This week, after driving through the Warehouse district then picking up a few things at my local Target I thought – “this will never be a condo.” Today’s warehouses have no windows, no walls, and nothing interesting. Unfortunate. Feels like artificially hijacking the circle of life.
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Another Reason I Can’t Support Minnesota Public Radio
First off, I never contributed millions (or even thousands) to public radio. A couple hundred bucks here and there. And I know a couple people employed by the Minnesota Public Radio. Heck, I even helped them usability test their site a while back. Kinda fun sitting on the other side of the desk. That said, …
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The 2006 SXSW BitTorrent Is Here!
Since I won’t be making it to the SXSW, I’ve been waiting all year for this. Anxiously checking and re-checking the SXSW website like a kid at Christmas. I even ‘bookmarked’ the page like it’s 1998. Then, today, it arrived. This year’s 2.5GB BitTorrent of showcase musicians (and 667MB of film trailers if you prefer). …
FlySpy – Finally, A Useful Airfare Service?
Jen and I like vacationing in Europe – our heritage pretty much dictates it. We don’t really care when we go. We’ve got a general idea of what we want tickets to cost and are happy to build a vacation around that price. As Dave points out the “I don’t care when, just how much” …
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Open House Sat, Feb 25 – 2-4pm and Sun, Feb 26 – 1-3pm
Just got word there’ll be an Open House at 2701 31st Ave NE, St Anthony, MN from 2-4pm this Saturday, Feb 25th. This one’s open to everyone. If you want to check the place out, mark your calendars. Especially if you’re looking for a great starter house for you and your dog. No, we won’t …
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Real Estate Agent Open House Tues Feb 21 – Noon to 2PM
If you sell real estate and want to take a the house, there’s an agent open house tomorrow – Tuesday, Feb 21, 2006 from noon to 2pm. Come by, check it out. For more info on the place, review my past house posts.
EdgeIO – Listing First Impressions
I received the preview password to EdgeIO.com today, Mike Arrington‘s new project to aggregate all blog posts using the tag ‘listing’ at a single site, all organized and such as you’d expect from a classifieds site. Since I’m trying to sell a house and blogging about it, seemed like a perfect opportunity to test it …
Welcome to St. Anthony Village, You Have Now Left Minneapolis
Let’s say you bought the house we’re selling in St. Anthony Village. If you did, you wouldn’t be a Minneapolitan – you’d be a Villager. St. Anthony Village is it’s own 3-square mile city – St. Anthony, MN to be specific. Yes, NE is in address and the post office will deliver to a 2701 …
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Property History & Comments – Another Reason for Real Estate Agents to Blog
There’s been a few parties interested in our house, I’m surprised to learn from our agent how unstructured, the agent-to-agent feedback process is. Sounds like the listing agent has to initiate the contact with the showing agent, rather than the showing agent providing it by default. As a seller, I want to know what prospective …
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Why Health Coverage Shouldn’t be Tied to Employers
“Weyco and Scotts Miracle-Gro, based in Marysville, Ohio, are in the vanguard of a growing effort by business to brake soaring medical costs by regulating such unhealthy employee behavior as smoking” Health coverage as a benefit of employment no longer makes sense – financially for employers or employees. Expecting employers to foot the bill and …
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