Category: General

  • Magic autonomous vehicles

    Magic autonomous vehicles

    Car jumps median, hits busA Minneapolis Park Police officer examined the crash scene Friday after a woman’s car jumped the median and struck a school bus at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Vineland Place near the Walker Art Center. The school bus was not transporting students at the time of the incident, but the…

  • Kate Knuth

    Kate Knuth

    I don’t know if I can support her candidacy against Tim Walz, she reminds me too much of the women who played Nate’s wife on Six Feet Under. I don’t know if I could get past that… never liked that character. Shallow I know, but what ya gonna do?

  • Spring is just one month away

    Wear cotton for comfort and leather for looks, but if it’s warmth you want, put on the wool.Bob Joyce’s Norwegian Grandmother – StarTribune 2021-02-20

  • Super Bowl LV

    Insipid, boring, and stupid pretty much sums up the event. The game was boring (Big blowout for Tampa Bay), half-time was insipid (The Weeknd), and the commercials were stupid. There was only one commercial, for some hard lemonade that was mildly amusing. I did however see a new product I needed, a Pittbull skull shaver.

  • Doctor Zhivago

    In the scene when the doctor returns from stealing wood from the fence and Yevgraf (Alec Guinness) snaps his fingers which causes the mob to magically dissipate from the apartment, my wife said, “Ooooooh. He has the force even in this one.” Pretty good observation from someone who’s not that into Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I…

  • On 2020…

    Never make Father Time say “Hold my beer” while he attempts some new move that will really put him in the record books.James Lileks, Star-Tribune, 2021-01-04

  • Words of the year – 2020

    Words of the year – 2020

    Not “word” of the year this year, but “words.” This list was posted in the 2020-12-25/28 issue of Time. My favorite was Blursday which pretty much sums up 2020 for me and I first heard it on CBS Sunday Morning on the 2020-12-27 episode, just before I picked up the paper copy of Time.. Antiracist, adjective:…