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November 2025
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6 — 7 Mile Hike
Tammy and I hopped in the car for Lebanon Hills this afternoon to get out in the woods and hike a …
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Tammy and I were talking about movies from our youth with Tyler and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure …
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Making more candles for the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for next week! I got the labels a little …
October 2025
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Making Things 4 Good candles!
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Started with 8 gallons of wax and 60 candles later…
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Figured out some support for these double wicks in the XL candles.
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Triple smash burgers tonight! 🍔
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Tammy led the way while we all helped and the shed is in better shape than it ever has been! I …
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Driveway markers are in. Let it snow! 😊
: I’ve been using a Libre 3 Plus continuous glucose monitor and paying more attention to the specific …
: Writing blog posts backdated a couple of days to when the thing actually happened is the most …
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Good Fortune at Twin Cities Film Fest
Tammy and I have went to the Twin Cities Film Fest showing of Good Fortune tonight at the Edina 4 …
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Tron: Ares
Tammy, Tyler, and I went to Tron: Ares tonight at Emagine Willow Creek. I’d been wanting to see this …
: My cousin Josh’s most recent essay Can-Can is a great read told from his own experience as a college …
: Got a 5-star chest in Clash Royale!
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The World is Waiting by The Long Honeymoon
My friend Lee Zukor has been playing in The Long Honeymoon for a while. Sadly Tammy and I have not …
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Before we departed and went our separate ways we setup the Kubb pitch by the PIer B parking lot and …
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Tooling around in Duluth on bikes a bit.
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100 TON mooring bollard in Duluth Harbor.
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Delicious coffee this morning at 190° Coffee & Tea with Isaiah.
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Sunrise on Duluth Harbor. I thought it was cool how the blue in the sky came out as the sun went up.
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We had a great hike on the Oberg Mountain Loop. This is Tammy’s sister’s favorite fall hike and it …
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Delicious non-alcoholic beer from Untitled Art. Wow!
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I always make a stop at the Lake Superior Trading Post.
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Beautiful morning in Grand Marais at the lighthouse.
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Group photos on Artist’s Point and Grand Marais Lighthouse.
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On Artists Point in Grand Marais. Today’s meditation spot.
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Starting our day on the North Shore with my brother and his family with some World’s Best Donuts.
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In Duluth at Wild State Cider. Delicious cider. Amazing Wrecktangle pizza. One of the best pretzels …
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Tammy and I saw Mumford & Sons for the second time tonight and for the second time they were …
: Plausible Analytics Plug-in for Micro.blog I’ve been using Plausible Analytics for over a year and have been using the Plausible Analytics …
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At the Minnesota Card Show Pokémon event today with Tyler and saw the most expensive thing we’ve …
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Team Red, White, and Blue out running the Twin Cities Marathon this morning!
: Friends of ours host a Marathon Party every year right around Mile 8 as the course goes along …
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Twin Cities Marathon morning!
: I’m using the new Use Model capability in Shortcuts to bring My Version number to life on my phone …
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Delightful evening for a late season soccer game! Go Loons!
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A very big Happy Birthday to my Mom! Doubly special that many of her sisters and her brother could …
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Very happy that I found out you can get 12” firewood. This fits perfect in the sauna oven. Let it …
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Taking my (very dirty) boat in for the winter.
: Chromatic firmware upgrade to 4.0! I love the retro vibe of the updater app. 🤩
September 2025
: Got my first immersive card in Pokémon TCG Pocket tonight — Pikachu ex. The videos for these are …
: John Prine had the answer to being “too online” before being online was even a thing. Blow up your …
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John Prine: Songs & Souvenirs
I never got a chance to see John Prine play. There is a list of bands that I really regret never …
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Climbing Stillwater’s Main Street Stairs.
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Off to Stillwater area this morning. Starting with breakfast at Mon Petit Chéri.
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It seems that Affogatos are all of a sudden popular at a number of different places. Sadly, most …
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We walked over to the Linden Hills Fall Festival to check out the 50th annual event. It was a nice …
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Drive-thru metrics. Needs some sparklines. Too many numbers, not enough easy to read lines.
: After following Tyler to Pokémon TCG Pocket I decided to also try one of his favorite games — Clash …
: Trying out Pokémon TCG Pocket I saw that Pokémon TCG Pocket has a special event coming up and Tyler has been collecting on this …
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I just got my first CharGPT Pulse. I was more impressed than I expected. It was truly interesting. …
: With a market cap of $4 trillion the 5% move in NVDA shares led a $200 billion increase in market …
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Ready for Analyst Day to get going!
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Saw this item in my RSS feed tonight. I had forgot about this feature in POAP2RSS. It worked as …
: My Pokémon Collection With some help from Tyler I got my Collectr profile accurate with my focused Pokémon collection. I …
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We had the stucco redashed on our house which gave us an opportunity to put a new color on it. We …
: Use Apple Intelligence Models in Shortcuts Shortcuts on OS 26 got a big new feature with the ability to use Apple Intelligence models directly. …
: Spent the morning ordering materials for our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser and candle scents and …
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Disappointing 3-0 loss for MN United to Chicago Fire tonight. So many fouls. So many yellow cards. …
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Downtown for The Dakota’s 40th Anniversary Block Party. Awesome event. Tina Schlieske on stage right …
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We were in the area and finally got to visit Kyiv Cakes in Lakeville today. I’ve wanted to come here …
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Lakeville Art Festival
We found ourselves with some open time this weekend and decided to check out the Lakeville Art …
: Dappnode validator — 1 year 28 weeks uptime I realized it had been a while since I checked in on my Dappnode that quietly chugs away running 32 …
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We are having the stucco redashed on our house and I decided it was a good time to say goodbye to …
: Easy Way or the Hard Way Government censorship the “easy way or the hard way”. ABC, a television network owned by Disney, …
: SPS TechJam 2025 We wrapped up the 10th anniversary of SPS TechJam 2025 today. TechJam is our internal “unconference” …
: POAP 7454382 at SPS TechJam 2025 - Attendee.
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A delightful evening to mark 20 years of the CIO Wine Tasting organized by Dee Thibodeau of Charter …
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Tasty Fox in the Woods coffee from Grayfox Coffee. The images they put on their coffee makes me …
: POAP 7453396 for SPS Women in Tech Q3 2025 Lunch & Learn. The image for this POAP was created via …
: I don’t run the public betas for Apple OS releases — and days like today are the fun when I get to …
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My Supplement Program
I’ve started working with a Doctor focusing on overall health and wellness. Think of it a bit like …
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These bicycle themed demitasse cups are still some of my favorites ever. Felt like an afternoon …
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Nice morning at Country Blossom Farm! Bakery, Apples, Games, Bouncy Pillow, Corn Pit, and more!
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Tetris on the ModRetro Chromatic is my favorite implementation ever. So good.
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Flank steak on the Big Green Egg! 🔥 I need to grill more often.
: I’m slowly starting to adopt the new Planned Date in OmniFocus 4.7. At a minimum it will reduce the …
: POAP 7450052 at SPS Kubb Tournament 2025.
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Awesome day for the 7th Annual Team SPS Kubb Tournament! Bonus for me to fulfill my wish of being a …
: Updating my Rabbit r1 to rabbitOS 2. Going through many update cycles as the device has been powered …
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I am trying to get every possible Peach I can as the season winds down. The Colorado Mountain Gold …
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We stopped at the Arboretum’s AppleHouse today and picked up a bag of First Kiss Apples today. I …
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The roses at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum today were incredible.
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I may have almost pulled off a coordinated look today?
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Visited the Wabasha Street Caves in St. Paul for the first time this morning.
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Delicious Kingfield Lattes this morning at Five Watt with my brother.
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We watched Fountain of Youth tonight. Fun movie with plenty of wild action scenes. Tammy also made …
: It always makes me smile when we get a new sign for Road Sign Math. 🤓
: Mapping out the final six locations we need to collect for Tammy, Mazie, and Tyler to also win the …
August 2025
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Got to meet Gerard Kulzer who carves the Butterheads for the Dairy Princesses each year! Seeing the …
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Time for the Great Minnesota Get Together — Minnesota State Fair!
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Great night for MN United v Portland Timbers at Allianz Field with my brother Isaiah. ⚽️
: POAP 7441226 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad in August 2025.
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All seven bikes we have at home out on a bike ride around Lake Harriet.
: POAP 7441195 at 612 POAP Challenge - Collected Them All!.
: POAP 7441192 at 612 POAP Challenge - Minneapolis Marvel.
: POAP 7441189 at 612 POAP Challenge - Culture Collector.
: POAP 7441187 at 612 POAP Challenge - Bridge Builder.
: POAP 7441174 at Midtown Global Market — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7441162 at Walker Art Center — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7441157 at Spoonbridge and Cherry — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Frozen yogurt break at the Sculpture Garden while out playing 612 POAP Challenge with my brother …
: POAP 7441115 at 35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Escalator at Guthrie Theater.
: POAP 7441086 at Guthrie Theater — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7441075 at Gold Medal Building — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7441068 at Stone Arch Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7438321 at First Avenue — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7438319 at Target Headquarters — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7433350 at Al’s Breakfast — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7432579 at Northrop Chair — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7432143 at Goldy Gopher — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7431210 at Witches Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Very cool that ModRetro games can be updated via MRUpdater. I just updated my Tetris cartridge to …
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I’m tired from this atypical stretch of personal and work travel. Over the last 28 days I’ve slept …
: Delightful evening strolling through Utrecht tonight.
: Some of the incredible ships in the Amsterdam SAIL 2025 parade today. Amazing.
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Incredible final rhubarb desert course at Wolf Atelier tonight to finish a multi-course evening of …
: Took a walk after getting to Amsterdam to explore and counter jet lag a bit. I’ve travelled through …
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My cousin Josh introduced me to David Francey and his album Right of Passage has become a favorite …
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Summer is starting to wind down — Tyler finished his summer project — upgraded to the Nintendo …
: Blogging with Messages Conversation named "Blogging with Messages". Me Hey Matt, An ask for Tiny Theme new feature to …
: Blog Categories via LLM After using GPT-5 to create category introductions for my website I got to thinking about the …
: POAP 7409077 at 612 POAP Challenge - Lake Lover.
: I collected my 200th POAP by claiming 7409051 at Minneapolis Institute of Art, part of the 612 POAP …
: POAP 7409036 at Martin Olav Sabo Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
: POAP 7408993 at Lake Hiawatha — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Out collecting 612 POAP Challenge locations at Minnehaha Falls.
: POAP 7408966 at Minnehaha Falls — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Perfect night for soccer game. United v Sounders! ⚽️
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I can’t believe I only tonight discovered I can get Kramarczuk’s Cheddar Sausage at Allianz Field! …
: Category Introductions via LLM I used GPT-5 to create introduction text for my blog categories. Now I just need Tiny Theme to pull …
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Ruthie Foster at the Dakota
We got to see Ruthie Foster play at the Dakota tonight. She did a solo set — just her and her guitar …
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I got my ModRetro Chromatic today! Delightful so far.
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First time at a TEDxMinneapolis event! Looking forward to tonight’s speakers at Orchesta Hall.
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We finished watching Season 1 of Stick tonight. We all enjoyed it a lot and thought it was a …
: We have significantly increased our escape room activity in 2025! Just past half-way through the …
: QMSB Trip - Day 16 Check out of Baymont in Mandan. Coffee stop at Joyhouse before leaving town. Stop for gas and …
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A smattering of my cousins that were at Amanda & Reid’s wedding tonight.
: QMSB Trip - Day 15 ✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe ✅ Bismarck Tammy and Mazie go on independent runs around Downtown Fargo. …
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Gemini Quantum Quest @ Breakout ND
We all stopped at Breakout ND today in Bismarck to do the Gemini Quantum Quest game. The game is a …
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Nice way to start the day at Youngblood Coffee in Fargo, ND.
: QMSB Trip - Day 14 Tammy and Mazie go for a morning walk around Fergus Falls. Breakfast at Toast Cafe: Swedish …
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Loved this find in downtown Fargo — #FARGOMARIOWALL.
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Tyler and I stopped by Paradox Comics-n-Cards and got the last two packs they had — Pokémon Surging …
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Delightful Nitro Oat Latte at Youngblood Coffee Roasters in Fargo, ND. This place has their coffee …
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Time Machine at Puzzled Escape Rooms
We arrived in Fargo today and made our way to Puzzled Escape Rooms and did their Time Machine room. …
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We had a nice walk this morning around the Prairie Wetlands Learning Center just outside of Fergus …
: QMSB Trip - Day 13 12:53 PM: Start drive to Alexandria, MN. 23 minutes late. Up North Ice Cream for some delicious …
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Fergus Falls has done a great job building up the area around the Otter Tail River with a short …
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Checked into the Mill Boutique Hotel in Fergus Falls. This place has just opened up and is still …
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The Experiment at Escape Room Alexandria
We made a stop at Escape Room Alexandria today and did “The Experiment”. We successfully solved the …
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Stopped in Alexandria to try Up North Ice Cream. Tons of flavors all made in-house and delicious. …
: QMSB Trip - Day 12 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 8. ✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe 🔲 Bismarck Check out of Airbnb. …
: Writing is Thinking With the ever growing cadre of tools that can help us create this is an important reminder that …
: QMSB Trip - Day 11 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 7. Catching up on some blogging to start the day. Coffee run to …
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Tammy and I cycled 8.28 miles in 49.7 minutes on the Stowe Recreation Path. Ran out of time to do …
: QMSB Trip - Day 10 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 6. Drive to Burlington for bike ride. Morning snacks at August …
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We all rented bikes at [Local Motion](Island Line Trail in Burlington and rode the Island Line Trail …
: Riding the Colchester Causeway on the Island Line Trail in Burlington, Vermont. The causeway itself …
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Morning cappuccino at Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea. Very good.
: POAP 7402821 at Olson Family Vacation 2025 — Ben & Jerry's Experience.
: QMSB Trip - Day 9 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 5. Max and I drive and get six cups of really terrible coffee. …
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We took the Ben & Jerry’s Factory Tour and got to see their original location where they are still …
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Super good soft serve Maple Creamie at Red Barn Ice Cream. 🍦
: Blending my smoothie by bike at the Stowe Farmers Market this morning.
: Brilliant 2.0 sec pit stop from Ferrari in Budapest this morning! 🏎️
: POAP 7402510 at Magnifico at Escaparium 🎪.
: QMSB Trip - Day 8 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 4. Saturday and coffee shops downtown open later. Find Columbuse …
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Magnifico at Escaparium
Today we did the World’s #1 Escape Room according to TERPECA 2024 — Magnifico! It was an incredible …
: I upgraded to ChatGPT Pro a couple months ago and it has been amazing. Now I upgraded to Claude Max …
: QMSB Trip - Day 7 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 3. I go to Structure Coffee for some delicious coffee and time …
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Delightful evening watching Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA in Montreal, the home of Cirque.
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We all had a great time making bagels at The Bagel Class today. We learned how to make Montreal …
: Great time on the Jetboat in Montreal!
July 2025
: QMSB Trip - Day 6 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 2. Max and I walk to Structure Coffee for a delicious Cortado …
: Today we did two escape rooms at Escaparium, and nine years ago today Tammy and I did our second …
: QMSB Trip - Day 5 Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 1. Up early to pack up, get car, and unload out of Airbnb. …
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Wardrobe for Sale at Escaparium
After our morning defeating the Voodoo Queen we had a break for lunch and then returned to …
: POAP 7399817 at Olson Family Vacation 2025.
: Happy 10 year anniversary to Ethereum! I just minted my NFT to celebrate the day!
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Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen at Escaparium
We started another double header of escape rooms today at Escaparium. Our first room was Lost Island …
: QMSB Trip - Day 4 Tammy went out and returned with pastries for breakfast. Checking out storm damage at cabin via …
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Screaming Metal at Cabinet Mysteriis
We again returned to Cabinet Mysteriis to do a third room. Tonight we were doing Screaming Metal. …
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Poutine achievement unlocked! 🇨🇦😊
: QMSB Trip - Day 3 Relaxed morning. Tyler and Mazie sleep in. Tammy on a run. Jamie having fun with some projects. …
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2002: A Bovine Odyssey at Cabinet Mysteriis
This was part two of our double header. After doing Dreamwalkers we went back to the lobby and got …
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The Dreamwalkers at Cabinet Mysteriis
Tonight we visited Cabinet Mysteriis in Quebec for a double hitter of escape rooms. The first room …
: QMSB Trip - Day 2 Our 23rd Wedding Anniversary! 💍 Checkout of Hotel Vermont. Walk in rain to breakfast at August First …
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Celebrating our TWENTY THIRD anniversary with the most delicious ice cream from Chocolate Favoris …
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Much too sunny but we got to Quebec City and made our way into the Old City where we are staying.
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Our plan was to rent bikes from Local Motion and then ride the amazing Island Line Trail including …
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Waiting for the train in the rain. ☔️
: Why QMSB? What does QMSB Trip mean? Our summer vacation is a little different this year. It is a bit like four …
: QMSB Trip - Day 1 Up early for final trip prep. Ride to the airport with Burhan at 7:05 am. Check in for flight. …
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Sunset on Lake Champlain from the Burlington lakefront.
: updown.io (affiliate link) is a great example of a near perfect web service. Simple to use. Clear …
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The Unitarian Universalist Meeting House at the top of Church Street in Burlington.
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These installations by Jacob Hashimoto at Burlington City Arts were so unique and interesting. The …
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Hello from Church Street Marketplace on the 30th Anniversary Block Party in Burlington, VT.
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Departing soon to start our QMSB (Quebec, Montreal, Stowe, Bismarck) summer trip! 🛫
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First time trying this Dashfire Old Fashioned. I was a tad dismissive of an Old Fashioned in a can. …
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Tyler and I got four cards we liked out of this new White Flair Binder Pack.
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Lord Huron at the Armory
Lord Huron put on a good show tonight at the Armory. It was Tammy and my first time seeing them. We …
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“My God, it’s full of phones.”
: If Twin Peaks were made today Lord Huron would be the soundtrack. For sure.
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My first time at the Armory for a show. Tammy’s been before. Cool venue. Waiting for Lord Huron to …
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Awesome to have pizza from the Brick Oven Bus today at SPS Tower! 🍕
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We have our very first winner of the 612 POAP Challenge! 🎉
0x018a…3c47 (aka @quinntchrest) has just …
: My brother Isaiah is playing around with radio stuff and making his own devices to communicate over …
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Tammy and I went on a 2.92 mile walk in 53.8 minutes (18.42 min/mile) walking the road from Paoli to …
: Guess I’m done trying to get this deploy working for now. 💀
: Working with Claude Code to get the deployment working for what I created yesterday. In many ways …
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Coldplay was amazing at Camp Randall Stadium tonight! The heat and seating left a lot to be desired. …
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At Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin for Coldplay: Music of the Spheres! 🎶
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Walking around Paoli, Wisconsin. Photos take with Project Indigo and processed in Lightroom on …
: My cousin @quinntchrest is speed-running the @POAPChallenge today! 🤩
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Tammy’s has declared Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream the best — specifically This $&@! Just Got Serious®! …
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Gold Rush at Escape in Time
We solved the Gold Rush room at Escape in Time in Madison today. The room is rated hard and we …
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We had a fun afternoon with Madison Adventure Tours exploring a 9-mile loop around town and hearing …
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Emerged from water
Saw this prompt and wanted to give it a try.
Me A black and white close-up portrait with visible …
: A brand new AI startup with great pedigree and a $12 billion valuation. Thinking Machines Lab, a …
: POAP 7391295 at Lowry Avenue Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
: I’ve been getting great responses from Claude lately and using it even more than ChatGPT. I’m …
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Delicious smashburgers tonight. Everything else as dialed in and just right! 🍔🍔🍔
: It makes me super nostalgic that digg is back on the web — my profile. I felt compelled to order a …
: I submitted POAP2RSS to the POAP Directory of apps that extend the POAP ecosystem. 🤞
: Absolutely incredible valuation — first to $4,000,000,000,000. Nvidia became the first company to …
: With the help of POAP2RSS combined with rssrssrssrss.com and a new micro.blog account at …
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We all saw Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning tonight. It was absolutely bonkers but still a …
: POAP 7388023 at 612 POAP Challenge - Red, White & POAP.
: POAP 7387993 at Lake Nokomis — 612 POAP Challenge.
: First time for me — submitted a pull request to a public repo to make a small change that I’m hoping …
: Vibe Coding POAP2RSS Ever since I created my first POAP drop I’ve wished that I could see claims of POAPs in Feedbin. …
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Quiet evening on Cannon Lake.
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We had a nice bike ride to Dairy Queen with my Uncle Tim and Aunt Holly and Cousin Quinn today. We …
: Had fun using POAP2RSS and feeding through Make with Claude doing some creative for me and then …
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Watching F1 qualifier and need more screens. 😊
: Worked with OpenAI Codex this morning and redesigned the website for POAP2RSS. It gave a clean …
: Seeing POAP claims show up on Feedbin thanks to POAP2RSS is making me giddy! 🤩
: I decided to declare POAP2RSS officially launched. It seemed fitting for Independence Day! How do …
: I cleaned up the RSS items that POAP2RSS outputs this morning. I decided to remove the titles on the …
: Collected POAP 7386503 for POAP2RSS Created.
: I’ve created my first project using AI to write nearly all of the code with me! Introducing …
: Just used ENS Fairy for the first time to send halaas.eth to Erik Halaas of 612 Series fame! I’d …
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I’ve supported the Electronic Frontier Foundation for over twenty years. I am excited to have this …
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Indieweb is Punk — from blog post to t-shirt and POAP!
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Four pork shoulders out of the Sous Vides and onto the Traeger for the finish smoke. 🔥🐖
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Four pork shoulders into the Sous Vides as preparation for the 4th of July officially starts! 💧🔥🐖
: In 2023 I shared Archimedes’ famous line: Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I …
: “My God, it’s full of stars!” – Dave Bowman’s final words as he entered the monolith This is the …
June 2025
: Collected POAP 7379713 for Creating Community with POAP — MN Blockchain.
: I added a new award to the 612 POAP Challenge — the Explorer! This token is given to players that …
: Collected POAP 7378481 for 612 POAP Challenge - Explorer.
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Great day having fun around the pool. 💦
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I love Tetris. This is a whole different take — Tetris Tumble XL.
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Delightful evening at Magic Pines.
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We saw F1: The Movie tonight and I thought it was awesome. Great summer movie with a predictable …
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Tyler got Dayne St. Clair’s signature after tonight’s United win. ⚽️
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Let’s go United! Playing Houston Dynamo tonight. Storm has passed but “Dark Clouds” still present. …
: Collected POAP 7376382 for Washington Avenue Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Important ruling for AI model training, copyright, and fair use. This aligns with how I would think …
: Love that @ericmwalk did a run with Strava to get some 612 POAP Challenge locations today! …
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IndieWeb is Punk: Wear It!
I published IndieWeb is Punk and it resonated with folks.
Jim Mitchell created the shirt! Go ahead …
: Wild electrical activity in last nights storm.
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Mesmerizing and weird looking clouds as storms approached.
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Radar imagery before last nights storms hit — 100 mph winds.
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My car was parked right here before the storm hit, right next to @quinntchrest. Luckily we both …
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We are visiting my relatives in Grandin, ND and last night’s storm was the worst I’ve ever been …
: Collected POAP 7374837 for IndieWeb is Punk.
: Posted a new @roadsignmath winner for first time in a couple years and it’s a good one. Found by …
: As AI Agents continue to grow in capability it seems likely that we will want them to have financial …
: Manton Reece @manton shared he’s pausing blogging on AI because of pushback he receives on his …
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IndieWeb is Punk
Last night, Mazie and I went to Pink Ivy for dinner, and as we pulled out of the driveway, she took …
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I’m going to be sharing my love of POAPs at the Minnesota Blockchain meetup on June 30th — Creating …
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Mazie and I had dinner at Pink Ivy in Hopkins for the first time tonight. The food was great: …
: Wisdom: Things deteriorate — experiences appreciate.
: While doing blog gardening today I saw a post I wrote 21 years ago about privacy issues. This is a …
: I am upgrading the charging infrastructure at our cabin for us and guests and decided to get this …
: Today Tammy and Tyler completed a 26-mile walk around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. They started at 6:21 …
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Happy Father’s Day to all! Love these two — I’m a lucky Dad! 🥰
: Collected POAP 7371704 for Lake of the Isles — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7371688 for Bde Maka Ska — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7371669 for The Kid’s House — 612 POAP Challenge.
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At the Stone Arch Bridge Festival this weekend these clear candles by Lake Escape Candle Co caught …
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Making pizzas on Blackstone pizza oven for first time.
Finished pizza.
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Stone Arch Bridge Fest
Today was Mazie’s birthday and one of the things she decided we should do is the Stone Arch Bridge …
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Got a recursive selfie while collecting the Grain Belt Sign for the 612 POAP Challenge with the …
: Collected POAP 7371441 for Grain Belt Sign — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7371432 for Hennepin Avenue Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Mazie is officially 20!
“Alive since 2005!” — Mazie @mthingelstad
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Mazie wanted to do her first triathlon on her birthday and Tammy signed up to do it with her! They …
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Tyler and I got the Pokémon cards we sent to TAG Grading back today. My Galarian Perrserker V came …
: I dig the design of this new Coinbase One card. On the waitlist! 4% rewards in Bitcoin — awesome!
: I completed the final set of achievement tokens for the 612 POAP Challenge tonight! I also setup a …
: It seems we have a fox that has taken up residence under our shed at the lake. 🦊
: Collected POAP 7369497 for 612 POAP Challenge - Architecture Aficionado.
: Collected POAP 7369494 for 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368654 for Riverside Plaza — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368652 for Basilica of Saint Mary — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368641 for Capella Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368640 for Wells Fargo Center — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368639 for IDS Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368638 for Foshay Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Collected POAP 7368637 for Campbell Mithun Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Enjoying an Espresso and Cappuccino at Monogram Coffee in downtown Calgary while sending this …
: When you are trying to get that amazing photo of a perfect landscape and someone is standing right …
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We found Escape City in Calgary tonight and completed the Mindmaster Industries room. The story of …
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The Banana Pie at Bridgette Bar in Calgary. Tasty but also over-the-top sweet. Also over-the-top …
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We visited Q.Lab Coffee this afternoon. I was impressed with their coffee program and had to try a …
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Tammy and I wrapped up an awesome Banff & Lake Louise photo workshop led by the incredibly talented …
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Happy National Donut Day from the Canadian Rockies. 🍩🏔️
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Visited Yoho National Park in British Columbia this morning.
: Glacial stream in Yoho National Park.
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Finished hiking 4.68 miles and 1,237 feet gained in 142.2 minutes, average incline 11.4%. 🥾 Nice tea …
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I have never seen such a congregation of photographers in the wild as Moraine Lake on the “rock …
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Tammy and I at Moraine Lake.
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This morning was 3:40am wakeup and shuttle ride up to Moraine Lake to shoot Blue Hour and Sunrise. …
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Day 3 of the Micro.blog photo challenge — the shadows on this mountain at sunset are very …
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Photographing the Three Sisters. 🏔️
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Tammy and I at the top of Sulphur Mountain with Banff in the distance. 🏔️
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Reviewing photos from sunrise shoot. 📷
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The 4:15a alarm this morning to go shoot sunrise is reminding me of a saying I first heard from my …
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Icy branches from the spray off of Johnston Canyon upper falls.
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Upper Falls at Johnston Canyon.
: My blog turns 21 today! I’m so happy that I have stuck with this blogging hobby for so long. It is a …
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Day 2 of the Micro.blog photo challenge — curved road with mountains behind. 📷
: Select images grabbed quickly before going to sleep after day 1 of our Banff - Lake Louise photo …
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Starting day 1 of the Micro.blog photo challenge while we are on a photo workshop in Banff. Day 1: …
May 2025
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I added a Pellet Sensor to the Traeger this morning. Good confidence thing to have for long smoke …
: 612 POAP Challenge: Collect them all! Way back in the day I loved Geocaching. It was so much fun, particularly before it got …
: Screen recording at Lake Harriet claiming the very first POAP of the 612 POAP Challenge!
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Finished 4.05 mile walk in 73.1 minutes (18.05 min/mile). It was a delightful morning for a walk …
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So I’m not sure how far around the lake this guy was going, but walking around 3 miles around a lake …
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Nice morning to do some fishing on Lake Harriet.
: Collected POAP 7364397 for Lake Harriet — 612 POAP Challenge.
: Entropy is definitely losing at our house today: ✅ Upstairs HVAC install complete ✅ Generator …
: POAP 7361698 at Weekly Thing 8th Anniversary Supporting Members.
: I find it ironic that I’ve got a lot of things going on and am struggling to find the time to read …
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Ready for Game 4! Let’s repeat Game 3 Wolves!
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The kids playing Kubb while we wait for our pizza. Playing with the custom set I won at the USA Kubb …
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Pizzas at Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm. Love the pizza farms!
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Delicious cortado at Little Joy Coffee in Northfield. ☕️
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I’m not eager to have someone riding my bumper, but…
BACK OFF BUMPER HUMPER!!!
MY BREAKS ARE GOOD! …
: I’ve been using ChatGPT so much that I hit the limits on my Plus account. I’ve been getting so much …
: I created my very first location-based POAP. Our “Peanuts Tree” is a popular spot on Cannon Lake and …
: Screen recording claiming my very first location-based POAP.
: POAP 7358192 at Magic Pines Peanuts Tree 2025.
: The Summer of 2025 Magic Pines POAP is now minting! Available for visitors until Labor Day. 🤩 …
: POAP 7358039 at Magic Pines Summer of 2025.
: I’m wondering what MCP endpoints I would like to have: My blog Weekly Thing OmniFocus, that could be …
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Boat Day 2025! Got the boat out just in time to get on Cannon Lake for Memorial Day.
: How cool that the S3 Files app added a local MCP server so you can expose any S3 bucket of files to …
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Traeger Grill
My brother-in-law got a Traeger Grill a while back and he found he was never using it. They decided …
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Got to do a firmware update on the Traeger Grill. 🤓
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TeamSPS at the Cristy Rey “Ungala” tonight celebrating our long-standing partnership with the …
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We put a Phyn Plus in our home and I had to celebrate getting to do a firmware update. The unit is …
: I’ve been a bit obsessed thinking about AI agents and this definition shared by Willison from …
: Omnivore announced they were shutting down last October, but it wasn’t until this week I saw a group …
: Dave Winer today… Where AI fits in The Beatles Personal computers The web Napster AI It is …
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I went looking for this photo that I knew I had of my by an SR-71 Blackbird. I found it and then …
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Nice dinner at Oceanaire with our partners from Cognisive visiting from Hyderabad, India.
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Robin decided that a nest would be great on top of our irrigation controller. Hmm… trying to leave …
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Sauna fired up for a morning sweat.
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First smash burgers of 2025! 🍔
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Getting the pool ready for summer!
: POAP 7353976 at Weekly Thing 8th Anniversary.
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It was awesome to see @davoh for a delicious coffee at Five Watt today! The conversation covered …
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I’ve never had an Apple TV require this Recovery Mode. It seems to be working fine to fix it.
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This is a bit goofy but I like goofy. 😊
Received email — there is an Internet Phone Book? 🤔 Used …
: I am glad we can support Zero Line on their next convoy of aid to Ukraine and their continued work …
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At our Q2 #TeamSPS company meeting I was honored to share the stage with Elizabeth Neuville and …
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Pirates of the Spanish Main at Enigma Adventure
We capped off Mother’s Day with a trip to Enigma Adventures in Maple Grove to do their Pirates of …
: We went to a live recording of The Object podcast at the MIA today. Dessa was the special guest …
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Happy Mother’s Day to the “heart of our family” and most amazing of Mom’s.
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Moms are awesome — especially mine. Happy Mother’s Day! 💛
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Upgraded one of my bikes with these awesome large Crank Brothers Stamps. Old pedals were too small.
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Plant shopping at the Heart to Care Tanzania plant sale! If you are in the Twin Cities and want …
: Manu recently added an RSS feed of new sites to Blogroll. I popped it into Feedbin to discover new …
: Thanks to the recent fix on micro.blog allowing blogs over 5G to export I got my first backup in 2 …
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An incredible day of soccer getting to see Lionel Messi, one of the greatest soccer players to ever …
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Excited to see the United play today — and even more excited to see Messi! GOAT! ⚽️
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We saw Secret Mall Apartment at the Zeitgeist Zinema in Duluth. Wild story.
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Tammy instantly loved these paintings by Lissa Scotland from Duluth. We decided that these two are …
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Stop for delicious chocolate at Great Lakes Candy Kitchen.
: Gooseberry Falls Exploring Gooseberry Falls today. Walked to the lake shore and back.
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This was a perfect spot to meditate for a few minutes.
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Added 9 kWh at Gooseberry Falls while we were hiking around. Thank you Minnesota DNR!
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Lunch at New Scenic Cafe is a mandatory activity for us on the North Shore.
: Jay Cooke State Park Finished hiking around Jay Cooke State Park 1.63 miles in 51.6 minutes. Beautiful scenery and …
: St. Louis River at Jay Cooke State Park.
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Busy morning at 190º Coffee & Tea this morning.
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Nate Bargatze in Duluth
We had a night full of laughs seeing Nate Bargatze for the first time — and as it happens it was the …
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Seated for Nate Bargatze “Big Dumb Eyes” World Tour at AMSOIL Arena in Duluth. Looking forward to …
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End of day #TeamSPS photo at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Sitting in the chair was by popular demand. …
: Was fun to share the stage with Melissa Flicek and Jenn Zmuda at the final session of MnTech Tech …
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Learned a lot at “Economic Update - Tariffs & General Economic Trends” with Matt Haggerty of RSM at …
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Wonderful #TeamSPS group photo at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Was very sad that I missed the photo — I …
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Fun to see Sam Pierson, TeamSPS alumni, at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Was cool to hear what their …
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Great exploration of Spatial Computing at MnTech Tech Connect 2025 with Amir Berenjian of REM5 …
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Great start to MnTech Tech Connect 2025 this morning with Joel Crandell starting things off and then …
: What does Minnebar mean? I was having a conversation last week about Minnebar and there was a question about the name. What …
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My Minnebar 19 in Sessions
Session 0 feat. Dr. AnnMarie Thomas! AnnMarie Thomas
AnnMarie is an engineer. An artist. An …
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How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 Issues of the Weekly Thing
This is an article version of the presentation I gave at Minnebar 19 on How to Newsletter.
To create …
: I created my 100th photo collection on micro.blog today! It has been a very useful feature.
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Movie: Fighting With My Family
We fired up some popcorn and watched Fighting With My Family this evening. It was a good story …
: POAP 7347510 at IndieWeb Carnival - Renewal.
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Finished cycling 11.6 miles in 62.6 minutes. First time outside on the bike this year. Very nice and …
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Growth Cup Goes to Warsaw
When I visited our new Warsaw office I was able to meet several brand new TeamSPS members as well as …
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The tulips are blooming and looking amazing at the Arboretum.
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Finished 2.34 mile walk in 50 minutes (21.37 min/mile). Walked around a new lake when visiting …
: Happy Star Wars Day — May the 4th be with you!
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Me and my cousin Quinn wrapping up a great day at Minnebar 19 — it was my 19th Minnebar and his 1st! …
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I love the passion and excitement that people bring to the Mega-Minne-Multi-Indie-Mini Arcade at …
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Garrick van Buren, Jim Bernard, and I after his Minimal Viable Polka session at Minnebar 19. I feel …
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Great to have so many #TeamSPS folks here at #Minnebar19! Know more to be more! 💙
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Stats on Minnebar 19:
Largest minnebar ever 167 sessions Over 2,000 registered attendees Wow! 😮 …
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Hey #Minnebar19 attendees — you can get your awesome Minnebar 19 POAP by tapping your phone on the …
: A reasonable mental model for X.com is as Elon Musk’s personal blog, with commenting enabled. It is …
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We saw Thunderbolts tonight (opening night) and it thought it was pretty cool. It had a bit more …
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Finished 2.78 mile walk in 52 minutes (18.71 min/mile). Nice walk catching up with friend. 🚶♂️
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Standard Water is putting drain tile into our basement to better manage ground water. What a crazy …
: I had Siri read me a long email while walking and it was like stepping back to olden times. The TTS …
April 2025
: Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival Roundup I’m wrapping up my very first time hosting an IndieWeb Carnival. After a good amount of deliberation …
: Musical Renewal I remember at some point in my early 20’s being curious why, it seemed to me at least, that as …
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Finished 2.54 mile walk in 60.9 minutes (23.98 min/mile). Delightful evening for a cool neighborhood …
: It was eight years ago today that I started using micro.blog. Seems wild that it has been that long. …
: My favorite Indieweb services — Micro.blog and Buttondown — have had a tough week. They worked …
: POAP 7343291 at You have met Jamie Thingelstad at Minnebar 19.
: Minnebar 19 POAP Minnebar 19 is coming up this Saturday and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to create a special …
: POAP 7343290 at Minnebar 19.
: POAP 7343289 at Minnebar 19: How to Newsletter.
: Minnebar 19 "How to Newsletter" Session POAP I made a special POAP just for folks that attend my How to Newsletter session at Minnebar 19! If you …
: We Met at Minnebar 19 POAP Are you going to be at Minnebar 19 this Saturday? Come and introduce yourself and I’d love to share …
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We wrapped up our weekend by watching Dog with some delicious Calico Popcorn made with ghee. Great …
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Finished 1.66 mile walk in 40.4 minutes (24.34 min/mile). Casual walk with Lucky around the …
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The Anomaly at Puzzleworks
We (just barely) completed “The Anomaly” at Puzzleworks today. This is the newest room they have — …
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Schooling the next generation on Air Hockey.
: Created the designs for three different POAPs for Minnebar 19 next week. Have a very cool one for …
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I’m having fun with my new profile photo. My previous one was the very first time I tried the Vision …
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Mazie returned to St. Olaf for her friend’s birthday and Tyler, Tammy, and I went to A Minecraft …
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Finished 3.09 mile walk in 76.1 minutes (24.63 min/mile). Incredible afternoon at the “the Arb” for …
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Family selfie — potential album cover.
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The Dungeon at Puzzleworks
We had a great time escaping “The Dungeon” at Puzzleworks. The room had challenging puzzles and …
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The raised donuts at Jerry’s Foods are incredible, and a great way to kick off Tammy’s birthday!
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For those that believe that government should be run more like a company…
: Won 0.5 SOL in my Mission Chest from Famous Fox Federation this week. I still have a lot of fun with …
: Chaos and Dysfunctional For those that believe that government should be run more like a company…
: Traveling internationally while using a Continuous Glucose Monitor makes jet lag, lack of sleep, and …
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This flip-down device holder on this KLM flight is brilliant. Every plane should have these. Now if …
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Heading into the Warsaw Metro.
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A great day exploring Warsaw with Evgeniy Kostenko, Amy Patton, Yuri Zhydun, and Jen Bonk. Photo …
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Pod Jarzębiną. 📍
Afternoon break for a Tyskie.
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We had a delicious Ukrainian brunch at Milk Bar. The food was amazing. Especially the Easter Cake!
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The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw was an impressive experience. I particularly found it interesting …
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I was incredibly taken by the central stairs in the new Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. They …
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The Fryderyk Chopin Monument in the Modernist Garden of Royal Łazienki. Cool sculpture.
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We visited the Palace on the Isle (Pałacu na Wyspie) and The Old Orangery (Stara Oranżeria). …
: Finished two great days of team activities here in Warsaw. It was amazing to see many folks from our …
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Finished 1.68 mile walk in 55 minutes (32.74 min/mile). Casual stroll after dinner. Wonderful …
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Crowne Plaza Warsaw - The HUB. 📍
Sunrise on the horizon.
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Nightcap with Warsaw in background.
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TeamSPS, Eastern Europe, with Warsaw team and many Kyiv team members visiting.
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Love this portable pour over package from Mad Heads, a Kyiv-based coffee company. The package folds …
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Mindspace Skyliner. 📍
First time trying Paska, traditional Eastern Bread, from Kyiv while visiting …
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Mindspace Skyliner. 📍
Great view of business district from our #TeamSPS location in Warsaw, Poland! …
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City Hopper KL1317 heading to Warsaw, Poland. 🇵🇱
: I find these robot vacuum cleaners that roam the MSP airport kind of adorable. 🤖
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Flight delayed and one of the last six flights to depart MSP tonight. Airport is otherwise empty. We …
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Boe Memorial Chapel. 📍
Chapel Choir celebration outside of Boe Chapel.
: Finished 3.95 mile walk in 71 minutes (17.97 min/mile). Loop around Lake Harriet. Such a splendid …
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At today’s Minnesota Card Show I built my Alakazam and Perrserker collections. Tyler loves …
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We all got Pokémon packs from Journey Together to try our luck at the Minnesota Card Show.
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Checking out Pokémon cards at the big Minnesota Card Show event!
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Finland the happiest country for the seventh year running.
Yet some argue that the real reason is …
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Tammy and I saw The Ballad of Wallis Island tonight at Edina 4. The movie was delightful. Tim Key …
: “Blogging is small-p political again, today. It’s come back round. It’s a statement to put your …
: Florence with Barry Hess One of the ways that a blog can be a gift is to give others the option to go on journeys with you to …
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Lake Harriet. 📍
Finished 3.97 mile walk in 79.1 minutes (19.92 min/mile). Such a great evening to be …
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Dan Kelly’s Pub. 📍
First time ever trying pull tabs. All losers.
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Finished 3.97 mile walk in 78.2 minutes (19.7 min/mile). Whole family took a lap around Lake …
: “the loss of the ability to contemplate — which, among other things, leads to the absolutization of …
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I am trying a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for the first time. I got a Stelo unit on a …
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A Baker’s Wife’s Pastry Shop 📍
A nice Sunday morning for some donuts from Baker’s Wife.
: Telling Stories with Maps These days we mostly interact with maps in a singular, digital manner. However, if you want to have …
: POAP Planing for Minnebar 19 I’m going to distribute a POAP for Minnebar 19! This isn’t official (yet) — but something I’m doing …
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Into the Wild
Mazie and I watched Into the Wild tonight. I first saw this in 2008 and read the book a month later. …
: Florida Spring Break: Day 7 Up at 7am to head back to Orlando. 7:30a Drive to Orlando Great day at Discovery Cove. Fabulous time …
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Roundabout flight plan from MCO to MSP to avoid storms.
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Crazy Train Escape Room
Our final thing before leaving Florida and heading home was to visit Doldrick’s Escape Room and do …
: Florida Spring Break: Day 6 Tammy and Mazie go for run around St. Augustine. Warm and humid morning. Jamie and Tyler hang out at …
: Cool to see the Apple Sports app just got support for F1! 🏁 This app is how I connect to almost all …
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This Airbnb in St. Augustine has a great vibe. The tiny pool is actually a “cool tub” with a chiller …
: I remember 10-year-old me being envious of the cool Pinewood Derby cars my cousins Josh and Jarvis …
: Blogging as a Gift Engagement is the powerful drug of social platforms. Sometimes it is blatant and in your face, such …
: Florida Spring Break: Day 5 Up at 7:00 am. Leave Airbnb at 7:30 and drive to Turner’s donuts for breakfast Drive to Kennedy …
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Stopped at Turner’s Donuts to get a bite before hitting the road.
Jamie: Cherry Cake, German …
: Florida Spring Break: Day 4 Mazie and Tammy run on the beach. Tyler and Jamie go to North Shore Cafe but it’s closed. Instead …
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Tammy and I at sunset on Anna Maria Beach. 🥰
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Sunset from Anna Maria Island.
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Finished cycling 4.64 miles in 30.1 minutes. We actually rode twice this but I only recorded the …
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SMOQEHOUSE
Smoqehouse opened in 2016 in the now defunct Faribo West Mall in Faribault, MN. This was a short …
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Crysten's AMI Boat Tour
We had a fun afternoon with Crysten’s AMI exploring the bay side of Anna Maria Island with our guide …
March 2025
: Florida Spring Break: Day 3 Up early at 7:00 am. Head to The Donut Experiment to start the day. Tammy, Mazie, and Tyler go on C …
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Project 11:11 — There are ice cream boats?
We were hanging out on Anna Maria Beach around 5:30p today and saw a boat coming close to shore …
: Yes I’m on vacation — but I’m still updating my bits.
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Finished 2.21 mile walk in 59.9 minutes (27.1 min/mile). Majority walking along the beach in loose …
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Seven custom made donuts from the Donut Experiment this morning.
: Florida Spring Break: Day 2 Tammy and Mazie go for a morning run. Breakfast at Madamosielle Paris. Rent beach gear for next …
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Prepared for an evening of shark fishing.
: Florida Spring Break: Day 1 7:36a Alarm off so we can get on the road. Drive to hardware store. Peachey’s donuts! Botanical …
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We are not going to get a sunset tonight. Will try again tomorrow night!
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View from the door of our Airbnb on Anna Maria Island for the next four days. 🤩🏖️
: Peachey's Donuts We first discovered Peachey’s Donuts at the Minnesota State Fair where we enjoyed the delicious …
: Florida Spring Break: Day 0 6:00pm Joe picks us up to go to MSP. Dinner at Settebello Pizzeria in the airport. Said “Hi!” to Kim …
: Departing soon for Spring Break in Florida! 🛫
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Digging the Challenge Coin that I received from @mtt today. Thank you! Pictured here alongside …
: Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival When I signed up to host this IndieWeb Carnival it was several months in the future and I thought it …
: I signed up to run a session at Minnebar 19! I’m going to host How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 …
: Got my tickets to Minnebar 19! Tyler and I are both going. I’m planning on doing a session this year …
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Finished 1.51 mile walk in 42.1 minutes (27.88 min/mile). Casual walk this evening. Was just too …
: Finished 3.91 mile walk in 77 minutes (19.7 min/mile). 🚶♂️
: POAP 7329555 at TeamSPS New Hire Coffee — March 2025.
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I’m very happy with these Ukrainian Tryzub Trident pins that I ordered from ShopUA 1000. Made in …
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I’m super excited to see Ben Edwards @alttext now on micro.blog! Ben has a done a bunch but in my …
: Finished 3.89 mile walk in 77.4 minutes (19.9 min/mile). 🚶♂️
: I would like to create blog posts from some workouts. It seems like something that Shortcuts should …
: Months ago when I signed up to host the April IndieWeb Carnival I thought it was a great idea and …
: LEGO and Pokémon announced that they are launching a multi-year partnership in 2026. This is going …
: The LLM functions I’ve built for the Weekly Thing have worked really well. So well in fact that I’m …
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The new metal Loon sculpture at Allianz Field is impressive in person. Cool addition to the stadium.
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Today’s United v. LA Galaxy game was surprisingly nice for March soccer in Minnesota! We had bright …
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The pizza at Boludo is so incredible. Delicious and unique!
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Are We Merely Machines?
I attended a public lecture hosted by Anselm House on Are We Merely Machines? tonight featuring …
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I had a great time watching the Timberwolves play the Indiana Pacers. The Wolves fell asleep a bit …
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This morning we had a great kick-off to our annual #TeamSPS TechConnect 2025 event! Team members …
: What a great POAP for SPS Tech Connect 2025!
: POAP 7326383 at SPS TechConnect 2025.
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We saw Suzanne Vega tonight at the Dakota. She played a variety of old and new songs and it was all …
: Finished 3.9 mile walk in 72.9 minutes. 🚶♂️
: Twitter Interview from 16 Years Ago While doing my blog gardening today I noticed that it was 16 years ago today that I was a guest on …
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We stopped into Microcenter today and they didn’t have a single Nvidia GPU in stock. Every case was …
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Guinness Chocolate Cake from Lynette. Treat for completing tax work.
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Tyler’s first time behind the wheel with basics in a parking lot.
: My post on Using AI in the Weekly Thing was highlighted in Josh Spector’s For the Interested 456 …
: Reconciled List of Escape Rooms Our family enjoys escape rooms and I have maintained a list of the rooms we had done on my website …
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We’ve been long delayed watching Succession S4. The Logan Roy character played by Brian Cox has to …
: Yesterday Tyler was talking about 3D printers. We had an entry level 3D Printer in 2019 and realized …
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We had a fun time seeing the matinee of Paddington in Peru today. He is an incredibly cute bear. 🍿
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Very good affogato at Mothership Pizza Paradise today. The ice cream from Minnesota Dairy Lab was so …
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The Hospital at Puzzleworks
We did our 65th escape room this morning solving Puzzleworks “The Hospital” room in 54m 47s! We all …
: I “watched” the Apple Immersive Metallica concert experience tonight and was completely blown away. …
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Traditional π Day dinner is all pies! Tonight Tammy’s completely homemade chicken pot pie and a new …
: Woke up barely able to swallow after having a sore throat for couple days. Went to MinuteClinic …
: POAP 7325369 at TeamSPS Pi Day 2025.
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Fun #TeamSPS hockey game — Minnesota Wild v Colorado Avalanche! 🏒
More than 60 years of SPS tenure …
: Finished 3.96 mile walk in 80.6 minutes. 🚶♂️
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We joined friends Joe & Lisa for Life of Pi at the Orpheum tonight. We had seen it on Broadway in …
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Tried the new Yonsei at Lake & Irving for the first time. It was so pretty on the plate I decided to …
: Finished 2.31 mile walk in 56.6 minutes. 🚶♂️
: I asked my Weekly Thing GPT a simple question “Which issue did the Fortune first appear in?”. Seems …
: How I Use AI in the Weekly Thing I’ve been working with AI for a while now, and as I feel with all new technologies, the best way to …
: My cousin Josh recently shared a cappella renditions of Wild Mountain Thyme and Red is the Rose — …
: Finished 1.76 mile walk in 41.2 minutes. 🚶♂️
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View from the upper seat in the NorthUp Sauna while the fire is getting started. The translucent …
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Arrived at the cabin tonight and were greeted with a two-foot-high snow plow line to shovel through. …
: Took my first 0.25 mg dose of semaglutide. Hoping for minimal side effects. Got it from Fairview …
: Wegovy Price Drop I’ve been exploring ways to get semaglutide for myself. This update from today’s Economist changes …
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This year’s #TeamSPS Cyberweek Challenge coin was designed as a weightlifting plate. I thought it …
: Finbarr Clancy of The High Kings with an incredible performance of “And the Band Played Waltzing …
: Finished 4.57 mile walk in 110 minutes. 🚶♂️
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Sync OmniFocus with Shortcut Automation
OmniFocus 4.5.2 shipped recently and with it was this little snippet in the release notes.
Shortcuts …
: Today I Learned: LLM’s are exceptional at making custom word lists for Pictionary-style games. Just …
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This view of my NorthUp Sauna is still super pretty for me. Sauna up to 180 °F and ready to sweat.
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High winds this week blew two of our neighbor’s dock sections into our yard.
February 2025
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Cheers to 96 quarters of growth with the Growth Cup at the SPS Social.
: Tammy and I got a 360 video at the TeamSPS Social tonight!
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The High Kings at The Fitzgerald
What a wonderful evening of Irish music. It was just under a year ago that we first saw The High …
: We finished watching Shrinking S2 and now I’m bummed we have to wait for the next season. This is …
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Jamie 5.3.53
Right before my birthday I decided use the Shortcut I wrote to calculate my version number and make …
: Weekly Thing GPT I created a custom GPT for the Weekly Thing! You’ll need a ChatGPT account (I think free is fine) …
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Homemade Marshmallows
My brother-in-law Denny recently decided to make homemade marshmallows. I guess it makes sense that …
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Great mission chest rewards from Famous Fox Federation today. 0.25 SOL! 💰
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Beautiful day out. Time to heat up the sauna.
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Mason Jennings at the Dakota
Tonight we saw Mason Jennings play at the Dakota. It was a wonderful show with a wide selection of …
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Tina Schlieske Sextet at Berlin
We made our very first visit to Berlin tonight to see the Tina Schlieske Sextet play. On stage was …
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The Berlin has a very good Old Fashioned. 🥃
: Replacing batteries in chirping smoke detectors at 2:30 am. 🪫😬
: I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make a POAP to commemorate my first time ice fishing! See list …
: MapQuest winning the Internet today with this name your own gulf site. 🤣
: First Time Ice Fishing I had a lot of fun out ice fishing for the first time tonight. Andy invited Liam, Mike, and I out to …
: Was fun to get to put a hole in 2 feet of ice.
: POAP 7308555 at Ice Fishing on Pierson Lake.
: POAP 7308201 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2024.
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Tyler and I took another try at the Elite Pokémon Gacha Machine tonight. We took a first pull and …
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Tammy and I had brunch at Diane’s Place today. We have been making our way to new restaurants that …
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A computer can never be held accountable
Simon Willison shared this excerpt from an IBM training manual on his blog recently.
Willison did …
: Bitcoin Books and BTC Price I saw this list of Bitcoin books with the price of BTC at time of release on Nostr, reshared from …
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We went to Captain America: Brave New World tonight. This was a “gift” from Tammy and Tyler who …
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Gus Gus Cheeseburgers
We have been wanting to have dinner at Gus Gus for a while and tonight we had a reservation and made …
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Instanbul Gambit at Enigma Adventure
Tyler, Tammy, and I had a lot of fun solving our way through The Istanbul Gambit at Enigma …
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The Avocado Toast at Lynette is the best I’ve ever had. Wow! 🥑
: Would you like some help with the snow? A young teenager offered to shovel snow twice, and after initially declining, the author decided to …
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New Standards Valentine's Concert
Tammy and I enjoyed The New Standards Valentine’s Concert at The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis …
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We had a fun evening of laser tag at Tactical Urban Combat as part of Tyler’s birthday.
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Excited for TeamSPS SKO 2025!
: Super Bowl LIX Ads Ads that hit home with me from the Super Bowl. So Win — Nike To me this one was the best by a mile. …
: Tyler and I have been having fun with Collector Crypt. I decided to join their Card Club and grabbed …
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Venusaur Holo
I had never heard of a Gacha before but I was intrigued when Collector Crypt sent an announcement …
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David Francey at Celtic Junction
A couple of months ago my cousin Josh sent me a text that David Francey was coming to Minneapolis …
: I thought for sure there would not be a Weekly Thing this weekend. Then my afternoon opened up and …
: I was excited to see my question, how to choose a donut, answered in latest issue of Mike Monteiro’s …
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We all watched Scrapper tonight. It was loved by critics and won multiple awards. For us it moved …
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Another morning at Getaway Motor Cafe. Got a mug for home and a Nose Warmer Latte. Very good …
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Tammy and I rescued Robin Hood in the Sherwood Forest room at No ESC Puzzle Collective in Shakopee …
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Tammy and I had our first free court time at Mega Pickleball today. We practiced various drills …
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It was a bit windy today but otherwise good time on the Three Mile Walk at the Minnesota Arboretum.
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Nice morning at Getaway Motor Cafe in Carver. Great coffee and food. Love the vibe. Surprise bonus …
January 2025
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We watched Game Night tonight. Fun movie!
: Two times this week I attempted to add a link to Pinboard and found out I had already added it. In …
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We all had a fun time at Lucky Shot Pickleball taking the beginner class tonight.
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Another Ice Throne. This time at the Ice Palace in Delano.
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Enjoying a Potica Latte with my brother Isaiah at Lynette.
: Helped my brother transfer his domain name ikeating.com from GoDaddy to NameCheap this morning. We …
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We had another super fun evening at Activate in Roseville playing fun games! Highly recommend …
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Me looking serious on the Ice Throne at Ice Castles.
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Mazie brought a variety of chocolate and coffee back from Costa Rica to share with us! 🇨🇷🍫☕️
: I have about 130 posts with embedded “tweets” on my blog. If those folks delete their account I …
: Mazie returns home tonight from 4 weeks in Costa Rica at CIEE Monteverde in the mountains then fun …
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We watched Inception tonight. Tammy and I are both sure we saw it when it was released but didn’t …
: School cancelled for tomorrow due to extreme cold. Tyler was ecstatic to hear the news. Forecast is …
: The Weekly Thing was supposed to be back this last weekend but I decided to extend the winter break …
: Chicago Coin’s Basketball Champ. 🏀🕹️
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We completed “The Museum” at Puzzleworks today in 58m 48s. There is a whole genre of escape rooms …
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Deep Woods Cabin Escape Room
Today we returned to Copper Cat Escape Games in Brainerd so that we could try the Deep Woods Cabin …
: I have multiple UniFi G4 Instant cameras mounted outside and this cold snap is the coldest they have …
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At the Chocolate Ox for January ice cream. Melting? Go outside! -9 °F.
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Lots of R-rated socks at Zaiser’s in Nisswa. 🙈🙉🙊
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Benefit of it being -11 °F? Easy to flash freeze a Rafferty’s Veggie Supreme pizza to bring home for …
: I set up a Guestbook for my site copying @jimmitchell who saw it at @alexwolfe site. Thanks to …
: I could not care less about Tik Tok, and would consider it an upgrade to the Internet for it to be …
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What you do when you’re Up North and it feels like -24 °F.
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Grand View Lodge on a very cold -7 °F (feels like -22 °F) night.
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We had a great time solving Granny’s Recipe Rescue at Copper Cat Escape in 48m 18s! We had five …
: I suspect the reason Apple Intelligence mail categories are only supported on the iPhone is at least …
: I’ve used Sanebox for a decade to defer emails, but now I’m trying Fastmail and I’m realizing how …
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After much debating I finally decided to get a new laptop and ordered a MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and …
: I’ve been a Sanebox user for over a decade on all my mailboxes. I’m trying going without on my …
: Vikings played so bad tonight. The last two games put a very sour ending on a season with fourteen …
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I’m a big fan of Jay Farrar and Son Volt so it didn’t take much debate to become a member of the …
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Tammy made a batch of these Peppermint Bark Chocolate Chip Cookies and they are so good. 🤤
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I love the scent and crackle of our Things 4 Good candles. For my birthday my sister got me a candle …
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We had an incredible brunch with friends at Lynette. Tammy and I shared the Blackened Avocado Toast …
: Micro.blog Collection Exporter I’m adding one more Shortcut to my Micro.blog Collections Shortcuts. One of the concerns I’ve had …
: One of my favorite things on a weekend morning is a good cup of coffee and writing a blog post that …
: I was emailing a friend about Drafts and how critical it is to my writing. It made me think I should …
: If I was born and brought up in the time of modern social media, would I even blog? I saw Jatan Mehta reflecting on this question (on micro.blog no less — 👋 @moonmehta) and I couldn’t …
: Tammy and I went to the newly opened Dario for dinner tonight. The meal, wine, ambiance, and service …
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We had a nice afternoon bowling at Elsie’s in Northeast. We got almost 19 frames in for a total of …
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After two attempts for dinner we finally made it to Mothership Pizza Paradise for lunch today. …
: micro.one making blogging more accessible! Congratulations to Manton on the launch of micro.one! I have been a happy customer of micro.blog …
: Little Snitch is a great app to protect your privacy. It is also incredible to use your computer for …
: Payloads for RSS, aka Podcasts! 24 years ago today Dave Winer introduced Payloads for RSS — which became the structure of the entire …
: Micro.blog Collections Shortcuts I’ve gone “all in” on Micro.blog’s photo collection feature. I’ve created 64 collections so far …
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Podcast trends for 2024. 75 fewer hours of listening versus 2023. Pivot still my drive time podcast …
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Colorado Avalanche v Minnesota Wild tonight. Hockey is such a great live game. Fresh snow made it …
: Threads Moderation Changes There has been a lot of noise today about Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on Threads about their …
: Support the Web via Open RSS I recently discovered Open RSS via an article on Lifehacker highlighting how the service can provide …
: POAP + RSS = Awesome? I’m a big fan of POAP, and I’m a big fan of RSS. Sadly, these two things don’t know about each …
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Shabby Road Orchestra at The Dakota
Tammy and I joined my Mom and Kurt tonight at The Dakota for Shabby Road Orchestra. The show was …
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First time at Le Burger 4304. We all agreed the fries were great. Burgers were very good with Jamie …
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Trying to Clout Coffee Bourbon Whiskey barrel-aged espresso this morning. Strong Bourbon smell on …
: All five of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs are now created! Phil Rodemann @See3p0 Marcos D Alves …
: I’ve been sharing my 53rd Birthday POAP with friends and family all day today. I thought it would be …
: We had a fun visit to Bell Museum this morning. We saw Mars: The Ultimate Voyage in the Planetarium …
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It’s my birthday tomorrow! Noting my rings and version number the day before. 😊
I’ll be sharing my …
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We watched Fly Me to the Moon tonight and I thought it was a great movie. Tammy liked it too and …
: POAP Event Trends It has become a tradition for me to create a POAP for my birthday. I’ve been doing it since my 50th …
: I’m “all in” on micro.blog collections. I have 61 collections with 936 images. My Collection Creator …
: POAP 7284931 at Jamie Thingelstad's 53rd Birthday.
: 2024 in Blogging With many thanks to Amit Gawande’s fun Post Stats Plugin and a recent discussion to add some more …
: Happy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! 🎉🥂 Wishing everyone a great New Year!
December 2024
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It was Mr. Green with the Revolver in the Hall. Tammy won!
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Enjoying one of our New Year’s Eve traditions, a delicious pot of fondue. So good.
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We went to A Complete Unknown today at the iconic Heights Theater. I thought the movie was great and …
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Cool to see the new Mimi Uploader out with support for Micro.blog collections! This along with my …
: I’m excited to welcome Jesse Lang @jesselang to Micro.blog! Along with Phil Rodemann @See3p0, Marcos …
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The New Standards were at The Dakota tonight for their regular Preener’s Eve Show! We are fans of …
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Tried a new cocktail at The Dakota tonight — Back to Black. King County Coffee Whiskey, Irish Cream, …
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We went to Puttshack today and loved their “enhanced” take on minigolf. We also had lunch and the …
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We had a great time at [Activate] in Roseville today. The games were great. All of the tech worked …
: Micro.blog Collection Creator Shortcut Recently micro.blog added a powerful new feature to create photo collections. Using this feature you …
: I’m very excited to welcome David O’Hara @davoh to micro.blog. David shares great images, essays, …
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Tammy and I took Lucky for a walk to celebrate her 5th Birthday!
: I just got the first version of Micro.blog Collection Creator shortcut working. It allows you to …
: One of the most impressive Christmas miracles is that LEGO sets miraculously are never missing …
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Tyler completed his Great Deku Tree LEGO from The Legend of Zelda. He enjoyed the build. It has two …
: A year of blogging for $12? I love this! 🤩 Several people have already correctly guessed that …
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Mazie completed her Christmas LEGO of Macaw Parrots this morning. They are designed to be hung on …
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Completed my Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi LEGO this morning. This was a very fun build and the …
: I’ve been enjoying the Snow Fall plug-in by @manton on my website and it has me thinking that it …
: I created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows …
: I make a recurring donation to Wikipedia but I figured I would make an extra donation right now. …
: My friend Patrick Rhone @patrickrhone chooses a word for each year and he just shared that “better” …
: A sauna session is naturally meditative since nearly all distractions simply cannot take the heat. …
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Through bag 4 of Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi LEGO. Movement is very smooth and base is stable.
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Getting started on my Christmas LEGO Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi. Looks like a fun build!
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Tyler has a good start on his Christmas LEGO of the Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda!
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Nice winter afternoon for the Magic Pines Sit & Soak. This is my new happy place. 🔥💧
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Mazie and I had a nice walk around the cabin loop. I forgot my hat and she was nice enough to borrow …
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We played Escape the Room: Secret of Dr. Gravely’s Retreat tonight and had a lot of fun solving the …
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Tammy likes Christmas Gnomes so I decided to get her one that is near life size.
