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Still a wait for Minnesota golf

Pic posted March 23, 2023

Great to catch up with DP @ Hazeltine today


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Poldark S2-S5 ✅

Pic posted March 23, 2023

Can’t believe there are no more seasons of this excellent show – might have to go and read some actual books. I loved so many characters in this series, the villains were dreadful and the issues presented from the 18th and early 19th century ring true today. Bravo, Masterpiece Theater!


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Very large shot glass

Pic posted March 22, 2023

Thought this was normal cider, but I was mistaken


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Minnesota 18-hole golf courses I’ve never played ⛳️

Posted March 22, 2023

Private (14):

  • Austin Country Club
  • Burl Oaks Golf Club
  • Cloquet Country Club
  • Medina Golf & Country Club
  • The Minikahda Club
  • Moorhead Country Club
  • Oak Ridge Country Club
  • Owatonna Country Club
  • Ridgeview Country Club
  • Somerset Country Club
  • Spring Hill Golf Club
  • St. Cloud Country Club
  • Wayzata Country Club
  • Woodhill Country Club

Public (99):

  • Albany Golf Club
  • Alexandria Golf Club
  • Atikwa Golf CLub at Arrowwood Resort
  • Balmoral Golf Course
  • Bemidji Town & Country Club
  • Benson Golf Club
  • Blueberry Pines Golf Club
  • The Bridges
  • Cedar River Golf Course
  • Cedar Valley Golf Course
  • Chisago Lakes Golf Course
  • Coffee Mill Golf Course
  • Cragun’s Legacy – Lehman 18
  • Crosswoods Golf Course
  • Crow River Golf Club
  • Cuyuna Rolling Hills
  • Daytona Golf Club
  • Detroit Country Club
  • Dodge Country Club
  • Eagle Creek Golf Club
  • Falcon Ridge Golf Course
  • Forest Hills Golf Course
  • Fountain Valley Golf Club
  • Glencoe Country Club
  • Golden Eagle Golf Club
  • Grand View Lodge – The Pines
  • Great Life Golf & Fitness
  • Green Haven Golf Course
  • Green Lea Golf Course
  • Hawley Golf & Country Club
  • Headwaters Golf Club
  • Hidden Haven Golf Club
  • Interlaken Golf Club
  • Kimball Golf Club
  • Koronis Hills Golf Club
  • Lake City Golf
  • Lake Miltona Golf Club
  • Lake Pepin Golf Course
  • Litchfield Golf Club
  • Little Crow Country Club
  • Little Falls Country Club
  • Long Bow Golf Club
  • Long Prairie Country Club
  • Lynx National Golf Course
  • Madden’s Pine Beach East
  • Madden’s Pine Beach West
  • Marshall Golf Club
  • Meadow Greens Golf Course
  • Meadows Golf Course
  • Minnesota National Golf Course
  • Monticello Country Club
  • New Ulm Country Club
  • Northern Hills Golf Club
  • Northwood Hills Golf Course
  • Oak Summit Golf Course
  • Oakcrest Golf Course
  • Oakdale Golf Club
  • Oneka Ridge Golf Course
  • Ortonville Municipal Golf Course
  • Pebble Lake Golf Course
  • Perham Lakeside Golf Club
  • Pheasant Acres Golf Club
  • Pine Island Golf Course
  • Pomme de Terre Golf Club
  • The Ponds Golf Course
  • Princeton Golf Course
  • Redwood Falls Golf Club
  • Rich Spring Golf Club
  • River Crest Public Golf Course
  • River Oaks Golf Course
  • Rivers Bend
  • Riverwood National Golf Course
  • Rose Lake Golf Club
  • Ruttger’s Bay Lake – Jack’s 18
  • Shadowbrooke Golf Course
  • Shoreland Country Club
  • Southbrook Golf Club
  • Spring Brook Golf Course
  • Sundance Golf Club
  • Territory Golf Club
  • Thief River Golf Club
  • Thumper Pond Golf Course
  • Tianna Country Club
  • Tipsinah Mounds Golf Course
  • Tyler Golf Club
  • Valley Golf Course
  • Valley High Golf Club
  • Viking Meadows Golf Club
  • Village Green Golf Club
  • The Vintage at Staples
  • Wapicada Golf Club
  • Warroad Estates Golf Course
  • Waseca Lakeside Club
  • Wedgewood Cove Golf Club
  • Whispering Pines Golf Course
  • Whitefish Golf Club
  • Whitetail Run Golf Course
  • Willow Creek Golf Course
  • Zumbrota Golf Club

We were already playing in 2021 – hurry up and get warm, Minnesota…

Note: Not 100% sure of the accuracy of this list – might have played some, might be missing a few.


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BFFs: Lunie + Lambie ❤️

Pic posted March 21, 2023

Your portrait is ready, The Lunes


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Cheap presale tix to Peter Gabriel ✅

Pic posted March 21, 2023

Front row of section 214 isn’t exactly close to the stage, but should be good sight lines and sound


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Link: RIP DPreview.com – always the best camera info 😢

Linked March 21, 2023


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The Business of Mastodon

Posted March 20, 2023

Last month I wrote about the Mastodon tech stack and today I’ll talk about the business of Mastodon: finance, marketing, legal and operations. I’m by no means an expert on any of this, but trying hard to keep in front of a news cycle that seems to get accelerated by the actions of Twitter daily. There is a lot out there to read and digest, so let’s get started.

