Amblypygid and I made an entry for the Reasonably Clever DIRTY BRICK ’06 contest and finally submitted it this past weekend. Over all I’m fairly happy with it. The dog head on the pommel really did come together very nicely and is probably what I am most proud of in the design. Feel free to [...]

Just saw on BevNet that GUS has a new flavor: Dry Pomegranate Given their other great flavors, and the relatively favorable review on BevNet, I hope to see it relatively soon at the local Cost Plus World Market locations. No tag for this post.

ValleyFair has announced their new roller-coaster for next year! No tag for this post.

I finished watching Lost Season 2 on DVD (out from Netflix) last night, or all of the episodes anyway. (I didn’t realize disc 7 was just extras until I watched the last episode on disc 6 last night which was very obviously a cliffhanger.) I had talked with a friend about it just as the [...]

Just an update about how Intelliflix is doing. I decided back in July that it wasn’t worth the hassle of trying to cancel my prepaid 1 year membership, so I’m just keeping track of how it’s performing at this point. A couple of interesting tidbits: The inventory of Xbox 360 titles displayed on their site [...]

It appears that Mr Whedon has very big plans indeed for Runaways. I think I’m looking forward to the Crisis on Inifinite Molly’s storyline. No tag for this post.

I downloaded the brand new version of iTunes (version 7.something) and thought it was interesting to see the following dialog in the installation UI. Haven’t done a lot of digging on exactly what the “Apple Software Update” precisely does yet, but hopefully it doesn’t eat system resources like iTunes and it’s associated iPod services do. [...]

Popular Science has rated Minneapolis as the “Top Tech City”. Tags: pop

I was looking over the Star Tribune candidate profiles for the primary tomorrow and thought it was fairly interesting to see that in the Hennepin County Commisioner District 4 race there is a Green Party candidate (Farheen Hakeem) who is running on a social issues platform and a DFL Party candidate (incumbent Peter McLaughlin) who is [...]

One of my most favorite local artists is Nachito Herrera. His consummate skill and amazing talent just blow me away whenever I get to hear his work. Case in point: I’m listening to “West Side Latin Jazz” from Live at the Dakota Vol. 2. The level of energy that so fully saturates every single note [...]