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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
3:18 pm	New/old software for picture galleries Last June, my cousin-once-removed Ruth turned 90. She died soon after, so I'm glad I took a lot of pictures of her as well as of the whole trip to Berkeley CA. I pulled the fannish stuff, so this is only family. I'm mentioning it here because I used new software to generate the gallery. To be more specific, I used an update to the software I have been using that runs on OS X. I need something that will let me play with the html, and this seems good. Comments are appreciated (corrections are appreciated too, but you don't know anyone besides me...). Anyway, if you're interested, you can check out Ruth Grodzins 90th Birthday Party in the Romm Family Gallery section. iView Media Pro has different "themes", and "Aqua" seems to be the simplest. Further galleries will look like this, unless I change my mind. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 12th, 2008
4:16 pm	Fathers Climbing the Family Tree: Up Two Generations (from last entry) Fathers of jdtacv, Mpls 5/10/08 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
9:07 am	Don't try this at home, kids Doorway of jdtacv, 5/10/08 (4 Comments |Comment on this)
1:56 am	Nate markiv1111, Mpls 5/10/08 (4 Comments |Comment on this)
12:02 am	Podcasts updated and working, I hope I just finished completely remastering the Shockwave Radio Podcast page. The automatic downloads and RSS feeds should work. If not, please let me know. I added two podcasts from the interview with Power Salad in March. The interview with Paul & Storm, previously available as a single, should now be available as a choice in the podcast listing. In addition, I added one of Shockwave's most downloaded shows, Gilligan's Island Theme from 9/10/05, as Brian Westley and I talked about the death of Bob Denver the previous week, and I played five variants of the theme song (but not the actual one), including Gilligan's Island Stairway. I'll get a few more music podcasts in before the political stuff. Whee! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
12:34 pm	Not-So-Hidden Minnesota While having breakfast with the redoubtable 7ivy7, a group of people (men and women) in vaguely familiar military uniforms gathered at the next table. I asked on the way out, and it was interesting. They wore dress uniforms of Buffalo Soldiers and will be participating in Minnesota Military Expo '08 (Fort Snelling, May 16-17). Official site with a long Flash download. They had dressed up to have their picture taken. They looked really sharp. I should never go anywhere without a camera... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
7:34 am	Hidden Minneapolis Restaurants come and go. The corner of Nicollet and 29th has had a series of restaurants, the current one being a very good Vietnamese soup place tucked into a corner that only exists because the KMart cuts off Nicollet (see previous entry) and the city built the one block long Cecil Newman Lane (just South of where 29th would have gone) to aid traffic flow. Pho Tau Bay, Mpls, May 8 2008CE sign on what would be Nicollet Ave if the KMart didn't block the way Way back when, it was a homestyle 'Murrican breakfast/pancake house called The Three Bee'z Family Restaurant. For many years, through several restaurant changes, no one bothered to change the street sign. After all, it wasn't a street anymore. Decades pass. Finally, Pho Tau Bay, est. 1995, updated the sign, above. You can see it as you drive South on Nicollet, before you have to turn on 29th to go around the KMart. But since no one can drive North on Nicollet, the reverse of the sign is less important, and not worth changing. Three Bee'z sign, Mpls May 8 2008CE (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
1:40 pm	Hidden Minneapolis Many people pass by the KMart on Lake and Nicollet (the one that prevents Nicollet from going through). They see the front. Less known is the mural on the back. Hidden Minneapolis - mural behind the KMart A door closes, and a battleship emerges Minneapolis, MN, May 8 2008CE a closer look at the right half of the mural (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
8:22 am	Fossil Fuel Clock The Fossil Fuel Clock Is Ticking May Day Parade, May 4, 2008CE The parade theme continues: After the 35W Bridge collapse and a change of heart about the environment, what can we do now? Let's create a bridge to a more sustainable future. This will probably be my last May Day pic for a while, as I have finally finished going through the images to decide which to keep. I have other projects to catch up on, and the big ones are for family so won't post them here. But you never know. Requests? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
