neighboring states are losing population — in fact they are staying pretty ...

Today's obligatory Michigan slam

May

2009

Cleveland Tourism Video — watch til the end. Hat Tip to MaizeNBrew

Marion Ohio — the highlights

Oct

2008

OHS – Places – Harding Home. Contains almost all the original furnishings of Harding. Harding Tomb — tho we always called it the Harding Memorial. When I was very very young I was skinny enough to slip thru the bars. Other Marion Museums — the Stengel-True Museum, Unuion Station, the Wyandot Popcorn Museum. Wyandot historically ...

Ohio offers in-state tuition to all veterans and their dependents

Jul

2008

University System of Ohio :: Ohio GI Promise — nice work Ohio!

XunLight, Silicon Thin Film Solar Maker, Raises $22M

Apr

2008

XunLight, Silicon Thin Film Solar Maker, Raises $22M | EcoGeek — Nice to see an Ohio company leading the way

OSU 92, Memphis 76

Mar

2007

OSU finally shows up. You had the sense that OSU had 4-5 chances to really put this game away and finally did. Not a perfect game, but certainly their most complete game. And nice to see Dorsey shut up.

Looking for a place to stay in North Columbus

Nov

2006

for an extended stay — need a kitchen in particular. Woodfin Suite Hotel, a premier all-suite hotel in Dublin, Ohio looks like a reasonable choice. Not that far from the Whole Foods in Columbus which is a plus.

Columbus Dispatch BuckeyeXtra site

Aug

2006

Now a free site — BuckeyeXtra — more Buckeye coverage than you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately today it is all about Clarett.

Still reveling in the OSU victory over Michigan

Nov

2005

* Wolverines sue Big Ten over “Hostile Work Environment”. Hah. * Nice posters of the Dispatch coverage of the victory — for the Buckeye fans on your Christmas list.

The OSU and the bowls

Nov

2005

OK now that I am off the high of the Michigan game, what’s next? Let’s assume enough of the BCS top 6 win out, ie there is no way for The OSU to jump to the #2 position. Si.COM says OSU will get left out of the BCS mix, pushed out by Oregon and ND ...

Going 1-3 over the last four years had made the Michigan fan base testy

Nov

2005

The UM fan base is getting rev’ed up for The Game. Westsider Rider has some of the best: A friend of mine on the way to the game gets flipped the bird by a little kid, meaning like 8 years old and his dad pats him on the head and says “Good Job”. We start ...

The Game

Nov

2005

Time to start getting fired up. Here’s a Michigan fan whining about mistreatment at the hands of OSU fans. Boo hoo. I’ve been to Michigan statement a few times and I don’t seem to remember the red carpet. OK physical abuse is too far but getting upset about someone cursing you? Grow some callouses. Or ...