Category: Opinion

3:33pm
Saint Paul Minn

Last we chatted, I told you my son and I had camped out in the back yard.

Here’s the sequel.

So, because “income,” I spent Friday working.

Which means the tent didn’t come down.

Which gave my son Sam a reason to bug me to sleep a second night in the tent.

He was relentless, and so I relented.

Come Friday night, we followed the same routine:

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10:51am
Saint Paul

Skreeeeek!

“That’s a howler monkey,” I said.

“Dad.”

Last night, my son and I pitched a tent and camped in the backyard.

“And that growl? I think that’s a wolf.”

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12:17pm
Minneapolis, Minnesota

She slams down my Big Mac with more anger than most cashiers.

“Nobody has spoken that language in thousands of years,” she says.

My eyes pop. I didn’t think this was possible. Not anymore. Not in 2023.

The cashier follows me to my booth.

“How did you do that.”

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2:44pm Thursday
Saint Paul

Yesterday I wrote about the muffled radio I could hear at midnight…

which was no where to be found.

I was telling my kids about it. My wife chimed in:

“Oh, I heard it too!”

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3:!7pm
Saint Paul

I slept in today.

Just a little, like 15 minutes past my usual.

Because I was up late, hearing voices and music in my house like a muffled radio somewhere.

It wasn’t coming from the basement bathroom radio.

It wasn’t coming from the living room hi-fi.

It wasn’t coming from outside.

In fact, I couldn’t find it anywhere.

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2:05pm
Saint Paul

In a Newsweek article from 1995, computer engineer Clifford Stoll predicted the Internet would be dead within a year.

Boy was he wrong!

Stoll couldn’t foresee the tech advancements that have since transformed… well, everything.

But Stoll did get this part right:

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