IndieWeb people in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. 2025-12-24T00:46:41.118Z BlogFlock Benji Encalada Mora, Eric Walker, Jamie Thingelstad, Patrick Rhone, Barry Hess, Garrick van Buren, Jim Bernard, Weekly Thing http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/22/poap-at-christmas-in-nashville.html 2025-12-22T13:46:40.000Z

<p>POAP <a href="https://collectors.poap.xyz/token/7542328">7542328</a> at <strong><a href="https://poap.gallery/drops/218591">Christmas in Nashville</a></strong>.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/b846aa47-81ec-4d93-a154-59f2b49b70c0.png" width="500" height="500" /> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/20/now-that-is-a-big.html 2025-12-20T18:59:18.000Z

<p>Now that is a big tree! Gaylord Opryland Resort. 🎄</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/9ced9ec36c.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt=""> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/19/tons-of-pokmon-cards-in.html 2025-12-20T02:19:19.000Z

<p>Tons of Pokémon cards in this kiosk at MSP Airport — and only <strong>400% more expensive</strong> than it should be! 💸😬</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/33f8694d8e.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt=""> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/19/poap-at-horizon-workday-go.html 2025-12-19T14:20:00.000Z

<p>POAP <a href="https://collectors.poap.xyz/token/7541524">7541524</a> at <strong><a href="https://poap.gallery/drops/217949">Horizon Workday Go Live</a></strong>.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/9ef4ff56-6cea-4e02-a6ce-b3c6d503f904.png" width="500" height="500" /> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16785 2025-12-18T14:09:03.000Z

<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.patrickrhone.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-18-at-8.07.51AM.png?resize=592%2C355&#038;ssl=1" alt="" title="Screenshot 2025-12-18 at 8.07.51 AM.png" border="0" width="592" height="355" /></p> <p>Um, this is kind of huge news.</p> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16781 2025-12-18T05:50:20.000Z

<p><a href="https://www.relay.fm/focused/245">Focused<span class="hashtag"> #<a href="https://www.patrickrhone.net?s=%23245:">245:</a></span> Fashionable &amp; Functional, with Patrick Rhone &#8211; Relay</a></p> <p>Was very delighted to be asked to return for a chat with my long time buddy David Sparks and his co-host Mike Schmitz.</p> <p>I&#8217;m finding myself doing a fair amount of podcast guesting these days. It falls under my <a href="https://www.patrickrhone.net/a-policy-of-yes/">policy of yes</a>.</p> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/17/clash-royale-milestone-first-card.html 2025-12-18T04:43:27.000Z

<p>Clash Royale milestone — first card to level 16, Witch!</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/ca618950a2.png" width="600" height="600" alt=""> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16778 2025-12-17T16:08:51.000Z

<p><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650">Mac keyboard shortcuts &#8211; Apple Support</a></p> <p>Related: Nice to see this support doc still active and updated.</p> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16775 2025-12-17T15:19:09.000Z

<p><a href="https://minimalmac.com/post/34081675157/the-best-upgrade-is-you">Minimal Mac | The Best Upgrade Is You</a></p> <p>A blast from my past circa 2012.</p> <p>Want a better computer? Perhaps start with bettering your use of the one you already have.</p> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16772 2025-12-17T05:01:34.000Z

<p><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/">Please learn how to use your computer » Nieman Journalism Lab</a></p> <blockquote><p> In 2026, I’m hoping — begging, really — that we finally retire the idea that digital incompetence is an acceptable personality quirk in professional settings. Learn the shortcuts. Read the error messages. Google it (or, hell, ask the bots) before you ask someone else to Google it for you. </p></blockquote> <p>A decent and important rant. Applies to every profession, not just journalism.</p> tag:bjhess.com,2005:Post/74109 2025-12-17T02:57:40.000Z

