Snow forces Minneapolis to consider extended parking ban
St. Paul, Minn. — Parking restrictions in Minneapolis might stick around until April — unless warmer temperatures melt enough of the snow piled on city streets.
City officials said Tuesday they’ll decide in the next 24 hours whether to ban parking on the even-numbered sides of all streets that aren’t snow emergency routes. The winter parking rules would make it possible for firetrucks to fit through every street in the city.
Good luck to all those who have to park on the street, I feel terrible for you if this happens.
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The site activates your webcam automatically; when you click “start” you’re suddenly staring at another human on your screen and they’re staring back at you, at which point you can either choose to chat (via text or voice) or just click “next,” instantly calling up someone else. The result is surreal on many levels. Early ChatRoulette users traded anecdotes on comment boards with the eerie intensity of shipwreck survivors, both excited and freaked out by what they’d seen. There was a man who wore a deer head and opened every conversation with “What up DOE!?” A guy from Sweden was reportedly speed-drawing strangers’ portraits. Someone with a guitar was improvising songs for anyone who’d give him a topic. One man popped up on people’s screens in the act of fornicating with a head of lettuce. Others dressed like ninjas, tried to persuade women to expose themselves, and played spontaneous transcontinental games of Connect Four. Occasionally, people even made nonvirtual connections: One punk-music blogger met a group of people from Michigan who ended up driving eleven hours to crash at his house for a concert in New York. And then, of course, fairly often, there was this kind of thing: “I saw some hot chicks then all of a sudden there was a man with a glass in his butthole.” I sing the body electronic.
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New York Magazine on the new phenomenon that is ChatRoulette
I haven’t personally tried this yet, but it sounds ridiculous. I have no desire to check it out, well maybe there is a little intrigue. Please report back with stories.
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This is fun.
Rex The Dog ‘Bubblicious’ (via Marieaunet)
I don’t even live in New York and this makes me happy. More cities need to do things like this. My first thought for Minneapolis is Nicollet Mall downtown but I’m sure there are better options. If you could shut any stretch of road off in Minneapolis and/or St. Paul, which would it be?
mightyflynn:
“The only thing I know about the dark is you can’t see in it.” - Roy Hobbs
(screen cap via herbynow)
that might be the best quote ever.
Then there’s this…and we wait.
