After describing the amazing Pedal Pub to everybody, I decided to make cycles (in their many forms) be the next tangent for the foreseeable future (just to clarify, I do not mean unforeseeable, because I do know how many posts this tangent will contain).
I know most of you were thinking after the last post (feel free to tell me what happens when somebody assumes), that gigantic quadracycle looked amazing, but how would that be a practical way to traverse the city, especially since you need 8-10 people to power it. This is correct, unless all my friends move to Minnesota, then we will always have an abundant supply of leg power. Well, do I have a solution for you.
Bicycles. 2 wheels instead of 4. What a simple fix. Sure, each of your cities has bikes and many of you (hopefully) own a bike. I'm so glad for you, what a great accomplishment for your city (spoken in the tone when you demean somebody by saying "that's cute").
I did a little research (known as hanging out with friends and hearing typical conversations in this lovely state) and found out that Minneapolis is now considered the best bike city in America. Take that Portland. I don't know if "America" is supposed to be only the United States of America or the entire Americas. I am hoping for the entire New World.
Do you want to travel on the Greenway through the heart of the city?
Maybe you want to bike along the Mississippi for a beautiful nature ride.
Perhaps you want to bike through the streets on the many friendly bike lanes.
What number 1 green transportation ranking does your rusty chain, can't get out of 1st gear city have to offer?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Pedal Pub
It seems my posts may be a little too beer related lately. But what can you expect from a home brewer (look at me act like an expert after brewing just one delicious batch of beer)?
Recently I was invited to celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday. The plan was to ride on a gigantic quadracycle and drink beer for a few hours. Drink beer in the streets? What? In traffic? On a quadracycle (I didn't even know that was a real term)? Something didn't seem right/legal about this.
Let me introduce you to the Pedal Pub centered in wonderful Minneapolis, MN (you know, one of those cities in the state of Minnesota that I want you to move to). Don't worry, the person driving does not drink, you are just the human power of the operation.
Have you ever thought to yourself, I wish I could spend time with my friends getting exercise while we drink beer, rather than putting on millions of micrograms in each sitting? You have the opportunity here in Minnesota!
Have you ever though to yourself, I wish I could reinvent the idea of a pub crawl since it is so outdated and overdone? You have the opportunity here in Minnesota!
Have you ever thought to yourself, I wish I could join my friends and family and pedal a quadracycle through a beautiful city (with multiple routes, including custom routes), eat some snacks, drink some beer, laugh, wave to people on the street, and brag to my friends who don't live by me that I got to do all of the above on a sunny weekend? You have the opportunity here in Minnesota!
There are a some rules, which I think are important and make me enjoy it even more.
1. No yelling at people on the street.
2. Definitely don't yell at or act/speak lewd/inappropriate to children.
3. Don't get drunk and unruly.
4. Probably some others that mean the same thing as, don't be an idiot or jerk.
Do you not drink beer or alcohol? That is fine. You can take the trip with Root Beer and I imagine other non alcoholic drinks. We don't stop people from having a fun time with their friends on a quadracycle throughout a city in Minnesota based on their drink choice like your city most likely does.
What kind of get off your lazy butt (or sitting on your butt and burning calories by pedaling) drinking activities does your sluggish and repetitive drinking games city have to offer.
Recently I was invited to celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday. The plan was to ride on a gigantic quadracycle and drink beer for a few hours. Drink beer in the streets? What? In traffic? On a quadracycle (I didn't even know that was a real term)? Something didn't seem right/legal about this.
Let me introduce you to the Pedal Pub centered in wonderful Minneapolis, MN (you know, one of those cities in the state of Minnesota that I want you to move to). Don't worry, the person driving does not drink, you are just the human power of the operation.
Have you ever thought to yourself, I wish I could spend time with my friends getting exercise while we drink beer, rather than putting on millions of micrograms in each sitting? You have the opportunity here in Minnesota!
Have you ever though to yourself, I wish I could reinvent the idea of a pub crawl since it is so outdated and overdone? You have the opportunity here in Minnesota!
Have you ever thought to yourself, I wish I could join my friends and family and pedal a quadracycle through a beautiful city (with multiple routes, including custom routes), eat some snacks, drink some beer, laugh, wave to people on the street, and brag to my friends who don't live by me that I got to do all of the above on a sunny weekend? You have the opportunity here in Minnesota!
There are a some rules, which I think are important and make me enjoy it even more.
1. No yelling at people on the street.
2. Definitely don't yell at or act/speak lewd/inappropriate to children.
3. Don't get drunk and unruly.
4. Probably some others that mean the same thing as, don't be an idiot or jerk.
Do you not drink beer or alcohol? That is fine. You can take the trip with Root Beer and I imagine other non alcoholic drinks. We don't stop people from having a fun time with their friends on a quadracycle throughout a city in Minnesota based on their drink choice like your city most likely does.
