It’s been two and a half months since I last posted to Instagram (and about two months since I officially deleted both my Facebook and Instagram accounts). It wasn’t that hard to give up Facebook – I really only used it to sync status with a couple of games, promote posts from this site and to communicate with more distant family members. Add to that all of the other reasons people don’t like Facebook and it became a pretty easy decision. Now I just need Two Dots to continue to improve the Facebook-free experience and I’ll be fine (LEADERBOARDS).

Instagram, on the other hand, was a much tougher decision for me. From what I can tell, it launched on iOS in October of 2010 and I posted my first image on Christmas Day 2010. The original pictures were 640×640 and I used Iain Poulson’s excellent Intagrate WordPress plugin for many years to automatically pull my pics from Instagram and create image posts on this site. Facebook purchased the service in April 2012, but largely left it independent (image sizes did increase to 1080×1080 in 2015).

Instagram is the de facto social media standard for restaurants and foodies, so that’s really what I used it for in the beginning. I don’t like accounts that post the same thing across all platforms, so I’d use Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in specialized ways to help prevent overlap. Now that I’m only on Twitter, I initially tried to recreate some of that there, but I’m finding that I need to continue to prune my Twitter follow list and just move on from some things that I know I’m missing. Some examples: Instagram stories from Armon and Meredith, donut pictures from Erin and everything posted by my wife and daughters.

I finally finished merging all of the Instagram metadata they sent me in JSON format with the image files that I uploaded here. Also starting to get back to equilibrium on my main @kingsbury Twitter account (and will continue to use @7minutemiles to link to stories like this one). Really trying to get most of the politics out of my feed too – no real appetite for doomscrolling these days…

http://extension765.com/soderblogh/18-raiders

Too bad there won’t be a fourth

According to kid two, anyways…

SNOL memes forever

No self-censorship zone

SNOL @ USBS – he likes to move it, move it

Composed with a lot of help from the PAMP bartenders

One of the highlights of grade school for me was Scholastic’s Dynamite magazine. It appears I started to subscribe to that in 1976, lasting until 1982. I found a box of these in the basement of my parent’s house on Lombard as we were getting it ready to sell, but they weren’t in great condition. I scanned and posted the entire issue from August 1979 here, if you want to get a feeling for what it was like.

Now that I have my ancient Canon scanner working again with my iMac, I thought I’d scan the front and back of the issues that survived the trip down to our loft. SK will now get the originals for her art projects and I get to keep the digital scans (which you can see after the jump).

Every human relationship can be adjusted with the right amount of money…

…that will take a really long time.

Damn, SWCT, that mission took forever

Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis…

I’d say that’s about right – thanks, BK!

The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don’t be a guy…

By ice and by air

The agriculture building really outdid itself this year

In a few minutes I’ll be giving my sermon. My topic today is: don’t kill bugs…

What, you think I’m stupid? I’m not a part of your system. My dad’s not a phone, duh!

These are sweet

That was never a character, right?

IF IT SUCKS…HIT DA BRICKS!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/04/30/feature/the-case-of-dorothys-stolen-ruby-slippers/

Look, if there’s people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows, you don’t need this right here, I promise you. You already won…

https://pitchfork.com/tv/22-over-under/watch-tenacious-d-rate-danzig-mayo-ice-cream-and-line-dancing/

Man goes into cage, cage goes into salsa. Shark’s in the salsa. Our shark.

I really don’t know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack. It was almost as if they were…organized!

Have you turned it off and back on again?

Watching the movie now…

Disneyland is Vegas for children…

Bob Hope makes an appearance at the Minneapolis VA

Only in MN @ Government Plaza

Donkey Kong Country sure seemed prettier back then

Andy walking, Andy tired. Andy take a little snooze…

How did we not hear about this until now?

Thanks, ADMIN, this year is particularly hard

The 2017 British Arrows Awards, Minneapolis

This weather, though…

Was this really a brand (and did Red Dwarf steal it)?

So much cool X Games art

New Kenner cards are a blast from the past

And I think we are mostly ready

I don’t like no nasty car, I don’t like nasty food…

Spotted at Target in NE

The masters of sports marketing 

Billy Mitchell Pac Man Minnesota Lottery promotion @ MoA

http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/david-letterman-in-conversation.html

Cleaning and packing can be fun

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-death-star-and-final-trench-run.html

Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

So much nationalism up here (just like 🇺🇸)

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!

Bridge over 35E

It didn’t go as hoped but that’s okay…

This is a rebellion, isn’t it? I rebel…

Up on the roof of the IDS Tower, Minneapolis

This is the third least important secret that I’m currently keeping…

http://www.thechickening.net/

Lauren Tewes (aka Julie McCoy from The Love Boat) @ Mystic Lake

Couldn’t resist…

Hot babes. Cold cash.

Minnesota State Fair Heritage and History Center

Space is Waste

Des Moines: Hell Yes

All-day breakfast has (finally) arrived

Marketing geniuses 

He’s not dead. He’s just passed out from life…

The Giant Slide (from the Skyride)