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Santa brought me a lefse shirt! This is a serious Minnesota level up! 🎄🎁🎅
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Santa brought me an ornament to go with the hot tub! 🎄🎅
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On a movie roll this Christmas with Family Switch tonight. Fairly goofy movie but fun for the …
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Tammy and I must have been good this year! Merry Christmas Eve!🎄🎁🤩
: If you’d like to “listen along” with our family our Christmas Things playlist on Apple Music is the …
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Starting Christmas Eve with an amazing cup of Dreamy Melon from the ever amazing Pair Cupworks. …
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If you set out to make a modern version of Die Hard you would end up with exactly Carry-On. It is a …
: POAP 7281029 at Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs.
: I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to make a POAP — created Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs to send to …
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We all went to Mufasa: The Lion King tonight at Edina 4. I’ve always enjoyed the Lion King movies …
: I spent some time this morning doing analysis of our electricity usage. I was pleasantly surprised …
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Tyler and I decided to redeem the Pokemon 2014 #69 M Charizard EX card that we bought via Collector …
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We completed the Cosmic Crisis room at The Escape Game in the Mall of America. 15m 19s remaining on …
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Fun family selfie with delicious family brunch at Porzana.
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These cakes from Paris Baguette were incredible.
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Two full Wagyu Tenderloins came out incredibly delicious. 3 hours in Sous Vides with a finish on Big …
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Bottom starting the Big Green Egg and hoping I left enough charcoal in it to thaw the gasket so I …
: Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs The random five winners of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blog gift have been selected! A little Python …
: One of my favorite activities for a Saturday morning is to enjoy a cup of coffee while reading a …
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Making Old Fashioned’s tonight for friends.
: The 2024 Year in POAP is out and I was proud to again (see 2023) have one of my POAPs highlighted — …
: Was seven years ago today that micro.blog opened up to public signups. Doesn’t feel like it has been …
: POAP 7276968 at Things 4 Good Scent Survey.
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I had guessed that Musk’s net worth would double in the next four years — which would be something …
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We had a fun time watching Red One tonight. We like Dwayne Johnson movies and Christmas to boot. Was …
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When I got home today I walked into a kitchen filled with freshly made Amish Donuts! Mazie and her …
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Hey LinkedIn,
Do you remember in 2013 when you started routing emails through your proxy server …
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I had a great time catching up with Paul Birkbeck tonight at Red Wagon Pizza. He brought a gift bag …
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Tammy’s sister Corinne and her husband Denny hosted their annual Cookies with Santa event today. …
: Ethical Web Principles I like this W3C Statement on Ethical Web Principles. These principles are not merely theoretical; …
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The ice and fog on the lake blended into greyness.
: Weekly Thing Logo I’ve been publishing the Weekly Thing for over seven years. Sometimes I need to have an image …
: Another price increase for YouTube TV? We “cut the cord”, or more appropriately, cancelled our DirecTV service back in 2009. We’ve been an …
: This two-way comment system that @manton has setup with Bluesky is pretty cool to see in action. I …
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Christmas tree is up at the cabin. 🎄
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First time for the kids and I in the newly renamed Magic Pines Sit & Soak. Awesome. 💧🔥
: We are all a constantly changing process.
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Saturday morning at the lake. Delicious coffee. Wooden wick candle. Writing on my blog. Preparing …
: Just tried out the new photo collections feature on micro.blog and it is pretty great. I created a …
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Wait a second… Connections can use pictures? 🤯
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Cookie Decorating
Tammy’s sister Corinne and her husband Denny hosted a cookie decorating class. They made a hundred …
: This celebration of Dick Van Dyke’s 99th birthday with Chris Martin of Coldplay and All My Love is …
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Tammy’s sisters and the husbands went to Jingle Bar at Brit’s Pub tonight. I think this may become a …
: Appears that OpenAI isn’t keeping up with the ChatGPT Extension launch in Apple Intelligence today. …
: Getting a massive overhaul of Shortcuts support in OmniFocus 4.5 this morning is like an early …
: I have half-jokingly said for years that I wish there were professional scratchers, sort of like …
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I made Banana Bread tonight. It seems I cook so rarely that everyone else was flabbergasted that I …
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The 2024 St. Olaf Christmas Festival was amazing today! Mazie is in the St. Olaf Chapel Choir and …
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On our walk around Lake Harriet this morning Tammy and I saw this rare Bald Eagle in the city. It …
: I love to see new blogs being created. In the spirit of Christmas, I’m gifting five 1-year …
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When I decided to get a hot tub one of my buying criteria was making sure I can monitor and control …
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I was excited to see there is now a watchOS app for Tesla! It can access all car functions and pair …
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Trying Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur for the first time. Delicious! The cream is incredible. The …
: The start of a list. Social media is… Antisocial Totalitarian Addictive Controlling
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Did some work today with my new EGO Power+ 18" chain saw and thought it was awesome. Electric is so …
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Nice treasure when I opened my chests from last week’s missions on Famous Fox Federation. By far my …
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The Magic Pines Retreat is up and running. First time getting to use the spa and sauna.
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The 2024 holiday season can now officially start with another great New Standards Holiday Show …
: Bitcoin crossed $100,000 USD for the first time ever on December 4, 2024!
: I created a Twin Cities IndieWeb list on BlogFlock. Let me know if you have sites that should be …
: People & Blogs List on BlogFlock I ran across BlogFlock, a new service by Raphael Kabo that takes a social approach to RSS feeds, and …
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The SPS Observation Station is ready for Cyber Monday 2024!
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I saw this graph on Tyler Cowen’s blog and it blew my mind how much is “alone”. In the comments …
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Vikings v Cardinals
We went to the Vikings v Cardinals game today. Tammy decided that we should take in a football game …
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Now THAT is a giant flag! 🤩🇺🇸
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Ready for the Vikings v Cardinals today! 🏈
November 2024
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We saw The Best Christmas Pageant Ever tonightt. Well done and great start to the holidays.
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It is only 11 °F but it was the best day for me to fill the hot tub and burn in the sauna. Plan is …
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I made the best pan of Toffee Bars I’ve ever made. These are a holiday favorite of mine. My Mom has …
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The last part of our day-after Thanksgiving tradition is watching Elf! What a great movie! 🎬🎄
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Per tradition we got our Christmas Tree up and decorated today. It is always fun to recount past …
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First time Christmas tree shopping at the Minneapolis Farmers Market Annex. Was weird to go downtown …
: I find this growing trend of sending a one-time code via email to login very annoying. Especially …
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Had a Things 4 Good candle scent survey today. Figuring out new scents for next year’s event.
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From our family to yours — Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful day.
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We saw Wicked tonight and thought it was really great. The ending was so powerful. Recommended! 🍿
: Could the micro.blog discover section take a very different approach? The curation was nice but I …
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Tyler’s done with school for the week. Mazie’s home from college. I’m making Wassail Tea and it …
: OmniFocus 4.4.3 just shipped with a bug I found in the change log! Sync – Fixed issue of the same …
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Candle experimentation trying out nine new scents. Made two candles each at a relatively high 9% …
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The Matrix
I have wanted to watch The Matrix with Tyler for a while. I remember seeing it in the theater and …
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Judging Novice Policy Debate today at University of Minnesota UMBrooks tournament. Tyler here …
: Alby is deprecating their shared Bitcoin Lightning wallet service. I don’t want to host my own node …
: Wonder what Musk’s net worth will be four years from now? Elon Musk’s net worth hit a record high of …
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Added the Bullfrog X8 hot tub to pair with the NorthUp Sauna. Happened to get it installed on the …
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Justin Willman at The Fitzgerald Theater
We had a great time seeing Justin Willman at The Fitzgerald Theater tonight! We first discovered …
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My coffee subscription from Pair Cupworks consistently brings me compelling and unique beans. This …
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Lefse: Freddy's v. Laura's
It is nearly Thanksgiving and the time I start to crave some lefse! I come from family where lefse …
: 1,000 days today. Ukraine marks 1000 days of full-scale war. “For 1,000 days, the Armed Forces of …
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Mujjo Leather Case for iPhone
Every iPhone I have had, since the original iPhone, I’ve had an Apple Leather case for. The iPhone …
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The NorthUp Sauna was delivered today! Darin and crew did a great job. It fits in the spot just …
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Reading the newest book from Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus. Sam Harris interviewed him on Making Sense, …
: Stories are to people as programs are to computers.
: How much does a Things 4 Good candle cost to make? Now that we have the fourth year of the Things 4 Good 2024 Fall Fundraiser behind us I thought it …
: Weekly Thing Supporting Memberships I have launched a Supporting Membership offering for the Weekly Thing. I previewed it in Weekly …
: I’m hosting the IndieWeb Carnival in April 2025 and I’m getting pretty excited about it. Starting to …
: Thoughts after writing 300 newsletters On November 9th I sent the 300th issue of the Weekly Thing. I sent the very 1st issue on May 13, …
: You can find me on the web. So much chatter lately on leaving social platform this to go to social …
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Tammy and I went to the sold out 7 Nights in the Entry at the Parkway Theater, part of the Sound …
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RIP @thingles
The steps…
I deleted my tweet history in 2016. I didn’t want my archive on a site that I didn’t …
: How I’m handling Twitter embeds from deleted accounts I’m seeing a lot of people that I was connected with on Twitter X deleting their profiles. This …
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Tammy and I went to A Real Pain tonight. I thought it was fine and a bit boring. The reviews say it …
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We had a great group from #TeamSPS at the Minnesota Tekne Awards ceremony tonight!
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Dig the cool display design for the Minnesota Tekne Awards stage. Fun to see the displays in a …
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This Melin hat may be one of my favorite new pieces of SPS swag. 🤩🧢
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Wrapping up Growth Summit #TeamSPS did a Give Back event where we assembled 1,000 SolarBuddy lights. …
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Incredible morning building connections at SPS Growth Summit! Incredible keynote from Riaz Meghji! …
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Last night we finished watching Season 7 of Young Sheldon. We watched this show mostly as a family, …
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Went out for a walk and claimed the Veterans Day Challenge badge in Apple Health.
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We saw Tina Schlieske’s Birthday Show at The Dakota and it was incredible! She was joined by her …
: Things 4 Good Four Year Impact We’ve now done our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser for four years. With the amazing support of this …
: Things 4 Good 2024 Fall Fundraiser Insights We had a great time hosting our 4th annual Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser. We raised $7,010 in …
: Things 4 Good 2024 Fall Fundraiser Results We completed our annual candle sale raising $7,010 for the four organizations we picked! That is a …
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Waited until it was cold enough before swapping this light out. New light should prohibit access by …
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First time playing Upwords. Sort of like Scrabble with stacking tiles. Fun but got hard and took a …
: This morning Weekly Thing 300 went out and a couple hours later my cellphone rang. It was Rajiv Pant …
: The business of social media is the business of addiction. These are the tobacco companies of our …
: I have scheduled Weekly Thing 300 to go out tomorrow morning! This project that I started in June …
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MISRC Digital Leadership Conference
I attended this mornings MISRC Digital Leadership Conference: Charting the AI Journey and also spoke …
: POAP 7230509 at Weekly Thing 300.
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A nice evening for a movie so we watched IF.
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I voted on October 17 via mail and thanks to the impressively well run Minnesota voting system I can …
: POAP 7229262 at Weekly Thing Early Supporting Member.
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Day 1 of Things 4 Good sale was great and we sold 67 candles for our charities. Getting ready for …
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Playoff soccer! We are UNITED! ⚽️
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I burned four of the runes I collected along with 75,000 FOXY to mint my Summoned Fox #9569! Famous …
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For the very first time ever outside of our private events, Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser at the …
: Not one undecillion, but two! Russia ordered Google to pay a fine of two undecillion roubles …
October 2024
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The Things 4 Good 2024 Candle Fundraiser POAP is ready to share with folks at this weekends event! …
: POAP 7227349 at Things 4 Good 2024 Candle Fundraiser.
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I just ordered an unofficial micro.blog t-shirt ! I went with blue. Thanks to Jim Mitchell for …
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We poured the last batch of candles for this weekends Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser! Pre-labeled, …
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Solved today’s NY Times Mini crossword in under 1 minute. 🤩
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We started watching Jungle Cruise last night and finished it tonight. We saw it in 2021 at a …
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Upgraded to iOS 18.1 and took less than 10 minutes on the “waitlist” to get provisioned with Apple …
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October roses at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
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There were a lot of fall displays at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum today.
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Mazie and her friend Faith made this incredible homemade Apple Pie. Will be tomorrow’s breakfast! 🥧
: This three minute video recap of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission highlights so many incredible …
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Ten minutes with items from the recycling bin and I made a DIY “ramp” to place in our mail slot! …
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Mazie and her Cousin Nora wanted to bake this afternoon so they both decided to do something ad hoc …
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Tammy and I made another four dozen Things 4 Good candles for next weekend’s fundraiser!
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Having this frustrating issue with iOS 18.0.1 on my new iPhone 16 Pro where it refuses to connect to …
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My Mom and I made our way to St. Olaf tonight to see Mazie perform in the Chapel Choir tonight. It …
: Money and Elections In 2010 Citizens United. The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment …
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Tammy and I made our first batch of candles for the Things 4 Good 2024 Candle Fundraiser! Tonight we …
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We saw Mike Birbiglia‘s newest performance The Good Life at the State Theater tonight. He is an …
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Our trip to Chicago for MEA was all electric in the Tesla Model Y. We’ve not done that many road …
: Chicago MEA Trip Log Thursday Depart at 6:12a Charge at Mauston. Charge in Janesville, walk to Culver’s that was closed …
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A trip to Chicago is not complete without a meal at Lou Malnati’s!
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We had a great time on the Architectural Boat Tour of Chicago.
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The L crossing the river in Chicago.
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Tammy had read about Soloway Coffee, a Ukrainian owned coffee shop in Chicago, and we rented some …
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While making our way to a coffee shop in Lincoln Park we ran across Oz Park in Chicago. It was a fun …
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We visited the Art Institute of Chicago specifically to see one of the original Great Wave pieces …
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While walking from Buckingham Fountain to the Art Institute of Chicago we took in the Abraham …
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Buckingham Fountain in the early part of the major display.
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Breakfast at Wildberry is a tradition for us in Chicago.
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Our evening plans were a bit in flux and we decided at the last minute, very last minute, to go to …
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Prairie Grass Cafe had “Chicago Magazine’s #1 Sirloin Burger” on the menu and Tyler and I couldn’t …
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Browsing the Ebisu Life store at Gurnee Mall. All Japanese products.
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After our flight simulator we went to Sixty to Escape and did the Mystery Manor room. It was a great …
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Flying a 737
Tyler and I had a blast at Extreme Flight Simulation flying a 737. Tyler got the pilot chair and I …
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This morning we made our way to Arlington Heights and met CJ Chilvers for breakfast at Scratchboard …
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This Waukegan, IL Tesla Supercharger is the largest I’ve ever seen. 20 charging stations with Gen 3 …
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We had a great time having our minds blown seeing Siegfried Tieber doing a guest performance at …
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We had an incredible dinner tonight at Perilla. The Korean styled steakhouse was amazing.
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Great but short time exploring the Museum of Science and Industry upon arriving in Chicago today.
: Captured the Tesla Coil at the Museum of Science and Industry at 120 fps and playing back at 1/4th …
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Ferrofluid under magnetic pull. Super cool to zoom in. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. …
: My cousin Josh’s column today, Night Riders Lament, was really good.
: North Shore Weekend Log Friday Drive to Duluth. Pizza and beer at Ursa Minor Brewery. Ice cream at Love Creamery. Check into …
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We’ve driven by Glensheen Mansion many times and finally we stopped and took a tour. It is a pretty …
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We thought it was going to be very cold and rainy but the rain held off and the day turned …
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Morning stop at the Great Lakes Candy Kitchen — treats for home!
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Artists Point in Grand Marais.
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World’s Best Donuts in Grand Marais. Pro tip: you can order the night before and skip the line …
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Stop at Fika Coffee, my favorite coffee shop on the North Shore, on our way to Grand Marais this …
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Our Airbnb for the weekend up north is a converted garage set in the woods. Nice place!
: Exploring FIFA Collect I’ve been intrigued with FIFA Collect for a bit. My interest was piqued when I saw that they are …
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Short walk after pizza to Love Creamery for delicious ice cream!
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Delicious pizza and beer at Ursa Minor Brewing tonight in Duluth.
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Many of the SPS Commerce leadership team took in the Minnesota Business Partnership annual event. We …
: POAP 7210582 at EFP Early 2024.
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Tyler and I were joined by Max and Levi at Orchestra Hall today to see the Minnesota Orchestra …
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We had a great time cheering the runners in the Twin Cities Marathon this morning! Our friends host …
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We saw The Wild Robot tonight at Edina 4. It was a new story to most of us however Mazie had read …
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The Thingelstad and Fernandez families ready for the TC 5K!
Results Mazie (45798): 7:12 min/mile …
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Ordered these awesome new MNUFC license plates for my car! Go Loons! ⚽️
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Transferring to the new iPhone 16 Pro!
September 2024
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Tammy and I went to see the Cowboy Junkies at The Dakota tonight. Both of us have enjoyed the Cowboy …
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Tammy and I went to a very cool small performance by Gary Louris of The Jayhawks and Golden Smog at …
: Our Favorite Cheeseburgers Since we just tried a new burger place I thought it would be fun to capture our favorite places that …
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We made our way to Wells Roadside tonight to try the newest smash burger place. This place has a …
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Judged two novice rounds at the Minnesota Debate Teachers Association (MDTA) Jamboree today at …
: Two AI Bots Discussing the Weekly Thing My friend Garrick recently shared about Two AI Bots Discussing His Work — a test he did using …
: Debate Season Begins Tyler is heading to the Minnesota Debate Teachers Association (MDTA) Jamboree today for his very …
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Fall CIO Wine Tasting Evening
Another incredible evening for the CIO Wine Tasting event hosted by Dee Thibodeau of Charter …
: ENS Continued Progress I continue to believe that despite the volume of scammers in crypto there is real value and …
: Ordered an iPhone 16 Pro today. I currently have an iPhone 14 Pro. I typically wait three years …
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Nice evening for a fire at Quarterdeck Resort.
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The sauna at Quarterdeck Resort is incredible. Enjoyed a couple of cycles through here on our stay.
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On the corner of Get Outside Trail and Smore Fun Way at Quarterdeck Resort.
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Minnedemo 40
The 40th installment of Minnedemo had me wondering about the first one — I was there for Holiday …
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Was great to run into this amazing group of Minnestar superstars at Minnedemo 40: Adrienne Peirce, …
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Ran into Justin Porter as I arrived at Minnedemo 40! FORTY!
We got a similar photo at Minnedemo 39!
: Apple updates tonight: ✅ 4 Macs ✅ 3 iPhones ✅ 4 Apple TVs ✅ 3 HomePods ✅ 2 Apple Watches ✅ iPad Pro …
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We watched Tetris and it was great. Tetris is my favorite game ever. I can still get completely lost …
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Triple smashburgers for Tyler and I tonight! 🤤
: Sauna on the way! For many years I’ve had the desire to get a sauna. Usually this has two peaks — one predictably in …
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I took the pontoon back to La Canne’s for winterization and storage. I got it out on May 10th this …
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After our TeamSPS Kubb Tournament a small group of us had a pickup game that was awesome. We had all …
: POAP 7192127 at SPS Kubb Tourney 2024.
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Tyler's Gaming PC: GPU Unlocked!
Tyler hit his savings milestone yesterday so today we went to Microcenter to get the GPU for his …
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Sidewalk poetry found in Northfield in and around this mornings 5k.
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We all completed the Defeat of Jesse James Days 5k Run/Walk and had a grand time. Tiffany and I …
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Our neighborhood. 52nd Street, Lynnhurst.
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In our neighborhood the Taschler’s host an annual Fry Party. What is that? They fire up multiple …
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You would be hard set to find a better desert than Pizzeria Lola’s warm Chocolate Chip Cookies and …
: Tyler's Playdate Game: The 5 Piece Sword The most open of the Summer Challenges I gave Tyler was to create a Playdate Experience. No …
: I got to thinking how many times we’ve seen The New Standards after we saw them last night. I …
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The New Standards put on an incredible show at The Dakota tonight marking their 20 year anniversary …
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We went to the Minnesota State Fair three times this year, a record for all of us. Are we becoming …
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Seeing the “Butterheads” in the Dairy Building at the State Fair is a must for me. As a bonus for …
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We made three trips to the Minnesota State Fair this year and the third visit really happened just …
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My Grandpa Ardell was a “John Deere man”, so whenever I see these green tractors at the Minnesota …
: My GTD Structure I suppose I’m a “list person”. Although I would say I’m a GTD practitioner. I like the sound of that …
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Big week for my Famous Foxes mission chests!
: Was feeling motivated this morning and published a robust iteration of my blogroll that has more …
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Good morning! September is starting with a chill in the air.
August 2024
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We watched The Fall Guy tonight! Tons of action and a fun movie overall.
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The Singing Sakatah Hills State Trail is closed right by Highway 60 and Dalton Ave near Cannon Lake. …
: I currently have 326 different Masked Email addresses set in Fastmail. It takes effort but is a …
: First challenge for my lake camera was getting it off the ground to keep the raccoons from playing …
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Eerie sky as this storm came in. There was a literal calm before the storm and then the wind kicked …
: Serious storm system coming through clearing out this incredible heat and humidity that we’ve had …
: Did a 4-mile walk tonight around Lake Harriet with Tammy and Mazie and claimed the 2024 National …
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Scenes as Allianz Field emptied out tonight.
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Wish the United would have won but we had a fun time (after the shade arrived) with my Mom and Kurt …
: Floating down Minnehaha Creek in South Minneapolis.
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Tubing Minnehaha Creek
It was a nice hot day to enjoy a float down Minnehaha Creek today. Tiffany and Andrew were visiting …
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Don's Bench in Turtle Park
Today we commemorated the 86th Birthday for Don Olson, Tammy’s Dad who passed away in January. Tammy …
: Minnesota State Fair Great night at the Minnesota State Fair with Tiffany & Andrew! 🎉
: Extended my domain registrations with NameCheap for thingelstad.com, weeklything.com, …
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Steve Earle — Alone Again at the Dakota
Last night Tammy and I saw Steve Earle at the Dakota. Mazie and I saw him last year at the Dakota. I …
: The thing that bugs me about Now pages is that they don’t have history. How about a “Now” category …
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My Mom and Mazie (I chipped in too) decided it was time to reclaim the completely wild garden plot …
: POAP 7180533 at First Computer Build.
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I queued up with the newest High Kings vinyl and got it signed after the show.
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Tammy and I had a great time seeing The High Kings at the Parkway Theater tonight. 🎶
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Tyler got his gaming PC assembled and running tonight! It was super fun to help him out with this. …
: Wet Summer 💦 We’ve had 28.26" of rain in 2024, just 2.97" behind the wettest year on record in Minnesota. However …
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Only 52 °F on Cannon Lake this morning. The air still clings onto summer humidity as the sun gets up …
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Due to all the flooding this year we just now got out on the pontoon!
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Gorgeous evening for National Night Out!
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The marine batteries in our pontoon are completely dead and my ancient car charger wasn’t doing the …
: Gmails Spam Randomness I subscribe to my own newsletter via Gmail so that I can see how it is treating the Weekly Thing. I …
: Dense DIscovery Launches DD Lounge Kai Brach at Dense Discovery just launched the DD Lounge for his Friends of DD (subscribers) and I …
: Enabling with Automation I just sent Weekly Thing 291 / Ireland 🇮🇪 as a special issue all about Ireland. This issue didn’t …
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Gonna be a hot day today — agenda is chilling in the pool and celebrating my sisters birthday! 😎🎉☀️
: I realized tonight that with fiber at our cabin the very old Apple TVs I have are limited by their …
: Today I Learned: Culver’s has a thing called a Pup Cup that is a free treat for your dog.
July 2024
: Drinkin' Hat My cousin Josh performing this original song “Drinkin’ Hat” that his brother Gabe started and they …
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League Cup: Necaxa v United
Tonight’s League Cup game with Club Necaxa at Minnesota United FC was a wild time. It started with a …
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Foo Fighters at Target Field
I’ve been looking forward to seeing the Foo Fighters at Target Field for months now. I got tickets …
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The Pretenders opening up for the Foo Fighters at Target Field. 🎶
: Walking Canoe Bay's Gardens The gardens at Canoe Bay were a highlight of our stay there. I tried to capture it a bit with this 7 …
: First time I’ve gotten a perfect in Strands! Strands #146 “Bedtime story” 🟡🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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The gardens at Canoe Bay were filled with incredible flowers.
: Delightful meditation garden at Canoe Bay.
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Tammy and I toasting our 22nd Anniversary! 🥂💍🥰
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At Canoe Bay, and a great view for breakfast.
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Tammy and I had a fun time seeing Twisters at the Stardust Drive-In Theater in Chetek, WI!
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We like to check out drive-in movie theaters when we travel. Tammy found the Stardust Drive-In and …
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Incredible Halibut main course at Canoe Bay.
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At Canoe Bay there are very friendly deer all over the property. They run around and seem to have a …
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At Canoe Bay for our anniversary weekend. We were here once before any kids. Very tranquil.
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50th Street is closed at France Ave this summer and it is fun to see the area embracing a temporary …
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Mazie and Grandma Kaye made a trip to Bob’s Produce today to get a box of the very first batch of …
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Tammy and I saw Thelma tonight at the Edina 4 Theater. It was a really good story. Funnier than I …
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I always love watching smoke billowing out of the Big Green Egg. Three pork butts in for a finish …
: Shopping via Terminal My cousin Quinn had mentioned this place that sold coffee via the Terminal using ssh but I hadn’t …
: Resurrecting two Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ units that I had from when I was running Pi-hole. Putting …
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Absolutely perfect evening for a cruise down the St. Croix River on the Lady Chateau.
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Stillwater Lift Bridge at night.
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There is a gondolier on Lake Saint Croix in Stillwater!
: Cuyuna Weekend 2024 We wrapped up a very fun weekend in Crosby exploring the Cuyuna area. Here is what the weekend …
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Stopped to say Hi to the giant Walleye in Garrison, MN and see the expanse of Mille Lacs Lake.
: Blog Pensieve I’ve been curating my blog for a couple of years now using a method I call Blog Gardening. I …
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We had pizza at Raffertys for dinner and made a return trip to High Wheel Confectionery for dessert!
: Paddling Pennington Mine We had a great afternoon paddling on Pennington Mine today!
: Strands, the new daily word game on the New York Times, is pretty fun. Strands #132 “Hello kitty” …
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Hazy Hopricot IPA at Cuyuna Brewing in Crosby. Very juicy, very good. 🍺
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Serpent sculpture by Serpent Lake in Crosby.
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High Wheel Confectionary
We were all super impressed and had a fun time visiting High Wheel Confectionary in Ironton. The ice …
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Had some good brisket at Hudson Smokehouse for dinner tonight. Mac-n-Cheese was also very good.
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Mountain biking on the Galloping Goose trail today.
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Bike from Red Raven on Galloping Goose trail with Huntington Mine Lake in the background.
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Family selfie on a stop while mountain biking the Galloping Goose trail in Cuyuna!
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Family selfie at the Adam Turman mural outside of Victual in Crosby. We are visiting the Cuyuna …
: Summer Challenge: Create a Playdate Experience This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
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Downtown Minneapolis in golden light from the rooftop of the Hewing.
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We saw The New Standards play tonight outside on the rooftop of the Hewing tonight. They did a good …
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I made it out to the pontoon to get the cover back up, replace a cover pole, and get the ponding …
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I picked up four of these Weatherproof Electrical Connection Boxes to keep connectors safe outside …
: Mazie took this fun handheld time-lapse of me making a round of smash burgers tonight. 🍔
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When you want to watch France 🇫🇷 and Portugal 🇵🇹 in the Euros 2024 quarterfinals but you also want …
: The Channel Inn had an amazing fireworks show tonight! We drove over and watched through the glass …
: Just realized that the Ubiquiti U6 Long-Range access points I’m using at the cabin need PoE+ (30W) …
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Knee high by the 4th of July? ✅
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Transferred the pork butts to the Big Green Egg after 21 hours on the Sous Vides. Time for smoke and …
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Happy Birthday America! 🇺🇸 Hope everyone has a great 4th of July! 🎆
: “Remember to leave beer and guns out or Kid Rock won’t bring you fireworks tonight.” — Dylan 🎅
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Break in the rain and everyone jumping in the pool! 💦
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Having Hulk Hogan’s new Real American Beer — can there be a better beer for 4th of July! 🍻
: My cousin @jellisatc posted his first new column — Making Hay — since I helped him get his website …
: Fiber Installed at Cabin I met with Bevcomm on July 1 2023 to give them the go ahead to install fiber at our cabin. They …
June 2024
: Importing 240 Word Documents to Micro.blog This weekend I helped get my cousin Josh setup Rambling Josh, a new website to host the column he’s …
: Rambling Josh My cousin Josh Ellis has been writing a twice-monthly column in the Burke County Tribune for nearly …
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I find it incredible that Pump 1 in our sump pump system has run 324,989 times. Pump 2 has only run …
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We decided to have dinner at Crisp & Green last night so that we could see Mazie at work! She was …
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Lake Cam Properly Mounted
Last week when I repositioned one of the UniFi G4 Cameras so that I could keep an eye on the …
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Cannon Lake Flooding Update
We stopped at our cabin yesterday to check on the flooding on Cannon Lake. Lucky for us the only …
: It is fun to think back to 17 years ago right now, tweeting on iPhone launch day, when I got my …
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Lovely stroll with Lucky this evening. A blooming Northern Catalpa, Minnehaha Creek brimming with …
: POAP 7147325 at SPS TechJam 2024 - Found It!.
: POAP 7147324 at SPS TechJam 2024 - Attendee.
: Ledger Stax Arrived This weekend I received my Ledger Stax crypto wallet! I pre-ordered this in December 2022 because I …
: Summer Challenge: Create a Counter using Shortcuts This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
: Summer Challenge: Write about a book This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
: Summer Challenge: Write about a video game This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
: Summer Challenge: Do a photo walk This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
: Raccoons v Webcam With Cannon Lake flooded I had repositioned one of the UniFi G4 Instant cameras so it was pointing …
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I received my Rabbit R1 tonight! I only had time to get it out of the box, do the basic setup, and …
: Helped Tyler order the first three components for his Gaming PC from NewEgg. He’s officially …
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Cannon Lake Flooded
In September 2016 we experienced a major flood on Cannon Lake, and now in 2024 we are going through …
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On our walk around Lake Harriet today we took a stroll through the Rose Garden as well. There were …
: Just heard the water level on Cannon Lake is expected to increase another foot. Time to head to the …
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The grapes in our backyard are coming along. 🍇
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Going to be a long night with Dotson going out on a red card 🟥 in the 26th minute. Ugh! Go United! …
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We saw Inside Out 2 today and thought it was just incredible. We all liked the first one and it was …
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Regular dose of Vitamin G while we were in Ireland.
: Ireland 2024 Index In the spirit of Harper’s Index, for our Ireland trip. Kilometer driven: 1,907 Damages to car: none …
: Summer Challenge: Embed and Comment on Chess Game This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
: Summer Challenge: Spec a Gaming PC This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
: Two recent headlines that will make Tammy very happy: Dr Pepper Ties Pepsi as America’s No. 2 Soda - …
: I dig Tetris and Tetromino things (proof? Tetris Shower), so this Tetris Font of course caught my …
: Got home after two weeks in Ireland to our sump pump system being in alarm mode making a very loud …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 18 Weather: Very nice, cool morning. Super humid in Minneapolis. Mazie goes for a short run. Tammy a …
: Back in Minneapolis! Can someone turn down the humidity? Yikes.
: Our time in Ireland is winding down. It has been great. So many experiences and memories. Wonderful. …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 17 Weather: Another beautiful day. No jackets needed. No rain. Periods of sunshine. Our last full day …
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Music and Pubs
On our last night in Dublin we decided to walk over to O’Donoghue’s Pub to listen to a traditional …
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Dalkey Island
On our day in Dalkey we caught a ride from Ken the Ferryman and he took us the brief distance to …
: Dalkey Castle After getting to Dalkey we found our way to the Dalkey Castle to take a tour. This tour included …
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Taking the DART to Dalkey this morning.
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 16 Weather: Great weather. Maybe the best day we’ve had. Father’s Day! Breakfast at the hotel. Figured …
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I’m a very lucky man to be father to these two! Happy Father’s Day!
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We took the Book of Kells Experience at Trinity College today. It was cool to see this book that is …
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Windmill Lane Studio Tour
We made our way to Windmill Lane today and took a tour of this famous studio. Windmill Lane was the …
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Me and my Guinness “Stoutie”.
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Guinness Storehouse
We joined thousands of our best friends on the Guinness Storehouse visit today. As a fan of Guinness …
: A fish riding a bicycle! (at Guinness Experience in Dublin)
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Kilmainham Gaol Museum
Visiting the Kilmainham Gaol Museum was one of the hardest tickets to get on our trip. Tammy had to …
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Driving in Ireland
Today, day 15 of our Ireland 2024 trip, we returned the SEAT Leon that we rented (hired?) from New …
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 15
Weather: Excellent day. Warmer day today.
Depart Tubbrid Castle at 8:44 AM. Drive to Dublin. …
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The Samuel Beckett Bridge over the River Liffey from the Sean O’Casey Pedestrian Bridge.
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On the Sean O’Casey Pedestrian Bridge crossing the River Liffey.
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EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum
This evening we made our way to EPIC: The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin to learn about the …
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The Temple Bar, in the Temple Bar District, in Dublin.
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Experience Gaelic Games
This morning after arriving in Dublin we went to Experience Gaelic Games to learn and play some …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 14 Weather: Very good, periods of warmth, periods of cold. Was sunny for good portions. Scattered rain …
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Great cappuccino at Cafe le Coco in Kilkenny.
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Today’s Guinness isn’t a Guinness, but instead an O’Hara’s Irish Stout Nitro. We had dinner at …
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Tubbrid Castle
Tonight we arrived at Tubbrid Castle. This is the most unique Airbnb experience we’ve ever had. This …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 13 Weather: Rain. Wind. Crappy. Better as we got further South. Tammy and Mazie go for a run in …
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Afternoon Tea at Titanic Hotel
After having such a delightful afternoon tea at Adare Manor we thought we would try another this …
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Titanic Museum
Today we visited the Titanic Museum in Belfast. It was an incredible experience, one of our …
: On Day 12 of our Ireland trip and here is our driving path so far. Started in Dublin. We’ve almost …
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“Influencer Free Zone”. Tunnel entrance in Belfast.
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 12 Weather: Cool and nice. Not much wind. Warmer in Belfast. Up early to depart Airbnb at 7:00 AM. …
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I love how the Titanic Hotel displays room numbers. There are spotlights in the ceiling, and then a …
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Tonight’s Guinness just a half-pint at the bar in the Titanic Hotel.
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We solved the Titanic: The Final Hour escape room at Timescape in Belfast tonight. We finished with …
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Giants Causeway
On our way from Ballyshannon to Belfast we took a big detour so we could go see Giants Causeway. We …
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Antique car outside of Titanic Museum in Belfast.
: I’ve been taking two daily supplements on our Ireland trip: Vitamin G and Vitamin I.
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 11 Weather: Reasonably pleasant. A little less windy. Cool temperatures. Relaxed morning recharging. …
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Today’s Guinness enjoyed at Whoriskey’s Pub outside of Ballyshannon.
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Tyler and Mazie had a blast at their first surfing experience! Thank you Rossnowlagh Surf School! …
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Having a cappuccino on the beach from Sunny Jim’s while the kids learn to surf. 55 °F with 15 mph …
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Tyler and Mazie wanted to try surfing in Ireland and there are a number of places that do surf …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 10 Weather: Overall good. Some sun. Kind of windy. Chilly but not too bad. Picked up to go baked goods …
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Mazie has been enjoying feeding the Alpacas here at the Airbnb.
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Today was filled with sheep as we ventured further north.
: Silver Strand Beach After taking in the Sliabh Liag we set the navigation to Silver Strand Beach about 30 minutes North. …
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Sliabh League Hike
In the morning we took a boat tour to see Sliabh League from the water. We also wanted to see it …
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Today’s Guinness at The Rusty Mackerel.
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Sliabh League Boat Trip
We met up with Paddy at the Teelin Pier this morning to take his Sliabh League Boat Trip to see the …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 9 Weather: Cool with gentle but steady rain much of the day. Today was a longer transit day starting …
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Guinness in the hot tub tonight outside of Ballyshannon.
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The kids meeting the Alpaca that live here at Cria Lodge.
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Hawk Walk at Ashford Castle
If I was living hundreds of years ago I would like to have been a person that hunted with a hawk.
On …
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Enjoying a flat white from Coffeewerk + Press in Galway. Love the graphics on their cups. Delicious …
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On Quay Street as we explore Galway.
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Final look at Doonagore Castle as we check out of Doonagore Cottage. On to Ballyshannon and a full …
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 8
Weather: Best weather yet. Good amount of sun. Reasonably warm. Not too windy.
Another day spent …
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We got to take in a bit of Irish music tonight at Gus O’Connors in Doolin. The place was packed and …
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Pitch & Putt
We are not a golfing family. I’m not a golfer. The extent of our golfing is really some mini-golf …
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Hiking the Cliffs of Moher
I was pretty anxious about today. Today was the day that we did the hike along the Cliffs of Moher. …
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Nice cappuccino from Irish Crafts this morning.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 7
Weather: Mixed bag. Periods of cool and cloudy, sunny and warm. It rained at times. Quickly changing …
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Me sporting my Irish look with new Fisherman’s Sweater and Cap. ☘️
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Exploring Inis Mór
We took the ferry to Inis Mór to explore the island today. We rented e-bikes from Aran Bike Rental …
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Doolin Ferry to Inis Mór
We took the Doolin Ferry to Inis Mór, part of the Aran Islands. The first 10-20 minutes were pretty …
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Cows grazing by Doonagore Castle this morning.
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Woke up to these cows grazing outside our cottage window this morning.
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 6 Weather: Good weather today — partially cloudy and less wind. Tammy was up at 8 AM, completely ready …
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Sunset over a field outside of Doolin.
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We walked from our cottage to McGann’s Pub in Doolin for dinner, Guinness, and music. All of it was …
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Checking in at the Cottage at Doonagore Castle for our stay near Doolin, Ireland.
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Tammy modeling her new Ireland made Jack Murphy coat found at Adare Manor.
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This would be the perfect spot for a Kubb pitch at Adare Manor!
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Afternoon Tea at Adare Manor
Today we had a special event — Afternoon Tea at Adare Manor. The last time Mazie and I went to an …
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Last beach walk this morning in Ballybunion during low tide.
: I am excited to see sync improvements to OmniFocus 4.3 for Apple Watch. The new watchOS app is very …
: It didn’t occurr to me that Ireland was going to have much longer days. We are used to Minnesota at …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 5 Weather: Windy, partly cloudy. Cool but pleasant. Very cold for water activities. A rare unscheduled …
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My Barber sent me to McMunn’s in Ballybunion
We ended our evening at McMunn’s of Ballybunion on the recommendation of my barber. How is that? 💈 …
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After dinner at Namir’s we took the Cliff Walk for an evening stroll.
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Ballybunion Beach Day
We took a big part of the day today to explore and wander around the beach at Ballybunion. It was …
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Walking the beach in Ballybunion.
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 4 Weather: Windy and rainy today and very cool. Highs around 55 °F. Breakfast at The Shire. Waffles …
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The view from where we are staying in Ballybunion with the sun low in the sky behind the cliffs as …
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Today’s pint of Guinness from Kate Kearney’s Cottage after completing hike over the Gap of Dunloe.
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Hike the Gap of Dunloe
We had an amazing time hiking the Gap of Dunloe today. We started at Lord Brandon’s Cottage and …
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We had an amazing time with Dux and Gap of Dunloe Traditional Boat Tour today going from Ross Castle …
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Boats at Ross Castle readying to go out for the day.
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The SEAT Leon is at capacity with our luggage.
: Omni Show 136: How Jamie Thingelstad Uses OmniFocus Episode 136 of the Omni Show podcast just showed up with me as the guest! I recorded this a couple …
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Delicious pint of Guinness at O’Connors Pub in Killarney while listening to some music.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 3
Weather: Cool in the morning and evening. Very comfortable the rest of the day. High of 62 °F.
Jamie …
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Self-serve dog wash station in Killarney. First I’ve ever seen of that. 🐕🧽
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The gardens around Muckross House were amazing.
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Muckross Abbey was very interesting to explore and learn the history. The courtyard with the Yew …
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Visited Torc Waterfall, fairly crowded. Then walked all the stairs to the top, less crowded. Nice …
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Had a fun day on our rented bikes from Killarney Bike Rental exploring Killarney National Park.
: I do a lot of writing on my blog and the Weekly Thing. I hope that through writing regularly I can …
: When we travel in Europe I’m always pleasantly surprised to see all the various privacy notices that …
: Today marks the 20th anniversary of thingelstad.com! Twenty years ago I posted about the difficulty …
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 2 Weather: Sunny. High of 67 °F. Pretty cool after sunset. Jamie gets some sleep on flight, everyone …
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Drove three hours to Killarney today after landing in Dublin. Had to learn how to do everything …
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Our Airbnb for our stay in Killarney, Ireland.
: Ireland 2024 Log - Day 1 Weather: Warm and Sunny in Minneapolis. Packing, packing, repacking, confused, not sure bringing the …
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DL114 ready to take us to Dublin!
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Edina Art Fair
We made a quick visit to the Edina Art Fair after we finished packing for our trip to Ireland and …
May 2024
: Soon we start our trip to Ireland and I thought it would be fun to make a POAP for it. DALL-E got me …
: POAP 7136146 at Thingelstad Ireland 2024.
: I’m giving micro.blog’s new audio narration feature a try. I used the new Zoom H1 Essential to …
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A dozen bikes parked in the garage today. 🚲
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Max and I enjoying a Grain Belt Premium at Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm.
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Tammy and I have a highly optimized team approach to making smash burgers. It is a complex …
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First Coffee in 54 Days
This morning I had my first cup of coffee since April 1st — 54 days without the Black Gold in my …
: Tough losses for the Timberwolves against the Mavericks. Tonight was heartbreaking with a bad call …
: POAP 7132736 at Magic Pines Summer of 2024.
: POAP 7131408 at SPS Learning Leaders 2024.2.
: Awesome to see my Weekly Thing Seven Year Anniversary POAP highlighted in the most recent Week in …
: Two decades ago when I started publishing on the web I would have never guessed that linking to …
: I’ve gotten into the NBA playoffs a bit this year. I’m was very happy (and a little surprised?) to …
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Tammy and I saw The Decemberists at the Palace Theatre tonight. They were great as always. What …
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This Blackened Swordfish with Spanish Rice special at 6Smith was so good I came back to have it a …
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Great night for Minnesota United FC v Portland Timbers! ⚽️
: Micro.blog just added a new feature to comment directly on a blog post on a hosted blog, instead of …
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While we were at Theodore Wirth we also stopped by the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird …
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We visited the Quaking Bog at Theodore Wirth today. We’d never been there and I was lucky enough to …
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With just one final left next week Mazie is wrapping up her Freshman year at St. Olaf. She did an …
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Tyler and I went to see the Minnesota Orchestra Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert tonight. Having …
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Happy Vyshyvanka Day!
We have celebrated Vyshyvanka Day in our Kyiv office for years now, but this year we also decided to …
: POAP 7126846 at Weekly Thing Seven Year Anniversary.
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First soccer game for Summer 2024 season! Go Cobras! 🐍
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First Dairy Queen bike ride of the year! 🍦
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Seeing Purple Lilacs in bloom always reminds me of my Grandma Rose. They were her favorite. They …
: Helped Mazie create her very first resume. That seems like a milestone. 😀
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We watched Arthur the King tonight. Our family is a sucker for dog movies and this one was no …
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Very bright and showy Parrot Tulips at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.
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Happy (early) Mother’s Day to my Mom! She joined us for an afternoon jaunt to the Minnesota …
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Cristo Rey UnGala 2024
This evening I was able to attend the first UnGala for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. What is an …
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MnTech Tech Connect 2024
Today was Tech Connect 2024 hosted by MnTech at the Saint Paul RiverCentre. There were over 600 …
: POAP 7123046 at Region Transfer ✔️.
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I collected the ENS 7th Anniversary NFT! I continue to be a big fan of ENS and think it is one of …
: I’m looking forward to Minnesota Technology Association Tech Connect 2024 event on Wednesday. To …
: POAP 7122301 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad at Tech Connect 2024.
: I pre-ordered the Ledger Stax on Dec 10, 2022 and after a very long wait I got notified that they …
: Bitcoin passed 1 billion total all-time transactions tonight! Currently at 1,000,196,488. 👏
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Squirrels Eat Two Pounds of Chocolate
For Mother’s Day I ordered some Freese’s Candy for Tammy. We had these when we were in Milwaukee and …
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Finished game of Five Crowns — Mazie was the winner!
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My bro-in-law Max and I getting ready for the 80’s Prom Murder Mystery Party. 🕵️♂️
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Double rainbow from earlier today. The primary rainbow was so colorful. Even the green is clearly …
: Reflections on No Coffee I haven’t had any coffee since April 1st. I’ve abstained from coffee and caffeine because of three …
: POAP 7120292 at Olson Family Vacation 2024.
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Constellation Fund Bright Night 2024
Tammy and I had an enjoyable evening at Constellation Fund Bright Night 2024. Constellation Fund …
April 2024
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At St. Olaf enjoying Mazie singing in Manitou Singers for the Spring Concert featuring Andrea …
: Recent concert that I most regret not going to — Bruce Springsteen.
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We watched Champions tonight. Great movie and touching story.
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We attempted to solve the Utopia room at Lock & Key Escape Rooms today — alas we didn’t quite get …
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We had a delightful afternoon at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Tulips are blooming! 🌷
: For fun I added my website to the IndieWeb Webring. 🕸💍 I also added an h-card microformat tucked …
: My Morning Woke up around 5:30a to the chirps of a CO detector telling me the 9V backup battery is low. Let …
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Hard Miles
We saw Hard Miles at Edina 4. Based on a true story, it tells the story of a counselor taking four …
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Happy Birthday to Tammy! 🎉 I took the afternoon off for Tammy’s birthday. Mazie wasn’t able to be at …
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Playoff basketball tonight with Timberwolves v Phoenix. Aggressive ball! 🏀 50-51 at the half.
: Blog Gardening Reflection Today was a particularly fun session of blog gardening: Realized that we walked the High Line in New …
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Minnebar 18
Today was one of the biggest days of the year for the technology community of the Twin Cities — …
: We just passed the Bitcoin halving and are now in Epoch V! What an incredible journey so far. I …
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Crucially important House of Representatives vote coming up to provide critical aid to Ukraine! I …
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2024 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony
The annual Aspirations in Computing event highlights the accomplishments of incredible young women …
: I attempted my first yoga class with Peloton today and learned that my flexibility is not where it …
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Added the new #TeamSPS Cyberweek 2023 challenge coin to my display case. What a collection!
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Great to see The Little Mermaid Jr. at the Reif Center featuring my nephew Andrew as Grimsby.
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Guinness at Rapids Brewing Company. 🍻
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Nice afternoon walk in Golden Anniversary State Forest with my brother Isaiah and Tiffany.
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Tyler practicing hobo packing.
: I’m two weeks into no coffee and this morning I thought I would try a mug of Pu’er Black Tea fully …
: The open foundation of the Fediverse continues to pique my interest and outweigh my disregard for …
: POAP 7104649 at Cyber Week 2023.
: These new custom perspective capabilities in OmniFocus 4.2 are very welcome. I’ll be able to do some …
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Gabe Mollica "Solo" at the Parkway
Tonight Tammy and I saw Gabe Mollica perform Solo: A Show About Friendship at the Parkway Theater. …
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Semisonic at the Palace Theatre
Last night Tammy and I went over to St. Paul to see Semisonic at the Palace Theatre. I have no idea …
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We watched Howl’s Moving Castle tonight. I think it is one of my favorite Studio Ghibli movies. I …
: Day 4 without coffee and caffeine seemed to turn the corner. Felt a little less of a fog all day. …
: POAP 7099088 at SPS - Sparky AI Launch!.
: No Coffee? I’ve been wondering how much caffeine is impacting me and yesterday, without much thinking about it, …
: Today I Learned: DNS and Wildcard Records One of my favorite features of Fastmail is mail routing. I can use that to create any number of ad …
: I just completed all the blog posts for our Milwaukee Spring Break trip. This is the most complete …
March 2024
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We saw the New Standards perform tonight at the Dakota. It was a great show and featured a number of …
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Happy Easter! We had family to Magic Pines and had a 90 Easter Egg Hunt outside looking for treats! …
: My friend @Bricker is lighting up his blog timeline with a bunch of new and old blog posts. Worth …
: I’ve been a fan of the IndieWeb community for years, but finally decided I should get a bit more …
: Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 5 Coffee and pastries at Pilcrow Coffee. Visit to the Milwaukee Domes after it was closed yesterday. …
: Milwaukee Domes We made a last minute final stop at the Milwaukee Domes before we left town. The tropical and desert …
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Beautiful and tasty Cortado at Pilcrow Coffee on our final morning in Milwaukee.
Part of the …
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Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 4
Jamie has morning coffee at Discourse Coffee and today Mazie joined as well. Brunch at Uncle …
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We had a great time escaping the “Invasion” room at 60 to Escape! The room was fun, surprising, and …
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We saw Call Me Dancer at the Oriental Theatre while in Milwaukee. The movie told the story of Manish …
: Harley-Davidson Museum We visited the Harley-Davidson Museum while in Milwaukee. None of us are huge motorcycle fans but it …
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The Ube Toast Crunch Oatmeal at Uncle Wolfie’s Breakfast Tavern is delicious and strikingly purple! …
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While waiting for our table at Uncle Wolfie’s Mazie found these stairs and got some exercise. Then …
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Return visit to Discourse Coffee this morning for a Moonwater (espresso, milk, honey, cinnamon, …
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I like this sculpture in combination with the buildings in downtown Milwaukee.
Part of the Milwaukee …
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Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 3
Jamie has morning coffee at Discourse Coffee. Brunch at Blue’s Egg. Milwaukee Zoo. Rainy and pretty …
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We wrapped the day with 2 hours of tactical laser tag at Battle House Laser Combat tonight. We were …
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It was cool and rainy so a trip to Big Putts Mini Golf was perfect. We arrived and the place was …
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A cold morning with drizzling rain isn’t the ideal day to see the Milwaukee Zoo but we still made …
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The barista “workbench” at Discourse Coffee has an incredibly broad array of mixologist components. …
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Enjoying one of the most unique drinks I’ve ever had — Motörhead Latte (espresso, milk, pork fat + …
: Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 2 Breakfast at Toast. Amazing time at Milwaukee Art Museum. Tyler did amazing job flying at Extreme …
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We went Duckpin Bowling tonight at Koz’s Mini Bowl. Koz’s has the oldest original Duck Pin bowling …
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Tammy and I saw Brett Goldstein’s standup show “The Second Best Night of Your Life” at the Riverside …
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Tyler in Flight Simulator
While on Milwaukee Spring Break we took a short drive 40 miles south to Gurnee, Illinois to visit …
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There was a stack over two feet high of large sheets of paper in the Milwaukee Art Museum. They all …
: Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum was incredible. It was one of our favorite art museums that we have ever …
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The architecture in the atrium of the Milwaukee Art Museum is amazing. It sets an incredible tone. …
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Family selfie in the atrium of the Milwaukee Art Museum with Lake Michigan in the background.
Part …
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Looking good this morning Milwaukee!
Part of the Milwaukee Spring Break collection.
: Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 1 7:07a Depart home 7:24a Fill Mazda CX-9 with gas 12:03p Lunch at Archie’s Flat Top in Milwaukee: …
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First museum stop was the Milwaukee Public Museum. We had a fun time exploring the European Village, …
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Tammy loves Rice Krispie bars so when we passed Carrie’s Crispies we had to stop! We tried Original, …
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After arriving in Milwaukee it was time for lunch at Archie’s Flat Top. We are always game for a …
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Quinn, Tyler, and I went to the Minnesota United friendly versus St. Patricks Athletic FC. The …
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We watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves tonight. Good story and fun D&D vibes.
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Picked up new Tesla Model Y today.
Also see list of vehicles.
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Pi Day 2024 cocktail: Shut Your Pie Hole.
See Pi Day Collection.
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Tammy’s π Day 2024 creations: Bumble Berry, Bailey’s Irish Cream Pie, Spinach Pie, Broccoli Cheddar …
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We had a great π day celebration with TeamSPS today! Many pies and some great Pi Day shirts too!
See …
: POAP 7073071 at TeamSPS Pi Day 2024.
: POAP 7072949 at Pi Day 2024.
: POAP 7062741 at Gnosis Chain Dencun Hard Fork.
: POAP 7062580 at POAP Fun 2.0 - User feedback.
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Lead With Influence: A Proven Process To Lead Without Authority
I’ve met Matt Norman a few times. He is an incredibly outgoing, generous, and nice person that …
: Today Bitcoin finally broke through the $70,000 resistance it had been bouncing off of for days now …
: Today Gnosis Chain activated the Dencun upgrade before Ethereum. I run a validator on Gnosis and …
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Grandpa and Grandma
Hanging out with my Cousin Josh the last couple of days brought many stories and remembrances of the …
: Micro.blog Uploads Wish List I’m a fan of Micro.blog for hosting my website. For me it is a great mix of ease-of-use and powerful …
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We watched Jumanji: The Next Level tonight — almost a year after we watched Jumanji: Welcome to the …
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Enjoying cigars around the fire with my cousins Josh and Quinn along with Kurt and Dylan.
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Made my first visit to Stogies on Grand in St. Paul to get some cigars for tonight. Great selection …
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In recognition of International Women’s Day continuing my commitment to empowering all women, …
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Fun night out seeing Gaelic Storm and The High Kings at the Pantages with my cousin Josh and his …
: Bee Lab at University of Minnesota When Tammy’s Dad passed away one of the organizations that he supported was the Bee Lab at the …
: Power has been shut off to the entire house now for nearly an hour for the electrical upgrades. …
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My friend Jim and I had a great time watching the Timberwolves beat the Trail Blazers tonight! 119 - …
: Bitcoin near or at new all-time highs today.
: Home Electric Upgrade We’ve had a crew from Advantage Electric at our house for the last couple days and hopefully we’ll …
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Dune: Part Two
After multiple delays Dune: Part Two arrived in theaters! Tammy got us all tickets for last night’s …
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Getting Tesla Model Y
Yesterday we purchased a 2024 Tesla Model Y! This will be my primary car replacing the Mazda CX-9. …
: POAP 7043185 at TechConnect 2024 - Speaker.
February 2024
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Winter Along the Gunflint Photography Workshop
Last weekend I drove up to Grand Marais to take Winter Along the Gunflint Photography Workshop with …
: How I burned $10,000 Meme coins are one of the parts of the crypto ecosystem that I have no interest in. They are pure …
: Reviewing my On This Day page today made me do a double take — so few posts. Then I remembered it is …
: POAP 7025662 at TechConnect 2024 - AI Challenge.
: POAP 7025255 at SPS TechConnect 2024.
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On Artist Point in Grand Marais in pre-dawn light to catch the sunrise.
: Lake Superior, Grand Marais.
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First time winter hiking today with these hiking crampons. Amazing stability and still easy to walk …
: Suggestion from Bryan Hansel to find your photography style — go through your photos for the year …
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Ice Climbers along the Cascade River.
: How is it possible that I’m just now discovering how amazing Swedish Cream is. Wow.
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Geared up for sunrise winter photography.
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Out early shooting the sunrise. Good waves on Lake Superior.
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Bryan Hansel getting everyone started on our workshop.
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Morning coffee and pastry at 190° Coffee and Tea. Early morning snowfall. Heading on to Grand …
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Good morning from the Sundew in Duluth, Minnesota.
: ENS: Blockchain Native Organization The section from the ENS DAO February 13th update impressed me. In January 2024, the ENS Protocol …
: We’ve lived in this house for over a year and I’m now ready to tackle figuring out what uses so much …
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Tammy and I finally watched Oppenheimer tonight. Incredible movie. Everything about it pulled me …
: This chart of SPSC performance since IPO is amazing. Compared to the high growth tech giants — …
: POAP 7006451 at RIP SPS Portal.
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Tyler and I watched TRON: Legacy again tonight. It is a great movie and made me think it would be …
: Game Store Tour Tyler and I had the day to ourselves and we decided to start with a trip to Tower Games to look …
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We were out with friends to see Martin Zellar at the Parkway Theater tonight. He performed his Neil …
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Valentin brought Medovik last night from Masha’s Cake. I got to try my very first slice today and it …
: While blog gardening today I found random <0xa0> characters in over 100 blog posts. A quick search …
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We had friends and colleagues from Ukraine as well as local folks that have moved from Ukraine over …
: Watched Monday’s Daily Show with John Stewart and wish he was on every night. Seemed like riding a …
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I was very excited to read that OmniFocus is now on TestFlight for Vision OS! I enrolled and am now …
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We saw Jax Hollow at The Dakota for the first time tonight. Talented musician and performer. I think …
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Honored to receive these amazing Ukrainian vyshyvanka from Yuri — visiting for the first time in …
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Very fun time playing in virtual reality at REM5VR today. Space Pirate and Elven Assassin still …
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It was great to see Mason Jennings at the Dakota tonight. The vibe of the Dakota is perfect for him. …
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It seems we were at a stoplight behind a Dungeon Master. 😎
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I got a Magic Keyboard to pair with the Apple Vision Pro. I want to use the Vision Pro for …
: Minneapolis Downtown Council 2024 Annual Meeting I got to attend the 2024 Minneapolis Downtown Council annual meeting today at the Armory. Our own …
: Ordered a Magic Keyboard to pair with the Apple Vision Pro so I can dive into more of the …
: I wanted to celebrate getting my Apple Vision Pro and what better way than with a POAP! I’m sharing …
: POAP 6991680 at You Experienced Spatial Computing.
: You can drink a coffee while using the Vision Pro, but you may need to tip your head back so the …
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Tammy and I had a great night seeing Words & Music by Dan Wilson at the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis. …
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First experience in Spatial Computing. 🤩
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At the Apple Store picking up my Apple Vision Pro!
: The #TeamSPS tech team gave out this “I Stopped by the Tech Lab at SKO POAP” in the Product Partner …
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Curious Experts with Diana Kander
The guest keynote for #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024 was Diana Kander. She shared how expertise can …
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Day 2 of #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024 was another great event. We started with an inspiring call to …
: POAP 6989234 at I stopped by the Tech Lab at SKO.
January 2024
: I was using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and stumbled on the Changes feature. It took a …
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I had a great first day of #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024! So much energy and excitement in the room.
: A warm welcome to the newest slate of Minnestar board members: Kathryn Frengs, Tim Herby, Muneeb B. …
: Backed Project Tapestry from Iconfactory Iconfactory launched a Kickstarter campaign for Project Tapestry today. Iconfactory is a great …
: Today Buttondown released a new comments feature! I’ve turned this on for the Weekly Thing — it is …
: Online Handle Jim Nielsen’s Online Handles blog post caught my eye. I figured I would share too. Recently I …
: Trying a Roomba for the first time and have it on a mapping run. I find myself talking to it: “No, …
: Jumping into Obsidian I recently decided to give Obsidian a serious investigation and voluntarily dive down the “rabbit …
: I’ve followed CJ Chilvers writing for years now. His newsletter is one that I learn from and find …
: The Weekly Thing is back from winter break — Weekly Thing 274 / Gibberish, Happyfeed, Airshow is …
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Tammy and I saw American Fiction tonight at the Edina Theatre. I liked the movie and thought it was …
: POAP 6980682 at 2023 Global Voices 100%.
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Let’s play hockey! My cousin Quinn joined us. Early lead with Minnesota Wild 2-0 over Washington …
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Don Olson Obituary
On Wednesday Tammy’s Dad passed away. Don was a good man that left the world better than he found …
: It just dawned on me that one of my favorite drinks and favorite donuts have the same name: Old …
: 360 video from the #TeamSPS 2024 Social!
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Exciting morning — warming up my fingers to get the Apple Vision Pro ordered!
✅ Pre-order complete …
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Excited to be at Timberwolves v Grizzlies game! 🏀
: I’ve been finding micro.blog a bit noisy lately. I was contemplating what to do about it and then I …
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Have the next round of books to read for my book club assembled. 📚
Medici Money: Banking, …
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Interview with 612 Series creator Erik Halaas
In October 2022 I found the 612 Series by Erik Halaas. This NFT collection resonated with me as a …
: Wallet of Satoshi Stops Serving US Customers It was about a year ago that I made my first purchase with Bitcoin Lightning. It was a tasty …
: New POAP Onboarding Process A year ago (exactly!) I shared my POAP Wishlist which included three areas that I felt would be …
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We all went to the new Mean Girls movie tonight. I had seen the 2004 Mean Girls a long time ago but …
: There is certainly some luck involved with Microsofts early investment and partnership with OpenAI. …
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It might have been better if I never would have found out about these Bailey’s Irish Cream Minis. …
: POAP 6968799 at SPS Web Fulfillment 2 Billion.
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We watched Here Comes the Boom tonight. Kevin James is a great lead for this and the story has some …
: Bitcoin ETF Approved Milestone day to recognize — SEC Approves Bitcoin ETFs for Everyday Investors. Bitcoin doesn’t need …
: My 52nd Birthday POAP was highlighted in the newest This Week in POAP. 🤩
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Just set calendar event to pre-order Apple Vision Pro on January 19th! 🎉
: Another proof point that smoke detector low battery “chirps” always start when you are trying to …
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We saw The Boy and the Heron today. The animation was beautiful as you would expect from Studio …
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My top podcast listening for 2023. I subscribe to Making Sense and The Drive. Omni Show is always a …
: Tammy is our family trip planner extraordinaire and she has mapped out the general structure of our …
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Put together this fun Tribute to Galileo Galilei LEGO this morning. Reminded me of our bike tour in …
: Just booked flights for our summer vacation to Ireland! We are excited for our first trip there. 🇮🇪 …
: Birthday POAPs I’ve made it a tradition since my 50th birthday to issue a POAP token for my birthday and share it …
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First time trying this Natural-Processed Coffee Beans from Myanmar that I got from Pair Cupworks. …
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We saw The Boys in the Boat at the Edina Theatre tonight and thought it was a great movie. It was a …
: POAP 6957479 at I met Jesus in January 2024.
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Tammy and I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once tonight and found it a wild trip. One of the …
: Today is my 52nd Birthday, but I also share my birthday with Bitcoin. Happy 15th Birthday to …
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Family selfie on my 52nd birthday! 🎉
: I created a POAP to share for my 52nd Birthday! Here are five claim codes! Each link can only be …
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Great way to start your birthday? A macchiato from Backstory Coffee that tastes as good as it looks. …
: POAP 6955184 at Jamie Thingelstad's 52nd Birthday.
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Ferrari
Tammy and I went to see Ferrari tonight. When I saw the preview for this movie we had just been to …
December 2023
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It turns out it was Mrs. Peacock with the Candlestick in the Conservatory!
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First time playing the Tetris Tabletop Game and it is pretty good. I’m a big Tetris fan, and this …
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It is a family tradition to have fondue on New Year’s Eve. This years cheese fondue was particularly …
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After watching Flamin’ Hot last night we had to try some Flamin’ Hot Crunchy Cheetos! Hot indeed! …
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Tyler completed the Great Wave LEGO kit today. This is his favorite artwork and a very cool LEGO.
