In age of TMI, anonymity becomes a treasured commodity
In this day of complete personal disclosure — where there’s really nothing about you that anyone else can’t find out — I long for an age I never got to experience, a time when anonymity and ambiguity were possible to achieve, even for celebrities.
RELATED CONTENTPhonetic alphabet could improve life
Last week, I learned of an incredible construct that has the power to enrich our entire globe. It’s called the International Phonetic Alphabet, and it would save those of us with unavoidably unpronounceable names approximately 20 pain- staking verbal corrections each month — add in written renditions and you can easily double that estimate.
RELATED CONTENTPageant success
With no previous interest, after a flier was sent out to 4-H students about five years ago regarding the upcoming Miss Becker County Fair pageant, Siri Freeh went ahead and tried it. It stuck.
RELATED CONTENT4-H hosts Project Day
What do you get when you combine 28 youth participants, eight 4-H Ambassadors, 15 adult volunteers and five educational make-n-take activities?
RELATED CONTENTFuture generation shows how life changes
The kids are not all right. Not mine, anyway. A few short days ago — when it was my friends giving birth to all the mutilated children, I had great faith in the future of mankind. But not now, not since my wife gave birth, not since Ernie — my horribly mutilated son — came into my life.
RELATED CONTENT1,700 students to participate in math contest
More than 1,700 students in grades six through 12 will be testing their mathematical skills at the 36th annual Tri-College University Mathematics Contest held at Minnesota State University Moorhead on Wednesday, March 17.
RELATED CONTENTRegistration Nights begins March 16
Registration Nights at Detroit Lakes High School for the 2010-11 school year are announced. The following are the dates and times of the mandatory registration evenings:
RELATED CONTENTRelating life to movies isn’t that far fetched
Fun fact: Most colleges offer cable-enabled dorms and reduced tickets for nearby movie theatres.
RELATED CONTENTSouthwest State in town 
Steve Basty, an admissions counselor from Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minn., will visit Detroit Lakes High School at 10:15 a.m. on Monday, March 15.
RELATED CONTENTThe Zamboni: Some wheels weren’t meant to be reinvented
The story would be comical if it weren’t true. The ice was too rough to skate on, so they brought in the Olympia — a cheaper, less ugly Zamboni rip-off — to take care of the problem. It didn’t work, so they tried another one. Still, no love. Finally, after three Olympia machines didn’t do the job, they had had a Zamboni trucked 300 miles across Canada from Calgary.
RELATED CONTENTLife is a metro transportation system
Tom Cochrane will tell you that life is a highway, “one day here and the next day gone,” and that we’re all rushing down the interstate, maneuvering amidst traffic, just trying get where we’re going without being thrown to the pavement.
RELATED CONTENTDinosaurs roaming in LP-A
Lake Park-Audubon School students experienced fizzing test tubes, larger-than-life dinosaurs and dazzling displays of ecosystems as they learned about science through dramatic hands-on demonstrations on Thursday, Feb. 25.
RELATED CONTENT4-H, FFA join forces to host day camp
Becker County 4-H and the Detroit Lakes Chapter of FFA joined forces to host a fun and educational day camp for area youth.
RELATED CONTENTMaster Time: Dictates everything from when to get up to when we die
There are two things that most Winter Olympics games have in common — they involve sliding action of some sort and they pit the contestants not against each other, but against the clock, against time. Time is our master, and it rules with an iron fist. It tells us when to wake up and when to sleep, when to arrive and when to leave, when to be born and when to die. Time has dirty tricks, cruel punishments in store for anyone who tries to undermine his harsh rule.
RELATED CONTENTAdults should have show and tell, too
Remember doing show and tell during elementary school? Kids would bring their favorite things in and present them to the class: pets, toys, and, in the case of my pal Megan, snowmobiles.
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