tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85293212782965432742024-03-08T10:57:46.767-06:00Detachable Penis Publishingi woke up this morning and my penis was missing again...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-10165920597782396942012-03-23T13:51:00.000-05:002012-03-23T13:51:39.824-05:00Weird InternetsMarch 18-23<br />
Winner: Andrew<br />
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Due to a lack of entries I'm going with this one.<br />
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Depressed and deranged penguins</div>
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Slapped Cats</div>
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Notable entry: <a href="http://kittiesntitties.tumblr.com/">kittiesntitties.tumblr.com</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-1659147127678366242012-03-02T15:36:00.004-06:002012-03-02T15:36:39.497-06:00Weird InternetsWeek of March 2nd<br />
Winner: <b>Caron</b><br />
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Out of left-field comes coworker Caron's first entry ever and the weirdest thing on the internet this week.<br />
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iPhone Umbilical Cord Charger</div>
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Winner: Andrew<br />
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That's a serious gym workout.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-51241449615044190102012-02-10T13:07:00.002-06:002012-02-10T13:07:38.905-06:00Feb 6-10<br />
Winner: <b>Jana</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.studio-kg.com/ostrich/" target="_blank">The Ostrich</a> personal sleep system</div>
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Runner Up: <b>Andrew</b><br />
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<a href="http://breadedcats.com/">breadedcats.com</a></div>
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Winner: <b>Andrew</b><br />
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The Dope Zebra wins this week. I'll start posting the runner-ups too so you can see what lofty and difficult decisions we face each week.<br />
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Dope Zebra (Andrew)</div>
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Story (Jana)</div>
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My Vagina (Jana)</div>
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Stupid Hoe (Andrew)</div>
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This is just too strange and/or awesome. Boob puppetry! Enjoy.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-42740985712152034652012-01-13T11:19:00.001-06:002012-01-13T11:19:00.542-06:00Weird Internets, Jan 9-13Pfff... I must have lost my mind with that voting thing. This isn't a democracy, weird internets of the week is 100% pure dictatorship.<br />
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All hail this week's winner - Jana! <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccae/my-little-pony-for-geeks" target="_blank">My Little Pony for Geeks</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-80930798816658021972011-12-16T15:33:00.001-06:002011-12-17T10:48:55.642-06:00Weird InternetsDecember 12-16<br />
Winner: Andrew<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-63345719008165676622011-12-11T20:17:00.001-06:002011-12-11T20:40:11.013-06:00Weird InternetsMe and my coworker have been having a weekly contest for awhile of the weirdest thing we can find on the internet each week. I realized I should be showing the results so I'll post each week's winner here.<br />
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December 5-9<br />
Winner: Jana<br />
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November 28-December 2<br />
Winner: Andrew<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Circles:</span><br />
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<li>If someone isn't in one of your circles they won't get any of your posts <i>except</i> posts marked <u>Public</u> or maybe <u>Extended Circles</u><b> </b>(friends of friends).</li>
<li>Other people can add you to their circles and you'll get their posts under <u>Incoming</u>. They still won't get your posts until you add them to a circle and write to that circle.</li>
<li>You can add a specific person to any post the same way you set circles. Just start typing their name.</li>
<li>If you post to a single person (no circles) you're writing them a DM/Message/Email.</li>
<li>You can mention someone in a post by typing @TheirName or +TheirName. Using the @ will list people in your circles first, using + searches all of Google+.</li>
<li>Look for the +Person link in a gray box to make sure their name is linked correctly in the post.</li>
<li>If you do a @mention and that person isn't on Google+ yet it'll just enter their name (no link, no gray box).</li>
<li>You can have people in multiple circles.</li>
<li>Only people in the original circle you posted to can comment.</li>
<li>You can disable resharing and comments under the post's dropdown triangle.</li>
<li>If you add someone to your Blocked circle you become invisible to that person.</li>
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<li>You need to put the Google+ app on your Android phone to do Instant Uploads. Enable Instant Upload in the app's Settings.</li>