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Notes on Complexity by Theise
I finished reading Notes on Complexity by Neil Theise this morning. It is a quick read just under …
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Mazie finished this amazing Typewriter LEGO. The movement is impressive and it makes a “clacking” …
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We watched Flamin’ Hot tonight and it was great! Wonderful movie and even better story! 🔥🌶️🍿
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First time playing Tsuro. Super interesting strategy requiring an indirect approach to attacking …
: POAP 6952612 at POAPathon Community Chat December 29 2023.
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Hector, Mazie, and I took Lucky on a walk for her 4th Birthday! Happy Birthday Lucky! 4️⃣
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Played a round of Skittles tonight. Mazie scored 540 points on the last round to leap into first and …
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Tyler and Mazie made Cake Pops for the first time today. They tasted great! 🤤
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Tyler completed this fabulous Starry Night LEGO kit. It looks amazing. 🎨🤩
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Mazie and I got a barn selfie on our daily Lucky walk at the cabin.
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Seasoning the griddle on the new Blackstone. Few applications in already. 🔥
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Finished my Piranha Plant LEGO Super Mario build. Fun and unique build with many special pieces. I …
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I assumed this project wouldn’t get done until spring but with nicer weather and no snow Mazie and I …
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Mazie and I had a nice walk with Lucky on our typical loop enjoying a break from the rain and …
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Christmas LEGO project for 2023: Piranha Plant from Super Mario collection. Progress after bag 2.
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I adore this new ornament that Santa left for me 🎅🎄
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Mazie’s Gingerbread house is epic this year.
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Lefse flower with delicious lefse from Freddy’s Lefse! 🌺 🎄
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Record warm Christmas Eve means traditional tenderloins on the Big Green Egg in shirt sleeves!
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Mazie and I took Lucky for a walk today. Vests. Open water. No snow. Unusual for December 23rd.
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612 Series — Cherry and Spoon
My favorite local NFT project has been 612 Series by Erik Halaas of StayNftyMpls. I’ve collected 35 …
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Everything happens so much.
I won the auction for the “10 of 10” museum quality brass plaque that Jeff Atwood auctioned in his I …
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Wonka
We saw Wonka this evening and all thought the movie was great. Wonka tells the magical origin story …
: I dig the simple and distinct look of the new Minnesota state flag. Certainly a more modern look. …
: POAP just published the Year in POAP 2023 with highlights of the year. POAP is one of my favorite …
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Sam’s Christmas Village and Light Show
We made our first trip to Sam’s Christmas Village and Light Show to see the 12 million lights that …
: Strava 2023 Year in Sport My Strava 2023 Year in Sport!
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Took in Tinsel Town at O’Donavon’s today with Tammy’s sisters and Olson bro-in-laws.
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We had friends over and played SHEEPLE: The Best Game in the Ewe-niverse for the first time. It was …
: People & Blogs: Me! When I first heard of Manuel Moreale’s People and Blogs project, I knew it was something I wanted to …
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Tammy and I went to The Holdovers tonight at the Mann Theatres in Edina. We both enjoyed the movie …
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It was fun to be able to speak at the Mntech Tech Outlook 2024 event today. Dan Abdul, Sarah …
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Upgraded to OmniFocus 4
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of OmniFocus 4.0 and today is the day! I haven’t used any of …
: I was excited to be the first to claim tonight’s MN Blockchain Holiday Party POAP! Also see related …
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Brandon Ferdig kicking off tonight’s MN Blockchain Holiday Party. The evening was a fun social event …
: POAP 6937660 at MNBlockchain - Holiday Party.
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We are now a Ridwell house!
A few months ago while walking our neighborhood I noticed some of these white boxes in front of …
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First Visit to the Haberdashery
In 2022 I worked with a style coach and it was a transformative experience. It’s been about a year …
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It was an honor to be included in the Twin Cities Business 2023 Notable Leaders in Technology …
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We had a great brunch and even more fun taking pictures in the Red Nose Room at Red Cow Uptown this …
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After visiting the European Christmas Market we walked over to the Glow Holiday Festival at CHS …
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We had a great time visiting the St. Paul European Christmas Market tonight. We had delicious food …
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Excited to see Aladdin at the Orpheum!
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We attended our first St. Olaf Christmas Festival at Orchestra Hall. This year was themed Love and …
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First time stopping at Smith Coffee & Cafe and was very impressed with their coffee program and the …
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In celebration of our niece’s 16th Birthday she arranged a large group of family and friends to go …
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New Standards Holiday Show 2023
We had a fun night at the 2023 New Standards Holiday Show tonight! This is a holiday tradition of …
November 2023
: What is your favorite iPhone? The other day Alex stopped by my office and asked me “What is your favorite iPhone that you have …
: Things 4 Good 2023 Fall Fundraiser Insights We had a great time hosting our 3rd annual Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser. We raised nearly $6,000 in …
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Watched Elf tonight! Tradition of ours every year right after Thanksgiving. This viewing was one of …
: A friend shared this powerful maxim with me. I have found it useful in recent conversations. Does …
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I made my traditional Christmas season Toffee Bars today. My Grandma Rose always had these freshly …
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Tyler’s Christmas Twinkle Lights had a break in the wiring. Gave me the opportunity to get the …
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We got our Christmas Tree at Gifford’s Tree Farm in Lakeville today. We found a wonderful 10’ tree …
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OpenAI Rewind: New Board, Altman Returns ⏪
Wow. First OpenAI…
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as …
: Prediction: Microsoft will acquire OpenAI I’ve been following the self-created chaos at OpenAI since Friday’s shocking announcement that the …
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We had a great time seeing my nephew Andrew Keating perform in Matilda Jr. at the Reif Center. He …
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While having dinner at Rapids Brewing we got to hear the beginning of Grant Glad’s set and I liked …
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We had a nice hike in the woods of the Bass Brook WMA just across the dam at the Pokegama Dam & Rec …
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We “successfully” solved Bigfoot’s Backyard Escape Room and helped Bigfoot find Littlefoot. The room …
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Good Leadership Breakfast: Archie Black
It was great to hear from Archie Black at the Good Leadership Breakfast this morning. I had never …
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TeamSPS group photo at MnTech Tekne Awards!
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We had an incredible day at the Microsoft Technology Center learning and exploring the many AI …
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This AI display at the Microsoft Technology Center is a great way to show real-time AI capabilities. …
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It was cool to get a tour of Worthington Aviation, an Air T company, today. It was impressive to see …
: I created my very first custom GPT tonight — GTD Coach. This GPT is designed to help practitioners …
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It was a gorgeous afternoon for a walk in the Natural Lands at St. Olaf with Mazie.
: Things 4 Good 2023 Fall Fundraiser Results We completed our annual candle sale and, in total, raised $5,755 for the four organizations we …
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UniFi Protect First Impressions
I’ve used Ubiquiti UniFi networking at home for about five years. I’ve been very impressed with it, …
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We had a fun time watching Red Notice tonight. Fairly ridiculous and a fun time. 🍿
: I created a collection of TeamSPS events page to easily connect all my blog posts from a variety of …
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Tina Schlieske put on an amazing show at The Dakota tonight in celebration of her 57th birthday. We …
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Before the show at The Dakota.
: reMarkable — you can do better than this? 😬 No, I’m not going to install Rosetta. I guess I’ll try …
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Our team (table 40) had a great time at our Growth Summit 2024 Give Back event building a Piper …
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Growth Summit 2024
We had an amazing Growth Summit 2024 with Team SPS today! We had our North American team in person …
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I voted! Just one election on the ballot so was fast. Minnesota does a great job running polling …
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Candles are all set out for this weekends Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser!
: Thirteen years ago today I added my 100th login to 1Password. It is amazing to me that I’ve been …
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Impressive balloon display at The Depot. Are balloon displays a thing?
: I’m giving micro.blog a post after moving from hugo 0.91 to 0.117. I’m confident that Tiny Theme …
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Speaking on a panel at Minneapolis CIO Summit this afternoon — Generative AI: Will it Revolutionize …
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Yuri sent me this photo of Kyiv looking great at sunset. I miss my trips there to visit the team.
October 2023
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Ready for Halloween Trick-or-Treaters but suspect the 32 °F and dusting of snow is going to keep …
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Snow isn’t a great way to start Halloween! 🎃 👻🥶
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iMac Upgrade
It has been time for us to upgrade our 27" 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5 (2019) and 27" 3.8 GHz …
: Apple Silicon M3 is here! A MacBook Pro with an M3 Max has an incredible amount of power. Wow! I’ll …
: POAP 6885356 at Things 4 Good 2023 Candle Fundraiser.
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We saw Spirited Away at Willow Creek Theater today as part of Ghibli Festival. First time we had …
: I’m gobsmacked by the awesomeness of RSS Club. I want to figure out something to publish RSS only …
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Excited to see the optical fiber connection installed to the outside of our cabin! Still won’t be …
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Last night Eight Sleep Autopilot made 25 temperature adjustments throughout the night. I can’t speak …
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We made the final batch of candles for the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser tonight. We have 204 …
: Took a pre-order for the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser and the purchase was made with Bitcoin …
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Seeing Laamar & Lanue at the Dakota tonight. A collaboration between Geoffrey Lamar Wilson and …
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Rainy dusk in Downtown Minneapolis.
: I claimed my POAP for participating in the KZG Ceremony. This is one of the POAPs that I will …
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Had a great time at Big Cedar Lodge and driving home today. Departed at 6:40 am after being the …
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We went to The Haygood’s in Branson tonight.
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Dogwood Canyon Pasture Raised Premier 32 oz Bison Tomahawk at Osage Restaurant. 🦬
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View from our table at Osage Restaurant at Top of the Rock, Big Cedar Lodge.
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Big Cedar Lodge Signature Old Fashioned (Russell’s Reserve 10 yr). Osage Restaurant at Top of the …
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We successfully finished “The Zeros” escape room at Escape Code today with 1 second on the clock! We …
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Road Sign Math Rebooted
As you drive on I-94 East toward the Twin Cities there is a wonderful road sign that always made me …
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Afternoon shuffleboard and pickleball!
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We had a great fall cruise on the Lady Liberty at Big Cedar. I live boat cruises. Fall colors are a …
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We had a fun round of mini golf this morning at Big Cedar. Great course and the large bass was a …
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Giant pretzel from Uncle Buck’s at Big Cedar. 🥨😮
: Driving through Springfield, MO and into the Ozarks so have to listen to Big Smith (Apple Music). …
: Found some mathematically significant road signs on our drive for Road Sign Math! 🤓 There were a few …
: On our way to Big Cedar Lodge for MEA weekend. Departed at 6:07 am and will be driving for 9 hours …
: Halfway through the day and I just realized I’ve had my undershirt on backwards. 🤦♂️
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We all made 60 Winter Wonderland candles for the 2023 Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser tonight!
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We went to Cookin’ at the Children’s Theatre today and it was incredible. 90 minutes filled with …
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Mazie is home for a short break and made some fresh St. Olaf Cookies tonight. These are so …
: DeFi with Agave sDAI on Gnosis Chain The recent announcement that Agave launched their Savings xDai on Gnosis Chain piqued my interest. …
: Comparing Sleep Stages with Eight Sleep and Oura Ring I find sleep data to be notoriously hard to correlate to reality. I’ve used a variety of devices …
: Youth in Music 2023 We went to the 2023 Youth in Music Show at US Bank Stadium today to see my nephew perform in the …
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We got our Eight Sleep setup and ready to use. First night using it! Currently cooling my side, and …
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Making another batch of candles for the 3rd Annual Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser!
: I did my 400th Peloton spin class this morning! 30 min Classic Rock Ride with Matt Wilpers. 🎉
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We found this Thankful Tree on our walk and Mazie took the opportunity to add one.
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Sidewalk poetry found walking from Carleton back to St. Olaf.
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Homecoming Battle: Carleton Knights vs. St. Olaf Oles! 🏈
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On Melby Yard at St. Olaf Homecoming and Family Weekend.
: How I Find Links for the Weekly Thing The most common question I’m asked about the Weekly Thing is how I find the links for each week’s …
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We had a fun time with hypnotist Chris Jones tonight at St. Olaf’s family weekend. There were many …
: We got our tickets to the 2023 New Standards Holiday Show! I was amazed that within 6 minutes of the …
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We got our Hoist 3-Tier Dumbbell Rack put together tonight. We ran out of room on the vertical rack, …
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Had a fun evening at the 2023 Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual Fundraiser at Mosaic. #TeamSPS’s …
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Scrambling to wrap up Tyler’s soccer game as a storm barrels in. Finished just in time. ⚽️⛈️
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The conference rooms on #TeamSPS 5th floor in Minneapolis are named after Fictional Elements. To …
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Squash Blossom Farm and Sod House Theater Dinner
We had a fun evening driving out to Squash Blossom Farm just outside of Oronoco, Minnesota for a …
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Switched things up with the 89 °F unusually hot day to get one last afternoon in the pool! 💦
: Task Management for the Weekly Thing I’m often asked about how I create the Weekly Thing and how I’ve been doing it for over six years. …
: I received an email this morning from a service I have no recollection of informing me that their …
September 2023
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We went to our last MN United game of 2023 tonight. They drew a 1-1 tie versus San Jose with plenty …
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Smooth Transition from Purchase to App
There is a very common gap in customer experience that is often ignored when you buy a physical …
: I created a Shortcuts Collection page to connect various blog posts I’ve written about Shortcuts and …
: Launch Apps Shortcut I’m a big fan of Shortcuts and find it useful for many small automation tasks, creating one off …
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Starting AI for Business conference at Carlson School of Management, Management Information Systems …
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Huge thank you to Dee Thibodeau, Nick Hernandez, Ahmed Jamil for hosting the Fall CIO Wine Tasting! …
: I’ve had the ScanSnap iX500 for years and the scanner is great but the software gets worse by the …
: I just realized that one of our iMacs (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) isn’t able to upgrade to macOS …
: Seems like $4 billion is the minimum cost to Amazon for missing the LLM wave. Amazon will invest up …
: POAP 6801491 at Weekly Thing Forum Launch.
: I’ve been gradually reducing my daily coffee from 24oz (4 cups) to 18oz (3 cups) and this morning …
: Just ordered 108 additional candle vessels, more wax, and scents to fill out inventory so we can …
: How I Build the Weekly Thing One of the common questions I’m asked is how I create the Weekly Thing. There are two flavors of …
: Smaller Images for Weekly Thing In the Journal section of the Weekly Thing I include any blog posts that I’ve made for that week. To …
: POAP 6798458 at Gnosis Chain Validator Survey Participants.
: Introducing Weekly Thing Forum I’ve been sending the Weekly Thing for six years. Every week I will get a few replies from people …
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TeamSPS 2023 Kubb Tournament
Today we held our 5th Annual TeamSPS Kubb Tournament! This event has now become a real tradition and …
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I love that the gang at Good Enough is playing with some things that remind me of the early days of …
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Thanks to Paul’s Fireplace Wood I’m ready for fall and winter fires! I love that they have the …
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Minnedemo 39 was awesome! It was great to see so many from our fabulous technology community, and to …
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We had my step-dad Bruce over for dinner tonight with my his brother, my Uncle Tim. We were trying …
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This Athletic Brewing Waves of Sun is delicious. 🍻
: Weekly Thing is back from summer break. I sent issue 261 this morning!
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It is always a bittersweet day when we take the boat in for the fall. This summer was so full of …
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Congratulations to all the 2023 Minnesota CIO ORBIE Award winners and nominees! 👏
: POAP 6790247 at SPS Kubb Tourney 2023.
: Feedforward. A new word to add to the word list.
: Decided to take the leap (both Tammy and I) and sign up for Peter Attia’s new Early program. I’ve …
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Ready to cheer for Team USA vs Oman! ⚽️🇺🇸
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Pregame dinner at Yum! in St. Paul before the US Men’s National Team game at Allianz Field! 🇺🇸⚽️
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Spiral. Inspired by my brothers experimentation with this shot.
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First fire of the fall and first time using the Solo Stove Yukon. 🔥
: Thank You Elon I signed up for Twitter on Wed Dec 20 21:25:24 +0000 2006, claiming user number #82,903. Twitter …
: Some data on this summers heat. The past three months have been the hottest ever measured, according …
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Tammy and I had a delightful dinner at Colita tonight and I had to gawk at this McLaren 720S in the …
: Experiencing first power outage since moving into current house which has generator. Everything went …
: WordPress 100-Year Plan Recently WordPress.com announced a profound new 100-Year Plan for hosting websites. I’ve thought a …
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Mochi Donuts at Mochi Dough at Asia Mall.
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Tyler and Levi having a great time at Sandbox VR in Eden Prairie. Very cool setup and an incredibly …
: Blog Gardening I have been blogging for nearly 20 years and have created thousands of blog posts in that time. I’ve …
: Funny UX thing I’ve noticed with micro.blog. I use the “Reply” feature way more on the web than the …
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We saw Gran Turismo this afternoon. I would go to this movie just to watch the racing scenes all …
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Today we took Mazie to St. Olaf to move into the dorm. She has four days of New Student Orientation …
: Tomorrow a new chapter begins and we take Mazie to St. Olaf to start her college adventure. I don’t …
August 2023
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Awesome evening for soccer with a MN United 3-0 win over Colorado! ⚽️
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Brandi Carlile at Minnesota State Fair
Without a question this was the best concert that I’ve ever seen at the Minnesota State Fair, and …
: Minnesota State Fair in Two Hours What do you do when the only opportunity for the State Fair is to arrive a couple hours before the …
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Renaissance Festival 2023
We made our regular visit to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival today! We hit all of our favorites. …
: Annual tradition at Renaissance Festival — Ring the bell! Dinged it 2 of 5 times. 💪
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A few years ago we got a simple flat top grill at the lake and it has become one of our favorite …
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Made Swedish Pancakes this morning with my Mom. She prepared the batter and I worked the flat top. …
: Tammy and I have both been digging into Peter Attia’s new book Outlive. The way he frames these …
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Picked up Mason Jennings records and a songbook.
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Mason Jennings Album Release Show
Mason Jennings did a great Album Release show tonight at the Parkway. He played a wide range of new …
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Birds resting on rocks at Lake Harriet this morning.
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32 Years of Ukraine Independence
Ukraine is commemorating its 32nd year of independence today! 🇺🇦 It also marks the 547th day …
: I just registered 55419.eth and 55021.eth since the previous registrant let them lapse. The subnames …
: Making Sense: Health & Longevity with Peter Attia The Health & Longevity episode of Making Sense with Sam Harris is a great overview of Peter Attia’s …
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I got my Good Enough Zine today! Thanks @bjhess and team — I’m looking forward to thoroughly going …
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It was our families first time seeing Pink, but it was my Sister Alona and Craig’s fourth time. The …
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Our 13th time seeing Brandi Carlile, this time opening up for Pink. Fabulous show as always! 🎶
See …
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First time any of us have been to the FARGODOME!
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We got to see the SmallTown Strings (Brandi and band kids)play an afternoon show at Sidestreet Bar …
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Fargo from the 13th floor of the amazing Jasper Hotel.
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Took Tesla to Fargo for concert so using the Superchargers today. Mazie getting some lunges in while …
: reMarkable I got a reMarkable 2. ✍️
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We had our SPS Company Meeting at Orchestra Hall for the first time. It was a great venue and we had …
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Tyler's 1:1 with Archie
A few weeks ago Tyler was saying how cool it would be to have a 1:1 with Archie Black, our CEO. I …
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Tyler seemed pretty comfortable in my office!
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Delicious August lunch: Black Krim tomatoes, sliced mozzarella, Olive Oil we brought back from …
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We watched Pink: All I Know So Far tonight as a warmup to seeing Pink with Brandi Carlile opening in …
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Chilling in swing as sun goes down at Farmhilly.
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Farmhilly 8
My friend, and fellow Minnestar Catalyzer, Adrienne Peirce has this amazing house that sits on eight …
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It is that time of year when our neighborhood has this delicious Gem Tomato stand run by our …
: I was curating my On This Day section this morning and found this 15 year old reference to @bjhess! …
: Capturing the Micro.blog plugins I’m using now: Tiny Theme by @Mtt Tiny Theme add-on: Add Tinylytics …
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We had a fun night doing a Murder Mystery Dinner and I decided to really embrace my character. …
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It was great to see Steve Earle tonight at the Dakota on his “Alone Again” tour. Just him and his …
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It was awesome to hear Zandi Holup open up for Steve Earle tonight. She played a good set of …
: Mazie posted her first blog post about her photo walk in Soglio, Switzerland. She has her own …
: POAP 6747546 at BPEL DECOMP.
: Allergies hit me hard today. Medicine didn’t seem to do much. Feels like something different than …
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We decided to return to Switzerland tonight by watching the 2015 release of Heidi. I hadn’t seen the …
: It dawned on me that my Blockclock has upgradeable firmware and today I jumped from 1.07 to 1.22! I …
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We all went to Barbie tonight and it blew right past my already high expectations. It was a fun …
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While we were in Soglio, Switzerland at the end of our hiking trip we all got our cameras out and …
July 2023
: POAP 6739826 at TechJam 2023 Attendee.
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 17 Weather: Warm morning in Florence. Airports fine. Pack up suitcases for journey home Breakfast at …
: Breathe it all in On the final evening of our Switzerland & Italy trip we slowly walked around the Duomo in Florence …
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Boarding the KLM Cityhopper in Florence to begin our journey back to Minneapolis via Amsterdam! 🛫
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I’m more than twice as active when we travel versus “normal”. 🚶🏼♂️
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 16 Weather: Hot and sunny. Breakfast at hotel Walk to cooking class pickup Ride to Accidental Tourist …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 15 Weather: Warm and cloudy in the morning. Hotter and sunnier in the afternoon. Breakfast at hotel …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 14 Weather: Cool morning in Venice. Very nice. Much warmer in Florence in the evening. Nice in the …
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Tammy and I are celebrating our 21st Anniversary today in Italy. Our marriage is now old enough to …
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We have arrived in Florence! 🇮🇹
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Doorbell or Robot Face? 🤖 In Campo Drio la Chiesa in Venice.
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Bulldog waiting patiently for its person to return in Campo Sant’Anzolo in Venice.
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 13 Weather: Warm and sunny, cool evening Underwhelming breakfast at combo hotel Walk to Lagoon …
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Gondoliers awaiting their tourists.
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Sweet delights in shop window in Venice.
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The colorful houses of Burano, Italy were amazing to see this morning.
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We visited Venissa to see the beautiful vineyard and taste the unique native wine of Venice. I …
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Stop at Art Café to rest, get shade, and have a cappuccino in Murano.
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 12 Weather: Cool and cloudy in morning. Warm and sunny in afternoon. Overall nice day. Underwhelming …
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Family photo on the Grand Canal of Venice at sunset.
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 11 Weather: Started warm in the morning. Thunderstorms in Milan in afternoon. Warm in Venice. Great …
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We have arrived in Venice! 🤩
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Cappuccino at Marchesi in Milan this morning. Has been operating since 1824, 199 years.
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We went back to Mad Machines and completed the Time Machine room. This room is ranked 39th in the …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 10 Weather: Hot and hot Amazing breakfast at iQ Motel Catch express train 8803 from Milan to Modena for …
: Tyler and I were having fun watching the max speed of our train back to Milan. Hit 245 km/h or 152 …
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We all got our photos at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello.
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The Museo Ferrari Maranello exhibit for the various Formula 1 winners over the years was an …
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On the express train 8803 this morning from Milan to Modena to visit Ferrari today!
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We completed the Birth Machine room at Mad Machines in Milan, Italy! This is the 4th ranked escape …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 9 Weather: Warm and sunny in the morning. Breakfast in Soglio and sending goodbyes to our hiking …
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Some photos inspired by Maique as I was walking around Varenna, Italy today. 📷🇮🇹
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Having a cappuccino at Albergo La Soglina with the mountains, luggage ready, getting some tasks done …
: One of many waterfalls along the trail to Soglio.
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After six amazing days of hiking in the Engadine the Thingelstad family all stepped foot in Soglio …
: Hike to Soglio Our sixth and final day of hiking into the beautiful town of Soglio. Part of Switzerland & Italy …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 8 Weather: Cool morning in Sils Maria. Big thunderstorm in mid-morning by Vicosoprano. Cloudy most of …
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On todays hike to Soglio we hit a large thunderstorm. We were luckily able to all huddle under this …
: Sils Maria - Maloja Loop Today’s hike left right from the front steps of the Hotel Edelweiss and walked out of Sils Maria to …
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While hiking today we passed through Blaunca. This village is a collection of four or five houses …
: Grevasalvas Switzerland On our hike today we passed through the incredibly picturesque little village of of Grevasalvas. …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 7 Weather: Very cool in the morning warming up through the day. Very pleasant all around. Breakfast at …
: Hike Pontresina to Sils Maria I didn’t join the hike today and instead ran my wallet recovery mission. However, I asked that the …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 6 Weather: Very cloudy with rain and thunder in morning. Clear through mid-day with additional heavy …
: I think there is a huge potential for Generative AI in tools, but this is a heavy expense that is …
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Tyler felt this picture needed to happen. 🤣
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Family selfie at the Hotel Edelweiss in Sils Maria. 🇨🇭
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Walked out to Nietzsche’s Rock near Silvaplana-Surlej.
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Wallet Recovered
Yesterday I shared that I had lost my wallet. We were still juggling some logistics last night. The …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 5 Weather: Cooler day. Very windy on the mountains today. Raced to chair lift before storm and …
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Tyler, Mazie, and Tammy at the Segantini Hütte.
: Hike to Segantini Hütte and Pontresina Another day of great hiking. Started with train ride to funicular and then a big hike up to the …
: Pretty simple calendar for this part of our trip.
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Lunch at Segantini Hütte. So amazing.
: Lost Wallet Update: My wallet was recovered! Yesterday morning I realized I had lost my wallet. The previous day …
: Suggested Rule: The quality of a social network decreases by the square of the quantity of posts …
: While we are in the Engadine Tammy has been hoping to find these amazing ceramic goats that we got …
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Cold Therapy for Sore Hiking Feet
Every town in the Engadine Valley has multiple water fountains that have the most delicious and pure …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 4 Weather: Hot and sunny in the morning. Day cooled off a bit and was nicer in the mountains. Evening …
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After getting to Chamonna Tuoi I decided to take one of these mountain grade scooters back down. It …
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Amazing spot for lunch at Chamonna Tuoi looking up at Piz Buin.
: Hiking Guarda Out-n-Back to Chamonna Tuoi Day 2 of our Engadine Hiking adventure and today we hiked up the valley toward Piz Buin ending at …
: My son Tyler has debated blogging for a long time, and today he asked me to set him up. He just …
: Hiking Scuol to Guarda We got into Guarda this afternoon just before 4pm. We made our way through the town to the Messier …
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At the Via Engiadina crossing the Tasnan River rushing down the valley. 🥾
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 3 Weather: Warm and sunny. Cooler in mountains but still hot and sunny at prime of day. Evening clouds …
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 2 Weather: Hot and Sunny. Breakfast at Motel One Took Tram with luggage to Zurich HB Stored luggage at …
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Some photos walking around Scuol, Switzerland.
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We have arrived at the Hotel Guardaval in Scuol! 🏔️
We were in this exact same spot 19 years ago.
: Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! 🤩
: Short video of the demonstration chocolate line at Lindt Home of Chocolate.
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We had a fun (and delicious) time visiting the Lindt Home of Chocolate in Kilchberg this morning.
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1 Weather: Warm & Sunny DL162 land In Amsterdam (10:26a) Sit on tarmac for 55 minutes waiting for gate …
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Cappuccino to hold off the jet lag, Leica to grab sights walking around Zurich.
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It was cool to see UBS prominently marketing their Bitcoin offerings in Zurich airport.
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Hello 👋 from Amsterdam 🇳🇱 for about an hour. Heading on the KLM Cityhopper to Zurich 🇨🇭.
: Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0 Weather: Very nice warm day. Lyft to MSP. Super nice driver. Cheeseburgers at Shake Shack. 🍔🍔🍔 Mazie …
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Starting our summer vacation. Boarding flight to Zurich with a stop in Amsterdam. ✈️
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Up late setting up Tammy’s new Apple Watch Series 8 before we leave for vacation.
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The #TeamSPS Coffee Guild met today and Rob Rutscher brought in his Decent Espresso machine along …
: I’m not particularly enthusiastic about Bluesky but I do have it setup and have micro.blog …
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Needed two more sets of hiking poles for our trip to Switzerland. Tyler and I went to REI and after …
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These three pork butts spent 18 hours in the Sous Vides at 165 °F and are finishing with 2 hours on …
: What if Facebooks only goal with Threads is to damage Twitter. In this context, Twitter looks like …
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My neighbors dock is not in good shape.
: I love that my cousin Quinn has a blog, a micro.blog no less, and I can now see great stories from …
: Preserving your Writing on the Web Forever I suggested to some friends that I wanted to do everything I could to keep my websites and online …
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This Athletic Brewing Mango Picante has some serious kick on the back end.
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I got the pleasure to meet with Noah Jeffrey a couple of times in his ACE Leadership program with …
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I’ve been using Butt Rub for a number of years, but made my first direct purchase from their website …
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Tammy and I checked out Dinner Jazz with Jeremy Ylvisaker and Martin Dosh at Icehouse Minneapolis …
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Happy Birthday America! 🇺🇸🎉🎆
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Independence Day Hike at Murphy-Hanrehan
In just over a week we head to Switzerland for our hiking trip. I wanted to get a longer and harder …
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Enjoying this Athletic Brewing Apricot Farmhouse. Refreshing and crisp flavor. 🍻
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We had a fun night at the Dude Perfect Panda-monium show tonight. Tyler and I went to the 2021 and …
: Thanks to very detailed directions from Matt Langford (@mtt) I was able to add NIP-05 Verification …
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I love watching the Damselflies hover and cling to the Big Bluestem in the morning.
: Micro.blog Ecosystem Support via a Community Fund? I’ve been having more fun on micro.blog lately in large part to the excellent work of Matt Langford …
: I’m trying some changes to my feeds. I’ve been a happy user of Feedbin for years and am going to …
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The ice cream truck always brings a smile, no matter what your age. 🍦
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After 22 hours in the Sous Vides the pork butts transition to the Big Green Egg to get a bark and …
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Another bumblebee busy collecting pollen.
: Bevcomm is the Internet provider for our cabin and I met with the tech yesterday to help with the …
: Wild milestone. Apple, an American tech giant, surpassed $3trn in market value for the first time …
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Bumble Bee busy harvesting pollen in the yard this morning. 🐝
June 2023
: Betwixt by Matt Semke This video short from Minneapolis artist Matt Semke (catswilleatyou) is incredible. The music is …
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Excited for this season’s international “friendly” MNUFC vs. FC Kaiserslautern! ⚽️
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I didn’t realize that Athletic Brewing had so many unique NA beers if you ordered direct. I got my …
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We grabbed this final family selfie as we were leaving the floor of the Taylor Swift show at …
: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour On Saturday afternoon we had no big plans for the night. We were going to make dinner for Tammy’s …
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Tasty morning waffles for Graduation Party from YOUniverse Foodie Waffles!
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Got to see a living legend tonight — Willie Nelson & Family headlining the Outlaw Music Festival …
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss at the Outlaw Music Festival 2023. Great stuff. 🎶
: The decision to not get dinner before this show and get food here, in hindsight, was very …
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Guy gave me his hat while waiting in line for pizza at Somerset Amphitheater. Said he bought it …
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I have never seen such slow and long lines for food at an event. Outlaw Music Festival 2023, …
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Trampled By Turtles on stage at the Outlaw Music Festival 2023 at Somerset Amphitheater. 🎶
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I’m digging this new Alabaster Chess Set from Scali Alabastro that I got for Father’s Day. Tyler and …
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Juneteenth
We had a great Juneteenth celebration for TeamSPS today! It was a fun event, with delicious snacks …
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We finished off Father’s Day with a movie at home — my pick. I had wanted to watch 14 Peaks: Nothing …
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We had a 4.6 miles hike at Lebanon Hills Regional Park today. We took a significant part of the …
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I decided to get the Leica Q2 out and do some family photos in the front yard. Father’s Day was a …
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Awesome night for MN Aurora FC v Bavarian United. Aurora with a commanding 3-1 lead in 58th minute. …
: I’ve been collecting ekekonfts.eth “🔌 Ŝԝ𝞘ፐc₶” collection on Nifty Ink. I dig these and think the …
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Bike ride to Lake Harriet Bandshell Music in the Park and ice cream from Bread & Pickle. Summer!
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We went to An American Tail: The Musical at the Children’s Theatre tonight. It was a great …
: Mazie's Surprise Carnival To celebrate Mazie’s 18th birthday and graduating from high school Tammy had a brilliant idea — …
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Mazie Turns 18
Today we celebrated Mazie’s 18th Birthday! Both of the kids are out of school, and I took the day …
: Bison are one of my favorite animals, and I learned something new about them today. When a storm is …
: London Welcoming Crypto? You may not be a fan of a16z (Andreessen Horowitz). You may not be a fan of crypto. But pushing …
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Mazie’s High School Graduation today! It’s official!
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We went to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 tonight. Enjoyed it a lot. 🍿
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Pretty awesome spot to hang out!
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Lucky thinks she is an 80 pound lap dog!? 😬
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Beyond the Light by Layne Kennedy
My friend Layne Kennedy launched a Kickstarter for his new book Beyond the Light. I met Layne when …
: I had wished for a micro.blog plugin for NIP-05 Verification and then I realized there are many …
: Surveillance in URLs The Uniform Resource Locator is the glue of the web. Mostly we don’t think about URLs unless you …
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Boat Day! Got the pontoon in the water. Annual voyage up Cannon River to Wells Lake and finally …
: Bitcoin Lightning makes the majority of the micropayment models that have been envisioned for the …
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Quiet weekend mornings on the deck enjoying a fresh cup of coffee and relaxing with Lucky are …
: I added a bit of metadata to my website to enable Bitcoin Lightning “tips”. One line to indicate my …
: “I don’t know what kind of carnage I inflicted in a past life to deserve it. I must have been …
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I got a Sonos Move to add to my system and have a portable speaker that still has high audio …
: Wish List: Micro.blog plugin to create the static file needed for self-hosted NIP-05 verification. I …
: Kakhovka dam Ukrainian officials estimated that about 42,000 people are at risk from the flooding triggered by …
: Moving 1,000,000 Satoshis (0.01 Bitcoin) between Bitcoin addresses on-chain so I can claim a …
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Apple Vision Pro Reactions
We all watched the Apple Vision Pro segment of WWDC tonight. I wanted to watch it again, and I was …
: Foveated Renderer. Oh yeah, always wanted one of those. 🤣 Apple Vision Pro announcement at WWDC …
: Apple Vision Pro is a real thing! Can Apple do for headsets what they did for Phones and Watches? …
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Love the street chalk at Edina Art Fair!
: My cousin Quinn Chrest just got a blog! He is starting his career in technology and I urged him …
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Chess game with Tyler tonight. We both made a couple of major blunders, but he forced me to resign …
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Edina Art Fair 2023
We endured the very hot afternoon and visited the Edina Art Fair. This is one of our favorite art …
: This is the first time I’ve ever failed attestations running my validators on Gnosis Chain. Two …
: Blog turns 19! Today marks the 19th year of my blog at thingelstad.com! Over those 19 years I’ve written 8,186 …
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Today was Mazie’s last day of High School! 🎉 I took her out for our “last” last-day-of-school …
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Need a reason to get donuts? 🍩 Tomorrow is National Donut Day and #TeamSPS is enjoying a day early …
: POAP 6653394 at MNblockchain - Crypto Spring 2023.
May 2023
: Today micro.blog added cross-posting support for Nostr! I’ve been having fun playing with Nostr …
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First round of Smashburgers on the flat top for 2023! 🍔🍔🍔
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Move along quickly under the broken tree hanging across the bike trail. 🤞
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Great day for a family bike ride to Dairy Queen! 🍦
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Levi and Tyler ran around after the Minnesota United game and collected signatures from: Bongokuhle …
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M - N - UFC! Come on you Loons! Minnesota United FC v Real Salt Lake tonight. ⚽️
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First visit to Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm for 2023! Delicious and great vibes. 🍕🤩
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Pool is open for the summer! 💦
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At the Hook and Ladder with friends for Summer Breeze Yacht Rock Fest featuring The Lonesome Losers. …
: I now have a Bluesky Social account (thanks Maique for the invite!) and with micro.blog syndication …
: Lightning Ideas Having finally gotten first-hand experience with Bitcoin Lightning, a workable and functioning …
: Board Search Criteria A friend shared this Board Search Criteria used by Constellation Software and highlighted in their …
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"Bison & Bitcoin"
I recently threw the term “Bison & Bitcoin” out with some friends. I love bison. 🦬 The name kept …
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Did 10 stair repeats on our walk tonight. 320 steps. Also breaking in new boots for our hiking trip …
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Ordered one of these orange Bitcoin Miami 2023 Special Edition Worlds Smallest Bitcoin Hobby ATM. I …
: Another example of generated content fooling people. We are going to see a massive acceleration of …
: Bitcoin Lightning: Fun, Fast, and Free-ish I’ve been casually investigating Bitcoin Lightning for a while. Lightning is a Layer 2 network …
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I got my Blockclock Mini at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami and have it setup at my desk. I’ve wanted one of …
: My QR Codes At Bitcoin 2023 we were talking with some folks from New York at our table while enjoying some Cuban …
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Good morning Miami! Learned a lot and enjoyed Bitcoin 2023. Heading home this morning. 🛫
: Oh no! 😲 Neeva is shutting down. I’m saddened by this — I’ve enjoyed not having advertising …
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Clever — Fiat House of Cards. 🃏
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The final session for Bitcoin 2023 on Nakamoto Stage “The Biggest Bulls” with Matt Odell, Adam Back …
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Zoltan Pozsar (Credit Suisse) & Arthur Hayes (100x Group) on Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2023 on “New …
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Good macro session “Steady Lads” at Bitcoin 2023 with Mark Moss, Lyn Alden, and Preston Posh.
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Good session on “Bitcoin Core Maintainers & the Path Forward” with Gloria Zhao, Niftynei, and Jess …
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Interesting technical solutions to identity and privacy in the “Web 5: Open to Build” session with …
: The Bitcoin Mining Museum was a fun time. The USB miners were a crazy flashback. And the very first …
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Apparently I’m at the age where I have to hang my sunglasses and my readers from my shirt. 😎🤓
: The Art Gallery at Bitcoin 2023 is a cool experience with a lot of interesting art.
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Worlds Smallest Bitcoin Hobby ATM
This Bitcoin ATM is one of my favorite things I’ve seen at Bitcoin 2023. You put coins in the …
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Hot tub heated by a Bitcoin miner.
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Happy Vyshyvanka Day
TeamSPS in Ukraine celebrated Vyshyvanka Day together.
Vyshyvanka Day is an international holiday …
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Google Cloud & Voltage party at Backyard.
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Jack Mallers of Strike closed out Friday at Bitcoin 2023 with massive announcement of global …
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Excited to see Arthur Hayes and Michael Lewis on stage at Bitcoin 2023.
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Lyn Alden taking Nakamoto Stage with Natalie Smolenski at Bitcoin 2023 sharing deep financial …
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Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy with Bill Miller IV on Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2023.
“The …
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Got a signed book from Bobby Lee of Ballet Crypto.
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Connected with Vlad Stan of LNBits after the Nostr session and got one of the DIY signing kits he …
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Got to meet Will Casarin, developer of Damus, after the Nostr session.
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“The Future of the Creator Economy” session with Layah Heilpern and Zuby moderated by Justin Rezvani …
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Great session “Nostr vs. Everything” with Will Casarin, Vlad Stan, and Pablo Fernandez moderated by …
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Hector, Kerry, and I kicking off the day at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami!
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Departing for Bitcoin 2023 in Miami Beach! Meeting up with Hector there.
: Having free, and reasonably performant WiFi on flights is a real game changer. Paired with a small …
: POAP 6632836 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad at Bitcoin 2023.
: POAP 6632832 at Web3MSP Celebrates Bitcoin 2023.
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MNUFC v Houston Dynamo tonight. WE ARE UNITED! ⚽️🙌⚽️🙌⚽️
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Tyler started playing Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom tonight and the intro was great. I’m not …
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First night of Edina Soccer for Summer 2023 season! ⚽️
: POAP 6628345 at I met Jesus during May 2023.
: Created a new list: List of Brandi Carlile Shows. Suspect I’m missing some but this was a quick …
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Family selfie with rainbow lights and finale fireworks in the background. The first ever Brandi …
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Brandi Carlile closed out Mothership Weekend tonight with an epic set. After covering many of the …
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After a lightning delay with evacuation and an impromptu dinner at Mezcal (yum!) we returned to the …
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We didn’t get to see much of Fancy Hagood. We arrived after they started and then lightning came …
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Kids buried me in the sand today. Then we took turns putting each of them in the sand. 😊🏖️
: POAP 6624958 at I've met Jesus during April 2023.
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Happy Mother’s Day from Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend in Miramar Beach, FL!
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Moo La La Ice Cream — yummy and great on hot day!
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Magnolia trees are starting to bloom. Such beautiful trees.
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Have been enjoying delicious coffee at 2 Birds Coffee + Cafe. The food is top notch too!
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Hozier with a great set to close out Saturday night at Mothership Weekend. First time seeing them …
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Mavis Staples bringing the power in a big way at Mothership Weekend. She ain’t messing around.
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Have never seen Strawberry Pizza before and it is incredible. Wow! Well done Lost Pizza! 🍓🍕
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Enjoying The Milk Carton Kids at Mothership Weekend. We’ve never seen them perform and like it a …
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Found Zoltar in Miramar Beach.
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Brandi Carlile made an impromptu appearance joining an artist on one of the beach stages at …
: I took the opportunity with low Ethereum gas fees this morning to update my primary ENS domains to …
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Current POV. Miramar Beach, FL. 🏖️
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Brandi Carlile took the stage to close out Friday night at Mothership Weekend. It was a great show …
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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats gave a great show. Tons of energy. Great songs with plenty to …
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Danielle Ponder started things off at Mothership Weekend. Her vocals were powerful. The songs were …
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We have arrived at Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend!
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tourist
noun
One who travels for pleasure.
One who makes a tour; one who makes a journey for …
: Just switched thingelstad.com to the new Tiny Theme from Matt Langford. I love the focus on …
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Mothership Weekend
Very excited to be heading to Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend today! 🎶
Friday: Brandi Carlile, …
: POAP 6617070 at Magic Pines Summer of 2023.
: POAP 6617052 at Weekly Thing Six Year Anniversary.
: Thinking about making a crypto themed Things 4 Good Candle that you can only purchase via a L2 …
: Created a nostr account to play and see how it works. Using Damus on iOS for client. My public key …
: Finally figured out Bitcoin Lightning transactions. Ready to use Lightning at Bitcoin Miami. Want to …
: I applaud the Gnosis Chain Weekly moving to Ghost from Substack. 👏 Crypto and web3 projects oddly …
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The first attempt to keep the squirrels out of these snacks we leave at the door failed in a single …
: I claimed my ENS 6th Anniversary POAP for: thingelstad.eth, weeklything.eth, 0xjjt.eth, and …
: Learning is to your mind, as moving is to your body. Both are key to thriving.
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Tyler got to perform as part of the MN Statewide Honors Choir today. It was a lot of work but he …
: Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Largest Software Development Firms in the Twin Cities ranked …
: Ethereum gas prices have been very high and sustained for a week now. This seems like the highest …
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Thanks to an invite from Hector, I was able to join the Economic Club of Minnesota luncheon today …
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Tammy and I had a fun evening at Constellation Fund Bright Night event at the Fillmore. …
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I purchased nnxyz abstract #0000 which comes with all 50 of the abstract collection. This is the …
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MnTech Tech Connect 2023
I had a good time learning new topics and connecting with other technology leaders at the MnTech …
: A thesis I’ve pondered for years and won’t go away… The real “threat” to capitalism isn’t socialism …
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Got a pair of Lowa Renegade GTX Mid hiking boots to get ready for our hiking trip in Switzerland …
: Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 4 No rain! Work meeting in hotel. Ole & Steen for breakfast. Explore Bryant Park. Visit NY Public …
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We explored the New York Public Library and were blown away by the amazing architecture and special …
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Our final morning in New York and it is not raining for the first time since Friday night! We get to …
April 2023
: Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 3 Rained all day. 18,065 steps. Yummy Liberty Bagels. Walked to B&H.. Ducked into Whole Foods to …
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We successfully escaped from the Playground room at The Escape Game in New York! It was a fun room …
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Seeking some respite from the constant rain we decided to see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. …
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Walking the High Line is now a tradition for any trip to New York. We hoped to find a break in the …
: Mazie gave a short recital at B&H Photo Video.
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New York Bagels at Liberty Bagels in Midtown! 🥯
: Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 2 Rained all day. 17,823 steps. Kids got Dad coffee. Angelina for snack. Took F train to Brooklyn. …
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How about a few giant slices of pizza at nearly midnight? Sure!
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Tyler and I talked up Harry Potter and the Cursed Child enough that with Tammy and Mazie along this …
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What do you do when you visit the Museum of Modern Art? Well for many it seems that you navigate …
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What to do when you want to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge but it’s raining? Go anyway. We were …
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We took the F Train to Brooklyn and had an awesome brunch with Greg and his family. Greg and I met …
: I tried several times earlier to participate in the (historic?) Ethereum KZG Ceremony but was never …
: Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 1 Cloudy and started raining at night. 16,424 steps. Mint POAP for trip! DL2589 from MSP to EWR. …
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Seeing Bono’s “Surrender” at the Beacon Theater tonight was one of the most engaging performances …
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It is weird to me that I’ve been to Manhattan hundreds of times over the years, but I’ve never …
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Ran into the Incredible Hulk at the LEGO Store on 5th Avenue. This place was great. We wanted to do …
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Mazie and Tyler lit prayer candles for my Grandpa Ardell and Grandma Rose at St. Patrick’s …
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We were passing St. Patrick’s Cathedral and decided to go in and look around. It is was an amazing …
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Catching NJ Transit from Newark to NY Penn Station.
: Just claimed the POAP Tyler made for Tammy’s NYC Birthday trip to see Bono and much more. Love it! 🤩
: POAP 6586107 at My mom’s birthday and the trip we are taking.
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Very excited to see Hamilton again tonight!
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I’m really digging the new room name decals for 5th Floor of SPS Tower. Names shown: Jumbonium, …
: Conjecture: 🤔 As AI makes the Web more synthetic, Crypto will make it more human.
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We tried Hu Milk Chocolate Bars today. Mixed reviews in the family but Mazie and I think they are …
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Fun time watching The Lost City tonight. 🍿
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We are celebrating Tammy’s birthday today! She is the heart and center of our family. 🥰🥳
: It was cool to see the Minnebar 17 POAPs highlighted in the April 25 issue of This Week in POAP! …
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It was cool to see people playing Kubb in Bryant Park in New York.
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Hector and I at Minnebar 17! I’m sporting my Community Supporter tag, as well as my awesome POAP …
: POAP 6578252 at Minnebar 17.
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Ringing the Closing Bell on Nasdaq
The SPS Commerce executive team, along with our spouses, got to ring the closing bell for NASDAQ …
: Tammy and I had a great time exploring New York, and getting plenty of steps in, on a 5.5 mile walk …
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Gorgeous day to enjoy a walk along the High Line in Manhattan. Just one month after Tyler and I …
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As someone who is pretty terrified of heights, this Edge NYC experience seems horrifying. Lay on a …
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Subway trains parked with Manhattan skyscrapers in the background.
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Wasn’t planning on it but walked by B&H Photo Video and had to go in and experience the most amazing …
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Evening tacos at Los Tacos No. 1 after seeing Life of Pi. Tacos were amazing!
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Tammy and I enjoyed seeing Life of Pi on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The performance …
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It was great to join the Twin Cities Business Women in Leadership event and for SPS Commerce to be …
: POAP 6567201 at Minnebar 17 Presenter.
: Two days ago it was 87 °F, actually hot. Today cold, windy, and snowing. 🤷♂️
: For a technologist, I can think of no better way to spend $20 than a month of experimentation with …
: Voted for GIP-82: Gnosis DAO co-fund a community owned forest. I like all the aspects of this …
: I’ve been searching for a super simple way to sign strings of text with my Ethereum wallet and share …
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It was great to see Aoife O’Donovan perform Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” at the Turf Club tonight. …
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We are going to Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend — gonna be great! 🎶
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The ice is nearly gone on Lake Harriet, and the north shore of the lake was like a giant slushie …
: Doubled my exercise volume for the last 15 weeks. 💪
: POAP 6552930 at Minnebar 17 Organizer.
: POAP 6551117 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2022.
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2022 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony
It was great to join the Aspirations in Computing annual award ceremony and celebrate the impressive …
: Attended a presentation of the American Service (also see American Service in Ukraine) from Aswar …
: Fun seeing The Super Mario Bros. Movie tonight! I thought the movie was a lot of fun. I enjoyed how …
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Happy Easter from the Thingelstad Family! 🐣
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Easter Bunny partnered with MrBeast this year and brought all the Feastables for us to try! 🐣🍫
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Watching the 120th edition of Paris-Roubaix through the Trouée d’Arenberg.
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Tammy and I had a great evening at the Tina Schlieske show at The Dakota tonight. It was my favorite …
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Digging my new Roll Bicycle C:1 City Bike from Tangletown Bike Shop. I’ve got a bunch of bikes, but …
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I liked the contrast of the trees and organic waiting to bloom now that the snow is gone with the …
: Nice Saturday morning in St. Paul: Hot Hands for delicious Chicken Pot Pie. Roots Roasting for a …
: POAP 6516437 at Minnebar 17 Session: Creating Digital Community with POAP.
: POAP 6515881 at MnTech Tech on Tap April 2023.
: POAP 6515752 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad (April 2023).
: Complete Collection of 612 Series One of my favorite NFT projects is the 612 Series by Erik Halaas of StayNftyMpls. I like that it is …
: POAP 6512281 at TeamSPS New Hire Coffee — April 2023.
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A big thank you to my bro-in-law Hector for nabbing me one of the first run NFTy FIGs of the Bored …
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We took a quick trip to Grand Rapids to see Annie Jr. at the Reif Center. Our nephew was playing one …
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The several inches of snow last night is a big April Fools joke right? If we just wait a while we …
March 2023
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Building on Dreams — Avenues for Youth
Tammy and I had a good evening at the 10th Annual Building on Dreams fundraiser for Avenues for …
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Minnebar 17 StayNftyMpls 612 Series Giveaway
Minnebar 17 is coming up on April 22nd! For the first time ever, there will be Minnebar 17 POAPs …
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Tyler has been doing some coding projects and is liking it so I ordered some books to help him …
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We watched Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle tonight and thought it was really fun. Better movie than I …
: POAP 6493807 at OG Salsa User .
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I’m digging these Women Cryptologists of World War II Stamps.
During World War II, some 11,000 women …
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Our 2022 Family Yearbook has arrived! This is the fifteenth book that Tammy has created. Everyone …
: New York 2023 - Day 3 Partial day: 10,069 steps. 4.6 miles. Pack bags and checkout of Arlo Midtown. Breakfast at Andrews …
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We finished our weekend in New York with a walk down the High Line. This is one of my favorite …
: New York 2023 - Day 2 21,964 steps. 11.48 miles. Andrew’s NYC for breakfast but too busy. Paris Baguette for mochi donut. …
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Tyler and I successfully solved the Sugar Rush room at Exit Escape Room NYC! We had 3m 3s time …
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Nintendo NY
One of our must stop places for Tyler and I in New York was Nintendo New York! We got here on Sunday …
: New York 2023 - Day 1 19,922 steps. 10.01 miles. Bagels at Liberty Bagel. Taxi to Battery Park. Ferry to Liberty Island. …
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Tyler and I visited the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. It is strange to experience things that are so …
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I would not do well on this elevator. 💀
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In the crowd boarding the ferry from Ellis Island to Manhattan with the Statue of Liberty in the …
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Tyler and I visiting with Lady Liberty!
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You must have a New York bagel! So much cream cheese. Cinnamon & Raising with plain for me. Liberty …
: Tyler and I commemorated our New York 2023 trip with a special and extremely exclusive POAP! Only …
: POAP 6478050 at New York 2023 Father Son Trip.
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We enjoyed our tradition of π Day dinner of nothing but pies! Chicken Pot Pie was delicious, …
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TeamSPS had a great time celebrating π Day at 3:14pm today with 600 pieces of pie! 🥧
See Pi Day …
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Happy π Day!
See Pi Day Collection.
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Using my new IYK Disc to distribute POAP claim codes for the TeamSPS Pi Day 2023 event today! Made a …
: POAP 6461292 at Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal.
: POAP 6461232 at TeamSPS Pi Day 2023.
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In the midst of a blizzard Jamie decided that it would be a good idea to take the older kids that …
: POAP 6456268 at Olson Family Vacation 20 Blizzard Rescue.
: From The Economist Espresso on March 11, 2023. American regulators closed Silicon Valley Bank amid a …
: 20 Years of Olson Family Vacation This weekend we are celebrating 20 years of Olson Family Vacations. In 2004 Tammy’s side of the …
: “To be normal you have to be abnormal.” — Tyler
: POAP 6443362 at I met poap.thingelstad.eth - March 2023.
: POAP 6437422 at 20 Years of Olson Family Vacations!.
: POAP 6436814 at I met nanderson.eth - March 2023.
: POAP 6435177 at Weekly Thing Ukraine Fundraiser 2023.
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Mazie and I enjoying the giant snowflakes earlier today. ❄️
: Ekeko, a new artist on Nifty Ink, is a great example of what I dig about this site. It is like I get …
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We watched A Man Called Otto tonight and everyone thought it was an incredible story and engaging …
: Hosting Minnebar 17: Creating Digital Community with POAPs I’m going to host a session at Minnebar 17 on Creating Digital Community with POAPs! It is my first …
: Hosting Minnebar 17: How to Newsletter Update: Sorry to say that this session had to be cancelled. We had some travel plans come up and we …
: Minnebar 17 POAPs I am excited to share that all attendees to Minnebar 17 will be getting a POAP token! In addition to …
: Transferring NFTs in Bulk After I created additional Ethereum addresses for specific applications, I wanted to move existing …
: Isolating Crypto Assets and Access For the last couple of years I’ve done all of my Ethereum activities using my thingelstad.eth …
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We went on a tour of St. Olaf today as Mazie works through her decisions on where she wants to go to …
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Nordic Village at Riva Terrace
Tammy and I enjoyed a delicious 7-course Nordic Village experience. The food was great and the …
February 2023
: POAP 6390435 at SPS TechConnect 2023 Speaker.
: I gave the “Always On Display” feature of the iPhone 14 Pro several weeks to get used to, but have …
: POAP 6366384 at SPS TechConnect 2023.
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Mason Jennings at The Dakota
I don’t remember exactly when I heard Mason Jennings first album but it wasn’t long after it was out …
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Scene from Potluck MN Food Hall.
: I minted Cat #2230 of the Ukraine Cats Division. This NFT project is raising funds to help Ukraine …
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The Bad Guys
We finished our “snowpocalypse” movie series tonight with The Bad Guys. We watched three movies in …
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Family game of Five Crowns tonight. Tyler won with just 66 points! Tammy had 86, Jamie with 108, and …
: POAP 6356207 at MnTech Tech Leadership Forum: Generative AI.
: From The Economist, World in Brief, February 24 2023. Sam Bankman-Fried, a former billionaire and …
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Who Invited Charlie?
We continued our “snowpocalypse” movie series tonight. This evening a bit more justified with over a …
: MnTech Leadership Forum: Generative AI Today I hosted the MnTech Q1 2023 Tech Leadership Forum. The organization is changing the format of …
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Dog Gone
With the “snowpocalypse” bearing down on us we decided to make it a movie night. We all love movies …
: We had fun watching Amazing Race S34 E11 as they raced through Iceland and visited so many places …
: POAP 6339074 at I met thingelstad.eth - February 2023.
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Ukraine Stamps
One of our team members from Ukraine was able to visit us here in Minneapolis for the first time …
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Florida Man may be the strangest board game I’ve ever played. With that said, a large group of …
: I Adopted Thinking Face Emoji I ran across this Adopt a Character campaign from the Unicode Consortium and felt like a donation …
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Macaron Class
We drove an hour out to Buffalo, MN this morning to take a macaron class at Abundant Kitchen led by …
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To Kill a Mockingbird
We went to the Orpheum to see To Kill a Mockingbird with new screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and directed …
: POAP 6324775 at ♥ Happy Valentine's Day from Prof Werder ♥ .
: POAP 6315996 at Thingelstad Valentines Day 2023.
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Just received and registered IYK Disc 585! I’m eager to put this to use for an upcoming POAP …
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Tyler wanted his favorite cheeseburger from Lions Tap for his birthday dinner 🍔 and to eat in the …
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Countdown at Mission Manner
Tyler enjoys escape rooms and for his birthday we went to Mission Manor and did Countdown!
We had a …
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We saw Avatar: The Way of Water in 3D EMAX at Emagine Eagan. The story was great and the imagery was …
: Extending the Minnestar Community Supporter Program In a recent conversation with Minnestar Executive Director Maria Boland Ploessl I was very pleased …
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Ice Palace
We visited the Ice Palace at Fountain Hills Winery and thought it was really cool. We had dinner …
: Three Kinds of Listening I loved the framing of these three kinds of listening from Carolyn Coughlin “Become a Better …
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Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual Meeting
I was able to attend the Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual Meeting today. I believe this was the …
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Why are your eyes
cast down? Look up
and listen. The world
offers its own poetry.
Sidewalk poetry in …
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Fun and busy afternoon at REM5VR.
: Not Writing for the Timeline I’m done writing for the timeline. There is a concept in Indieweb communities called POSSE. The …
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
We all enjoyed Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. If your looking for a delightful and fun story this will …
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Art Shanty Projects
We went to the Art Shanty Projects on Lake Harriet today. Tammy has been to this many times, but it …
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Echo Forest Launch
Today is the launch of Echo Forest. This NFT project has Minneapolis connections being led by Brooks …
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The Product Partner Fair for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff is a whole new level of awesome! Tremendous …
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Mazie completed her first sewing project making this summer dress with the expert guidance of my Mom …
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David Horsager on Trust
David Horsager of Trust Edge gave a fabulous keynote for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff. David’s …
January 2023
: POAP Family The new POAP Family feature is a cool way to see what POAPs people share between events. I looked at …
: K’óoben pop-up We had an awesome evening at The Great Northern K’óoben pop-up at Glass House. A collaboration …
: I won 5 SOL from one of my Famous Foxes mission chests this week! 🍀
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Just bought tickets to see Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska at the Turf Club! I’m a huge fan of …
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Semisonic put on a great show filled with new songs and hits from the past. 🎶
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It has been a long time since we’ve been to First Ave.
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We watched the final episode of The Middle tonight and everyone thought it was a delightful wrap up …
: Giving the Bear Blog Theme a try. I like the simplicity and speed.
: POAP 6261374 at TeamSPS 5th Floor Grand Reopening.
: POAP 6259626 at You've met thingelstad.eth - January 2023.
: Anti-Social Social media is a mess. I’ve lost track of what is social about it. It is a Skinner Box of …
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Tyler is learning to play chess. ♟️
: I have never seen a CAPTCHA on an unsubscribe form! That is a new level of obnoxious. 😤
: I was excited to see nnxyz, one of my favorite artists, publishing on Nifty.Ink again after a couple …
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Film crew in the Cloud today shooting some video for #TeamSPS.
: TeamSPS 5th Floor Remodel The remodel of #TeamSPS 5th floor is nearly done and we were able to move this week. It is great to …
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile was a really silly movie but a fun family time nonetheless. 🍿
: POAP as a Business POAP is more than just a fun crypto product, it is also a business. I put some brief thoughts …
: POAP Extensions I was pondering cool things that POAPs could have and three ideas came to mind. POAPs with Backs! …
: Premium Features for POAP Issuers I got this survey to provide some feedback on features for POAP issuers but it didn’t have any …
: POAP 6242987 at POAP.in Gitcoin GR15.
: POAP 6240551 at You've met Krampus at POAPathon.
: POAP Wishlist POAP (pronounced poe-app) is one of my favorite crypto application. There is a good overview of what …
: Neeva recently introduced AI search results. It works well for something so new. This search is a …
: I’ve tried multiple times to participate in the KZG Ceremony for Ethereum and it times out after …
: POAP 6209436 at POAP Checkout - Holiday Beta Tester.
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iPhone Upgrade “Waterfall” today. New iPhone 14 Pro for Tammy and I, and our old phones heading to …
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Morning bowling at Tuttle’s with niece Nora. Mazie won. Let’s ignore the rest of the scores.
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We escaped the Diamond Dilemma room at Missing Pieces with 17m 14s remaining — and only one clue …
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Bubble Tea Time
Our niece loves Bubble Tea so we all enjoyed one at Chatime in the Mall of America.
Jamie: Mango …
: POAP 6200655 at Happy Birthday to Patricio Worthalter (POAP colors version).
: POAP 6200232 at Joe's BONKalicious Bday.
: POAP 6192487 at I've met Jesus during January 2023.
: POAPathon Future Thoughts On the December 30th POAPathon Community Call there was a request for feedback on where POAPathon …
: POAP 6177735 at Jamie Thingelstad's 51st Birthday.
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Having to get creative to thaw out the Big Green Egg. 🥶🔥
December 2022
: POAP 6168016 at POAPathon Community Call December 30, 2022.
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The Writer of the Family
Mazie has a talent with words. Her writing is engaging and her creative use of words paints a vivid …
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Holiday Week List
During the week between Christmas and New Years I like to focus on some different things.
Write a …
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Mazie got started on her LEGO Typewriter! Through bag 3 building the keys. I’m excited to see this …
: Organizational Dissonance As a leader you are always seeking to move your organization forward toward the market opportunity …
: The term “Web3”? Good: It describes a set of use cases that are easier for people to understand than …
: Music Box for Playdate is a great example of simple, fun innovation on this unique platform. I love …
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Having a Style Coach
I have spent most of my life really clueless about clothing and style. I’m fine protecting myself …
: POAP 6160261 at Proof of Attention Protocol - Test .
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Today is Lucky’s 3rd Birthday! Some of Lucky’s favorite things: Walks, Food, Foxy Toy, Barking at …
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I finished the the Super Mario 64™ Question Mark Block LEGO build! There were a lot of little hidden …
: Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego? When I was in high school in Minot, ND I used to volunteer for Craig Nansen, the Technical …
: On Audience Capture When I first started writing the Weekly Thing the email service showed me two reports that I knew I …
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Now that the temperatures are out of the deep freeze Mazie and I took Lucky on a walk. Walking on …
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Tyler’s LEGO Loop Coaster is really tall! The structure alone is very impressive. I can’t wait to …
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Through bag 9 of the Super Mario 64™ Question Mark Block LEGO. The inside contraption I believe will …
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Tyler is making great progress on the LEGO Loop Coaster, already done through bag 7!
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Just finished bag 3 on the Super Mario 64™ Question Mark Block LEGO. This is a very fun build full …
: Polarizing Technology: Encryption and Crypto The fury and vitriol towards crypto is strong. People use words like “hate” and you can feel the …
: What, Why, and How to Improve Your Security and Privacy I thought I would share a few of the things that I personally do to improve my security and privacy …
: I’ve been validating the Gnosis Chain for about three months now. I’m running 32 validators. Gnosis …
: POAP 6154076 at Cabin Christmas 2022.
