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I’ve been playing Team Fortress 2 with some guys from work. It’s a pretty fun game. It differs from others in the genre in some small but key ways – there are 9 different guys, each with different abilities and weapons. I’ve found I like playing the Doctor

I had a wondrous epiphany. I don’t normally excel at these games, but I found myself at the top of the score board on sunday night. It was the beer. Yes. I was smoking those 13 year old internet dweebs! That combined with owning my own car, having more than $4, and being able to stay out as late as i want.

As you can see the delay from the Fat Tire Amber cancels out my normal reaction delays. This makes me faster, and more accurate.
I even had two flag returns as a medic.

Wellstone, originally uploaded by kbb.

Five years ago today.
What a tragedy.
Wellstone is still very much a part of Minnesota. I see “It’s time to park the bus”, and even “He’s dead. Get over it.” in about equal numbers as the “WWWD” or other supportive bumper stickers.

I’m amazed that after all that we’ve been through in the last five years, the guy that would have screamed BULLSHIT the loudest could be denigrated by so many. It’s shameful. I’m embarrassed for them.

The world would be a better place if he was still here.

I’ve been loving the Fat Tire. At our neighborhood store it comes by the 22 oz bottle (which only counts as one beer) or a 6pack of those bottles. It comes in a twelver, Surdyk’s has it! This thing is pretty massive, the cardboard handles rip if you try to use them.

This beer didn’t win any medals at this years great American beer festival… but I think that may be a good thing, Coor’s light got a bronze medal for American Style Light Lager. You think that’s odd? Silver went to PBR, and gold to Old Milwaukee light. Wow. I don’t like light beer, but I’d think someone out there would make something better than those three- randomly combining ingredients would likely yield a contender in that field. I’m pretty sure the whole thing is a scam, but I’m going to take one for the team and try out some of the others. It’ll be rough, but I can handle it.

I live in Minneapolis, a cute little town. It’s pretty straightforward getting around. Things get a little wonky across the river and in SE downtown but more often than not you can count on Alphabetically named avenues running north/south and streets in numerical order going east/west. 2367 Lyndale Ave S is on the East side of Lyndale Ave between 23rd and 24th streets.

I started working in St Paul. A few years ago then governor Jesse Ventura quipped on Letterman, “Those streets in St. Paul must have been designed by drunken Irishmen.”
This was insanely funny at the time. Like most people, I don’t get to St Paul all that often. Today I learned that those drunken Irishmen had a plan. Even a formula:

Where:
N is the house number
H is the highest established corner number
L is the lowest established corner number
D is the distance (in feet) from the door of the house to L
B is the length of the block (in feet)
From The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul
Clear as mud? What this really means is that if you want to go to 973 you shouldn’t pull over and park at the open spot in front of 901 – you may have a longer walk than you think.
Minneapolis and St Paul both have character – sometimes this makes it a pain to find places, but the alternative is pretty stark. It would be easy to get around if the river, the bluffs, the parks, the streams where gone. But then there wouldn’t really be anywhere to go.

St Paul is cool. A long time ago a friend of mine was lured there…. it took a while for me to appreciate it.

war&peace, originally uploaded by kbb.

This guy is a jerk.

Wow. Just… WOW.

Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.

This isn’t really my area of expertise, and I do like to poke fun – but I can’t do it as well as Mr Adams:

Do these terms mean anything to anyone?

In pop culture, you’re nobody until you appear on a
t-shirt.
I cannot imagine how the artist got the idea to depict me in such a pose.