Random Articles

• You Have a Higher Tolerance for Ambiguity in Your Thinking Styles  I suspect anyone who spends more than 5 minutes with me could conclude that, including this neuropolitics.org survey. Here’s their entire first impression of me: “Your responses are consistent with the following attributes: You have a higher propensity for large-group social bonding. You have a probable elevation in your dopaminergic activation system. Your right prefrontal cortex
• Amazing Race 8 - Episode 11  Dear Amazing Race, Thanks for visiting our airport. We have a lovely city as well. Love, Minneapolis, MN Detour: Slide it or Roll it You’re in Canada and you don’t go curling? That’s like, well, going to Canada and not curling. This is why I like the Lintz’s - they have such enthusiasm. Makes armchair travel all worth it.
• My Car Won’t Run E85, Maybe Yours? Yesterday, I noticed the signage at the gas station up the street was showing prices for unleaded gasoline and E85, the fuel made of 85% ethanol and just 15% petroleum. E85 can be made from sugar cane, corn, wheat, just about any starch. Here in the midwest the obvious choice is corn. As a quick aside,
• February - One of My Two Least Favorite Months. February and August are my least favorite months in the upper Midwest. For the same but opposite reasons - uncomfortable weather. February is when the cold and depression of winter finally sets in (11°F as I write this). The snow turns mean in the cold; short-sheeting the dormant brown grass and grating like fingernails on a
• Broadcasting From 20 Years Ago Anyone else catch WCCO 10pm Weather on Friday night? Mike wore a boring brown suit, held a big fat wired microphone in one hand, and a big fat wired graphics remote in the other. It’s like he was doing the weather from 1985. Bizarre. Over at KSTP, everything was discrete and wireless. Phew. I wasn’t stuck in