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It felt like one. Then again, for all the things planned, I once again did surprisingly few. I got out on Saturday to take some pictures, and was happily surprised to see Jim show up, as well. Spent the late afternoon tweaking and posting them to flickr, and then called it a day, watching some more of Buffy season 5 on the DVD player before heading to bed.
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Sunday, as expected, was the trip up to mom’s. We had a pretty good mother’s day outing, going out for some lunch, shopping for some sundries, and then partaking of a time-honored Minnesota tradition, the “Sconnie Run” to pick up some brandy for mom’s after-dinner cocktail. See, there are no liquor sales allowed in Minnesota on Sundays, and I’d forgotten to stop ahead of time. When I got up to mom’s, I was informed that her supply of brandy was perilously low. Knowing that I won’t be up there next weekend, I figured it was best to just make the drive across the border. Plus it was nice being able to chat with mom while driving.
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As to the pictures, here are four of the more popular ones on flickr from the nineteen I posted. The first two were within half a block of the Panera in Uptown where we met, as I was warming up my photographic muscles, so to speak. I wish I’d gotten the focus right on the lime, but I didn’t, and people seem to like it anyhow. The colorful wall is behind the Lunds in Uptown, and was a very popular subject. But the last picture of the four is the most interesting according to flickr, mostly because many people have commented on it. I thought it was just a random snap of “taking a picture of people taking pictures,” but when I got home, I noticed that laggard had his head planted against the street sign, and that made the whole picture a lot more interesting.
Tonight, the Saints play the home opener. I have mixed feelings about it, since one of the weather forecasters said it was going to be pouring rain. The forecasts this morning look a bit more realistic, with the chance of rain this evening just slightly above the usual summertime 30% chance of rain
baseline. I’m torn. I want to go to the opener, but I also have a lot of things I should do this evening that I didn’t get to yesterday. Which I suspect will mean spotty postings this week, as I spend my mornings and evenings trying to catch up instead of poking around the web, looking for interesting things.
- Erica, from Metroblogging Minneapolis, saw us walking around on Saturday with All Those Cameras. The pictures are up on flickr, if you want to see what other people pointed their cameras at, and also check out the others from my day. I expect I’ll post more here sometime this week, with more commentary, but if you want to look ahead… [metro mpls]
- Via John Nack on Adobe, Devo is Dead. Long Live Devo. It caught his eye, because Mark Mothersbaugh apparently is a big fan of Photoshop, and shows off his work in his Beautiful Mutants project.
- The Internet helps analog photography hold on, too. It’s not just digital photography that wins in the digital age, but also people who are doing things like looking for weird papers, or no-longer produced film. [photoshop news]
- The Pioneer-Press says Fun, not game, draws avid Saints fans. Well, I suppose they’re mostly right, but the reporter clearly hasn’t done all his research. He says,
Games at Midway Stadium are often sold out far in advance — there’s a years-long waiting list for season tickets — and are often tough to come by on a walk-up basis.
I’ve never seen a game where someone coming to the park before 6:30 couldn’t get a ticket into the game (though a couple times it’s meant waiting for the “fashionably late” tickets to go on sale). Sure, you might end up paying full face value for it, or end up buying it from a scalper, but there are always tickets to be had. [press-patch]