The Pluses of Having Poor Friends (Just Not Too Poor) Want to know why it’s better to have more poor friends than rich friends? Rich friends are never around — or, if they are, are never free. So, they’re at their cabin, on vacation out east, out west . . . or somewhere. Or, if they’re in...Read More
. . . It’s Cavalia Minneapolis!” OK, so it’s not an Unidentified Flying Object, or even airborne. But, I’m sure it’s had at least a few Twin Citians (“Twins Itian’s?) scratching their heads the last few days, trying to figure out exactly what they were looking at (see photo, below). “It” is a very large, very dramatic,...Read More
“Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks” Once upon a time, two ham radio operators who wanted to communicate with one another had to first agree on a frequency. More recently, someone who wanted to use their 300 or 1200(!) baud modem to get on the Internet had to do a “handshake” with the connecting service. How...Read More
“Bring Back the Pony Express?!?” First there was “slow food” — a reaction to today’s fast-food culture, it’s an actual organization (founded in 1986) that now has chapters in every state and dozens of countries. Next came slow travel, slow schools, slow living, slow books — indeed, an entire slow movement. So, in a world...Read More
Diamond Lake (#3) vs. Linden Hills (#24) Imagine picking the top Twin Cities restaurants based on which ones were the most affordable, or had the shortest lines. In a nutshell, that’s my reaction to the cover story in the September issue of Twin Cities Metro Magazine, titled “30 Best Neighborhoods: the Twin Cities’ most livable destinations.” It’s All...Read More
Back to School 2011 I don’t have the foggiest idea how to bring peace to the Middle East, but I’m happy to announce that I have found the solution to peace in the middle seat (apologies to Gilda Radner and her Emily Litella character). That would be the middle seat in the back row of my car, which...Read More