7:49 pm	Veggie Queen vgqn Berkeley CA, June 6, 2007CE Yes, I'm officially 12 months behind in editing picture galleries. This is part of a series taken in last summer while I was in Berkeley on family matters. I published the picture of a gathering of fans at dinner back in June. I decided to pull the fannish pics out of the family gallery and will roll them into a Summer '07 gallery. It will be a while. So much to do, so many game turns to take, so little energy... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
5:21 pm	Butterfly Butterfly May Day Parade, May 4 2008CE Lots of butterflies in the parade, but more than just gossamer wings. She's also on stilts. (Comment on this)
12:31 pm	A Tarot Reading A Tarot Reading Using a Morgan Deck, minnehaha K does a reading for Mrs. soarhead flanked by dreamshark and tesla_aldrich May Day, MN-StF Picnic, May 4, 2008CE I stayed until just after Mary Jo's reading. Just before I left, I wanted a one card a quickie. I drew Eternal Bliss. I don't know if I'm quite that happy, but today was the first day I walked outside in shorts in a long time. We'll see about the Eternal part... (6 Comments |Comment on this)
9:04 am	The Bucket List: Joe rvrjoe775 collected more than a bucket's worth of donations May Day Parade, May 4, 2008CE The Parade, Ceremony and Festival are all free, and at the end of the parade (not during the themed sections but before the Free Speech section), the bucket brigade comes out. Several fans volunteered to work the crowd. (Comment on this)
7:04 am	A Change of Mind "What must we do to live gloriously and sustainably without fossil fuels? Time for a change of mind!" I call this one "solarhead" dunno what the bees are doing May Day Parade, Mpls, May 4 2008CE (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 5th, 2008
6:58 pm	Kernels of Wisdom Kernels of Wisdom May Day Parade, May 4, 2008CE "Children carry forward future Being "Beans" -- the seeds of all species. Adults carry forward kernels of wisdom." note the detail on the monkey and the fox "kernels" (Comment on this)
1:15 pm	Mourners Hold Vigil Oh, so you want shots of the parade, eh? Mourners Hold Vigil May Day Parade, May 4, 2008CE "Mourners from all nations hold vigil over the shroud of the Tree of Life" says the official guide to the May Day Parade and Festival. The Parade has a theme, which is developed (sometimes haphazardly). The mourners are part of the Change of Heart section. In the aftermath of the collapse of the 35W bridge, some people may be moved to change. Only some, alas. (Comment on this)
10:56 am	Mounted Police Mounted Police May Day Parade, May 4, 2008CE The May Day Parade has always had good relations with the local police. They direct traffic and keep emotions from flaring. This year, as in the past, the police were on foot, on bicycle and on horseback. It's one of the things that makes the festival successful, year after year. But no cars got towed, even if they were in the parade route. Most cars were gone by the time the parade started, but there were still a few jerks in the way. Maybe the horses crapped on them. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
8:38 am	Delia and the Hoop Delia and the Hoop MN-StF picnic at the May Day 2008 celebration, May 4 2008CE Picture posted by request of pegkerr! minnehaha K staked out an area that also attracted a small drum jam and several brightly colored large hula hoops. And lots of kids, many of whom tried the hula hoops with greater and lesser success. Delia was pretty good at it. No one knew what the "RL" on her shirt stood for. (Probably Ralph Lauren, as rvrjoe775 notes in comments.) Back In The Day, we knew what was on our shirt, usually a political statement. In The Day After Back In The Day, our shirts were walking advertisements, and we knew what we were promoting, even if we were just wearing a giveaway and didn't actually agree with the sentiment or use the product. Today, kids will throw on any article of clothing adorned with any text, and not worry about what kind of signpost they're being. Moving gifs on the hoof. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
9:32 pm	No Homesteading on Lake Street "No, I don't care how bad the subprime mortgage crisis is, you can't build a house in the middle of the intersection" May Day Parade, Mpls, May 4, 2008CE I took over 500 pictures with my new camera, and nearly a hundred of them plotzed. For some reason, the image didn't save to the chip. The thumbnail did, so I can tell which pictures were gone. There seems to be no pattern to the phenomena. I dunno. And I'm not terribly happy with the pictures I did get, for the most part. Maybe they'll look better in full PhotoShop mode with cropping and such. Still, if I get a few dozen really good shots then it will have been a good day. This is one of them, more for the humor value than the technical wizardry. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
11:51 am	Doug Wickstrom and friend Doug Wickstrom and friend Blaisdell Polytechnic, May 3 2008CE MN-StF President lydy ran for the Board on a platform of "Beer and Tigers". When the meetings are at her house, both abound. Off to the May Day Parade! (Comment on this)