A Prarie Home Companion - The movie had it’s Twin Cities premiere here tonight complete with horse drawn carriages, a parade, a screening at the Fitzgerald Theater, and a party at the Landmark Center.
Most importantly (ok maybe not, but humor me here) was that Meryl Streep had pizza at Punch Pizza (only blocks from St. Thomas!) and called it the best pizza she had ever had. Oh St. Paul, how you spoil us. Perhaps I will pay the fine establishment a visit again soon.
Why the Internet Is Threatened aka - Ok, stay with me on this one: in this link, Tim Berners-Lee (commonly known as the inventor of the internet), writes an article about why the Internet as we know it is threatened. The problem, in my inadequate nutshell, is this: companies in the US are tending to put preference to one type of traffic over another, which could eventually extend to, say, Comcast making your connection to Barnes and Noble Booksellers’ website much faster than Amazon in exchange for payment from Barnes and Noble. This is a serious problem as it undermines the nature of the Internet.
What struck me most, however, is the anecdote that Berners-Lee leads off with. Keep in mind, high speed internet here in the US delivers about 4Mb/s. Compare: “In France, for example, I understand that the layers are separated, and my colleague in Paris attributes getting 24Mb/s net, a phone with free international dialing and digital TV for 30euros/month to the resulting competition.” At the current conversion rate, this is $37/month. Essentially, our internet here stanks.
This gun launches pink teddy bears - Don’t worry, the attached parachute opens at the apex of the bear’s flight, preventing any injury. Apparently this is for weddings.
Awesome cell phone attachment - Ok, it looks like a rotary phone receiver, with a curly cord and everything, but then it plugs into your cell phone. So basically, you are talking into a phone receiver with the cord running into your pocket.
Every once and a while, though far too often for it to be acceptable, I walk into the fourth floor elevator in the Owens Science Building on campus and punch the Floor 4 button. Then I hit it a couple more times and impatiently wonder why the door shut and the elevator is not moving.
Then I realize that, if I want to travel downwards, perhaps I should select a floor that is below the one I am on.
Americans Are Not Healthy - This study found that Americans are quite sick, when compared to other industrialized nations. Now, I was doubtful, but check out all the variables they statistically corrected for: “when you compare like groups in the US and the UK, people in the US are considerably sicker than their counterparts in the UK. This is after factors such as age, race, income, education and gender were taken into consideration. The most startling conclusion was that although the richest Americans were better off than the poorest Americans, they did no better (health-wise) than the poorest of the English.”
My Favorite Natalie Dee cartoon yet - The tree looks so sad.
Girlspeak to English Dictionary - Some of these aren’t the greatest, but there are some real gems in here.
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