<li>Previous photos and movies on your phone won't be uploaded. Only new photos & movies.</li>
<li>All Instant Upload photos/movies go to a Private <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/">Picasa album</a> only you can see.</li>
<li>Once enabled all photos/video you take on your phone from any app will be auto-uploaded.</li>
<li>Movies only auto-upload on a wifi connection (if they're longer than 10 seconds).</li>
<li>You can share any photos/movies by clicking the photo/movie icons at the bottom of the status update section in Google+.</li>
<li>The photo/movie buttons in the Google+ status update bar also let you upload from your computer, or attach Youtube videos.</li>
<li>Tagging someone in a photo notifies that person and adds them to the list of people that can see that album.</li>
<li>You can change which people/circles can view and comment on an album. Go to<i> Photos>Your Albums>Visible To</i></li>
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<li>You can click video/audio on and off. You can still participate in the hangout without video/audio - there's a chat box alongside the video feeds.</li>
<li>Your video feed won't become the main feed (you won't be talking to yourself).</li>
<li>Whoever is speaking the loudest becomes the main feed.</li>
<li>You can click on/off any of the smaller video thumbnails to stick that person as the main feed.</li>
<li>When you initiate a hangout you can set what circles you want the hangout to be visible to. Only those people can see it and join.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-31955509655752265332011-06-24T15:14:00.003-05:002011-06-24T15:19:32.771-05:00Petition the Pulitzer be awarded to The Onion<span style="display: inline;" id="letter_trunc"><p>Visit <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/21/demand-that-the-onion-be-recognized-with-a-pulitzer-prize/">AFAJP</a> to sign the petition today.<br /></p><p>To: Members of the 2011-2012 Pulitzer Prize Board<br />Columbia University<br />709 Journalism Building<br />2950 Broadway<br />New York, NY 10027<br /></p> <p>You Ignorant, Negligent Swine:</p> <p>Since 1917, your increasingly out-of-touch organization of so-called cultural arbiters has been awarding the most distinguished prize in American journalism, and at no point in that nearly century-long span have your thick, prestige-addled skulls been penetrated by the notion that perhaps it might finally be time to recognize the publication universally acknowledged as America's Finest News Source.</p> <p>From this, one can only assume that the members of the Pulitzer Board are either flagrantly in bed with the fat cats of Big Journalism, legally blind, hopelessly stupid, or some astoundingly irresponsible combination of all three.</p> <p>That is why I, a concerned citizen, am joining fellow justice-seekers at the media watchdog group Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes (AFAJP) to demand that you and your ambitiously moronic cohorts finally award The Onion the Pulitzer Prize it so richly deserves. To be perfectly frank, the fact that this has not yet happened, and that a form letter such as this requires sending in the first place, is an embarrassment not only to you and your families, but to our entire American way of life, which to the best of my knowledge is supposed to stand for values such as honesty, truth, and the commendation of the most deserving.</p> <p>Perhaps if you were somehow able to disengage your sniveling faces from the tight confines of The New York Times's ass long enough to wipe Thomas Friedman's overrated shit from your eyes and take a look around you, you'd see that The Onion is universally esteemed by everyone from the U.S. Senate to the common street vagabond as the single most reliable, trustworthy, and relevant newspaper in the United States today.</p> <p>Regardless, this summer marks the publication of The Onion's 1,000th issue, and I believe it is high time you and your sick, allegedly on-the-take little cabal of excellence-rapers woke the hell up and faced reality. The Onion deserves one of your damned prizes way more than the simps you've been giving them to ever did, or ever will. How do I know this? Because I am astoundingly perceptive, moral, and intelligent.<br /></p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-6387817739581617282011-06-20T13:00:00.005-05:002011-07-03T10:38:35.466-05:00What's in a name?I've had the username <span style="font-weight: bold;">SOTA</span> for around 16 years now. Most people first think it's for the ending of the state, MinneSOTA, but I'm much more of a geek than that. It's actually from a tabletop D&D'esqe game called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun">Shadowrun</a>. Me and some friends use to play online in a roleplaying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD">MUD</a> with our very first dialup net connections back in 1994. SOTA were optional game rules requiring players to pay out so much money each month to stay on top of their tech and maintain their lifesytle. Without it players could have some lucky runs and end up impossibly rich. It was a gold sink, and still seems fitting for my love of new technologies.