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[roadrunnertwice]

My little brother and sister are graduating! And I'm going to Massachusetts (for the first time ever) to watch and hang out.

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It occurs to me that most of the people reading this have never seen Target Corporation's headquarters building. It's just a blocky sort of tower, but at night, they turn on this crazy lightshow, and it's one of the things that, for me, defines summer nighttime strolls around my neighborhood. Anyway, I took some videos a few nights ago. (One, two. Pardon the shake, I am not a filmmaker.)

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I can hear sound, but I can't get anything to show but white. Prolly a Mac thing. I downloaded some quicktime add-ons, but no luck. iMovie didn't help either. sigh.

[roadrunnertwice]

Ack!

Well, it's some weird flavor of mp4 that doesn't come stock with the Quicktime or CoreMovie components that everything on Mac tries to use. The easy solution is to just install VLC, which plays those files plus pretty much everything else under the sun.

(There's also this bundle somewhere which makes Quicktime play the same files just fine, but I can't remember what it's called or where to find it without access to my external hard disk.)

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Good link. And pretty video. I gotta get back to the twin cities sometime somehow.

Where you going in Massachusetts?

[roadrunnertwice]

Mostly the western side; K&C are graduating from Mt. Holyoke and Hampshire, respectively. I guess the parents are calling in this time-share thing in the Berkshires to save some money on hotel space, so we'll be exploring around there for a while. I'm not sure if we'll make it out to Boston or not.

If I had to pick one word for what I've seen of Massachusetts so far, it would be "rural." It's cute.

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That's the area I'm from (from greenfiled, went to UMass, stayed at hampshire a bit, my sister worked at Mt Holyoke briefly, etc). Good coffee at Rao's in Amherst, better atmosphere at the Haymarket in northampton. Northampton has a million good restaurants, most names of which have faded in my memory. The Fillin' Stantion (aka the Whately Diner) in Whately (exit 24 on Rt. 91) is the 24 hour place to hang out late-late-late. Good wimming at Puffer's pond in Amherst. But I'm sure your siblings know all that.

I love that you describe it as "cute." :)

[roadrunnertwice]

Oh, cool! I keep thinking you're from like five different places, and forgot this was, like, the original version.

The sibs knew some of that, but probably not all of it. I'll totally quiz them on it later.