85 thoughts on “July 25, 2016: There’s Electricity in the Air Tonight”

  3. Offer on the property was accepted. We're moving forward with making this place ours.

          1. Someday, maybe. The plan is to start with a few chickens, and if I don't kill them accidentally see about scaling up.

            1. When I saw this comment in the sidebar, I assumed it was in reference to having children.

      1. When we were talking leaving the viewing, the PR said "I want to raise my kids here." and I said "I saw our grandchildren visiting us here." Hopefully this can all be the case.

    6. That is significantly more house than dr. Chop and I are buying. Congrats. Good luck with the process, brother.

      1. It's listed at nearly 2,400 sqft and 1.5 acres, with a garage (background of that picture) a shed and a horse barn (which may become the chicken coop, I dunno)

            1. That's a great area. I spent a summer clerking in Buffalo and a good friend owned a place maybe 12 miles west of Maple Lake - spent quite a bit of time running around out there. Congratulations!

      1. I remember there was one on the wall, but I didn't pick it up to hear a dialtone.

    8. ♫"Movin to the country, gonna eat a lot of [corn]."♫
      Cool! Which general direction from Minneapolis?

      2. Just off of Hwy 55 in Wright County. About 40 miles northwest as the crow flies from Target Field.

          1. Pssh...Ard Ri MagUidhir

            I'm gonna get a crown and sit up here to survey my kingdom

            1. Nice. I lived in Buffalo for 6 years if you have questions. If you like Mexican, go to Rancho Grande. Still the best Mexican food I've ever had (though I don't travel much).

    10. Congrats, looks like a great place. I absolutely love the look of big porches like that and I always thought those kinds of properties were cool when we would run past them in HS cross country.

      We are just starting to look now in Seattle. We are going to wind up with a lot less house than you, but traffic out here makes a long commute a really ugly option. I did a search for 1-2 acres and 2,000-3,000 sq. ft. and came up with this result. Of course, I'm sure bS will come in here and tell me how much crazier it is down in the Bay area.

        1. Can you wrap your head around $427K for this? (Actually, it kind of makes sense since the median price in that area is $500K+, so the company that purchased can probably tear down, put in a nice structure, and get $600K+, especially if the second story does have a mountain view. Still pretty insane.

          1. I can wrap my ahead around that moreso. My MIL put her 1946 home on the market. It was in fine shape, but old, and there was a bit of a bidding war. She sold it in less than 3 days after 14 showings and 3 offers, including one for more than the asking price. She ultimately took the 2nd best offer as it was straight cash. This market is crazy.

      4. Thankfully, I do not live in the Bay Area or similarly insanely expensive market such as Seattle's or Portland's. But I would gladly visit ubes and help him drink some of Seattle's fine beer.

        1. And I would gladly drink that beer with you, even though I apparently consider all of northern California to basically be the same place. 🙂

    1. No kidding. Cashman did very well here. That's not to say it was a terrible move for the Cubs, but if Chapman is just a rental, that's an awfully steep price, even if they were dealing from a position of significant strength. It's not like their bullpen is Tigers-bad or anything. Strop and Wood have been good and Rondon has been amazing.

      My guess is that Maddon doesn't trust his pitchers (even Arietta now, who has looked human as of late) the third time through the order, and this well help him remove his starters after 5 with more confidence.

      1. Also, Joe Nathan with his first appearance in MLB this year for the Cubs yesterday. He got the win when the Cubs rallied in the half-inning after he pitched. He gave up a leadoff triple and a walk but struck out 3 to prevent any damage. Looks like his velocity topped out at 93.

        1. He gave up a leadoff triple

          Of course he did. Good ol' Joe, back to prime form. Obligatory!

    2. With only a few teams out of contention, there are a lot of buyers. Should bode well for the Twins if they decide to actually sell.

    1. Another way of looking at it is the Mississippi's headwaters stay where they are and the Minnesota River is instead elevated to its proper place.

    3. Duffield makes a case that the Minnesota River and the tiny town of Veblen, S.D., is the river’s geologic source.

      Ok, then. Name it after Thorstein Veblen, graduate of the Alma Mater!

    4. I haven't read this article, but I find this dubious but discussed it over post-church coffee on Sunday morning.
      The River above Ft. Snelling carries much more water and is a bigger river than the Minnesota. Imagine a situation where the Minnesota carried even less water but still flowed through an old glacial-river Valley.

        1. That makes some good sense, except there the Missouri flows into the other at a near-right angle. At Ft. Snelling, the two streams almost make a highway merge.
          Further, then wouldn't the state across said River from Louisiana have dibs at renaming itself? If the River that flows into the gulf is called Missouri or Minnesota, so should be the state of Biloxi.

          1. right angle?? Hardly. If that is the case, then the Mississippi flows into the Illinois River at a right angle just a few miles further up stream.

            The Missouri drains a larger area north of StL than the Mississippi, yet the Missouri wasn't fully explored while they Mississippi had been, so it was the de facto winner.

                1. yar. Compare the vectors summarizing the directions of the Mississippi (before and after it intersects with the Illinois) and Illinois Rivers over, say, a couple hundred miles, to the same for the Mississippi and Missouri. I think that was AMR's basic claim.

                  1. I was talking more about the last five miles, but I guess it's also true for the last hundred.
                    Really, I'd only consider putting any weight on this when the rivers are similarly sized.

            2. If you ignore the last quarter mile of merge-curve, it's a right angle.
              Illinois into the River is similar (and not the other way around, as you suggest), except the Illinois has a bigger bend about a mile before its right angle and is a much clearly the smaller tributary.

              I've lived on both rivers and no way the modern Minnesota is the one that's flowed into.

              I do not know how they decide that the Ohio flows into the Mississippi and not the other way around.

              1. from the Repository:

                At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (Ohio at Cairo: 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m3/s);[2] Mississippi at Thebes: 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m3/s)[3]) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.

                1. Think of all the radio station and TV stations that will have to change call letters!
                  Locally: WCCO.

            3. The word Mississippi itself comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River).[59][60] The Ojibwe called Lake Itasca Omashkoozo-zaaga'igan (Elk Lake) and the river flowing out of it Omashkoozo-ziibi (Elk River). After flowing into Lake Bemidji, the Ojibwe called the river Bemijigamaag-ziibi (River from the Traversing Lake). After flowing into Cass Lake, the name of the river changes to Gaa-miskwaawaakokaag-ziibi (Red Cedar River) and then out of Lake Winnibigoshish as Wiinibiigoonzhish-ziibi (Miserable Wretched Dirty Water River), Gichi-ziibi (Big River) after the confluence with the Leech Lake River, then finally as Misi-ziibi (Great River) after the confluence with the Crow Wing River.

              I could get behind renaming the Mississippi the "Miserable Wretched Dirty Water River."

              2. Hubbard, MN Fun Fact: In flag football the defense had to spell out Mississippi before we could rush over the scrimmage line.

    5. I wonder what strib commenters are like on that article. I'll print them out and possibly report.

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