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Eldon Davis, The architect of the California Coffee Shop Style has died, as you may have heard. (Thanks to all who thought of your host and sent in the news.) I thought of his work today as I looked at this set of pictures of Minneapolis and St. Paul in the 70s. They’re [...]
Several times today I’ve removed my jacket while wearing earbuds. Some sort of static electrical charge is generated by the motion of my arms through the sleeves, and it goes right up the wires into my ears. Not a pleasant sensation; like the auditory version of chewing tinfoil on fillings. I wonder what the brain [...]
Seen at a gas station today. Liberty, perhaps, to go overboard on typefaces:
Hahahahah! I didn’t have to have my wisdom teeth out after all!
Well, not exactly. I did. Years ago. Glad they’re out. But it turns out that the primary factor for the bright sparkly discomfort was the item dislodged [...]
I just feel like doing nothing. No, it’s not the Vicodin; I stopped that. It was boring. Two of the little things and I was just a congealed person-thing who sat and poked at the keyboard and looked at pictures and couldn’t bring myself to resize a fargin’ photo, let alone think of what to [...]
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On February 24, 2011 · 65 Comments · In Architorture, Black & White World, Domestic Life, Mpls: history, Nerdygeek
NOTE: I can’t believe I forgot to post this. And didn’t notice. Yet I did. So here’s yesterday’s Bleat, today! As if they’re all that timely. Note: I will be on the Dennis Miller show today, around 9:30 Pacific time.
I was surprised tonight to find my daughter at the end of a book [...]
Haven’t done the Christmas letter yet. Cards aren’t out. This is a problem. I balk every year at writing the letter, because, well, what we’ve been doing is not exactly a closely-guarded secret. If anyone’s interested, there’s a blog somewhere that says something about it. The exact location and name escapes me at the moment, [...]
The Bison Presentation was a complete success. Every possible aspect of the bison’s life was answered in my daughter’s speech, as evidenced by the fact that not one peer in the 5th grade had a question afterwards. I think that says it all. Also, they were two minutes late for recess.
Hey, did you all [...]
Best weekend ever! Again. Friday was Gnat’s 10th birthday, and it was not as screechy as previous versions. Less elaborate, fewer plans. The kids came over, ate pizza, and then we took them to the Humane Society, where the pets got the gift instead of the birthday girl. (Her choice; very proud.) We made [...]
My favorite moment of the day wasn’t nailing down the final version of the new daily vidcasts, coming to the StarTribune site next week, and it wasn’t enjoying an interval in the sun in the backyard, typing away, and it wasn’t even waking with a song in my heart knowing there was coffee and [...]
Late start on this – heck, late start on everything. Thursday just piled up like 42 semis braking hard in a fog bank, and now it’s over and I have a moment to write something that isn’t job related, and I can’t THINK because the dog has been traumatized by a bath. He went in [...]
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