Repeat Mpls – St. Paul Magazine “Super Realtor” The best thing about now being a five-time (5X) Mpls – St. Paul “Super Realtor” — the magazine just announced its 2012 selections — is that that sounds better in my marketing materials. Somehow, publicizing that I was a 4X Realtor (last year) or especially “Triple-X” (2010) just didn’t sound right...Read More
Retail Gas Gauge If you want to track the spot price of a barrel of oil in world markets, you could monitor various Web sites that specialize in commodities. Or . . . you could just watch the gas lines at Costco. When they’re inexplicably long, mid-day –as they are now — you know that...Read More
OK, so I have no idea if the charging station — at the BP gas station just northwest of Minneapolis’ Lake Calhoun — is the first such station in the Twin Cities. But, it’s the first one I’m aware of — and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there even a month ago. Here’s hoping that there...Read More
Once you get past the odd, equal billing on the book jacket — I’m told the publisher rejected Isaacson’s first proposed title, “Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs” 🙂 — the book ranks, at least in my opinion, amongst the best half-dozen business books — make that non-fiction books, period — of the last decade. The ultimate praise...Read More
You knew it was coming: 8 months after Steve Jobs’ passing, a movie based on his life — and adapted from Walter Isaacson’s biography by Aaron Sorkin — is reportedly in the works. Rumored to play Jobs: Ashton Kutcher. I like Kutcher better than I thought I would in “2 1/2 Men,” but I still don’t...Read More
“President Obama Made Me Late!” (Yeah, Right) President Obama’s visit to the Twin Cities this am — apparently, he’s speaking at the Honeywell plant in Golden Valley — is playing havoc with local traffic, at least on the west side of town. And it’s not just Highway 100, which appears to be closed (at least between Highway 7...Read More