What kind of get off your lazy butt (or sitting on your butt and burning calories by pedaling) drinking activities does your sluggish and repetitive drinking games city have to offer.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Competition
Before I get back to informing everybody of all the wonderful Minnesota activities/attractions/life changing locations, I feel I need to make a challenge to at least one individual (the challenge will be open to all).
A few days ago, I talked with a friend from Indianapolis, Indiana, whom I met at my current job and used to live in Minnesota and moved back to Indiana over 2 years ago. This friend has curly hair and has a last name that is 6 letters long. He/She also has a dog named Sada. This friend will remain nameless. My friend mentioned making his/her own blog about why Indianapolis is cool.
Well, I haven't seen this blog yet. It looks like there is no competition between Minnesota and any other place.
I guess to make this a reason why you should move to Minnesota I could say "Minnesota is the only place that has a blog dedicated to getting friends to move to Minnesota."
Minnesota is the only place that has a blog dedicated to getting friends to move to Minnesota
What super, awesome, extraordinary, rad, fantastic, totally harsh blog does your unsuper, unawesome, unextraordinary, unrad, unfantastic, untotally harsh city have to offer?
A few days ago, I talked with a friend from Indianapolis, Indiana, whom I met at my current job and used to live in Minnesota and moved back to Indiana over 2 years ago. This friend has curly hair and has a last name that is 6 letters long. He/She also has a dog named Sada. This friend will remain nameless. My friend mentioned making his/her own blog about why Indianapolis is cool.
Well, I haven't seen this blog yet. It looks like there is no competition between Minnesota and any other place.
I guess to make this a reason why you should move to Minnesota I could say "Minnesota is the only place that has a blog dedicated to getting friends to move to Minnesota."
Minnesota is the only place that has a blog dedicated to getting friends to move to Minnesota
What super, awesome, extraordinary, rad, fantastic, totally harsh blog does your unsuper, unawesome, unextraordinary, unrad, unfantastic, untotally harsh city have to offer?
Monday, July 12, 2010
Victory?
After starting this blog I was trying to figure out what a victory would be. Do I have to get my friends to move to Minnesota, just like the blog title says, in order to claim a victory? What if one of my friends moved from Michigan to Wisconsin? Is that a victory, a partial victory, simply unfortunate since they didn't complete their transfer?
Well, you can call today's news a victory or whatever else you wish (however, if you don't call it some sort of victory, I will declare you are wrong). Roy and Jenny, who were living in Hong Kong, have plans to move back to Seattle, Washington. Sure they lived there before they moved to Hong Kong for a year. I guess they knew their relocation to Hong Kong wasn't permanent. Yes, I know that Washington isn't neighboring Minnesota. But, when I use Google Maps to calculate the directions from Hong Kong Island to Saint Paul, this is the answer I get:
We could not calculate directions between Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and Saint Paul, MN.
I figured that maybe there was some Google Maps fluke, so I attempted to calculate the distance to Seattle:
We could not calculate directions between Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and Seattle, WA.
I was too discouraged to try another city, so I came to the most logical conclusion that somebody who didn't spend any time using logic to come to a conclusion should come to.
1. Hong Kong is the constant starting position for both direction calculations.
2. Both destinations (Saint Paul and Seattle in case you forgot) have the same set of directions from Hong Kong "We could not calculate directions between"
3. Both Saint Paul and Seattle start with the letter "S"
4. If you flip the "W" in Washington upside down and then replace "ashington" with "innesota" you get Minnesota.
5. When my friends eventually move back to Seattle, they are equivalently moving to Minnesota.
6. Victory.
Welcome home toWashinton Minnesota.
When have you been able to take the credit for unwittingly convincing you friends to leave their country (not a just town down the road) to move to your geographically challenged city?
Well, you can call today's news a victory or whatever else you wish (however, if you don't call it some sort of victory, I will declare you are wrong). Roy and Jenny, who were living in Hong Kong, have plans to move back to Seattle, Washington. Sure they lived there before they moved to Hong Kong for a year. I guess they knew their relocation to Hong Kong wasn't permanent. Yes, I know that Washington isn't neighboring Minnesota. But, when I use Google Maps to calculate the directions from Hong Kong Island to Saint Paul, this is the answer I get:
We could not calculate directions between Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and Saint Paul, MN.
I figured that maybe there was some Google Maps fluke, so I attempted to calculate the distance to Seattle:
We could not calculate directions between Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and Seattle, WA.
I was too discouraged to try another city, so I came to the most logical conclusion that somebody who didn't spend any time using logic to come to a conclusion should come to.
1. Hong Kong is the constant starting position for both direction calculations.
2. Both destinations (Saint Paul and Seattle in case you forgot) have the same set of directions from Hong Kong "We could not calculate directions between"
3. Both Saint Paul and Seattle start with the letter "S"
4. If you flip the "W" in Washington upside down and then replace "ashington" with "innesota" you get Minnesota.
5. When my friends eventually move back to Seattle, they are equivalently moving to Minnesota.
6. Victory.
Welcome home to
When have you been able to take the credit for unwittingly convincing you friends to leave their country (not a just town down the road) to move to your geographically challenged city?
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