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I really dig this CC0 is Punk sticker from Matt Downey. CC0 is totally punk!
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The snow, subzero temps, and frozen lid on the Big Green Egg are too much to overcome. Need to find …
: POAP 6152200 at Kickin' it with Krampus #3.
: POAP 6152199 at Kickin' it with Krampus #2.
: POAP 6152193 at Kickin' it with Krampus #1.
: Negative temperatures with even more negative windchills make the crackle of wood in the fireplace …
: Source of Attention “Take the thought itself as an object. Take the feeling of being the thinker also as an object. What …
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We got together with friends and had a great time escaping Cuckoo’s Clock at Missing Pieces. We …
: POAP 6120873 at 2022 FIFA World Cup Winner Supporter.
: I’m glad I grabbed a screen shot of the “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy” because …
: I feel like Twitter is disrespecting micro.blog by not including it in the banned list of platforms …
: This new “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy” on Twitter deserves memorializing for …
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The goalkeeping from Martinez was epic for Argentina! 🇦🇷 ⚽️
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That was absolutely beautiful and epic. Tears or joy for Argentina. Messi the heart of it all. …
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Suddenly penalty kick and another in the back of the net goes Argentina 2 France 2!!! ⚽️ 1m 33s …
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GOAL!!! Argentina 2 France 0.
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GOAL!!!! Argentina 1 France 0
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Getting ready for history to be made! Tyler and I got a selfie with Messi! Cheering for Argentina at …
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We had a great time at the Rock & Roll Christmas Show!
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These tall pines are carrying a lot of weight. Lake Pokegama, MN.
: Not your domain, not your words In the crypto community there is a common and very important saying: Not your keys, not your crypto. …
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Tammy and I had a fun night at Tina Schlieske’s Holiday Get-Together at the Parkway Theater tonight. …
: POAP 6091264 at Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in The Bahamas.
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Hector and I at DelSur Empanadas celebrating Argentina’s 3-0 victory over Croatia to go to the World …
: Find Unique Addresses for Multiple POAP Events How do you get a list of unique addresses that have claimed any set of POAPs? Each POAP event allows …
: I’ve created 27 POAP events that have had 630 tokens claimed from 354 unique addresses. Art for 4 of …
: I frequently connect with a number of people in Ukraine. I was asking how the power situation was. I …
: Crypto in Three Words While driving around on some errands I was yammering about something crypto related with the family. …
: LilNouns DAO Votes Time for some LilNouns voting. Vote for Lower Reserve Price to 0.10 ETH Vote for Dot as engineering …
: What in Ethereum ecosystem excites me This was originally published in Weekly Thing #237 as the featured link, but I’m also publishing it …
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Christmas Gingerbread Houses for 2022! 🎄
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I think one of the most challenging parts of crypto adoption is dealing with wallets. Making them …
: Cheering for Argentina 🇦🇷 with Hector at Brit’s Pub as they won on penalty kicks against Netherlands …
: You win some, you lose some. What a crazy World Cup! ⚽️
: With Croatia knocking out Brazil (what!?), my EthSports World Cup 2022 hopes are done for.
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We had an amazing evening at the Concordia Christmas Concert “Star of Bethlehem, Lead Us to Peace”. …
: POAP 6036366 at Gnosis Chain The Merge Party 🦉.
: POAP 6029536 at Toy Drive 2022 - Project Better Days.
: Telegram is very popular in Ukraine, and I’ve become a regular user of it to keep in touch with …
: Upgrading to MarsEdit 5 was the easiest decision I made all day. 😊
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Burn test for the small candles I made this weekend. Worked great. Scent strength is good.
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First attempt at making smaller 2.5 oz Things 4 Good Candles. Also experimenting with a bold Double …
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Early Sunday morning. Fresh cup of delicious coffee. Fire started in fireplace. Everyone else still …
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It was another delightful evening with The New Standards and friends at the 2022 Holiday Show. This …
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Ticket to Paradise
Tammy and I went to Ticket to Paradise at the newly renovated Edina Theatre today. It was a funny …
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Tammy and I went to a movie at the newly remodeled Edina Theatre today. The Shining treatment to the …
: Watched the recording of the USA v Netherlands World Cup game. Sad to see the USA leave the …
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Delicious coffee in St. Paul this morning at Yellowbird Coffee Bar.
: I reserved three Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names for Minnestar: minnestar.eth, minnebar.eth, and …
November 2022
: POAP 5972039 at First circle Canvas of POAP-art.
: POAP 5968782 at TeamSPS Four Million.
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Some coffee to start your day? “Coffee is for closers.” Love this. 🤩 #TeamSPS
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Cyber Monday 2022! Great day to show all the work our teams do to deliver amazing performance! …
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Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser Notes
We had a great Things 4 Good 2022 Fall Fundraiser. With the help of many friends and family we …
: Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser Distributed The Things 4 Good 2022 Fall Fundraiser raised $5,217 to support good causes! That is a $460 increase …
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We had a fun time at Cirque Dreams today at the Orpheum. There were very impressive acts with a fun …
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Made Toffee Bars this morning. Grandma Rose used to make sure these were around every time I was at …
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Witnessing Lewandowski’s first World Cup goal in four appearances! POL v KSA 2-0 ⚽️🎉🤩
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We got our Christmas Tree from Boy Scoot Troop 110’s sale at Mt. Olivet. Since it was just two …
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Mazie had an awesome idea and collected things everyone was thankful for and then put it together. …
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Turkey check mid cook. So far so good. Going faster than expected.
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From our family to yours, wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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What did your Thanksgiving brunch cover?
Mine included a review of Ethereum Layer 2 networks, side …
: I was intrigued by the interview on Pivot with Waze founder Noam Bardin on his new offering Post. …
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Looking great today Minneapolis! 🙌
: Just ordered 176 pounds of candle wax. 🕯️
: I love that This Week in POAP highlighted our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser POAP in the Nov 15 …
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Got my picks with ETHsports for the World Cup! I won the Spain 🇪🇸 entry via a raffle, and bought …
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Ticket to Ride tonight. Tammy won by just 2 points. Mazie in 2nd. Then a big gap with me and Tyler …
: POAP 5923185 at Launch of the new Pastel color palette in POAP.art.
: POAP 5902680 at ENS DAO — Delegator 2022.
: Mainnet Merge Lapse 12 "Thing" The Mainnet Merge Paint Party was one of the fun events to celebrate the Ethereum Merge in …
: I was reminded of The $1k Project for Ukraine today reading Fred Wilson’s blog. Connecting the dots …
: The POAP for this weekend’s Things 4 Good 2022 Fall Fundraiser is ready and it is awesome! This will …
: POAP 5885743 at Things 4 Good 2022 Fall Fundraiser.
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We bottled Sweet Thing Honey tonight getting final preparations for our Things 4 Good Fall …
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Ethereum reached another milestone tonight having 0% inflation since the Merge. Ultrasound Money …
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We ended our day in small groups with #TeamSPS building bikes for kids! A fun event and doing a good …
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Geoffrey Moore gave an amazing keynote at Growth Summit 2023 today. His strategies have been our …
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Looking forward to an amazing Growth Summit 2023 with #TeamSPS today! 🙌
: Lil Nouns DAO Votes Some Lil Nouns DAO votes: Voted for The Lil Nouns Show. Voted for Federation. Voted against Nouns x …
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First family movie night in new house. I finally got the family room setup. We watched Enola Holmes …
: Reddit Vault and ENS I recently setup a Reddit Vault so that I can play along with Reddit as they try various crypto …
: I just wrapped up another Poapathon contest to get a design for our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser. …
: I’ve seen a lot of people trying out Mastodon. I use micro.blog and it supports Mastodon, so if you …
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Early morning frost on the cattail marsh by County Road 11.
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Morning run to MacDaddy’s Donut Garage in Ironton! Bringing back breakfast for the group. 🍩
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Big Dipper. It is really wild to me that I could get this with my iPhone, handheld. Editing in …
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Tasty beer flight at Cuyuna Brewing.
: The Oura Ring detected I was sick before I did. This is what my 2nd round of COVID looked like as it …
October 2022
: What must be the worst holidays for dogs: Independence Day and loud fireworks, Halloween and …
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Happy Halloween! Thingelstad pumpkins for 2022!
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We made another 90 Things 4 Good candles today for a total of 180 ready for the Things 4 Good Fall …
: I decided to give Reddit another try. In 2015 I deleted my account. Reddit hasn’t clicked with me, …
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Making Things 4 Good Candles with the Digiboil is way faster and just easier. We made twice the …
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We are doing our very first round of Things 4 Good Candles with the Digiboil. This thing can take a …
: Sign a Message to Verify an Ethereum Address Cats Will Eat You posed a question on Twitter that I found interesting: What’s the easiest/free way …
: Since upgrading to macOS Ventura I can no longer launch Safari using LaunchBar. I’m constantly …
: Want a coupon code to buy something online? You have to have an account. Login and put the item in …
: The Duplicates and Merging feature in the latest version of Photos 8.0 is really nice. I’ve wanted a …
: I first got COVID 664 days into the pandemic, and 294 days later I tested positive today, twice. …
: Disney World Log Day 10 Weather: Warm and sunny. Steps: 9,908 Tammy and kids head to Magic Kingdom, Jamie hangs back to do …
: Disney World Log Day 9 Weather: Warm and sunny. Steps: 29,580 Most steps on any day! Check out of Sapphire Falls Drive to …
: Disney World Log Day 8 Weather: Best weather of the trip. Temperate and nice. Steps: 14,974 boat ride to Universal from …
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We got a family picture with Optimus Prime at Universal Studios today.
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The Thingelstad’s sporting our Dr. Seuss Things shirts at Universal Studios today!
: The Butterbeer Ice Cream is incredible at Florean Fortescue’s in Diagon Alley.
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We found the Mystery Machine! Scoooooby Doo!
: Disney World Log Day 7 Weather: Cool and sunny. Steps: 13,194 Disembark from Galactic Cruiser Transfer to sapphire hotel …
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Having a Frozen Butterbeer at the foot of Hogwarts Castle. 🪄
: Disney World Log Day 6 Weather: Cool and sunny. Steps: 9,137 continued exploring Halcyon Shuttle to Batuu Exploring and …
: Disney World Log Day 5 Weather: Cold and sunny. Steps: 11,951 hang with family and sent them off to airport Check out of …
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Aboard the Starcruiser Halcyon ready to help the Resistance. We visit Batuu tomorrow.
: Registered jamie.⌐◨-◨ now that Noun Name Service ENS reservation period has ended. 🙌
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Greetings from the Starship Halcyon!
: Disney World Log Day 4 Weather: Warm and sunny. Steps: 20,148 skyliner to Hollywood studios Boat to Disney beach club …
: Went a little crazy and am registered in EIGHT of the Nouns Name Service PREMINT Missions! ✅ $500 of …
: Disney World Log Day 3 Weather: Warm and overcast, heavy rain in afternoon. Steps: 20,758 Disney Skyliner to Epcot …
: Idea: Could be really fun to give out a POAP along with candy on Halloween. Hmm… 🎃👻
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Epcot Harmonious was an incredible show. Wow!
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Having a fun day at Epcot with our family, my Mom, my Sister and her family! Photo in Italy after …
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Not going to let a bit of a downpour stop our fun at Epcot. 🌧️
: Disney World Log Day 2 Weather: Warm and sunny. Steps: 17,354 Take bus to Animal Kingdom Go to Bugs Life Most restaurants …
: Disney World Log Day 1 Weather: Warm and sunny. Steps: 19,381 Skyliner to Epcot Ratatouille ride Breakfast at Patisseries …
: First day that my Gnosis Chain validators have earned over 0.5 mGNO. Also had 8 proposals, although …
: Disney World Log Day 0 Weather: Hot and steamy. Steps: 10,659 Flight lands Great ride to hotel with Reginald Arrive and …
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Boarded DL2221 to Orlando to visit Disney World! Going to see Disney Classics with the family and …
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First snowfall of 2022 on October 14th. It will all melt, but it is still a fun sight. Minneapolis, …
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At today’s MnTech board meeting we heard presentations from the 2022 ACE Leadership participants as …
: POAP 5768722 at Donation made! Thanks for helping it happen!.
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Celebrating the Minnesota United victory — with a photobomber! 🎉⚽️
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Watching the irrigation techs during halftime at Allianz Field is one of my favorites. Don’t know …
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Minnesota United v Vancouver Whitecaps starting 2nd half. United leading 1-0, and playoff bound? ⚽️
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Project “Float the Boat” is successful! Dock crew attached cables to the pontoons and pulled it back …
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Got our Halloween pumpkins at Little Hill Berry Farm by Northfield this morning. 🎃 They also had a …
: Cats Will Eat You created “Eleven Virtual Faces” collection and I liked all of them. I decided to …
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Project “Float the Boat” has gotten harder. Cannon Lake is down another couple inches. The rear …
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Beautiful night for a campfire with a nearly full moon.
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State of Blockchain 2022 Event
MN Blockchain hosted their annual State of Blockchain event this evening at Fueled Collective in …
: POAP 5718168 at POAP Citizens - Episode #1 with Angelo Antonelli .
: POAP 5715628 at POAP Community Call #39.
: POAP 5715519 at Signer.is Email Service Beta Tester.
: POAP 5715517 at 1000 Lil Nouns Minted.
: POAP 5715516 at UKRAINIAN FLAG NFT 🇺🇦 by @Ukraine_DAO Donor - 3.22.
: POAP 5715514 at ⌐◨-◨ Happy Nouniversary from FloriNouns! ⌐◨-◨.
: POAP 5715513 at ⌐◨-◨ FloriNouns July holders POAP - thanks for hodling! ⌐◨-◨.
: POAP 5715512 at EthStaker / CLR.Fund QF Matching Round 2022.
: POAP 5712343 at The State of Blockchain 2022.
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Minted three Peepertoadz (265, 266, 267), a new project based on Cryptoadz by Messhup. Looking …
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So many family and friends around to celebrate with my Mom as she turns over another decade! Wish we …
: POAP 5706818 at ETHGlobal Ethereum Merge Watch Party.
: Grabbed my thingelstad.lilnouns.eth subdomain (transaction) via Lil Domains.
: We are having a party to celebrate my Mom’s 70th Birthday today and we are marking the day with a …
: POAP 5705617 at You've met thingelstad.eth - October 2022.
: POAP 5705549 at Rosalin Chrest's 70th Birthday.
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My Mom has a big birthday this year and her four sisters and brother all drove from North Dakota …
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As the leaves begin to change and the air gets a little crisp, it is a good reminder that Minnesota …
: Setting up another 12 Gnosis Chain validators this morning, for a total of 32 when activated. Based …
September 2022
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We returned to The Dakota to see The New Standards tonight. We’ve seen Chan, John, and Steve play …
: Successfully claimed and staked my 4 GNO tokens from the Dappnode Gnosis Chain promotion. Now up to …
: We saw BLKBOK tonight at The Dakota and it was a great show and an amazing experience. His …
: POAP 5692679 at 4000 Lil Nouns Minted.
: POAP 5692676 at 5000 Lil Nouns Minted.
: POAP 5692651 at Mainnet Merge POAP.art Canvas Pixel Placer.
: One of my favorite artists on NiftyInk is nnxyz. Tonight I created “nnxyz fan art #0001” merging my …
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Garden status as fall is here: We are still pulling off lots of tomatoes. I had no idea a basil …
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The water level in Cannon Lake is down a lot. The first wheel on our dock is usually under water. …
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Avalanche (Tyler’s team) v Plymouth 2 team facing off on the pitch this morning. Minnetonka Rec …
: My Validators made five proposals today on Gnosis Chain. New high. 🏆 Still just a couple weeks into …
: The RSS feed for the Pinboard’s Popular links stopped working on Sep 12th. Hoping this will be …
: The POAP for this years TeamSPS Kubb Tournament turned out just amazing! I created a Poapathon …
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Minnedemo 37
It was great to see the Twin Cities technology community back together for Minnedemo tonight at the …
: I got my Ethereum Mainnet Merge POAP today! It goes perfectly with my Ropsten Merge and Goerli Merge …
: POAP 5664890 at Ethereum Mainnet Merge Protocol Supporter.
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Great morning sharing keynote for Protolabs GTX event on Innovation Accelerated! Thanks to Rob Bodor …
: POAP 5649610 at TeamSPS 2022 Kubb Tournament.
: I decided to take a big “step up” in Things 4 Good Candles production and get a DigiBoil 9 gallon …
: Roadmap by Dariush I stumbled upon Roadmap by Dariush (0xDariush.eth, @0xDariush) and the project intrigued me. He’s …
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Got cutting-discs on the Dremel and trimmed a dozen or so drawer pull bolts to proper lengths. Tammy …
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Installed these cool modern sconces from Dutton Brown made right here in Minneapolis. I’m not very …
: Tracking active Lil Nouns DAO proposals. Voted for Lil Nouns DAO proposal 48 “Lil Nouns Weekly …
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First time running the Big Green Egg at our new house. Sous Vides beef tenderloin getting a finish …
: Noted milestones of your kid driving: Gets permit and you begin the journey. Passes drivers test and …
: It always feels a bit like I’m breaking the rust off when publishing the first Weekly Thing after my …
: Ethereum is now Proof-of-Stake!
: I have my Gnosis Chain at-home validator running and added four additional validators to it tonight, …
: Waiting for the Ethereum mainnet merge? Make your Gitcoin grants! I supported ENS Fairy, POAPin, …
: Participated in my first POAP Art canvas tonight as part of the merge call. Painted my “Thing” …
: Excited to watch the Ethereum merge happen live tonight!
: POAP 5623336 at Ethereum Mainnet Merge Painting Party Entry.
: Looking forward to the Ethereum mainnet merge tonight, and digging my Ropsten and Goerli merge POAP …
: POAP 5622792 at Goerli Testnet Merge Protocol Supporter.
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TeamSPS 2022 Kubb Tournament
We had our 4th annual TeamSPS Kubb Tournament today. We were graced with impeccable weather to throw …
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Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf seems impossible to describe. They describe their mission as
We create immersive and …
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Pedego Bikes on Cherry Creek Trail
We saw these Pedego bikes at the Minnesota State Fair and Tammy saw they had a rental option in …
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Brandi Carlile at Red Rocks
We have seen Brandi Carlile play many times. Tammy discovered her years ago when she performed at …
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Heading to Red Rocks on Bus to Show to see Brandi Carlile! 🤩
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We had a fun time experiencing the “Beyond” show at the International Church of Cannabis. I tagged …
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The view from our hotel room. 😕
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First time returning to Hotel Monaco in Denver since our Honeymoon 20 years ago.
: 9:08pm Flight got pushed back to 10:08p at 6:22p. Delayed heading to airport, and flight restored to …
: My Gnosis Chain home validator is spending the next day or so getting synced. The Dappnode Home i732 …
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We finished the unofficial last day of summer with a nice bike ride around the lakes, dinner at …
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We had a great time at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival today. It was our first time back since …
: Signed "Proof of Stake" by Vitalik Buterin Vitalik Buterin is releasing a new book called Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the …
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This bat has been flying around our cabin for the last two days. Seems odd to see a bat in full …
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Dairy Queen stop at the halfway mark of today’s family bike ride.
: With Labor Day and some additional travel, I decided to extend the Weekly Thing summer break for two …
: I couldn’t resist grabbing a nuNoun and picked up nuNoun 88. Yet another noun project. ⌐◨-◨
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Ordered a Dappnode Home i732 so that I can run a validator for Gnosis at home. I’m a big fan of POAP …
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Starting three pork butts for 18 hour cook in the Sous Vides! Finish smoke tomorrow. 🐖💧🔥
: Minted Noun Cats The Noun Cats project was my “gateway” to the Nouns ecosystem. It is the first place where I found …
August 2022
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Great game today with Minnesota United beating Houston Dynamo 2-1. First half was a slow start but …
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On our bike ride today as we were rounding our way around Lake Harriet and coming home Tyler caught …
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We had a wonderful family bike ride around the three main lakes along with a lunch stop at Punch …
: Ordered a bag of Nouns Coffee. Never would have guessed that to come out of Nouns DAO. ⌐◨-◨
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Time for a sunset fire on Pokegama Lake.
: Just registered thingelstad.⌐◨-◨ on Noun Name Service. Cool to see that Food Noun 3 already shows my …
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It was a perfect day for a 9.2 mile kayak down the Mississippi from Grand Rapids.
We were going with …
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Visiting my brother and family at their place. Super nice day on Pokegama Lake.
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Putting in for a paddle down the Mississippi!
///doctor.senior.windy
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Delightful breakfast of delicious crepes in the yurt at Hotel Rapids this morning.
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The Decemberists “Rise From the Bunkers” tour was great at Surly Brewing Festival Field tonight. …
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My Mom is helping Mazie get the Tomatoes under control. Only 4 plants but they have all gone …
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Need to declare war on these horrible Beatles going to town on our strawberries! 😲
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We had a great time at the MLS All-Star v Liga MX All-Star game tonight at Allianz Field.
: What a day! Started with an early wake up in Reykjavik finishing our Iceland trip and ended with a …
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Great OneRepublic show tonight! Set list was just right and hit all the favorites. Tyler’s favorite …
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Need to Breath opening for OneRepublic tonight at XcelEnergy Center. I hadn’t heard their music …
: Iceland Log Day 16 Sunday, August 7th Cold morning in Reykjavik. Rainy day in Minneapolis. Up at 5:20a! 6:00a Depart …
: Iceland Log Day 15 Saturday, August 6th Nice Icelandic day, a little misty in afternoon, no wind. Our final full day of …
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Family selfie from the Sun Voyager in Reykjavik. Cool sculpture!
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Reykjavik Pride is this weekend so we got to see the Pride Parade! Super fun, great event! Huge …
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We escaped from “The Mafia” room at Reykjavik Escape in 38m 44s with no clues! 🔓 Our first escape …
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We had a delightful time last night at the Icelandic Sagas: The Greatest Hits. We learned new things …
: Iceland Log Day 14 Friday, August 5th Nice, warm in sun. Sprinkles in afternoon. Depart Blue View Cabin and travel to …
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Family selfie from Reykjavik!
: Iceland Log Day 13 Thursday, August 4th Morning was very cold and windy, and improved throughout day. Morning hot tub …
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The Langistígur, or The Walk of Death, in Þingvellir National Park.
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We happened upon this couple taking wedding pictures at Öxarárfoss in Þingvellir National Park …
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Me at the Lögberg (Law Rock) of the Alþingi in Þingvellir National Park. This is where the …
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This is the most extreme vehicle we have seen in Iceland yet! Mazie included for scale. 😲
: Iceland Log Day 12 Wednesday, August 3rd Sunny & Windy Checkout of The Garage. Final visit with the horses and dogs. We …
: Funny joke from Logi at Into the Wild. What do you do if you are lost in an Icelandic forest? 🤔 …
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Beautiful view on Westman Islands.
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Departing on Herjólfur Ferry headed to the Westmann Islands for the day!
: Iceland Log Day 11 Tuesday, August 2nd Great overall weather. Sunny. A few sprinkles. Up early for 8:30a departure with …
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Beautiful evening on Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach by Vik.
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Stopping to observe the power of Eyjafjallajökull with Into the Wild. Amazing.
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Out on an excursion with Into the Wild to Þórsmörk (Thorsmork). Beautiful spot for lunch.
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These old Icelandic houses at the Skogar Museum don’t seem to fit me so well. I look and felt like a …
: Iceland Log Day 10 Monday, August 1st Very nice and sunny, with high winds in parts. Visited Skogafoss. Majestic …
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We had some fun hiking companions on the trail today. 🐏
: Kvernufoss. Very beautiful waterfall.
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Family selfie at Kvernufoss!
July 2022
: While driving we wrote down words that we felt described Iceland well: Rugged, Dramatic, Varied, …
: Iceland Log Day 9 Sunday, July 31st Pleasant weather. Checked out Fosshotel Glacier Lagoon Five hour glacier hike on …
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Svartifoss. I love the columns in the rock.
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We had an amazing time on the Zodiac tour in the Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon today visiting the …
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Wonderful evening hike to Svartifoss.
: Iceland Log Day 8 Saturday, July 30th Freaking cold and windy until 2p then really nice after that. Checked out of …
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Family selfie at Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon! 💙🇮🇸
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Very good at this 3D Tetris game of packing the rental car.
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Sticker on window in hotel.
Dear guest.
Please be advised that during strong winds the door can …
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Boat in Skjálfandi Bay on the Greenland Sea near Húsavík, Iceland.
: We just wrapped up Day 7 of our Iceland 2022: Ring Road adventure. We are going counter-clockwise …
: Iceland Log Day 7 Friday, July 29th Cool and Rain starting in afternoon. Start at Skarðás Country Cabins in …
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You come across some pretty wild vehicles in Iceland.
: Waterfall on way to Seyðisfjörður.
: Iceland Log Day 6 Thursday, July 28th Windy but Mostly Sunny Breakfast at Fosshotel Mývatn. Drive to Borgarfjörður …
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Tammy and I, along with Mazie and Tyler, celebrated our 20th Anniversary tonight while in Iceland …
: Iceland Log Day 5 Iceland Log Day 5 Wednesday, July 27th Cool and Rainy throughout the day Our 20th Anniversary! Start …
: Upstream from Dettifoss is the beautiful “symphony” of waterfalls at Selfoss.
: The power of Dettifoss is amazing. From the viewing area the falls fills so much of your field of …
: Iceland Log Day 4 Tuesday, July 26th Cool and Pleasant Start in Akureyri. Breakfast at Berlin Cafe, downstairs from …
: Iceland Log Day 3 Monday, July 25th Cool and misty with some sun Start at Kirkjufell Guesthouse. Kaffi Grundarfjordur …
: Iceland Log Day 2 Sunday, July 24th Cool and Partly Sunny in the morning, and Cloudy and cold in Evening Start at …
: Iceland Log Day 1 Saturday, July 23rd Warm with Thunderstorms and Hail. ⛈ Start at home. DL260 cancelled overnight and …
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Eastern Greenland at 10:50p from 37,000 feet on way to Iceland. Such a severe landscape in the …
: DL9900 taking off now to Keflavik, Iceland. Announcement that we only have five airline attendants …
: After last nights delays and cancellations it is 😬 to see storms coming right as our rescheduled …
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Iceland Log Day 0
Friday, July 22nd
Mostly Sunny, High 93 °F
Start in Minneapolis, MN 11:41a DL260 8:20p departure …
: Returning to Iceland In September 2012 I went to Iceland for a weeklong photography trip with three friends. Iceland …
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Beautiful evening on Cannon Lake.
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Something went terribly wrong with the carrots in the garden. Carrot Ball? Carrot Swarm? Eek. 🥕
: Four Letter Words “If we can do 10, then 12 is only a little more.” “If we can just add this button to the UI.” “That …
: Awesome to have fiber directly into the house. Well done US Internet! 👏
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Putting Lutron Coséta switches in new house. Have wanted to try these out for a while. Starting with …
: POAP 5320743 at 3000 Lil Nouns Minted.
: Voted for Lil Nouns Proposal 27 to Buy Noun 184.
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Our move is in full swing now. 📦
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I love majestic tall prairie grasses, particularly Big Bluestem. They are my favorite landscaping …
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Damselfly resting on Big Bluestem in the morning sun.
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Royal typewriter for disconnected writing at the cabin.
: I’ve been wearing my Oura Ring for a few months and the sleep data is useful. They enable longer …
: I’ve always used my WiFi SSID to broadcast my website thingelstad.com. I decided to add another SSID …
June 2022
: Voting for Lil Nouns DAO proposal 22 to fund Lil Grants Season 2.
: Voted for Lil Nouns DAO proposal 21 to Buy Noun 235.
: Got my Early Birbs I hold eight Noun Cats. I found the project before I really got intrigued by Nouns projects. I guess …
: POAP 5262030 at SPS TechJam 2022 Organizer.
: POAP 5262029 at SPS TechJam 2022 Speaker.
: POAP 5262024 at SPS TechJam 2022 Attendee.
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First time renting a Fluid Truck. Moving some things to the new house.
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Just as I finally figured out the multiple programs, zones, durations and start times of our digital …
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Mazie was awarded Rookie of the Year by her softball coach. She had a great season with GAL.
: UniFi Network for New Home Ordered network for the new home. Decided to stay with UniFi given the great experiences I have had …
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Girls softball tournament today! 🥎
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Discovering all sorts of unusual devices while getting new house ready. RCA jacks, mini plug, …
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Moving into a new home presents many puzzles. Currently working out this one:
29 Cat 5e twisted pair …
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At Chanhassen Dinner Theatres for Footlose! Mazie and Tyler’s first time here. 🎶🎭
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Today we closed on our new home! We weren’t looking but a truly unique and special property came on …
: POAP 5211230 at GIVbacks Round 12.
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Bringing the hat for Fathers Day. At Mazie’s softball game on 97 °F day. ☀️
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These two make my life such an amazing and wonderful journey. I am one really lucky guy. My best to …
: These are the things that work and have a real benefit when I’m feeling drained and want to be kind …
: When left to my own devices, it surprises me how much of my daily food intake turns into a couple …
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First strawberries from the garden. So delicious. 🍓 We need to put straw down to keep them off the …
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The Playdate arrived! Preordered this about a year ago. Initial impression is great. Adorable …
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I attended a whiskey tasting at O’Shaughnessy Distilling tonight. The four spirits we tried were …
: Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 18 to Acquire LilNouns.eth ENS Domain. txn.
: Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 17 to Buy Noun #102. txn.
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Mazie turned 17 today! She is so smart, creative, and energetic. Her big day has been awesome. I’m …
: POAP 5157375 at Ropsten Testnet Merge Protocol Supporter.
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Mazie and I packed rider packets for next weeks Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride today. Our task was …
: Now that we have Jack Dorsey using “Web5” I assume all DNS and ENS names of “web[0-9]+” are being …
: I can now declare some level of basic competency with the irrigation controller and its various …
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Mazie and I at our first ever MN Aurora FC game! Awesome that we get to see women’s professional …
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Dinner at Crisp & Green, Mazie’s favorite restaurant.
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Mazie and I went on a tour of the University of Minnesota today. It is part of her college …
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Awesome dinner at 6Smith on Lake Minnetonka with Hector, Max, and Denny. Perfect weather, delicious …
: POAP 5126670 at POAP Community Call #22.
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TeamSPS is always pushing forward, and earning. Karin Lucas welcoming the team as we keep leading …
: Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 13 for Retroactive Funding and Lil Grants Pool. txn.
: Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 10 to Buy Noun #253 from Nouns DAO. txn.
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Tammy and I at the 2022 SPS Social! 🎉 Also see 2018 and 2016.
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Nice night for Glen Lake GAL Softball! Mazie covering 2nd base. 🥎
: The new window manager that Apple announced at WWDC today, Stage Manager, looks interesting. I like …
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No Kowalski’s — there is no such thing as a Watermelon Tenderloin! 🤦♂️
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Edina Art Fair 2022
The Edina Art Fair has returned from the pandemic this year! Mazie and I made a quick visit and the …
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Tostado Chilaquiles with Slow-Roasted Pork at Hola Arepa is one of my favorite brunches in the Twin …
: My Introduction to the POAP Community I shared this introduction on the POAP Discourse server on January 8. I’m publishing here on my blog …
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I always like to see all the American Flags flying on the north-western shore of Cannon Lake. 🇺🇸
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Strawberries are coming in the garden! Fresh picked strawberries are a family favorite. 🍓
: POAP 5106957 at You were one of the first 25 minters of FloriNouns!⌐◨-◨.
: Joined Lil Nouns DAO I won the auction for Lil Noun 1416 and am now a member of Lil Nouns DAO, a Decentralized Autonomous …
May 2022
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Sigur Rós at State Theatre
We saw Sigur Rós at the State Theatre this evening. I first heard of Sigur Rós from their 2008 album …
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We all went to Top Gun: Maverick on opening weekend. We saw it at Emagine Willow Creek in the …
: Magic Pines Summer of 2022 POAP I’m doing what I consider another fun Proof of Attendance Protocol, or POAP, token! We greatly enjoy …
: Gift for Weekly Thing POAP Holders I saw this HELLO “Ink” on Nifty.Ink and I just thought it was a fun image. The author had minted 100 …
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LEGO World Map
The LEGO World Map is complete!
There are two very notable things about the LEGO World Map.
I think …
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Afternoon bike ride to Dairy Queen! Perfect 10-mile round trip with an ice cream in the middle.
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First Smashburgers of 2022! Delicious. 🍔
: POAP 5068411 at Magic Pines Summer of 2022.
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Getting pizza at Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm and watching the sunset.
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I’ve been telling the family that we should all have a Hungry Man dinner. Maybe even with TV trays. …
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Mazie is planting the garden She loves to garden and commune with the plants. The strawberries and …
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Boat Day Selfie
Cold morning requiring hat, jackets, and gloves on May 21. This may the most …
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It is Boat Day 2022! Got the pontoon from LaCanne’s, went under I-35, up the Cannon River, through …
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Lots of hail and heavy rain showed up out of nowhere in Downtown Minneapolis.
: POAP 4991281 at Web3MSP @ VeeCon 2022.
: I’ve been exploring various “noun” crypto projects recently. When I found The Internoun Project I …
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Firmware upgrades are the best. 🤓
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Gorgeous night for some Minnesota Twins baseball! ⚾️
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We had a fun time shooting Nerf pellets at each other in various games at Urban Tactical Combat …
: I just sent issue 219 of the Weekly Thing, which also marks the Five Year anniversary! It is also my …
: POAP 4964766 at Weekly Thing Five Year Anniversary.
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At Children’s Theatre Company for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical! Tyler is a big fan of the Diary …
: I’m the top collector on Nifty Ink. I just have so much fun here. It is one of my favorite web3 …
: Very intense thunderstorms tonight. Knocked power out for an hour and still counting. AT&T internet …
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Outdoor sculpture at Hermitage Farm in Kentucky. Delicious Mother’s Day brunch at Barn8.
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Good morning from Goshen, KY. Horse country. Beautiful.
: Kentucky Derby Bets Race 6 Gun It (5) to Place Race 7 Doppelgänger (10) to Show Race 8 Bells the One (6) to Win Kimini …
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This was a very unique place to stay before going to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby. Woke up …
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Race 7, Churchill Downs. Win for Jack Christopher!
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Mint Julip and Lily. Derby Day! 🏇
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Checking out the horses by the Twin Spires of Churchill Downs. Derby day! 🏇
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Boarding flight for the Kentucky Derby! 🏇
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Great first game of the Twin Cities Soccer Leage season for Park Valley United FC v Eden Prairie SC. …
: POAP 4904521 at Support #TeamSPS Ukraine Employee Emergency Fund.
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It is heartwarming to see homes in the Twin Cities supporting Ukraine. 🇺🇦💙💛
: “Sunshine and Rainbows”, Mazie’s first drawing on Nifty.Ink! I’ve been cajoling her a bit that I …
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Turning Red was a good afternoon movie on a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon. I liked the depth of …
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Tyler did the MEL Science “Tin Hedgehog” project this morning. It was great to see him learning and …
April 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was a really fun movie. The Nicholas Cage playing himself …
: I got my invite code to the Coinbase NFT beta today. I setup my profile and it all worked really …
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CODA was a powerful movie, great story, great acting. Delightful to watch.
: All the chatter about Musk buying Twitter and taking it private misses an important point: Twitter …
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Far too cold 🥶 and blustery 💨 for a softball doubleheader! 🥎
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We had a big exterior project done this fall that finished in the winter. With the snow gone, I …
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The dock crew is so fast to put in docks I didn’t even see them doing it! We did wave as they left. …
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The kids still like to argue about who got the biggest piece of stuff. So, sometimes I remove the …
: Not sure what Minnesota did to deserve this “spring”, but can we take it back? Send an apology …
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Support Ukraine via Nifty.Ink 🇺🇦
I have wanted to create my own “ink” on Nifty.Ink and my artistic capabilities are pretty limited. …
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ring rang rung by Cats Will Eat You
I recently discovered the work of Cats Will Eat You, a Minnesota artist who has created and …
: I got my Sideline Behavior certificate from Soccer Parenting and The Sideline Project! The …
: POAP 4765283 at Women in Tech Night Out (April 2022).
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I have been very impressed with all the innovations the Famous Fox Federation has done. I suspect …
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First United game of the 2022 season! Minnesota United v Colorado Rapids. 37 °F! 🥶 Tied 1-1 at half! …
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Powerful performance by DakhaBrakha from Kyiv, Ukraine at The Dakota in Minneapolis tonight. 🎶🇺🇦 …
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 8 Pack up and clean out of White Villa 1. Get COVID tests at Seven Stars to clear for flight. Churro …
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 7 Sapodilla Beach. Kyle was our Beach Concierge. Rented an umbrella. Kids played in sand. Rented …
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Sunset on Grace Bay, Turks & Caicos.
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 6 Breakfast at Somewhere Cafe. Snorkel at Coral Gardens. Ice Cream at Patty’s Place. Shopping. Tyler …
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These flippers are huge! Tyler’s head provided for scale.
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Afternoon cocktails at Somewhere Cafe on Grace Bay. Cheers! 🍹🌴☀️
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 5 Breakfast at Shay Cafe. Pool time at Villa. Tyler did homework. Made Pina Coladas. Tammy conference …
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 4 Captain Jack full-day tour with Grace Bay Adventures. Snorkeling at Coral Gardens. Many turtles …
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 3 Morning massage at Villa for Jamie. Tammy and Mazie took an adventurous walk. Lunch at Hemingway’s …
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Grace Bay in Turks & Caicos. View from Hemingway’s where we had lunch.
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 2 Breakfast at Shay Cafe. Browse shops by resorts. Jamie got vacation hat at Goldsmith’s Grocery stop …
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My hat for Turks & Caicos! It has become so predictable that I will forget my hat at home that I …
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This is a good spot to have a morning coffee. ☕️🌴
: Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 1 Shuttle to airport via Landline. Dinner at Barrio in MSP Terminal 2. Flight to Turks was delayed 2.5 …
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We arrived in Turks & Caicos! Our flight was delayed almost three hours due to storms in Florida. …
: POAP 4606819 at POAPathon Special Announcement April 1! .
March 2022
: I could pass on any additional nasopharyngeal COVID tests.
: Support Ukraine There are many organizations doing good work in Ukraine. I am going to maintain this list and update …
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Enjoying this incredible Double Fermented Gesha special 2nd Anniversary Coffee from Pair Cupworks. …
: Market Value up 12.4% Our city shared this update on the assessed market value of property. 2022 Assessment Report The …
: Taylor Hawkins drum solo from Oct. 18, 2018 Foo Fighters show. RIP. 😢
: Shocked and saddened to hear that the Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins has died. He and Grohl are the …
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Tammy and I had such a great time seeing Elton John tonight at his final show ever in St. Paul, …
: We tried Creekside Supper Club for the first time and had a great dinner. Popovers are amazing. …
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Our last stop before leaving Nashville was a backstage tour at the Grand Ole Opry. We got to see the …
: Escape Game: Timeliner We went to The Escape Game in Nashville and did the Timeliner: Train Through Time room. We did it …
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We visited the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. It was really cool to see so much history. The …
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We stopped into Goo Goo Chocolate and took the Taste of Goo Goo class where we all got to make our …
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Spotted the Nashville Party Wagon! 🚜
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Ryman Auditorium
We visited the Ryman Auditorium and saw the birthplace of country and bluegrass music. It seems …
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Delightful cappuccino at Drug Store Coffee in the Noelle Hotel in downtown Nashville. ☕️
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We’re in Nashville so of course we should go to the Wildhorse Saloon and learn how to do the Boot …
: Space Camp We had a fun weekend at Family Space Camp! 🚀 Our program included runs in the Multi Axis Trainer, …
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Thingelstad Family is ready for our mission! 🚀
I asked everyone to give me a “stoic” look for the …
: Mazie did the Multi-Axis Trainer at Space Camp today. She reported it was fun and did not feel dizzy …
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Selfie with Saturn V rocket at Davidson Center in U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
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Flying to Nashville, TN tonight! 🛫 First time in an airport since March 13 2020!
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We had our #TeamSPS St. Patrick’s Day celebration for the first time since 2019! Something green, …
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Tammy made our traditional Pi Day dinner: homemade Chicken Pot Pie and Peanut Butter Pie! 🥧
See Pi …
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We had a great Pi Day celebration for #TeamSPS. Somehow I managed to take pictures of the setup and …
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I made the leap today — got a Leica Q2. We have a number of trips this year, and will be getting a …
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Went through all my photography gear and filtered out the stuff I no longer need or don’t use. …
: I’ve been using Telegram recently to stay in contact with folks in Ukraine. I decided to create a …
: Tammy’s grandparent’s cuckoo clock is ticking again at our cabin thanks to Blackstone Manor Clock …
: POAP 4299875 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2021 Challenge Coin.
: Someday the Wordle will be STEAM. And on that day, I will win.
: Consider for today: Take a moment to reflect on how much the world has changed in the last 10 days. …
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Tech Inclusion Alliance at MnTech Tech Talent
It was great to get to be part of the MnTech Tech Talent event today with Caroline Karanja as she …
: Slack’s delayed send feature is nice, but I wish there was an option to delay sending to when the …
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Tammy creates a family book each year and 2021 is another great keepsake. These books are going to …
February 2022
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Imagine Dragons Mercury Tour
We all went to see Imagine Dragons Mercury Tour at the Target Center. Imagine Dragons is Mazie’s …
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We are ready to head to a Minnesota Aurora FC soccer game! ⚽️
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Buildings in downtown Minneapolis lit up in Blue and Yellow for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Russia Attacking Ukraine tonight deeply saddens me. I have a wonderfully talented technology team of …
: Dogsledding with Wintergreen It was 2009 when I first went dogsledding at Wintergreen! That trip was just me, and it was Layne …
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Frozen head shots at the end of todays dogsledding adventure!
: Two minutes on the dogsled trails out with Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge today. We had to stop and start …
: A quite minute on the dogsled trails out with Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge today.
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Snowmobiling Around Tower
We had a fabulous day on the trails with snowmobiles! We got to Lake Vermillion Houseboats right at …
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Downtown Ely. Nice to see the theatre open again!
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Snow sculptures in Whiteside Park in Ely, MN.
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Highway MN 169 heading into Ely.
: Given the state of US politics, wouldn’t now be an ideal time for the creation and launch of a new …
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Tina Schlieske at The Dakota
Tammy and I saw Tina Schlieske doing her Sinatra to Simone show at The Dakota and it was incredible. …
: POAP 4105433 at NFT Innovation Digest - Victoria L.
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Mike Birbiglia at Pantages Theatre
Tammy and I went to Mike Birbiglia’s newest show at the Pantages and it was so great. We’ve seen him …
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Giant wall of pizza boxes waiting to be filled at Hello Pizza.
: Quordle Tried Quordle for the first time today. This may be my favorite Wordle variant.
: Phantom Wallet for iOS Love that Phantom Wallet is now available on iOS. Has integrated browser, support for staking …
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Introduction to MrBeast
Tyler is a pretty big fan of a handful of “YouTubers”, and usually at the top of his list is …
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We had Tyler’s birthday dinner at his favorite restaurant, Lion’s Tap! It was our first time dining …
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We escaped Video Game Mayhem at Trapped in 56m 59s! The room was setup for the adult version. We did …
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We returned to Mess Hall Art Experiences to have some fun with paint! Tyler wanted to go as part of …
: POAP 3985602 at NFT Innovation Digest - Sotuland Dreams.
: Totally agree with Paul Graham’s take on NFTs. NFTs can be used for so many different things that …
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Neeva Premium with NFT
Neeva recently rolled out their premium search offering. I’ve been using it as a tester for months …
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Final prep for afternoon presentation to the amazing #TeamSPS sales team. ☕️🙌
: I find Nerdle much harder than Wordle. 😬 nerdlegame 19 5/6 ⬛🟪🟩🟪⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟪🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩🟪 🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟪🟩🟩🟪🟩🟩🟩 …
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Remembering Matthew Dornquast
I first met Matthew when he was CTO at Fallon. It must have been 1997. I don’t remember how we got …
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The Winter 2022 issue of Reading Things, our family newsletter on books and reading, is out now! 📚 …
: It is cool to see increased workouts showing a new baseline. I started working out with a trainer …
: POAP 3884085 at NFT Innovation Digest - Lawrence Lee.
: I dig the new .day top-level domain. Not sure how I want to use it yet, but I decided to register …
January 2022
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Tammy and I had a wonderful weekend at Wild Rice Retreat in Bayfield.
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We are looking forward to our first Minnesota Aurora soccer game! ⚽️ — Thingelstad Family, Community …
: I setup my profile on Strava to connect around fitness activity. If you are on Strava, give a follow …
: I signed up for a year of Neeva Premium. I’ve been using Neeva for several months and have valued …
: My first ever proposal for a DAO was voted on and approved! elfDAO will be including Toys for Tots …
: Adding Solana (SOL) and Polygon (MATIC) tokens during this crypto market downturn. I’m very …
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Peloton has given back all of the pandemic gains experienced. Either $PTON was overvalued in Q1 …
: Instead of posting Wordle games regularly I made a collection of Wordle games. 🤔
: POAP 3556549 at POAPathon Live: Episode 0.
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After three months of very little activity, The Divine project finally took off today! I have Divine …
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I am greatly enjoying How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason. Interesting history and …
: When I read articles from people sharing their bespoke Obsidian setups I think one of the best …
: Web 1 → read-only, publish Web 2 → read-write, APIs, social Web 2.5 → semantics, microformats, …
: We just booked the flights for our 2-week trip to Iceland this summer! I can’t wait to return and …
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Enjoyed Ron’s Gone Wrong tonight. It was a super fun movie, with a good story, and a good criticism …
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The Omicron variant is spreading at an incredible rate. 👀 Via The New York Times (Jan 7, 2022).
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At SPS one of our engineers started a thread for everyone to share their “Frequently Used” emoji …
: I got really lucky on my first Wordle. Wordle 200 2/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 See collection of Wordle game.
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664 days into the COVID-19 pandemic and I got it. 😞 Two days after significant exposure. Fully …
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We just barely beat the new Robot Rampage room at Trapped Puzzle Rooms in St. Paul. 59m 36s. Whew! …
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We had a fabulous hike in the snow at Wood-Rill SNA today.
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Family selfie on my big birthday! 5️⃣0️⃣
: The Big 5 O Song! Tammy surprised me with an amazing gift for my 50th Birthday today — my very own song! A full on …
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My daughter has a great way of framing my big birthday! 🤣
: Jamie v5.0.0 Today I turn fifty! 🎉 I don’t find that I have a lot of profundity to share. But here are some …
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Wicky Thing Tealights
Yesterday I made more 12oz candles, as well as some tealight candles. After realizing that the small …
: We made it 662 days into the pandemic before having a confirmed COVID-19 exposure. We are all …
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New reported Covid-19 cases via The New York Times. I wonder what this Omicron spike would like like …
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First attempt at making tealight candles along with some regular Things 4 Good candles. Requires …
: POAP 3398636 at Jamie Thingelstad's 50th Birthday.
December 2021
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Blokus is another New Years Eve tradition. Tyler (Blue) won this year with just 4 points left. Tammy …
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Every New Years Eve we play Clue and for the first time in memory I won! On my very first turn I …
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Shelfie of next round of books my book club is reading: The Blocksize War (my pick), Empire of Pain, …
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Time for our traditional New Years Eve fondue dinner.
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Movie tonight was Free Guy and it was pretty fun! The various riffs on gamer culture were all really …
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Today is Lucky’s 2nd birthday! She is officially no longer a puppy. Mazie and I took her on a nice, …
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Today’s board game was Settlers of Catan! We messed up the rules more than a few times, and the game …
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Totally enjoyed In The Heights tonight. Great movie and incredible performances. Wow. My movie pick. …
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Tonight’s board game was Photosynthesis. Mazie’s pick, and she won with a good lead! 🌳
: Visiting A Central Minnesota Farm by Layne Kennedy My friend and amazing photographer Layne Kennedy put together this short video of life on a Central …
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Lucky enjoys snow so much. When it is snowing she wants to be outside all the time. She eats …
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Horse out in the field with a light coating of snow. This is on our regular walking route at Magic …
: Famous Fox Dens Multichain I’m so impressed with Famous Fox Federation! Today they announced that you can associate your …
: POAP 3327254 at POAPathon - Merry Christmas from the North Poll.
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Angry Bunny Club Jigsaw Puzzle
We make a custom jigsaw puzzle each Christmas. This year I also took my collection of Angry Bunny …
: Mazie picked Stargirl for us to watch tonight. It was a great story, well told, and touching. Great …
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Blokus tonight. Tammy and I tied at 15. Tyler at 18. Mazie at 19.
: I love this new micro.blog Posts Stats Plugin from Amit Gawande! “Total Words Written 445,145 …
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Tammy finished another puzzle today. The 1,000 piece “The Lion Is Awake” by Souther Salazar. 🧩
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We all watched Flipped tonight. Great, heartwarming movie. Tyler’s pick.
: Ordered a 2022 Continuous Wall Calendar from Kairos Cognition today. Going to try using this as a …
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It has only been a week since the last update on the siding and window project but things are …
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Tyler got started on his Christmas LEGO, building Old Trafford - Manchester United stadium! ⚽️ This …
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Mazie started her Christmas LEGO today too, the Roller Coaster! 🎢 She has already complete the …
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I got Trekking the National Parks Trivia for Christmas this year. It is a fun and fast game to play. …
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Land of Things Christmas Puzzle
Today Tammy put together this years custom Christmas Puzzle that we made for her and it came out …
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The Angry Bunny Club has been on a roll lately with active trading driving the floor price up …
: All of my deep knowledge of technology, software, networks, WiFi… it all comes crumbling apart when …
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LEGO World Map
Starting in on my Christmas LEGO project: World Map! Item 31203, 11,695 pieces. Unlike any other …
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Hit a poor raccoon that was crossing I-35 on our way to the cabin tonight. Couldn’t see it at all …
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I thought I knew all the esoteric strategy lawn games, and then Tammy surprised me with Kingdom! I’m …
: Covid Christmas is Complicated. 😬🎄
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Santa 🎅 left me Dave Grohl’s book The Storyteller and a National Parks mug that you can check off as …
: Christmas Eve 2021 will now be known as The Night Before Covid Exposure Notifications. 😬
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My Grandma Rose always made Krumkake. My Mom makes the Krumkake now. I took my first attempt making …
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Our tradition to have steaks on the Big Green Egg on Christmas Eve.
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I joined the POAPathon this morning and got my USA POAPathon Holiday Spectacular token! The …
: POAP 3235015 at POAPathon Holiday Spectacular - Philippines.
: POAP 3234963 at POAPathon Holiday Spectacular - USA.
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“Bottom starting” my Big Green Egg to thaw the gasket and get it open for Beef Tenderloin in a …
: Happy to see that micro.blog’s new scheduling feature can also be used to create a new post in the …
: I’ve been intrigued by NFTs ever since I came upon them. Why? For as long as computers have existed …
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Somehow we hadn’t seen National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation so we watched it tonight. Some good …
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We debated for a long time if we were going to setup Christmas at the Cabin this year given the big …
: Great Christmas tale told in a nine tweet thread. Happy Holidays! Please enjoy this very bankless …
: All the stuff from Seth Godin: Markets often persuade us that we don’t have enough. Communities …
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We are in full swing on the residing and window replacement project with Keyprime. All the windows …
: A new study by researchers at Imperial College London found no evidence of a difference in severity …
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Quantum Mirror at REM5VR
Tammy got us tickets to see the Quantum Mirror exhibit at REM5VR. We’ve been to REM5VR many times …
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Joined the Famous Fox Federation with Fox #7164. I staked it to collect $FOXY tokens. Having fun on …
: Great list from Ryan Holiday. 🤔 9 short rules for a better life: Wake up early Focus on effort, not …
: Calm in Minneapolis but it is because we are in the middle of this huge rotational system. 😬
: I don’t know if it’s even helpful for me to have this much data. 😬
: Severe weather coming through tonight. Unusual to have tornado watch in December! Hoping for the …
: I updated all of our iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, and Apple Watches. All went smooth except an …
: Taking my first try at staking some crypto. Phantom made it easy and with a couple of clicks I …
: Namebase Squatters Now that I have ENS setup as well as SNS setup, I ran across Namebase (HNS) recently and found it …
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Registering Solana Name Service Tokens
I have been using Solana a good amount lately, namely for Angry Bunny Club (have 19 bunnies now). I …
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We had a great time being creative with paint and canvas today at Mess Hall Art Experiences! 🎨
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We visited the Norway House’s Gingerbread Land today. There weren’t as many on display as previous …
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8-Bit Christmas was a fun holiday movie, especially if you loved your Nintendo when you were a kid! …
: We got three four independent COVID-19 exposure warnings from Washburn High School today. 😬
: Taking an at-home COVID-19 test during a break in a meeting while working from home. Very 2021… 😒 …
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The kids love it when Dad makes oatmeal. Whipped cream for the win! 🤩
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I’m a fan of POAPs and have created many POAP events of my own. The ConstitutionDAO POAP is the …
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We watched King Richard tonight and I thought it was fabulous. Will Smith gives an amazing …
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We checked out Betty Danger’s in Northeast tonight to see Felicia’s Navidad! It was like tinsel and …
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2021 New Standards Holiday Show
After last years hiatus it was fabulous to see The New Standards Holiday Show for 2021 today! This …
: Got my Pfizer booster dose tonight! I’m happy I was able to get it two weeks earlier than I was …
: Nov 11: Variant identified in Botswana. Nov 14: Identified in South Africa and Hong Kong. Nov 23: …
November 2021
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These Angry Bunnies keep multiplying. 🤩 Had six, now eleven. My Minnesota is showing with all the …
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Whoever came up with putting grid lines on the back of wrapping paper is a genius. 🤩
: Things 4 Good on Endaoment I had been thinking it would be really cool if Donor Advised Funds (DAF) were open to accepting …
: Now that Apple has Shortcuts working on all platforms, I would like to renew my wish list item of …
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Mazie is making steady progress learning to drive. This is not a view I’m used to.
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Extended my registration periods for thingelstad.eth and weeklything.eth so the tokens would be …
: Now that you can register any DNS .com domain on ENS I would love to dual-register thingelstad.com …
: Booked my appointment for my Pfizer booster shot today. I was surprised that the earliest I could …
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We all enjoyed watching A Boy Called Christmas tonight. Mazie and Tyler had read the book. It was a …
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Happy Thanksgiving from my Mom and I! 🦃🍁🍽
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Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁🍽
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Thanksgiving 2021 scene of the crime. 🚨
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Thanksgiving Turkey out of the oven. Now for the rest.
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Making Wassail Tea means that it is officially the beginning of the holiday season for us!
: Four Thousand Weeks as Rings I’ve been reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. The title …
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Faribault Woolen Mill Tour
We took the tour of the Faribault Woolen Mill today. We learned a ton of interesting things about …
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Tyler and I played as a team and came in 2nd in Ticket to Ride Japan. It is a fun variant with the …
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The two most important ingredients when making lasagna are:
Italian Opera Love ❤️ Mazie and I made …
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Tammy and I at Keepsake Cidery enjoying a crisp fall day.
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Firewood delivery moved and stacked. 🔥
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ConstituionDAO
ConstitutionDAO caught my attention right away. This DAO is forming to raise a fund to bid on one of …
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Did the 30-min Foo Fighters ride with Emma Lovewell on Peloton tonight. Put all I had into it with a …
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Tammy and I enjoyed the 7 Course Tasting dinner at the pop-up Guacaya Bistreaux in Glass House. …
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The new Clifford: The Big Red Dog is a nice rendition of a classic story.
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We all volunteered at Free Bikes 4 Kidz today. Tammy, Mazie, and Tyler did cleaning of donated …
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We had a fun time at the Washburn High School production of Grease tonight. 🎭🎶
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We had an opportunity to celebrate with #TeamSPS CFO Kim Nelson and her Career Achievement …
: Angry Bunny Club I’ve been wanting to find an NFT project that I could be part of to learn and see first-hand what …
: I’m a Member of the ENS DAO! I just claimed my $ENS governance tokens and am now a voting member of the Ethereum Name Service …
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Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser
Our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser was a great success this weekend! We had more than 100 people stop …
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The recent Tesla updates allow you to look through the cars cameras when Sentry Mode is activated. …
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I now have two crypto-based debit cards. The Coinbase one uses USD Coin (USDC). The Litecoin card is …
: The new v2 Grammarly App for iOS is a huge step forward. Finally you can work with documents and not …
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Nobody does project updates like Paul Boswell does. I love how he goes into details and pulls you …
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We had a great first day of the Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser! We had a steady stream of people most …
: All four of us “Things” are working away getting ready for this weekends Things 4 Good Fall …
: POAP 2557804 at Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser.
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Tom Wujec gave a great keynote at #TeamSPS Growth Summit 2022! Technology advancement, innovation …
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It is incredible to be together with so many members of #TeamSPS today for Growth Summit 2022! 🎉🙌💙
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Tammy creates a family yearbook each year. The 2020 one took a bit but arrived today and it is …
October 2021
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Punk Rock Candle
When we make candles we measure out all the wax and scent, and then measure again as you pour into …
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We just published the Fall 2021 issue of Reading Things! In this issue: This Is Your Mind on Plants, …
: Halloween count of Ring doorbells: 12
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Jack o’ Lanterns for Halloween 2021! 🎃
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We had a great time watching the United defeat Sporting KC today 2-1! It was a great last regular …
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Lucky wanted to drive today.
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We stopped in at SI Hobby in downtown Faribault for their grand opening today! Tyler got a few …
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Our first year with the garden was a good success. We learned a lot and had successes and misses. …
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I really dig the clear vinyl of Brandi Carlile’s newest album. 🎶
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Tyler and I had an awesome time at the Dude Perfect 2021 Tour! We got tickets two years ago but it …
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I like these new “What’s new” screens that Drafts started showing. This is a great way for a …
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Just upgraded my first machine to macOS Monterey. Very smooth. Took about an hour. I’m giddy to see …
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I loved this bit of public art in Indianapolis. The blue metal pushing the rusted metal to the side, …
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Custom Puzzle Box
Our upcoming Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser is going to have a lot of our Things 4 Good Candles, but …
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Creativity on Shoes with Kicasso
On our final evening in Indianapolis we did a completely new thing — we painted shoes! Kicasso is a …
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 9: Drive home! Weather: Clear, cool weather the entire way home. 6:52a Coffee and pastries to go Blue Collar …
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 8: Explore Indy and Custom Kicks Weather: Little cool but sunny. Breakfast pastries and delicious coffee at Blue Collar Coffee. …
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 7: Rainy Day in Indy Weather: Cool with high in low 50’s and drizzle rain nearly all day. 🌧 Scrapped outdoor plans in …
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We completed Alice’s White Rabbit Rescue at Twisted Room Escapes in Indianapolis tonight. 56m 40s. …
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It was cool to visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library today. Tammy loved his books in college. …
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Indianapolis World War Monument on a rainy and cloudy day.
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We had a fun time looking at dozens of Indy race cars over the years today at the Indianapolis Motor …
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Camera wall at Bottleworks Hotel in Indianapolis.
: POAP 2252196 at Weekly Thing #200.
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 6: Cake Bake & Dune Weather: Cool today, and pretty blustery in the afternoon. Needed a light jacket for the first time. …
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We went to see Dune tonight (opening night!) at Living Room Theaters here in Indianapolis. I loved …
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We tried Duckpin Bowling for the first time today at Pins Mechanical. It was a lot of fun and more …
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We took in a lot of art today at Newfields.
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We had a delicious lunch at the Cake Bake Shop in Indianapolis. This place is famous for their cakes …
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The Fireworks of Glass Tower in the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is amazing. And underneath it …
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We visited the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis today and I was blown away by the sports activities …
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Delightful flat white this morning at Coat Check Coffee in Indianapolis.
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 5: Hermitage Farm Weather: Perfect. Check out of the Holy Goat. Breakfast at Con Huevos. Walk around neighborhood. …
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Last stop in Kentucky we grabbed this family selfie with a gorgeous sunset at Hermitage Farm. Off to …
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 4: Explore NuLu and The Holy Goat Weather: Incredible. Just perfect. Couldn’t dial it in any better with a knob. Delicious Cortado and …
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I did a tour and tasting at Rabbit Hole distillery today. It was a great tour and you got to see the …
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Visited Churchill Downs yesterday. Hanging out in Kentucky. Seems appropriate to watch Secretariat.
: Our family is hosting our first Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser! We’ll be raising money for four good …
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Damn fine Chocolate Chip Cookies from Please & Thank You in Louisville.
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Poetry by Boots work discovered while walking around NuLu Louisville today.
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 3: Tour Day Weather: Perfect. Couldn’t have asked for much better. Breakfast at Biscuit Belly. Tour at Churchill …
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Artwork on the side of The Holy Goat in Louisville, KY.
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Fun Brandy Tour today at Copper & Kings distillery. It was interesting to see how different a …
: Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory We went to the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory today. Learned that it takes 47 seconds for a …
: Churchill Downs Tour We visited Churchill Downs today and took the Superstars & Spires Tour. The history of the race, the …
: Just bought tickets to see the new Dune on Thursday when we are staying in Indianapolis. I’m super …
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 2: Chicago to Louisville Weather: Wonderful weather. Sunny in Chicago. Clear weather for entire drive. 7:30a Good morning! …
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Checked in to the coolest Airbnb we have ever stayed at, a restored 175 year old church! Incredible …
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Construction on I-65 down to a single lane south of Indianapolis causing a 45-minute backup of …
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Quick stop at Albanese Factory Outlet Store on the way to Louisville. Best Gummy Bears!
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Mazie and Tyler both love Home Run Inn frozen pizza. We made a point to try it “in real life” in …
: Chicago (2021) Looking great Chicago! 👋
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Demand Justice sculpture opposite Buckingham Fountain in Chicago.
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I loved the warm, cherry wood decore of the Chicago Athletic Association hotel. Fun spot to stay …
: MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 1: Drive to Chicago Weather: Cool in the morning. Nice and clear weather all day. Nice in Chicago. 6:00a Departed on …
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Another amazing night of magic with Dennis Watkins at The Magic Parlour! My third time and it still …
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“Have Dreams”. Message on 300 East Randolph in Chicago.
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Chicago skyline from Shedd Aquarium.
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Great afternoon visiting the Shedd Aquarium. Always one of my favorite places in Chicago.
The iPhone …
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In Chicago so need to have some Chicago-style deep dish! Stop at Lou Malnati’s in Schaumburg for …
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Tomorrow morning we take off for our MEA 2021 Road Trip. We are stopping in Chicago, Louisville, and …
: POAP 2159624 at Early Issuers.
