Had a nice lunch with BFF Rick this afternoon, downtown MPLS (“Loon cafe” – just “ok” food for me, though Rick says his food was great). It was great getting together since today is an absolutely gorgeous day, and we decided to go for a walk around Lake Calhoun – just a real nice, fabulous […]
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The “Twitch” app and Bob Ross!
Bob Ross! Read something recently about a thing called “twitch” (which is now a part of Amazon). Apparently it’s an iPad/iPhone app, and it streams “stuff”. The thing that caught my attention is that they are now streaming a marathon of Bob Ross painting shows…ALL ~380 of them. The “twitch” app is free, and the […]
Racial discrimination during jury selection
Racial discrimination during jury selection (opens in a new window) Racial discrimination during jury selection – by prosecutors. In this day and age?? By definition, a jury is impartial, and here we have officers of the court creating non-impartial juries. Why not do a “blind audition” similar to what orchestras do when auditioning musician candidates […]
Lailah texting me
Earlier this evening I received a text from the little girl, asking if she could babysit me tomorrow – I love getting texts like this one – of course I said “Yes!”. [twice now, two weeks in a row] She. Is. The. Best. GranPaBrian-Sitter.
Middle of my final semester at Saint Thomas
It’s now the middle of my final semester. Just six more class sessions to go, then the final exam – there is no mid-term exam. i was just looking at my “grade history”, and noticed two different and distinct patterns: It seems I always receive “A”s in my Fall semesters, and “B”s in my Spring […]
Marlboro Brand now being used for marijuana cigarettes
“Branding” of Marijuana Cigarettes (opens in a new window) Way, way back when I was a clueless 6th grader (around 1970/71), I read a ‘science fiction’ short story/book). It was about a group of people (“hippies”) living during “caveman” times, and they were talking about the invention of various things, one example being “art”, with […]
Sad story in newspaper today
Sad story follows, sorry. I was in line today at the grocery store, and it was taking a bit longer than usual, so I picked up the nearby newspaper from the rack, and was glancing at the front page news. Saw the sad headline of a 24 yr old mom (in STP), coming home after […]
Re-Reading “The Girl…Dragon Tattoo”, part 2
Hmm, an update to my Stieg Larsson (“The girl with the dragon tattoo”) book reading. If you remember, I had already read the first two books around 4-5 yrs ago. Got a bit burned out after reading them back to back, and never went back to the final book of the trilogy. This was where […]