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em></em></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shadowrun.us/shadowrun.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 114px;" src="http://www.shadowrun.us/shadowrun.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>Tech doesn't stand still. The deck that cracked a mainf</em></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>rame wide open last month might not even get past the SAN today. To stay on the edge, a decker has to stay current with the "state-of-the-art," the SOTA.<b> Selena must pay off a S</b></em></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><b>OTA Factor of 61 to maintain her utility programs. Her deck has an MPCP Rating of 8, so she makes a Computer (8) Test. She acheives 2 successes, so she reduces the SOTA Factor by 6 x 2, 12 points. Her SOTA Factor is now 49.<br /><br /></b></em></span></blockquote> Then there's the company name I borrowed. The second Mac I ever used was a friend's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_SE">Mac SE</a>, which was very similar to my Mac Plus, but was loaded with various games and applications because it had a whopping <a href="http://www.biocomp.net/mac_hd20_1.jpg">40Mb hard drive</a>. I <span style="font-style: italic;">borrowed</span> several of the applications off that computer and noticed they had all been registered to this <span style="font-style: italic;">Detachable Penis Publishing</span>. My friend is an english major, a music-lover, and has a ironic sense of humor. So I keep using the company name in hopes it turns up in amusing places.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-32438626707841227452011-06-13T11:18:00.005-05:002011-06-13T11:31:42.939-05:00Put a flag on it<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxLFMrSnzUA/TfY4cVEf9OI/AAAAAAAAMbs/2l1DWPr8i8s/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-06-13%2Bat%2B11.17.55%2BAM.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 397px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HxLFMrSnzUA/TfY4cVEf9OI/AAAAAAAAMbs/2l1DWPr8i8s/s320/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-06-13%2Bat%2B11.17.55%2BAM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617739644534781154" border="0" /></a>I feel like this should be some sort of milestone. My <a href="http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&uid=206459979891064689698">Google Map Maker</a> edits #1973 & #1974 are for the entire Standish-Ericsson neighborhoods. If you glance around <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/VwGt">38th St & Hiawatha</a> or <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/dyyi">Raymond & University Ave</a> where I work you'll see all sorts of new features added to Google Maps. Building outlines, parking lots, parks, all kinds of crazy things.<br /><br />I've found that after the stuff I add is approved then it appears on the live Google Map about a day later, and on my Android phone in about a month.<br /><br />I know I'm not perfect on every detail, and sometimes not completely consistent, but I do hope it gives more of a sense of place when folks see the map of my city. It's not just some dry run of grid streets and forgettable names, there's history here and all kinds of nooks & crannies you'd never know of flying through on I-94.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-50128393590463095272011-06-10T14:17:00.003-05:002011-06-10T14:24:58.668-05:00What we're all missing from the netFor one day this week my home desktop machine wasn't going through NAT to get out to the net and back. My desktop computer had a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">real</span> IP address and could be reached from any other machine or device in the world. When I looked up Google, or Facebook, or Youtube it was my computer talking directly to their server. My desktop computer could talk directly to my Android phone. Facebook could send things directly to my computer or phone if I wanted it to. No middleman. No client-server intermediate setup. No setting up port forwards.<br /><br />Just direct routing, the way the internet was intended to be from the start.<br /><br />We need more of that. And less of the broken, kludged system we're currently mistaking for the internet.<br /><br />Happy IPv6 day!<br /><br /><a href="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/world-ipv6-day-went-mostly-smoothly-with-a-few-surprises.ars">http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/world-ipv6-day-went-mostly-smoothly-with-a-few-surprises.ars</a><br /><a href="http://news.opensuse.org/2011/06/09/world-ipv6-day-results/">http://news.opensuse.org/2011/06/09/world-ipv6-day-results/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-31169535065556796452011-06-10T13:40:00.001-05:002011-06-10T13:42:22.396-05:00Lessons of mass transit<a href="http://zenhabits.net/transit/">Lessons we're learning from mass transit</a> is a short post of some of the life skills you can learn from being around humanity day to day.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-86394048391466279132011-06-02T10:45:00.001-05:002011-06-02T10:46:29.821-05:00Weighting Mistakes"In short, the “<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/commuting.php">weighting mistake</a>” says that prospective house-buyers are often enamored of a certain perk — say, an extra bedroom — even if it means they have to drive an extra hour to work each day. In reality, however, that additional bedroom only gets used a couple days a year, perhaps when the in-laws visit, whereas the commute occurs five days a week."