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My holidays…

My holidays…

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There’s still some photos to upload – a lot, actually. But highlights from my Yule season:
Watching the New Standards at Dakota Jazz Club on Pre N’ers
Aside from accidental flash in a previous shot... Sorry #newstandards

Mike and I got spiffy for it:
Waiting for the New Standards show to start.

Take not her icy visage for dispassion. There is cold that burns, that tears the skin & she is its master.

Seeing some of the work by Grant Woods that is NOT American Gothic:
Grant Woods corn chandelier.

I bought Mike a toy helicopter:
Now Theo can play Godzilla with the remote helicopter I bought Mike.

Mike bought me a basket of rocks:
For Solstice my sweetheart gave me a basket of rocks.

I sat vigil on solstice, staying up on the longest night until I saw the sun safely returned:
Preparing the sunrise offering for the new-conceived Sun and his Mother. #yule #Solstice #pagan

I also baked a lot. Marshmallows, meringue puffs and pie:
Houston...we have marshmallows. I am also now covered in powdered sugar.
Today, meringue puffs. Tomorrow homemade marshmallows. #baking
Teeny pies for xmas giftdls this year. #baking

Caught the Holidazzle in its last year, mostly by accident:
Stuck in traffic. # holidazzle

And I acted as Mike’s lab assistant. Results… to be expected.
So this went down at the artificial intelligence lab last week...

Unplanned play with Paint.net

Unplanned play with Paint.net

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It’s not so much that I’m ever unmotivated, as that my motivation becomes intractable and I am forced to do some task I had not planned on doing today. So on this day it was the image heavy insistence. End result, along with a lot of photos edited? A new banner for my Twitter profile:

twitter banner twitter banner2 twitter banner3

It’s an expression, sort of, of my new blogging direction – to focus more on what’s actually important to me, to share that, to actually talk about me a little bit more. I did it in Paint.net and pulled photos from my flickr account  – all taken by me. It doesn’t show here as well as it does on my Twitter account, and given that nearly everyone uses Twitter via an app these days, it’s unlikely anyone will really see it. But hey, if anyone does – that’s my expression of what matters. The penguins aren’t that political though. Penguins can’t be. They’re psychotic.

Photos from Paris: the Latin Quarter

Photos from Paris: the Latin Quarter

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[stextbox id=”info”]My partner Mike and I went to Paris last month. These are shots captured. Also reference the Analog Tweets from Paris series, as this may give you some context. The shots/slides are available to view on Flickr, and are hidden behind a cut so as not to make Livejournal explode.[/stextbox]
The Latin Quarter is thus called because it’s where the Romans used to hang out. Nowadays it’s where the tourists and those willing to put up with the tourists hang out. We stayed on Saint Germain, in walking distance of Notre Dame, and we got around by walking and taking the Metro. We really didn’t wander out the Quarter too much – it’s really close to the gigantic tourism opportunities, and as I found out in the fromagerie, speaking English. like speaking French, is no guarantee for understanding the language. Thank the popularity of US CSI for making it safe for me to make gestures in France with relatively low risk of offending anyone.

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Art cars

Art cars

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The window says "There’s no psychology. Only mutancy-isms and sovereignty – Wiz (not sure of the last there.)
Pus and Boots Rebel wo a cause
Puss and boots revel wo pause"

I’d wonder what that means, but that would involve thinking about it.

The view from the Bedlam Theater

The view from the Bedlam Theater

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I was at the Bedlam Theater twice in the same week last winter, for an author’s reading and for an Ignite! Minneapolis event. Little did I know that this is the last year for said theater – it’s getting torn down to make room for parking, or a mosque, or parking for the mosque or something. While I’m really sad about it – the Bedlam is cool – at least I grabbed some snapshots while I could.



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