Category: General

We arrived this morning at the Minnesota Department of Education to find that over the weekend that rogue lumberjacks had invaded the building and had clearcut the four trees in the atrium.  One of the things that made working here even remotely tolerable was the distraction of the atrium (Notice the lovely blue and purple…

Today I was watching a piece on PBS about all the film people who fled the Nazis and how their contributions really changed Hollywood.  A thought came to me, what would the world be like today, if instead of Hitler coming to power in Germany, if his character came to power in America?  I wonder…

We have some amazingly lazy employees in the business line that I support; they give up on a task if the least little thing derails their process.  For instance, they are supposed to geocode addresses with a latitude and longitude.  To do this, they use a variant of Google maps that we wrote to extract…

We were making fun of the Shamwow when the commercial came on when Daniel was home for Christmas last week.Tonight the commercial came on again while we were watching an old CSI on Spike.  It’s not available in stores, but damn you can get it over the net. 😉

Here it is again, the beginning of a new year in the 21th Century, and still no flying cars…  What in the hell is going on?We were promised flying cars!

from Joke Wallpaper, circa 4-Aug-1999

This establishment, Classic Retro @ Pete’s has been on University Avenue for some time, and I keep meaning to take a picture because I really liked the sign.  It’s not so much the design, as the message….  They specialize in 20th Century antiques, an oxymoron if ever I heard one; and the initials on the…