Background

Mastodon was created by German software developer Eugen Rochko and was first released in October 2016. Five years later, Rochko incorporated Mastodon gGmbH as a German non-profit with him serving as founder and CEO. The Mastodon code is free and open-source software (FOSS) and anyone can download the software from Github and use it to run their own social media site.

There are lots of good introductory Mastodon posts, including the one by Glenn Fleishman that I linked to last month. I won’t go into the specifics of things like the fediverse and the ActivityPub protocol, but people seem to be most interested in Mastodon as a Twitter replacement. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) has also published a nice series of posts.

Read more…


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…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should…

— Dr. Malcolm

Quote posted March 20, 2023


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Clown nuggets for Furry Booni 🐱

Pic posted March 20, 2023

Tried the Buffalo sauce – turns the clown into BWW boneless 🐔


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Latest fun Apple Music discovery

Pic posted March 20, 2023

Added all the Joe Hisaishi/Studio Ghibli soundtracks to the library


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Link: Good advice from Brian Krebs ✅

Linked March 20, 2023


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Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming ✅

Pic posted March 19, 2023

Very fun to watch Dave, Bono, The Edge and Glen Hansard in Dublin 🇮🇪


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M3GAN @ Cinema Grill

Pic posted March 19, 2023

We are really spoiled by the Woodbury Alamo


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Thank you SK for the park pass 🌳

Pic posted March 19, 2023


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🫡 Minnesota golf news (or not)

Posted March 19, 2023

Today the Pioneer Press published Shooter’s column, which contained the following:

— Jeff Sorenson, the teaching pro at Minikahda Country Club, won his 157th golf tournament the other day, the Calloway Pebble Beach ProAm.

Jeff is a great guy, winning the Tapemark in 2009. But so far, I can find no proof of this tournament win online. Assuming this is a different event from the famous Pebble Beach tournament, but I would love to know what really happened.

Anyone?


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My latest T-shirt has arrived

Pic posted March 18, 2023

Celebrating 25 years of kottke.org


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Well, I’ve never been to heaven. But I’ve been to Oklahoma. Oh, they tell me I was born there. But I really don’t remember…

— Three Dog Night

Quote posted March 18, 2023


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Almost forgot I had this hat

Pic posted March 17, 2023

Really need to go through that giant pile of hats in the closet


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Pizza Friday with Armon @ Rosalia

Posted March 17, 2023

Winter parking in Linden Hills is…challenging 🍕


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Link: A24 is the best – can’t wait!

Linked March 17, 2023


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St. Patrick’s Day 2023 🇮🇪

Posted March 17, 2023

Our new kitchen counter display (design by the lassie CK)


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Video hosting: Vimeo vs. YouTube

Posted March 16, 2023

When I first added my concerts page back in 2020, I looked for a third-party video hosting option to process, store and stream my videos to this site. I didn’t really like all of the ads and other junk that YouTube added, so I signed up for a free basic tier Vimeo account. After quickly running into their daily upload limits, I upgraded to a plus tier plan. That annual renewal is now almost up and I’ve decided I don’t want to renew. Unfortunately, they don’t really allow you to downgrade gracefully back to the Basic tier, so I decided to take another look at YouTube.

While it appears that YouTube still has many of the issues I didn’t like before, it does seem that I can add all of my Vimeo videos to a newly created @7minutemiles channel at no cost (“be sure to hit the like and subscribe buttons”). Tonight I ran into an upload limit of ten videos, so I’ll see if that goes away after I finish an ID verification process they offered or if ten is just going to be the daily limit. I decided 720p versions of these concert videos shot on various iPhones is fine and the quality so far seems to be good. It also looks like I can go back and set custom thumbnails like Vimeo, so that’s nice. It was weird that YouTube seems to be much more concerned about checking for copyright, but every video I’ve uploaded so far that it flagged said the owner allows the content to be used on YouTube.

The last part of my research will be to look at custom WordPress plugins that enhance the default handling of embedded YouTube videos. That was one thing I liked about having a Vimeo shortcode for WordPress, as it allowed me to set the initial player width to 850 pixels. Plugins like this one seem to allow that, plus a lot of other things I probably don’t want or need. Mostly concerned with mobile scalability, but some of the video SEO might be nice too, as I don’t think many people really saw my videos on vimeo.com (or my hard to find concerts page). EVERYTHING seems to be on YouTube, and now I guess I will be as well…

UPDATE (3/19/2023): My ID has been verified with Google and I can now use “advanced YouTube features,” which removes (or at least vastly increases) the daily upload limit. All of my former Vimeo concert videos are now on the new @7minutemiles YouTube channel. Join MK and SK and subscribe today!


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🫡 Today I Learned: State Fair Edition

Posted March 16, 2023

The people that run Big Fat Bacon also own My Burger, the Nicollet Island Inn and Gopher State Ice


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Who love you from the start? Who treats you like a star? Oh sweetheart…

— Franke & The Knockouts

Quote posted March 16, 2023


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