I don't want this to come out mean but...
NEO is a JuCo in Miami (Miama) http://www.neo.edu/
NSU is the MIAA team.
It's more of a Miam uh as opposed Miam a, but that is nitpicking. Just DON'T pronounce it Miam ee LOL
My late Great Uncle was the long time Dean of Students at NEO A & M. I sure do miss him!
Go Golden Norse!
It's more of a Miam uh as opposed Miam a, but that is nitpicking. Just DON'T pronounce it Miam ee LOL
My late Great Uncle was the long time Dean of Students at NEO A & M. I sure do miss him!
Go Golden Norse!
Kind of like Arkansas City/River isn't Arken saw
it's R-Kansas
western Kansas is classic Big Sky country. there is a good reason why the folks who live "out there" are kind, courteous, honest, soft-spoken, and endowed with great humility. anyone who has stood alone on the plains when a monstrous thunderhead is building and rolling their way knows of what I speak. one feels very, very small in Big Sky country in the face of awesome, overwhelming nature. it keeps a person honest and humble.
and as far as western Kansas being flat......true, if you travel only I-70 western Kansas is pretty flat and monotonous. highway engineers want it that way. flat land is ideal for them. it is the easiest and cheapest to build on. but if one ventures off the four-lane....
I can take a person in any direction from I-70 and in half an hour or less I can show them some of the wildest, most rugged and beautiful country they have ever seen in their lives. incredible rock formations, towering bluffs, impossible canyons. and no people. just antelope, jack rabbits, elk, coyotes, cougars, road runners, horney toads, prairie rattlers, prickly pears, spanish bayonets, buffalo grass, and silence like they have never "heard" before. this wild land is today like it has always been. I have never known such peace of mind as when I am alone in western kansas. even tho I was born and raised in eastern kansas and western missouri, my heart will always be in western kansas.
Ian, there are 52 weeks in a year to take a vacation. In the future do not put your mental health, family obligations and enjoyment ahead of your MIAA column. :smile-big:
My link is from a former NASA robotics Engineer/supernerd who does webcomics, and the bowling ball thing came from people who make the balls noticing the the variations during their QA process. The other one: nerds with free time and access to equipment? I remember building random things, programs in college.
western Kansas is classic Big Sky country. there is a good reason why the folks who live "out there" are kind, courteous, honest, soft-spoken, and endowed with great humility. anyone who has stood alone on the plains when a monstrous thunderhead is building and rolling their way knows of what I speak. one feels very, very small in Big Sky country in the face of awesome, overwhelming nature. it keeps a person honest and humble.
and as far as western Kansas being flat......true, if you travel only I-70 western Kansas is pretty flat and monotonous. highway engineers want it that way. flat land is ideal for them. it is the easiest and cheapest to build on. but if one ventures off the four-lane....
I can take a person in any direction from I-70 and in half an hour or less I can show them some of the wildest, most rugged and beautiful country they have ever seen in their lives. incredible rock formations, towering bluffs, impossible canyons. and no people. just antelope, jack rabbits, elk, coyotes, cougars, road runners, horney toads, prairie rattlers, prickly pears, spanish bayonets, buffalo grass, and silence like they have never "heard" before. this wild land is today like it has always been. I have never known such peace of mind as when I am alone in western kansas. even tho I was born and raised in eastern kansas and western missouri, my heart will always be in western kansas.
Little Post on the Prairie, by Laura Ichabod Wilder
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