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I love the paper. I prefer the actual physical paper in all it’s dirty smelly glory.
I grew up with it, I often remember my father as the disembodied voice behind the Star Tribune:

“We’re furious with you! Aren’t we!?!”, Mother shrieked.
“furious.”, deadpanned Dad.

I know now that he had no clue why I was getting berated was about, he was just glad it wasn’t him.
The paper paper is intransitive – it’s not fluid like news on the web. I’ve often noticed that the best humor in the paper gets ‘corrected’ in the online version, usually after I sent it to some friends.
Something seems wrong to me about a continually fluid news stream. The optimistic would point out that accuracy would be increased. I think we’d lose something though, errors and journalistic lapses themselves are part of the news as well as being funny as hell.

Nobody else I know reads the paper – so I often have find what I’ve read online to share it. Sometimes the online version is much cooler, as in this fascinating graphic
The print version had one year instead of 20.

In other highlights from the weekend paper:

Everyone onstage dances like hell, and when we get to hell, it will be full of ballets like this. Its loud rock score, by David Rozenblatt, sounds like a refrigerator copulating with a hot tin roof.
– Alastair Macaulay

This quote disproves the inverted pyramid – the most important sentence in the article is the last one.

I’ve got a phone now. It’s run by windows mobile, I’m anxiously awaiting the first blue screen.
I can now send calls directly to voicemail again. I most likely won’t call you, as I’ve not transfered my contacts yet.
I got discouraged when I learned that the phone wants to sync with outlook, and is offended by csv, ldif or vcard imports.
I’m sure that cell phone manufactures and service providers hate us all. Why make it easy for someone to adopt your device?
T-mobile allows me to type in name/number pairs 10 at a time on their website and then send to my phone… which is slightly less crappy than doing it on the small keyboard on the phone.

I’ll have my contacts when my lovely wife imports my ldif contact list into her outlook and then exports it to my phone.

The much talked about Minneapolis wireless blows. I could rant about it for at least 10 pages, however the images below sums it up.

If you sign up you’ll be seeing this a lot:

I know this is brand new stuff, I can handle some bumps in rolling out an ambitious new service.  But my connection was so crappy and slow that ‘cutie kitty chef’ was beating me in TF2:

I have no idea who that person is, but I’m sure they’re a toolbox.  I had to cancel the service.  So now I’m without internet and without cell phone.  I feel very 1990.