April 2010
47 posts
quality time
beenthinking:
Tonight I watched Andy Sturdevant regulate a beard growing contest. Afterward, Ang and I canoodled a bit, and Ed Kohler slapped me unexpectedly. Turns out, he’s big on the element of surprise, which is cool! ALSO, he promised to blog about the May Turkey trip and I promised to take toilet paper pictures for him in Colombia.
Fair is fair, Ed Kohler. Fair is fair.
I don’t...
March 2010
48 posts
A Minnesota Mommy Blogger Fight
Few things on the Internet are uglier than mommy blogger fights. Here’s one one-side fight that has a local angle:
MckMama - a Focus on the Family conservative mommy blogger from Minnesota who blogs at MyCharmingKids.net
vs
MckMama Without Pity - A blogger who points out the hypocrisy in MckMama’s behaviors, such as claiming to be a cloth diaper user, yet mentioning that she ran to...
“Complaints ranged from defecation by someone on the steps of the 3rd Precinct...”
– Don’t crap on the cop shop, is one lesson I learned from the El Nuevo liquor licensing debate.
No More Markus for You: Another Civil Rights...
yourenotrosaparks:
Oh Rosa Parks Prostidude, we hardly knew ye! Back of the shady ladies no more.
Ha, the Rosa Parks of male prostitution. Gigalo no mo’.
Sprint Billing Issue Resolved
Remember when I had a surprising $556.17 in international data roaming charges in one month on my Sprint bill? I tried to forget, but Sprint called to tell me they were going to cut me off this week if I didn’t cough up the coin. So I figured I had no choice but to navigate their phone trees to solve it (or pay it, ha).
After 4 grueling hours of disconnections, poor connections, and...
“Asking too many questions is a red flag. Any time someone starts asking a lot of...”
– Jason Fried (via friedisms)
“Last year, a hog farmer in Hayfield, Minn., was launched 40 feet into the air in...”
– Shit bubbles demand respect.
“As a taxpayer, I am demanding Southside Family Charter School be closed and the...”
– What did Southside Family Charter School and Eliza Goodwin do to earn this rant from Lake Minnetonka Liberty? They took kids to the state capital to protest in support of the health care bill.
“Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock...”
– NYT (via iteeth)
If this isn’t enough child molestation by priests with cover-ups by powerful members of the church content for you for one day, check out the movie Deliver Us from Evil.
Top 10 Reasons Good Product Ideas Don’t Get... →
ScriptCopy →
Lots of scripts that may help you save the first 100 - 1000 hours on your next web project.
“When you were a kid and you had to get the needle and before you got the needle,...”
– Steele defends ‘Fire Pelosi’ Web page
Steele forgot to add that the net result of getting that needle is that you would not then die of an easily preventable disease.
Further, Steele neglected to mention that he is an asshole.
(via thememegeneration)
Does this mean short-term bad trumps...
on Joe Mauer's salary
tomelko:
“I don’t care, no one is worth that much money.”
The Pohlad’s will make their money back, because the Joe Mauer brand is worth much more than that contract.
I bet you could find an ugly mofo version Joe Mauer who can run up the same on-field stats for a lot cheaper. But ugly mofo Joe Mauer doesn’t sell jerseys or work in HD.
Anonymous asked: What is the biggest transportation improvement needed within the City of Minneapolis?
mediation asked: what happened to the sexy ladies on deets after dark? what happened to the 'after dark' part?
Squashed on Health Care Reform →
Squashed is dropping serious knowledge on HCR.
MySeatFinder.com
MySeatFinder found you a better seat for the following flight: Airline: Delta Airlines Reservation Code: PLG8Y7 Departure Date: April 05, 2010 Departure Time: 11:40 AM Flight #: 3343 Origin Airport: Minneapolis/St Paul, MN Destination Airport: Regina, SK Canada Your previous seat was 2B [aisle]. Your *NEW* seat for this flight is 8A [exit row/window].
I’m trying out a service that...
Ask Me Anything (I think). →
“Having interacted with Franken a few times over the past 20 years or so, I’m not...”
– Brian Lambert on Franken.
“For the thousands of women who have been trafficked into Houston and forced to...”
– Texas Monthly looks at sex trafficking in Houston.
Steve Lowery drives the Los Angeles Marathon route... →
(via spiegelman)
Could this be done in the Twin Cities? Now that Hennepin is open to 2-way traffic, I think the only other legal driving challenge would be going the wrong way on the NE shore of Lake Harriett for around one mile.
“So let’s clear the air once and for all: This author, when covering a...”
– Max Sparber mixes transparency with nudity at MinnPost.
“Typical socialist, I’m not surprised. She’s full of so much hate, she probably...”
– Commenter Bearbait at Minnesota Democrats Exposed criticizing someone who thinks it’s strange that people actually rally against providing health insurance to the sick and poor.
North Minneapolis High School's Yearbook Financial... →
North High is short on cash to produce their yearbook this year. That would be a buzzkill.
“Also she is named after cheese. That’s a pretty big strike against her”
– Cole, regarding a girl named Brie (via nickdouglas)
Is Cole short for Colby? Is his middle name Jack?
“Let’s be honest here. You aren’t being responsible journalists. You’re becoming...”
– Michael Gray on traffic chasing content strategies.
“Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody...”
– Ani Difranco (via thoughtsdetained) (via quote-book) (via runnyknows)
For example,
The City could stop prosecuting crimes, and that would save only $7.7 million.
The City could stop filling potholes and other street maintenance for a year, and that would save only $9 million.
The City could shut off streetlights and save only $2.9 million.
The City could stop plowing and sanding streets for a winter, and that would save $9...