Does anyone know the difference? I’m guessing not, because the two terms seem to be used interchangeably (“Sally went to her college reunion and revisited some of her old stamping/stomping grounds”). At least to me, the former term evokes a factory assembly line, while the latter suggests lots of bare feet in a big vat crushing...Read More
Not to Be Confused With “The Parent ATM” Too busy to get to the ATM? If you’re meeting friends at a restaurant, Plan B is to pay for everyone with plastic, then collect cash from your friends for their share. Unfortunately, unlike another famous type of ATM (“the Parent ATM”), cash obtained via “The Friend...Read More
Sunny Skies, Low Humidity, 80 Degrees OK, so it’s not a boast locals can make four months from now (or possibly even tomorrow, given how fast Midwestern weather can change). But at least today, it’s hard to imagine nicer weather anywhere in the country (world?) than the Twin Cities. P.S.: I used to live in Palo...Read More
Cure Worse Than the Disease?, or, Attached at the Right (Left) Hip I first wrote about “phantom cellphone vibration” — the sensation that your cellphone is ringing when you’re standing in the shower, naked — almost 2 1/2 years ago. See, “Where’s the Rest of Me? The Phantom Cellphone Vibration.” As my, uhhh . . . condition...Read More
Jeremy Grantham Nails the Zeitgeist, or “The New Abnormal” The economic environment seems to be stuck in a rather unpleasant perpetual loop. Greece is always about to default; the latest bailout is always about to save the day and yet never seems to; China is always about to collapse but instead teases us by inching...Read More
Two Theories I have two theories about why I saw so many cars pulled over, being ticketed on the side of Twin Cities roadways this weekend: One. With so much road construction — 494 between Penn and Highwy 100 was completely closed today, to pick just one example — once you’re finally free of congestion, you’re aggravated and/or...Read More
