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It’s 1773.
I spied the tea party today in Duluth. Actual tea was put into the harbor, loose and packet form. My question is: What public employee is gonna clean it up without people paying taxes anymore? I’d post a few pics but I’m not finding the upload button. Help?
Get yer Geek On!
Geek Prom is only three days away!
Are you feeling appropriately geeky/nerdy/dorky?
- 56 Geeks – how many flavors of geek are you?
- Dork Yearbook – vintage geeky photos celebrating the truly dorky among us
- The Geek Code – only those who know the secret can see how geeky you truly are
- Geek Monthly – show your mailman just how nerdy you are ($6.00 off with code “2da3”)
- Geek Test – do you even qualify to be a geek?
- Nerd Merit Badges– super nerdy badges to proudly display your geekiness
- Pathetic Geek Stories – real life geek humiliation in comic form
- Think Geek – where to spend all of your geeky dollars
- xkcd – these stick figures know all about math and geeky subculture
A Small Request
Can we all please STOP referring to this place as “Carmody’s”? The name of the bar is Carmody. Singular. Or, alternatively, Carmody Irish Pub.
It does not belong to a person named Carmody. Look at the sign. There is no apostrophe. There is no “S.”
Carmody. Plain and simple.
Anything else sounds, well, kind of stupid.
Comments edited/deleted
Since when, and why, do those posting on PDD have the ability to modify and/or delete comments that are not remotely offensive, inaccurate, etc.?
Yet another loss for the community
The DNT Attic is closed
https://www.areavoices.com/attic/?blog=48032
I don’t know about you all, but this is something that I came to really enjoy. I looked forward to new posts about old things all the time. I learned more about Duluth’s history through this blog than I ever did in school or by talking with the “old timers.”
Andrew was laid off on Friday. Very sad.
Sci Fi Spelling Bee
On April 18 I’m going to be hosting the first ever Sci Fi Spelling Bee at the Geek Prom and I need your help. I’m looking for words, terms, people and place names, and so on that are native to some science fiction franchise for use in the bee.
Please give me the following information for your entry.
Word (eg – phaser, Kashyyyk, frak)
Origin (what franchise) (eg – Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica)
Usage (eg – “Set your phaser to stun!” “Chewbacca went back to Kashyyyk.” “What the frak are you talking about?”)
If possible also give me some Documentation (a web link would be good) supporting your entry.
Also, these words don’t have to be hard. They can be fairly simple or intermediate words. They just have to be sci fi words.
So that we don’t spill the beans on all the words for the contestants, please don’t put them in the comments, but send them to me at scifibee@ironic1.com.
Thanks for your help! This should be fun!
First Hubcap of the Year
I live on 24th Avenue West, which gets a lot of traffic. Every year I find a few of these by the side of the street. Any suggestions on good uses for stray hubcaps?
The ol’ Switcheroo
Perfect Duluth Day moved to a different server today. Let us know if you notice any glitches.
Sorry about all the down time this week. Let’s hope that’s all behind us.
Please be seated. Your server will be with you in about five hours.
Surely some of you noticed PDD was down for several hours today. It was the fifth time we’ve had problems with our server in the past two months, so naturally we’ll be taking our business elsewhere very soon.
We hope you won’t take your blogging elsewhere while these difficulties are sorted out.
PDD on KUWS
Listen to Final Edition this Friday, March 13 to hear a discussion with Mike Simonson about the current state of blogging and journalism.
Guests:
Barrett Chase of Perfect Duluth Day (that’s me!)
Beth Jett of Fox 21 (their website launched today)
Aaron Brown of Minnesota Brown (who also teaches journalism at Hibbing Community College)
When/Where:
KUWS 91.3 FM
Friday, March 13
5pm
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In the shower this morning I was thinking about how the digital lifestyle is taking over my old analog self. I rarely play LP’s or CD’s anymore, Pandora and Podcasts are replacing radio, I read books on my iPhone, get recipes online and communicate with Facebook and Twitter. Many of these tools replace things I used to spend money on which is good for me but I wonder where this will all lead? Papers are going under, bands can’t sell nearly as many CD’s and I’m sure Publishers will see a loss in sales of books now that they are going digital.
I’m not sure what my point is but I am curious how others have adapted/adopted to the digital lifestyle. Is digital good for the human race?
Sorry for PDD down time!
We are having some issues with our hosting provider and we are working on the issues. We may be moving to a new provider in the near future to insure more stability, better performance and hopefully leave me with a little hair. Thanks 🙂
Attn Duluth Bloggers
…and other folks creatively using e-technologies.
The Blandin Foundation and E-Democracy.Org are bringing an “unconference” to Duluth, April 3-4, 2009.
The unconference is supported through an online discussion for people using new media technologies to build community across Greater Minnesota.
Learn more and join from https://e-democracy.org/mnvoices
Party Like It’s 1234567890!
At 5:23:30 pm today (about 6 hours from now), the Unix time will be “1234567890” (Epoch Time). Geeky Sweet!
What the heck is Unix Time?
When can I raise a toast to the Unix clock?
Why I still love the DNT
From today’s Swap Shop:
SWAP: My knowledge and advice for oral Yiddish lessons. Kurt 218-xxx-xxxx Posted: 02/05/2009
SWAP: Briggs & Stratton push lawn mower. Will trade for 20 lbs of ham. 218-xxx-xxxx. Posted: 02/03/2009
Things are tidying up nicely around here
If you haven’t visited Perfect Duluth Day all weekend, you must be just noticing that the site has changed. It looks different and it works different. Here are the basic things you need to know:
- The comments work the same as they did before, except they upload faster.
- PDD is using a new publishing platform, WordPress, so creating posts is a little different now. It also requires registering for a new account to log in. All accounts from the old site are closed.
If you are confused, see the help page. We’re working on adding more topics to it, so please be patient.
The only glitch so far, that we’re aware of, is that the archives from the old site are a little messed up. We’ll keep working on that. Let us know if you see anything else haywire.
Thank you for your patronage. Go blog yourself.
Congratulations, you’re a virgin again
Attention PDD Bloggers:
Because of the switch to WordPress, you can no longer log in with your old account to create posts. You have to register for a new account. (more…)