I will never again refer to the Midwest as a barren gulch bereft of civilization. Iowa has wifi at roadside rest stops.

Tuesday dawned foggy again, slowing our hurtling down I-29 to a mere 70mph.


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The Dakotas have brought me an unexpected, happy surprise: the highest legal speed limit I've ever encountered, 75 mph. We expected to have about four hours of driving this morning to get from Fargo to Sioux Falls. The high interstate speeds cut that to three ( Read more... )

This entry brought to you by the unexpected -- and free! -- Net access at Fargo's C'mon Inn. I (heart) wired hotels ( Read more... )

Our Fargo-to-Dallas roadtrip is actually starting in Minneapolis, since David pointed out that it would be a) way cheaper to fly to there than Fargo, b) a chance to catch a Twins game and add another stadium to his life list, and c) an opportunity to catch up with our local friends. So, Saturday found us in the Twin Cities picking up our rental car ( Read more... )

The Web is full of stupidity, and fulminating against all of it would take more time and effort than I care to expand for so little consequence. However, every once in a while something manages to really hit my buttons and get me frothing. Forbes.com's rapidly-becoming-infamous "Don't Marry Career Women" piece did it. While the page there now ( Read more... )

I penned a few fanfic stories years ago and have read through some of the occasional heated word-wars that break out over the legitimacy of fanfic, like the flare-ups that raged in the blogs earlier this year over Robin Hobb's rant. My own personal stance has always been that many great works are derivative, and that noncommercial use of worlds and ( Read more... )

David & preysz are both big geekfans of baseball and Brooklyn history. This weekend, they combined those interests by tromping around the borough snapping photos of every site they could confirm once hosted professional baseball. The results are up now at BrooklynBallParks.com.


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Is anyone else seeing these weird google bar graphs in their search results? I know I'm not the absolute only one, because my friend mamster is hitting the same thing, but I'm kinda surprised that we're the only news outlet reporting this so far. Now that we have our stake in the ground on being all leading-edge and scoopy with it, I'd like to see ( Read more... )

I know aussie_nyc has some people on his friends' list who aren't on mine. I've been posting locked entries about his status; if you are a friend of his who would like access and don't already have it, leave me a comment here.

I just learned by experience, for the first time since living in this apartment, that Kea is a mouser. And my attempts to extricate and relocate the mouse ended with it jumping from its bowl (mice can jump?) somewhere in the front hallway.