We’re not sure if our current chandelier ties our dining room together. I’m going to throw this out as a suggestion: This is sold by Tabby, Inc, a Texas style furniture and home furnishings company. What I like about this is that it’s a kit and you can use your own bottles. So someone could [...]
An argument can certainly be made that ducks don’t belong in hotels. That’s a subject for debate. But just about anyone would agree that you shouldn’t go around ripping the heads off ducks. A Ramsey County judge agrees: Man who killed hotel duck sentenced to 21 days in workhouse Twenty-six-year-old Scott Clark plead guilty in [...]
Eric Alterman has penned an impressively thorough look at the state of the newspaper industry for the New Yorker, where he explains everything that’s hurting newspapers, including the web. The following snippet illustrates one of the biggest challenges I have with newspapers today: The News Business: Out of Print According to “Abandoning the News,” published [...]
How bad is the sub-prime mortgage mess in the United States? According to the ticker at the bottom of the Onion News Network’s Monday news coverage, bad enough to warrant sacrificing agents. The full message reads: CONGRESS ANNOUNCES PLAN TO EASE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS BY SACRIFICING A DOZEN CENTURY 21 AGENTS TO REAL-ESTATE . . [...]
My brother-in-law Quinn likes to take yuppie shots at Carly and me. However, as of today, I think my new comeback will be, “at least we’re not like Elizabeth Dehn” who wrote the following for Minnesota Monthly: I finally made it out to the new Crate & Barrel at the Galleria. It’s been open for [...]
Aaron Landry put together a thorough post of everything he doesn’t like about Twitter, or how Twitter is used by many people. It’s worth a read if you’re a Twitter user and have ever been frustrated with how some of the people you follow use the service. Here’s the short version. Aaron doesn’t like it [...]
The Minneapolis Shotspotter system is a bit over a year old, and seems to be a great success. However, the current shots fired reporting published by the MPD presents an inaccurate picture of gunfire in Minneapolis. For those you of not familiar with the system, the City of Minneapolis purchased a crime fighting technology called [...]
Randy Salas’ latest Technobabble column for the Minneapolis StarTribune called Technobabble takes a look at disconnecting while on vacation. It includes a few quotes from some guy named Ed Kohler who hops on his email from cyber cafes while in foreign countries: Can we take a vacation from e-mail? The first time I tried to [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Gary this disappointed with 3 wines before (jump to 10:15 for the highlights): Find episodes where Gary has a better experience at Wine Library TV.
Meet Joe Peep: Great Peep, Joe Peep. Comes from a hard working family (the Peeps, duh). He loves his country. Joe graduated from high school in the late 90′s during a time of peace and prosperity in America. Rather than hearing about war on the nightly news, people discussed blue dresses. Seriously, that was the [...]
