Secrets of the City

Oh, I love Gmaps pedometer, but now we all know exactly where you live. (stalk stalk stalk)

Is that a walking outing or biking? I remember I used to use it for biking and was always amazed at how far I’d gone. “Wow, I rode 25 miles today? That was FUN!” But then I realized I wasn’t really going very far but it just felt like it because I am lazy and out of shape.

It was a run, actually.

I’ve been loosely following the Smithers gmap-pedo routes for much of the summer:

• Minnetonka MN 50
• Rosemount MN 60
• Chaska MN 80
• Elk River MN 133

Though I can’t say I’ve always had luck finding those exact points sometimes. Luckily, I’m good at improvising, and I always ride in the afternoon, so I can always tell which way is west.

tmayhem: get yourself a road bike, or at least follow some of the better routes. You’ll waste much less energy on open county roads, and you can use either the Greenway/Cedar Lake trail loop to work your way out to those westerly points.

At the Virginia Av junction, head north to get a nice bike lane on Cedar Lake Road. At the 31st St junction in Hopkins, jog west for a few feet, then a block north to get to another bike lane, on Minnetonka Boulevard. Some roads I recommend out that way include McGinty Road, County 6 (a.k.a. “6th Ave N”, which appears in Wayzata one and two blocks north of 12th and 11th Ave, respectively). I don’t think you’re ready for what I know about the northwest exurbs, though

And I didn’t have that lazy and out of shape feeling… I had the “I think I might die before I make it back” feeling.

A site that works well with Gmaps Pedometer is Favorite Run, which imports the Gmap Pedometer data and lets you organize your routes by city. I have found several interesting bike routes by looking at the site. Over 90% of the routes are for running rather than biking (hence the name), but you will find enough bike routes as well.

The thought of running in the heat makes me want to crawl in my bed with my AC unit.

Do I just have a stick up my ass or is that state fair thing obnoxiously condescending??? If I were a high-school kid I would be offended.

You may have a stick up your ass, but you also are right. I wonder why young people don’t read the paper anymore…..

I am grateful for those who are willing to work the Fair. I don’t know that I could do it. I have a friend who 10 years later still avoids all contact with cheese curds. He moved out west where they have no such thing.

I am just fine with the kids who work at the fair – I merely wish to point out that the PPress article is demeaning toward the kids it ostensibly intends to recruit. Not every teenager is merely laying around on the couch dreaming of how to buy a new ipod.

Lame, I say, lame.

Rantirator- I think the context of my post was unclear. I was just stating that I am grateful for the fair workers. I wasn’t really responding to you, but I guess in a way I was agreeing with you because I feel those state fair workers deserve more respect than Billings offered.

Okay, got it.

*removes aforementioned stick*

Better now!

Speaking as an engineering, making donuts is not “mechanical engineering.”

I once had a friend who was a valet parker. He called himself an automotive placement engineer.

Hey, speaking as a scientist who works in the food industry, there is a lot of engineering that goes into making donuts at the industrial scale!

I think you mean, “Speaking as a scienteering.”

I think you mean, “Speaking as a scienteering.”

[spits all over screen] Ah ha ha!

*rimshot*

No rimshots in the cab please or I’ll have to ask you to get out.

Some Fair jobs are absolute stinking miserable hell. Anything that involves high-fructose corn syrup invariably attracts swarms of nasty yellowjackets, and you cant put anything in the trash without having to comb forty stupefied insects off your hand. If you work in the medium of grease, you come away feeling like youre covered in an inch of Vaseline. And how anyone can take more than 30 minutes of the poultry barn I have no idea; one hour would be enough to make you climb the Horticulture tower and start sniping at people sprawled on the food-court lawn.

Love the Fair, but glad I dont have to work there.

I would work at the fair if I got free rides on Ye Olde Mill for free.Man, that ride sucks in a way that’s just spectacular.

I think it is ironic that I did not even realize what a dry spell we were having until I left the city for the suburbs this weekend. My yard in Minneapolis is a shade of green (grass and crab grass and weeds and what not) and many of the parks and yards out there were pretty toasty brown.

Obviously, my strongsuit was not Englisheering.

Looks like Kevin Smith is going to be filming here in the winter!

No announcement on the title or plot.

Clerks 13.

Seriously, one-trick pony.

Oh noes, he’s gonna read this on the Interwebs and get angry and post it in his blog!

I just admire someone that came from working in a convenience store and made it big on ambition, talent and hard work.

Gives me hope that someday I won’t be a huge loser with nothing going for me.

Max – you should admire that a fat fuck like that has such a hot wife!

Sure, I admire him for his wife. But I dispise him for his wooden dialogue, infantile humor, and flat visual sense. He’s been making moviesfor, what, 15 on years now? It’s timefr him to stop framing a shot like he still works in a convenience store.

msparber has a hot chick too!

Well its only been 10 years since clerks was made.

Why don’t you make your own movie Max? Be a star that can have sex with woman in uncomfortable places.

If Smith would create a new character, “Silent Steve Marsh,” I’d pay to see that…

Hey, man, I make plenty of movies.

I meant a movie that people would pay to see.

Oh. In that case, I give you Timeless.

(Click the (more) under “Writing Credits” for a little surprise.)

I wouldn’t pay to see “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.” Although, deep down inside, I feel I have.

Max’s IMDB bio is too suspiciously detailed to be penned by “Anonymous”…

I think I saw Tom Lyden at the Uptown Y.

Hee. And yet I managed to get my own birthday wrong. Was it 1968 or 1969. Even I don’t know!