Secrets of the City

Favre is done.

The Strib avoided reporting or even speculating on how the man robbed the parking meters. Inquiring minds want to know…how do you rip off parking meters?

Didn’t you ever see “Cool Hand Luke.” g rote?

PS: I can eat 50 eggs.

Nobody can eat 50 eggs.

First you get a job with the city to emptying the meters.

I can eat fifty eggs.

Hard-boiled.

bob, what we’ve got here is….failure to communicate.

yes…that’s a great anti-hero empathy-building scene. but I doubt that our man was cutting their heads off…I’m guessing it was more of a lock picking deal.

Oooh, I watch the guy empty meters at the MGM when I wait for the bus in the morning. He pulls a tube thing out of the meter and puts it into an opening in a locked cart, which I presume sucks the coin out. I think you’d have to swipe the money when you open the locked cart. One one think the meters have a way to report how much money gets deposited into each one, making it much harder to swipe.

Scientists build a big machine in a deep, dark Minnesota hole

Is the Strib getting an atomic collider? Once again, I refuse to RTFA.

the dude should have just used coinstar at the rainbow, changing in small batches at a time! sure, he’d lose 8 cents on the dollar, but man! he’d be in a much better position right now.

minnesota is nowhere near important enough to get a particle acceleratoro. Besides, with the LHC set to open in France/Switzerland soon, it would be ridiculously expensive to build anything that could keep up. Plus Fermilab and CERN already have all the top experts, so I don’t know who would build or staff something like that here.

No, it’s just a detector buried deep in a mineshaft that didn’t turn up any useful results.

They’ve had that machine for years, haven’t they? Isn’t the actual news that the project is moving to Canada? Sort of the exact opposite of what the headline says?

No results is still useful data.

touche, teucer.

but yes, they’re actually tearing it out and shutting it down, contrary to the headline.

The only super collider Minnesota will ever get is Olga Franco.

Cute WCCO story, but man was that horribly written. I could barely follow it, what with the changing tenses and whatnot.

One of the dangers of adapting a TV story for the web, without starting from scratch, Colleen.

No wonder it’s been so slow on MNSpeak this week. All the geeks are in mourning.

Xcel Center Shake-n-Bake: “The RNC is going green, an I halped…”

We are part of a task force helping the city and the RNC with this. Our colleagues in Denver are doing the same with the donkeys, I believe.