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My book club enjoyed a delightful walk in Wood-Rill SNA tonight discussing Nature & Walking by …
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Mazie did some parking lot driving for the first time tonight! We found an empty parking lot and did …
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Tyler introduced the family to Machi Koro tonight and we had a great time playing it. Easy to learn, …
: Mazie doing homework. Mazie: Dad, do you know what a polyatomic ion is? Me: Ahhhh, no. Me now …
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We had a nice campfire tonight and then decided to watch a DVD in the camper. We picked The Great …
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We visited Willow River State Park in Wisconsin for the first time today. We all were impressed with …
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These Kunekune pigs are so friendly and filled with character. They like their tummies scratched …
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Hanging out with Nigerian Dwarf goats today. Yes, the goat jumped into the Tesla trunk all on his …
: The extent to which Shortcuts on iOS 15 is broken is shocking. Any moderately complex shortcut will …
: Just got my flu shot! First time I’ve gotten one. The pandemic experience educated me on the …
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Our family created an all original custom jigsaw puzzle together! 🧩 We finished the box design and …
: On “my” Internet Facebook and all of its properties are blocked every day, so I didn’t realize they …
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Tyler and I after our team won today’s Edina Soccer match. I’ve been having a great time coaching …
: A very common business mistake I see is attempting to adopt practices from companies with total …
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Transferring data to the iPhone 13 Pro. Upgrading from the iPhone XS. Most excited to try out all …
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Twin Cities CIO of the Year ORBIE Award
It was a huge honor to be recognized as the Large Corporate ORBIE Winner by Twin Cities CIO! I’ve …
September 2021
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We sought out the Animales Burger trailer at Bauhaus Brewing Co tonight. Our first time trying their …
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We found our totaled out Honda Pilot going through the auction process. I wasn’t sure it was ours …
: POAP 1704752 at VeeFriends x Christie's 10/01.
: This is how we wish every MN United home game ended! Wonderwall! 🤩⚽️🖤💙
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Great first half of Minnesota United v Houston Dynamo. MNUFC leading 2-0. ⚽️
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I love this view. No matter how many times I’ve seen it. 🖤💙
GO UNITED! ⚽️
: Ordered iPhone 13 Pro for Tammy and I. Both 512 GB. Sierra Blue for her, Silver for me. Trying out …
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We made some more Things 4 Good Candles this morning. 🕯
Mazie’s job was cutting down wax for the …
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We went to the Edina Homecoming Parade after the kids got done with school today. It was fun to see …
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It was a stellar evening to connect, for the first time in two years, with this great group of local …
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Starting my first iOS & iPadOS 15 upgrades! I skip the public betas in large part so I can have the …
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I get mesmerized watching the sprinklers at Allianz Field during half time. There is something very …
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What a great Minnesota United game tonight! They defeated LA Galaxy 3-0! Great goals. Strong …
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Our garden at the cabin has gone a bit wild on us. We haven’t been around enough to keep it well …
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Today was that sad day when I take the boat out for winter. I got 134 days on the water since I took …
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Nice cool evening for a campfire and sunset on Cannon Lake. 🔥
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For our recent team all-hands we had a photo theme on back to school. I used my very formal High …
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TeamSPS 2021 Kubb Tournament
TeamSPS had a great time playing Kubb today, connecting with colleagues, and having a fun time. We …
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Had a super evening with great MarketWatch friends. It has been decades since we worked together, …
: POAP 1273919 at SPS Kubb Tournament 2021.
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Had my mini studio setup today to present at the MnTech CIO Forum: Straight talk on emerging …
: POAP 1221503 at CIO Forum: Straight talk on emerging technologies.
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Final stop Up North at the Great! Lakes Candy Company and then on our way home!
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Stopped at Cedar Coffee Company in Two Harbors for the first time this morning. Delicious pour over …
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Sunrise on Lake Superior. I always find it surprising how fast the sunrise happens. There are just …
: North Shore Log Weather: Still a lot of warmth. Morning was very windy. Sunny and warm in afternoon. Cooled down at …
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Campfire and S’mores tonight on the North Shore.
: Gooseberry Falls We visited Gooseberry Falls today. We have had extreme draught conditions and the falls have been …
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We visited Sugarloaf Cove for the first time today. It has a nice loop hike and a fun shoreline. …
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Hiking Artist Point in Grand Marais. We stopped for a 5-minute silent meditation at the very end of …
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We walked out to the lighthouse on the pier in Grand Maria’s today.
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Worlds Best Donuts in Grand Marais! 🍩🤤
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Nice spot to watch the sun coming up over Lake Superior and enjoy my morning coffee.
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We stopped at Love Creamery in Duluth after dinner at OMC Smokehouse. It was our first time trying …
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We watched Luca tonight for Family Movie night. It was a good story and endearing characters. 🍿
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We had a delicious lunch at Home Plate Grill in Red Wing today. The Dugout burger was a great …
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Had a fun family hike on Barn Bluff trail in Red Wing, MN today. We took the South Trail up and the …
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Tonights plan: Old Fashioned and Romeo y Julieta. 🥃
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Time to play some Kubb at Birchwood Acres! Lake Pepin in the background.
: I created an official Olson Family Vacation 18 POAP token!
: POAP 1068867 at Olson Family Vacation 18.
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Tammy made a themed scavenger hunt / puzzle for Olson Family Vacation 18. One clue for each year. …
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Women’s Soccer is coming to the Twin Cities! ⚽️ I love that this is being openly funded on Wefunder. …
: I decided to try a subscription to Sam Harris so that I can get full episodes of the Making Sense …
August 2021
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Made some random candles tonight testing some scent levels and different burns. 👨🏼🔬🕯
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Mazie made a Peach Melba Pie today. “I’M A PIE” 🤤🥧
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We went to Canterbury Park to watch some horse racing today. We didn’t know it, but they also had …
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We went to the Minnesota State Fair today. My brother and his family were in town and we decided to …
: After months of little to no rain, it comes in buckets.
: Just helped my brother escape his overpriced and bloated hosted email service and move his custom …
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We visited the Van Gogh Experience and we all enjoyed it. It is an immersive experience built on Van …
: I’m a huge fan of Cook. Crazy big pay day. $750M. 💰 Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, received more …
: I first heard of Rivian via The Long Way Up. Their trucks look pretty amazing. The valuation seems …
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What do you do when a hard rain comes right as you put the smash burgers on the flat top? Get the …
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Our garden at the lake has gone wild! The tomatoes have pulled their cages out of the dirt! The …
: I’ve been experimenting with Literal.club to connect and discover books and reading connections. If …
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Getting ready for our biggest Things 4 Good candle project! 110 lbs of soy wax. 144 vessels. 🤩 Lots …
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Just upgraded both of my Synology DS416 to DSM 7.0! Looks like a nice upgrade, with some …
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We got our pottery shipment from Express Yourself Art Barn in Saugatuck today. When we finished our …
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Peach season is a big deal in our house. 🍑
: Grand Rapids & Hibbing Log Weather: Cool. Mist and rain in the morning. Cool and mostly cloudy throughout the day. “Rock’n the …
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Great beer flight at Boomtown Brewery in Hibbing tonight. Blueberry Wheat, Orehouse IPA, Nitro …
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It was cool to check out the giant mining equipment on exhibit by the Hull Rust Mine View.
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We took in amazing views of the Hull Rust Mine today. Incredibly large open pit mine. Looks like a …
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We saw this giant Iron Man statue in Chisholm, MN today and had to stop and check it out. I thought …
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I liked this art from Clarence Morgan that we saw at MacRostie Art Center today. It reminded me a …
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We won the “Rock’n the 50s” Escape Room at Itasca Historical Society in 40 minutes! Room 36!
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Pokegama Lake framed by trees.
: I dig this FLÎKR Fire that we got in Vermont. Great ambiance! 🔥
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Severe tree damage on Southern edge of Pokegema Lake right next to my brothers place from storm a …
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Tried both the White and Sweet tasting wine flights at Unwined Up North in Grand Rapids tonight.
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We had our very first quarterly company meeting with some of the team in-person, masked, at the …
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I am happy to back the Hack the Gap Book on Kickstarter! I’m looking forward to reading, and …
: Made this Action in Feedbin to skip sponsored items in feeds. It works really well! …
: After spending three nights on the Floathaus of Saugatuck I feel like I’m rocking on water even when …
: Varmont Road Trip Index In the spirit of Harper’s Index, here is our index for the Vermont Road Trip. Airbnbs stayed in: …
: Best Ice Cream of Vermont Road Trip On our drive back we went back and each of us picked the favorite ice cream we had on our Vermont …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 16, Sunday Weather: Perfect. Warm and sunny. 7:46: Depart Floathaus. 7:55a: Uncommon Coffee Roasters for coffee …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 15, Saturday Weather: Perfect. Breakfast at GROW Café + Bistro. 🍽 Return shopping at Urban Found for Mazie. 🛍 …
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The kids buried me in the sand today at Oval Beach. 🥳
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Express Yourself Art Barn
We love to visit Express Yourself Art Barn when we are in Saugatuck. They have a ton of great …
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When we visited Roan & Black Gallery in Saugatuck yesterday the work of Kimmy Cantrell caught my …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 14, Friday
Weather: Perfect day!
Enjoyed a relaxing morning on the Floathaus. Amazing breakfast at Pennyroyal …
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Saugatuck Dune Rides Over the Years
A trip to Saugatuck would not be complete without the Saugatuck Dune Rides. We took a ride with …
: One minute at Oval Beach, Saugatuck, Michigan.
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Afternoon craft coffee at Uncommon Coffee Roasters in Saugatuck, MI.
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 13, Thursday Weather: Clear morning until Pennsylvania with moderate to heavy rain. Crazy heavy rainfall in Ohio. …
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Floathaus of Saugatuck
For our final destination of this Vermont 2021 trip we are capping off the unique places that we are …
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This is our third time in Saugatuck and we’ve gotten to know the place reasonably well, including …
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Donut Boat
After arriving in Saugatuck from Rochester this morning we went straight to Retro Boat Rentals to …
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Sailboats at Tower Marine in Douglas, Michigan.
: Very challenging driving in Ohio on I-90. Very heavy rain. High winds. Limited visibility.
: On family vacations I still use technology, but as much as possible I try to put the Internet in …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 12, Wednesday Weather: 89 °F, feels like 103 °F. 🥵 Mad Hatter for breakfast. Rochester Museum & Science Center. …
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Good Luck Burger
One of the things we wanted to do in Rochester was to return to Good Luck to share a Good Luck …
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Sam Patch on the Erie Canal
We took a 90-minute river Erie Canal cruise today on the Sam Patch. We got to go to Lock 32 and …
: Time-lapse video going through Lock 32 on the Erie Canal.
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Perfect beer to cruise down the Erie Canal on a hot day? Ruby Red.
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Erie Canal at Pittsford, NY.
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Hot day! Ice cream stop at Pittsford Farms Dairy. 🍦 We stopped here in 2018 and wanted to return. …
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Arrays of knobs and dials are mesmerizing. Even old ones. At Rochester Museum & Science Center.
: POAP 735405 at Micro Camp 2021.
: The kids are sleeping on an actual air mattress tonight, fulfilling the origin story of Airbnb! 😊
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Updated COVID-19 graphs from today’s New York Times. The case count in Florida is pretty stunning. …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 11, Tuesday Weather: Good weather, pretty hot. Started raining after we got settled in Rochester. Hot and humid …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 10, Monday
Weather: Nice, clear day. A bit hot in the afternoon with temps nearly 90 °F.
9:09a: Depart …
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Delicious “short pours” at Schilling Beer Co. tonight. Combover, Hopfenweisse, and Moonship on …
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Serious about the canning, and an incredibly precise display. 👏
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“One of America’s 10 best towns and main streets!” Way to wear it proud Littleton! 🙌
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Polly’s Pancake Parlor was delicious and the busiest place we’ve eaten at on our trip, by a long …
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Ever since we did our Charlie Brown Tree with Adam Gale of Rust n’ Grain I’ve found myself …
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Flume Gorge
This morning we drove from St. Johnsbury over to New Hampshire for the day. Our first event of the …
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Nice place to put your feet in the water and relax a bit. Littleton, NH.
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 9, Sunday Weather: Still a bit rainy in the morning, but cleared up. Fairly warm in the afternoon. Evening …
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Levitt Amp Conert on Dog Mountain with Mike Mains and The Branches performing. 🎶
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Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
We visited the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium today in St. Johnsbury, VT. The museum has been …
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Dog Mountain Chapel
When Tammy was researching our Vermont Trip she ran across a place called Dog Mountain just outside …
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Double IPA Lemon Cello from Hill Farmstead Brewery. Wow, unique and good. 🍋
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We had a super coffee and chocolate stop at Rabble-Rouser in Montpelier today. First time I’ve ever …
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We saved the Mona Lisa in 56m 16s at the Greatest Caper Escape Room in Montpelier. Austin, the …
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Family selfie at the Vermont State House in Montpelier.
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The Treehouse in the mist this morning.
: Connected Device Disclosures for Rental Properties We’ve been staying almost exclusively in Airbnb properties for a while now. We enjoy the unique …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 8, Saturday We are dedicating this day to our friend Ellen. Ellen is from this area of Vermont and most of the …
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Bread and Puppet Theater
I don’t know if we would have ever found Bread and Puppet Theater without a recommendation from our …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 7, Friday Weather: Perfect. Drive to Manchester, VT. 🚙 Coffee at Charlie’s Coffee House. Better coffee …
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Pastime Pinball
If you are any kind of a fan of pinball, Pastime Pinball would be your heaven. There is an amazing …
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Hildene: Lincoln Family Summer Home
We visited the Hildene house, which was the private family house of the Abraham Lincoln’s only child …
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Afternoon ice cream at Cold Cow Creamery. Tyler opted for a Blondie bar from a coffee shop instead. …
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A Mile of the Appalachian Trail
I have had a growing interest in the Appalachian Trail ever since I read Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the …
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Alpine Slide at Bromley
In my head Alpine Slides look dangerous. There is no good reason for that. Visually they look like a …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 6, Thursday Weather: Perfect! Hung out at schoolhouse and made breakfast using eggs from the farm. Walked the …
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We saw the Jungle Cruise at Hathaway’s Drive-in! It has become a bit of a tradition to go to a …
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Saratoga Racetrack
We went to the horse track today! 💸
We’ve been to Canterbury Park with the kids and have had fun. …
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Beer flight at Brown’s Brewery.
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Kaleidoscope Cafe
On our drive to Saratoga we spotted Kaleidoscope Cafe and decided the mix of BBQ and homemade Ice …
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We took a walk around Studio Hill Farm this morning and checked out the Studio on the Hill. We saw …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 5, Wednesday
Weather: Great weather. Cool morning. Clear for our entire drive. Couple drops of rain on the sail. …
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We took an afternoon sail with Hudson Sailing. We had a great, relaxing time sailing up the Hudson …
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We visited the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Buddhist Monastery outside of Woodstock, NY today. …
: Words we used to describe Vermont: Bucolic, Pastoral, Idyllic, and Verdant. The bar is high. 😊
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Sign in a storefront in Woodstock, NY.
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I’m eager to read Michael Pollan’s newest book, This Is Your Mind on Plants. We listened to Pollan …
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Blue and yellow sailboats on Rondout Creek connecting to the Hudson River in Kingston, NY.
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We had some extra time this morning and saw a trailhead for Overlook Mountain Wild Forest. We …
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Great way to spend the afternoon. Sailing on the Hudson River. ⛵️
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 4, Tuesday Weather: Perfect. Breakfast pastry stop at Saunderskill Farms. Rented bikes in New Paltz and ride …
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Ice cream at Sleeping Giant Ice Cream in Kerhonkson. 🍦
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We have had a delightful time staying in the Modern Accord Depot in Accord, NY. Staying in a …
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Historic Huguenot Street
We took a tour of Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York today. It was an interesting peek …
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Tyler got the S’mores Milk Shake at Lola’s in New Paltz. Wow. 😮
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Painting on the side of a building in New Palz, New York.
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Biking Wallkill Valley Rail Trail
This morning we rented bikes from New Paltz Biking and took a 16.2 miles round-trip ride on the …
: Ready to watch Dune, again! Dune is perhaps my favorite sci-fi world. I read all six of Frank Herbert’s books in one summer and …
: Recent NFT Activity This block of updates from today’s Modern Finance newsletter on recent activity around NFTs blew me …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 3, Monday Weather: Perfect. Breakfast at Kerhonkson Diner in Kerhonkson. Drive to Bethel, about an hour. …
: We are on a road trip and are playing Road Sign Math! Today we found a winner outside of Wurtsboro!
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Tyler created a cairn of his own at the site of the Woodstock stage. He even added a little flower …
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The original site for Woodstock is just a little bit down the road from the historical marker. The …
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While we were visiting the Woodstock site today we took the restored Bindy Bazaar Trail through the …
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The Magic Bus in the Woodstock & the 60’s exhibit at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
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Tammy and I at the official marker for Woodstock from the National Register of Historical Places! …
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 2, Sunday Weather: Brief drizzle in the morning. Clear weather through entire route. Drizzle and very cloudy …
: Today we have part two of the drive to get to our first real destination in Accord, NY. 475 miles. …
July 2021
: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 1, Saturday Weather: Slight fog in the morning. Good weather throughout route. 5:00am: Up early! 5:30a: Mazda …
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Spending the night in Cleveland, OH so we had to get some amazing Graeter’s French Pot Ice Cream.
: Today we “blast off” 🚀 our road trip to Vermont with a 760 mile drive to Cleveland! 🛣
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We head out on vacation tomorrow. I setup my email auto-responders on both work and personal …
: I sat outside for two hours tonight with my book club and now my eyes are burning. The air is very …
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We just sent out the Summer 2021 edition of Reading Things! Here in the Real World, Think Again, My …
: POAP 604453 at Reading Things First 100.
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I’ve been following the development of the Playdate for a while. I love all the innovation — …
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Vermont 2021 Road Trip
A week from today we depart on our summer vacation! We are heading out on a 2-week road trip to …
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Mazda CX-9 Carbon Edition
We had no plans to be buying a new car right now, but with severe hail damage to our Honda Pilot …
: “Not being busy is a competitive advantage. Most people are so strapped for time they can’t take …
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The Magic Pines garden is really revving up now! I think we may have planted a bit much. The …
: Zen of Python I joined a Zoom meeting today and André Burgaud had this great background with a terminal …
: Notes from Pantera Blockchain Call Companies highlighted: Alchemy: AWS for Blockchain? Offchain Labs: Layer 2 scaling solution for Eth, …
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We got to meet Tony Oliva at the Taste Fore the Tour event tonight. Minnesota Twins baseball legend. …
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Graphic owl mural framed perfectly by window at A-Mill Artists Lofts.
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The Pillsbury A-Mill looks great at night.
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Great LIVE performance by Tina Schleske, her sister Laura, and band at the Aster Cafe tonight.
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Damselfly (I think?) hanging out on the Big Blue Stem.
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MN United v Seattle Sounders. HOT day for soccer. ⚽️
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Sun setting behind sailboat on Cannon Lake.
I shared this photo on BitClout and a couple of hours …
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Interesting to watch this weed harvester working to clean up Cannon Lake a bit.
: Love this framing around time. An investment is an investment of capital, a meeting is an investment …
: POAP 533233 at The First Redeemable NFT in Times Square, Ever!.
: POAP 533130 at SPS TechJam 2021.
: POAP 533122 at R/W Book Club: Klara and the Sun.
: I’m having a blast playing and exploring POAP tokens. I’ve created a few for various events to …
: POAP 499168 at Night of Crypto 2021.
: POAP 499157 at Olson Family Lake Day 2021.
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Tyler and I have been enjoying watching Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Good story.
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Tools of the craft for Big Green Egg. Something to start fire. Strong and long tongues. Precise, …
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Finished the three Sous Vides pork butts with a nice smoke this morning. Time to pull!
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Cherry tomatoes. Corn. Zucchini. The garden is coming along quiet nicely!
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This is one of my favorite weekend hangouts before the family gets up. Very calm and peaceful. …
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Great weather today so worked on the porch all day.
: Bought a little more Bitclout $CLOUT to play with creator coins and Bitclout NFTs shortly. Buy the …
: Started sous Vides on first of three pork butts for pool party this weekend. One butt a day, then …
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Mazie made a nice homemade sign for delivery people to grab a Clif Bar when they drop off a package. …
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Mazie harvested lettuce from the garden today. I have no idea what we will do with this many greens! …
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Gorgeous evening boat ride on Cannon Lake before fireworks.
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Finishing pair of pork butts on the Big Green Egg! 🔥 Gotta have barbecue on 4th of July!
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Awesome 4th of July Golf Cart parade at Cannon Lake! 🇺🇸🥳
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Wishing everyone a great Independence Day! Happy Birthday to the U S of A! 🇺🇸🥳
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I love mornings at the cabin with the Tour de France in July. 🚴♂️🇫🇷
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Enjoying a gorgeous morning on the deck with Lucky. Sun still low. Cool breeze.
: My crypto home screen as of July 2021.
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Bees Balm is fully in bloom.
June 2021
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Couple of pork butts rubbed and ready for the sous vide! After 24 hours in the water each they will …
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Nice night for some youth soccer! Go Lancers! ⚽️
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Seventeen cheeseburgers? No problem on the flat top!
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Rained most of the day today so I was able to finish the Saturn V LEGO build. For sure my favorite …
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You’re never too old to go play in the rain. ☔️
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The Saturn V LEGO build might be my favorite LEGO yet. The way that it comes together is delightful.
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I love the look of native tall grasses. Plus they provide great support for birds and other animals.
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Our garden has taken off with enthusiasm! Strawberries sending shoots. Ears of corn starting. …
: Crypto Allocation (June 2021) Time for another Crypto Allocation update. The last two months have seen a huge draw down in all …
: REM5 for Good: Simulacra Two REM5 for Good ran a digital art event, Simulacra Two, and in addition to other options they offered …
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First MN United game since Oct 20, 2019! So awesome to be here with the chants, drums, and smoke! MN …
: Random Forecasts We all try to predict the future. Particularly in business, sports, finance, etc. I like to recall a …
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We ended Fathers Day by watching RV. Loved it. Made me want to go on another long RV trip. 🛣🍿
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We walked through the Lyndale Park Rose Garden on our way around Lake Harriet today. The flowers …
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It was a fabulous Father’s Day 2021! Waffles with berries and whipped cream to start the day. Family …
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We watched Raya and the Last Dragon tonight. It was a fun movie, great animation, and a classic …
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Family supply chain overload as demand has dropped precipitously.
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Drinks at Lake & Irving on the patio. fig & rye (fig infused templeton rye, orange bitters, sugar) …
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I love when friends surprise you with the gift of a good book! I’m looking forward to reading Tiny …
: My book club met in person for the first time since Jan 30 2020. It was great to see everyone “IRL” …
: Crypto Links Balaji Srinivasan shared these links in a tweet. I’m putting them here for reference, with a couple …
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Makes me very happy to see people back in the park listening to music at the Lake Harriet Bandshell.
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Great evening for a bike ride around Lake Harriet.
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848 Day Streak
Yesterday ended my 848 day meditation streak.
Streaks are a great way to build habits. They can also …
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I love our new Escher inspired log “tables” for our fire area. These were logs left over from the …
: I’m so happy to have our Andrew Carson wind sculpture back up after being in storage a couple of …
: I didn’t get the Weekly Thing done last night, but I got up early this morning and finished issue …
: Was so impressed with Everything Legendary vegan burgers while watching Shark Tank S12 E15 that I …
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Great evening with The New Standards at Crooner’s Lounge. Rupert made an appearance! And was then …
: Launching the Tesla app gives this error. Force quit doesn’t help. Hmm…
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I dig the “scooper wall” at the new Sweet Science at 50th & France.
: I’ve been testing the new calendar integration with Craft and after a week have decided to upgrade …
: POAP 324580 at ENS 4th Anniversary @Pplpleasr NFT Giveaway - Snapshot voter.
: Our daughter has a job this summer, and in preparation we got her a checking account and a check …
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Our garden is in and hoping all the plants enjoy their new home. Tomatoes, squash, carrots, …
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Very pretty sunset colors on the lake tonight.
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Our raised garden beds are mostly in. We’ll be preparing the soil and planting shortly. Final step …
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Decided to take in a gorgeous day and work on our porch today. iPad Pro in Sidecar display is nice …
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Got A Calendar of Wisdom from Painted Porch. Discovered the book via Ryan Holiday so figured it …
May 2021
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Weather recovered for Memorial Day! Sun is out! ☀️🕶
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Making breakfast outside is such a blast. And you can make dozens of pancakes in no time at all! …
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EUFA Champions League final! ⚽️
Manchester City v Chelsea. Chelsea finishes first half with 1-0 …
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Gorgeous evening for a baseball game! ⚾️ Minnesota Twins v Baltimore Orioles. Last place battle …
: Rainbow wallet now has web profiles so you can see collectibles with a browser. See my …
: Upgraded to iOS 14.6 and after everyone was updated setup Apple Card Family. Worked really well. …
: Zoom Feature Suggestion: Connect to my contacts and show telephone callers by name instead of …
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Opening the pool for the summer!
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Watching FC Bayern München v FC Augsburg, the final game of the Bundesliga season. Hoping to see …
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My Mother and Kurt went to Uranus, Missouri and brought us back a nice treat from the Uranus General …
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My Apple AirTags arrived today! Two are for special keys. Not sure what other two will be for.
: Constellation Fund is hosting Bright Night, a free virtual fundraiser tonight at 6:30pm! 💡 You can …
: Paul Boswell, creator of the Turing Tumble, just launched Spintronics on Kickstarter. I’m in! Turing …
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Disintegrating Shoes
Thanks to the miracle of vaccines we were able to enjoy some drinks on a patio this evening with our …
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Minnesota Twins v Oakland A's
Minnesota Twins v Oakland A’s. Great afternoon for a baseball game! ⚾️ Let’s go Twins!
Three run …
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Flooded Forest Kayak Tour
My brother Isaiah and his family were visiting this weekend and we drove to Wabasha for the Flooded …
: Four Years of the Weekly Thing Today marks the four year anniversary of the Weekly Thing! Issue 1 was sent May 13, 2017. When I …
: Wish: Tesla "Learn to Drive" App Mazie is taking drivers education and soon we are going to find a vacant parking lot and I’m going …
: Crypto Markets and Kids Soccer On Wednesday May 12 at 5:06pm CT Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin to buy …
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I love the #TeamSPS Cyberweek 2020 Shirt, and for the first time a paired challenge coin! 🪙 The …
: Sat down to figure out what was wrong with my 27-inch 2019 Retina 5K iMac. Beach balls. Terrible …
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A very Happy Mother’s Day to my Mom!
: We just published the very first issue of Reading Things! 📚 If you enjoy books check it out! This is …
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Ethereum is up 32% in the last week, over 11% in just the last 24 hours! Hard to say what is driving …
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We’ve had our pontoon for a few years and the hassle of taking the cover off and on each weekend was …
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Today is Boat Day 2021! I got the boat out of storage from LaCanne’s Marine and took it back up the …
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Tammy put together her 50 Puzzle today. It was so rewarding seeing the final puzzle at full size. …
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Upcoming reading list: Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, A Man at Arms by Pressfield, Evicted by …
: Ten Richest Men, Thirteen Divorces It seems completely predictable that Elon Musk and Larry Ellison would represent over 50% of all the …
: My daughter is taking drivers ed., and the classes are online so we can all hear. I can report that …
: I love seeing the constant innovation in Drafts! We now have Drafts Capture for the Web? I never …
: App Store Subscriptions I did an audit of my App Store subscriptions recently. This seems like a good process to do on an …
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Fabulous performance from The New Standards at Crooners Supper Club tonight. It is so great to see …
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On 4/30 at 11:29am I got an email from OpenSea officially announcing that they are adding support …
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Making progress on the LEGO® NASA Apollo Saturn V build.
April 2021
: Just preordered three ElevationLabs TagVaults so I can use AirTags on boat and pool keys!
: Four Great Years of Micro.blogging! When people write about blogging platforms or services they often focus on features and functions. I …
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Sooki & Mimi
Tammy and I went to Sooki & Mimi for the first time and had their Prix Fixe Menu, titled “A …
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We had an amazing day celebrating Tammy’s 50th Birthday! 5️⃣0️⃣ Cycling, Tennis, Patrick’s Bakery, …
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Fifty Puzzle
Tammy enjoys doing puzzles. The kids and I have started a tradition of making her a custom Christmas …
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Tammy has a “big birthday” tomorrow and the kids and I have been busy for a few weeks getting things …
: Used the relatively low Ether gas prices today to register weeklything.eth on the Ethereum Name …
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I love how the Bike Vault Airbnb is completely themed around bicycles and even uses bikes as …
: Trying to get one of my ICANN domain names, thingelstad.xyz, registered on Ethereum Name Service but …
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Galloping Goose MTB Trail
I haven’t been mountain biking for over 10 years. My Specialized M4 StumpJumper has seen a lot of …
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Cold day, but still on a vacation-y trip, so afternoon ice cream from Rave Creamworks!
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This Cuyuna Lakes mural by Adam Turman right by Victual (go there) is fabulous.
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Victual
We shopped for a bit in Victual in Crosby, MN this morning. The passion of the owners and the …
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I dig this art piece by Matt Postier of Cykel in Ironton, MN. Made of reclaimed cogsets welded …
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From the Bike Vault in Crosby, MN. 🤣
I am bikesexual. I’ll ride just about anything.
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Chauvin Trial Concludes
Just under a year ago George Floyd was murdered in police custody under the knee of Derek Chauvin. …
: I got my second shot of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine this morning! 💉💉⏳ Many people I know …
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Crypto Allocation (April 2021)
I’ve been building out my approach to crypto. I shared my allocation in March and updated it this …
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We hung The Frame by Samsung today and I am impressed with it. It is discrete. The picture quality …
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Stopped by Five Watt Coffee for the first time since the pandemic and got an Iced Kingfield, my …
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We checked out Vivir for brunch this morning and were blown away. We got the Torta and the …
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Had a great ride this morning on Matt Wilpers 75-minute Power Zone Endurance Ride. My first 75 …
: Emoji Vaccine Status I like the idea of using Emoji to indicate status. Fun! Okay, looks like we're doing this. If you …
: Had first lunch from Avocadish today via Foodsby. Southwest Bowl was delicious! Will be a repeat …
: From today’s Economist Espresso: Pfizer’s chief executive said that people everywhere are likely to …
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2021 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony
Great night joining the Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony tonight and recognizing so …
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Reading List: Think Again
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant arrived today. This book hit my …
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Got my Elgato Key Light added to my setup. Having it attach to the desk is key for the standing …
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Mazie finished her LEGO Grand Piano build today. It is one of the most intricate LEGO I have ever …
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I started building the LEGO® NASA Apollo Saturn V this morning. I’ve wanted to build this for a long …
: Managing Global Tech Teams During a Pandemic Presented by: Jamie Thingelstad, Shivani Stumpf, Amy Patton, Teddy Bekele, and Jadee Hanson on …
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Today’s project: Pork butt time on the Big Green Egg! Stack of wood chunks to pump up the smoke. 🤤🐖🔥 …
: Registered thingelstad.eth on ENS In my continuing exploration and learning about Ethereum I decided to setup what would be my usual …
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Lucky looking so very peaceful as she takes an afternoon nap. 💤
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Ready to put the steaks on the Big Green Egg! 🔥🥩
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Called up Bevcomm today and upgraded our DSL connection at the cabin to the fastest that we can …
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Incredible night for a fire on Cannon Lake.
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We watched The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tonight and it was a fun …
March 2021
: Sharing my current allocation of crypto investments. Skin in the game. The information provided on …
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I got my first shot of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine this morning!
I had to reflect on the …
: I get my first vaccine shot on Tuesday! 🤩 From the Vikings training facility to local churches, our …
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Brandi Carlile at the Ryman Auditorium
We were excited to watch Brandi Carlile stream her first live show tonight from the Ryman Auditorium …
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The Cactus Blossoms at First Avenue
Tonight we streamed The Cactus Blossoms as they played live to a limited 50-table audience at First …
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“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” — Atomic Habits (p 38) …
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Enola Holmes
We watched Enola Holmes tonight and enjoyed it a lot. Witty story and characters. Millie Bobby Brown …
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Pileated Woodpecker
I’ve been fighting a Pileated Woodpecker, and losing. This woodpecker has been visiting our house …
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New Desk and Chair
After way too much deliberation I decided to head to Podany’s today and come home with a new chair …
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Container Ship Queue
Having the Ever Given, a massive container ship, stuck in the Suez Canal and halting all normal …
: From today’s Economist Espresso: Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was valued at …
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The Boy Who Would Be King
Tyler and I read The Boy Who Would Be King together tonight. It is a good book, and the story and …
: From today’s Economist Espresso: The valuation of Stripe reached $95bn in its latest funding round, …
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Final day of driving today with the home stretch to Minnesota! 🙌
2:00a Daylight savings time takes …
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Today is the longest segment on our drive back home.
Over an hour driving through extremely dense …
: I can’t wait to sing Wonderwall with my fellow MN United fans soon! ⚽️🎉
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Today we end our Arizona Escapades and start the long trip back home to Minnesota! We have had a …
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Vecina
For our final dinner in Phoenix we went to Vecina and had an incredible meal. The food was so …
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Nemesis Club: Evil Robots
For our final day in Arizona we decided add an Escape Room to the agenda. Tammy researched this and …
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Hiking Camelback Mountain
Today was our final day for hiking in Arizona and we decided to end with the big one, Camelback …
: Techies who Peloton First Ride When Minnestar decided to launch these “Techies who …” communities I was really excited to get a …
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UTV in The Rolls
We have always thought it would be fun to rent a UTV and go out for some trail riding. We gave …
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Pinnacle Peak
Every Wednesday that we have been in Arizona, Tammy has been able to meet up with her Mom and hike …
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Drive-in movie at West Wind in Glendale, AZ! There must be 10 screens here. 🤩 Seeing Tom & Jerry. 🍿
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Chelsea’s Kitchen
Tammy and I had a delicious lunch today at Chelsea’s Kitchen! We started with Prickly Pear …
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Trail panorama on Infinity Loop Hike.
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Infinity Loop Hike
This morning Tammy and I hiked the Infinity Loop trail in Dreamy Draw. We were looking for a longer …
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Recognizing International Women’s Day 2021 and Choosing to Challenge! We will advocate for and …
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Silver King Smokehouse
We took a drive today and for lunch stopped at Silver King Smokehouse in Superior. It was a …
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It was family movie night and we watched Flora & Ulysses. It is a fun story about a squirrel with …
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Desert Botanical Garden
Wanting to experience even more desert plant life we visited the Desert Botanical Garden today and …
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Music Instrument Museum
We visited the Music Instrument Museum today. This place was absolutely incredible. You could spend …
: I’m trying to mint an NFT on Zora.co and am shocked by the variability in the network fee. I’ve …
: Observation about the Phoenix area — everything is a 30 minute drive away. No matter where you are …
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Arizona Chimney Cakes
We tried Trdelník for the first time with a visit to Arizona Chimney Cakes. Tammy came across this …
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After our hike at the Lost Dutchman and the delightful drive on Arizona State Route 88 we stopped at …
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Arizona State Route 88 goes right along Canyon Lake on the way to Tortilla Flat. It even has two fun …
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We took the incredibly scenic Arizona State Route 88 to visit Tortilla Flat after our hike at Lost …
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Lost Dutchman State Park
We visited Lost Dutchman State Park and hiked the Treasure Loop Trail. There is a story hear about a …
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Day 29 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Light
Light coming through one pattern and making …
February 2021
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Day 28 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Up
Mesa has 296 days with sun a year. When you look …
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Broken Arrow Trail in Sedona
We had a great hike on the Broken Arrow trail in Sedona today. We were a little hesitant since some …
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When we were visiting Sedona today we stopped at Tlaquepaque and revisited a spot from the last time …
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Day 27 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Pompasetting
Mazie gave me a showing off look. …
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Grand Canyon
We took a weekend getaway to Flagstaff, AZ and today we visited the Grand Canyon. It was Tyler’s …
: I am greatly enjoying the Hip Chalet we are staying in Downtown Flagstaff, Arizona. The place has a …
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Day 26 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Favourite
I went to my archives and am sharing …
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Delicious pizza from Pizzicletta in Flagstaff, Arizona. Great toppings, unique pies. Plus homemade …
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Day 25 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Code
Micro.blog code.
: This “10 years” Easter Egg in the Apple Store app is fun.
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Day 24 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Baby
Baby Saguaro cactus! 🌵
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Day 23 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Banana
Tyler talking on the Banana-phone. 🍌📞
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Day 22 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Spell
Good way to start the day. 🌅
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Day 21 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Colors
Technicolor Saguaro Cactus from our hike in …
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Mazie and I at The Grotto Cafe after our hike in Cave Creek. The Grotto has an amazing outdoor patio …
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Hiking in Cave Creek
This morning we drove to Cave Creek Regional Park to go for a hike. It was about 40 minutes from …
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If you are in Mesa, Arizona and looking for delicious pizza make your way to Myke’s Pizza . We’ve …
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We watched Finding ‘Ohana tonight. Good option for family movie night.
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Day 20 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Weather
The weather was gorgeous at Saguaro Lake …
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Wind Cave Trail
We hiked up the Wind Cave trail this morning and had a great time. Tammy declared it perhaps her …
: Approaching Crypto I’ve recently clarified my thinking on Bitcoin and related crypto. To be transparent, I’ve followed …
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Day 19 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Alive
Blooming flowers on their way to be fruit.
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Watching Perseverance land on Mars today was another amazing example of engineering and discovery …
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Day 18 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: At home
We aren’t at home, so I am doing at Airbnb …
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Record cold hits Central United States on Feb 17, 2021 via New York Times.
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COVID-19 Maps on Feb 17, 2021 via New York Times.
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COVID-19 Update on Feb 17, 2021 via New York Times.
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Day 17 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Still
Had to use my library today. Grand Tetons. Mt. …
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Day 16 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Erudite.
Erudite vibe.
: Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum Today we visited the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum in Joshua Tree. We weren’t familiar with Purifoy, …
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Skull Rock Trail
After hiking Ryan Mountain Trail and checking out the famous Skull Rock, we decided to take a hike …
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Day 15 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Reflection.
Reflection, self-portrait.
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Skull Rock in Joshua Tree National Park.
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Ryan Mountain Trail Hike
Today we got up early and were on the trail at 8am to hike to the top of Ryan Mountain in Joshua …
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Day 14 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Compassion.
I struggled to get a photo for this one. …
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We did the Titanic Room at Escape Room Palm Springs today. They isolate everyone so it’s as safe as …
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We followed this DIY Modern Architecture Tour of Palm Springs today. One of the stops was Elvis …
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Picture with Frank Sinatra’s star in Palm Springs, CA.
: I find wind generators mesmerizing. 🌬
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Happy Valentines Day! My daughter crafted these amazing Valentines cards for us.
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The morning view from the Art Loft Airbnb in Joshua Tree, California. Inspiring.
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Day 13 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Make.
A great place for making.
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The Cholla Cactus Garden at Joshua Tree National Park. They are pretty but hazardous to touch. Keep …
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Heading to Joshua Tree National Park for a couple of days. 4h 30m drive. 👍
It is amazing how long it …
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Day 12 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Sporg.
A group gathered to watch and attempt to …
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It was Tyler’s birthday today and we decided to get a really cool Minecraft themed cake to …
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Tyler got Mario Kart Live for his birthday and we’ve already had a ton of fun playing it. We setup a …
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Day 11 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Machine.
This new M1 MacBook Pro is an incredible …
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Day 10 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Energy.
Electrical energy into light. 💡
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Day 9 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Mudy.
While visiting the Salt River wild horses today …
: Salt River Wild Horses Today we visited Coon Bluff Recreation Area to see the Salt River wild horses. The non-profit Salt …
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Day 8 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Hope.
This is the first Saguaro cactus flower, …
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Saguaro National Park
We visited Saguaro National Park today. We didn’t have a ton of time so we only (and accidentally …
: Sabino Canyon We visited the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area today on our day trip to Tucson. We took the shuttle to …
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Day 7 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Craving.
Treats from Mesa Donuts. 🍩
: Driving to Tucson for the day and introducing the kids to some country music with Hank Williams Sr., …
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Day 6 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Sport.
Wasn’t a lot of “sport” options today but …
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum
We visited the Boyce Thompson Arboretum today and had a great time walking the loop around the …
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Great Coffee at Pair Cupworks
I had a great start to the day with a visit to Pair Cupworks this morning. I had a top notch …
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Today I learned that these cactus are incredibly sharp. The needles will go right through light …
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We had a nice hike on Lost Dog Wash trail today. 3.3 miles. Took multiple wrong or missed turns …
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Day 5 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Pets.
Lucky taking a break during our hike at Lost …
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Day 4 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Layers.
Pancakes layered on top of each other.
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Day 3 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Comfort.
Nice comfortable spot to enjoy the day.
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Gorgeous warm day for a quick walk at Desert Trail Park. 🌵
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Day 2 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Morning beverage.
Delicious Guatemalan coffee from …
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This is my workstation setup for our February stay in Mesa, AZ. The mStand is critical to getting …
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Day 1 of the February Photoblogging Challenge: Close up.
It is novel for us Minnesotans to see …
January 2021
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Fun to see a wind generator blade getting transported down the road. It had a pilot vehicle in front …
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I thought North Dakota had the record for roads that go straight as far as the eye can see. It turns …
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Today’s point of view for the next several hours. Impressive volume of semi-trucks on I-40.
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Day two on way to Mesa, Arizona departing from Elk City, Oklahoma. 835 miles, 12.5 hours, 4 states. …
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These Duke’s Hatch Green Chile sausages are delicious. Great flavor and the Hatch chiles are great.
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Family selfie by Clear Lake, IA on the road with the Honda Pilot stuffed full!
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Big road trip to Arizona this weekend. Today’s drive is to Elk City, Oklahoma from Minneapolis, …
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We played Exploding Kittens for first time tonight. Silly game but quick and fun.
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I love geeking out on all the AV gear when recording. This setup was great!
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Capturing the moment with the Bernie Sanders Mittens Meme and the Peanuts Tree. Image by the artist …
: Bring Back Inline Replies The vast majority of the email I reply to I do a simple top reply. Particularly on mobile. It is …
: I 💛 micro.blog I noticed that it was four years ago today that I signed up to back Indie Microblogging on …
: Better Weekly Thing Description Writing to describe myself or one of my projects is hard for me. Those little “About” boxes all over …
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Snowy trail taking Lucky for a walk.
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The kids thinking about summer on the frozen pool. 🥶😊
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The new Good Day Coffee in Faribault has some incredibly good pie! Recommended if you are in the …
: I so enjoyed these articles from CJ Chilvers on personal websites and link posts. He captures a lot …
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As part of our Martin Luther King day we all watched Selma tonight. It is a powerful movie and a …
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Starting to read The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich. My book club is reading this. …
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Tammy, Mazie and I were looking for a long hike today so we drove to Lebanon Hills Regional Park and …
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2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast
I was able to attend the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast this morning. It was a …
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We watched Trolls World Tour tonight. It was fun and I liked all the music in it. Tiny Diamond …
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We had a John Hughes movie night with my brother and his family with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. There …
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My brother Isaiah and his family visited this last weekend and on Saturday we noted the 5th year …
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Lucky and I at Victoria-Evergreen Park in Minnetonka.
: Noticed in Streaks today that I have meditated 700 days in a row. Meditation has become a bedrock …
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Family Screen Time Review
We are trying something new thinking about our family and how we use our devices, most notably our …
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Bitcoin has gone crazy this year. That is more than a 10x price change in the last year, most of it …
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We take Lucky on a walk nearly every day and usually go through Pamela Park for a 1.2 to 1.6 mile …
: I got my Peloton “Cooldown 2020” video this weekend. I think its fun that they make these and kudos …
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New 60-min Peloton PR
I hit a new 60-min PR in Matt Wilpers Power Zone Endurance Ride this morning. 676 kJ versus my …
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This seems like a moment in time worth noting. The founder of Facebook and one of the richest people …
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My daughter gave me this great workout shirt for my birthday and my Fit By Fifty project. I …
: CTO Spotlight: Candid Conversations wth Minnesotan Leaders I got a chance to join Jac Stark and Nels Pederson of Tech.MN for this CTO Spotlight conversation. …
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We all watched Soul tonight and liked it a lot. The story, message, visuals were all awesome! We …
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We had a fabulous afternoon XC skiing at Theodore Wirth today. It was our first time out as a …
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Watched Ad Astra tonight. Enjoyed it. It was pretty much what I expected, which was just fine with …
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1,000 Subscribers
I’ve had a “soft” goal for the Weekly Thing to get to 1,000 subscribers and it got there today! Plus …
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We watched Ralph Breaks the Internet tonight and everyone liked it. I loved all the various …
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Tammy and the kids took their new Christmas Ice Skates out for the first time. We went to a frozen …
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I always like the fireworks on the Apple Watch on the New Year. 🥳
December 2020
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Kicking off our family New Year’s Eve with a French 75 and getting the fondue started! 🥂 Sinatra, …
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Tyler completed his LEGO® Nintendo Entertainment System™ project in just three days! He got very …
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Making some more Things 4 Good Candles tonight. All candles made with 🔥 and ❤️. 😊
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Lucky enjoying her 1st Birthday with one of her favorite bones! 🦴 🐶
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I finished my LEGO® International Space Station Christmas project. This was a fun LEGO to assemble. …
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Tyler is making great progress on his “biggest ever” LEGO® project. The Nintendo Console, Super …
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Lucky (Bernedoodle) is right at home in the snow. ❄️
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The kids are starting their biggest LEGO® projects ever. Mazie is building the IDEAS Grand Piano …
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We’ve made a tradition of making Tammy a custom puzzle for Christmas. With some help from her sister …
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Ready for Christmas! I’m slightly infatuated with all things Swedish, and love these Adam 7 Swedish …
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Working on “bottom starting” the Big Green Egg. It’s frozen shut and I need to make our traditional …
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One of my favorite things at Christmas is filling this wall with the faces of friends & family as we …
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Yesterday morning there was no snow and we were thinking out hopes of a White Christmas we’re in …
: Winter Solstice 2020 Today we “celebrate” the Winter Solstice. Here in Minneapolis the sun will rise at 7:48 am and set …
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We watched The Christmas Chronicles: Part 2 tonight. Good sequel to the first one. Great family …
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Twitter 14th Anniversary
How about I celebrate with a blog post instead. 👍
Twitter notified me today that it was my 14th …
: Tyler tonight shared his favorite YouTube gamer Mr. A-Game’s birthday, which was a little surprising …
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Lucky looking good after her trip to the groomer.
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Set a back-to-back 30-min PR today during Sundays with Love! 415 kJ, +7 over yesterdays 408 kJ. This …
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We went to the Glow Holiday Festival at the Minnesota State Fair tonight. Fun time but we think the …
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This Pomegranate Gimlet may be one of my favorite new drinks! Delicious! 🍸
: Commenting and Reactions added to Link Blog I’ve been toying with the idea of having commenting on my Link Blog. I ran across Hyvor Talk and …
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Hit a new 30-min PR in Jess King’s Sweat Steady ride today! 408 kJ, +3 over previous PR. 🙌🚴♂️ …
: "Ted Lasso of newsletters" CJ Chilvers shared a shout out to The Weekly Thing in his newsletter this week: I love The Weekly …
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Family movie night! We watched Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey on Netflix. Great story and …
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Today we announced that Data Masons is becoming part of SPS Commerce! This is a great combination …
: Facebook’s opposition to Apple’s privacy enhancements on their platform is a strong positive signal. …
: Dancing on the Pedals Today I did my fourth day in a row on my Peloton bike. I can tell that the workouts I’ve been …
: Travail Kitchen Family Meal: Lamb Ragu over Parisian Gnocchi We got the Family Meal from Travail Kitchen this weekend and I cooked it up for dinner tonight. It …
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Brandi Carlile
We absolutely loved watching the Brandi Carlile livestream Still Home for the Holidays tonight. It …
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We watched Abominable tonight for Family Movie night and it was great. Wonderful story and very …
: Yes the Walker is closed right now with the pandemic but we watched the British Arrows Greatest Hits …
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Pandemic Date Night
Like many Tammy and I haven’t had a “typical” date night during the pandemic. Restaurants are take …
: Parallel Zoom Pacing It turns out I pace a decent amount. Last week I was on a Zoom call and also took a call on my cell. …
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We watched the live stream of Home Free’s Warmest Winter Holiday Special tonight. It was a fun time …
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Here I am pretending that Lucky is a lap dog. She is confused if she should be happy about the …
November 2020
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Tyler and I made the first Christmas cookies of the year.
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The data in this graph is pretty amazing. From Why we are underestimating Zoom & it’s impact?.
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I’m not sure what happened with our bandwidth usage this month but it was way up from any previous …
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Family tradition to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on the evening on Thanksgiving. 🍿
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We celebrated our first Pandemic Thanksgiving today. I cooked turkey breasts in the Sous Vides and …
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This mornings 45 min Turkey Burn Ride with Robin Arzon had 50,000 live riders! That is an entire …
: This was the worst production outage I’ve experienced in Amazon Web Services, lasting over 21 hours. …
: We got takeout from Petite León for the first time tonight and thought it was great. We enjoyed the …
: Buttondown says that I have written 448,665 words in the first 166 issues of the Weekly Thing. The …
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We watched Doolittle for family movie night and we all enjoyed it a lot. It is a bit crazy, but all …
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Preparing Wassail Tea. This is always the official beginning of the holiday season to me!
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I set a new PR tonight in Kendall Toole’s 45-min Metallica Ride! 571 kJ, +18 over previous. I pushed …
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I leveled up my webinar broadcasting capabilities with the addition of a green screen. This setup …
: Happy that Noodlesoft has made Hazel 5 a regular application, and no longer part of System …
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Tammy and I watched Brittany Runs a Marathon tonight. Fine movie with a happy ending. May make you …
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Family game time this afternoon. First Five Crowns which Tyler won. Then a game of Blokus that Mazie …
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We had a nice 4.4 mile hike around Pike Island at Fort Snelling State Park today. This is 15 mins …
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Family movie night with Call of the Wild. We all enjoyed it. We also tend to love dog movies. 🍿
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Family time with Monopoly: Yellowstone edition.
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We volunteered at Feed My Starving Children today for the first time since the pandemic. They have …
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Tyler and I have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons and we roped Tammy and Mazie in with us. …
: I upgraded two iMacs and a MacBook Air to macOS Big Sur. One of the iMacs was not happy after …
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Charts via The COVID Tracking Project.
Record growth in COVID-19 spread. Hospitals are full. So far …
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Covid-19 new cases by day setting records.
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Growth Summit 2021
Today #TeamSPS joined together around the world for Growth Summit 2021! We had a great event, with …
: Link Blog Relaunched I got my Link Blog up and running again. It is still plenty rough around the edges. This gives the …
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Just tried Buildzi for the first time. This is a great, fast family game. You can give the younger …
: I am very proud that we have elected our first ever Woman Vice-President, Kamala Harris. I learned a …
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I love our outdoor patio space at night. A warm November day bonus with no bugs! The Yellow Table is …
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Incredibly nice weather today. We got to do a November family bike ride!
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Coronavirus Nov. 4, 2020 via New York Times
: "Learn to play the violin" I love this Drucker quote that my coach shared with me. Drucker, who believed that the most …
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Tried the Pear Brandy from Dampfwerk Distilling tonight. Very good. Thanks to Lee Zukor for …
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Time for a cocktail. Old Fashioned 🥃🍊🍒
If you are wondering about the Maple Syrup, I use that …
: 2:03pm on the day after the 2020 Election.
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5:49am on the day after the 2020 Election.
: Taking Inventory Let’s take an inventory for a moment. We are now eight months into the pandemic and it is weighing …
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Celebrating the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 30th Anniversary by converting from an annual to a …
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Lightroom is giving me troubles, and Photos is too. My iMac is stuck at “Restoring from iCloud…" and …
: I’ve been trying to export a single photo taken in 2008 from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC. It has …
October 2020
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First time playing Trekking the World. Game setup took a bit to figure out but we got the hang of it …
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Working on my bartender skills. Old Fashioneds and Lemondrop Martinis. 🍸
: These results are incredible, and seem almost unstoppable. “America’s biggest tech firms reported …
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Got a new PR this morning in Kendall Toole’s 30-min Metal Ride. 🤘 405 kJ, +3 kJ over prior. Redlined …
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Tyler and I are playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons together and we are using ACNH Exchange to get …
: I wonder how many Neural Engines the iPhone will need before it can properly adjust exposure for …
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Won afternoon game of Trekking the National Parks. Me 47, Tyler 42, Mazie 36, and Tammy 33.
: Birds We returned from a walk and there was a massive congregation of birds in the pine trees.
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Fun #TeamSPS project for a Friday afternoon. Enlisting the kids to help with decorating. ☝️
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Lucky went out during lunch and got herself into a good bunch of mud! 🤦♂️
: I did a 10-min full body stretching program on Peloton tonight. My flexibility is very lacking. …
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With a team in Kyiv I’ve been keeping an eye on COVID-19 cases in Ukraine. Infection rates have been …
: Just updated my list of newsletters I subscribe to with some recent additions and changes. We need …
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My boat motor won’t run and its been a saga. The shop is coming to fix it, or tow it, later this …
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First significant snowfall for Twin Cities. This should all melt and let us get back to raking. 🍂❄️
: Trying tagging people whose articles I am commenting and sharing in the Weekly Thing. Example on …
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Cashed in a chip with the kids and got them to watch Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace. They have …
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Made a 3 1/2 lb tenderloin special dinner tonight. Cubed the tip and fried with olive oil and …
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October in Cross Lake, MN. Bikes collecting snow. ❄️
: 41% of voters already completed voting seems high for the middle of October. I wish this had a …
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First time visiting Black Beach today, just outside of Silver Bay.
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Technically we did hike some of the Superior Hiking Trail today. 🥾🗺
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We had a great hike up the Temperance River Falls today.
: Upper Falls of the Temperance River.
: Looking at a Winter Snowstorm warning with 3-5 inches of snow we decided to end our MEA weekend …
: My Theory of RVs: All RVs represent a giant set of compromises to make the space work. The key an RV …
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Getting World’s Best Donuts in Grand Marais. They close for the winter tomorrow! 🍩☕️❄️
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The autumn wave of the coronavirus has reached a dangerous new stage. The number of new daily cases …
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There is an official station to take a selfie with Split Rock Lighthouse, so we had to stop and take …
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Gooseberry Falls was great today. Great sights. Lots of fun hopping around rocks. Even with cold …
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Mandatory stop at Betty’s Pies outside of Two Harbors. We got Blueberry, Strawberry Rhubarb, Toffee, …
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Always stop at Great! Lakes Candy Kitchen on the North Shore. Business still thriving and adapted to …
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Lunch at New Scenic Cafe is a must do for us when we visit the North Shore. They have an outside …
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Dinner in Grand Marais at Voyageur Brewing Company. Drinking limited release Devil’s Kettle Dry …
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We went to Ursa Minor Brewing to get pizza and a drink. I had the delicious Blackberry Shenanigans …
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Rain made our stop at Jay Cooke State Park’s Swinging Bridge far too short. The light was really …
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Rainy drive from Cross Lake to Duluth. 🌧
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Picked up the Winnebago View for our 5-day road trip. Initial impression of the View is positive. It …
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A Day In The Life photo challenge submission from Garrison, MN (46.293720,-93.823915) at 12:09 PM …
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Tomorrow we are renting this fabulous 2018 Winnebago View and going on a short loop around Northern …
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The daily chart from The Economist showing the price ranges of the iPhone since launch puts some …
: Facebook and Twitter Have Lost Control From recent actions I think that we must conclude that Facebook and Twitter have now explicitly …
: This weekend I wired up two additional platforms that I’m syndicating to. I’m now sharing to …
: In Paul Jarvis Sunday Dispatch today he highlights how he disagrees with the assumption in …
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Family movie night, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. Fun movie. Very similar to the first one. …
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Mazie took this hilarious photo of Lucky today. Love it. 🤣
: We found another use for the leaf blower today! 🛹💨
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We had delicious pizza from Pizzeria 201 at their pop up spot by 10,000 Drops in Faribault tonight. …
: It was great to see the current ACE Leadership class present at todays MnTech Board meeting. They …
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Mississippi River Lowered
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has lowered the Mississippi River by 12 feet to inspect locks and …
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I upgraded the video conferencing setup in my home office. Setup a studio light that I’ve had for …
: Government Websites Should be Surveillance Free Excuse me while I vent for a moment. Today I tried to visit the State of Minnesota COVID-19 resource …
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Brandi Carlile’s Campfire Singalong
Streaming Brandi Carlile’s Campfire Singalong. Love the intimate feel, like joining them for a jam …
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Happy Birthday to my amazing, awesome, and astounding Mom! 🎉 I would literally be nothing without …
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Dancing Bear Chocolate
First time visit to Dancing Bear Chocolate to get treats for my Mom’s birthday. They also made a …
: Cocktail Emoji Triples I was texting recently and wanted to reference an Old Fashioned and it dawned on me that there was a …
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Voted! ✅
I prefer voting by mail. We get the kids involved. We can do research on the smaller down …
: It took 6 months for COVID-19 to go from the March lockdowns to the White House. COVID-19 is still …
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The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history.
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Hit a new 30-min PR and passed 400 kJ of output in Irène Sholz EDM Ride. 402 kJ, +8 over previous …
September 2020
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Had a great evening with a couple of friends sitting around the fire, drinking an Old Fashioned or …
: I enjoy Dense Discovery and the variety of topics that Kai brings to the newsletter. It was an easy …
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A “twofer” of geeky humor in one shirt. Stay at home, wear a mask.🤓
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Finished a much needed organizing and upgrading of my home office setup. This is working much better …
: Amazon’s marketing strategy with Ring seems to be: Make you worry about something you weren’t …
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Delicious plate of tomatoes grown by our old neighbor. 🍅
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Enjoying this home brew Belgian Witbier with Coriander and Orange Peel that my friend Garrick gave …
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Hit a new 60-min PR in Matt Wilpers Power Zone Endurance Ride this morning! 653 kJ, a 10% jump over …
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Mazie cross country meet today In Chanhassen. Running 5k. 👏
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Sous Vides Brisket
Trying Sous Vides brisket for the first time. Trimmed down the flat. Simple salt and pepper. Texas …
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Tyler defeated Monk Maz Koshia and got the Master Cycle Zero in Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It is …
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First time we’ve had a full unplanned Xfinity service outage during remote work and school. Switched …
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Rosalia
A few days ago we happened to go to Rosalia on their very first night open to the public. Rosalia is …
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My Octopus Teacher
We enjoyed watching My Octopus Teacher tonight. It is a touching story capturing the year that Craig …
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Hit a new 45-minute PR on Peloton this morning in Jenn Sherman’s class. 553 kJ. Not sure about Yacht …
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Updating firmware is one of my favorite things. 🤓 Updating the new IntelliConnect.
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The hand washing feature in watchOS 7 seemed a bit silly but I turned it on and I’ve actually liked …
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I have wanted folders in Shortcuts since it was called Workflow. It is a huge help to have that in …
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iOS 14 is sharing an insight with me that it is using more battery. Neat insight, how about a fix? 😬
: Saddened to hear of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She has been a historic justice on the Supreme …
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The final thing we needed to do for our pool project was replace the septic system at our cabin. I …
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Slalom Presents: Realizing Racial Equity
Many thanks to Slalom Consulting for their Slalom Presents: Realizing Racial Equality program. …
: Last night as we were getting ready to go to sleep I noticed that a helicopter had been circling …
: It was great to be on a panel today as part of Twin Cities Startup Week talking about Managing …
: Two Second Test I spent a lot of my career in media and publishing on the web. During that time one of the things …
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Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
Before leaving the Lanesboro area we stopped at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center and did a …
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Orchards aren’t doing U-pick this year but Honeycrisp Apples are ready. We got some apples and …
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Root River Trail, Lanesboro to Peterson
Tammy and I had a great 28 mile out-and-back ride on the Root River Trail today. We went east from …
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Lanesboro is a great central location on the Root River Trail to explore a variety of different …
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Picture stop at the Lanesboro Dam, built in 1868. Long exposures taken with Spectre.
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We took a morning walk around Lanesboro. It had just finished raining and everything looked nice and …
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Habberstad House Bed & Breakfast
Tammy and I are spending the weekend in Lanesboro and staying at the wonderful Habberstad House Bed …
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First Day of School
Today was the first day of school. First day of school during a pandemic. First day of school via …
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Mulan via Disney+
We watched Mulan tonight on Disney+ with Premier Access. The movie was great. None of us had seen …
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Lucky got shaved down at the groomer today. She had too many mats in her fur. She looks way …
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Family movie tonight, National Treasure. Tyler’s pick. Fun story. 🍿
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Nice lunch today at Keepsake Cidery outside of Northfield. They have a great selection of ciders, …
: Some serious weather rolling through Cannon Lake tonight. Constant lightning. Heavy rain and …
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Mighty Fine Coffee
Stopped by Mighty Fine Coffee today to check out the newest coffee option in Faribault. Met the two …
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Heather’s in South Minneapolis has quickly become a family favorite for dinner out on their large …
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Kayaking the Crow River
After our morning bike ride Tammy and I continued our day of fun and adventure with a late afternoon …
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Ride the Dakota Rail Regional Trail
With the kids away with their cousin for a couple of days, I cleared my calendar and Tammy and I …
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Tammy and I finally watched A Star is Born. We both enjoyed it. Great acting. Music was of course …
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Martina’s New Patio
Tonight Tammy and I went to one of our favorite restaurants in town, Martina. We were excited to see …
August 2020
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Thumbs Cookies were a perfect snack at the end of a long bike ride. Their KIRBY mobile unit was in …
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Tammy and I had a perfect night for a gorgeous 15 mile ride around the the chain of lakes.
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Lucky is 8 months old today. She looks so small in her 3 month photos now. She also has this …
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I took my Yama Cold Brew Tower out for the first time in a long time today and was reminded how …
: Potential Zoom feature: Autopilot When autopilot is on the Zoom client will automatically leave …
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Got a new 45 minute PR this morning in Sam Yo’s class! 122 out of 1,443 riders live. 523 kJ total …
: Just finished an interview with tech.mn Jac Stark and Livefront Nels Pederson for their CTO …
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FC Bayern Münich celebrating their Champions League title! Great game! Nueur: “A human brick wall.” …
: Kayaking Pokegama and the Mississippi We spent the morning kayaking down the Mississippi. We put in at Tioga Beach on Pokegama Lake, then …
: These lanterns are very fun to watch fly. This one soared high above Pokegama Lake.
: I came up with a new tag line for canoes: Canoes, what 100 years of innovation left behind. I’m not …
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Enjoying a Lift Bridge Mango Blonde from my brothers dock on Pokegama Lake. 👍🍻
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Discovered the Planters Nutmobile in our neighborhood on our evening walk tonight! Will be curious …
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Just barely put up another PR this morning in Kendall Toole’s Metal Ride. 394 kJ (+1 over previous). …
: Oddball at REM5VR A couple weeks back we got to try REM5VR’s newest arena experience, Oddball. it is a VR version of …
: I’ve made 71 loans on Kiva over the years and just setup Monthly Good that automatically funds …
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No fairs so this Pronto Pup stand has been open on the side of Highway 60 this summer. I stopped for …
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Hit a new 30-minute spin PR this morning! 393 kJ (+11 from previous). #FitByFIfty
: This graph speaks volumes about the impact to society from the pandemic.
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Very strong storm woke me and the dog up. Lots of thunder and lightning. Tripped the power. Pea …
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Double rainbow in Yellowstone National Park. 🌈🌈
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Coronavirus maps via the New York Times.
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Waited for a break in the rain to fire up the flat top and make smash burgers! Yum! 🤤🍔
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Montgomery Brewing Hop Junkies Pineapple IPA tonight. Very good. Notable pineapple flavor. 🍺
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Small but very intense storm coming through. Major thunder cracks. ⚡️⛈
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Minneapolis Public Schools phased approach to managing COVID-19.
