Random Learnings #5
Most City offices are in buildings tightly packed on awkwardly shaped sites and even modern builds make use of mirrors to increase the daylight on lower floors. Holden, C.H. and…
Amsterdam By Ferry
After I spoke at a tech conference in London, my wife and I took Eurostar to Amsterdam for vacation: Keukenhof, the Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum, an open-boat canal tour,…
Pre-Internet Foreign Travel
In the mid-1990s, I went on a personal Austrian-Hungarian Empire Tour: fly into Munich, pick up a rental car, and drive south towards Austria. In those embryonic days of the…
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
On a surprisingly-comfortable June Sunday - 68°F/20°C, sunny, slight breeze, not a cloud in sight - my wife and I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to spend the afternoon walking…
The Joy of Suica
Pre-pandemic I knew I mostly paid with credit or debit cards, less and less with cash. And I'm not the only one: cash transactions in the US have decreased from…
Go Hawks!
University of Iowa Tiger Hawk Though I've lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota for 35 years, I grew up in rural Iowa, attended the University of Iowa, drummed in the Hawkeye…