16. December, 2002 - Monday funnies
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Walking home after dropping my car off at the shop yesterday, I thought about my neighborhood. When I first moved down to Minneapolis to go to the U, my apartment was just across the railroad tracks from the Bunge Grain Elevator. I was often hitch-hiking to and from Minneapolis, and getting back to town on a Sunday afternoon or evening often meant getting dropped in a part of town I wasn't familiar with, on a day when the buses don't run very frequently (if at all). So my usual plan for getting home was to look for downtown, and aim a bit to the northeast of it. And then look for the Bunge and I'm home.
Nowadays, I'm usually driving, which puts me on 35W. And when I'm giving people directions to my house, I tell them the exit, and then say it's right next to that tall steeple you can see from the freeway
which usually gets a reply like Oh yeah, I know where that is.
No real point to this rambling, except that I was thinking a little about how I navigate around town, and how it's changed over the years. And there's a couple pictures that needed some text to explain them.
- Odor eliminator can make lutefisk dish a surprise. See, people won't be able to smell you cooking the lutefisk and won't have a chance to run away. [strib]
- The Minnesota Daily has their satirical finals issue out. It looks like an okay effort. There's a few real good stories, and more that don't quite hit the mark.
- GI Janes flaunt their sports bras to prove they're women before searching Afghan women (people were protesting about male soldiers searching women until it was pointed out that "those aren't guys". Why do I suspect that female soldiers in sports bras doesn't make the religious leaders any more happy? [fark!]
- Don't like that holiday drink? Check out the No Nog Weblog. [davezilla]
- Dave Barry's annual holiday gift guide, in case you're still wondering what to get that hard-to-shop-for relative. [fark!]
- Get those cards out! Today will be busiest day at post office, because it's the last chance to get things mailed to be sure they arrive by Christmas. [strib]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:44:38.