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-11245347011593354442011-05-13T13:25:00.000-05:002011-05-13T14:24:47.878-05:00Recommended Android AppsUpdated the list for Android 2.2 and the new T-Mobile G2 I'm using.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite">Screebl</a> - Deactivates screen timeout when you hold the phone like you're reading it. You don't have to keep tapping the screen to keep the phone awake. Why is this not in the system prefs?<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fede.launcher">Launcher Pro</a> - Customize everything about your homescreens. Change effects. Add/remove screens.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pandora.android">Pandora</a> - Streaming music. Awesomesauce.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.seesmic&feature=search_result">Seesmic</a> - Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz client. Nice Android integration and lots of features.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=org.iii.romulus.meridian">Meridian</a> - Slick and fast music and video player.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aldiko.android">Aldiko</a> - eBook reader. Reminds me of Delicious Library<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bumptech.bumpga">Bump</a> - Bump phones together to exchange contacts, photos, and apps.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.taptu.wapedia.android.unlock">Wapedia</a> - Scaled down Wikipedia browser<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fatsecret.android">Calorie Counter</a> - Diet/Exercise/Weight tracker and can scan the barcode of what you're eating. Syncs with their website.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=net.flixster.android">Movies</a> - Find out what movies are playing nearby, theater times, buy tickets<br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.telemarks.CallFilter2&feature=search_result"><br />Call Filter</a> - Block unknown numbers, spam numbers, numbers not in contacts, or anybody else who you don't want calling.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rollerbush.batteryminder">Batteryminder</a> - A small number that lives in your notification bar to tell you your current battery percentage.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.evernote">Evernote</a> - Take notes, audio, pictures and syncs them with your online account. Syncs with website.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.unveil">Google Goggles</a> - Take a picture of anything an Google will try to identify it. Works on barcodes, logos, books, artwork, text ocr, and more. Install Shopper to comparison shop identified items.<br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.reader&feature=search_result"><br />Google Reader</a> - A functional RSS reader that syncs to your Reader feeds.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.snoggdoggler.android.applications.doggcatcher.v1_0&feature=search_result">Doggcatcher</a> - Pulls in audio & video podcasts and has tons of options.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mint">Mint</a> - Check all your finances on your phone. Syncs with mint.com.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.digcy.mycast">My-Cast Weather</a> - Lightweight weather info. Includes radar loop, outlook, bunch of stuff. And unlike the freebies (weatherbug, weather channel) it won't eat your battery.<br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.eightd.android.spotcycle"><br />SpotCycle</a> - Shows you where all NiceRide bike kiosks are and their current status.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sportypalpro">SportyPal</a> - Maps your movement with GPS when your walking, biking, running, etc. Syncs with their website and lets you share workouts.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.DroidLiveLite">Xiialive</a> - Shoutcast radio stations streaming to your phone.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dropbox.android&feature=search_result">Dropbox</a> - Lets you access files added from your desktop machine, web, or phone. The modern floppy disk.<br /><br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.highwindsoftware.tunesync.lite">TuneSync</a> - Synchronize playlists from iTunes to your phone automatically. No more mounting an SD card and manually copying files back and forth.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-7811381892182990282011-03-30T14:28:00.004-05:002011-03-30T14:36:17.925-05:00Anti-Rail Rep. Peggy ScottBelow is Peggy Scott's (R-Andover) response on why she wants to cut rail transit funding.<br /><br />---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peggy Scott</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rep.peggy.scott@house.mn" target="_blank">rep.peggy.scott@house.mn</a>></span><br />Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:55 AM<br />Subject: Re: Cutting rail transit funding 55406<br />To: sota767<br /><br /><br />Dear Andrew,<br /><br />Thank you for contacting me regarding rail transit funding. I<br />appreciate the opportunity to respond.