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• Bye Rex, Thanks for the Party (Matt Thompson from the Strib and me in a MNstories video documenting the party.) I, along with 600 of Rex Sorgatz’s closest friends wished him well in his move to Seattle and Microsoft last night. Honestly, I haven’t been to a blow out like that in quite a while. The food, the drink, the hundreds of hipsters
• Tyler Cowen Mostly Cloudly on Cumul.us Ben and I have been exchanging late-night previews of our respective side projects for a while now. The idea behind Ben’s project - Cumul.us asks, can we turn the weather into Wikipedia? (Wisdom of the clouds - hehe). Will we get better weather predictions from it? Dunno. From what I’ve seen of the site, it’ll be
• 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