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Tallest Structure in Duluth

Jul 17, 2012 34 Comments

Here’s a question to contemplate: What is the tallest standing structure within Duluth city limits?

Here’s what I was thinking for determining this: The tallest height should be relative to the starting point of the structure in the ground. So a structure that begins on a higher elevation does not have advantage. Also, “ground” can be defined as the Lake bottom, so a structure could begin on the Lake bottom, but the footings (or anything underneath the ground [or Lake bottom]) wouldn’t be part of the equation.

The Duluth Arial Lift Bridge is pretty high (177 feet), but other higher buildings and structures are clearly in view.


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Another Geek Prom rip-off?

Jul 13, 2012 4 Comments

[This post originally linked to phoenixcomicon.com, which is no longer a functioning URL.]


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Looking for some sports geeks to join a fantasy football league

Jul 09, 2012 5 Comments

Some friends and I are trying to put together a new fantasy football league for the 2012 season. Most of us don’t spend a lot of time with other sports fans and we’re having trouble getting enough people together. I thought this might be a good place to look for participants. Also, we’d like most of the teams/participants to be from the Twin Ports area. We’ve yet to establish fees or specific scoring rules for this league and you’d be involved in that. We’re mostly creative types, music geeks and/or musicians who enjoy professional sports and hope to find similar people but would like to hear from anyone who’s interested. We really only ask that you’re excited about fantasy football and you’re not an asshole (sexist, racist, homophobe, etc.).

If this sounds like something you’d enjoy, contact us at footballtwinports @ hotmail.com. Please don’t express interest solely in the comments section. I’m sure the comments will mostly be about how football is dumb, we’re lame and soccer is cooler, so I probably won’t bother reading the comments.

Thanks!


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Hang gliding in Duluth

Jul 05, 2012 8 Comments

Have you ever seen someone hang glide in Duluth?

I think I did once, but it might just be a weird dream I had back when I was kid. What I remember is that I was at the Little League baseball end-of-season carnival/Olympics, or whatever it was, at Wheeler Fields. It would have been about 1984. I think I saw some guy launch off the hillside where “The Wall” is on Skyline Drive, and then land on one of the baseball fields at Wheeler.

Is hang gliding just a dying sport in general, or is there something about Duluth — maybe the lake winds are too unpredictable and strong or the hills aren’t high enough to produce a good “ridge lift” or whatever — that makes hang gliding here rare or impossible?

And whatever happened to the guy with the hot-air balloon?


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Exploring Lake Superior by Submarine

Jul 01, 2012 6 Comments

Jim and Allen Richardson of Gonzo Science explore Lake Superior in a two-man sub.


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Summer camps for area kids into technology

May 21, 2012 1 Comment

With the Duluth East Daredevils robotics team again going to nationals this year and high school robotics teams now also at Denfeld and Marshall, how can kids get started in robotics before high school?

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Scenic Ice Station Zebra, MN

May 18, 2012 No Comments

It's a long story, and not that funny. But here it is, anyhow.


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Instagrammers PDD?

May 17, 2012 8 Comments

There are 50 million users on Instagram but there are no Perfect Duluth Day hashtags? Duluth iger’s, you need to get on this. It’d be a great place to curate creative shots of D-town.


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Nerd Nite Road Trip Edition

May 14, 2012 1 Comment

Below, a selection of photos from Nerd Nite Road Trip Edition.

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Lake Recreation

May 10, 2012 No Comments


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Nerds make turn to charity

May 10, 2012 No Comments

Adam Brisk, Crystal Pelkey, and Jeremy Nilson are among the engines that make Duluth a more interesting place. As founders of Duluth Nerd Nite, they serve up entertainment on a regular basis that also helps sustain one of our most important resources, the Teatro Zuccone. And they have been invited to consult in Minneapolis, a town that has yet to experience awesomeness that is Nerd Nite.

At the next event, Saturday at 7:30, they are bringing a new dimension to Nerd Nite:

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The Surfactants — “Aussenseiter”

May 01, 2012 No Comments

My son and I put this together at the last minute. As a result, it didn’t get shown at Zinema 2 last night during the Homegrown Music Video Festival and it won’t be shown at during the encore tonight … however, you can see it on Sunday at Chester Creek Cafe and you can watch the hell out of it on the web. Thanks to Annie Dugan for organizing another great event!


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Willie the Warlock

Apr 29, 2012 1 Comment

Yesterday I was out at The Princess Bride with a couple of goslings and other uberfans at the Zinema for their excellent Saturday-morning-movies-for-the-whole-family series. That would have been awesome enough, but they threw in free juice boxes for the kids, but it got even better. In the place where we expected the opening previews, or maybe a video short to roll we were treated to this 2006 video, by Duluth’s Willie the Warlock

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Dragon Port Co-operative Gaming Society

Apr 23, 2012 5 Comments

The name isn’t set in stone. It’s my vision for saving the game space currently occupied by Dragon Port Games & Comics.

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Geek Prom ’02: A lil’ documentary

Apr 13, 2012 8 Comments

The first Geek Prom was held April 13, 2002. Enjoy the video memories, my fellow nerdwads.


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