<br /><br />I wanted to provide you with some information that helps underscore my<br />disappointment with Minnesota’s rail transit system. Cost-benefit<br />analyses of these projects show that increases in rail transit mobility<br />do not translate to an increase in total mobility for the community. All<br />transit use currently makes up less than 2% of trips in the Twin Cities<br />metropolitan region. Rail transit is by far the most expensive mode of<br />transportation compared to more practical alternatives. The taxpayer<br />cost per trip for automobiles is measured in the pennies; the cost per<br />trip for a commuter rail is measured in the tens of dollars. The<br />taxpayer subsidy for a round trip on Hiawatha Light Rail is $7.90 out of<br />a total cost of $10.06. The taxpayer subsidy for a round trip on<br />Northstar Commuter Rail is $47.70 out of $54.72 total cost. Both of<br />these numbers include amortization of capital costs. In contrast, the<br />tax payer subsidy for a bus ride comes to a much more reasonable<br />$2.00-$2.50.<br /><br />It remains unclear how much business growth has occurred around these<br />lines as a direct result of rail transit. I understand that some<br />businesses have opened in the Bloomington area. Key economic influences<br />in the area include the Mall of America and the airport; the Hiawatha<br />line remains just one of the many factors that could have contributed to<br />this growth. Economic development around the Hiawatha line has vastly<br />under-delivered compared to what was projected.<br /><br />My current priority is to tackle our $5.1 billion state budget deficit,<br />and I do not feel that use of our limited resources on these projects<br />makes for a good return on our investment. Please note that I appreciate<br />and recognize your input on the merits of rail transit in Minnesota, but<br />I believe that the costs far outweigh the benefits.<br /><br />Once again, thank you for contacting me. Please let me know if I can be<br />of further assistance to you on matters of state government.<br /><br />My best,<br /><br />Peggy<br /><br />Representative Peggy Scott<br />District 49A<br />477 State Office Building<br />100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.<br />St. Paul, MN 55155<br />651-296-4231<br />Fax:<br />Email: <a href="mailto:Rep.peggy.scott@house.mn" target="_blank">Rep.peggy.scott@house.mn</a><br /><br />Please sign up for my email updates at <a href="http://www.house.mn/49A" target="_blank">http://www.house.mn/49A</a><br /><br />---------<br /><br />>>> <sota767> 3/16/2011 2:48 PM >>><br />Please do not cut funding to the Hiawatha or Northstar lines. I use to<br />live in Coon Rapids and intentionally moved to Minneapolis 3 years ago<br />because of the lack of transit options in Anoka county. I use the<br />Hiawatha now every day to get to work, my parents use Northstar from<br />Ramsey to visit my home, and my in-laws use it to get from Big Lake to<br />the VA by the airport.<br /><br />If Andover & Coon Rapids up-zoned the land around their stations they'd<br />see more dense growth, but right now the area around those stations are<br />just single-family acre lots. Ramsey has a much better TOD and they<br />don't even have a Northstar station yet. Elk River, Anoka, and Big Lake<br />are also better setup to utilize the stations than Andover.<br /><br />Cutting funding to rail transit is a huge, shortsighted mistake. More<br />roads are not going to move commuters around Andover faster.<br /><br />Andrew Balfour<br />Minneapolis MN<br /><br />-----------<br /><br />I disagree with her "pennies per taxpayer" cost of roads. I'd argue purchasing a car, insurance, taxes, fuel, and paying taxes on the roads makes car transportation more expensive, it just shifts the cost directly onto the user. I pay less to use rail, but a larger percent of my state taxes go to fund it making up the difference. But overall my fare+state taxes are much less than the cost of operating a car and paying for the road. I also don't believe she factored in the amortization cost of constructing or maintaining the roads but she used that in her rail calculation. Rail transit mobility does translate into more total mobility - you're adding more ways to get around! Would you like the 30,000 riders on Hiawatha LRT each day to clog up the roads instead? She also didn't include revenue lost to externalities like congestion which costs the state a ton of money each year.<br /><br />And her business growth argument is junk. First the Hiawatha line is primarily through a residential part of the city. Houses within 6-blocks of a station are on the market an average of 1/3 the time houses located elsewhere in the city. From the 2010 census you can see every neighborhood with a rail stop has gained over 500+ people while other neighborhoods next to them have showed little growth or stayed flat. I would also argue that large projects like Target Field and the new VA in Ramsey are built where they are because of the availability of rail. With her criteria we should ask why every town along an interstate highway hasn't bloomed into a metropolis over the past 50 years.