Jamie Thingelstad

Uh oh, I think I just bricked my BlackBerry

Yep, BlackBerry is bricked. Have to send it in. Ugh.

Pleading that the seat next to me remains unoccupied.

Flying Rule #754: Don’t leave your stupid bag 6" outside the overhead!

Flying Rule #755: Don’t open the closed bins!

Viewing a PowerPoint presentation that would make Edward Tufte scream.

iPhone software update failed, restoring iPhone firmware to attempt again. Biting nails.

iPhone breathing again with 1.1.1. Phew…

Feeling like the guy that dissolves in the storm of papers in the movie Brazil.

Starting to question if I will EVER be able to transfer 100 gig of data up to Amazon S3.

A little over a week ago Tammy and I went with some friends to see Electric Arc Radio. You may have heard about this group of writers under their other (or previous?) name, the Lit6 Project. The show is hard to describe, this excerpt from their website sets the stage well:

Imagine this: four writers living together in a little house on a city street, with Alan Greenspan (yeah, that Alan Greenspan) holed up in a back-yard treehouse and a punk poet next door. Greenspan plays the clarinet, badly, the poet steps up on occasion to lay down a few soft words about life, living and the pursuit of whatever, and the writers invite a band to stay with them as they all scramble around each other’s egos.

The performance was really cool and very fresh. There were a lot of laughs. Tammy was head over heels for it and can’t wait to go back. It’s a bit quirky, entirely in a good way.

There is another show this coming weekend, Sept. 29th. Go check it out! I think you’ll enjoy it! That’s really the only point of this article, to try to raise awareness of this cool thing going on in our city.

Tammy and I got to be one of the 4,500 participants in the very first Minneapolis Bike Tour a couple of weekends ago. I road with my Ironman Brother-in-law. We road the short route and Tammy and her sister rode the longer route.

This was a really great ride. It seems like it’s Minneapolis’s answer to the St. Paul Classic. I’m really glad they started doing this and even more glad it was so popular. I’m looking forward to riding it again next year. If you enjoy the bike, make a point to do this ride in 2008.