{"id":34674,"date":"2025-09-03T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34674"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:52:56","slug":"being-a-good-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34674","title":{"rendered":"Being a Good Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, when I was walking on New York City’s High Line<\/a> with my sister, niece, and brother-in-law, we reached a cool vantage point where the Empire State Building could be seen off in the distance. I snapped a few photos with my phone…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

…and then I asked my sister and her family to step in and I took two photos of them with the Empire State Building above them.<\/p>\n

Then I took a picture of my niece by herself, as she wanted pictures she could use for a biographical blurb, and I thought a picture of her and the Empire State Building would be a solid possibility.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I got home on Monday and started going through my photos that I noticed something terrible.<\/p>\n

The Empire State Building was missing from the photos I took with my family.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

It’s washed out in the sky. My phone’s digital camera, maybe because my niece was so near, didn’t process the distance the same way that the photos of the Empire State Building by itself did.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I know a little bit about editing photos. And I took the photos from the same spot, so the photos all matched pretty closely, really only needing a little rotation because my hands weren’t holding the camera in exactly<\/i> the same position.<\/p>\n

Within fifteen minutes, I had the Empire State Building added back to the photos of my family…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

…and it looks like it was there all along!<\/p>\n

A little ingenuity goes a long way, and my niece has her photo with the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia’s WXPN<\/a> has a nice recap\/discussion of the Oasis concert<\/a> in New Jersey on their website.<\/p>\n

I applied for a job at WXPN back in… late 2013? I think it was late 2013. Might’ve been early 2014. Digital Content Manager was the position, if I’m remembering correctly.<\/p>\n

I assume I did not get the job. I was not called for an interview, I never received a rejection email, and their website is very different today than it was in 2013-4, which suggests strongly that someone (or something) is managing XPN’s digital content.<\/p>\n

I’m not bitter or anything. It was a longshot — and, if I recall correctly, the pay wouldn’t have been viable — but I’d have been mad at myself if I hadn’t applied for the position. I used to listen to XPN somewhat regularly (and I did at that time), though I don’t know that I have at all since the start of COVID.<\/p>\n

Life happens.<\/p>\n

But I still follow XPN on Facebook at least, and when the article on the Oasis concert<\/a> came up, I wasn’t not going to read it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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