The Case of the Far Away Fireplace Quick! Is the photo (above) of a lower level Amusement Room real or enhanced (through a wide-angle lens, etc.)? Answer: it’s real. According to MLS, the room measures a whopping 45(!) feet long. The foundation size of the home — a rambler — is well over 2,000 square feet, lending...Read More
Snow Mountain (Parking Lot Glacier??) If you thought comparing Minnesota’s winter weather to Alaska’s was a stretch, you’d be right. Except that would be unfair . . . to Alaska — temperatures locally have been much colder this winter than most of Alaska (I don’t know about snowfall). Invidious Comparison Apparently, the same “polar vortexes”...Read More
Strip Mining(?!?) on Sunset Blvd. You could be forgiven for drawing that conclusion, if the only thing you had to go on was the photo above. In fact, the 20′ foot deep (?) trench where Sunset Blvd used to be is part of an ongoing sewer upgrade project. Note the three workers in the trench...Read More
From Star Growth Company to World’s Biggest Cash Cow Before tackling what turns out to be the not-so-novel question, “Is Apple the New Microsoft?,” I thought I’d check Google to find out how many other people had the same thought. Answer: a lot. Even more interesting, though, was when the query (observation?) first started popping...Read More
I’m not much of football fan these days, but I do know that green and gold are the colors of the Green Bay Packers, nemesis and arch rival of the hometown Minnesota Vikings. Apparently, the folks doing the marketing for the Twin Cities Home Remodelers tour either weren’t concerned about the association (is it just me?), or...Read More
I don’t know about anyone else, but that’s my first association with the brand, new very vivid blue recycling carts that seem to have popped up overnight in practically every South Minneapolis alley (or at least, my neighborhood). I suppose pink would have been a bit much. My other association with the cart color: ‘United Nations...Read More