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Mazie’s garden is thriving, and now it has an official placard. She has a real knack for gardening, …
: Yellowstone 2020 Index RV spots: 5 Vehicles rented: 2 Miles driven: 2,721 on the RV Total cost of gasoline: $774.03 …
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This is one of the oddest places I’ve had to deal with a hornets nest. 😬
: Awesome win by MNUFC over San Jose tonight! On to the semifinals against Orlando! ⚽️🙌
July 2020
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Most terrifying thing about renting the RV? Taking it to the truck wash before returning it and …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 13, Thursday Long drive home! Go through Mankato and have pizza at Dino’s Pizzeria! Arrive home 7:00pm. 2 hours …
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Today is our final stretch with a 593 mile drive back to Minneapolis! We’ve had an awesome …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 12, Wednesday Weather: Cool morning. Feels like rain. Mt. Rushmore Crazy horse Chuck wagon dinner
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Family selfie at Mt. Rushmore!
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We pulled into the Palmer Gulch KOA last night and got setup. Checking it out this morning and this …
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Enjoyed a beautiful drive through the Shoshone National Forest today on our way from Jackson, WY to …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 11, Tuesday Weather: Rain! Cool! Rain stopped after first hour or so and then pleasant driving weather Breakfast …
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We had delicious takeout burgers from Grazer’s in Newcastle, WY just before entering South Dakota!
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Going to be covering over 470 miles today. Leaving Jackson, WY and checking in at Mt. Rushmore KOA …
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It was cloudy tonight but Wyoming Stargazing still got us out to see some cool stuff. Here is the …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 10, Monday Weather: Clear and Sunny, Warm. Cloudy into the evening. Tyler and Mazie met and hung out with Nola …
: Hidden Falls by Jenny Lake in Grand Tetons National Park. This may be my favorite waterfall ever.
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Grand Tetons. Mt. Moran from Oxbow Bend.
: Yellowstone Log: Day 9, Sunday Weather: cool in morning. Warm and pleasant rest of day. Got up at 5a to do wildlife tour with Bush …
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Afternoon ice cream from Jackson Drug in Jackson, WY.
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Facial recognition doesn’t stand a chance with my pandemic vacation wear.
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Tyler got the Collectors Edition Yellowstone Monopoly while in Yellowstone, and then played it a bit …
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We had a nice (socially distanced) walk along the Snake River / Emily Stevens Park in Jackson, WY …
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We played the Camp board game last night for the first time. Fun RV game. Good game that can be …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 8, Saturday Weather: great, clear, mid-70s Left West Yellowstone KOA. Returned rental car. Stopped at Lewis …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 7, Friday Weather: mid 70s. Nice. breakfast in RV Gibbon Falls North Rim of Grand Canyon of Yellowstone River …
: The KOA that we are at has no WiFi and no cellular signal. We’ve been offline for 3 days except for …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 6, Thursday Weather: started out rain/drizzle. Cleared up and was great day. Up early! Fly fishing Lunch at golf …
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We all had a great morning fly fishing on the Gallatin River! Tammy caught 2 trout, Tyler got a …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 5, Wednesday Weather: lovely day Lower Geyser Basin Grand Prismatic Spring Biscuit Basin Mammoth Springs …
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Afternoon ice cream stop in Gardiner, MT at the Yellowstone North Entrance. 🍦
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Pulled into West Yellowstone KOA last night. Gorgeous drive here. They are not famous for their …
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Current news from Ennis,MT. 🎣
: Short video tubing down the Madison River.
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I’m sure that there are people that can look cool with a GoPro attached to their forehead. However, …
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We had a fabulous afternoon tubing down the Madison River today outside of Bozeman, MT. We went with …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 4, Tuesday Weather: beautiful day breakfast at wild crumb Return to schnee’s Lunch in RV Tubing down Madison …
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We had a great dinner outside (pandemic!) at MAP Brewing last night. Perfect weather overlooking a …
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It was 2005 when Tammy first stumbled upon EarthRoamer and I instantly went down that “rabbit hole.” …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 3, Monday Weather: beautiful day breakfast in RV Morning hike with lamas lunch on trail ice cream at sweet …
: Successfully managed the emptying of the grey water and black water tanks in the RV. Feels like this …
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Photos of us and our llamas as we get ready for our hike with Montana Llama Guides! 🦙
Tyler and …
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Afternoon ice cream at Sweet Peaks in Bozeman! Yeti Tracks, Mountain Mint, Bear Scat, 10 Year …
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Hanging out with Llamas this morning with Montana Llama Guides. 🦙
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
We spent the night in Medora last night and before heading out on our way to Bozeman we decided to …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 2, Sunday Weather: lovely day started day with breakfast in the RV Went to teddy rosevelt national park Spent …
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417 miles on tap for today. Final of long drive days to get to Yellowstone area. Filling gas at …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 1, Saturday Weather: hot and humid in mpls, weather much better in Medora Getting on the road after stop at the …
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Stopped to take pictures with Salem Sue! In New Salem, ND.
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Today’s task. Next turn in 396 miles. 😊🛣
: RV Learning: Mind the Main Power Switch! We’ve had our first mis-hap of our Yellowstone Road Trip and we haven’t even left the driveway yet! …
: Yellowstone Log: Day 0, Friday Picked up the RV from Hilltop Rental. Loaded it with a bunch of stuff, half of which I’m guessing …
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Just picked up our 2020 Jayco Redhawk 22J from Hilltop Campers. We are getting it packed for our two …
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The Robbinsdale water tower may be more accurately described as a cell tower that happens to have …
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The knife ceiling at Travail catches your attention. 🔪
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Travail Rooftop Patio Cantina
Tammy and I went to the opening night of Travail’s Kitchen and Amusements Rooftop service tonight. …
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Lucky got her first grooming today. She looks a little strange but is very fluffy. This was a …
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Tammy and I enjoyed Self Made on Netflix. Very good four-part series on Madam C.J. Walker and the …
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We went to Heather’s for the first time tonight. They have an amazing outdoor patio and the weather …
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Coronavirus spread via New York Times Morning Briefing.
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My fire table got hooked up to the gas line today. I love it! 🔥🤩
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New 45-minute PR on Peloton tonight! 506 kJ v 486 kJ. Plus hit 2,000 minutes in 2020! #FitByFifty
: Congrats to Minnesota United FC in defeating Sporting KC in Stage 1 of the MLS is Back Tournament! …
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Watched American Experience: Fatal Flood this evening. I didn’t know the history of the Great …
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Family bike ride with Dairy Queen in the middle! 🍦🚴🏼♂️🚴♀️🚴🏼♂️🚴♀️
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Last night we enjoyed Dennis Watkin’s Magic Parlour at Home show. We’ve seen his amazing magic in …
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Delicious pork butts on the Big Green Egg! 🤤🔥🐖
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This Warpigs Foggy Geezer Hazy IPA is one of the coolest looking cans of beer I’ve seen. 🍺
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I got my Peloton Century Club shirt yesterday! Like it!
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Very impressed with Decadent Saint Ultimate Mixer! Just add water and it’s a delicious refreshing …
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We capped off #TeamSPS TechJam 2020 with a keynote from Casey Rosenthal on resilient systems and the …
: Jim Crow of the North Tammy and I watched Minnesota Experience: Jim Crow of the North tonight. It was incredibly eye …
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Love the enthusiasm and passion that Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is sharing with #TeamSPS during TechJam! …
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SPS TechJam 2020
Today we kick off #TeamSPS TechJam 2020! We have 31 presenters leading sessions that “follow the …
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Cloud and Light on Cannon Lake.
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Family bike ride on Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail to Dairy Queen and back. Perfect 10 mile ride! …
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I dropped my iPhone in the water yesterday and when I went to charge it last night I got this …
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Want corn knee-high by the Fourth of July? What does it mean when it’s over your head by the Fourth …
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Made a short trip to Montgomery, MN tonight to get some delicious beer from Montgomery Brewing and …
: The fireworks on Cannon Lake were even more amazing than usual this year. Our neighbor launched more …
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Hanging out in the pool watching fireworks overhead is pretty amazing. 😊💥
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Happy 4th of July everyone — in fruit pizza! 🇺🇸💥
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Pork butts done with their journey and time to shred. Thank you Big Green Egg and Sous Vides for the …
: 30 seconds of Big Green Egg Zen Smoke for your viewing and relaxing pleasure. 🔥
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Pork Butts out of the Sous Vides baths and now onto the Big Green Egg for 3 hours of smoke! 🔥
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We tried Grandpa’s Ice Cream in Fridley for the first time today. Great flavors. The people were …
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4th of July barbecue prep started today. Rubbed two nice pork butts and ready for Sous Vides baths …
June 2020
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Started reading The Bullet Journal Method. Recommended by Dan Grigsby to give it a full read versus …
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Our whole family was excited to hear that Arcade1Up is coming out with Ms. PAC-MAN! We will be …
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I was in Google Street View today and was surprised to see that it had a picture of our house before …
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Lucky had her 6-month birthday today! She is 42 lbs now, and is still very much a puppy, but calming …
: I’m getting even more excited about our upcoming RV road trip to Yellowstone National Park! It is …
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I’m not very handy, so I get disproportionately excited when I do complete little home projects. New …
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The southwest dogleg of Cannon Lake is already extremely weedy with a lot of floating algae. The …
: Email from our daughters high school: “Due to budget cuts, the number of counselors serving Washburn …
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We had a great backyard guitar performance tonight. 🎸
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New 30-minute PR this morning! 378 kJ (+2 from previous). 39% of the time anaerobic! 🚴🏼♂️ …
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This is bad. There are states safely reopening. Others should be following their lead. 😷
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Tammy and I had dinner on the patio at Italian Eatery tonight. It was the first time we ate at a …
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Mazie is growing some peppers, Brussels, herbs, and other food in a raised garden bed this summer. …
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Galaga was one of my favorite arcade games back in the day. I got this awesome Quarter Arcade Galaga …
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I’m one lucky guy to get to celebrate Father’s Day with these two awesome kids and my wonderful …
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We had a great day yesterday with my stepdad Bruce, sister Alona, and nephew Garrett! The kids had a …
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Picking strawberries at Straight River Farms this morning. 🍓
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We commemorated Juneteenth today by getting dinner from two Black-owned businesses. Main course from …
: At Milton’s Vittles, Vino, and Beer to pickup dinner and things are very busy. I think the various …
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Game of Life with the kids tonight. 🎲
Dad: $2,710,100
Tyler: $5,000,000
Mazie: $3,300,000
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Hit a new 30-min PR spinning this morning. 376 kJ, +10 kJ over previous PR. 🙌 #FitByFifty
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We visited Minneopa State Park today and I can’t believe I haven’t seen these falls before. …
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Cracked the plate setter on my Big Green Egg but was able to position it to still hold the grid up. …
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I hit my Century Ride on Peloton today! Did my 100th ride with Ally Love’s 30-min 90s Ride. …
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We had BarrkArt Fencing come and fence in our back yard so Lucky can have a space to run around. …
: What books are on my office book shelf? I recently shared a selfie from my office and a friend emailed me to ask what books I had on the …
: Distribution Center Simulation I was able to participate in one of the first run-throughs of our new Distribution Center …
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Gorgeous blue sky in downtown Minneapolis today.
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Today was my first day in the office in 85 days. It is very quiet! Devices updated, password …
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We all watched The Secret Life of Bee’s tonight.
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George Floyd’s memorial service was today and broadcast live. Tammy and I watched the entire …
: Refusing to Amplify is not Censorship Recently Twitter made the decision to tag some of President Trump’s tweets as incorrect and limit …
: Thoughts on Recent Events Last week George Floyd was killed in a sequence of events that never would have happened to a white …
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Brandi Carlile celebrated her 39th birthday with a streaming concert from her home. It was great, …
: A lot of people and small businesses are going to need our help recovering and rebuilding along Lake …
May 2020
: Dragon docking with the International Space Station Watching the Dragon capsule slowly approaching the International Space Station. The space station …
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An amazing milestone with Falcon 9 successfully launching two astronauts on the way to the …
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Every time the NASA and SpaceX commentators refer to Bob and Doug, the astronauts flying today, I …
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NASA and SpaceX are cleared for launch. We are all watching to see history being made! 🚀
: There are a lot of complicated things that I understand very well, however the impact holidays have …
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I wanted to keep my #FitByFifty objective very front and center for me throughout the day. I created …
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I am excited to try out Omni Automation inside of OmniFocus! I’ve automated OmniFocus for years with …
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Tammy unlocked a perfect pandemic evening for us last night. First, get a bottle of a beverage of …
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Bummer that the SpaceX / NASA launch is scrubbed for today. Next time! The control panel of the …
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I hit a new 30-min PR doing Jess King’s House Ride tonight. I pushed hard, the music was great. …
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We watched The Biggest Little Farm tonight. This was part of a school assignment Mazie had to watch …
: I made Sous Vide burgers tonight. I have wanted to try these for a long time since everything else …
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Working through my first pool “issue”. The Saltwater Chlorine Generator was set too low (6%) while …
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I don’t seem to ever get tired of looking at meat smoking on the Big Green Egg. Surly Hell is going …
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Little snippet of an in-process project. Fun watching this take shape.
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Heavy fog on Cannon Lake at sunrise.
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Grateful to get to watch live Bundesliga with Bayern v Frankfurt today. It is very strange though …
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Tyler has gotten to Calamity Ganon in Legend of Zelda. Super difficult stage. He’s not going to …
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Another visit to the Backyard Pandemic Barbershop! Learned tonight that the leaf blower works really …
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Hit a new 30-minute PR this morning on my Peloton Bike! Felt great too! #FitByFifty
: Minnesota State Fair is officially cancelled for 2020 due to Covid-19. That seemed like the only …
: 2020 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony It was great to attend the Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony tonight held online. …
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Solid climbing intervals in this morning’s 30-minute spin workout. I like how the charts look. 📈 …
: Who do I want to be during Covid-19? From Post Corona: The Cosmic Opportunity.
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Super excited to be watching live Bundesliga play with Union Berlin v Bayern! While there are no …
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Had to go out and raise the Sea Legs up a foot and adjust the pontoon cover poles in the middle of …
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We enjoyed a nice short hike to the Hidden Falls at Nerstrand Big Woods State Park today. It was our …
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This graph of DNS requests by client at our cabin is a good example of how metadata and privacy …
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Time to smoke another pork shoulder! Big Green Egg charcoal with chunks of Hickory. 🔥
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Tammy has coined the name “European Picnic” for what has become one of our favorite family lunches. …
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Happy 23rd Birthday BigCharts!
On this day, 23 years ago, we launched BigCharts.com. The time before and after that was fun, …
: Micro.blog added a Custom 404 Page feature. I had sent Manton a note asking for this feature just a …
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Such a pleasant evening on Cannon Lake tonight.
: Economic Club of Minnesota “Our Economy and Health in Crisis” I was able to attend the Economic Club of Minnesota’s webinar today on “Our Economy and Health in …
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We made the jump to an electric lawn mover tonight. We bought the 21" Self-Propelled EGO Power+ from …
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Nice spin session on Peloton this morning, 30-min Rock & Roll class with Emma Lovewell! Geeky fun …
: All data that I have read points to this pandemic lasting for a long time. “The World Health …
: Great Season 40 of Survivor “Winners at War”. I wanted Natalie to win though. Tony played a strong …
: “The average number of passengers on a commercial flight within the U.S. right now: just 23. Every …
: Just upgraded one of my Pi-Hole servers to v5.0! All went completely smooth. The new group filtering …
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Lake & Irving is one of our favorite restaurants and they re-opened last week with a limited takeout …
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Family was craving for some Pavarotti ice cream tonight so Tyler and I made a stop at Sebastian …
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Happy Mother’s Day to my amazing wife Tammy! She is the center of our family. 💕 Our very first …
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A very Happy Mother’s Day to my Mom, and to all the Mom’s out there!
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Just wrapped up my first attempt at doing pulled pork using the Sous Vide. I started the Sous Vide …
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Transferred the pork butt to the Big Green Egg after 20 hours in Sous Vide. Time for the finish …
: A good newsletter is usually: Consistent in frequency Consistent in format Endlessly repeatable with …
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First Peloton FTP Test
I did my first Functional Threshold Power test today. This is a good way to measure my fitness …
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First time doing a pork butt using Sous Vide. Pork will cook at 165 in the water bath for 20 hours …
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I am so excited to hear that Bundesliga is resuming the season! Tyler and I will be cheering for …
: Tracking Pre-meal and Post-meal Hunger Level I’ve been tracking my food using Ate. One of my favorite features in Ate is that you can setup …
: The Importance, Accessibility, and Inclusivity of Connecting Online We have all shifted quickly to online platforms for many of our interactions. It is easy to see some …
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Playing with mPaceline to see longer term trends in my Peloton bike work. Love this graph showing …
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Lemon Drop Martinis for Cinco de Mayo! 🇲🇽 🍋 🍸
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The graphs that mPaceline makes from your Peloton bike rides are pretty impressive. I am looking for …
: The Tetris Shower that we did over a decade ago is still one of my favorite home projects we’ve …
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Boat Day! Beautiful morning to get the pontoon from storage. Heading up Cannon River to Wells Lake …
: Importing Jekyll site to micro.blog I successfully migrated my blog archive from Jekyll to micro.blog. I haven’t seen much written about …
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Pandemic backyard barbershop tonight. Tammy did the honors. Number 1 plus. High and tight. USMC …
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Tammy and the kids are so awesome — May Day baskets queued up for delivery to friends and family! 💐
April 2020
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Numskull Ms. PAC-MAN
Tammy loves Ms. PAC-MAN so we got her this Quarter Arcade version for her birthday. It is a perfect …
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My Defiant One Fat Bike still puts a big smile on my face.
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I was explaining TV dinners to my kids and the whole concept made no sense to them. I told them my …
: Wasn’t expecting or trying, but surprised myself with a new 20-min spinning PR this morning on …
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Our new office space in Kyiv, Ukraine is coming along nicely and will be ready for #TeamSPS when we …
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We all watched Strike tonight. Fun and a little odd movie. Reminded us a little bit of Fantastic Mr. …
: We got takeout from Zetta’s tonight and thoroughly enjoyed the “somewhat original flatbread …
: Extreme Sandbox Heavy Metal Drive-Thru We joined my sister and her family for the Extreme Sandbox Heavy Metal Drive-Thru tonight. We had a …
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Anderson Center Sculpture Garden
We visited the Anderson Center Sculpture Garden today in Red Wing. First time we had been there and …
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We had a nice easy hike along the Cannon River by Red Wing today. We also got delicious pizza at Red …
: Another great Peloton spin class with fellow #TeamSPS members this morning — 30 min 80s Rock Ride! …
: It turns out micro.blog is a pretty excellent live blogging solution. If you use the website you can …
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(mini) Minnebar
Attending (mini) Minnebar this morning, the very first online Minnebar! It is awesome to see …
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SPS Commerce Celebrates 10th Anniversary as Public Company
Yesterday #TeamSPS celebrated our 10th anniversary of going public on the NASDAQ. To celebrate team …
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We weren’t able to get our backyard fencing completed before we got Lucky, so we have erected this …
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Lucky figuring out how to stand on her hind legs and look out the window.
: Tammy is on FaceTime call with sister. Mazie is on Zoom call with Piano teacher. Tyler is on …
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First smash burgers of the year! Delicious. 🍔
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Clouds blowing through quick on a blustery day. Soon the leaves will be popping.
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Riding with #TeamSPS Peloton spinners I got a new 30 minute PR (343 kj) this morning! 💥🚴🏼♂️ …
: Suggestions for importing Jekyll blog to micro.blog? Micro.blog community: I need to migrate about 8,000 blog posts from a Jekyll site to micro.blog. …
: Just realized that other than taking Lucky for walks, I haven’t left the house since Sunday …
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Playing bartender at home. Strawberry Margaritas. 🍸
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Family selfie wearing our custom masks with swappable HEPA filters made by my Mom! 😷🧵
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Fun working from home upside — kids made waffles this morning and delivered a stack to me to enjoy! …
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The climbing jntervals in today’s spin class were epic. Whew. #FitByFifty
: 22,034,000 unemployment claims. The orange highlight is data, not the edge of the image.
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Osmo Coding Duo
Osmo was running a sale recently and I decided to fill out our collection. We got the Hot Wheels™ …
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What do you do when your new puppy figures out how to jump on the couch? 🤷🏼♂️
: Had a great 30 minute spin class on Peloton this morning. #FitByFifty
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As great as yesterday’s weather 🌤 was, that is how not great today’s weather 💨🌧 is. Brrr! 🥶
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We took Lucky on a walk that was just too long for her puppy stamina yesterday so I had to carry her …
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Awesome pictures of Lucky (3 months old) that Tammy took yesterday. She’s such a cute puppy!
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I liked the privacy and security benefits of having a Pi-Hole at home so much that I decided to put …
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Warsaw Business's Customer Appreciation Parade
What can a small township in Minnesota do to bring some cheer to people during the Pandemic …
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Gorgeous day — enjoying some time outside with a fire! 🔥
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We have most of the Osmo games, and today we got Osmo Hot Wheels™ MindRacers. Kids and adults are …
: Got a strong reminder that you should not do a Spin class 10 minutes after eating dinner. 😬 …
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High quality mid-day espresso is a nice upside of working from home. ☕️
: Getting delicious takeout empanadas from Boludo tonight. They seem to be thriving with a ton of …
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Our kids are doing REM5VR Youth Innovation Lab PLUS. I’m impressed with the content, and they are …
: I find it interesting that my Pi-hole blocks 10-20% of DNS requests made when nobody is home. …
: Inspiring State of the State from Gov. Tim Walz tonight. Thank you. #StayHomeMN #OneMinnesota
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We are in the middle of doing Get Knit’s “Stay at home Scavenger Hunt” today! The whole family is …
: Would be pretty nifty to get a Zoom app for Tesla. 😁
: GTD practitioners, what project names have you created as we have fallen into this pandemic? I’ll …
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Great 30 min spin class on Peloton today! #FitByFifty
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With apologies to my regular barber Gene, I still need to keep it high & tight! Mazie and Tyler did …
March 2020
: My friend Mike Rock has picked up posting on his micro.blog (and Twitter by syndication). If your …
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Lucky at 3 months
Today is Lucky’s 3-month birthday, and the completion of her first week as part of our family. She …
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Candle Making, Take Two
I had a redo of candle making today. I messed up the first attempt. I did the fragrance all wrong …
: Did a great 45-minute spin class on Peloton today! #FitByFifty
: Sitting in our covered porch listening to it rain and thunder is one of my favorite things about …
: I set a new 20-min PR on Peloton today! 🙌 #FitByFifty
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It seems that Lucky enjoys reading the classics. 😂
: Awesome spin class on Peloton with Jess King in the new studio. Great EDM music. 30 min …
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We have a new dog! Lucky joined our family today! She’s our new Bernedoodle.
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Getting takeout from Tap Society! Delicious cheeseburgers and we need to support our local …
: I’ve “rebooted” my gratitude journal. 🙏 This may seem like the worst time possible to do that, but I …
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We watched A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood tonight. What a fabulous movie. Great performances as …
: Doing family voting process for potential dog names! Scout and Milo are at the top. Lucky, Cosmo, …
: Acts of Goodness I was able to spend some time this morning with my good friend Michael Rock on FaceTime over coffee. …
: Rapid Transitions: Edina Liquor This sales data is remarkable. From our municipal liquor store… Edina Liquor The three Edina Liquor …
: After three days of working from home my daughter (14) asks “Dad, when do you do your work? All you …
: I’ve been using my Peloton gear more and would like to have more connections there. If you are on …
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
: Donated to Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. Organizations like this are going to need to help a …
: We just did our first Family Fitness Challenge while we are staying inside more. Daily challenge for …
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Family movie last night was The BFG. Good family movie. 🎬
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Made my first try making candles. Wood wicks, soy wax. Pretty easy, but not a big fan of the scent I …
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Celebrating π Day! Chicken pot pie, followed with Chocolate Peanut Butter pie. All homemade! 🥧🤤
See …
: In this time of Covid-19 it would be a good gesture for Xfinity, AT&T, and other broadband and …
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I’m surprised the NY Times isn’t making an animated version of their Coronavirus maps available that …
: Currently noticing every single cough in the Orlando airport. 😷
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Focus for the rest of the week!
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2020! 👍 #IWD2020 #EachforEqual
See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 …
: Nice 5-2 MN United win over San Jose! 🙌⚽️
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Family movie night with Mr. Popper’s Penguins. 🎬
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The top blocked domain that my Pi-Hole is protecting me from every day is api.segment.io. That isn’t …
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International Women's Day 2020
We had a great event recognizing International Women’s Day at SPS Commerce. Great keynote and …
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Enjoying Tina Schlieske doing solo acoustic show at the 318 Cafe in Excelsior. 🎶
February 2020
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Well, that isn’t supposed to be there. 😤
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We had a lot of fun at REM5VR tonight! Beat Saber was my favorite. 🎮
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I’m having a fun time with the Pi-Hole just to see the volume of DNS activity on my home network! …
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After the Tech Talent event today John Avenson, VP of Technology for the Minnesota Twins, took a …
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MHTA Tech Talent 2020
Learned a lot this morning at the MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event! A wealth of data from Grant Riewe, …
: Maybe taking your blood pressure a couple hours after “breakfast for dinner” with bacon isn’t a …
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Configuring my Raspbery Pi 3B+ with Pi-Hole! 🤓
Pi-Hole up and running! Easy to setup. 👍
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I find the Feb 22nd 2020 cover of The Economist so perfect. I love the imagery of these cybernetic …
: Wow — Pythonista 3 finally got an upgrade to some of the newest iOS features! And release notes make …
: Mimi Uploader may fundamentally change how I use micro.blog. It makes it much more compelling for …
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Ticket to Ride Japan
Our family enjoys playing Ticket to Ride and we have some of the expansion packs. When I saw the new …
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Playing some Skittles this morning.
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Grilling cheeseburgers like it’s summer! 🔥🍔❄️
: Just ordered a Raspberry Pi 3B+ so that I can finally setup a Pi-Hole server at home!
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Small and intimate concert with Matt Wilson and his Orchestra at the 318 Cafe in Excelsior. 🎶
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Watched Ford v Ferrari tonight. Loved it. Great story, acting, and action. 🎬
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Thawing out the Big Green Egg so I can make dinner! Frozen shut! ❄️🔥
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Brandi Carlile opened the new Fillmore Minneapolis tonight with an amazing sold-out acoustic …
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Courtney Marie Andrews did an amazing opening set for Brandi Carlile. Check her out! 🎶
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Family selfie at the Fillmore Minneapolis!
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The chandeliers at the Fillmore Minneapolis are a classy touch.
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Excited for opening night at the Fillmore Minneapolis with acoustic set from Brandi Carlile! 🎶
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Impressive progress in Minneapolis development shared at the Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual …
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Great to see Jeremy Messersmith playing at the Minneapolis Downtown Council annual meeting!
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Grateful to be able to partake in the Annual Meeting of the Minneapolis Downtown Council!
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Minnesota Wild v Colorado Avalanche
Minnesota Wild v Colorado Avalanche tonight! Go Wild! 🏒
Family selfie at Minnesota Wild game! Go …
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There was so much excitement and energy at the 25 different stations of the #TeamSPS Product & …
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Went to Jojo Rabbit tonight. Great movie, hard to explain. Go see it. 🎬
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Excited for #TeamSPS Sales Kick-Off 2020!
: Impressive Super Bowl and congratulations to the Kansas City and the Chiefs! Some excellent …
: LEGO Masters could be a really fun show.
: Good first half for Super Bowl LIV. 🏈 Cheering for the Chiefs!
January 2020
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Tech Summit 2020
We’ve had a great first-half for our #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2020! 🙌 Streaming live to all locations …
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We had a lot of fun at Twins Fest today. It was our first time going. Lots of lines, and definitely …
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The dentist let me check out the machine that milled my crown from a block of porcelain. The 3D …
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We saw Tina Schlieske at the Aster Cafe tonight. Intimate evening of new material. Unfortunately had …
: Just queued up the first issue of my Weekly Thing newsletter that will go out via Buttondown! I’m …
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A bunch of #TeamSPS volunteered to demo multiple rooms at Erik’s Ranch & Retreats as they get ready …
: Easiest way to make customers not feel valued? Address communication with “Dear Valued Customer”. 😏
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Outdoor fun at Central Park Ice Skating Loop. ⛸
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We took turns hitting a couple hundred balls at Batting Cages of Minnesota. ⚾️
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We had a great time at the Mediterranean Small Plates class at Kitchen Window. It was the first …
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Just finished Season 2 of Succession! Some awesome TV. Can’t wait for Season 3!
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We went to Parasite tonight. Wikipedia calls it a “black comedy drama thriller”. Very original …
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Went to Spies in Disguise today. Pretty fun movie. 👍🎬
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We had a fun time at Puzzleworks today. Attempted the Vault and didn’t get it done, but it’s also …
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Lasagna assembly, before and after. 👨🍳🇮🇹
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My glass fusing is ready to be fired.
: Driving north on I-35 and clearly this car didn’t see us at all.
December 2019
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Put together one of the boards on the Pinbox 3000 the kids got for me. The action is surprisingly …
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Watched The Peanut Butter Falcon. Very good movie. Great story. 🎬
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Trial run for my new crêpe maker this morning. Tried to get my French on as much as possible! Crêpe …
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Went to Little Women. Mazie loved the costumes and everyone enjoyed the story. 🎬
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Watched Toy Story 4. It was a great end to such a ground breaking and well told story. 🎬
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Enjoying Trekking The National Parks, new board game! Great for family and very fun that it is about …
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Getting some final Christmas movies in for the season. Watched Klaus! Great story, good movie.
: Just got Tesla 2019.40.50.1 installed. This looks like a big update! Need some time tomorrow to go …
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The kids made a periodic table of me! So great! 🤩
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Have a very Merry Christmas!
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Got my BUG-A-SALT 2.0 for Christmas! Bring it on houseflies! Salt spray pattern on tinfoil is pretty …
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Enjoying Home Free “Dive Bar Christmas Tour” at Mankato Civic Center! 🎶
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Big crowd at Dino’s Pizzeria in Mankato tonight! Delicious pizza! 🍕
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Cocktails at The Block. The Basic Blueberry and Craft & Crew Old Fashioned. 🥃
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Tammy and I went to Knives Out tonight. Great “whodunit”. 🎬
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St. Paul Union Station looks great for Christmas! 🎄
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I greatly enjoyed the European Christmas Market in St. Paul! I even bought two of the Herrnhut Stars …
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We had fun doing a few rounds of lawn bowling inside at Pinstripes today. The lanes are too fast …
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You could tell a thousand stories, probably more, from this graph in the Economist “The strange …
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We tried a new way of having #TeamSPS members from other locations present at our All Hands meeting …
: How is it possible that LEGO and Pokémon haven’t created a collection of kits? People would buy them …
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Holiday movies — watched Christmas With the Kranks. Pretty funny! 🎄🎬
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Cabin is decorated for Christmas now! Tree is cabin themed. Christmas at the lake is one of our …
: Just scheduled the final Weekly Thing of 2019 to go out tomorrow! Taking a break until mid-January. …
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Great #TeamSPS outing to play epic Whirleyball matches!
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Holidazzle
We went to Holidazzle for the first time in years and years. Last time we went it was still a …
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13th Annual New Standards Holiday Show
A Christmas tradition — the 13th Annual New Standards Holiday Show today! Great show with new and …
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We had a ton of fun solving the Nutcracker Nightmare room at Trapped Puzzle Rooms! Very fun puzzles, …
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Gingerbread Wonderland
Our first visit to the very impressive Gingerbread Wonderland at the Norway House. My vote for best …
: Getting my new 11” iPad Pro setup and I really like this size!
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I like to use emoji to bring fun to unexpected places on my devices. Command line prompts, OmniFocus …
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Technology is a team sport, and this is a great team. #TeamSPS 🏆
: It would be a fun trick for Mail on iOS to allow you to specify a Shortcut for your email signature, …
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Daily cyberweek standup as #TeamSPS prepares for another great day! 🙌
: This Vikings game has become embarrassing. 🏈😬
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Ready for an awesome Cyberweek #TeamSPS! 👍
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iPhone home screen, December 2019. I have a somewhat surprising number of text / writing / notes …
: Took advantage of Apple’s annual holiday sale to get some upgrades ordered! 🎁 New iMac and iPad Pro …
November 2019
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We made our first trip to see Winter in Bloom at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum tonight. The …
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Tammy gave the kids a lesson on crushing it in Ms. Pac-Man. 🎮🏆
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Went to Victoria Burrow for some mini-golf and arcade games. The mini-golf is really nice, but not …
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We went to the Excelsior Christkindlsmarkt Annual German Christmas Festival today. It was cold and …
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We went to Frozen II today and we all enjoyed it a lot! 🎬
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Family tradition to watch Elf the day after Thanksgiving! What a great movie! 🎬🎄
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Got the Christmas Tree up. I love the memories from the ornaments over the years. 🎄
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Got my Turkey Burn 2019 spin class in this morning! Spinning with over 16,000 people!
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This is my first year making the Thanksgiving Turkey. Looking good so far!
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From our family to yours — Have a Very Happy Thanksgiving!
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Watched The Art of Racing in the Rain tonight. Good movie. 🐕🏎🌧
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No fishin’ in the dark, but definitely grillin’ in the dark! Big Green Egg with some delicious …
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The Tesla Cybertruck is shocking, and looks awesome! Wow! Looks like a complete rethink. Love it! …
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Kyiv Photowalk
I spent the week in Kyiv, Ukraine visiting the SPS team there. I got to travel with three …
: Sounds great, and I’m having fun trying to virtually follow #KubeCon. Maybe next year I can join the …
: Great to see #TeamSPS wrapping up a fantastic trip to #KubeCon! It's incredibly hard to leave …
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International business travel and sleep don’t mix well. ✈️🥱
: On DL163 from AMS to MSP. One of the flight attendants is on her last flight as she retires with 43 …
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Avenger's: Endgame
Watched Avenger’s: Endgame on my flight. I think nearly all the Avengers movies I’ve seen have been …
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Wrapped up another great trip in Kyiv with #TeamSPS Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Time to head home! ✈️
: Kubernetes on jets? Neat! I have to say, I’m really blown away by the #DOD talk at #KubeCon! Really …
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Fantastic 2020 Growth Summit today with #TeamSPS in Kyiv! 🏆🙌🇺🇦
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I love this #TeamSPS created SPS Commerce logo art in our Kyiv office! 🇺🇦🤩
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Dan Juckniess, SPS SVP, Chief Sales Officer, sharing market and go-to-market wins with #TeamSPS in …
: Waiting to depart from Amsterdam to Kyiv on KL1385 and the pilot announced they were boarding two …
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At the Old Log Theatre for The Emporor’s New Clothes. 🎭
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We went to Piff The Magic Dragon tonight at The Fitzgerald. It was an odd and funny mix of magic and …
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Let’s go Wild! Wild v Coyotes tonight at Xcel Center! 🏒
Wild go ahead 2-1 over Coyotes after Parise …
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Afternoon workshop and training on Essential SAFe for our Technology and Product leaders! 🙌🏆 …
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Growth Summit 2020
Selfie with #TeamSPS before our 2020 Growth Summit! 🙌🤩🏆
We had a great time today at #TeamSPS …
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Our newest floor opened up in SPS Tower today! Great setup to enable #TeamSPS to continue winning. I …
: Congratulations to the Seattle Sounders FC for winning the 2019 MLS Cup! ⚽️🏆 Exciting game! Toronto …
: For the third time in four years we’ll be watching the Seattle Sounders play Toronto FC in the MLS …
: Missing James Whatley’s Five Things on Friday during its “odd hiatus” — looking forward to the …
: We went to the Children’s Theatre production of Cinderella today and were completely blown away by …
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Checked out the First Avenue special exhibit at the Minnesota History Center today. Loved the …
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We went to Keg & Case for the first time and had a fabulous market lunch!
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Impressively large US flag at Minneapolis VA Health Care System. 🇺🇸
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Timberwolves v Warriors
Ready for the Timberwolves v Golden State Warriors basketball game! 🏀
Family selfie from …
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Celebrating our daughters first year in Washburn Cross Country at the year-end banquet! 🎉
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Looks like we are a new show at the Brave New Workshop! 🤩
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Hitting balls at Batting Cages of Minnesota! ⚾️🙌
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Wits Reunion
At the Wits Reunion show at the Fitzgerald!
Enjoyed Open Mike Eagle at the Wits Reunion show …
: I think the noise cancelling in the AirPods Pro makes me nauseous. Wasn’t sure of cause the first …
: FC Bayern got a red card in the 10th minute?! 🔴 It’s going to be a long game. 😳⚽️
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Simple flank steak on Big Green Egg tonight with fire getting ready for later. 🔥
October 2019
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Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween! 🎃
: Initial impression of AirPods Pro: Charging case is larger, but still okay in pocket. They fit in …
: Has there ever been a 7-game World Series where the home team lost every game? ⚾️
: Game 7 of the World Series between Astros and Nationals is an absolute nail biter. Tyler and I are …
: Game 6 of the World Series is off to a very exciting start! 2-1 Astros at the bottom of the 1st! ⚾️
: My original AirPods were badly in need of replacement after going in the pool with me. Just ordered …
: First two games Nationals outscored Astro’s 17-7. Next three Astros outscored Nationals 19-3. 46 …
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I have long resisted adding technology to my Big Green Egg, holding that good BBQ is made with fire …
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Preparing the leaf pile. 🍂
Twenty six bags! 🍂😬
: Huge Grand Slam from Alex Bregman for the Astros. Wow! ⚾️ 8-1
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Great night for a campfire. 🔥
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I’ve gotten pretty expert at replacing the thermopile in this gas fireplace. 🔥🛠
: Finally the Astros win one in the World Series! 2-1 now. Tyler’s spirits are lifted with his team …
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At The Music Space of Owatonna for Matt Wilson & His Orchestra in the Event of the Century, the …
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Listening to Matt Arthur & the Bratlanders at The Music Space of Owatonna. Doing a Kris …
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Very proud of my daughter setting a new 5k personal record in her final cross country meet of the …
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I like this new feature in the Sanebox digest! Great to get “wisdom of the crowd” benefit. 👍
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Tammy and I enjoyed Cabal tonight, from the Walking Shadow Theatre Company. Billed as a “Play with …
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Mark O’Leary and I shared context and excitement with one of our teams as we continue our adoption …
: Game 2 of the World Series and there has already been so much action in the first inning! 💥 Tied …
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Michael Franti and Spearhead Concert
My Mom, Sister, and all of us went to the Michael Franti show tonight! Amazing show! 🎶
Concert was …
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We are kitted up and ready to cheer for the United in their first postseason game! Go Loons! ⚽️
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We had a fun quick trip to my brother’s place on Pokegama Lake. Too late to be on the water, but we …
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Some bowling today at Thunder Alley XL in Grand Rapids! I struggled more than I would like to admit …
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We checked out the US Army Corps of Engineers work at the Pokegama Lake Dam today, and did some …
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We had a fun evening watching Queen Machine in Grand Rapids on their first US tour! 🎶
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We had great pizza and equally great beer at Rapids Brewing Co. Some deliciously hoppy beers! 🍻
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We had a nice morning hiking around Golden Anniversary State Forest. The light and fall leaves were …
: After watching the Yankee’s school the Twins, I’m rather enjoying watching the Astro’s return the …
: Tammy and I thoroughly enjoyed Mike Birbiglia’s The New One tonight. Birbig’s is one of the funniest …
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Maple tree showing off its fall colors. 🍁
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Last time on the boat for 2019. Heading in to storage for the winter.
: Greatly enjoying Circus Abyssinia’s Ethiopian Dreams at the Children’s Theatre. 🤩🎭
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Noting that I may be the very last person on Cannon Lake to get my boat in for the winter, as an …
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Bad Weather Brewing
Weather was bad tonight, so went to Bad Weather Brewing for the first time. Great tap room! Very …
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Black Market StP
Took in Black Market StP barbecue with a bunch of my old neighbors. Great food, outside, with …
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Adrienne Peirce and I were honored to be recognized for 9 years as Founding Board Members of …
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Minnedemo tonight was absolutely fabulous. Such a great variety of demos! A couple apps I installed …
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Crowd queuing up for Minnedemo 33 at the Riverview Theater!
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Solid State from MHTA
Attending the premier of Solid State: Minnesota’s High Tech History hosted by MHTA.
Good panel …
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Minnesota Twins v. New York Yankees
Time for some baseball! ⚾️
Kepler! We need this! ⚾️
Cruz, you’re our only hope. 😬⚾️
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Flying the MN United flag but our cheering wasn’t enough to get the good guys the win over the …
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Mazie and I enjoyed some delicious Spinning Wylde gourmet cotton candy at Hack the Gap!
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I’m very happy that SPS Commerce and #TeamSPS are able to sponsor and volunteer at Hack the Gap …
: Tesla We made a quick stop today at a fairly busy store in South Minneapolis and when we got out I decided …
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Tyler and I ready to cheer on Bayern! Got the Bayern soccer cards out too. ⚽️ #FCBTSG
: Disappointing showing from Tottenham against Brighton this morning. ⚽️ 3-0 #BHATOT
: Sitting in the porch. Steady rain in the background. Porch heaters keeping it warm. Premier league …
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Did the first Jess King Live workout on Peloton tonight. Wiped me out! Wow. Live DJ takes the music …
September 2019
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This never gets old. Tesla Version 10 on the way! 🤓
: Great job Minnesota United taking LAFC to a 1-1 tie! 🙌 ⚽️
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Infratech Heaters
Had two Infratech heating units installed in porch to make Fall Baseball ⚾️ and Premier League ⚽️ …
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Mighty Mississippi at Wabasha, MN.
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The Nelson Stone Barn
We continued our farm food tour today with crazy good pizza from The Nelson Stone Barn! Long wait, …
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Together Farms
We drove out to Together Farms and had yummy cheeseburgers, Wisconsin Cheese Curds, and a beer! 🍔🍻
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Stockholm Pie Company
Pie for breakfast at Stockholm Pie Company. Delicious. 🥧
: It’s great to see OmniFocus with iOS 13 Features coming soon! I particularly like seeing some new …
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MN United v Sporting KC
First half of MN United v Sporting KC was tough to watch. United need to come out and connect some …
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First time using an Ava Robotics telepresence robot!
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Likely the last time in the pool for 2019!
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iOS 13 prompts for requesting location data are really good. This feels like you know what is really …
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Making my Mom’s Swedish Pancakes outside this morning. She did the batter, I’m doing the grill work. …
: Walked into the pool with my AirPods in my pocket. Oops. Hoping they come back to life tomorrow. 💦
: Saturday Morning Soccer Harry Kane’s goal while falling this morning was amazing! Brilliant! ⚽️🤩🙌 Go Spurs! 1-0 Premier …
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MN United v Real Salt Lake
Great first half for MN United v Real Salt Lake! ⚽️👍 1-1 Looking forward to shade in the 2nd half! 😓 …
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Perfect morning for Linden Hill’s Farmers Market.
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We watched Aladdin tonight and everyone enjoyed it a lot. I definitely agree with the audience score …
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I made Butter Chicken using the Instant Pot tonight. First time, was good, but I think I can do …
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We went to a Safe Hands Rescue dog adoption event today to meet some pups that need homes. Didn’t …
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We had a nice morning at the Mill City Farmers Market today.
: Dan Hon’s article on this Audi Concept Car video is a great read (see section 1.1). 👏
: Finished a Saturday morning Peloton spin class. I need to remember how good it feels to do that. …
: Started getting a crazy number of robocalls. 😤 Found that Nomorobo had become deactivated! Fixed, …
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Watched Shazam last night. Pretty fun movie! 🎬👍
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I never tire of watching smoke billow out of the Big Green Egg. 😊🔥
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Time for some Saturday morning Dirty Pineapples soccer! ⚽️ Tyler’s practicing his penalty kick here.
: Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening looks like a fun game. It should expand the Zelda universe to more …
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Brandi Carlile at Minnesota State Fair
Brandi Carlile put on an amazing show at the Minnesota State Fair tonight! 🎶
There were figurative …
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We made a quick visit to our favorite spots at the Minnesota State Fair!
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Minnesota State Fair selfie!
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We had a fun time visiting the Minnesota Renaissance Festival today! Games, animals, and treats!
August 2019
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Northfield Shares a Dinner
Having dinner with the city of Northfield! Thanks to Northfield Shares a Dinner! 🍽🤝
Thank you to all …
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Little Joy Coffee
Had an amazing coffee at the new Little Joy Coffee in Downtown Northfield. Amazing coffee, great …
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Wisco-Pop! Cherry Soda is one of the best sodas I’ve ever had! The cherry flavor is amazing. 🍒
: Allergies hit me like a freight train! Feels early in the year. Time to start the Claritin-D …
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Simple dinner on Big Green Egg tonight. 🔥
: LinkedIn is now prompting you to identify your teammates, and then asks you specifically to reflect …
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2019 TeamSPS Kubb Tournament
We had a great time with our 2019 #TeamSPS Kubb Tournament today! We had 20 teams having a lot of …
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Gorgeous night for pizza at Red Barn Farm by Northfield.
: The Twins are stacking up the runs against the White Sox in the bottom of the 8th. 7 runs and still …
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A friend of mine is selling his large Big Green Egg along with the Challenger Designs grill table. …
: The Shortcuts app on iOS should have a setting that causes shortcuts to error if you reference an …
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Lake O the Dalles in Interstate State Park.
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St. Croix River at Interstate State Park, from Wisconsin side.
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Visiting Fawn-Doe-Rosa!
Deer Selfie.
Heading West!
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Farmers Market in Amery, Wisconsin.
: Weekly Thing comes back from summer break tomorrow morning! 😎
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Wapogasset Lake with sun coming down.
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Music in the Park in Amery, WI! 🎶😊
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Violent Femmes at Surly Brewing! 🤩🎶
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Dilapidated grain elevator. 📷
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Tammy and I went to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last night. Enjoyed the movie, felt like classic …
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DevOpsDays MSP 2019 - Day 2
DevOpsDays MSP has done a fabulous job creating an inclusive event. Hearing from so many diverse …
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DevOpsDays MSP 2019 - Day 1
I’m so happy that SPS Commerce can join these amazing sponsors in support of the organizers of …
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Sano absolutely destroyed this ball to take the game! Twins Win! ⚾️🙌
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First pitch at tonight’s Twins v Braves baseball game! ⚾️ Great night for a game.
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I need to find a good name for the Dolphin S300i pool robot. Oddly mesmerizing to watch it work …
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We had an awesome time cheering the United on to win Portland today 1-0! ⚽️
July 2019
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The 2019 SPS Brew-Off was great as always! We have amazing home brewers in #TeamSPS, and it’s a …
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Stopping in Loon Liquors cocktail room for a delicious drink.
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International Champions Cup: Bayern v Milan
Tyler and I are ready to cheer on FC Bayern! ⚽️🇩🇪🙌 Champions Cup Bayern v Milan!
We are all here …
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We solved the Toy Room at Escape Artists Kansas City tonight! Room 28!
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I have no idea what “Preconditioning battery for Supercharging” means, but it sounds advanced. 🤓⚡️
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First time visiting a Tesla Supercharger! ⚡️ Charging in Des Moines on our way to Kansas City.
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First time to Keepsake Cidery! Won’t be the last. Delicious flight of ciders and a great space!
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Embarrassingly, for over three years our foosball table was setup totally wrong! I fixed it today, …
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Got my iPhone background prepared for our Kansas City trip for the Bayern v AC Milan game. ⚽️
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Delicious pizza and beer at Imminent Brewing in Northfield. Enjoyed the Wolf Creek IPA tonight along …
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We all watched Apollo 11 tonight to kick off the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing. What a moment …
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Restoring my iPhone XS completely from iTunes and then restoring my backup seems to have fixed my …
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Would like to go to sleep, but my iPhone is my alarm clock. 🤔
: Doing complete OS recovery and restore on my iPhone XS to hopefully fix whatever is causing it to …
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Minnesota United v FC Dallas
One of my favorite things walking into Allianz Field is the awesome UNITED fixture. WE ARE UNITED! …
: What an awesome win by USA over Netherlands to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup! 2-0! ⚽️🎉🙌 So great!
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Four hours in and brisket is looking good! 🔥
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One of my favorite things to watch is smoke billowing out of the Big Green Egg.
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Time for Fourth of July barbecue! Pork butt on the Big Green Egg! 🔥
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Something is very wrong on my iPhone. The battery is draining super fast. I’ve noticed Spotlight …
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Had some great pizza at Red Barn Farm in Northfield tonight! Great to sit in the shade, relax and …
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Pool project is moving along. Tammy and Mazie stood in the deepest part for scale. Cover mechanism …
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We picked delicious strawberries at Lorences Berry Farm in Northfield today. 🍓
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Modeling the dulcetones and pastels of the spring color lineup.
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We saw Yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. The premise is goofy, but it’s a solid movie and of …
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Rainy day at the lake so playing Rummikub. I won on the next turn. 😁
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Delightful afternoon pontoon ride with lunch stop, and a couple heavy rain showers to keep it …
June 2019
: Automatic Git Pushes with Gitwatch I’ve been using blot.im to publish my websites for a while. Originally Blot only used Dropbox to …
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The pool project has gotten off to a quick start! This was after just two days. On Thursday there …
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Minnesota United v FC Cincinnati
Arrived late to the Minnesota United v FC Cincinnati match but what a first half! 4-0! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🙌
Wow …
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This Copperstar Galactica IPA from Beards Brewery that Tammy brought back from Michigan is amazing. …
: As if on some kind of strange reality TV show, our family has decided to see how far into the summer …
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Excited to attend the Minneapolis Women in Tech Breakfast with Jenn Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty this …
: Great performance by USA 🇺🇸 over Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 winning 6-0 in CONCACAF Gold Cup. Some great …
: Blew away previous 45-min PR and spent 17% of the spin in Zone 5! 🤜🤛
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CONCACAF Gold Cup
Tyler and I are super excited for tonight’s CONCACAF Gold Cup matches at Allianz Field! ⚽️🏆 Panama …
: I’ve made the jump to Ubiquity UniFi networking gear at home. Impressed thus far.
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Burgers on the Big Green Egg for Father’s Day dinner! 🔥🍔🍺
: Started Father’s Day off with a 60-minute PR in Jenn Sherman’s Epic Sing Along ride! 🙌🚴🏼♂️😅
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Great night for some Minnesota Twins baseball! ⚾️
Great night of baseball with #TeamSPS Tech …
: +7 minutes of stoppage time added to the Minnesota United v Colorado game. Wow! Maybe Minnesota …
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How many engineers does it take to get the screen to show up on the TV? 🤣
: 2019 Edina Art Fair We weren’t able to get to the Edina Art Fair until shortly before it was closing today. We hustled …
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We had family pictures taken today at the Rose Garden with Karen Feder. Looking forward to seeing …
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Burned through a big pile of scrub today. A lot of pine tree branches! 🔥🔥🔥
May 2019
: That first time starting the lawn mower each year is such a pain. Just start already! 😤
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We saw A Dog’s Journey — it was a good movie but you’ll need some tissues. 👍🏻
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Airboat out bow fishing for carp at night.
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First try at smash burgers on the flat top. End product was delicious! Wow! It goes very fast! Need …
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First breakfast on flat-top grill came out good. Still need more practice! 👨🍳
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Minnesota United v Houston Dynamos
Kickoff for Minnesota United v Houston Dynamos! ⚽️👏
Minnesota United celebrating goal against …
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Flying the Planet Kubb banner while the kids play some Kubb! 👍
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It’s boat day! Taking the pontoon out of storage and heading up river to the lake! 😃
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Nice spot to get tomorrow’s Weekly Thing ready! 😊
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We got to take in some jazz from Patricia Barber at the Dakota tonight. Very good! 🎶
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Minnestar board strategy and future planning session! Great group and an amazing community! 👍
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At the Minnesota United v Hertha Berlin friendly! ⚽️👏
: Was planning a moderate 60 minute spin, but ended up with a PR! Nice. 🙌
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There is seriously no better Polish sausage than Kramarczuk’s Deli. Minneapolis institution! 🤤
: Another Saturday, another PR! Plus hit 102% MHR! 🚴🏼♂️
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Awesome goal from David Alaba to take Bayern ahead 2-1! And then Renato Sanches to go 3-1! ⚽️ …
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We had a fabulous #TeamSPS Tech Leader outing tonight making a delicious meal at Kitchen Window! 🍽 …
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My sister and I had a great dinner with our Mom — Happy Mother’s Day! She has taught me so much, and …
: New PR for 45 min spin today! 14% in Zone 5 HR! 🙌🏻
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Time for demos at the end of the #TeamSPS TechJam 2019 Hackathon! 13 teams built creative, fast, and …
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Looking good today Minneapolis!
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SPS TechJam 2019
Today is #TeamSPS TechJam 2019, where we collect as a community to share and learn from each other! …
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Had fun playing board games with friends today: Carcassonne and Betrayal at House on the Hill. 🎲
: Currently 564/2,591 on this mornings spin! The Peloton leaderboard definitely gets me pushing …
: Enjoying a classic rock morning: Drift Away by Dobie Gray, Pink Houses by John Mellencamp, American …
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Minnesota United v Seattle Sounders
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Seconds before Minnesota United GOAL! 1-0
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We found our name on the big MNUFC sign at Allianz Field!
April 2019
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Happy with fire pit setup. 🔥
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Minnebar 14
Minnebar 14 kicking off! Looking forward to learning a ton again this year! 💙 this event, …
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We had a great time beta testing the opening day for the Video Game Mayhem (Kid Mode) room at …
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Orangy Old Fashioned at The Copper Hen.
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Happy Birthday to Tammy, my lovely co-pilot in this awesome journey of life! 🎂🎁
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I took the day off for Tammy’s birthday and we rented a U-Haul to get a bunch of post-move errands …
: Used the Scosche Rhythm+ heart rate monitor for first time today. I liked it on the forearm versus …
: New PR for 45 minute spin today! 🚴🏼♂️💦🙌
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Time to relax and enjoy a fire. 🔥
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Ready to do some Flat Top Grilling! 🍔🔥
First run on the flat top was a success, but will definitely …
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2019 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony
Excited to be at the 2019 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Awards honoring amazing young women …
: Just ordered my MacStories 10th Anniversary T-Shirt! 👕
: Got to watch the Space X Arabsat-6A launch from two days ago. Still amazes me watching the booster …
: Sad to hear that Creative Kidstuff is going out of business. That was always one of our favorite …
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Allianz Field satellite view needs an update! 😊
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MN United Home Opener
So excited to be here, right now, for the Minnesota United home opener in the gorgeous Allianz …
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Coffee Cathedral. Ratio Eight making magic with beans from Sump Coffee. ☕️
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We had a family debate that Nutella from Europe wasn’t as sweet as what we get in the United States. …
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Also watched Arctic on flight. Liked it a lot. Almost no dialogue, but that doesn’t take anything …
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I love the messages the kids leave for me on the chalkboard when I come home from trips! ❤️
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Watched Green Book and thoroughly enjoyed it. Great movie and equally great acting. 🎬✈️
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It’s awesome when you are following #TeamSPS backpacks eight timezones away! 😊👍🏻
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Great night bowling with #TeamSPS in Ukraine! Команда грають в боулінг разом, та виграють разом! 🎳
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Great dinner last night with some our our #TeamSPS Ukraine leaders in Kyiv! Great food, …
: Our anthem for our time in San Antonio, TX has been “In San Antonio, They Got The Alamo”. 🤪🤣
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Las Vegas Lights v San Antonio FC
Taking in some Texas Soccer watching San Antonio FC v Las Vegas Lights. San Antonio leading 1-0! ⚽️
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The Orca’s at SeaWorld are amazing!
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Today’s Vacation Ice Cream stop was Steel City Pops. Made to order ice cream bars!
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We had an amazing afternoon in San Antonio at the Pearl Farmers Market. Also checked out Hotel Emma, …
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The San Fernando Cathedral Light Show was really cool last night! There is a full video you can …
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We saw a very cool magic show and got a magic lesson from Scott Pepper and the Magicians Agency! …
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Yesterday we got to hang out with Penguins at SeaWorld! Super cool! 🐧
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I had no idea about the San Antonio River Walk and was blown away exploring it today. A great …
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We had a good time learning and exploring The Alamo today. So much history!
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Tyler and I got to throw knives and axes today! 🤪
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Bob Mould at The Mohawk
A trip to Austin, TX seems like it should have live music. 🎶 We saw Bob Mould play at The Mohawk …
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Franklin BBQ
Full fanboy mode waiting in line for 2+ hours at Franklin BBQ! 😊 Brisket, ribs, and sausage on the …
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Lick Honest Ice Cream is todays Vacation Ice Cream stop! Delicious! Some of us may have even got a …
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We had a fun time seeing Austin on 2-wheels with Your Biker Gang today! Super cool electric bikes …
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We attempted the “Incoming Transmission” room at Perplexium in Austin. It was a really unique puzzle …
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Final piece of “Magnolia Day” in Waco was the Brazos Tours “Fixer Upper Tour of Waco”. We visited …
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We continued “Magnolia Day” in Waco with a visit to the Magnolia Silos. Went in the morning and in …
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We started “Magnolia Day” in Waco with an early breakfast at Magnolia Table. Good food, and a lot of …
March 2019
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Heritage Creamery was today’s Vacation Ice Cream stop. The Salted Caramel was very good, and the …
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The snakes at Cameron Park Zoo Cameron Park Zoo in Waco was great. So many snakes! I had no idea …
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We had a great morning at the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco this morning. Impressive natural settings for …
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Departing for Texas Spring Break! 🌵 Visiting Austin, San Antonio, and Waco. 🛫
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Great night celebrating with #TeamSPS Little Falls at their SPS Social! 🙌🎶🎉
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Tyler and I are having a great time at One Night of Queen! He is a huge Queen fan! 🤘
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Sous Vide tenderloin started! 🥩
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Enjoying an evening with The New Standards at The Dakota. 🎶🥃
See list of The New Standards shows.
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Enjoyed watching First Man. Amazing story about an amazing time. 🚀🎬✈
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International travel is hard on sleep. 😳
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Richmond v Carlton
Taking in my first game of AFL Footy at Melbourne Cricket Ground! 🙌
Richmond 7-8-50 over Carlton …
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I tried a Melbourne “Magic” today. I would have a hard time telling the difference between a Magic …
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I got a new Kangaroo friend! This one from Kangaroo Island was very friendly with super soft fur. 🦘
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Appreciate the warm welcome and hospitality from our #TeamSPS Australia leadership team! 🇦🇺
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It was great to spend the last couple of days with #TeamSPS Technology in Melbourne! Great team and …
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I got a selfie with a Koala today! 🐨
: Just got tickets to go see the Carlton v Richmond AFL season opener tonight! Will finally get to …
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Joined #TeamSPS Melbourne for game night this evening. They even had a brand new copy of Ticket to …
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I had a fabulous dinner tonight at Steak Ministry with the #TeamSPS leadership team in Melbourne! 🇦🇺
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I did a Town Hall session with #TeamSPS Melbourne, and Sydney on videoconference today. Great team, …
: Happy St Patrick’s Day! ☘️ I searched LAX extensively but could not find a Guinness. I finally …
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Hanging out in LAX for a bit on the way to visit #TeamSPS in Melbourne! 🇦🇺🦘
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Great night at the #TeamSPS 2019 Social! 🙌🎶🎉
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Mazie and I got to play Civil Engineer tonight, creating routes in the snow/slush to route water out …
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π Day Dinner! Chicken Pot Pie with Chocolate Pie! 🥧🥧🤤 #PiDay
See Pi Day Collection.
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Happy π Day from #TeamSPS! 74 pies! #PiDay
See Pi Day Collection.
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Did my first spin workout on my Peloton Bike tonight. I was impressed with the bike and the class. …
: Updated Tesla Model 3 to Firmware Build v9.0 2019.5.15 f5def7e (3/7/2019). Still love doing that. 😎
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Watched Free Solo tonight. Wow! Alex Honnold is an amazing climber. My palms were sweating while I …
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After raining pretty good for a while it turned into pretty serious snow! ❄️
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I had a great time checking out the fun and creative projects one of our #TeamSPS teams did during a …
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Tyler and I are cheering on FC Bayern vs Wolfsburg! ⚽️
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My daughter lost her iPhone while skiing today. Quick action with Find my iPhone and Lost Mode got …
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Heading home. Great time visiting #TeamSPS Toronto. CRJ-900 taking us back. 🛩
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I had a fun evening joining #TeamSPS Toronto for some board games! I came in a distant 4th in Ticket …
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Nice dinner out with #TeamSPS in Toronto!
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Minnesota Wild v Nashville Predators
Time for some Minnesota Wild Hockey! 🏒
Olympic Gold medalist Lindsey Vonn dropped the game puck at …
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Went axe throwing for the first time tonight and did this!
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We visited the 80’s this afternoon with a trip to the Roller Garden! 😁
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We had a great morning helping pack over 250 boxes of food at Feed My Starving Children!
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We had a fun time playing the Primetime Showdown at Game Show Battle Rooms last night! Lots of …
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My mind was blown tonight when I was introduced to ”fractal” Romanesco broccoli! 🤯🥦
February 2019
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MHTA Tech Talent 2019
At MHTA Tech Talent event today, participating in panel shortly. Mike McNamara, CIO of Target, …
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Timberwolves v Kings
Fun to be courtside watching the Timberwolves warmup. 🏀
Basketball teams always have impressive …
: With all the amazing computational photography power of an iPhone XS, why can’t it properly expose a …
: Tonight was the first time since having a 3D printer that I realized something I was thinking of …
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Snowy drive in this morning. There are 5 lanes somewhere there. ❄️
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We saw A Dog’s Way Home today. It was exactly what you would expect it to be. Good movie, …
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We played “Quest for the Amulet at Windmere Castle" at Escape MSP Lakeville today. It was a cool …
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Tyler and I played in our first Pokémon friendly tournament today. I’m glad he knows what he’s …
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Had a majestic bald eagle visit us this morning. Just 50 or so feet away. Surveying the frozen lake, …
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Tetris 99 on the Switch is amazing! 🤩 So far my highest ranking is #4. I’ve never gotten into Battle …
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A giant snow pile is a pretty good thing to play soccer with. ❄️⚽️
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Little snow isn’t going to keep me from grilling! Big Green Egg time! ❄️🔥
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Big space, and a great respite from the cold and snowy winter.
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Watched FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened tonight. I didn’t follow this story when it …
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Tesla, your HTML encoding is showing. & 😳
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Started reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport tonight. 📚
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Checking out the Life Time Sport at Winter Park. Super cool pick-up soccer for the kids! ⚽️
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I had a great night celebrating at the #TeamSPS Sales Awards Dinner! Awesome to see a team support …
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A tremendous talk on happiness by Shawn Achor was a great way to cap off the day at #TeamSPS 2019 …
: A ton of activity happening at our #TeamSPS Think Tank booths with product specialists working with …
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Nearly all #TeamSPS events have Thad Brenny making it all look great and smooth at the console! You …
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I had a great time sharing three fabulous product demos at the #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Kickoff today! …
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Having a great time at Day 2 of #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Meeting. The team assembled hundreds of bikes …
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Book: Scale
My book club just finished reading Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, …
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I had a great morning joining the #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Kickoff! Dan Juckniess and Jim Frome got the …
: 3D Printing custom Valentine’s Day things for the kids to give their friends! 💕
: JSONFeed on Blot I’ve been enjoying Blot a lot. I’ve enjoyed its approach to blogging. There is plenty of power …
: Longest punt in Super Bowl history! I guess that is something for the Rams. Super Bowl LIII 🤷♂️🏈
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I visited Minnehack tonight and introduced SPS Commerce to 300+ students before we fed them a …
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Kubbchucks playing in our 8th annual Minnesota Kubb winter tournament, part of the Loppet! Largest …
: Minnesota Kubb 2019 Winter Tournament The Kubbchucks played our 8th annual Minnesota Kubb Winter Tournament this weekend. After a week of …
January 2019
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Tech Summit 2019
View from the control room as we get ready to start #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2019!