<br /><br />Fundamentally I don't believe in cutting spending on basic services to balance a budget. You don't stop paying your mortgage when things get tight, you cut out fluff like movie rentals and dining out. Likewise you don't stop paying for roads, transit, police, fire, schools, and medical services that are fundamental to your community. You cut out fluff programs and you make sure everybody is paying a fair share in taxes - including wealthy individuals and companies that are increasingly paying less percentage-wise in taxes each year than the rest of us.<br /><br />I suppose it's easy to complain about funding of mass transit when the community you represent has none. If I were an Andover resident I'd be more upset that there aren't any other options than driving.<br /></sota767>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-84729222649461465802011-02-23T23:26:00.002-06:002011-02-24T00:37:49.206-06:00The Grand CanyonI've been cheering for the WI unions for the past week hoping that their moronic gov will cave to popular sentiment. But a clip of the Daily Show got me thinking about the hypocrisy of cheering for one group of folks protesting the government (unions) while ridiculing another (teabaggers).<div><br /></div><div>Focusing on just the financial aspect of these groups, at the core I believe they're both protesting in order to protect their incomes. It's their method for protecting that income that's different. The teabaggers want to pay less in taxes so that they get to keep more of their income. While the unions bargain collectively as a group to secure the best wages and benefits for their members.</div><div><br /></div><div>I previously wrote how I don't believe trying to avoid paying your taxes, or less of your taxes, is fair at a societal level if you're still using the services the taxes go to. You may be trying to hang on to more of your income but I believe it's a greedy, self-centered, and short-sighted way to do so. Another interesting argument I recently read is how public workers bargaining with the government is essentially the government arguing with itself to pay itself more, at the expense of all the taxpayers. But behind these groups there's a really huge elephant that I don't think anybody is bringing up and that's what makes these groups so angry and passionate.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is a massive income disparity in the United States and none of us are winning.</div><div><br /></div><div>276 million Americans (the bottom 90%) have a yearly average family income of $31,000. While about 30,000 people (the top 0.01%) have a yearly average family income of $27,300,000. Average executive pay is now 185 times that of the average employee.</div><div><br /></div><div>The distribution of wealth has become so unfair over the past 30 years that we are just fighting over crumbs, not even table scraps, of the rich. And the people we think of as rich aren't close either. They're just the butlers to the actual upper class of the country that has the real money.</div><div><br /></div><div>Why are 0.01% of the ultra-rich getting huge tax breaks when unemployment is at a record high and people are losing their homes? How can a population be convinced that free healthcare would be terrible thing that they don't want? Why aren't we more angry that our yearly incomes are flat and what we do earn is worth less each year. Why are we losing services and being asked to pay more for what little is left?</div><div><br /></div><div>The glaring realization is that our parents right now aren't better off financially then their parents were. And we won't be better off than our parents or grandparents at their age either if this pattern continues.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-63475822394302482312011-02-16T19:20:00.002-06:002011-02-16T19:43:47.185-06:00FreeloadersThe Tea Party and the no-new-taxes Republicans are just a bunch of freeloaders.<br /><br />I see photos of these people at rallies in Washington, or on the steps of a state capital, or on the sidewalk waving their signs about how this country is being sold down the river and they shouldn't have to pay taxes and I think: GTFO my sidewalk you lazy bastards.<br /><br />My taxes paid for that sidewalk. Those capital steps. That park you're having your rally in. If you don't want to pay your taxes, if you don't want to pay for the benefits of civilization, fine. Move the hell out of my city and go live in the woods or on a mountain. If you're not paying your share of taxes like I am then you don't get to use my police, fire, streets, transit, garbage, water, sewer, parks, hospitals, schools, colleges, museums, bridges, stadiums, etc.<br /><br />Go live in your shack in the woods. Shit in an outhouse. Gather wood for a fire, because you need to boil that stream water before you drink it. You'll get to keep all your money. Live the tax-free life. And if you freeze to death in the winter because nobody is around to help you - well at least you didn't have to pay taxes to the evil government.