1. 27 April 2006

    986 days ago

    Minneapolis South High School

    Find the darndest stuff surfing wikipedia. Here’s where I went to High School.

    Kjell Olsen986 days ago

  2. 13 December 2005

    1121 days ago

    Bike Commuter

    I’ve yet to own a car (I’m just 18). Yet I don’t plan on getting one anytime soon. I’ll admit to bumming rides, taking the bus every once in awhile, even driving my parents cars. but this spring I’d like to think I made the leap to bike commuting for a long time to come.

    As I ride down the old railroad corridor of the Cedar Lake bike path, dodging killdeer and jackrabbits, I often glance up at the I-394 overpass and see gridlocked cars coming in from the western suburbs. Honking, squeeling brakes, a slight hanging smog. I can feel the road rage in the air. I have to say, I sometimes laugh out a loud, a little wickedly. During rush hour, I can get to work about ten minutes faster on my bike—without ever losing my temper. Hans Eisenbeis

    And mpls has the most bicycle commuters in the country? Despite it’s winters?

    via Kjell Olsen1121 days ago

  3. 02 November 2005

    1162 days ago

    Students start walkout to protest war, recruiting

    Spring 2003 I did this – there were all kinds of kids. We drove to the U, about five minutes away, where there were teach in’s leading up to a march to the capitol.

    At Minneapolis South, about 100 students walked out.

    I still have a little bit of high school pride. As an aside, the soccer team did a game better then we did last year, losing in the semifinals of the state tourney. I wasn’t there, but it sounds like just as gut wrenching a game as the one we lost last year:

    And it did, spinning over the head of Minneapolis South goalkeeper John Moening and into the top of the net with only one second remaining in the first overtime, lifting the Royals to the Class 2A boys’ soccer title game with a dramatic 2-1 victory Tuesday.

    Woodbury won with one second left in the first overtime, on a desperate crack from 30 yards out. Last year we went down with maybe 4 minutes, and just about scored twice in before the whistle, but we just couldn’t quite manage.

    via Kjell Olsen1162 days ago

  4. 01 November 2005

    1163 days ago

    The Hold Steady, live in the 89.3 the Current studio

    Nice recording, the Hold Steady are quick getting to be one of my favorites.

    via Kjell Olsen1163 days ago

  5. 31 October 2005

    1164 days ago

    Want to Write a Best-Seller? Move to Minneapolis-St. Paul

    Mpls rocks.

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  6. 14 April 2005

    1364 days ago

    The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Architecture Review | Walker Art Center: An Expansion Gives New Life to an Old Box

    I’ve been walking the new Walker expansion grow for the last year or so, and it’s going to rock when it does open. I’ve always loved the museum1, and can’t wait for the reopening. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the architects behind the new space, seem to kick some real ass in designing a new venue for the coolest modern art museum I’ve ever been too.

    But the Walker’s new tower is clad in a pattern of gray aluminum panels that fade into the dull Minneapolis skyline rather than engage the eye, a minor but unfortunate blemish on an otherwise enchanting design.

    I disagree – I really like the aluminum panels. They shine – but not quite as much as stainless steel, and have wavy embossments in them which don’t fade into the skyline at all. Not what I would call a blemish, but tomato… But I guess it could have been even better:

    The final version [...] is far less hypnotic, especially from a distance, where the intricately worked surfaces are barely visible.

    1 googling for my name comes up with this, the webpage for something I did in fifth or sixth grade with the walker through my school. I’ve been ignoring it out of embarrassment for the last few years, but look at how kick-ass I am! But if I had know in advance this was all getting put on the internet I might have tried a little harder.

    via Kjell Olsen1364 days ago

  7. 15 February 2005

    1422 days ago

    Top Tech City: Minneapolis, MN - Popular Science

    Minneapolis rocks. Now if we could just get some decent public transit…

    More than a year ago, a crack team of editors and researchers here at Popular Science launched an exhaustive effort to find out. We input reams of data from dozens of private and government sources, tabulated our results, and came up with … Minneapolis.

    “I would have guessed Silicon Valley,” he [a coffee jock] says. “But I guess I’m not that surprised. Minneapolis is a progressive place, always looking at what’s next. It’s just not in our nature to brag about it.”

    via Kjell Olsen1422 days ago

  8. 31 January 2005

    1438 days ago

    2004 Police Auction Schedule

    I want a new bike this spring, and the minneapolis police auctions look like the place to get one. April 15, I’m gonna put it on my calendar.

    Kjell Olsen1438 days ago

  9. 22 January 2005

    1446 days ago

    CNN.com - Northeast bracing for winter wallop - Jan 22, 2005

    This storm hit us all day yesterday and last night, and god does it feel good to have winter again! I think we got a little over a foot of snow, I shoveled out the whole driveway last night, then coming back from a friends another friends car got stuck! Winter! Yes!

    via Kjell Olsen1446 days ago

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