April 24 2012 · 1:32am
Each photo is 12 minutes apart, assembled with no measurements in place (obviously) with Photoshop.
*slow clap*
(Source: meetmyhomunculus, via ladypandacat)
January 22 2012 · 1:25am
January 21 2012 · 11:46pm
“Nearly one-third of metro job openings are part-time. For these openings, the median wage is $8.50 per hour; only 22% offer health care. Though we’re often told that the jobs of the future will require advanced technological skills, the survey provides no evidence of a shift to high-skill occupations. Only about half of all metro openings require any education or training beyond high school; and just one-third require a four-year college degree. Given that these figures have changed little over 10 years, the claim that more education will solve the jobs crisis is unfounded.”
“In 2001, the metro region had about 51,000 unemployed workers competing for 72,000 unfilled jobs. For each job seeker, there was more than one job opening. In contrast, by the summer of 2011, the number of job seekers had more than doubled, rising to 104,000. Meanwhile, the number of job openings had fallen to less than 30,000—a drop of nearly 60%.
“Here’s another way to think about it: We have twice as many job seekers in the Twin Cities than we had 10 years ago, but less than half as many job openings. Of the large number of openings that vanished in the Twin Cities over the last decade, only 2% were lost during the Great Recession and its aftermath. Almost all of the decline took place earlier, during the 2001 recession and the two years that followed.”
Read the full article at http://www.southsidepride.com/2012/01/articles/unemployment_rate.html.
Edit: I graduated high school in 2003. My generation was essentially screwed.
October 18 2011 · 2:06am
Yes, I know where I live. Doesn’t mean I have to agree with this.
Edit: For the record, I’m wearing fleece long johns with another pair of pants over that, two pairs of socks (the outer pair being thick bootsocks), some three shirts, a hoodie, armwarmers, and I’m not warm enough. This is what really makes me miss not having the autoimmune diseases, the scary low blood pressure, et cetera; I didn’t used to freeze to friggin’ death.
September 22 2011 · 1:37am
Windchill. In September. Because it wasn’t enough that we were still having snowfall in May, and then the summer was an absolute disaster of too much rain followed by too much heat followed by too much rain followed by too much heat.
If we’re lucky, we’ll hit 45 later. Are we sure it’s May?
It’s 35 degrees out.
May 2 2011 · 8:35am
March 2 2011 · 3:44am
Chicago Winter Bean (by Adam Cornwell)
By the time you read this I will have been in Chicago for 24 hours!! I’m excited to be out of Minneapolis for a while. Edina isn’t that fun… This trip was planned especially so I could get my paperwork through at the German consulate to go abroad. The rest of the weekend will be spent at my friend Anna’s apartment, going out at night with friends, visiting the art institute with Emily and Chris, and the best part: catching up with my 80-year-old great uncle Francis, who also speaks fluent german :) Bye-bye suburbs & hello Chicago! Let’s just hope I’m alive after the fifteen hour drive….(x-posted on http://gedeutscht.tumblr.com)
hello home town!
Edina sucks. Hard. I wouldn’t mind going back to Chicago sometime, though.
July 10, 2010 · 11:38pm
May 16 2010 · 11:26pm
minneapolis sunset by Dan Anderson