<br /><br />I'm a moderate. I appreciate taking a hard look at the programs the government provides and making sure we're getting the best bang for our buck. If something's not working, or overrunning it's budget then you fix it or get rid of it. But I also believe in my responsibility to provide that buck. And in tough times, maybe two bucks if I can afford it and someone else can't. And in return I expect to live a long, happy, comfortable, hard-working life in a functioning society because me and the other people of my city/state/country have collectively shared our wealth to build a better place to live. And if other people from other places in the world want to come here and contribute the same then they're welcome to. That was what my ancestors did and it worked out for their children.<br /><br />The rest of you who want all the benefits of civilization, but don't want to pay for it, can get the hell out. Go freeload somewhere else.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-29897373432914456032011-02-08T22:35:00.003-06:002011-02-10T12:44:50.925-06:00They're the same wretched tasteSo a month ago I signed up for the new Qwest 40Mbps/20Mbps DSL service when it became available in my area. It's based on VDSL2 instead of the older ADSL service Qwest has been selling since the 90s in the metro. Basically they run fiber to the little box at the end of the alley and your line distance is from your DSL modem to that box, whereas ADSL it's your DSL modem to the phone company local office. The speed is great, but unfortunately it's still run by the most incompetent phone company ever.<br /><br />I said I'd give it a month. Installation was cake, they reconnected the line out on the pole and re-ran a few feet of phone wire and we were in business, the full 40Mbps/20Mbps connection. The junction box is about 150ft from my house so that helps a ton. The first thing my inner-geek demands is that I bridge the modem and have my D-Link DIR-825 do the PPPoE signon. That way there is only one NAT, I can setup my IPv6 tunnel, and fiddle with port forwarding and whatever other crazy network stuff I feel like without their Zyxel Q100 getting in the way.<br /><br />So then comes problem #1. After 10/15/20 hours my connection speed plummets to around 5Mbps down, and 5-1Mbps up. No idea why. No errors on the DLink. Nothing. When I disconnect & reconnect PPPoE on the D-Link the speed comes back (and the IP address changes). But I'm not seeing a speed drop when the Zyxel Q100 does the PPPoE connection - it stays at full speed no matter what I throw at it.<br /><br />That leads to problem #2. With the Zyxel doing PPPoE I have to DMZ everything back to the Dlink and I end up with a double NAT. I hate, *hate* double NATs. My whole frustrating experience with BHI was mostly due to dealing with IPsec VPNs failing across double NATs. You're trying to do some fancy encapsulated networking (VPN), encrypting it (IPsec), then rewriting each packet (NAT 1) and then doing it again (NAT 2) and if any of those parts hiccup or miss a beat the whole thing stops working.<br /><br />This is also a big part of why the net over the cellular network still sucks too. The cellphone companies have very few real IPv4 addresses and end up single/double/triple NATing all their phones. Not so bad if you're only pulling down a web page or an email, but it makes 2-way connectivity with your phone a nightmare. Everything has to be done client/server (not device-to-device) where your phone talks out to a real server on the net and the server has to juggle everything and push data back to your phone, relying on your phone to keep the connection alive. Something like Qik where a phone should be connecting directly to another phone instead has to go all the way out to some server on the net first and then back down to the receiver.<br /><br />Problem #3 then steps in. You can't setup a 6in4 IPv6 tunnel over a double NAT. It's temperamental as hell and runs into a lot of the same problems a regular VPN (it is basically a VPN) has with jumping double NATs. That's if the tunnel provider (tunnelbroker.net in this case) even lets you set it up, and they won't if you try to tell them your real IP is in private IP (192.168.x, etc) space.<br /><br />Problem #4 is that Qwest support hasn't changed at all since I last tried them. I first asked about the speed issue and if they could check the PPPoE service, but the moment I mentioned bridged mode and my DLink the conversation ended with a 'it must be your router and it's unsupported'. It's a heavy duty router, and after skimming DLink's site I find that PPPoE with Qwest doesn't work for most people using DLink routers. But just Qwest - other ISPs doing PPPoE don't have a problem. Then again Qwest just switched to PPPoE a few years ago and prior to that they used PPPoA which nobody and nothing supported. Way to make your backend equipment standards based guys. For fun I also mentioned IPv6 and when they would have it available. I might as well asked in Greek. I think the lady thought I was talking about wireless on the DSL modem. Utter fail.<br /><br />Problem #5 is I went to create my account on their website to pay my bill. Their website is so poorly done that when I could reach it (it's offline a lot for some reason) I could never create an account. I finally was able to get the 'right' code needed to create my account after a phone call, online chat, and another phone call. All to pay the bill online.