Very colorful visit to the Cafesjian Art Trust – plus a surprise appearance by @Peril_in_Pink
Apple orchard, part II
Golf would’ve been tough
Thank you, veterans
Fridge Doge
Marie is ambitious
Today I learned about The Last Shadow Puppets via Apple Music and it’s like finding new Arctic Monkeys
The coworker is j chillin’
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy…
- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Twitter Tales
Twitter is really having a moment, isn’t it? Too bad it feels like the verge of implosion, as it has been my favorite social media platform since I joined back in February 2008. Not sure of all the dates, but I think I joined LinkedIn (the first time) just after Twitter, followed by Facebook in December 2008 and Instagram sometime in 2010. I deleted my Facebook account in June 2020, followed by Instagram a few days later. Dropped off LinkedIn for about five years, as it became a huge source of spam and unsolicited sales pitches. I rejoined last year for career reasons, but it seems rather sad that may be the last one standing if I decide to drop Twitter.
Now, I don’t really want to leave Twitter. I likely use the service differently than 99% of the rest of the world, and it has served me well. I’m rarely on the actual twitter.com website, using the awesome Tweetbot client on both macOS and iOS. For reasons I don’t fully understand, using those tools means I never see ads and my timeline is always in chronological order (with only accounts I want to see).
I currently follow about 400 accounts (many of those, it turns out, have been inactive for some time) and I’ve carefully curated what accounts I follow to get useful and timely info in my personal areas of interest (music, sports, food, travel, running, casinos and technology). There are friends and family on there that I know from real life and a bunch of real people that I only know through Twitter. Some of these people I’m connected with on LinkedIn, but I’d miss out on so much if Twitter was out of the picture. Hoping for personal blogs to make a comeback – RSS is solid tech and NetNewsWire is still a great reader on macOS.
Pizza as we like it
Great to see Ben Bird still doing the Security Spy thing @Bensoftware in London – looks better than ever
Voting in Minnesota is fast, easy and organized – thank you, volunteers! ✅
Rock the Vote
In Minnesota, most polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. – please get out and vote (if you haven’t yet) 🇺🇸
40mph gusts at Royal for the (likely) last round of the 2022 Minnesota golf season ⛳️💨
No waiting at 4:00PM
Home of the Gitch
These cookies are so good
Where pumpkins go to compost
So nice to hike along a creek that still has water flowing (Chester in Duluth) 💦
Breakfast in the Tobies geezer room
Smashing Pumpkins @ Xcel
So when can I retire again?
The world is a vampire sent to drain secret destroyers. Hold you up to the flames and what do I get for my pain?
- Bullet with Butterfly Wings
The Lowertown Express
Lookin’ good, Woodbury Zantigo
Record high temps
Very excited to see one fourth of Talking Heads @FirstAvenue in February
Just in case: downloaded my Twitter archive today and found some real gems in there (started 2/1/2008)
Gray Duck Tavern ✅
Day brightener 🥰
Welcome to November 2022
When the crypt doors creak and the tombstones quake, spooks come out for a swinging wake…
- Grim Grinning Ghosts
My last round at Deer Run was 19 years ago – today they gave us free beer afterwards 🍻
0.5 trail walk with the expert
Went to see Howl’s Moving Castle again on a big screen and completely forgot about the royal city of Kingsbury
It’s almost Booni-ween
Now is the marryin’ times
A+ Minnesota fall afternoon
Pre-oil change Cane’s
Had to chase the sun
The artist and her art
It was a very good year
Monday Night Pizza
Glad I left the football-watching couch for a bit to go for a quick ride
Sunday comfort food
Marcus Mumford @PalaceStPaul Why can’t people shut the f up and just listen for 90 minutes?
Surprise market pop-up
Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last…
- The 59th Street Bridge Song
Shop local – Boondocks Vintage
Wave Rider 25s ✅
Not only a late October round at Sand Creek, but shorts and polo weather too 🌞
Oh, Microsoft
New Music Friday 🎶
The Mudd Room in Mendota was beautiful (and apparently not much of a secret any more)🍸
Need a second mortgage
The Copperfield walleye sammy 🐟
