Support the Web via Open RSS https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/05/support-the-web-via-open.html

POAP + RSS = Awesome? https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/05/poap-rss-awesome.html

Shabby Road Orchestra at The Dakota https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/04/shabby-road-orchestra-at-the.html

First time at Le Burger 4304. We all agreed the fries were great. Burgers were very good with Jamie liking the most. We ordered doubles and should have gotten singles. Very busy. Will be back. 🍔 https://www.leburger4304.com

Trying to Clout Coffee Bourbon Whiskey barrel-aged espresso this morning. Strong Bourbon smell on the beans. https://www.cloutcoffee.com

All five of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs are now created!

Phil Rodemann @See3p0

Marcos D Alves @mdalves

David O’Hara @davoh

Jesse Lang @jesselang

Eric Cohn @ercohn

Next step is to introduce each of these blogs to Weekly Thing readers over a few issues. Love that “new blog” smell! 😂 https://weekly.thingelstad.com https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/08/i-love-to.html https://see3p0.micro.blog https://micro.blog/See3p0 https://mdalves.micro.blog https://micro.blog/mdalves https://davoh.org https://micro.blog/davoh https://jesselang.micro.blog https://micro.blog/jesselang https://cohntemplations.micro.blog/ https://micro.blog/ercohn

We had a fun visit to Bell Museum this morning. We saw Mars: The Ultimate Voyage in the Planetarium and then checked out all the dioramas. https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/dioramas/

It’s my birthday tomorrow! Noting my rings and version number the day before. 😊 https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/11/22/four-thousand-weeks.html https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/02/24/your-version-number.html

We watched Fly Me to the Moon tonight and I thought it was a great movie. Tammy liked it too and Tyler was a bit bored. Enjoyable movie with a fun story all in the context of the Apollo program and landing on the moon! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Me_to_the_Moon_(2024_film)

POAP Event Trends https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/02/poap-event-trends.html

I’m “all in” on micro.blog collections. I have 61 collections with 936 images. My Collection Creator Shortcut was key to that. Nearly all Gallery posts have been updated. I migrated Adaptive Photo Layout posts to Collections.

Top feature ask: ability to rename collections. https://help.micro.blog/t/photo-collections/3366 https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/30/microblog-collection-creator-shortcut.html https://www.thingelstad.com/categories/gallery/ https://mattlangford.com/2023/08/08/a-new-plugin.html

2024 in Blogging https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/01/02/in-blogging.html

Happy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! 🎉🥂 Wishing everyone a great New Year!

It was Mr. Green with the Revilver in the Hall. Tammy won!

Enjoying one of our New Year’s Eve traditions, a delicious pot of fondue. So good.

We went to A Complete Unknown today at the iconic Heights Theater. I thought the movie was great and Timothée Chalamet did a great performance as Bob Dylan. Now I want to listen to Dylan music for the next several weeks. It was also great to hear a couple of Minneapolis callouts. Great movie! 🍿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Complete_Unknown https://heightstheater.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoth%C3%A9e_Chalamet

Cool to see the new Mimi Uploader out with support for Micro.blog collections! This along with my Collection Creator Shortcut gives me a lot of options. https://samgrover.com/2024/12/31/a-new-version-of-mimi.html https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/30/microblog-collection-creator-shortcut.html

I’m excited to welcome Jesse Lang @jesselang to Micro.blog! Along with Phil Rodemann @See3p0, Marcos D Alves @mdalves, and David O’Hara @davoh that is four of the Christmas Blogs. 🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁

The fifth winner changed their mind so I extended the offer to another. 🤞 https://jesselang.micro.blog https://micro.blog/jesselang https://see3p0.micro.blog https://micro.blog/See3p0 https://mdalves.micro.blog https://micro.blog/mdalves https://davoh.org https://micro.blog/davoh https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/08/i-love-to.html

We had a great time at [Activate] in Roseville today. The games were great. All of the tech worked flawlessly. We were challenged and got our heart rates up playing. Super fun! Highly recommend checking this out! Wear clothes like you are going to the gym!

We went to Puttshack today and loved their “enhanced” take on minigolf. We also had lunch and the food was good and the dessert even better. It is fun that the scoring is all done for you and they introduce other dynamics into the course. Fun time! https://www.puttshack.com/locations/edina