They added nine holes and changed the name to Stones Throw Golf Course
MIA: Mt. Dew Zero Sugar, caffeine-free diet Pepsi, Sprite Zero, Cherry Coke Zero
Hit a nice milestone yesterday 💯
Still some small bugs to squash, but 7minutemiles.com is now running on AWS Lightsail
As I started reading through Joe Bissen’s new book, More! Gone. Minnesota’s Lost Golf Courses Part II, I realized that not only are there a lot of closed courses I actually played, there are also a large percentage of the courses I included in my Minnesota Golden Links CD-ROM back in 1999 that are no longer here (43 by my initial count). Joe was kind enough to include a chapter with a list of all the closed courses he knows about, so I thought it would be fun to go back to my original Photoshop files and post the screens for the ones that are no longer open for play (pics after the jump – please excuse the ancient Photoshop techniques and poor color corrections).
Joe says in the introduction to the new book that he isn’t as interested in the courses that have closed recently, but it’s amazing how many of the entries in my 1999 guide are gone (including a few that opened after my guide and are already closed). There are a number of inconsistencies between his list and my guide, as I only included public courses that were members of the Minnesota Golf Association (MGA). Make sure and check out his original book Fore! Gone: Minnesota’s Lost Golf Courses, 1897-1999, as well as his website. Fun stuff.
Transitioned DNS services under the AWS umbrella (Route 53), but leaving domains at Hover for now
Finding a few small issues with Bitnami, but still planning to go all in with AWS this week
Support your local authors – congrats to @JoeBissen on the new book
One small web server victory this week (still lots of other things to fix, though)
You are a smelly pirate hooker. Why don’t you go back to your home on Whore Island?
— Ron Burgundy
