Fulton MPLS Dad

What are you dumping today?

Doing some personal mayoral candidate research and I have a strong suspicion Jazz Hampton's Vision page on their website is AI/ChatGPT generated. HEAVY use of the em dash, consistently 3-4 bullet points for each platform, fairly generic goals. Thoughts?

I literally cannot imagine the lifelong trauma all the survivors have to live with. I have already had a couple conversations with my 7 year old who is starting school on Tuesday. He is sad and scared. Me too.

I so utterly devasted by the Annunciation tragedy. I just can't believe it. My kid's have a lot of overlap with those kids in our baseball league. The wound through the community is so large. I can only think about the 19 families in the neighborhood that are no longer whole.

K-Pop Demon Hunters has a chokehold on our household. 🎶We're going up up up 🎶

“America First Field” is a travesty

OH actually the worst is all of the Edina school signs in Minneapolis yards. Just move to Edina!!!

A "Blake Bear Lives Here!" 🤢

But now, you see all the various private school signs pop-up. This seems so uncouth to me! A not-so-subtle humblebrag. The worst is a house on the same street as our public school who has a lawn sign for a neighboring ("better") public school!

In our n'hood, lawn signs for the school your kid(s) attend are very popular. Am I wrong in assuming that this trend was started in a bid by public schools to boost the visibility to neighbors of the "acceptability" of the schools? As in, look at all your neighbors that trust the community school!

I currently work in user support for a pretty niche IT data product and it is truly eye-opening to see the types of support even very smart and educated people require. It is also astounding to see the entitlement of the same very smart and educated people

Dangerous Man THC drinks (which are fantastic and top-tier) are still available in stores all these months later post-closure. Are these all just left-overs from before they closed? Might explain why they closed, if so. Seems like a lot of product to still be stocked in stores 6 months later!

We live west of Xerxes, so not even remotely close to Bryant Ave, so either they were hapless, or that it was enough of a wedge issue that people would get riled about one bike lane miles away.

I spent some time thinking about this in 2023 elections. Kate Mortenson and her aides came to our NNO block party, and her aide shook my hand & the first "policy" topic he wanted me to know was how Kate was opposed to the Bryant Ave bike lane. Made me think they had some prior success on that angle

Every jar I've had from Mrs. Renfros has been bad. We got the nacho cheese sauce for a recipe and yuck, not good.

I used to live on 17th Ave S in Powderhorn. Our block maintained a circle and it was effort to coordinate and fundraise for the circle garden. They were trying to revive it so it was likely more effort than typical. If the couple who coordinated it moved, it is easy to imagine it going to weed.

I guess I understand the why but it makes me sad that these are now fully cement as opposed to circles of dirt for community-supported gardens. They replaced the ones near my house 2 years ago from just curb circles with dirt (and filled with flowers) to full cement discs.

We got Wusthof knives for a wedding present 10 years ago and haven't looked back. We use them daily and exclusively wash in the dishwasher and there isn't a sign of wear on them. Great knives

I think you can debate the relative cost-benefit of the lounges but damn if they aren’t really nice, convenient and relaxing. If you are planning on eating and drinking, then they are definitely worth it. My wife and I no longer drink so we dropped them but I rue it every time I’m the airport.

Dropping off AND picking my kid up from their summer camp just got more interesting

Yeah, we bought it used at about 40,000 miles and drove it for another 100,000. Other than very basic maintenance (oil change, brakes, tires) we did basically no work on it. All that deferred maintenance came due of course, but at that point we were ready to move on anyways.

We recently sold our '16 Ford Escape and the infotainment system was largely non-functional the entire time we owned it. The bluetooth stopped working after a year and the backup camera shorted a couple years later. Terrible software AND hardware. Same issue in my '14 Focus. Not bad cars otherwise

Minnesota’s are inspired by the Minnesota Kicks, the first pro team in MN in the 70s

That’s crazy. Minnesota is 🔥🔥🔥

I’m at the trombone shorty show. Incredible

A needed bike connection is between stadium village/Washington Ave and the transit way

@wedge.live summertime water temp check 🥵 (note I am on auxiliary water connection due to construction)

r/nfl is having a great discussion on the urbanism of NFL stadiums right now

Choosing to name your year round service after a date-bound holiday is certainly a choice

I am both annoyed and impressed at the (budget of the?) PR campaign for this roll out. I’ve seen YouTube ads, they are all over iHeart radio stations and I’ve seen a billboard. Wish other new policies could get that privilege