Yesterday’s rehearsal …
: Schools cancelled. Kids are rejoicing. 🥳
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
We saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse today and I was completely blown away! I enjoyed the story …
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Hack the Gap 2019
Hack the Gap hosted their 5th annual Hackathon for women and non-binary individuals this weekend. I …
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Everyone had a lot of fun at iFly.
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Made my signature lasagna tonight. Delicious. 🤤🍽
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Checking out iFly Indoor Skydiving. Wow!
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Delightful dinner tonight at Oceanaire with my brother and his wife. Yum!
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Very first espresso from my new Breville Oracle espresso machine. I’m impressed with the …
: Ordered End of Trust, McSweeney’s Issue 54 done in collaboration with the EFF! 💜
: Just signed up for a 4th site on Blot. This one will be to finally get a decent site for my Book …
: Using API Credentials in Shortcuts Shortcuts on iOS can do incredibly powerful things, and with a little bit of extra magic you can …
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Tammy and I had an amazing dinner at Popol Vuh last night. Guacamole, Jicama Salad, Costilla, and …
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Updating firmware FTW! This time the Joule Sous Vide.
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Tammy’s sisters and my brother-in-laws escaped Breakout - Operation: Casino in 45 minutes! 🙌💪🔓 Room …
: I’ve used an Airport Express (Gen 1) with an auto-switching amp to get AirPlay audio. The Airport …
: Quiet Friday night putting together tomorrows issue of the Weekly Thing. 👨💻
: Closed on the sale of our old house. Now done with the moving stuff. Time to get settled into the …
: Got a 2nd HomePod and am trying out a stereo pair. They sound incredibly good for the size.
: “You’re one of 772,904,991 people pwned in the Collection #1 data breach.” That is a shockingly …
: Is there anything useful to do with 1,500+ CDs and 200+ DVDs? Going thru stuff after move and …
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Gorgeous day for a smoking session on the Big Green Egg! First smoke at the new house! 🔥
: I just preordered Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. I was going to buy it anyway so the additional …
: Moving and going back to Xfinity I lose fiber performance. Upside is back on IPv6. 🤷🏼♂️
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Took my new Ratio Eight Coffee Maker and Baratza Virtuoso grinder for a first run this morning, …
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I have no idea what I’m doing with this 3D Printer! But it’s still fun!
: Today is moving day! 📦🚛🏠🥳 Internet service up and running at the new house! 🥳
: Moving Day Today the movers will be showing up to move all the big things to our new house! It’s been nearly 9 …
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UGears Locomotive
Over the holidays I assembled the UGears Steam Locomotive moving model. It was my second UGears …
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Watched Smallfoot, fun family movie. 🎬
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Family friends joined us and we beat the Diagonal Alley room at Trapped North Loop. The room was …
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My daughter made me the most amazing birthday card! She made a broken laptop out of cardboard and I …
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We went back to Missing Pieces on Thursday and successfully completed the Final Frontier room after …
: I’ve now created three blogs on Blot and am enjoying it a lot. I’ve got a “good enough” version of …
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Our family plays Clue every year on New Year’s Eve while we await the new year, and this year I …
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Went to Bohemian Rhapsody tonight and thought it was great! 🎬 Turns our New Year’s Eve is a busy …
December 2018
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Played the last of our new Christmas board games, Azul. Fun hidden strategies. Didn’t make sense at …
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Watched Isle of Dogs tonight. Very fun, original movie. 🎬
: I’ve been throwing a bunch of content at Blot and have been very impressed. Speed is okay even with …
: Maybe Blot? There is a bit of a trend on micro.blog to use Blot for longer form blog hosting. I’ve not dug in …
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Tyler and I are having a great time with FIFA 19 on the Switch! This is the first sports game that …
: Macro Blog? I’ve had a hard time finding a blog platform that I really enjoy. I tired a long time ago of the …
: Book: When Breath Becomes Air I’ve had “When Breath Becomes Air” sitting at our cabin for a while, but decided to pick it up and …
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We all watched Kiki’s Delivery Service yesterday. Another in our Studio Ghibli “festival”. Not as …
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We all really enjoyed My Neighbor Totoro on Christmas. Great Studio Ghibli film. 🎬
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We played Photosynthesis for the first time and had a great time. Recommended game with a lot of …
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Time for traditional Christmas Eve dinner off the grill! First, have to “bottom start” the Big Green …
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Home Free Christmas at Treasure Island
Surprised the kids with a Home Free concert tonight, the last show on their Christmas Tour, at …
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Went to King’s Bar in Miesville. Burger Flight: Homerun (Ham, Swiss Cheese, Lettuce, Tomato, Mayo), …
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Tyler’s teaching me to play Pokémon and we figured poker chips work to track damage.
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One of my favorite places to be.
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We watched The Christmas Chronicles tonight and really enjoyed it. It would be a great movie for …
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We saw Instant Family last night. Fun, family-focused movie. 🍿
: I’m going to give Agenda a solid workout to see if it’s a better solution for tracking work related …
: Tesla 2018.48.12.1 update applied! 👍
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Great #TeamSPS dinner tonight at Salut St. Paul – what an awesome group! Good food, company and best …
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Had a great time competing in the Spies v Spies rooms at Trapped Puzzle rooms with #TeamSPS tech …
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Stop & go traffic is by far my favorite use case for Tesla Auto Pilot. Way less stress! 👍🏻
: My daughter taught me a new typography fact tonight! Uppercase letters are called that because they …
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Early Christmas today – Weekly Thing pen! 👍🏻
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Family selfie from our new house. We don’t move until January, but are exploring today!
: Made my annual donation to Internet Archive! Join me in supporting this great organization! 🌎
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Minnesota Wild v Montreal Canadiens
Minnesota Wild v Montreal Canadiens! 🏒
Hockey time with Amy Patton Amy Patton, Ian Redlin and Paul …
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Watched Pick of the Litter tonight. Nice movie, particularly for dog lovers. The training guide dogs …
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We explored the Walker Art Center today. Modern art still makes me go “Huh?” a lot.
: We had a fun time at the 2018 British Arrows Awards today at the Walker. Liked the Nike, FIFA Soccer …
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Solid boxing workout this morning at TITLE Boxing.
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I know I should be impressed with our amazing, modern technology, but this happens so often and …
: I am “fixing” my Twitter import into micro.blog and needed to get rid of hundreds of those tweets, …
: Parked at SPS Tower for a concert at the State Theater. Took skyways and skipped jackets on way …
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2018 New Standards Holiday Show
First half of The New Standards Holiday Show was awesome. Okee Dokee Brothers, The Owls, Chris Koza, …
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The Kingfield at Five Watt is definitely a treat, not an everyday coffee, but it sure is delicious. …
: Tried Boludo Empanadas today — wow! I got three empanadas: Pollo, Carne, and Jamon y Queso. All were …
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Mt. Olivet Lutefisk Dinner
Had fun at the 89th annual Mt. Olivet Lutefisk Dinner tonight! Swedish Meatballs, Rice Pudding with …
: Finally got my Bluetooth blood pressure monitor to re-pair with my phone, after much …
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There was a lot of very pretty looking snow to deal with this morning.
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Cabin Christmas Tree up with cabin themed decorations! 🎄
: To all Music services: Why can’t I find any Christmas channels, playlists, stations, etc. that our …
November 2018
: Very fun to see my former Dow Jones colleague Dean Del Vecchio on stage at AWS re:Invent 2018! 👏 …
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Ready for Cyber Monday peak season! #TeamSPS
: Nice win for the Vikings over the Packers – fun game to watch! 🏈
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We tried the brand new, just opened today, Final Frontier puzzle room at Missing Pieces. We didn’t …
: Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins! Christmas tradition, watching Elf! 🎬🎄
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From our family to yours — Happy Thanksgiving!
: This new 27” Retina iMac is starved for memory. 64 GB of SO-DIMMs on the way!
: Carefully disassembling my single 1.2 TB Lightroom Classic catalog into Lightroom CC and iCloud …
: I’ve had more spinning beachballs in macOS Mojave than I’ve had in any recent version of macOS.
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The Wassail Tea is ready – now Thanksgiving can happen! I love the smell of Wassail in the house.
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This Mini Kubb set is a kick, although pretty impossible to play, but still fun!
: Got sick with something pretty bad right before leaving Ukraine. Got progressively worse while …
: Got the new MacBook Air today (Space Gray, 16 GB memory, 500 GB storage). Reminds me how much I …
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It’s surprising to me that this five computer limitation is still around in iTunes. iOS devices …
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Monopoly “The .com Edition” can provide hours of entertainment just by looking at all the companies …
: I’m going to finally break, and submit to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography subscription (1 TB) and …
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KBP → MSP ✈️
Not good, flight out of KBP is delayed and I now land in AMS when my connecting flight to MSP takes …
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Had a great evening with #TeamSPS in Kyiv tonight!
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Waiting for the sun to come up at Paris CDG. ✈️
: I’m finding myself frustrated with pure static hosting. It adds too much friction to publishing. I’m …
: The new 12.9" iPad Pro with the attached keyboard is a good size for an airline seat tray. The …
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Long international flight tomorrow → of course you update the firmware on your headphones! 😁
: Wait, the newest version of Apple Photos cannot import DNG files? What the … 😤
: I might be learning the hard way about flying internationally when your passport expires within 6 …
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Family movie night – watched Ferdinand. 🎬 Good movie, but upon learning what bullfighting is the …
: Got my tickets to the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup (Group D) matches at Allianz Field! Can’t wait to cheer …
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Carcassonne is such a great game. Introduced the kids to it today.
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Great day for #TeamSPS at our annual Growth Summit! A wonderful year, and more on the way. Want to …
: I tried Tesla’s new Navigate on Autopilot feature tonight. It worked very well on first try. 👍🏻
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I Voted! ✅😎 Remember to vote today!
: iOS has Pythonista for Python, and Scriptable is awesome for JavaScript, but I wish there was a Lua …
: Tammy and I tried Colita for the first time tonight! 🍽 Started with Papa Noel to drink; then Fish …
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Know someone wanting to move to South Minneapolis? Our house is for sale! We have loved living here. …
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Our new deck is done and I put up the pergola lighting today. 💡 I’m very happy with how it turned …
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Got to do the first remote Tesla software update without being around the Model 3, a feature added …
October 2018
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I found my trick-or-treat! 🍺 Thanks Andy Domeier! White Oak Jai Alai IPA – such a great IPA!
: Achievement Unlocked: Giving out full-size candy bars for Halloween! 🎃🍫👍
: SPS Tower 16th Floor We opened up the 16th floor in SPS Tower this week! What an amazing space for our growing team! 👍 …
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We all got our pumpkins carved! 🎃 👨👩👧👦
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Had a fabulous evening learning and tasting Bourbons, Whiskey, and Scotch with Rich Howard tonight! …
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Fall Colors Blowing in the Wind.
: The PIXL Magnetic Building System looks really cool. Backed it! Fun to see the Fidget Cube team back …
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Fun (and chilly!) day playing Kubb and Mölkky at the Olson Family Weekend!
Kubb, king of lawn games. …
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I love updating things — but this is an entirely different level. 🎉👍
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Tamarack trees golden needles in the afternoon sun.
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Tyler crossing the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
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The Foo Fighters put on an amazing show last night at the Xcel Center. The energy and passion from …
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Foo Fighters!!!
Taylor Hawkins drum solo! 🥁🤘
: Franconia Sculpture Park We had a great morning exploring the Franconia Sculpture Park! We are lucky to have great public art …
: Did my first longer interstate drive with the Tesla Model 3 and Autopilot. Car drove itself without …
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This picture captures most of what I’ll remember from yesterday’s Minnesota United game. 🤬⚽️
: Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular We had a great time at the Minnesota Zoo Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular last night. I was blown away by …
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Today’s Minnesota United match wasn’t the one I would have picked to be the last of the season for …
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Excited for our final Minnesota United game of the 2018 season, and the last one in TCF Bank …
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Had a fun and delicious evening at Kitchen Window’s Spanish Wine Dinner Class last night. Fun time, …
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Sailboats and Manhattan Skyline
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Minnedemo 30
Excited for Minnedemo 30 tonight! And always proud to have SPS Commerce as a Terabyte sponsor!
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Nice opportunity to network with other technology leaders, and try some delightful wines tonight! 🍷
: Just used the new iOS Shortcuts “Run JavaScript on Web Page” feature to automate a task that had no …
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Birthday Cake by Milk Bar
Mazie and I returned home from our Daddy/Daughter trip to NYC. We brought a Birthday Cake from Milk …
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The southern edge of Central Park.
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This building is going to very cool when completed.
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Walking the High Line in Manhattan
Mazie and I hiked the length of the High Line in Manhattan today. We started on 30th street and …
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Mazie and I went to School of Rock on Broadway tonight and loved it! Great music, amazing acting …
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I returned to Molyvos for the first time in probably 10 years. I can report the Lamb Shank Yuvetsi …
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The Seaglass Carousel in Battery Park.
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Exploring Ellis Island with Manhattan in the background.
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It was great to finally visit the Statue of Liberty. We also went to Ellis Island and looked up the …
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Mazie and I got to meet Lady Liberty today! 🇺🇸
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Mazie and I explored Times Square tonight! 👨👧 16,687 steps today. 👣
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Driving a Ferrari in Manhattan? Seems like a crazy idea to me. 🤷♂️
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Mazie and I got to hang out with my great friend from college, Greg, and his fabulous family today …
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Gorgeous Bonbons at Stick With Me chocolates.
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Grand Central Station in Manhattan.
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Subways and long exposure capabilities on iPhone XS was a lot of fun today.
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Mazie and I were very impressed with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum today. An event that was so …
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Mazie and I getting some coffee at Blue Bottle Coffee by World Trade Center. ☕️
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Mazie and I are heading to New York for a Daddy/Daughter trip! 😎👨👧
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My Apple Watch has gotten very confused with 8 duplicates of all calendar events. Can’t figure out …
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Picked up my Tesla Model 3 today! Wow! 2 years and 7 months after reserving it.
September 2018
: We need a movement to ban cable news from waiting areas. 🚫
: Was looking like the Vikings might tie that game up, then a fumble. Ugh. 🏈
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2018 SPS Kubb Tournament
Great day for our #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament! Good luck to all the teams!
Results after …
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Goodbye Chase
On Friday evening we had to say goodbye to our dog Chase. We adopted Chase into our family in 2007. …
: Two of my three Macs are upgraded to macOS Mojave. The last one that is still upgrading is an iMac …
: Power just got restored at our cabin on Cannon Lake after Thursday nights huge storm. Was out from …
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Fountain in the Lyndale Park Rose Garden. The iPhone XS camera is very impressive.
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I had my 200mm lens for the kids soccer games and there were a bunch of planes landing with a clear …
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Minnesota United v Portland Timbers
Gorgeous work MNUFC to take lead 1-0! ⚽️👏🏻
Stellar first half from MN United to take a 3-0 lead v …
: Upgrading to the new iPhone XS using iCloud Backup. First time I’ve done this not using iTunes local …
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Really enjoyed Hearts Beat Loud. Nice story, good music. 🎬
: It seems that the nVidia GPU in my 2012 MacBook Pro 15” Retina is failing fast. Screen goes black, …
: Upgraded Nintendo Switch to 6.0 and Tyler and I are trying out Switch Online. It’s fun to play …
: Now have a VIN for my Tesla Model 3 reservation and a scheduled delivery date for the weekend! 😎
: Wired my iOS 12 Shortcut so “Hey Siri, Loons win!” starts playing Wonderwall. 👍🏻⚽️🎧
: Have all my relevant Apple devices upgraded to iOS 12, watchOS 5 and related device OS versions. 👍🏻
: Impressive update for Streaks today! Happy to see iCloud sync arrive and already support for Siri …
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Our deck project is progressing — and big!
: Time it took AT&T to fix my iPhone Xs upgrade order today: 97 minutes. Time it took my barber to cut …
: iPhone Xs 256GB Space Grey ordered! 🛒
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I’m “geekily” excited to get my Anki Vector in October. 🤓 I have a Cozmo and the Vector looks like a …
: The iPhone Xs is going to be a great upgrade from my iPhone 7. 📱 The Apple Watch Series 4 is enough …
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Bingo at Stanley’s!
Quest for Bingo Blackout victory thwarted again! ☹️
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It took us over an hour, but we did eventually solve the “It’s All Fun & Games” room at Trapped …
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We really enjoyed BlacKkKlansman from Spike Lee. Good story, powerful message. 🎬
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Nice brunch this morning at Lucky Oven. This was our first time back since their frenetic opening. …
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Tammy and I went to Juliet, Naked today. Good movie, fun story. 🎬
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First time trying rolled ice cream at Loulou’s Sweet & Savory. Wow! Delicious!
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Very impressed with the Tostada Chilaquiles with slow-roasted pork at Hola Arepa! Delicious! 🍽
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Cleaning my espresso machine’s portafilter always gives me a moment of pause when you clean the …
: Another great Five Things on Friday #266 from James Whatley – one of my favorite newsletters. 👏
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Seeing Three Identical Strangers at The Heights.
: I finally order a Tesla, and then Elon Musk decides to lose his mind. 🤦♂️
: Just got invitation to OmniFocus 3 for Mac beta. Impressive and big redesign. I have a feeling …
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We had a great time at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival today!
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“Gone Bananas” at MN Nice Cream. 🍦
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Rainy morning of Snap Circuits (#562 Solar Space War) and Turing Tumble (#18 Entanglement).
August 2018
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Only two episodes in, and I’m already hooked on Succession.
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We are enjoying Making It for family TV. 👍🏻🔨👨👩👧👦
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I dig this picture that my neighbor took of me taking first day of school pictures. 😀
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In recognition of National Dog Day, a picture of Chase from four months ago.
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Celebrated Tammy’s Dad’s 80th Birthday today! Got a big Olson Family picture too!
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Michael Franti & Spearhead
Michael Franti & Spearhead put on an amazing and inspiring show at the Music in the Zoo last night. …
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Michael Franti & Spearhead at MN Zoo! 🎶
: Amazing memorial service for David Hussman. A perfect collection of stories, music, poems and …
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Goodbye to my friend, David Hussman
The last time I saw my friend David Hussman we met at Red Wagon Pizza and enjoyed an extended …
: A few days ago my dog Chase injured his CCL (Dog version of ACL) in his right hind leg. Today he …
: Started allergy medicine — I don’t remember a year that I had to start this early! 🤧💊
: Very sad to hear of the passing of my friend David Hussman. We will all miss you dude! 😢 See his …
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Very happy with the new stone steps down to our dock! 🤩
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Very impressive work being shared by the #TeamSPS summer interns! They delivered significant …
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Great day for #TeamSPS summer picnic! Thank you all for making SPS such an awesome place to be! 🙌🍽🎉
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At my happy place 😊, listening to Jay Farrar / Son Volt at the Minnesota Zoo. 🎶
“… but for now it …
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One of the best games for time on an airplane? Tetris! But it requires an Internet connection — for …
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We finished our vacation by winning “The Wall” room in 57:53 with only four clues at Enigma Escape …
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Some initial photos from our day at Niagara Falls! I’ve wanted to go here for years. It was an …
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Spending the day walking around Niagara Falls, on both US and Canadian sides, adds up the steps! 👣👣👣 …
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Getting wet on the Maid of the Mist in the Horsehoe Falls at Niagara Falls! 🙌🏻
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We had an amazing dinner at Good Luck in Rochester, NY tonight. 🍽 The star of the meal was the 1 lb. …
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After intense deliberation Mazie and Tyler each picked one of these to take home from the Corning …
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The Contemporary Galleries of the Corning Museum of Glass have stunning art and equally amazing …
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Time for a drive-in movie at the Elmira Drive-In to see Christopher Robbin. 🎬
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We had to dodge the rain but we got to see Taughannock Falls today! Impressive waterfall!
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Family selfie at Ventosa Vineyards! 🍷
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Fun afternoon tasting all sorts of beverages at 3 Brothers Winery!
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Ice Cream stop for today at Cornell Dairy Bar. 🤤🍦
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Great beer 🍺 and food 🍕 at Grist Iron Brewing Co this evening, with a nice view of Lake Seneca in …
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We had a fun (blazing hot) sail on the True Love schooner on Seneca Lake today. ⛵️
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We had a fun (and very hot) hike down and back up the Gorge Trail at Watkins Glen State Park. The …
: We all got to meet Dan Pritchard in person today! Should have gotten a pic. Kubb uniting people in …
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The kids had fun racing at RPM Raceway in Syracuse. I was impressed with their electric karts. Very …
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We had a great time doing The Heist and Cold Case at the Museum of Intrigue! It is a very …
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Maximum Art Deco in Syracuse, NY.
: Tyler and I still have fun with Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 9399 2668 4290 if you want to friend …
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Enjoying a delicious lunch at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que! 🐖 Thanks Jason Greenberg for the recommendation! 🍽
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Flight delayed on tarmac waiting out storm… asked about weather “Well, I’m not a meteorologist but I …
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These Beanie Boos keep multiplying. 😳
July 2018
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International Champions Cup soccer at US Bank Stadium. Tottenham Hotspur v AC Milan! 🙌🏻⚽️
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Twins v Indians tonight! ⚾️
Nice sunset hitting downtown Minneapolis from Target Field.
Twins win! …
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Great fun this afternoon tubing down Minnehaha Creek across the street from our house. 🙌🏻 😄
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Morning kayak on Lake Nokomis.
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Had a fabulous afternoon at Shady Oak Beach! 🏖
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Tammy and I finished the Ruin Raiders room at Missing Pieces all on our own! 🔓
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Tammy and I went to Sorry To Bother You tonight. Very fun, and original movie. Enjoyed it. 🎬
: I made a Workflow in iOS that pulls a specific budget amount for me from YNAB’s API, then added it …
: Biked into work today! 🚲 Two weeks makes the start of a streak.
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MN United v LAFC
Great start to MN United v LAFC! Some serious soccer! ⚽️
Totally amazing, gorgeous goal from …
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Beef tenderloin on the Big Green Egg tonight. 🔥🤤
: Pulled the lever to make espresso this morning and to my shock and horror realized the pump in my …
: Backed Stages Card Game on Kickstarter, a grand tour bicycle race themed card game! 🚲
: 📅 Happy World Emoji Day! 🙌🎉🎊
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Just two numbers from the blackout Grand Prize on the bottom right sheet. Someone else won on the …
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Exploring the brand new Bell Museum!
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Coffee flight at Fairgrounds: Verve (Santa Cruz), Dark Matter (Chicago), and Stumptown (Portland). …
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Checking out the new Fairgrounds Craft Coffee & Tea in North Loop. ☕️ Very good coffee. Fried egg …
: We are having a lot of fun with our Turing Tumble, and the maker extensions of printing your own …
: 30% of the total space on my MacBook’s SSD is being used by iOS backups of my iPhone and iPad. ☹️
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I’m looking forward to attaching a Siri Shortcut of “Hey Siri, Loons Win!” to this Workflow in iOS …
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Cue Wonderwall! 🎶 Glorious 3-2 win Minnesota United! ⚽️🙌🏻
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That was one of the most beautiful goals of the whole season Minnesota United! Floated right over …
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Minnesota United v Real Salt Lake tonight! 👍🏻🙌🏻⚽️
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MN Twins v Tampa Bay Rays! ⚾️
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Minnesota United FC v Costa Rica’s Deportivo Saprissa! ⚽️ Light crowd tonight.
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SPS Brew-Off brewers awaiting the announcement of the winner! EDIPA and DC4UIPA had my backing! …
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SPS Brew-Off with Kubb! Go #TeamSPS! 👍
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Good night for a Twins game! ⚾️ Twins v KC Royals!
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My Turing Tumble games arrived! I’m looking forward to making some mechanical computers 👍🏻, maybe …
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Mazie and I had a great 18.4 mile bike ride today on the Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail. This has …
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Enjoying a cocktail at the brand new 10,000 Drops distillery in Faribault. Delicious drinks! 🍹 Also …
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The best bike rides have a Dairy Queen in the middle! 🚴♂️ + 🍦 = 😊
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I got a Specialized Crosstrail bike today. 🚴♂️ Took it for a brief ride tonight and really like it. …
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Delicious pizza at Dino’s Pizzeria in Mankato tonight. 🍕 I also got to play with the crayons on the …
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Brisket came off after 15 ½ hours on the Big Green Egg. Internal temperature between 205-210. Rested …
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Keeping an eye on the Big Green Egg and brisket using the iGrill 2.
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“Full packer” beef brisket on the Big Green Egg for the night! Time for a good smoke and see where …
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5-player Ticket to Ride tonight! Tyler and I were Blue Team. We played aggressively, but finished …
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Tenderloins on the Big Green Egg. 🔥🥩
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Me on the lily pad with Mazie and Tyler! 🕶 Plus the remote control boat zooming by in the …
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Rainy morning 🌧, playing The Magic Labyrinth. 🎲 Fun game.
June 2018
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Got to use the custom can koozies Mazie made me for Father’s Day today.
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Big Green Egg grilling in the rain! 🔥☔️
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The lilypad is a huge hit with the kids!
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Tyler and Mazie have found a bunch of fun summer destinations in 111 Places in the Twin Cities That …
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It’s amazing to be able to listen to new John Coltrane music. Enjoying Both Directions at Once this …
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Minnesota United FC v FC Dallas
Time for some Minnesota United FC v FC Dallas soccer! ⚽️
Family selfie at Minnesota United FC soccer …
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First clematis flower of the year.
: I contributed to RAICES Bond Fund to help reunite immigrant children separated from their families …
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Introducing Mazie to the 1980’s by watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Classic. 🎬
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We had a fun time beating The Search for Atlantis at Escape Frenzy! Another escape room down! 🙌🏻 …
: We dropped Tyler off for his first overnight camp. Just two nights. Experienced some nervousness and …
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Tyler scoring a run this weekend. ⚾️
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Urban fishing on Lake Harriet tonight.
: Took my Canon 5D Mark II with the 70-200 f/2.8L to Tyler’s baseball game today. Good reminder of how …
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Mazie got Nintendo Labo for the Switch, and has been busy building her piano kit for hours and is …
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The kids got me The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Father’s day, so we are exploring …
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Flag and wake on Lake Superior.
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Our Apostle Islands Cruise is returning back to dock, halfway through, big storm coming. ⛈ Weather …
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Apostle Island Cruise this afternoon.
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Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad’s out there! I’m a lucky guy! 🙏🏻❤️
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Lightning ⚡️ over the Big Top Chautauqua resulted in an immediate stop to tonight’s show. Was great …
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Brandi Carlile at the Big Top Chautauqua
Brandi Carlile taking the stage at Big Top Chautauqua. 🎶 Crowd is excited! 🙌🏻
Her performances amaze …
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Family selfie in Bayfield, WI. 👨👩👧👦
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It is worth driving to Bayfield just to get the Wine Bread at the Candy Shoppe. So delicious. 🤤
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We had a delightful dinner at Freehands Farm outside Ashland, WI. 🍽 True farm to table dining - on …
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Nice family bike ride around Lake Harriet tonight.
: Got a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Extend today. I am very impressed with how easy setup was. Easily …
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Idyllic evening on Morgan Avenue.
: The new capabilities of OmniFocus 3 are great, but I will be happy to get it on macOS so I can take …
: Plugged my Jawbone Jambox into my laptop to change the configuration and found out that Jawbone went …
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Got the pork shoulders on just as the rain started to pour! Hoping to smoke through 5 hours of rain …
: Nice talk on Automate Your Context at Monitorama 2018 from Andy Domeier of #TeamSPS! 👏 Teams that …
: DevOps Minneapolis: Changing the Enterprise Session I had a great time talking about Changing the Enterprise at this week’s DevOps Minneapolis Meetup …
: Great Minnestar board meeting today! Lucky to be part of a great organization helping to connect the …
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Nice turnout tonight for the Dev Ops Minneapolis meetup. 👍 It makes me happy that we can host the …
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I had a great time talking about Changing the Enterprise at tonight’s DevOps Minneapolis Meetup with …
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US Internet speed test using Fast. Multiple tests ranged from 930-1000 Mbps.
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US Internet completed my fiber install today! Flipping over was as easy as swapping a cable and a …
: My productivity geek wish for tomorrow’s WWDC event is to learn what Apple had in mind when it …
: I’d rather GitHub stay independent, but of all that could buy it, Microsoft feels okay.
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Took advantage of cool weather this morning and spent 2 hours clearing brush from the lakeshore. …
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Was a great evening for s’mores! 🔥
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Introduced a bunch of new people to Skittles today. 👍🏻
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Great conversation tonight at Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing with Mingyur Rinpoche …
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Of course we celebrate National Donut Day at #TeamSPS! 🍩
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Coffee Spilled & Sprayed
Dropped my full cup of Dunn Bros coffee all over my desk, pouring 80% of it all over the place. …
May 2018
: Humble Leadership Profile A couple of months ago I was recommended for a project on Humble Leadership. Matt Norman is doing …
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Firmware updates are the best! I have an irrational excitement about them — always! 🙌
: My children both tend to pick Comic Sans when picking a type. 😳 I have no idea where I went wrong. …
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First tubing of 2018 today! 💦😁
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Brisket going in the Big Green Egg for an overnight smoke. See ya in the morning! 🔥
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Freakish heavy rain, hail and high wind weather came out of nowhere. ⛈💨
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Getting rid of some old cables. 😳
: Got my pre-order of OmniFocus 3 in! 👍🏻
: Had a fun time recording an interview with Matt Norman today for his Humble Leadership series. 📹
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Minnesota Twins v Detroit Tigers! ⚾️
Enjoying a perfect night for baseball!
Panorama of Target …
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The Tesla coil at Museum of Space and Industry in Chicago impresses me every time. ⚡️😲
: Just finished the Mission: Mars room at The Escape Game in Chicago. Loved the room! Best escape room …
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Afternoon coffee flight – macchiato with cappuccino at Cafe Umbria. ☕️
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Chicago at night from the Hancock building.
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“The Bean” in Millenium Park.
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Some scenes from Chicago architectural boat tour.
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White Sox v Texas Rangers
White Sox v Texas Rangers! ⚾️
Time for lunch. Sox leading 3-0! 👍🏻⚾️
White Sox beat Texas Rangers …
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Sailboats in Chicago going out to the lake.
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SPS TechJam 2018
Today is our annual #TeamSPS TechJam event bringing the global SPS technology team together to …
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Hanging out with the amazing Bridget Kromhout at our SPS TechJam speaker dinner! Looking forward to …
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Happy Mother’s Day 2018 to my awesome mom!
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Enjoying a delicious Westvleteren 12 — voted best beer in the world! Wow! 🍺
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Surly Hopshifter IPA. Awesome! 🍺
: Learned that you cannot make whipped cream in an ice cream maker bowl. 🤦🏼♂️
: I like the augmented memory effect I get when adding a link to Pinboard and it tells me I previously …
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MN United v SJ Quakes
Ready for MN United game! ⚽️👏🏻
MN United game time! ⚽️
Goal for the Yellow Team to give San Jose …
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Saturday morning 8 and under baseball! ⚾️
: 😲 When you put email from one account into a different email accounts Sanebox deferral folder. 🤦🏼♂️
: Learned the hard way that if you are using ZURB Foundation for Email, you really need to use their …
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Tammy and I saw Tully tonight. Good movie. 🎬
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Had a fabulous lunch today with the Minneapolis contingent of our #TeamSPS Comms Team to celebrate …
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Ready for a group book discussion on Radical Candor by Kim Scott with our #TeamSPS technology …
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I think if you averaged all bike rides in Minneapolis today, you would get my ride around the three …
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Ships coming and going in Duluth.
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May 5th and snow still hanging on! Lake Superior shoreline at Canal Park, Duluth.
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We escaped from the Enchanted Forest room at Zero Hour Escape Rooms in Duluth. It was a very fun …
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Afternoon beverage at Castle Danger Brewery. 🍺
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Family photo on shore of Lake Superior. Outside of Two Harbors.
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It seems bananas that there is a Banana Saver product one can buy. 🍌🤦🏼♂️
: It’s possible to make some pretty crazy stuff with Workflow and Pythonista on iOS. Improving my …
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Gooseberry Falls was amazing today.
: Why does Microsoft OneDrive for iOS still not support the Files app. It should have been one of the …
: When Twitter updates Terms of Service I get notices for multiple accounts that I deactivated/deleted …
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North Shore requires a stop at Betty’s Pies. I’m a pie traditionalist. Blueberry, cup of coffee.
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Gooseberry Falls is roaring with spring melt.
: Excited to see OmniFocus 3.0 for iOS ship date announced! Wonder why it’s not in App Store for …
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Whole family at Home Free concert in Duluth. (One of Mazie’s favorite bands!) 🎶
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Trying out OMC Smokehouse in Duluth, and of course a Bent Paddle Kanū.
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Going to learn some Cyrillic for my next trip to Kyiv.
April 2018
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Gorgeous evening to sit outside and relax.
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Minnesota United v. Houston Dynamo
Ready for tonight’s Minnesota United game! ⚽️👏⚽️👏⚽️
Time for soccer! ⚽️ Go United! 👏👏👏
MN United! …
: Today is the State competition for National History Day. Mazie has her documentary ready to go. This …
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Kids are all of a sudden into Beanie Boos. 🤷🏼♂️
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The bishops on the “summer” side of our custom Chess set are Kubb players, of course.
: This time of year is great for eagle watching as the ice comes off Cannon Lake. This morning we …
: Got great tickets to the two shows I wanted to see at the Music in the Zoo this summer — Son Volt …
: Martina wows diners with flavors of Argentina and Italy in south Minneapolis ← Well deserved praise …
: I always feel a little defensive for Minneapolis when I have to pick “America/Chicago" from a list …
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St Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
: Time to head home! Successful 8th trip to Kyiv to visit #TeamSPS! 🛫
: Just preordered 1Blocker X. I rely on 1Blocker to keep me protected on the web. I use it on all my …
: I’ve never understood why people wrap their luggage. I see this mostly on international travel. …
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Great Georgian dinner at Gogi with our Kyiv leadership team. 😊
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My collection of travel cables is bonkers. 😬
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People enjoying the Cherry Blossoms in A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Cherry Blossoms at Botanical Garden in Kyiv, Ukraine.
: Remember headphone cables? Those were bothersome.
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Sunrise draping through Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport this morning.
: Heading to Kyiv to visit #TeamSPS! ✈️ MSP → CDG → KBP
: 🌨 It is still snowing in Minneapolis. 🤦♂️ I am flying to Ukraine 🇺🇦 tomorrow and will be enjoying …
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Snow day seems like a good day to get the Z-Scale train out.
Model trains are always fun. Tyler and …
: With all the amazing capabilities of the iPhone camera system, it still can’t expose snow properly. …
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Well over a foot of snow to deal this morning. Heavy too with the warm temperatures recently. Had to …
: Planning to just let the snow keep falling, and get completely snowed in until tomorrow morning, …
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Minnebar 13
Today I went to my 13th Minnebar — I haven’t missed one yet! For the first time ever we had a …
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People flying their drones through VR goggles looks kind of creepy. 😬
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Had a great time at my 13th Minnebar today! 🌟
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Join me in supporting Minnestar and the Twin Cities technology community by becoming a Community …
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Bridget Kromhout kicking off Minnebar 13 Session 0. 👏
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Twin Peaks (Season 3)
I started watching the new Twin Peaks tonight. I was a big fan of the series in the 90’s, and have …
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First game of Tetris in years. Not bad! 🤗
: Not entirely sure what friending on Nintendo Switch does, but if you do that sort of thing, I’m at …
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The Decemberists at the Palace Theater.
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I was really happy that India Palace made Lachha Paratha for us tonight (not on the menu). I had …
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This graph is in Why We Sleep and is super interesting. Only just getting started on this read and …
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The ice is coming off of Cannon Lake! ☀️
: “You can find us on Twitter, Safari and Duck Duck Goose.” — my kids introducing their circus acts …
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Went to setup Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS service and it looks like Eero Plus must work in part …
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Visited the Michigan Avenue Apple Store when we were in Chicago. Amazing architecture. The building …
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The view from the 360 Chicago deck on the John Hancock Tower was incredible.
Family selfie from the …
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The Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago are incredible. You can find detail in …
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Chicago Cloud Gate sculpture.
Inside the Chicago Cloud Gate.
Chicago Cloud Gate.
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$1 million three different ways ($1, $20, and $100 bills) at Chicago Fed Money Museum.
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Delicious espresso at Caffe Umbria this morning.
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Array of 3D printers at Museum of Science & Industry.
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I love watching the Tesla coil at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
: Tammy has our summer vacations planned out for the next 5 years. Now that is planning!
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Forty minute wait for deep dish at Lou Malnati’s? Sure.
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Ready for Sharks 4D movie at Shedd Aquarium!
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Delicious unfiltered Foiken Haze New England IPA at ERIS Brewery and Cider House. 🍻
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We had a blast at Wizard Quest today and completed our challenge with a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating! This was a …
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We won “The Circus” room at D.O.A. Room Escape today with a few minutes to spare! It was fun to do a …
: “Listicles” turned into slide shows should be considered Adware.
March 2018
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We had a great time at the Rick Wilcox Magic Show tonight! 🎩 I got to go onstage for one of the …
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Dinner at Moosejaw Pizza & Brewing. 🍽
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Great family travel accessory, Anker 10-port USB charger.
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Family selfie at the Wisconsin Dells Kalahari Resort! Tyler’s black eye memorialized.
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Delicious Kingfield at Five Watt Coffee this morning. Heading out on vacation shortly.
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At Martina for our first Gnocchi Night. Delicious.
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Seeing Patricia Barber for the first time at Dakota Jazz Club. 🎶
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Great start to Season 5 of Silicon Valley. 🤣
: I’ve gone from being ambivalent about OmniFocus 3 tags, to now constantly thinking about how they …
: Mazie passed through regionals and is now moving onto the statewide competition for National History …
: Delta website shows 708,984 lifetime miles for me. I’ll probably hit that Million Miler status in a …
: Still thinking about today’s awesome lunch at Tori Ramen with Patrick Rhone. The Bali Bali! was …
: Shredding paper like I work in the White House. 🤣
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Steve Earle doing Copperhead Road at the Pantages! 👍🏻🎶
: Backordered the better Marlon Bundo book. Made me chuckle that it’s on back order.
:
Getting crushed in UNO this morning. 🤪
: Unlocked Izel in Alto’s Odyssey and set a new record run. 👍🏻
: GOAL!!! Yeah Minnesota United! United 1-0! Wow — 3 rapid goals leave MNUFC leading 2-1! Nice home …
: Why MailChimp for Weekly Thing I’ve now completed the migration and automation of the Weekly Thing using MailChimp, and I’m very …
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The Taj Mahal is so amazing in photos that it looks surreal.
: Virginia lost to the 16th seed? 😲 There goes my NCAA bracket. 🚽
: My dog Chase got some teeth pulled today and he’s really not pleased about it. 🙁
:
Was great to catch up today with friends and MarketWatch colleagues Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard.
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2018 π day shirt!
See Pi Day Collection.
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🥧 #TeamSPS getting reading to celebrate π day!
See Pi Day Collection.
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Had a nice layover in Amsterdam. ✈️ Now flipped my clocks back to central time and am looking …
: Starting flights home from India! 🛫 Delhi (DEL) → Amsterdam (AMS) → Minneapolis (MSP) 🛬 Depart at …
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Had a wonderful visit to the Taj Mahal this morning. Amazing palace.
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Delicious Indian lunch at Haldirams in Noida. The Cholley Bhature was amazing!
: Time to leave Pune and fly 🛫 to Delhi. We’ll have a half-day of meetings in Noida and then 🚙 drive …
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I got schooled today in ping pong 🏓 . Next time I need to practice up before I come to visit.
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We had an amazing day today with #TeamSPS in Pune! It was fabulous to meet everyone! 🤝
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We got to celebrate International Women’s Day while in Pune with Bristlecone. It was an honor to get …
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Kent, Amy and I took a moment to prove that everyone looks dorky in a VR headset. 👀😬
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Nice welcome from our partners at Bristlecone!
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Bristlecone welcomed us to the Pune office with this amazing sand art in the lobby! Wow! 👏🏻
: Next leg of India trip starting. Had a fabulous time In Hyderabad. Now boarding Air India 🛫 to our …
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Suggestion: if your store is named Helvetica, maybe use the Helvetica typeface? 😏
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Fabulous visit to Indmax #TeamSPS in Hyderabad. Thank you for the warm welcome and great questions! …
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Miniature temple in Hyderabad.
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Fabulous evening at Taj Falaknuma Palace. Amazing palace and very good dinner at Adaa.
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Visiting Midnight Bazaar in Hyderabad.
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Beautiful collection of roses. 🌹
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A very warm and generous welcome to Hyderabad from our partners at Indmax. 🙏
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Finished great town hall with our partner Indmax #TeamSPS in Hyderabad! Also video to our Coimbatore …
: Starting second leg of India 🇮🇳 trip with flight to Hyderabad! ✈️
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Nice evening of good food and conversation with Bristlecone team.
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Cool candle display at Taj Hotel in New Delhi.
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Traffic in Delhi and Noida is “up close” and personal.
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Had a very good visit to HCL today. Impressive capabilities and people!
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Amy, Kent and I got a warm welcome from our partners at Bristlecone after 20 hours of traveling and …
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The customs hall at the Delhi airport has some cool artistic touches.
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Dan Wilson at Icehouse
Dan Wilson taking the stage for his 3-ring Binder “all-requests” show at Icehouse! 🎶👍🏻
Dan Wilson …
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Fun performance of The Lion King at Justice Page Middle School tonight! 🎭
February 2018
: Still finding Alto’s Odyssey very fun. Great game! 👍🏻
: I’m amazed at the “superpowers” Workflow gives me automating routine things from my phone! 🙌🏻
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My sons 2nd grade class also has a mindfulness practice. It’s a great idea and it seems to work for …
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I got to be a guest reader in Tyler’s class today. Was fun to pick out a bunch of books for the 2nd …
: Another very good meal at Martina. Shaved brussel salad, beet salad, swordfish and panqueque. Wow!
: Theatre this afternoon. Make Believe Neighborhood at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask …
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Book: Why Buddhism Is True
I recently finished reading Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and …
: Forestry.io is working great for me. Removes the friction from static blogging. 👍🏻
: If Curling can be an Olympic sport than surely Kubb could be too. 🤞🏻 Congratulations to Duluth …
: Your Version Number My friend David Hussman likes to reference his age with a version number. He does a divide by 10 so …
: macOS Photos app grinds my laptop to a crawl. Fans blaring, everything sluggish. Very frustrating. …
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At Feed My Starving Children to pack meals. Tyler wanted to come here for his birthday. Love this …
: Weekly Thing Enhancements This weekend I made some significant improvements to the automation and template for the Weekly …
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Alto’s Odyssey is a beautiful game experience.
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Eero update today to support IPv6 and I can now go full IPv6 all the way online. Very nice! 👏
: It’s all twizzles on the Olympic Ice. ⛸
: Using the Get and Set Clipboard actions in Workflow to pass more than just “Workflow input” between …
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I love these photos of Tammy and I from our annual SPS Commerce Social! 😊
: Went down a rabbit hole 🕳 automating MailChimp for the Weekly Thing. Wrestled control on my …
: At times while trying to quiet my mind, it is like thoughts are bouncing around like a popcorn maker …
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Beef tenderloin into the Sous Vides bath. 🤤🥩
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I guess I exceeded the temperature for the spatula. 🤨
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We got Tyler a Loog Pro Electric Red guitar and little Fender Mini Amp for birthday. 🎸🎂 Huge hit! 👍🏻 …
: Looks like Adobe has put Lightroom out of it’s misery. I’m going to have to rethink my entire photo …
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🎬 The Greatest Showman was a fabulous movie! Really enjoyed the story and the music. Very well done. …
: Saw preview for Isle of Dogs — looks fabulous! 🎬
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Tammy makes a Family Yearbook each year and I made the cover this year! 😊
: Hosted Tyler’s bowling birthday party! 🎂 🎳 Kids had a great time. 🎉 Could use a nap now. 💤
: Tesla pushed my Model 3 reservation to “Late 2018”. In “Musk-speak” that reads “Mid 2019” to me.
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The video of these Falcon boosters landing today is amazing. I have to remind myself repeatedly that …
: Super Bowl LII was pretty spectacular. 🏈👍🏻
: Using Super Bowl ads as an opportunity to highlight for my kids how brands attempt to manipulate …
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In celebration of Super Bowl LII here we are in front of the ice sculpture of the numerals downtown! …
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Snowy trail from today’s bike ride. Went down once.
: Identify Addictive Application Patterns As our environment gets more complex we need to be better educated to navigate it. For example, I …
: Did a very short ride on my Fat Bike in the snow. It’s so much fun to ride around in the snow. I …
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I’m reading 📚 Why Buddhism Is True and the references to “modules” of the mind keep reminding me of …
: Forestry.io I have been happy having my blog hosted in Jekyll and built as a static site with Netlify. There is …
January 2018
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The Cactus Blossoms at the Turf Club. So good! 🎶
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First run with the Sous Vide. Making beef tenderloin.
: When you clean that black crud out of the bottom of your espresso machine’s portafilter it makes you …
: Sunday morning project: Figured out how to connect Workflow and Pythonista and rewrote the links …
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Excited to head to the world’s largest winter Kubb tournament at the Loppet today! Go Kubbchucks! …
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I have an irrational enthusiasm for updating firmware. 🤩😎🤞🏻
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Trying Dropmix for first time! Pretty cool — a musical trip!
: Three new board members joining the Minnestar board! Great to have more talented people driving this …
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A lot of snow coming down in Minneapolis! ❄️
Two hours running snow blower. I’m done for tonight. …
: The Vikings didn’t play well tonight, but this game is just hard to watch. 🏈☹️
: 2017 in Meetings Manager and maker schedules is a relatively popular topic. The basic thesis is that maker schedules …
: I can’t think of a reason I would ever want a notification from my Kindle app.
: Jekyll is just too slow to be a viable option, to process my blog I get “done in 60.411 seconds”.
: 2017 in Links For years I’ve been keeping all of my links on Pinboard and this year I decided to start publishing …
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One of my favorite Saturday morning spots to do some reading.
: Gas pumps with screens blaring advertising should be required by law to have always present off …
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I have been impressed with the Anki Cozmo — it’s amazing how much character this little robot has! 🤖
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Getting the whole family shoveling the snow makes it very quick! 🌨🌨🌨
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New light hung! 💡 This is about the extent of my handyman skills. 👷🏻♂️
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Trying my hand at some Nordic Waffles this morning with the help of Stine Aasland’s We Love Waffles! …
: Went to Young Joni for dinner for the first time. 🍽 Delicious food and amazing location. 👍🏻
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So many books. Wild Rumpus Books. 📚
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Family movie night watching Leap! Everyone liked it. 🎬
: A smartphone filled with social apps is a manifestation of Buddhist monkey mind.
: I continue to see more people covering the camera in their laptops. How come nobody covers the …
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Fog on Longboat Key, Florida.
: Enjoying 10% Happier on audiobook. Approachable introduction to mindfulness. 📚
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We went to the Bakken Museum today which was very fun! They have a demonstration or “game” there …
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Fun with photo booth at Pizzeria Lola! 📷
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Entering the world of sous vide cooking with my new Joule. Love that I even get to update firmware …
: Just finished module 1 of The Focus Course. It is a slow start but I see it building some …
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This was a fun surprise on my Apple Watch this morning. Was this only a Siri face feature?
December 2017
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Time for family New Year’s Eve. Game of Clue is first up! 🎲
It was Mrs. Peacock in the Hall with a …
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Leveling up my coffee fussiness with this new coffee distribution tool. ☕️
Got a set of the Bodum …
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Tyler and I played Super Mario Odyssey through a few levels today and had a blast. The game is …
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First time playing Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries and liked it a lot. Limiting to only have 3 …
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Watched Hacksaw Ridge tonight. Very well done. Battle scenes were a bit much. Tammy and I have now …
: Static site generators are great in so many ways, but the friction in publishing with them is …
: What apps make you better? I’ve been very intentional about which applications I put on my iPhone and even where I put them. I …
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I want to be an energy efficient household but this monthly report from XcelEnergy does nothing to …
: … NAS issue resolved? After extended SMART test said all was fine I did another rebuild of the …
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Watched The Circle. Thought provoking ideas and concepts. Okay movie.
: I got an Anki Cozmo robot for Christmas and we’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Little thing has …
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We are going to bring in the new year… frozen!
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Tyler and I did this LEGO Technic RC Tracked Racer. Very fun! One of the most impressive LEGO kits …
: … back to NAS issue. I ran the extended SMART test on every drive in my Synology and no errors. …
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Watched Fences tonight. Amazing acting all around and great dialogue. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Playing Prime Climb with the family. Interesting game. Sort of like Sorry. Lots of math!
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Playing Maze Racers with the kids. Fun game.
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Christmas Eve dinner on Big Green Egg. 🔥❄️
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Nice gentle snow for Christmas Eve this afternoon. 🌨
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Watched Arthur Christmas again last night with the kids. 🎬 That movie might get a spot on the annual …
: Been getting errors on disk 3 in one of my Synology DS416 units. Swapped out the bad disk and …
: You remove all the social apps from your iPhone and you realize it wont fill all your idle moments. …
: Another super fun Book Club meeting tonight! Good conversation about Daemon by Daniel Suarez.
: Looking up recipes for Christmas, proud Minnesotan moment with this intro on Wikipedia: “Glorified …
: Really happy to see micro.blog public release today! I’ve been enjoying micro.blog since the first …
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Saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi and thought it was great! 👍
: 😤 … when you sit down to do something quick on your computer and you spend 30 mins fixing cable …
: Trying to figure out what size rubber grommet I need for my espresso knock box bar. A bit …
: Think I might have finally fixed a really annoying Time Machine v. Synology NAS behavior. 🤞
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I 💙 this! #TeamSPS slide to highlight my disdain for pie charts. 😁 The exploded slices are a great …
: Martina Restaurant We went to Martina for the first time last night and I was very impressed! The space is great and we …
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Tammy and I went to see Lady Bird last night. It was really good and I liked it a lot, despite my …
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Excited for tonight’s Semisonic show!
Semisonic at First Ave! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Afternoon father-son excursion on the Northstar Train to Big Lake and back. 👨👦🚆
Snowy field along …
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Proud member of the EFF! Donate now!
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Somebody thought these red sunglasses with flashing lights were a good idea? 😕
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Earned the botanist badge in Forest! 🌳🌳🌳
: Friday night and I’m drafting up tomorrows edition of the Weekly Thing! Sign up now to get one …
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We went to Wonder tonight and it’s a fabulous movie. It tugs at the heart strings all over the …
: Great Minnestar board meeting today. It’s very rewarding to think about how far this organization …
: Amazon Prime Video now on Apple TV! I can finally watch The Man In The High Castle without the …
: I just donated to Wikipedia. 😊🎓 Support free knowledge!
: Removed Google Analytics I’ve never desired to put a lot of tracking code on my websites, but I had left Google Analytics. …
: Eero Plus subscription with security and ad blocking, and now Encrypt.me and 1Password for Families …
: Having fun trying Apple Pay over iMessage with some friends. Sending $1 around. This is pretty nice. …
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Replacement hard drive for one of my Synology RAID units on the way.
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Hung these shelves in Tyler’s room. They look great but what a pain to hang! 😤
: After a long hiatus I’m finally watching the last episode of Game of Thrones, Season 7. 🤫
: Scanning “Twitter Moments” is pretty good confirmation that Twitter and I parted ways a long time …
: Family theater 🎭 this afternoon with Snow White and the Seven Vikings. Good performance at the Old …
: Had a nice time at Julmarknad at the American Swedish Institute this morning! 👍🏻
: First trip to Lucky Oven Bakery; very good food, broad menu, good coffee. Very busy though, expect …
: Our daughter is writing the Christmas letter this year. Think it will be the best one ever! 😁
: AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote Notes My quick reaction to the notable announcements at AWS re:Invent 2017. Compute Amazon Elastic …
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There is perhaps nothing more Midwest than a Lutefisk Dinner in a church basement. 88th Annual …
November 2017
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Espresso shower head and gasket certainly needed replacing.
: Watching the AWS re:Invent day 2 keynote and I keep noting that the they spend a lot of time talking …
: You can import and export 1Blocker packages. I put my custom packages on GitHub so I can version …
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In our chat room today TeamSPS decided I needed some Christmas cheer! 🎄 😎
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I finally got my first house in SleepTown. Interesting app concept from the makers of Forest. Every …
: I wish 1Blocker had a built in system for sharing and subscribing to custom packages made by other …
: I’m still new to my Audible subscription but am liking it thus far. Think it will result in …
: Thanks to Jarrod Whaley I have a nice little Python script so I can easily update micro.blog without …
: Looking forward to speaking at the MHTA Annual CIO Panel next week!
: AWS re:Invent Keynote 2017 AWS ECS for Kubernetes announcement makes total sense. Expected and good to see them adopting this. …
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Bitcoin went up 21% in the last week! 🤭
: Join me in supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation in their 2017 fundraising campaign with …
: Gas station on my commute just added Apple Pay to pumps. Hope that is a trend that accelerates. 👏🏻
: Realized today that the group gasket and shower screen on my espresso machine is supposed to be …
: Envisioning a Cloud Native Wiki A few years ago I dove deeply into the wiki ecosystem and learned all about MediaWiki, its plugins …
: Got my ScanSnap iX500 setup tonight. Cloud scanning seems to be working well.
: Family night out with dinner at Bacio and then went to Coco. What a great movie! Highly recommended!
: Official start of Christmas with tree up 🎄 and watching Elf 🎬 tonight.
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Playing The .com Edition of Monopoly, of course. 😜 Hilarious tiles. Game starts with $1.5 billion …
: Very true → “You are either building a learning organization, or you are losing to one who is." — …
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Christmas Tree decorating and reminiscing. 🎄
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I don’t get 1000%+ price increase in Bitcoin. 🤷♂️
: Finished Stranger Things 2 tonight. Very good. 👏🏻
: US Internet won’t be able to finish my fiber install until spring. 😭 Ground is freezing and not …
: Family time to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. 📺 Traditions!
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Making the Wassail Tea for Thanksgiving!
: Signed up for Shawn Blanc’s The Focus Course. Looking forward to learning and improving. 👨🎓
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Deer Strike
On Friday night we were driving to the cabin, and in a split second, a deer 🦌 was in front of our …
: I’ve got Eero Plus subscription service on my Eero home network. Turned on beta ad and tracker …
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Fair State Coop Brewing Keller Kazbek. Delicious! 🍺
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 7: Shadow. Einstein.
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TeamSPS Brew Off
Fun (and cold!) #TeamSPS Brew Off today. Tailgate style!
Hanging with Pat Backen at #TeamSPS “Hop To …
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 6: Seasonal.
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Excited for tomorrow’s #TeamSPS Brew Off! Part of our annual United Way campaign. Give back!
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 5: Liquid. CO2!
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 4: Up Close - Espresso!
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge, Day 3: On The Move!
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 2: Tasty! Smoking pork belly for bacon!
: Hugo just generated 8,173 pages in 2.4 seconds. Jekyll takes around 500 seconds to do similar. Whoa. …
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Micro.blog Photo Challenge Day 1: Squares
: Went to a Bat Mitzvah for the first time today and was taken at the beauty of the ceremony!
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Chaos Community Day
David Hussman and Leah Cunningham kicking off Chaos Community Day. Have already connected with many …
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Fun to have this Erik Sletten painting back up after years! Just fits!
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Excited to attend (and sponsor) Chaos Community Day tomorrow! Looking forward to learning how chaos …
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Great day at the #TeamSPS GrowthSummit18! So many amazing things to celebrate as we get ready for …
: I created an easy to share landing page for people to sign up to my Weekly Thing newsletter! 👍
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Tyler and I playing some Five Crowns.
: Home networking: Mesh WiFi is all cool and everything, but I still prefer the “blinky lights” of Cat …
: Dave Pell’s NextDraft has become a true daily read for me, top to bottom. Recommended! 👍⭐️
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Had a great time seeing David Sedaris with my mom tonight! 🤣
: There should be a proper espresso demitasse emoji. ☕️ misses the point.
: Being able to raise your wrist and say “Hey Siri, turn espresso on” a few miles from home on a cold …
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Nice, chilly bike ride around the Minneapolis lakes today. Had to get the balaclava out! The Defiant …
: My book club is reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez this month! I’ve wanted to read this one for a …
: Got Workflow working with the Mailchimp API. Weekly Thing automation leveling up! 👍🏻 My biggest ask …
: The Kubbchucks are registered for the 2018 MN Kubb Winter Tournament!
: Give a person a find/replace and you power them once. Teach them regular expressions and you give …
: Got my very first communication ever regarding my Tesla Model 3 reservation.
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Scenes from tonights #TeamSPS game night! I ran the Super Mario Kart tournament! Very competitive! …
October 2017
: Coldest Halloween 🎃 in 15 years definitely impacted turnout. ❄️ First year we didn’t run out of …
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Candy exchange in progress! 🍫🎃
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Mixed Up Holiday House is a favorite Halloween 🎃 stop! All holidays except Halloween! Plus 🍺 for the …
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Love this Halloween decoration hanging from a tree in the neighborhood! 🎃💀
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US Internet put the conduit from our boulevard to the house. Only a couple more weeks to gig!
: Managing 15 years of blog content Moving 15 years of blog content to Jekyll and Markdown files is surprisingly difficult. My blog …
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Watched Dope tonight. Really good movie. 🎬
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New Glarus’ Wisconsin Belgain Red is one of my favorite beers! 🍺🍒
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Pretending I’m a rancher and burning brush.
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Restrung a guitar 🎸 for first time. Now if I could do anything else with it. 😂
: Some scripting magic and I’ve finally resolved the missing images from most of my blog archive. 👏
: Just saved myself a silly amount of time with 18 lines of bash. So great. 👍
: Fun R/W Book Club meeting on A Crack in Creation tonight talking about CRISPR and gene editing! 📚
: Difficult falling asleep again lately. Ordered some more Hammer Nutrition REM Caps. Work great for …
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Bitcoin price for last month. Bananas. 🍌🤷♂️
: My Safari Reading List has mysteriously stopped synchronizing between devices. There seems to be no …
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Family photos from this weekends trip. 😁
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Campfire donuts, but on a grill.
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Lasagna! One of my specialties. 🍽
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Family photo time. Get out the big glass.
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Exploring the stars with Star Walk and iPhone.
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Lodge at night with campfire.
: The 14th Annual Olson Family Weekend starts tonight! At Nicaboyne Lake, WI this year. 9 …
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Right before dark. Nicaboyne Lake, WI.
: We got a new desk at home and I’m stunned by how much it has improved my keyboard experience! 😲
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Great Dev Ops Meetup talk by #TeamSPS Dana Engebretson on approaches she took to solving a …
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Excited to be able to attend the Dev Ops Meetup tonight hosted at SPS Commerce!
: Anyone else notice the macOS micro.blog client lets you to see who other people follow? Big help for …
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Mazie seems excited for MEA weekend! Kids are off school rest of the week!
: What’s better than using AirPods for music? Using a single AirPod to make calls or listen to an …
: I’ve posted more than most users on micro.blog’s discover tab. Definitely isn’t based on post …
: Obligatory post from the freshly released micro.blog Mac app! 👏
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Safari on iOS 11 previews an ICS file when you open it? Nice! 👏🏻 Has it always done this?
: Decade of GTD I stumbled on this link from Feb 2007 when I started looking into Getting Things Done. Over 10 years …
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Tree person says our 100+ year old elm tree has “structural failure”. Haven’t come to terms with …
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Next time I’ll have this view I’ll be standing on ice. 🙂
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Macro-sized crop art! Sever’s Fall Festival
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The Pumpkin Blasters at Sever’s Fall Festival are pretty impressive!
: Brandi Carlile’s The Story is such a great song. 🎶
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Last boat ride of the year. 🙁
: Tomorrow’s Weekly Thing will delivered from MailChimp instead of TinyLetter! 🤞 Hoping for the best!
: Missing Minnedemo tonight — coached Tyler’s soccer and home stuff. Have a great event!
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Battery life on Series 3 Apple Watch is impressive - 75% after full day.
: Really enjoying that Curb Your Enthusiasm is back with new episodes! 🤣
: PSA: The Canadian Girl Guide Mint Cookies are vastly superior to Girl Scout Thin Mints.
: When Isaiah told me he really liked the flashlight 🔦 in watchOS 4 I thought he was nuts. Used it now …
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This ridiculous route home from MN UFC game courtesy of crazy MN road construction! 🚧🚧🚧
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Minnesota United v. Sporting KC
Mazie and I closing out the MN United ⚽️ home season!
MNUFC!!! ⚽️ MNUFC!!! ⚽️ MNUFC!!! ⚽️
MNUFC …
: Forgot about I-35W being closed and missed first 20 mins of MN United ⚽️ game! 😳 After being late to …
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Happy 1st Birthday to my nephew Garrett!
: Recommend registering your email at Have I Been Pwned. Great awareness tool of data breaches!
: My book club is reading A Crack in Creation this month. Looks like a good read! 📚
: Signed up for the Xcel Energy Smart Thermostat program.
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Had a fun time cheering the runners on at the Twin Cities Marathon this morning. 👏🏻🏃🏼♀️👏🏻🏃🏼👏🏻
September 2017
: I coached Tyler’s soccer game today and left my iPhone in the car thanks to my Apple Watch with LTE. …
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My brother Isaiah came to town to help me rebuild the kids playset. Mission accomplished! 👍🏻
: Got my Series 3 Apple Watch today! Way faster than original. Have LTE setup too! ⌚️
: Setup iCloud Family Sharing for storage. Nice to have that option now!
: Gave another copy of Getting Things Done to a #TeamSPS member. One of my favorite things to do!
: Fun book club meeting tonight discussing How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and …
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One of Chase’s favorite spots.
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At cabin, kids in bed, Vodskey Moscow Mules, cribbage, tunes. 👍🏻
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Family bike ride to Baker’s Wife / Angry Catfish was great this morning. We have wonderful bike …
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Closest I’ll come to a picture with Vanilla Ice!
: “Feels like” temperator of 93 °F right now? Minne-soh-tans are already in pre-winter mode! 😅
: I enjoyed the Defiant One fat tire bike so much that I ended up buying one! Took it for an inaugural …
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Words & Music by Dan Wilson at the Fitzgerald tonight was magical. So good! 🎶
Rachel Ries did a very …
: Trying out the Siri face in watchOS 4. Curious to see how it adapts and responds.
: Updated iPhone and iPad to iOS 11. Now the slow, slow process of watchOS 4 upgrade.