<div class="trix-content"> <p>I hate what drugs have done to parts of American society as much as anyone. The purveyors prey on people in a vulnerable state, a state they’ve arrived at for any of a number of reasons. The addictive qualities can be nearly impossible to resist.</p> <p>While I’m not super-informed these days, news and events still cross my path. The latest of these is the American Secretary of Defense claiming that drugs are weapons. This is in order to justify bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea.</p> <p>I’m uninformed. I don’t know the truth of these boats and their cargo. What I do know is that drugs are not weapons. Weapons are weapons.</p> <p>If drugs from preying purveyors were weapons, we’d be bombing pharmaceutical companies   and their fleet of sales cars every other year. But we’re not. That would be ridiculous.</p> <p>Oh, wait, he said “weapons of mass destruction.” Now there’s a phrase that we can trust coming out of the mouth of an American politician!</p> <p>To be fair (for whatever reason), there is  a nuanced argument to be made that there is a drug epidemic and certainly as a society we would benefit from pushing toward a better position on the epidemic spectrum. Of course, there are also many and various nuanced solutions to each type of drug problem. That’s…not a conversation being had. (Are conversations even allowed anymore?)</p> <p>In any case, this country has a major problem with <em>actual weapons</em>. A problem very few politicians care to do anything about.</p> <p>Weapons are weapons. Drugs are not weapons.</p> </div> <br><hr><br><p><a href="https://letterbird.co/bjhess?subject=Re%3A%20Words%20Matter">Reply by email</a></p> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/14/old-fashioned-at-aster-house.html 2025-12-15T02:26:29.000Z

<p>Old Fashioned at <a href="https://asterhousempls.com">Aster House</a>.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/1e62cccbde.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt=""> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/14/mazie-and-tyler-finished-their.html 2025-12-14T19:00:22.000Z

<p>Mazie and Tyler finished their Gingerbread Houses for 2025! Delightful. 🎄</p> <p><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/b65cc4085e.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt=""><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/2c6f6d40c0.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt=""></p> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/13/the-cure-for-subzero-temperatures.html 2025-12-13T18:19:48.000Z

<p>The cure for sub-zero temperatures. 🥶🔥</p> <p><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/30b3b4e0b6.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt=""><img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/f8b2464a71.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt=""></p> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/13/these-meme-ornaments-at-runamuck.html 2025-12-13T17:18:08.000Z

<p>These meme ornaments at <a href="https://runamuckworkshop.com">Runamuck Workshop</a> made me laugh.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/83182f9f39.jpg" alt="A Christmas tree is decorated with colorful lights and an ornament featuring Santa Claus making an OK gesture and the text SIX SEVEN."> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/7fdd8a38c2.jpg" alt="A Christmas tree is decorated with a humorous ornament featuring the text 67 No Cap Bruh Skibidi Rizzmas 2023 in colorful letters."> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/d88f5821aa.jpg" alt="A festive Christmas tree is decorated with plush toys, ornaments, and a Grinch-themed sign with the words SIX SEVEN."> https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/336/ 2025-12-13T12:00:00.000Z

<p>Good morning! ☕️</p> <p>I hope your weekend is getting off to a great start. We've had what feels like an unusually cold start to our winter. There is already plenty of snow and we are getting below zero temperatures. It is a little bracing! 🥶</p> <p>This is my last Weekly Thing of 2025. I know, I know. What will you do without a too-long email landing in your mailbox every weekend? Have no worries, I'll be back after January 15th with more links and many other things. </p> <p>In the meantime, if you want to share some links of your own the new version of our forum, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/weeklything/" target="_blank">r/WeeklyThing on Reddit</a>, has a good number of folks joining and a bit of dialog starting. And a special POAP through the end of the year. 🤩</p> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16769 2025-12-11T03:27:01.000Z

<p><a href="https://culturaloffering.tumblr.com/post/802595607499948032/25-blogs-guaranteed-to-make-you-smarter">25 Blogs Guaranteed to Make You Smarter</a></p> <p>Despite my frequency slowdown as of late, I still made the cut.</p> https://www.patrickrhone.net/?p=16766 2025-12-10T18:45:02.000Z

<p><a href="https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2025/12/alma-mater.html">Alma Mater</a></p> <p>My wife writes about Tufts and what it meant to her.</p> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/09/great-dinner-at-salut-celebrating.html 2025-12-10T04:37:17.000Z

<p>Great dinner at Salut celebrating my friend Jim’s birthday and a final visit before Salut closes at the end of the year.</p> <img src="https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/890/2025/895c8781bf.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt=""> http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/12/09/this-mornings-moment-in-waking.html 2025-12-09T13:04:56.000Z

<p><a href="https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO4C3A2?share_id=300BDBD8&amp;code=SC3BA4879">This morning&rsquo;s moment in Waking Up</a> was wonderfully simple.</p> <blockquote> <p>You have one job, and it consists of two parts. Be a <strong>good person</strong>, and <strong>pay attention</strong>.</p> </blockquote> <p>Two things.</p>