You have your Friday cat and squid bloggers out there, could I be a Friday photo blogger?
Update 17 Nov 2006: It may have been kind of a tease to advertise a stone arch bridge but not show more of the arches. I’ve added a few more of the bridge…
Out of curiosity, I checked Google:
- “friday cat blogging” = 286,000 results
- “friday squid blogging” = 28,300 results
- “friday photo blogging” = 102 results
Friday cat blogging is easy to understand once you’ve seen it in action, but let’s see what Wikipedia has to say:
Catblogging
(traditionally “Friday catblogging”) is the practice of posting pictures of cats, in typical cat postures and expressions, on a blog. Sometimes a comment on the cat or the situation shown is provided. Cats had been on web pages already, but “catblogging” as a distinct and defined practice originated on Calpundit.com, by Kevin Drum. He also established Friday as the canonical catblogging day.
“The canonical catblogging day.” I love it.
What’s the zeitgeist on the whole Friday [something] blogging thing? Still fun? Played out? Like, totally passé don’t-you-know? I have some concern if only that I don’t want to have a repeat of my parachute pants phase of seventh grade (early 80s) and latch on to a fad that doesn’t wear well. But really, I’m not that concerned, even if my thoughts regularly suggest otherwise.
(And Bruce Schneier is a squid blogger, so that at least has to be cool. And being a cat person, I just don’t think you can have too much cat blogging.)
Anyway. Here are a couple of pictures I took downtown a few weeks ago with my Olympus two-megapixel camera. The pictures link to 1600×1200 versions that you might enjoy as wallpaper or for other uses, and please feel free to make use of them under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Here’s Minneapolis, Minnesota as seen from the Stone Arch Bridge:
And here is a picture of the mill ruins, taken through one of the stone arches:
What do you think? Would you like to see more or less pictures on movingtofreedom.org? Or is the current picturousnous acceptable?
Updated 17 Nov 2006: Let’s see more of the arches!
In the first two, you can see the Pillsbury “A” Mill and grain elevators behind the bridge:
Here is Mill Ruins Park next to the bridge:
Related: The 35W Bridge Collapse
7 Comments
MORE! Me like the “Friday Photo Blogger” concept. WAY COOL!
Is there anyway to register a great idea on the Internet so that later, when this FPB thing catches fire, because, obviously this is the next thing, I wonder how you will be able to lay claim to the initial conception of such an idea.
You could say, of course, that you wrote this blog on this date, and I will, naturally vouch for your truthfulness. But, no one will believe either one of us since “post dating” is apparently starting to catch hold as a way for corporate America to appear smarter than they really are.
People will think you were just a copy cat FPB who postdated this blog entry, then, if I vouch for you, my reputation will be slandered, as well.
Can I change my vote? “No” to photos. I think not. There is just too much at stake, Scott.
Or, do you want to figure out how to solve this problem and be my business partner?
27 October 2006 at 9:07 pm
Well, we’re kind of doomed from the start because of prior art. My search showed that other people are already mining this IP field. (I hope I don’t owe them too many royalties.)
Even my attempt to coin the word “picturousness” yields a couple of hits in Google.
And then there’s always the problem of proving anything, as you mentioned. It may be necessary to hire a team of lawyers first.
27 October 2006 at 9:26 pm
More Photos!! Always great on blogs. Makes em more interesting. I’ve been on that stone arch bridge a couple of years ago. Boy that is a pretty town.
You got me wondering what “Squid Bloggers” are too! How could there be so many?
28 October 2006 at 2:48 pm
Hi, Mike! Thanks for visiting and commenting. I’ve lived in a suburb of Minneapolis all my life and that’s only the second time I was on the bridge. (The first being a few days before that.) I’m saving pictures of the St. Anthony Lock for another day.
I’m not sure about the other squid bloggers, but Bruce usually links to some interesting picture/article about squid. The link in my post is to one of his squid posts which in turn points (oh what a tangled web) to a story about a giant squid with eyeballs the size of grapefruits. I don’t know that much about giant squid and wondered if I was being put on.
I thought he was just putting his own spin on the Friday cat blogging thing and was surprised to see so many matches for “friday squid blogging.”
(I visited your blog and was interested to see you mention osCommerce. I had never heard of this before recently helping a cousin out with some work on her company’s web site, which uses it. I think it’s very cool that there is a free ecommerce product out there.)
28 October 2006 at 3:15 pm
Scott
osCommerce is very cool. The community is huge too. (over 100,000 members of the forum) For the non-developer but technically somewhat literate user it is quite a flexible solution. I learned tons setting up a site to sell cds that I distribute.
However, I guess you think it should be called fcommerce instead. LOL
I guess in this case Open Source sounded better.
28 October 2006 at 6:00 pm
Now, now: nobody said that names have to include the word “free!”
Although freeCommerce has a nice ring to it. :-)
28 October 2006 at 8:11 pm
Great shots! I especially love the mill ruins. It looks much older than it is.
19 July 2008 at 3:01 pm