Vacation is over, and I’m back at work. Pretty much settled right back in to the routine, which is good, I guess. But I always think that maybe I’ll get some sort of long-term change out of a vacation. Some new insight that will change the way I look at work or life. Doesn’t seem to have happened this time.
Which is all probably just as well. Looks like I’m going to have a busy rest-of-the-year, so keeping on the course that got me here is probably wisest.
- Heard about any of the Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010? Probably not. [metafilter]
- Cool thing about the interwebs, news spreads fast: The State of Georgia Seized Your Milk Today was written last Thursday. Dan linked to it on Saturday, and you see it here today. I would have linked to it sooner, except I thought there might be an update by now. [flutterby]
- I’ve started posting photos and writing up my 2009 U.S. 2 Road Trip. Hope to finish it up soon.
- Here’s a little story from Sat 17th Oct. Ealing Broadway. 17:30 Approx in which after being confronted by the plods, a photographer takes them back to the police station and complains about being threatened at and told to delete his photos. Excellent! [shaynes]
- Looking to improve your concentration? Maybe giving up The false god of coffee will help. [boing boing]
As I did last October, I took some vacation time this fall. This time I drove the western half of US 2, driving from Duluth, MN to Everett, WA. I may have missed the very last bit of US 2 in Everett, because the signage is bad there. I didn’t get a photo of the western end of the road. I did get pretty close, or perhaps actually drive all the way to the end though, since I took the Hewitt Avenue exit, but it actually drops you a block north on California Street. Oh well.
Anyway, I’m still processing the photos, but I’ve created a set on Flickr for the trip photos, and will get things written up here fairly soon, I hope.
- If you hit amazon, you might see that All of Mojo Nixon in free, legal MP3 — US ONLY. Cool. [boing boing]
- I don’t know if I’d go as far as Bill’s Tom Knapp’s Not only no but f — k no, but the FTC’s new rules on bloggers needing to disclose any considerations they receive for endorsements rubs me the wrong way, especially at $11,000 per
violation.
[endwar] - Here’s an Interview with the FTC’s Richard Cleland which seems to clarify the whole
bloggers must disclose
rule by the FTC. FYI, I’ve never received anything to review, and any reviews here are of things I bought on my own dime. That may be all I’ll ever disclose. [scalzi]
Turned cold this week. Not middle of winter in Minnesota cold, but there was frost in the suburbs on Wednesday morning. Time to dig out the jeans, get the comforters to the cleaners (I know - shoulda done that in the spring), and fire up the furnace.
I’m just about fully recovered from my back surgery, which is nice. It’s good not hurting.
And I think that’s going to do it for the week. Have a good weekend.
- In an article titled America armed, but guns not necessarily loaded, the AP takes a look at the ammunition shortage in the US. [fark!]
- Nikon is currently running their Nikon Small World contest, which aims to
[Recognize] Excellence in Photography through the Microscope.
A friend made the finals, which is extra-neat. Go, look, vote. I think the judges picks get posted next week. - After a bunch of cooking on Sunday, I wrote up Yet another Pasty Recipe. Enjoy.
- There’s a gallery of photos of the Oakland Bay Bridge replacement online from Tom Paiva, the photographer who was hired to document the project. Pretty. [night photo]
- The WSJ has a fine article on How Small Newspapers Are Surviving. I just wish I had a small newspaper in my area. The Southeast Angle got merged into The Bridge and, lost some of the hyper-local focus, after a relatively short run, went online-only. Which is fine, but I actually like sitting down with paper once in a while.
- Wanna cheat at Scrabble? Scrabulizer looks like it’ll help.
- There’s a very harsh commentary on kung fu grippe about Adobe. Worth reading.
- Bruce Schneier takes a look at The Problem of Vague Laws, and points out a book which states that the average American commits three felonies a day. As Vinnie said,
If they could just pass a few more laws, then we could all be criminals. I don’t think it’ll take any more laws at this point.
[vinnie]