Good Morning Minnesota!
On Tuesday, Good Morning America visited my great home state of Minnesota. They had fun…yes, THERE’S FUN TO BE HAD IN MINNESOTA!!
Some random facts about Minnesota:
Prince, a.k.a. The artist formerly known as the symbol no one can find on their keyboard, and Five Finger Discount Shopping Mall Princess Winona Ryder, are from Minnesota.
So is General Mills, the company that brings you Green Giant, Yoplait, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Bisquick products, and just about every cereal you like.
So are staplers and staples, roller blades, water skis, Hormel and Spam Food products, Pearson’s Candy Company (maker of the famous MoonPies, Nut Goodie and Salted Nut Roll) and many, many other fabu things they don’t tell you in geography class. So there. Come visit us next time you figure out you don’t have enough money to go to Tahiti ’cause you spent all your dough on online porn.
Best times to visit:
Love spring, tulips, gardens, lots of green things, and cool days? (go in late May-early June)
Love crisp, cool autumn days, lots of colorful trees? Go in early-to-mid October, peak color time depends on where in Minnesota you go.
Like winter sports, lots of snow, romantic cold evenings in front of the fire? Go in mid-winter (Late Jan-early Feb)
Like it so fucking hot that the only thing you have to do to make beads of sweat spring out on your forehead is just poke your head out the window? Like to stand in line for hours on end at silly ride parks on such hot, sunny days? I’m talking 100 degrees? Then come in July or August. Be damned sure your lodging facility has air conditioning.
Things to avoid:
The Mall (brawl, sprawl, maul) of America
The airport (hard to avoid that, haha)
Either of the downtowns – Minneapolis or St. Paul (just between 6:30-9:00am, 3:30-5:30pm, any other times are fine).
If you like road trips mainly because you want scenery, I highly recommend visiting this page to find your best route. However, if you like road trips that involve stuffing you and all your buddies, your bong and your old rock-n-roll cassette tapes into a hatchback and getting truly lost, I recommend traveling through this state.
The Explore Minnesota web site has a calendar of events to partake in, and even a trip planner program to help you best take advantage of all the great things our state has to offer.
Everybody Deep Link Tonight
According to the company that represents The Dallas Morning News website, deep linking allows web surfers to miss the advertising placed on its home page. Aww, too bad, huh?
In case you didn’t already know, BarkingDog.org’s site has been issued a Cease and Desist letter by the parent company of Dallas News (Belo) for linking directly to an article rather than sending the browser to the main home page first. How many of us MeFi’ers and bloggers out there have um…already done this, a million times over, with other such news sites? How about almost all of us? So far, the U.S. District Courts have ruled such linking to not be illegal, as long as the source of the article is clearly identified. Of course it’s not the first time that companies have tried to sue against deep linking, an article at Wired points out.
Let’s all deep link our arses off, to The Dallas Morning News, because how likely is it that the Belo lawyers are going to fire off letters to each of us? Of course this issue has already been talked to near-death by my pals at MeFi, but this is just my stance on the whole thing. [courtesy of Dot Blog
Caution: Weblog Reviews Not Meant For Euphorians Or The Faint Of Heart
This bastard had the cajones to sit there at his lameass ‘Plastic Electric’ blog and call me a bad reviewer and said, here, let me take a stab at reviewing! I bet I could do a better job than you. He couldn’t hang. Just as I guessed would happen, eventually, he quit. Sucka! Meanwhile, I’m on #6 and still going strong. PS – What the fuck is Plastic Electric, anyway? Some kind of gay ass way of calling yourself a libertarian?
Same day, different year..
Other posts on this day:
- Nothing makes me happier – 2006