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Introducing PDD Calendar Beta Test +

Jul 14, 2011 35 Comments

Perfect Duluth Day is launching an events calendar, and for the next month or so you can preview it at it’s permanent URL:

perfectduluthday.com/calendar

We have created this calendar because a majority of posts to the PDD Blog are about events, but the format of a blog is not a practical way to organize that type of information. If you wanted to know what’s happening today based on PDD posts, you’d have to select the “events” category and skim through weeks of random items looking for today’s date. That is lame.

So today our calendar is born. It doesn’t have a ton of events in it yet, and it probably has some technical issues left to be fixed, but the general format is set and it has seemed to be working well during our initial testing phase.

Check it out and tell us what you think with a comment to this post or an e-mail to calendar @ perfectduluthday.com.

Events PDD Shop Talk

Happy eighth birthday to us

Jun 29, 2011 17 Comments

Perfect Duluth Day is eight years old today – Wednesday, June 29. We’ll be celebrating tonight at Burrito Union around 8:30ish. Stop on by. There will be a weird cake and an array of door prizes. (We’ll probably be out on the deck — space and weather permitting — so look there first. Find the people with cake on their lips.)

Also, yours truly (Paul Lundgren) will be a guest today on “The Local” with Christine Dean the Radio Queen, celebrating PDD’s birthday by playing songs with “Duluth” in the lyrics or title. That’s at 5 p.m. on 103.3 FM KUMD.

Thanks to Barrett and Starfire for starting this thing and to all you bloggers, cloggers and corn doggers who keep it going. We’re on a pace to hit 10,000 posts before the end of the year. That’s kind of something.

Events Geeky, PDD Shop Talk

PDD Gravatar Poll Championship

Jun 27, 2011 10 Comments

Which PDD user has the best Gravatar?

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This poll is now closed. The results were:

Don Ness — 49.2 percent

Bev — 19.7 percent

TimK — 16.6 percent

Hot Shot — 14.4

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Polls PDD Shop Talk, Weird

PDD Gravatar Poll, Fourth Bracket

Jun 23, 2011 1 Comment

Which PDD user has the best Gravatar?

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This poll is now closed. The results were:

Hot Shot — 54.1 percent

Tamara — 15.3 percent

Ethan — 11.8 percent

Mary — 9.4 percent

Edgeways — 9.4 percent

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Polls PDD Shop Talk, Weird

Eighth Birthday Party Announcement and Other PDD-related Matters

Jun 22, 2011 7 Comments

Next Wednesday, June 29, is Perfect Duluth Day’s eighth birthday. As usual, we are having a little get-together, and as usual we are inviting you all, as frightening as that might seem.

So swing on by the Burrito Union next Wednesday in the vague window of 8:30 to 10 p.m. or so. There will be no program or live music or plan to get people drunk and sell them condos; it’s just our annual opportunity to meet in person and shoot the breeze with the folks who put the P in our double-D.

In addition, yours truly will be a guest on “The Local” with Christine Dean next week, celebrating PDD’s birthday by playing songs with “Duluth” in the lyrics or title. That’s Wednesday, June 29, 5 p.m., on 103.3 FM KUMD.

By the way, we should probably let you all know what’s up with some of the technical weirdness PDD intermittently experienced in recent weeks. Here are the boring details:

Uncategorized Geeky, PDD Shop Talk

PDD Disinfected. Resume blogging.

Jun 05, 2011 11 Comments

Sorry about the little Malware problem earlier today.

I’d tell you what happened, but then I’d have to ask the tech guy and he’d have to explain it to me and, well … it’s a nice day and the problem is solved.

Uncategorized Creepy, PDD Shop Talk

PDD Gravatar Poll, Third Bracket

Jun 02, 2011 25 Comments

A: B: C: D:

Which PDD user has the best Gravatar?

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Polls PDD Shop Talk, Weird

PDD Gravatar Poll, Second Bracket

May 26, 2011 12 Comments

A. B. C. D.

Which PDD user has the best Gravatar?

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Polls PDD Shop Talk, Weird

PDD Gravatar Poll, First Bracket

May 19, 2011 19 Comments

A. B. C. D.

Which PDD user has the best Gravatar?

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Polls PDD Shop Talk, Weird

1,000 Perfect Duluth Day Users

Mar 25, 2011 27 Comments

Perfect Duluth Day hit a milestone today at 4:28 p.m. when the user “emmajoru” created an account and made the post below about the Low concert. PDD now has 1,000 contributors.

Uncategorized Geeky, Media, PDD Shop Talk

You could win $100! Yes, it’s time once again to feed the PDD marketing weasel by taking a privacy-invading survey

Feb 07, 2011 8 Comments

PDDMarketingWeasel89457 Every other year or so, Perfect Duluth Day conducts a survey of its readers in an effort to figure out who they are and what their deal is. To make up for the privacy invasion, we offer the chance to win $100 in a drawing, which convinces everyone to proceed without reservation or contempt.

The survey is now closed.

Why do PDD’s powers-that-be ignore their natural Minnesota Lutheran shame and prod you to disclose information that is none of their business? Because that’s how the vicious gears of capitalism work, you silly goose.

Uncategorized PDD Shop Talk

PDD’s little upgrade and the glitch with the Smart Unread Comments plugin

Jan 03, 2011 12 Comments

If you’re one of those compulsive people who likes to read every single comment on Perfect Duluth Day, the past few days have been a challenge for you.

The “Comments” column on the left is supposed to show which posts have new comments you haven’t read, but it hasn’t been working since PDD upgraded to WordPress 3.0.4 on Dec. 31.

In the meantime, if you’re noticing anything else not functioning properly since the upgrade, let us know. The comment thing is the only thing we’ve noticed.

UPDATE: The problem was fixed on Jan. 3, so there should be no more issues.

Uncategorized Bitching, PDD Shop Talk

HotMaids post removed

Aug 31, 2010 59 Comments

A note from your friendly neighborhood PDD moderators:

Many people read and commented on a post from August 29 about a cleaning business called HotMaids. We have decided to remove the post due to deceptive tactics engaged in by the author of the post, who is also the owner of the business.

Many of the comments responding to the post were made by the author, under multiple names, all raving about what a great idea the business is. Initially we removed those comments and left the post up, but ultimately we felt the entire thing should be removed.

The post also received many negative comments from people who did not appreciate the nature of the business. That had nothing to do with why the post was removed. We simply felt that the deceitful tactics of the author were reason enough to include the phrase “let the buyer beware” at the front end of the discussion.

With that in mind, we now resume the forum on this topic — unless everyone prefers to ignore it at this point.

Uncategorized Bitching, PDD Shop Talk