About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
As you might have heard, we finally got winter here in the upper Midwest. Not the Christmas-fluffy-white-snow-perfect-for-skiing-and-hot-cocoa-winter, the death-to-all-who-venture-out-of-doors winter. Both weather.com and accuweather.com say it’s a brisk -2°F (one degree lower since my last post). Strangely, Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget tells me it’s a tropical 28°F and snowing. It’s way too cold to snow …
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“I have grown really tired of contact sports…you can break an ankle, but can you die?”- Joel Fleischmann It’s -1°F this Saturday in the Twin Cities (weather.com says ‘feels like -18°F’, Thanks). Fortunately, NetFlix sent over Northern Exposure Season 2, Disc 2 this morning. This disc contains “All is Vanity”, the episode where Maggie has …
3 showings on the house since we got the MLS number yesterday morning, and a drive by. Nice. The ‘For Sale’ sign comes early next week, I think it’d be cool if it was sold before then. In Ericast #50, Eric Larsen says you can’t buy a house for under $200k. Well, you can – …
The house is on the MLS now – #3152250. Woo hoo. I see this house being perfect for 3 different people: Single people (even with kids)It’s a small place, easy to maintain, with lots of storage. Easy access to downtown and the highways with a huge lot for gardening and landscaping. DINKs or DIPsJust the …
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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 …
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I sat down with Mike, Eric, and Pete of Banjo Brothers for the low down on their grocery pannier and what got them started in cycling bags. There’s also some bits in there about how they’re partnering with bloggers like The Fat Cyclist to improve their bags. Of course, you can buy their bags from …
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I sure hope so. The current offering (Urchin assimilated) isn’t that useful. “Bringing Measure Map to Google is an exciting validation of the user experience work I’ve been doing with my partners at Adaptive Path for years. – Jeffrey Veen” Congrats to Veen, Congrats to Google. To PeterMe and everyone at Adaptive Path, I’m sorry …
It would have been a sin to grow up in rural Wisconsin and not go through hunter’s safety and purchase a couple of deer and small game licenses. The second and last time I went small game hunting, my dad and I were resting on a felled tree when some sort of creature appeared. I …
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A decade ago, I was in a job interview for a place I ultimately was employed. My soon-to-be boss asked me how much money I’d like to make in, say, 5 years. It was about that time, blackouts were rolling through California and Wired, Fast Company, Red Herring were all obese with advertising. We were …
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I was introduced to Bruce Schneier via his excellent