Archive for April, 2006
Ad Mailer Lessons for Local Companies
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have written before about poorly executed ad mailers from Blackfoot’s Colortyme, and I have gotten two more bad mailers from two other local companies. I do not want to harp on our local companies because they [...]
Death Penalty Fast Track Proposed
Death penalty punishments should be expedited in clear cases involving irrefutable evidence like DNA or videotaped evidence of the crime. The death penalty should be fast-tracked to be executed (pun intended) not later than one calendar year from the date of sentencing.
There are many reasons to support this change. Our constitution forbids cruel and unusual [...]
Why did blogging pass Idaho Falls?
Hey Idaho Falls, it is time to introduce you to a phenomenon called blogging.
The term comes from web-log, which is a written log/journal/diary posted to the Internet. Some people expose their deepest emotions, some write to let family members keep up to date, some write to explore their professions, some write to further their political [...]
Why IdahoFallz.com was created, part i
IdahoFallz.com was partly inspired by the infamous six-day report by the Post Register, Scout’s Honor
Oh man, I just had to bring it up, didn’t I?
Child molester Brad Stowell’s horrible story was one that absolutely needed to be told in the almost way the Post Register did. The Post Register did finally admit they had [...]
Wal-Mart on Easter Eve
We had prided ourselves on buying Easter goodies early this year, but found late tonight a forgotten but critical item: little chocolates.
Our family tradition is to place a trail of little wrapped Easter chocolates from our kids’ bedroom doors leading out to their baskets in the living room. It’s kind of neat, the kids squeal [...]
Waive state income tax for college graduates
Idaho seems to have less a problem with high school dropouts than with our kids dropping out of college or not going at all.
I propose a revolutionary solution: waive Idaho state income taxes for the year that any student earns an associate, bachelor, or master degree from an accredited Idaho higher education institution.
This solution would [...]
How would Idaho Falls fare in an oil crisis?
A recent report compares the sustainability (essentially survivability) of various U.S. cities in the event of an oil crisis (shortage or skyrocketing prices).
The cities that would likely survive better in an oil crisis include San Francisco, Boston, and New York City. The reasons they would survive better include work commute distances and alternatives, regional [...]
The Idaho Falls Public Library
I’m always amazed when I meet people who don’t know how fantastic the library is. I’ve lived in a big city and I grew up in a small town, and although the libraries in both areas were pretty great, they didn’t compare to what we have here. A library card is free for residents of [...]
Raging bull in a china shop
What does not kill you makes you stronger. I have heard it many times, it is difficult to believe while you are going through the hard times, but afterwards I always appreciate that saying even more.
I engaged in a long chatbox conversation a couple nights ago with a local man. He runs a website that [...]
Lego Sorting Philosophy
As a kid, all of our Legos were in one big box and you had to dig for each piece like an archeology expedition. We loved making things with Legos, but as a result worked with them less and less often.
As an adult, I saw my kid’s first Lego box with all the pieces thrown [...]
The time is ripe for Thunder Ridge 2.0
Anyone remember Thunder Ridge? If you can believe it, there it used to be a swimming resort and miniature golf course up in the foothills east of Idaho Falls. The swimming part had a large pool and a big blue tube to swim down the hill. I spent many summers there as a kid, and [...]
Dog crap picker upper
A buddy had a business idea to go around and pick up people’s dog crap from back yards. He figured on an old Toyota pickup truck, carry shovels and garbage bags, and maybe even have a cheesy loudspeaker playing Charlie Brown music like the ice cream man. Except instead of selling ice cream, you pull [...]
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