<br /><br />In the end Comcast may not be the fastest service but they're cheaper, they give me a real IP with DHCP, there's no NAT on their cable modem or network, they already are doing IPv6 trials, and their support people can be dicks but they're knowledgeable dicks. VDSL2 tech I believe is a huge improvement over ADSL, but in the end it's Qwest's decrepit backend services that make even shiny new tech look like shit. The phone company fails again.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-27243047069876532742010-11-19T04:13:00.005-06:002010-11-19T04:32:49.103-06:00TSA "Shame" CampaignParticipate by repeating the word "<b>Shame</b>" out loud from the point where you enter airport security and have your boarding pass checked, to when you officially leave the security checkpoint. Pause whenever you wish, but keep repeating the word "<b>Shame</b>" as long as you can in security. No need to shout or yell, doing so may be regarded as threatening and cause you further delay. A regular speaking voice is fine.<div><br /></div><div>This is a non-violent, non-confrontational, first amendment display of our displeasure at the new TSA body scanners and enhanced pat-down routine. As long as both of those procedures remain in use I encourage you to continue the "<b>Shame</b>" campaign.</div><div><br /></div><div>Together we will make our voices heard and encourage other airline travelers to speak up and voice their objections when they otherwise may be afraid to do so. We are paying customers, taxpayers, American citizens, and human beings. We should not be sexually assaulted as a condition of air travel. This is going too far.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you and please spread the word.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-64212316966408049402010-11-02T13:23:00.005-05:002010-11-02T14:18:02.443-05:00Skyways and Streetcars<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sp8254/2681192785/" title="Go By Streetcar! by SP8254, on Flickr"><img style="width: 300px; height: 231px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/2681192785_140bca8fb3.jpg" alt="Go By Streetcar!" /></a><br /><br />Minneapolis plans to reintroduce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar">streetcars</a> in some high-transit corridors downtown in the coming years. The first route sounds like it will be on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicollet_Mall">Nicollet Mall</a> and replace most of the buses crawling along the Mall. I like streetcars because I find them more comfortable than buses, and besides walking and biking I think they have the best "lets stop here and look around" appeal. You get a bit of that sensation taking the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_Line">LRT</a> through downtown now, but the LRT is still more geared for throughput. The streetcar is more of a moving sidewalk.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmcnab/4805825516/" title="Minneapolis, 1920 by John McNab, on Flickr"><img style="width: 307px; height: 242px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4805825516_7275847fef_z.jpg" alt="Minneapolis, 1920" /></a><br /><br />But I believe there's one obstacle to the streetcar really taking back off - our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System">skyway</a> system. The streetcar relies on people walking and biking around at street level, but most of the daily downtown population is up on the 2nd floor in the skyways. A lot of downtown streets, particularly Nicollet Mall, have very few storefronts that open onto the sidewalk itself. Instead you enter a plaza and hunt around for the business entrance. But the plazas make sense if you're already in the skyway.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fattytuna/642703151/" title="minneapolis is skyway heaven by Fatty Tuna, on Flickr"><img style="width: 300px; height: 201px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/642703151_310bad877f.jpg" alt="minneapolis is skyway heaven" /></a><br /><br />There is a big disconnect. Out on the sidewalk you can use the streetcar, but the businesses you want to get to are locked away a story above your head. Right now trying to get from the sidewalk to the skyway can be daunting in itself. I think if it was easier to move from the sidewalk to the skyway and back it would help both areas.<br /><br />How do we connect the sidewalk to the skyway?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529321278296543274.post-4054152884435438052010-08-17T00:36:00.001-05:002010-08-17T00:50:44.310-05:00Abogo Transportation Cost<a href="http://abogo.cnt.org/">Abogo Transportation Cost</a> is similar to <a href="http://www.walkscore.com">walkscore.com</a> but focuses on determining the price of transportation in an area by address.<br /><br />USA Today looks at different transit options in the Twin Cities.<br /><object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=221225165001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fvideo%2Findex.htm%3Fbctid%3D221225165001&playerID=102195605001&playerKey=AQ%2E%2E,AAAABvaL8JE%2E,ufBHq_I6Fnyou4pHiM9gbgVQA16tDSWm&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=221225165001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fvideo%2Findex.htm%3Fbctid%3D221225165001&playerID=102195605001&playerKey=AQ%2E%2E,AAAABvaL8JE%2E,ufBHq_I6Fnyou4pHiM9gbgVQA16tDSWm&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08941096664916784865noreply@blogger.com0