Ken Jensen

@WHENESOTA A musical medley #PopCulturePatio Let It Be Cruel to Be Kind Don’t Be Cruel The Beach Boys

5/22 #PopCulturePatio B's, Be's, Bees, and Beas in TV, movies, music, books etc. Creativity encouraged but all entries must include B's. If using letter B in a name it must be both first/last. Bob Dylan wouldn't count. Bob Barker would. Use #PopCulturePatio in your response.

@WHENESOTA #PopCulturePatio

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@vincempls @UMNews @umnlib Fun fact: I stopped a guy from setting fire to the stacks back in the day.

Wilson Library, opened in 1968, is named the University of Minnesota's 9th president O. Meredith Wilson. Born in Mexico and raised in Texas and Utah, Wilson oversaw the huge expansion of the U of M to the West Bank, including over 40 buildings and the Washington Avenue Bridge.

@ChrisLongKSTP I mean, how is GMBG supposed to hire Cassidy if he can’t talk to him?

Vegas sure did go from feel-good new kids on the block to black hat-wearing villains in a hurry.

Such an unserious league

@MrBildo @echo_vick Perfectly describes my early IT career. Went so far as to create a short-cycle parallel batch processing system entirely from stored procedures and the DB job scheduler. Actually insane in hindsight, and would never do that today.

This was very common practice in the 90's/early 2000's. Your typical "client/server" application consisted of a thin client, a database server, and stored procedures, views, and triggers as far as the eye could see. There were some practical reasons for it at the time: 1. A distribution model. A lot of applications were fully deployed desktop applications that hit a database backend (often the only "server" in the client/server application). It was much easier to change business rules that only needed to be deployed to the database than doing a client rollout. 2. Server capacity. Compute was much more expensive before the cloud era. Web servers were often given the weakest priority of compute vs. database servers. So it was thought (often incorrectly) that offloading "the logic" onto the database would be more performant than the web server. 3. Dev. experience. A lot of old school guys were SQL wizards. They were much better at coding with SQL than traditional languages. They put a lot of energy into optimizing queries, transforming data, generating reports, etc. Web was just "the UI." Backend developer was synonymous with SQL. None of this is relevant today. No one should be doing this in 2026.

I once worked with a senior backend engineer who believed that the strongest backend systems were the ones where logic is written more on the database layer than on the code layer. The normal if-else statement you would write to check a users balance, bro writes all that logic directly on the DB, there were triggers, database functions etc. Bro was literally coding with SQL. At that point I didn’t know SQL could even do all that. Bro would review my code then and ask me why was I writing all that logic in code when it could reside directly on the db😂. This was way before AI and bro would prefer to write every single thing by hand rather than install a package, he felt they were not secure. Bro uses a framework just to repurpose it and customize everything! At The point working with bro, he was almost 40. Man! I’ve worked with cracked devs, and I’m grateful for every experience that has shaped me.

@1stBornRaider @3YearLetterman Allow me to introduce you to the concept of Wisconsin

@3YearLetterman This is what all bars should be family friendly. If I can’t afford streaming, I should be able to pack up my children, take them to the watering hole and enjoy the game (and a bucket of beers) with them

My most socialist position is that all NFL, NBA, and MLB playoff games should be on network TV - kids whose parents can’t afford or don’t have streaming services should still be able to watch

@VerizonSupport is it too much to ask for a 5G home internet router to pick an IP address closer to home instead of 300 miles away in a different state? It wrecks YTTV and the workarounds are untenable for me walk though over the phone with my 80yo father.

@ThatEricAlper Invite-only intimate setting with @revhortonheat mid 2000s. It was a 10 hour drive one way and I had a young family. Just couldn’t swing it.

What is the concert you didn't go to, for whatever reason, that you have regretted ever since? The one that still stings when you think about it?

@WHENESOTA May it please the Court. In the categories of movies, tv, and music, I submit to you Eartha Kitt #popculturepatio

4/24 #PopCulturePatio EARTH “Earth” in Movies, TV, books, music, etc. Can be titles, lyrics, quotes, whatever. Use #PopCulturePatio in your response.

@WHENESOTA youtu.be/8NF6Qa84mno?si… #popculturepatio

@DiscourseMKE @gwld Yeah grew up SE WI. When my mom made “hot dish” it was a specific recipe- always the same. Moved to MN and was suddenly confused.

@gwld I've only heard hot dish in western WI, not an eastern WI thing

fixed it

@ThatEricAlper The Blues Brothers is the best musical of all time

What is the smallest hill you’ll die on?

@WHENESOTA Nuremberg An American Werewolf in London Brasilia Crossed with Trenton - Bob Mould A Passage to Bangkok - Rush Sweet Home Chicago - Blues Brothers #PopCulturePatio

4/17 #PopCulturePatio MOVIES with a CITY in the TITLE. Extra credit: Add a song, book or TV show with a city in the title. We've done this question before, but need to pay homage to the 30th anniversary of #Fargo, and its MN connections. Use #PopCulturePatio in your response.

@BrewPack8 Oh I was

Oh to be a Brewers fan in the 80s

@ThatEricAlper A fan-crafted compilation of The Judybats

What's in your music collection that's probably not in mine?

@KarlSouthHockey @spittinchiclets Colby just out there reinforcing the East Coast bias

Colby Cohen just said something on @spittinchiclets that opened my eyes. He said “he never stayed up late enough to watch Quinn Hughes when he was in Vancouver but now he can watch him and he’s unreal” that is exactly why everyone bashes on Evan Bouchard, and why he won’t win the

@WHENESOTA TYFSOK

I was a Kmart associate for 5 years during my youth. And yes I got to run the blue light. People would come running. Not kidding. We used to walk around the store with it (no intention to use it) just to mess with people.

@MNHockeyDog For everyone in the replies, I believe the point is this ^ 2026 FF

Wisconsin’s captain is from Minnesota btw