The Deets

Greg Swan has come up with a name for the TP folding style he documented above from the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The name: the “Tuck & Roll” I dig the style. It has a finished look that would be hard to screw up.

On Friday afternoon, I followed the Crosstown from the Eastern corner near the VA hospital heading West. That put me in the Morris Park neighborhood to start. For less than $5, I could more than counter the calories lost over my 7 mile run: At 34th Ave S I crossed into the Wenonah neighborhood and [...]

Matt and I met at the Whole Foods near Lake Calhoun for a run through Linden Hills and Fulton down Drew Ave S and back on Chowen Ave S (yes, they’re alphabetical). The shot above was from Drew Ave S which has a combination of older homes from approximately the 1930′s intermixed with some tear-down [...]

Ventura Village is the wedge of a neighborhood just to the South of the 35W / 94 interstate connection from downtown Minneapolis. To the West is 35W and to the East is Hiawatha. The Southern boundary waffles between 22nd and 24th Streets East. While the neighborhood shares the name of a former wrestler / governor, [...]

Stillwater’s historic downtown is home to a large variety of locally owned antique stores, restaurants, and bars. That’s a big part of the appeal of making the trip out there from the more urban areas of the Twin Cities. Which makes me wonder how the heck they approved this new Dairy Queen on Main Street: [...]

Carly dropped me off at Kasota and Highway 280 on Saturday for a one-way route from there home through SE Como, the U of MN, Augsburg College, and the Seward Neighborhood. Heading East, to the South is a massive train yard that separates the Como neighborhood from Prospect Park. It’s home to many warehouses, including [...]

One of the Amazon Kindle’s really cool features is the built-in text to voice service, which allows people to consume the books they’ve purchased in situations where they can’t read. One group that is particularly interested in this feature is the blind, which benefit from greater access to books. However, the Author’s Guild has opposed [...]

Hotels that deploy dual roll TP dispensers are really setting themselves up to fail. I’ve yet to see a uniform folding effort. Can it be done?

The Other Mike and I headed up to the Shingle Creek neighborhood in the very Northwest corner of the city for a 5+ miler on Sunday. We started at 51st & Morgan Ave N and headed East along 51st past Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church: Floyd B Olson Middle School (North Minneapolis resident and former [...]

The St Croix River is currently a few feet over its banks in downtown Stillwater, as it commonly is at this time of year. And, as usual, there is a sign warning people about the high water along the river paths that are currently unaccessible. Or are they: This group of fishermen didn’t let the [...]