August 2012

Cute. The Pioneer Press says I was given “advanced warning” about helicopters training in Minneapolis so I should have known what was going on when I Instagram’d a photo of 4 black-hawk helicopters flying over my house. A “WARNING”? Really? If you click that link, it’s a 6 paragraph (8 sentence) story about the upcoming […]

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millcitytimes: Blackhawk Helicopters on Military Training Exercise over the Downtown Minneapolis Riverfront on Flickr. Shot from the Stone Arch Bridge on the Downtown Minneapolis Riverfront – More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/millcitytimes/sets/72157631288258568/ Great photos in that set. I was playing soccer with my kids and took a photo as these guys flew by! I missed the memo

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Four helicopters flew by in the sky just now. Huh. #Minneapolis. Update: Check out these great photos of the helicopters buzzing by downtown Mpls posted by Mill City Times. Yeah, they were just out blackhawk helicopter training! Got it.

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The future [of Twitter] is driving eyeballs to television programs Mathew Ingram, via Two moves that tell you everything you need to know about Twitter’s future — Tech News and Analysis Huh. I suppose I can agree with this regarding the NFL (sorry, I did not follow the Olympics on Twitter). A couple years ago,

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This is pretty cool – my 10-year-old getting some tricks down on his pogo stick! Naturally, I’d love to see him trying these things on a skateboard, but the trick creativity feels exactly like skateboarding to me. Pretty awesome. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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minusmanhattan: Great collection of photographs from Apollo 11 over at The Big Picture. I really like the accompanying caption to the above photo: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, photographed by Neil Armstrong (visible in reflection). Buzz Aldrin: “As I walked away from the Eagle Lunar Module, Neil said ‘Hold it, Buzz’, so I stopped and turned around, and then

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tumblr_m99kczuhmA1qzp5buo1 gbattle: Amerigo Gazaway of Gummy Soul – “Runnin’” – Bizarre Tribe.  From the folks who brought you Fela Soul comes an album of classic Pharcyde vocals over classic ATCQ beats.  This is “Runnin’” over a remake of “Electric Relaxation”.  Note that they reproduced the Tribe cuts from the original samples and refreaked them tastefully.  This

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Reading e-mails at home never feels good or productive. David Karp, from What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day | Fast Company I’m going to try this. Usually checking work email is the first thing I do – but at home BEFORE I even go to work. I feel like

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