Gallimaufry

a miscellany notebook

Michael Hartford

Michael Hartford
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Birthday
July 22
Bio
Author of "Dad's Eye View: 52 Family Adventures in the Twin Cities," available May 15 from Minnesota Historical Society Press. Writer, photographer, programmer, dad.

MY RECENT POSTS

MAY 30, 2012 7:02AM

lobsterman

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Fisherman memorial, Land’s End, Maine

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Gordon Ray, via Minnesota Historical SocietyThese are some pictures I’ve found, mostly on photoblogs, that I think are worth your attention. Please click through to be amazed!

MAY 29, 2012 9:02AM

dune view

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Land’s End, Maine

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Gordon Ray, via Minnesota Historical SocietyThese are some pictures I’ve found, mostly on photoblogs, that I think are worth your attention. Please click through to be amazed!

MAY 28, 2012 6:32PM

38: Roller Dam Red Ale

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Gordon Ray, via Minnesota Historical SocietyThese are some pictures I’ve found, mostly on photoblogs, that I think are worth your attention. Please click through to be amazed!

bighappyfunhouse • found photos. free pie. • experiment

Goodness.

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Kathleen Connally’s Photoblog – Row of YelloRead full post »

MAY 27, 2012 7:01AM

Giant Dipper 2

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Giant Dipper Roller Coaster, Belmont Park, San Diego, CA

MAY 26, 2012 7:01AM

Giant Dipper

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Giant Dipper Roller Coaster, Belmont Park, San Diego, CA

MAY 25, 2012 7:01AM

Coronado Beach

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Coronado Beach, California

Have some new functionality that isn’t showing up when deployed on an old Java server? You might need to investigate your classloader settings! I have an application that needs a fast cache layer that provides better retrieval features than most of the common cache libraries provide; ideally, t…

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Gordon Ray, via Minnesota Historical SocietyThese are some pictures I’ve found, mostly on photoblogs, that I think are worth your attention. Please click through to be amazed!

Nickel Inn: 1938 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive

Anything.

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Solstice! on the narrative : matt o’sullivan’s photobRead full post »

MAY 24, 2012 7:01AM

Hotel Coronado

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Coronado Beach, California

MAY 23, 2012 7:01AM

Gale Flag

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Coronado Beach, California

Editor’s Pick
MAY 22, 2012 7:01AM

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Coronado Beach, California

Gordon Ray, via Minnesota Historical SocietyThese are some pictures I’ve found, mostly on photoblogs, that I think are worth your attention. Please click through to be amazed!

It’s been about five years since I last made lists of my favorite updates from my favorite photoblogs. I’m going through my bookmarks and find that a lot has changed in that time–so I’m starting the practice up again.

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MAY 20, 2012 8:51PM

37: Stone Pale Ale

MAY 19, 2012 9:45AM

Gleanings: May 19, 2012

In E-Reader Age of Writer’s Cramp, a Book a Year Is Slacking – NYTimes.com

“It used to be that once a year was a big deal,†said Lisa Scottoline, a best-selling author of thrillers. “You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and

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MAY 15, 2012 6:33PM

The Mirage

Mustafa used the van’s ignition key as a crude knife and managed to get the package open. Inside, in a slim plastic case, was a deck of playing cards. Each card bore a picture of a man’s face, captioned with an English transliteration of his name and a job title. Mustafa

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MAY 14, 2012 1:24PM

Minding your 0s and Os

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MAY 13, 2012 9:38PM

Evening Harvest: May 13, 2012

Eat Drink Mammalogist Woman

Eating in the field can have the same dislocated, heightened quality that accompanies foreign travel. Far from the comforts of home, you find yourself cooking with people who you’ve only ever seen hunched over a lab bench. (You mean, they eat, too?).

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APRIL 28, 2012 8:57PM

Evening Harvest: April 28, 2012

A teacher, a student and a 39-year-long lesson in forgiveness

The beauty of an apology is that everyone wins because it reveals not only who we are, but who we hope we are.

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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick | mcnyblogRead full post »

APRIL 23, 2012 3:20PM

Gleanings: April 23, 2012

The Same River Twice by David Quammen

This spring creek was not one of the most eminent Montana spring creeks, not Nelson Spring Creek and not Armstrong, not the sort of place where you could plunk down twenty-five dollars per rod per day for the privilege of casting your fly

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APRIL 19, 2012 1:33PM

Get “Pieces” free while you can!

My short story “Pieces” is available as a free ebook download (MOBI, ePUB, and PDF formats) at my eStory Experiment site until Friday, April 20. On Friday morning, I’ll be moving this story behind the (incredibly cheap) pay wall (50 cents from the experiment site, 99 cents from Smas… Read full post »