January 2011
11 posts
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Earthquakes, cars, and homos
(Walking back to Hill-Kitt, behind a group of first-years talking about California.) Guy 1: “It’s all just earthquakes, cars, and homos. I don’t ever wanna go there” Guy 2: “What you got against homos?”Guy 1: I just think it’s not the most comfortable experience to be somewhere where like everyone around you is a homo” Guy 2: “You don’t...
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
Jan 19th
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I griped yesterday about the problems with the total lack of Minnesota River crossings for bikes. Apparently, the legislature (the previous, DFL one, not the current GOP-controlled one) actually just addressed this problem in their Trunk Highway Bridge Improvement Program, to prevent future Cedar Avenue bridges. (165.14 Subd. 4) (d) All bridge projects funded under this section in fiscal year...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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A matter of priorities
It’s consistently pissed me off that there is no legal crossing for bicycles or pedestrians between the Highway 169 and Highway 494 bridges over the Minnesota River — a gap of over 13 miles between bridges (20km). There are actually two bridges: I-35W and the Cedar Avenue Freeway, but both formally disallow cycling. There was a bridge immediately adjacent to the Cedar Avenue Freeway...
Jan 18th
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Downtown Minneapolis vs. The "Apple Core"
I remain shocked almost every time I look at at the Metrodome side of downtown Minneapolis. For being, you know, a city, it has a shocking amount of surface parking. So what better to compare it to than the surface parking capital of the south metro, Apple Valley “Apple Core” downtown. (With a personal thanks to the AV Convention and Visitors’ Bureau for coming up with that...
Jan 15th
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Olaf is responsible for drunk driving
Northfield News ran a particularly sanctimonious article recently on drunk driving. This seems to reflect a common attitude toward drunk driving: it’s the responsibility of the sinful lush — and if we arrest more of them, the problem will be solved. I don’t think, however, most people driving drunk are really people who particularly want to. They’re people who want to be...
Jan 10th
Jan 5th
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Endelig
Universitetet i Oslo har endelig oppdatert sine online ordbøker. De tidligere websidene så ut som de var laget i ca. 1996. Ingen CSS, slett ingen Ajax, og forferdelig dårlig adressen: www.dokpro.uio.no/ordboksoek.html. Den nye har fortsatt ingen Ajax og ingen sider til mobiler, men ser mye bedre ut, og er mye lettere å lese. Adressen er også forbedret, til www.nob-ordbok.uio.no, men fortsatt for...
Jan 5th
Godt nyttår
I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, and certainly not disclosed ones. And I’m going to keep it that way. I do, however, hope to revive what I started here before Norway and Denmark. Until then, though, GLÆDIG JUL OG GODT NYTÅR from the nice, white, native people at Dansk Folkeparti:
Jan 2nd