Floyd the Barberian

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Head hacker. 45°N, GMT-6.

Card table and 4 level shelf with 10 more black plastic flats of seedlings, this time mostly assorted tomatoes and peppers.
A patio table with eight black plastic flats of various seedlings waiting to be planted.
Two people, back to camera, in winter coats, wearing orange safety vests and orange Monarch wings.
Large red banner (est. 5' x 20') on wrought iron fence along property line of lakefront home in Minneapolis: "Send Barron".
Monument to the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow, Scotland. The monument is a bronze of the Duke on horseback, decorated with a now traditional orange traffic cone atop his head.
Jerry Reed as Cledus "Snowman" Snow, driving the Kenilworth 18 wheeler in Smokey and the Bandit.
IMDb: Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Leslie Nielsen (I), Red Buttons, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens (I), Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson (I), Carol Lynley, Pamela Sue Martin (I), Arthur O'Connell and Eric Shea (I) in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Star Tribune headline: Protesters pack parks, sidewalks and streets at 'No Kings' rallies in Minnesota.
Still photo of Lock Martin (Gort) and Michael Renee (Klaatu) in "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
A large tabby colored Maine Coon lays atop most of a coffee table, front paw dangling off as he snoozes. His forehead abuts the pillow that was intended for his resting place; it is too small to hold him.
Punch tape used to input programs into mainframe computer via dumb terminal.
Is the guy on the right gone? Last chance for an image tied to the newspaper?... *ahem* newsfabric?
Jumbo Tron showing image of Trump, inconsolable, above a row of Port-a-potties.
Promotional image from the 1971 SF film "Andromeda Strain" about an extraplanetery virus infecting Earth bound humans, and the race with secret lab to defeat the bug.
Daytime photo of Pink Street, the "red light" district of Lisbon, Portugal.
Static-laden laundry held aloft by a polyester tee, clinging in a bunch above the floor.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Portrait of Muppet character Link Hogthrob, in costume as Captain of the Swinetrek.
Statue of Meredith Wilson, accomplished 20th century band leader and composer, in his homety of Mason City, Iowa.
Framed painting of a Siberian tiger, facing the viewer, moon framing the tiger's head, done on a black velvet substrate.
A hopeful but clueless old man shakes the hand of a hateful and mindless old man.
Picture of Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth. In character as the alien Exeter, with an oddly large forehead.
A young Castellero is excited by the news of they're town's score.
Close-up of a three-toed box turtle named Scooter.
Technically an aqueduct, not a bridge, in Tarragona, Spain.
Yul Brenner as Pharaoh: "So let it be written."
Movie theater now assorted shops, grocery store under new ownership, drug store now a Starbucks.
The Blue sky ten million user celebration card, noting my number 1,116,178.
Image of 'The Visible Man' model kit.
Robert Hellman as the Child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968.
Silhouette of person, arms upraised, with broken chains between wrists, running into a sunrise in a Blue Sky.
Klaatu emerging from his spaceship, in the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
Cover of self-titled album, "The Specials." Released in 1979, the British Ska revival band's record was very much unlike anything heard on US Top 40 radio at the time (e.g., Kenny Rogers, Kansas, Barbra Streisand, Kiss, etc.)
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, a gender remix of The Front Page.
Partial logo from Bald Man Brewing, Eagan,MN.
A photo I can believe Henri Cartier Bresson took in 1932, titled 'Behind the Gare Saint Lazare.
1979 album cover "New York London Paris Munich" by the artist M.
Brent Spiner's scientist character from Independence Day controlled by alien for communication. About to speak, "Release Me," prior to death. Appropriate for social media these days.
Scene from the '50s SF flick 'THEM!' Giant mutant ant about to attack a scientist in the desert.
Looking up at an entrance to the Sagrada Familia, still under construction.
Close-up of Magic 8-Ball window, showing result, "without a doubt."
Text on shop door stating "pants and shirt required."
One of "els gegantes," large figures used in parades and celebrations. With the body of a turtle, the head of a humanized cat and a changeable temperament, la Tarasca has been documented in Barcelona since the late 16th century. The current figure dates from 1993.
Apollo 8 image of the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon.
Movie poster of Frank Bullitt in his '68 fastback Mustang.
Elvis Costello, "This Year's Model" - 1978.
SW Wisconsin bike trail bridge.