The Freets made good on his promise to, “make sure they are compliant with the law by removing the sign on my way home today.” The sign is up. And now it’s gone. And stuffed into the back of a car. The Freets does clean work. It makes me wonder what other types of things [...]
Craig Newmark mentioned a new book his blog that sounded interesting to me (Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.-How the Working Poor Became Big Business) so I clicked over to Amazon to pick it up. It’s available for the Kindle, so I figured that would be the way to go since I can sync [...]
Looks like Colleen and Paula are still spamming the streets of St. Paul with their illegal real estate signs. This one was sent in by Matt Wells, who spotted it near Randolph and Albert. My guess is that people who live near The Nook don’t want real estate spammers posting signs for anonymous businesses in [...]
I ran the western blocks of the Como neighborhood last night, starting with Talmage. Talmage has a lot of blocked intersections that prevent people from whipping through the neighborhood. I bet this has less to do with east-west traffic on Talmage and more to do with people getting off 35W and making a break for [...]
Back in August, I wrote about how Comcast’s Domain Helper Service Makes Lives Crappier. As a refresher, if you’re a Comcast user and you type a web address incorrectly into your browser’s address bar, your browser will be hijacked by Comcast, send you to a different URL, and place a bunch of ads on the [...]
Emily Badger has an article up on Miller-McCune that explains how NY state’s prison population skews congressional districts due to the census counting prison populations as residents of the prison’s district rather than as residents of the community the prisoner was from before being incarcerated. The counting quirk sounds like a quandary for demographers. But [...]
Above is my current murse. It’s totally awesome for travel, because I can carry a camera, passport, iPod, book, IMAX Power, gum, my space pen, extra camera batteries, an extra SD card, and a granola bar with room to spare, plus comfort and easy accessibility. That’s pretty much everything I need to make it through [...]
I cruised through Northern Longfellow along with Seward during a Wednesday night run. Heading West on 29th, I passed St. Albert the Great Church at 33rd where they’re getting ready for their annual rummage sale this weekend. Apostolic Faith Church, at 29th & 29th, forgot to renew it’s domain name, so I couldn’t find out [...]
Turkish Airlines is the 7th largest airline in Europe and is on track to catch British Airlines. One thing that they do differently than your typical US carrier is offer free meal service on flights. Yes, that’s correct. They serve food rather than boxes of Lunchables-like McProcessed foodstuff for $7 like US carriers tend do. [...]
Another year, another stack of print spam phone books in a plastic bag from Dex. This year had a new wrinkle. Dex delivered three books that I requested not to receive AND a door hanging acknowledging that I did not want to receive the books. Yes, that is correct. They delivered a door hanger telling [...]