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Good morning! Espresso crema… ☕️
: Have a bit of a nameserver fiasco with thingelstad.com. Just fixed things up but think it may take …
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Minnesota Honeycrisp Apples are in at the orchards! 🍎🍎
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Learning how to play cribbage so I don’t lose my Minnesota cabin license. 😊
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Mazie beat me at checkers with a passive aggressive strategy making it impossible for me to move. 😂
: Just switched my name servers for thingelstad.com to Netlify. Triple checked DNS values but if you …
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Beef tenderloin on Big Green Egg tonight.
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Sailboat on Cannon Lake. Not a typical sight.
Fall sailing. ⛵️
: Moved two small static sites to Netlify and am very impressed. Powerful and easy. Plus opens Hugo as …
: Micro.blog now with titles for long updates I got the new micro.blog iOS app and I really dig how Manton Reece has implemented subject lines and …
: Got my friend Mike Rock setup on a solid Eero network tonight, plus some network debugging.
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Stainless Steel Series 3 Apple Watch with cellular ordered! Will use stainless steel band from …
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Rode bike to work for the first time in years and years. Great route and great ride on Defiant One!
: Just upgraded my Sublime Text license to 3.0!
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Out for a ride on Defiant One again. No trailer and not using assist today. Great ride! 🚲
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US Internet here for first step of rescuing us from Comcast! 🤞🏻👏🏻
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Time for MN United game!
Getting ready for kickoff! GO MNUFC! ⚽️👏🏻🤞🏻
Sold out crowd for MN United …
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Took the Defiant One out for a test run and 🖤 it!
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Our neighbor raises tomatoes and it’s a delight every year to have fresh heirlooms to enjoy. Yum! 🍅
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Sometimes the espresso looks so much more delightful than others. ☕️
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Had morning scrimmage for Fuller Soccer Earthquakes! My first time being a coach! ⚽️😊🤞🏻
: Found out tonight that you cannot badge out of the parking ramp at work if you didn’t badge in. 😐🚫
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U2 at US Bank Stadium
Beck opening up show tonight!
Big crowd for Beck. 🎶
Wonder how many friends are at U2 show tonight. …
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Had a great time serving #TeamSPS lunch outside today! 🍔🌭🍪
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Great day for the Minnesota Renaissance Festival!
Kids and I got our henna tattoos!
Had the henna …
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The Giant Walleye in Garrison, MN.
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Me on sandbar on Pokegama Lake.
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Houseboats on sandbar. Pokegama Lake condos? 😊
: Tried canoeing again. Not sure that is for me. 🛶🚫
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Mazie having fun on paddle board.
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Chinese Lantern being launched.
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Campfire 🔥 and Pokegama Lake.
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Commute by plane to the lake! 🛩
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Relaxing afternoon with my brother Isaiah on Pokegama Lake.
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Tammy and Tiffany out for a quick canoe 🛶 on Pokegama Lake.
: Rough but functional version of R/W book club page is now up! Still a lot of 🛠 to do.
August 2017
: Currently tweaking Minnestar DNS settings! Don’t mess it up! 🤞🏻😊
: Just now trying some HomeKit things and am really impressed.
: Got a great start getting my book club website relaunched. Not ready to share yet but coming along. …
: The average quality of Jekyll themes is frustrating. I couldn’t imagine it would be worse than …
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Watched Pete’s Dragon tonight and loved it. Really great movie! 🍿
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Quiet, rainy day at the cabin. Burgers on the Big Green Egg. 🔥
: Drinking delicious coffee with the morning breeze editing the Weekly Thing for this week!
: Tammy is already planning out the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse.
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Family selfie one minute before totality!
: Just had 2:18 of totality. Amazing experience! Corona was completely visible!
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Great position for today’s eclipse! Now just keep the ☁️ away!
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1:17:29 pm max eclipse for us!
: If you are in the path of totality for the eclipse Solar Eclipse Timer seems like a good app to …
: Would have been cool if Apple had an Eclipse watchOS watch face.
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Sump Coffee has amazing espresso. This is a cathedral to coffee. So good.
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City Museum
Super fun time at City Museum in St. Louis!
City Museum is pretty amazing / crazy. Shot of tree …
: Would be cool if there was a Homebrew Website Club in Minneapolis… 🤔
: Overheard at restaurant “We still use Lotus Notes Sametime!” 🤔😏😄
: Driving to St. Louis, MO starting our total eclipse trip. Will be in totality in Eureka, MO on …
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It’s raining, most everywhere.
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Rainy night on the SPS patio. 🌨
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Coldplay at US Bank Stadium
Found our seats and ready for Coldplay to take the stage. First time at US Bank Stadium too! 👍🏻 …
: Tyler and I took the Pokemon Go Plus for a spin today and it definitely levels up your play.
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Espresso in rocket demitasse.
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Thinking about my grandparents legacy: 6 kids, 15 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren (so far…)
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Tomatoes doing very well. 🍅🍅🍅
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My Uncle Tim’s hops are doing very well! Posts are 16’ high. 🍺
Look up — at hops!
: Figured out how to digitally sign git commits. Cool capability. See verified label on 85ce711.
: Bought a trivial amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum. If previous patterns repeat, the price should drop …
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Tammy got to paddle down the Chippewa River into the Mississippi River. Thanks Broken Paddle …
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Final day of riding with Broken Paddle Guiding.
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Wine tasting at Villa Bellezza. Very cool place. Recommended.
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Nice spot for lunch today. 🚴🏻
July 2017
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Post ride wine tasting at Danzinger Vineyards.
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30 mile ride today. Longest cycling ride in years. Good amount of climbing too.
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Starting our 3-day Inn to Inn bike trip in the bluffs!
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Steve Earle now on stage at MN Zoo. 🎶😊👍🏻
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The Cactus Blossoms at the MN Zoo. So good! 🎶
: Today was a very good day. 👍🏻😊🏆
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Big Green Egg today – tenderloins! 🔥
: Driving Change The newest episode of Driving Change with Jeff Martin of Collective Genius is out with yours truly! …
: For those that saw the kitten item from this weekend, the Humane society put it to sleep. We were …
: The lost kitten we found wasn’t doing well. We surrendered him to the MN Humane Society. Hoping he …
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Time to wrap pork butt and finish with Apple cider on Big Green Egg. 🔥
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Big Green Egg pork butts. 🔥 Extra smokey.
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Found a lost and very hungry kitten 🐱 when we got to the cabin. Gave some ice cream and will check …
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Super hot soccer ⚽️ MN United v NY Red Bulls.
: I’m trying out the eero plus security service and got my first weekly report. Says it blocked 48 …
: Got jekyll-redirect-from setup and can now support some widely used old URL’s on my site.
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The New Standards at Dakota Jazz Club tonight. So good! 👍🏻 🎼
See list of The New Standards shows.
: Placed my US Internet order for 1G fiber! Plan to be in my neighborhood this fall! Help is on they …
: M.… N.… UFC! ⚽️ M.… N.… UFC! ⚽️ M.… N.… UFC! ⚽️
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Gorgeous night for some MN United soccer! ⚽️🎉👏🏻
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Amos Lee show at the Minnesota Zoo tonight.
: Oh no, my wife has started to obsessively look at new houses. There is no way to stop this train! 😲
: Woman shot by Minneapolis police last night less than a mile from our house. 😟
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I’m sure there is a prop somewhere in those weeds! 🚤😕
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Go fly a kite. (All line out!)
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Boat ride is a nice escape on a hot, hot day.
: It was great to see so many friendly new and familiar faces at Minnedemo tonight! I ❤️ our tech …
: Love my presenter page on the new Minnestar website!
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Winnipeg Folk Festival - Day 3
What reward is on my ankles that makes this fly risk his life repeatedly to obtain?
My Mom has been …
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Winnipeg Folk Festival - Day 2
Everyone seeking shade at the Bur Oak stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Esmé Patterson kicking off …
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Winnipeg Folk Festival - Day 1
Great spot for the Winnipeg Folk Festival main stage tonight. Brandi Carlile our highlight tonight! …
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Bicycle as installation art. In Grand Forks, ND.
: Driving to Winnipeg Folk Festival today to start the third segment of summer vacation!
: If you’re looking for a solid content blocker for Safari I’m liking Better for iOS and Better for …
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Time to unwrap these little presents! 🎁 Big Green Egg livin'.
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Time to wrap the pork shoulders and give them an apple bath. 👍🏻🔥
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Happy 4th of July! Four pork butts on the Big Green Egg!
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Pickleball setup! Great fun. Still learning rules. 👍🏻
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Grilled chicken tonight. 🐓 Plus the Sour Pickle Grilled Potato Salad. Yum. Big Green Egg for the …
: First status from Micro.blog now out of TestFlight and in the App Store!
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Potato salad coming soon! Big Green Egg living.
: Trying to explain the 21 stages of the Tour de France 🚴♀️🇫🇷 to my 7 year old. “How long would it …
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Awesome 4th of July jello! Thanks Joe Thiegs!
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Homemade pizza on the Big Green Egg tonight.
: Looked in the App Store for a quality app for the 2017 Eclipse and nothing but low-quality or scam …
: Happy Sunday July 2, 2017… the first Sunday you can buy beer, wine and liquor in Minnesota!
: Big congratulations to Turing Tumble! Backer 369 of 4,198 and they overfunded the Kickstarter …
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I really like Chicago. This is as close as we get today. On our way back to Minnesota from Michigan. …
June 2017
: Ordering a Pickleball kit to try over the 4th of July at the cabin!
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Family had a great time, and escaped from The Barbershop, at Grand Haven Room Escape! Room 9!
We got …
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Grand Haven Beach, Michigan.
: Celebrating 10 years of iPhone, my blog post from 10 years ago on getting my first iPhone. 📱
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Trying Mölkky for the first time today. Fun alternative to Kubb. Everything is fun on the beach. 🏖 …
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Family crafting time at Express Yourself Art Barn outside of Saugatuck.
: Very impressed with Affinity Photo! Intuitive and very powerful iPad photo editing.
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Tammy and I walking on the beach, Lake Michigan. 💕
: Now have over 100 subscribers to my Weekly Thing newsletter! The more the merrier…
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Top of the dune on the Saugatuck Dune Ride!
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Wow, The Southerner in Saugatuck, MI is crazy good. Recommended!
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Got this awesome robot by Bechler Pottery at the Grand Haven Art Festival.
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Listening to MN United game online via 1500 ESPN with data from FotMob. Good experience actually. ⚽️
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Reading American Eclipse and thinking about our upcoming trip to see the eclipse later this summer.
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Our cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan for the week. Very pleasant here.
Cairns on the Lake …
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Assembling the Weekly Thing
I had been interested in creating a newsletter like the Weekly Thing for a while but I was worried …
: Updating my Bose QuietComfort 35’s firmware from 1.0.6 to 1.3.2. I ❤️ updating firmware. 😁
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Great night with Peter Zaballos taking in a MN United win! ⚽️🎉👏🏻
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Yeah, #TeamSPS Ice Cream social today! 🍦👏🏻
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Genius design for Pokémon themed bags boards.
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Giant lawn dominoes? Haven’t seen this before. 🤔
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Cool ice cream social 🍦 at Fuller Park!
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Cheese, popcorn, strawberries and chocolate. 🍴
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Enjoying summers bounty! Fresh strawberries!
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Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads out there! Be “Rad Like Dad”! 👏🏻
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Fun stop at Whitetail Woods Regional Park.
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Midsommer Festival at American Swedish Institute.
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Family selfie! @ Mill City Museum
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Dan Wilson hinting at new Semisonic album? New song “Basement Tapes” sounds great!
: Introducing the Weekly Thing A while back I tried a way of sharing links to things that I found interesting every week. I did it …
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Excited to see Semisonic playing Great Divide tonight!
Cool to have Jeremy Messersmith open for …
: Last day of school for both kids, last day of T-Ball and Daughters birthday to boot. 🤩
: Withings getting acquired, and the brand merging in with Nokia, makes me worry about my Withings …
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Beef tenderloin on the Big Green Egg tonight.
Asparagus too for the steak. Big Green Egg makes …
: Put the archive of the Open Loop podcast that Garrick Van Buren and I did in 2012 back online. Fun …
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Monument Valley 2 is really nice. High quality puzzle game.
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OmniFocus Tip: Using Context Notifications
I use OmniFocus as the core of my GTD system. I also keep notifications on my phone to a minimum, …
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Nice evening in the neighborhood.
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Beautiful Clematis flowers in our back yard.
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Attending my first GTD workshop today. Have been doing GTD for a long time and am looking to …
: The David Lynch Documentary Kickstarter I backed in April 2012 with a delivery in May 2013 may …
: Thinking in Decades This week I worked with Yahoo! customer support and deleted my Flickr account. I had deleted my …
: SiriKit supports tasks and OmniFocus 2 is on the slide? Yes please! 😍
: Apple Pay person-to-person is going to be very significant. Opens up a lot of potentials and nice …
: iMac Pro is impressive! Amazing specs that I doubt I could tax, but I sure want one… 😍
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Sunset over Lake Harriet on a great day.
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Family walk down Minnehaha to Mississippi River.
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Maker Faire 2017
Found a TARDIS at Maker Faire!
USS Missouri in Legos from Brickmania!
Got to congratulate Paul …
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Very long escalator @ Guthrie Theatre.
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Walked around the block in an attempt to close my activity rings. Stubbornly stuck with 1 minute to …
May 2017
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Fidget spinner thing happened.
: Turing Tumble on Kickstarter My mother sent me a link to Turing Tumble on Kickstarter and the video totally got me. It is a super …
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Lost my leather coin purse. Good thing I inventoried some replacements.
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Holiday weekend. Mandatory grilling. Big Green Egg for the win! 🍔
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Some cold fishing for crappies this morning off the dock.
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Evening bike ride with the kids to Shager Park beach on Cannon Lake.
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Trying to figure out how to throw a horseshoe. Still more work to do.
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Today was a 10 out of 10. Way to go everyone!
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Got the bags out too. Quest to have all the yard games! 👍🏻😊
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Nice afternoon on Cannon Lake.
: Speaker Suggestions Through my work and being an active member in the technology community, I have a chance to see a lot …
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Tyler and I having real All-American drive in dining at A&W!
: Update on car repair: replace front right ball bearings, bent front right rim, damaged front tires, …
: Bear Notes added sketching support on iPad. Looks nice. Time to give it another look.
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The Mini Cooper loaner I have shines the Mini logo on the ground by the drivers side. Makes me …
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The giant display on the right is supposedly a monitor. Looks like a home theatre. #TeamSPS
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Cool to see the Star Tribune’s immense globe back in their lobby for the 150 year celebration.
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Remember to look up 👀 from time-to-time.
: Taking car to the shop this morning. Will get to learn what the terrible noise is coming from the …
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This United crowd is crazy today! Wow! ENERGY! Shuttleworth should always wear the face guard. Makes …
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Mazie and Tammy playing some Scrabble at Black Eye Coffee.
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Fabulous spin class this morning. High intensity, felt good.
: Using Project Templates I’ve seen and read about people using project templates for a while, but I’ve never adopted them …
: Typing on an Apple Wireless Keyboard after getting fully used to an Apple Magic Keyboard feels …
: Great Minnestar board meeting today! Very exciting things in the works over the next few months! 👍🏻
: Why is it that when Twitter updates their Privacy Policy I get email notices for Twitter accounts …
: Spiffed up my JSON Feed with additional fields. Nice capabilities. See it in JSON Feed Viewer
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Horseshoe Pits Completed!
Last weekend we finished putting in the horseshoe pits at the cabin and I’m very pleased with the …
: Added support for JSON Feed to my blog. 👍
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My mother sent me this photo of a “bike mower” that she saw at a garden show today. What kind of …
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First afternoon on Cannon Lake for 2017! Cooled off at the sandbar.
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One of our trees didn’t make it through the winter. 😔
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Smoking ribs for dinner. Great day for the Big Green Egg.
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Attempting to bake cookies in a solar oven. 🤞🏻
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This Surly glass that my Todd the Axe Man came in is really cool.
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Oh no! The dandelions have taken over the yard!
: Outlook’s new built-in grammar checking is helping me realize I use the word “actually” way, way too …
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Andy Domeier and I right before kicking off yesterdays awesome TechJam. #TeamSPS had a great day …
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Crazy long and inefficient line at all-school picnic.
: Minnesota Original: Layne Kennedy My friend and photographer Layne Kennedy was recently featured on Minnesota Original. I met Layne …
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SPS TechJam 2017
Kicking off #TeamSPS TechJam community event. Great day of learning and sharing technology solutions …
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Looking forward to wearing my awesome #TeamSPS hockey jersey!
: GoFCCYourself.com ← Go and express your support for strong net neutrality. Use this link and click …
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Took in a great Minnesota United win today with my friend Jim Bernard!
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Repair trip to the Genius Bar. iMac has a broken spring on the hinge. One AirPod won’t pair.
If you …
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Big effort today in spin class at Urban Cycle.
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Morning Mojo: lemon, ginger and cayenne. Great way to start the day!
: Importing 9,000+ tweets from my Twitter archive into my micro.blog archive.
: If you mirror your micro.blog to Github suggest setting the topic to micro-blog so that others can …
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Gorgeous spring night to sit outside and stare at the sky.
: Trying git filter-branch --prune-empty to clean up some cruft in my micro.blog git mirror. Doing …
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This weekend I resumed my horseshoe project and got the platform dug in for one end. Looks great. …
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This weekend we got the pontoon out and as has become tradition the kids celebrated “Boat Day” with …
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Got to meet Chris Hadfield after he spoke at SPS Influence today. Great message from an amazing …
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Right AirPod is now refusing to pair. 😕 Happened one other time and pairing again fixed. Not working …
April 2017
: Built in support for Creative Commons licenses versus Copyright notice on micro.blog templates would …
: The photo posting from the micro.blog iOS app is pretty slick. Especially for beta.
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Excited to have the dock in. Get the boat out tomorrow!
: Poking around micro.blog → Very nice work Manton!
: I’ve been looking forward to the launch of micro.blog and am excited for it to be here. I’ve been …
: Waiting for my micro.blog invite code. ⏳
: Got the iOS app installed via TestFlight today. Now just waiting for invite. Long day. Great …
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Walked Minnehaha Creek by our house picking up trash for Earth Day. 🌏
: Great event, great lineup and great organizers. Great speakers for @devopsdaysmsp! Join us in July …
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Watched the The Magnificent Seven.
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Watched Avenger’s: Age of Ultron.
: Well deserved! Congrats Nick Roseth! #honored #grateful #MSPBJtitans pic.twitter.com/IPtPBDW102 — …
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Ice cream break at Mom & Pop’s in Mankato!
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Fun afternoon playing mini golf at Can Can Wonderland.
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We watched A Dog’s Purpose. Great movie.
March 2017
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Son Volt off to a great start at First Ave!
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Minnebar 12
Session 0 Punk Rock/Computing Break the rules Simple, fast Point of view is worth 50 IQ points - …
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Watched Moonlight tonight. Great movie.
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Watched Get Out tonight. Creepy.
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Leadership Pipeline
Notable how many references there are to “reviewing calendar” and looking at where time is spent. …
: Have been really disconnected from Twitter lately, and it’s good thing. It’s rather a hot mess when …
February 2017
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Watched The Lego Batman Movie today.
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Smoked this chili on the Big Green Egg for four hours. Tasted delicious. Best chili ever!
: A Minnebar Ticketing Proposal I’ve recently put some thought into how tickets are managed for Minnebar and Minnedemo. I’ve been …
: I have observed in myself this dynamic of low-effort, low-value activities removing the need to do …
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Steve Wozniak at Augsburg College
Steve Wozniak, or “Woz”, was a guest at Augsburg College today and it was a pleasure to see him talk …
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Minnedemo 25 Recap
Minnedemo 25 was last night, and it was fabulous. I’ve gone to all but a few Minnedemo events and …
: Sending Email to OmniFocus Using Flow in Office 365 This workflow is mainly for people that use Office 365 and are looking for an easy way to …
: DEVONtechnologies DEVONthink To Go 2.1 now as an iOS document provider is a big deal! Big …
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Got my first shipment of Nordskogen Coffee today! Looking forward to pulling some shots of espresso.
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Kubbchucks at 2017 Loppet Kubb Tournament
It was a surprise to me that this was our 6th year playing in the Minnesota Kubb Winter Tournament. …
: Agree with this and having tried many other apps it’s amazing how even a little latency is a deal …
January 2017
: Hoping micro.blog from Manton Reece will come in time to save me from what Twitter is turning into!
: Only $6,217 more to hit the micro.blog stretch goal! If you like microblogging, support this!
: US Internet finally getting past Minnehaha Creek and bringing me gorgeous fiber!
: I just backed Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing on Kickstarter.
: This is neat. Would be cool if OmniFocus did some fun stuff like this. Love this data visualization …
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Watched Hidden Figures today. Great movie.
: Got my Eero network setup tonight. Definitely faster. Nice setup process.
: … wrapping my head around having been on Twitter for 10 years.
: iPhone turns 10 years old today! My tweet from 10 years ago…
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Enjoyed Star Wars: Rogue One — great movie.
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Delightful coffee and hot chocolate at Wesley Andrews today. Minneapolis coffee people, get …
: Let’s Encrypt 2016 In Review. This may be the most important thing that happened on the Internet in …
: Worth the upgrade for the Widget alone! Weather Line’s free update is out! Today Widget, new font, …
: The brisket at Q39 has me researching how to make brisket on my Big Green Egg better. So good! I …
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Great lunch at Blind Box BBQ today.
December 2016
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Great Big Smith reunion show at Gillioz tonight. Wow!
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Delicious breakfast at Early Bird Breakfast Pub.
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Delicious coffee at Brick & Mortar Coffee.
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Stunning barbecue at Q39. Wow.
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Great coffee at Mars Coffee Bar.
: This is part of graphing all the things - you have to make it part of your everyday routine. The …
: Editing and pushing changes in Git using Working Copy on iPhone and iPad is pretty awesome.
: Tyler is learning coding with Osmo Coding. Super fun. Very well done.
: I finally have realized the huge win of Workflow after a long time. Now to see if I can do similar …
: Playing Super Mario Run? Friend me so I can see how poorly I’m doing. 😊
: Grew a lot of big trees in Forest today.
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LEGO® Creator Winter Holiday Train assembled!
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Christmas grilling on Big Green Egg.
: Finally dove into DEVONthink and am very impressed thus far. New iOS app got me to try it.
: Accidentally fell down the rabbit hole looking at Hugo and am impressed. Cool ability to call API’s …
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La La Land
Tammy and I went to La La Land tonight. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
: Minneapolis tech firm SPS Commerce gets retailers through busiest month of online orders ← Nice …
: Oh my, just found out Wesley Andrews Coffee has a Slayer espresso machine. Must visit! ☕️ That …
: Nobody does Christmas music as good as Nat King Cole.
: Shoveling then sledding. Fun in the snow! Now hot cocoa of course!
: Graph all the things! I am so surprised that @thingles slides contain graphs!! #teamsps …
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I love our neighborhood. Snow hill across the creek from our house. Laughter, squeals of joy, snow; …
: Seems crazy that with all the advances in photography taking a properly metered photo in the snow …
: Oh boy — I like the sound of these two songs! Looking forward to the whole album Son Volt! Only on …
: After initial sync challenges am enjoying Ulysses and how it approaches writing. Wish Grammarly …
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Espresso from above. Delicious.
: Going all-in with Ulysses. Heard great things forever and looks great.
: Thank you The New Standards for a fabulous 2016 Holiday Show! So great. See list of The New …
: 👏🏻 Spotted so far @newstandards Holiday Show --> @MNBrian @thingles @toddhauschildt Hi all!! — …
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Minneapolis looks nice tonight.
: I really want to take a week and play with AWS Step Functions.
November 2016
: That’s pretty great! Biggest foosball table ever #Reinvent2016 pic.twitter.com/ID8qi3wWXA — Jason …
: Like this a lot. Asked about evolution, this is the best model I have to explain it, I've used it …
: Just pre-ordered the new Son Volt album!
: Buying something with Apple Pay on the web it’s amazing — so easy!
: Created a fancier word count and reading time workflow for Workflow!
: Very sad to miss AWS re:Invent this year. Don’t schedule on peak retail! Wow, @ajassy says 32k …
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Cold. Rainy. Time to smoke some pork! Big Green Egg!
Wrapped pork for final step of journey.
: Hmm, looks like there is no way to do a while loop in Workflow Any workarounds that folks know? …
: Decided to give Grammarly a try — taking them up on their 1-day subscription sale.
: If you love technology take an hour this holiday weekend and watch Bob Martin Future of Programming …
: Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China ← Continue to feel great about …
: Want to help #TeamSPS grow and continue building out a world-class tech team? Join us in directly …
: Looks like I’ll be switching to Eero next time I upgrade WiFi infrastructure.
: Successfully extracted Dropbox from my computing ecosystem. Simplifying.
: I made a workflow to simulate the 5-disc CD changer I had in the 90’s.
: Very happy that SPS Commerce can host these great community technology events like DevOpsDays …
: Looks great. New Super Mario Run gameplay video added to the post: https://t.co/2pDEfuY8Nl — …
: Just discovered lichess.org and am impressed. Analyzed game Isaiah and I played and learned a few …
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Way too nice out to not be smoking. Big Green Egg!
: My kids are still young and I am sure this is one of the most true things in life. You have no idea …
: Enjoying the Canvas episodes on Workflow. Can’t wait to dive deeper! Thanks Federico Viticci and …
: Can’t wait to share this Workflow automation I’m finishing up for OmniFocus templates. Got it wired …
: Seeing people with TechOps vests on going back and forth to plane cockpit doesn’t give one happy …
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Enjoying Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. Recommended.
: 💯 I’ve developed an allergy to clip art on slides. Makes my eyes red. — Michael Nygard (@mtnygard) …
: Love seeing #teamSPS in new office in Toronto! Looking forward to visiting next week! It was lunch …
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Went on a boat ride on November 4th on Isaiah’s boat! Gorgeous day on Pokegama Lake with Tiffany and …
: This digital pinball machine is so great. Would be fun to have one.
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Hi-Lo Diner
Very cool spot. Food was good. Banana cream pie was great.
: Great to see Leah Cunningham spreading the good word! #teamsps @cunningleah standing room only …
: This +1,000! 👍🏻 Remember: Impostor Syndrome only affects competent people who know what they’re …
October 2016
: Did macOS Sierra change something with fonts? I’m getting prompts to download custom fonts? Others …
: I ❤️ Big Green Egg smoking sessions in the fall. Crisp air, delicious smells.
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Espresso in a rocket 🚀☕️ demitasse this morning.
: Feeling like I need to invest in learning and using Little Snitch.
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Mazie and I taking in the last MN United game of the season, and last at NSC. Next year season …
: Cars run much better when the timing chain isn’t stretched!
: Found this a good listen → GTD and The Organized Mind 🎧
: Few days in with iPhone 7 and it’s definitely my favorite iPhone yet. Really like the button-less …
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Delicious pull of espresso to start the day.
: Upgraded to iPhone 7. Decided to stay non-Plus. Tammy went with 7+.
: Impressed with Typora. If you’re writing markdown it’s worth a look.
: Living boldly with 1,155 notes in iOS/OS X Notes app. iCloud syncing solid still. Search could be …
: Seems crazy that in 2016 we are still dealing with security issues from Word and Excel VBA macros.
: Lot of GTD truth to this. Sometimes I skip the weekly review due to a fear of what I'll learn. …
: Main thing Iearned watching the debate tonight: they still make disposable film cameras!
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Just watched Chicken People. 🐔 Folks are pretty into their chickens!
: Didn’t use my Yahoo! account for anything but deleted it if only to protest this. Use @Yahoo? They …
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Panorama inside the mirror maze at Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Very cool.
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Just finished Watson Adventures scavenger hunt at Art Institute of Chicago! Fun time and we won! The …
September 2016
: Really wish iOS could print to a PDF and then send the file via a share sheet.
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Cannon Lake Flooded and Boat Floats Away
Cannon Lake flooded bringing the water level well above the dock. I was very happy that we had a …
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Hell or High Water
Watched Hell or High Water tonight.
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DocuMNtary Premiere
Super excited to be at the premier of DocuMNtary! Amazing project Nick Roseth!
That’s me helping …
: Looking forward to seeing this on Thursday and happy SPS Commerce could support it! Big thanks to …
: OmniFocus 2.7 for Mac Release Notes — Like the adoption of TaskPaper format for sharing and copying!
: Always honored to be able to be whatever small part of great tech events! Thank you so much …
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Minnedemo 24
Raisable Interesting chatbot demo to create a fundraising campaign. All built around a chatbot using …
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Great time watching The Okee Dokee Bros at Prairie Burn Music Festival!
Enjoying this music festival …
: Just got every Iconfactory iMessage sticker pack. Just ‘cus it’s fun.
: Amazing response to Fidget Cube on Kickstarter! I ordered some. 😊
: Siri can send a message using LinkedIn (please never do this) but can’t add a task to OmniFocus. …
: Pictures from your telephone. Amazing. Touchdown iPhone 7! First photos on @SInow …
: Bad behavior from Dropbox. I’m also seeing HipChat has gotten a similar privilege somehow. How …
: Ugh.. The dual camera in the iPhone 7+ has me stuck in indecision. 😕
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Progress on horseshoe pits! Still to do: putting them in the ground, sand, and throwing platform …
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Holy crap is Brandi Carlile amazing. Get yourself to a show!
See list of Brandi Carlile shows.
: Great to see The Cactus Blossoms opening for Brandi Carlile, great music tonight!
: Excited to have the whole family heading to Brandi Carlile show in Mankato! Mazie and Tyler love her …
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Got carried away with the crayons at Dino’s Pizzeria waiting for dinner to arrive.
August 2016
: MindNode is the Free App of the Week?! You’d be crazy not to grab this now!
: Listening to old REM and it is so good.
: Kids are off to school tomorrow. Sad to say goodbye to summer.
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I actually scanned a QR code today. It was made out of seeds in the crop art at MN State Fair. …
: Last weekend before Minneapolis Public Schools start. Wow did summer go by quick!
: Love to hear Edward Tufte highlighting Atul Gawande “Checklist Manifesto”. A must read book and …
: Collaborative GTD? A friend of mine that has been on the path to GTD for a long time now recently emailed me about …
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Gooseberry Falls is always a great stop.
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You can track this rainbow all the way from end-to-end. Nice night on Lake Superior.
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Gorgeous night for a fire on the rocky shore of Lake Superior!
: Love that we can open up the #TeamSPS space and host great community conversations! Every one of …
: So excited to see DocuMNtary launch! Honored to be included. Big thanks to @thingles for supporting …
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My daughter is focused on all living things — even flys.
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Horseshoe pit backboards built!
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Great conclusion to today on Cannon Lake.
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Pork shoulders on the Big Green Egg. Smoking!
: I’ll be at the Minneapolis one! 3rd time going to Tufte’s course. Edward Tufte one-day course in …
: Hmm, odd that Notes doesn’t support Automator workflows.
: Renting DRM music a la Spotify just isn’t for me. Cancelled. I must be old, I still listen to whole …
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Very impressed with Osmo! Having fun solving puzzles and the mix of real objects and game is really …
: Encryption Update ← Really glad Day One is working on encryption for journals! Very needed!
: Just signed up for Sling so we can watch the Olympics on Apple TV. Quality looks good.
: Classic lose / lose situation… The super-glamorous life of a business traveler: deciding between …
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Awesome SPS Commerce charity auction today! #TeamSPS doing good! Thank you Charley Hackerson & team!
: Have always admired and used Rajiv’s take on this! What does an effective CTO do? Based on my recent …
: Very happy to see Omni Group adding full encryption to OmniFocus! Upgraded all my installs and am …
July 2016
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Tammy and I needed 5 more minutes to beat the Maine Room at Maine Escape Games! 20+ locks! Hard for …
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Had dinner at Terlingua in Portland, ME tonight. Amazing ribs. Cornbread great. Recommended!
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Bike tour stop at Portland Headlight!
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Delicious macchiato and cappuccino from Bard Coffee to start final day of Maine vacation.
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Tammy did her research and found Urban Sugar Truck for some delicious Portland, ME donuts.
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Tammy and I had a great day hiking around Monhegan Island today.
The trails we did are highlighted …
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Sunset from Monhegan Island. Gorgeous. Spending the night on an island really highlights how noisy …
: Awesome to see #TeamSPS Andy Domeier speaking at @pagerduty event! Looking forward to the @pagerduty …
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Spent the morning here. Ogunquit, ME.
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Portsmouth Brewery Torn and Frayed IPA.
: Right column, 4th row ➡️ SPS Commerce! Of course we support our local tech community! The sponsor …
: Congratulations to Statuspage team on becoming part of Atlassian!
: minnedemo has gone so far since the 1st one years ago. Honored to be a Minnestar board member.
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Proud that SPS Commerce is a sponsor of Minnedemo! Minnestar is a great org!
: US Internet fiber is going to be 1 block away from me by end of 2016. So close, yet so far away. 🙁 …
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USA Kubb Championship 2016
Gorgeous day for US National Kubb Championship!
Kubbchucks team shirts this year are awesome!
Kubb …
: Running fsck on a 12TB RAID set. Curious how long this will take.
: Really frustrating how great the Dropcam software was that Nest is “upgrading” with less features …
: Whoa! Serious weather. Why do I get the feeling we’re not taking off any time soon? …
: s/todos/next actions/. +1 for GTD. The act of writing down your list of todos is more important than …
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The picture doesn’t do justice to the smells coming off the Big Green Egg.
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Today on the Big Green Egg: 10 lbs of pork shoulder. “Grill of July!” Happy Independence Day!
: Don’t believe it! I just saw someone scanning a qr code in public. Intentionally! Tell …
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Time to smoke! Big Green Egg.
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Will introduce these four racks of ribs to the Big Green Egg in 2 hours.
: Awesome that NBC Sports Gold is native app on Apple TV. Great Tour de France experience.
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Super fun day at the lake with friends & kids from the neighborhood at the lake today!
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Minnesota? Wisconsin? Hard to say. 😊🧀🍔
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Crack of Dawn in Faribault, MN.
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Time to start holiday weekend with some steaks on Big Green Egg!
June 2016
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Dinner out at Bella Cucina with Isaiah and Tiffany.
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Lunch at PK Egans in Canby, MN visiting the Keatings.
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Breakfast at Kornerstone Kravings & Bakery in Canby, MN visiting the Keatings.
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Must do South Dakota stop at Wall Drug!
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Armadillo’s Ice Cream Shoppe in Rapid City.
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Black Hills Burger & Bun in Custer, SD.
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Great hike to the top of Black Elk Peak in SD today!
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102 °F in Hot Springs, SD today. Safari mode on.
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Kids are digging for mammoth bones at the Mammoth Site & Museum. Uncovering a tusk!
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Gorgeous cortado at Pure Bean Coffee in Rapid City, SD.
: Vibe - Stats for OmniFocus I downloaded Vibe and gave it a run and got this fun display. What a fun project to take the data …
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Trying out the Deadwood Social Club.
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Delicious chocolate at Chubby Chipmunk Chocolate Shop.
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Lunch at Stix n’ Twigs in Dickinson, ND.
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Fathers Day dinner at Souris River Brewing drinking a yet-to-be-named delicious session IPA.
: Son Volt’s “Trace” is one of the all time best road trip albums.
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Whole family had a great time seeing Home Free tonight at Minnesota Zoo!
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Me by a sculpture of my spirit animal, bison.
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Wow, Brandi Carlile doing an amazing opener for The Avett Bros! She’s awesome!
Crowd demanded an …
: Finally going to get to see The Handsome Family live in a couple months. Thanks for tip Leah!
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Not Your Father’s Root Beer. Not very good either. 😕
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Sumo Sighting
SumoLogic Sumo Sighting on Kubb King at #TeamSPS TechJam event…
Sumo Sighting with Surly Brewing at …
May 2016
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Smoqehouse — delicious pulled pork sandwiches in Faribault!
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We watched Angry Birds the movie.
: I’m still digging Notes on Mac OS X and iOS but it would be 10x more useful if I could link to a …
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Near perfect night to sit outside.
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Gorgeous evening for some kids soccer.
: Hope this rumor of an Echo-like device from Apple that uses Siri is true. I liked the Echo, but …
: Yeah! Finally got Siri to get the hard g in my last name! Here's how to retrain Siri's pronunciation …
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Ticket to Ride with Tammy, Isaiah, and Tiffany!
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Big Green Egg time - 2 racks of ribs on!
Rib status: delicious. Big Green Egg!
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Zombie Microservice Workshop for #TeamSPS led by AWS team. Continuous learning!
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SPS TechJam 2016
Excited for Ian Malpass to kick off #TeamSPS TechJam with talk on planning for failure.
TechJam in …
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I told our security team that when we got our ISO certification I would wallpaper my office with it. …
: Just setup a monthly recurring donation to Internet Archive. Great organization and great mission!
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Tyler and I went to see the Jungle Book. It was the first time him and I went to a movie by …
: Great interview that hit on many of the reasons I’ve decided to make GTD a “life skill“.
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Really enjoying the new Bob Mould album Patch the Sky.
: Upgrading my iPad Air to the new 9″ iPad Pro. It’s time. 20-30 minute wait to buy an iPad at the …
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Watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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Brisk day for kids soccer. Brrr!
: Moved my uncles website for Bike the Border to Squarespace and think this is going to work much …
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Straight Outta Compton
Watched this on flight back from Ukraine. Pretty good movie. Interesting to see the back story …
: I’ve had a fabulous week with #TeamSPS Kyiv! Great group of technologist building amazing services …
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Delicious Italian food in Kyiv at Vino e Cucina.
: Today I learned: Delta Platinum members can get into the KLM Lounge in AMS. 👍🏻
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On one of the many planes going over the pond.
: Searching Craigslist for “Seadoo” jet skis. Need to stop doing this. 😀
: Technical Downsizing Around ten years ago I ran my own servers at home. I had a free-standing half-rack with several …
: Ugh. 27% packet loss and Comcast tech that was here last week found “no issues”.
: This week was an awesome milestone for #TeamSPS with a huge product launch on our new platform! …
April 2016
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Watched Sing Street tonight.
: Renewed my Nice Ride subscription for this year!
: Deleting Old Tweets with TweetDelete I’ve been a long-time user of Twitter (user #82,903 joining in December 2006) and while I’ve had ups …
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Still absorbing and reflecting on Simon Sinek talk at SPS In:fluence today. Great perspective and …
: … and another person starts their path on the GTD journey. 👍🏻 Took the boss's recommendation about …
: The MacSparky Mailing List ← Cool to see MacSparky starting a mailing list. Just signed up!
: Kubb sets at Target. Wow. @thingles that's a @marimekkousa #kubb set @Target …
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McFarland, USA. Nice feel good movie for the whole family. Even Tyler watched the whole thing and I …
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Summer can officially start now!
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Minnebar 11
Excited to see another Minnebar kick off!
SPS Commerce is a proud sponsor of Minnebar! Growing our …
: I completed an OmniFocus task today that was 6 years old. This is not a GTD best practice.
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Mumford & Sons
Bad seats but still happy to be at Mumford & Sons show!
Mumford & Sons show pre-music is all Prince. …
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Big River Pizza
Went here before the Mumford & Sons show with Monique and Dave and was really wowed by the pizza. …
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MHTA Spring Event 2016
Thought provoking opening presentation by Susan Brower, Minnesota State Demographer, on workforce …
: Moved my blog to Squarespace. Need to tweak theme but import went smooth. Let me know if you see …
: Great speech! Nicely done! State winner Ariana Pope has such an inspiring story! From @BDPA to …
: Nice to see… the previous 5-min limitation seemed really arbitrary. #AWS #Lambda scheduled functions …
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Proud that SPS Commerce is a sponsor of the Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony. Amy …
: Well done overview of DevOps in the Enterprise from Ross Clanton this morning at Aeritae Consulting …
: Classic Programmer Paintings ← Some funny stuff here.
: Love this! Awesome Nathaniel Andersen! #teamsps knows how to run unicorns in aws! …
: Drone racing? This is awesome!
: A CAPTCHA on an email newsletter unsubscribe page? Is that CAN-SPAM compliant? That’s a new low IAB.
: Very true! 💯 Great food for thought from @gtdguy. He has a way of cutting through all my BS & …
: Can’t wait to use this with Workflow! Scripting the @OmniFocus 1.14 TestFlight with Editorial to …
: RIP Merle Haggard. 😢 Merle Haggard, country music giant whose career spanned six decades, has died …
: Large iCloud Photo Library uploads can destroy my Comcast broadband connection. 🙁
: Super happy to see 1Password for Families real now and able to start paying for it. Great product …
: Great read… Why do we work so hard? https://t.co/0eHw1HTumK [Outstanding essay on work and life.] — …
: Say Something by A Great Big World - amazing song, great album. Hat tip to Hadar!
: We’ve got a LEGO ringer on #TeamSPS! Found one of my old models yesterday and got to work the old …
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Poco Loco in Thornburg, Virginia.
: Plus the several hundred MB of downloads. OS updates are smaller! Really hate the way Office updates …
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National Air and Space Museum.
March 2016
: The April Fools thing online should have gone away with your dialup SL/IP connection. Internet …
: Microsoft running Linux binaries has me thinking of this blog post I wrote 7 years ago with 2 step …
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Like the looks of the Tesla Model 3. Reservation in! Looking forward to getting one… in a couple of …
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Dinner at Lena’s Wood-Fire Pizza & Tap.
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Spencer Devon Brewing beer flight: Sunkin’ Road, Bittersweet IPA, Lauck’s Island, Hush Hush. 🍺
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Really good donuts and crazy good cinnamon roles from Emily’s Donuts and Cafe!
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Selfie with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
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Two Drummer’s Smokehouse
Tammy found Two Drummer’s Smokehouse, this middle-of-nowhere place, when researching Williamsburg …
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The Lab by Alchemy Coffee
I was looking for a coffee fix and Tammy did some searching and found The Lab by Alchemy Coffee. We …
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Boylan-Heights has good burgers with a focus on sustainability and grass-fed happy burgers. The …
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Tammy found The Urban Farmhouse for breakfast in Richmond just down the street from the Residence …
: Used Siri dictation to spell my password to Apple TV. Worked great!
: Mac OS X, iOS, tvOS and watchOS updates all going crazy tonight!
: Apple Watch updates redefine slow. Best to just walk away and come back an hour later.
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Nice, Bent Paddle Brewing serving beer samples at REI Bloomington. Delicious break. Hop Forest is …
: Microsoft is the only name I would trust in this group. Microsoft, Google, Comcast, LinkedIn and …
: Curious about mySleepButton. Maybe I can use instead of melatonin.
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First boat I’ve seen on Cannon Lake this year! Goodbye ice!
: Looks like another great turnout! Is the #devops Minneapolis meetup the best one ever?...... …
: Very impressive ChatOps and Mesos work happening at #TeamSPS! Great enabling technology. Love demos.
: Email Rule to OmniFocus Action I get a large volume of email and I try to find every tool I can to better manage it. There are a …
: Wow. Never do a Twitter search related to politics. Frightening.
: Is there any way to get only some of your iCloud calendars on your Apple Watch? Other family …
:
. #TeamSPS celebrating Pi Day!
See Pi Day Collection.
: Life after death: How will you handle your digital legacy? ← Not enough for Facebook to monetize …
: Mazie's Phone Essay We are talking to our daughter about getting her a phone for her birthday this year. She’s not too …
: Workflow for Meeting Management in Email I’m not sure why it took me a couple of decades to come up with this but I’ve had these mail rules …
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First family bike ride of 2016 today!
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Trying different spots to put in horseshoe pits.
: Alpha Go — “Machines have conquered the last games. Now comes the real world.” After third straight …
: Half of me is excited about AlphaGo playing so well. The other half of me wishes it wasn’t.
: Good luck to Lee Sedol in match 2 v Alpha Go! I wish I could say I was confident about winning match …
: Me thinks Day One for Web might be coming… 👍 We are searching for a passionate React / Front-end Web …
: Fun Kubb event! https://t.co/L4OwMhwBT6 - the Kubb Krawl is on! Target Field to @CHSFieldStPaul May …
: I ordered something off of Amazon while waiting at a stoplight on my drive home. That’s a first for …
: This summer I’ll have Basketball, Kubb, Horseshoes, Bags, Ladder Golf and “home” disc golf course at …
: How to Build Backyard Horseshoe Pits ← “First rule of building backyard horseshoe pits — they are …
: Saw on billboard tonight: “Artisan Dry Cleaning & Laundry” What the…
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Zootopia. Very good movie. Amazing animation. Fun story.
: Ate brunch outside at Hola Arepa. In March. Pretty wild.
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We watched Goosebumps tonight.
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Grilling on the Big Green Egg like it is summer!
: Fastest download speeds I’ve ever gotten at cabin. Nice Bevcomm!
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I spy open water! Ice will be gone soon!
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Spotlight
Tammy and I saw Spotlight last night, part of our watching each Academy Award Best Picture nominee. …
: What a crazy marble music machine! Via Layne Kennedy
: Interesting so much of my cloud storage is now iCloud or native sync solutions for a given app that …
February 2016
: Nice example of very practical use case. Use API Gateway custom authorizers to support OAuth & other …
: Most amazing slot car tracks I’ve ever seen! 8 lanes! Great day for slots at Scale Model Supply …
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A giant cannoli stuffed with baby cannoli inside? Oh my! #TeamSPS
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Hot Bagels Abroad, so good. Nobody does bagels like New Jersey!
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Great dinner at Nemea Greek Taverna.
: It’s February and our entire summer is pretty much scheduled out. Not sure if I’m excited or …
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Family field trip to Big Lake on the Northstar Train. We talked to the conductor at the end and …
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Book: Elon Musk
Enjoyed reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance.
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We went to Tinto Cocina tonight.
: Spillo Wishlist I’ve been using Spillo for about a week now and am finding it really great. Here is a quick wish …
: Spillo, a powerful Mac Pinboard app I’ve been using Pinboard to store bookmarks for years and have always been very happy with it. I’ve …
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Super talk from Mary Poppendieck with #TeamSPS today. Exactly aligned with where we are going! …
: Wow! Filled up the SPS event room. #devops Minneapolis meetup... out of chairs! …
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Model rockets were a blast yesterday!
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Son turns 6 today. He was up at 5:30a to start celebrations. Need espresso.
: Wonder if anyone is working on an AWS Lambda/S3 powered super simple to host #wiki. Seems like a …
: Had no idea Megadeth was still putting out albums. Some new metal would be fun!
: Happy to be hosting LogicMonitor Live event in Minneapolis at SPS Commerce! #TeamSPS
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Room
Tammy and I are trying to watch most (all?) of the best picture nominees. Room was an interesting …
: New money, the kind you can only use in compliance with their terms of service. PayPal: capriciously …
: Still chuckling about Liam Confrey line “I got a new barber, and he has opinions.”
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The Big Short
We saw The Big Short last night and I was simply blown away. Parts of it hilarious, suspenseful, …
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Great Italian food at Italian Eatery.
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Mazie and I went to a Daddy Daughter dance tonight. Her favorite thing of the night? “Everything.” …
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First Time Curling
This year Tammy surprised me with a first-time curling session from the kids’ school fundraiser. She …
: Already upgraded! Nice! We’ve released Day One 2.0! iOS: https://t.co/RCgS3Fqfdd Mac: …
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Delicious #TeamSPS dinner at Upstairs in Montclair, NJ this evening.
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Barista
Watched Barista last night. For coffee lovers, this is a fun movie that will intrigue you with …
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Meeting my Brother for the First Time
A year ago I got an email late at night from someone named Isaiah introducing himself to me and …
January 2016
: Remembering how much fun Letterpress is! 🙂
: Listening to Lennon Legend this morning. “Imagine” if we all had 36 more years of music from John …
: Love that Bloom County is back. 😊 pic.twitter.com/3U9cvFs5AR — Bloom County (@bloomcounty) January …
: I hope Hans Pinckaers will continue developing En Passant. One of few clean, non-adware chess app …
: Pro RC Racing Some friends sent me this video from a European Pro RC Race. It’s the most amazing thing ever! Worth …
: Fun, I didn’t realize the Mac version of Carcassonne for iOS was out. Playing a game in a background …
: Tammy and I are sending in Ancestry DNA kits. Curious to see what it says.
: SPS CFO Kim Nelson honored with TCB Women’s Leadership Award ← Awesome! Congrats to our CFO!
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TeamSPS Agile Roadshow refresh on agile principles, best practices and continuous improvement.
: MindNode now supports tasks in trees. Good idea.
: I’m a bit infatuated with the Fornetto Forno Wood Fired Oven. Not to replace Big Green Egg. Nice …
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Shoveled the deck so I can smoke some ribs on my Big Green Egg. Love winter in Minnesota.
Snow ribs …
: Anyone else getting disconnected warnings on Apple Watch ⌚️ after upgrading iPhone to iOS 9.2.1? …
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TeamSPS tech meetup starting! Love the knowledge sharing!
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Getting ready for #TeamSPS global sales meeting! High energy!
: I sense ChatOps in progress. #TeamSPS Very easy, install and go HipChat V2 API Wrapper for .NET …
: Had a fraudulent charge show up on credit card. Bank is reissuing cards. Happy they caught it, but …
: Don’t judge gaming on Apple TV until you try with a good controller like the Nimbus. Pretty …
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Had a fun time doing the Schell’s Brewery Tour today.
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Tammy and I at the #TeamSPS Social!
: Interact Contacts ← Finally a more powerful contacts tool for iOS.
: Great timing for #TeamSPS in Canada! In the Works – #AWS Region in Canada https://t.co/N1YTXjckUt …
: Very happy to grow the Minnestar board with these new community leaders!
: Trying to pick IP camera to try with my Synology and there are too many options. Paradox of choice.
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Kids Book: Finding Winnie
Tyler got Finding Winnie for Christmas this year and it’s a really awesome book. If your kid has any …
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Awesome birthday present - custom bag boards designed by my daughter! Love it! Threw some bags in …
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Thoroughly enjoyed Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Cleared the back room in Skittles. 400+!
Skittles 575!
December 2015
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Blokus is a great game. I win on green.
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Kids staying up late playing games, having chocolate chip cookie and drinking Prosecco. Happy New …
: We went Cinderella at the Old Log Theatre today and it was great! Cinderella comes to life at the …
: Have journaled 101 days in a row now with the help of Day One and Streaks.
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Preener's Eve 2015 with The New Standards
Preeners Eve with The New Standards is one of my favorite New Year events! The Dakota is such a …
: Congrats to the You Need A Budget team on the huge new launch! Can’t wait to move to the version! …
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First Big Snow of 2015 at Cabin
We got a nice layer of snow over the last 24 hours at the cabin. We were all set at the cabin so we …
: Sad to hear Lemmy of Motörhead passed away. True metal legend!
: Having a good amount of fun with the Wii U. This platform is a late bloomer.
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LEGO® Creator MINI Cooper (1,077 pieces) done. Lots of moving pieces.
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Playing Skittles and letting it rip. Fun!
: Raspberry Pi vs SPARCstation 20: Fight! ← 20 or so years ago we launched BigCharts on a SPARCstation …
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About 50% done with LEGO® Mini Cooper.
: Should at least have a white Christmas + 1. Snow is moving north through southern MN, and will move …
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Skittles and Mini Shuffle Board!
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Christmas present for cabin…
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Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
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Horseshoes coming to the cabin this spring! National Horseshoe Players Association approved!
: Eating lefse and drinking Wassail Tea. Officially Christmas.
: Pretty sure I figured this out that you can install Cloud Station Client on a 2nd DS416 and sync …
: Making Christmas edition of Wassail Tea.
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My daughter visited my office today and sketched out this microservice architecture.
: So far, the out-of-the-box experience with the Synology DS416 is pretty great!
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Holiday reading: High Output Management, Building Microservices, and B4B. 📚
: Another Egghead! Welcome Brian Ruud! @thingles how do I use this thing?!?! 😃 …
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Lasagna, pre- and post-assembly.
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Proper music for lasagna preparation, The Three Tenors in Concert.
: Sobering how many more women than men there are in assisted living centers.
: Ordered Synology DS416 and four drives from Amazon. Synology arrives Monday. Drives on Tuesday. …
: Not enough being said about streaming music services bringing DRM back to an ecosystem we only …
: Can’t wait to see those on the Kubb pitch! Our 51 new @JPbackyardgames kings are coming along. …
: Interesting new http status code. Hat tip to Tim Bray! The Ray Bradbury status code, HTTP 451 …
:
Saturday reading on microservices.
: Been eating Siggis Dairy skyr (yogurt) and am impressed at how simple the ingredient list is. Real …
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At Stages Theatre Company with family for A Charlie Brown Christmas play!
: Read paragraph 2 of this security notice. Considering what we know from Edward Snowden, you wonder …
: Feeling like I’m the only person on Twitter not chomping at the bit to see Star Wars.
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Diving into NAS with Synology DS416
I’ve been debating my home storage options for a long time now. I’ve had a LaCie 4big Quadra RAID …
:
Andy Clayton showing Chat Ops work at tech meetup!
Jeremy Olexa presenting on our use of Mesos. …
: I’m still debating buying a Synology NAS. Need to just pull the trigger already.
: Great diagram. Powerful tool. Can't wait to update this lightsaber duels diagram for …
: I’ve become a fan of this app. Great for building positive habits. Now available: Streaks 1.6.1, …
: Wore my new DocuMNtary t-shirt today and had a number of fun conversations about the project. Good …
: Go #TeamSPS in Boston! Listening to @LukeSamaha talk about why SPS Commerce uses graph databases, …
: Pre-ordered 3 copies of this. Friend of @mesosphere and @ApacheMesos just published his Mesos book. …
: Wonderful meeting today with DocuMNtary creator Nick Roseth. Exciting project!
: Oh boy. of all the slides i ever have written or ever will write, i'm pretty sure these will forever …
: Trying to bridge the RS232 port on my Meade LX200 8” telescope to WiFi using a WiFi serial bridge. …
: Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace ← Delightful read.
: Someone is working on a fun, well designed Santa Tracker app for Apple TV right?
: So nice to be able to get away for lunch today with my friends Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard to …
: Thank you WordPress for such easy upgrades! Switched my blog to the new Twenty Sixteen theme for …
: Best to let watchOS updates happen while you sleep. So sloooow…
: OmniFocus push sync on Mac works great — instant sync across OmniFocus everywhere!
: Do yourself a favor and watch a rocket take off. Miss the launch or want to see it again? Watch as …
:
My mother tells me that I used to build with my books instead of reading them too.
: Digging in, ordered Promise Theory: Principles and Applications.
: 75 days of journaling! Streaks and Day One facilitating.
: Pretty amazing! The rarest of beasts - a used rocket. Controlled landing not easy, but done right, …
: After a week of working literally every waking moment a Saturday with random home chores is pretty …
: Love having OmniOutliner on my iPhone to capture structures as they come to mind.
: Got a new service architecting in my head and can’t stop thinking and evolving it. Going to be huge. …
: Duet Display I decided to try out Duet Display for the first time this weekend (based on a post from MacSparky). …
: Super excited for The New Standards Holiday Show tonight with my lovely wife after a crazy busy …
: Welcome to #teamSPS! Been really enjoying my new job at SPS. https://t.co/XRcagDBFVu — John Kelly …
: Graph all the things, and graph all the things that graph the things! #TeamSPS
: cron into cron FTW! @thingles @jolexa Almost as brilliant as cron for a cron.... — Andy Domeier …
: One chatbot requesting action from another chatbot. Chatops ^ 2 for #TeamSPS
: Tooling from SumoLogic, AppDynamics, LogicMonitor, and Catchpoint have totally changed the game for …
: Truth! The most annoying coder you’ll ever work with is you from six months ago. And you’re always …
November 2015
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Pre 5am parallel coffee brewing!
: I’ve been upgrading the same MediaWiki tarball for 4 years. Think it may be time for a fresh …
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At Minnesota Wild game. Goal!
: With a hat-tip to Derek Sivers put together my own /now page. Related NowNowNow.
: Time to watch Elf! Family tradition for Christmas tree day!
: Drinking Wassail Tea. Listening to Christmas music. Decorating Christmas tree.
: Thankful for knowing smart and awesome people like Bridget Kromhout! 😀 Thankful for @thingles; hired …
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Happy Thanksgiving from me and my mom!
: This is cool! Combine queries across wikiverse! ExternalQueryLookup: yet another @SemanticMW …
: Great add! Looks like @SemanticMW 2.4 will support case-insensitive regex searches! …
: Jammed my thumb bad. Ouch. Severely iPhone impaired.
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Winter announcing its arrival with ice on the shoreline.
: Imagine if Bluetooth actually worked? That would be awesome. 😕
: Would be big win if Notes app on iOS and Mac supported a URL schema to open a specific note or a …
: The mine tour here is worth the trip → Lake Vermilion-Soudan Mine first new state park in 30
: Introducing the Shift Card ← Shift Card is example of what we need to make Bitcoin actually usable.
: Really dig Pinner share extension on iOS to get things to Pinboard. Best Pinboard client IMO.
: Service need: a way to get a TextExpander template response professionally written on demand.
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It seems my daughter has had enough of story problems in her math homework. 😊
: Really happy to see that Instaviz has come back to life with new releases. Using Instaviz on iPad …
: Bet this was one heck of an RFP. Congrats SpaceX! Today we ordered first @SpaceX mission to fly …
: Oh my… Sriracha Aioli! Where have you been my whole life?
: Glad to see Amazon has finally implemented two-factor authentication. Do yourself a favor and set …
: First trip that I’m only traveling with iPad Pro. Will be fun to see how this works as only device.
: Going to setup a family account on 1Password for Teams also to share secrets amongst Tammy and I, …
: Got Minnestar setup on 1Password for Teams. Moved a bunch of secrets in. Worked great. Like how well …
: Brilliant! 😊 Super excited for this new O’Reilly book pic.twitter.com/PnhQuG3257 — Wes Bos (@wesbos) …
: Grilling after dark is sort of like flying a plane on instruments only. Super excited about the …
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Visiting Five Watt Coffee for a chai latte.
: Sitting at table with iPad Pro + Smart Keyboard. Split screen Mail and Safari. Music playing sounds …
: Watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with the kids. #tradition
: Hey look Benjamin Kitt #TeamSPS in that photo! 👋 @jeffsussna leading Service not just Software open …
: Pretty impressed with Smart Keyboard on iPad Pro. Feels better than expected to type on. Pencil …
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🍺 #TeamSPS getting a tour of Surly Brewing!
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Product Platform 2015
Amy Patton reviewing new tooling #TeamSPS has brought in during last 12 months.
Was awesome to have …
: Down the drain of life? But really. Where the hell does time go? — Jon Phenow (@jphenow) November …
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DevOps@SPS (SPS TechJam 2015)
Super excited for DevOps@SPS today! #teamSPS #devops
Bill Gintz sporting the #TeamSPS DevOps@SPS …
: Can’t wait to get my hands on the new iPad Pro. Have one on the way. It just now hit me that the iOS …
: Happy customer of Feedbin and happy to see them continuing to grow their service! Introducing …
: I’m having to use my readers more and more. Not happy with this trend.
: Keyboard Waffle Iron. Awesome! The keyboard waffle iron is finally a real, buyable thing …
: One of my biggest OmniFocus wish list items? Ability to “tag” people from my contacts in tasks.
: Got PCalc on my Apple TV ‘cause I can. 😀
: It’s a little creepy when a plane is very empty.
: Playing Alto on Apple TV with the kids this morning. This is obviously a winner. Need more …
October 2015
: Wondering how a graph of trick-or-treaters and candy distribution rate would look over time. Start …
: Hoping Luminos from Wobbleworks comes to Apple TV. Would be super fun.
: Can my heart rate be sent from my Apple Watch to the Apple TV? Maybe via iPhone? Could make for …
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Ready for Halloween trick-or-treaters!
: Impressed with new Apple TV. Hmm, so which MFi controllers are good? Seems crazy that you can’t see …
: Very cool Lambda tool. Needed this for my WikiApiary project.
: Absolutely! Cameo by @lozzd in @beerops’ talk, because graphs! #velocityconf …
: AWS Lambda is seriously cool. All sorts of neat things to do with it, and Python makes it very …
: Impressed with Wobbleworks Luminos!
: Had no idea they make WiFi to serial port bridges. Looks like I might be able to run my Meade LX200 …
: Journaled for 35 days straight (using Day One & help from Streaks)! Mindfulness and exercise are …
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So much fun raking with the kids today.
: Back from vacation, caught up on chores, ready for a great week!
: This should not surprise anyone. Do yourself a favor and delete your Facebook profile.
: I just lent to a borrower in Kenya. Join me on Kiva today and impact a life too!
: Finishing our final day of Disney vacation on a bang! Morning in Epcot then Halloween Party at Magic …
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The Halloween fireworks over Magic Kingdom are amazing. View from Polynesian across the lake.
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Epcot Illuminations was awesome.
: Two urgent care visits in one vacation is a new record. (First Tyler, now me!) Positive for strep …
: Went to Disney World Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue tonight - what a blast! Everyone loved it!
: Crazy how many people want a haircut at the Magic Kingdom.
: Sent hi-res photo of Infection to Dr. Reply with likely diagnosis. #easy Rx required 3hr urgent care …
: Seems like every long vacation we take involves one of the kids making a (non-critical) visit to …
: Any of them know how to build things? We are hiring! 😀 This is what #devops in NYC looks like for …
: You can reach me using Signal, get it now.
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My weekend project: cleaning and discarding on large scale.
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Taking the pontoon to storage for the winter. Biking back to lake.
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The Martian
Great movie. Very entertaining. As usual, book was better and the movie cut out a lot of stuff but …
: Had a great time at AWS re:Invent. Learned a lot and invigorated with new ideas!
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AWS re:Play
Holy crap Zedd! Lost my re:Invent badge while dancing — recovered it!
Zedd put the volume on 11 and …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Good seat for Werner Vogels AWS re:Invent tech keynote. Looking forward to announcements!
X1 …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 1
Excited to hear Andy Jassy give the first AWS re:Invent keynote!
Amazon Snowball very good idea. …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 0
My room? Very last one on the right. Won’t have to worry about getting steps in.
AWS re:Invent busy …
: Monte Carlo being added to OmniPlan. Great idea! What features are coming in @OmniPlan Pro? …
: Two more days left to be part of this upcoming project on the Minnesota tech scene! Thanks to …
: Congrats to Code42 on another successful fundraising! Series B stands for "Big" at @code42 — firm …
: Using Safari share sheet to send to Notes is very nice. Wish there was a “Share as Web Archive” …
: Just ordered a Yubikey Neo so I can try Universal 2nd Factor and other features.
: Had Indeed Brewing Wet Hop Ale tonight at Sea Salt for first time. Crazy good beer.
: I just backed DocuMNtary on Kickstarter.
: I only truly appreciate the Retina display on my iPhone when I have my readers on. Looks amazing.
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My plan for the rest of the day, much needed R&R. Ribs for dinner.
Full rack of delicious on the Big …
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Open Source North 2015
Looking forward to presenting today at Open Source North!
SPS Recruiters at Open Source North …
: Journaling Habit For years I’ve thought it would be great to keep a daily journal. I bought Day One for iOS and my …
: As someone that just could never get cozy with Evernote I’m really digging the new Notes app in iOS …
: Millions of Facebook Users Have No Idea They’re Using the Internet ← Oh my. 😫👎🏻
September 2015
: Amazing that @Snowden has almost 700,000 followers just a few hours after joining Twitter.
: Neat new Keybase Key Model on the way. Curious to see what this enables!
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Lunar Eclipse 2015
We had a fun night in our neighborhood tonight watching the lunar eclipse with a number of our …
: Namecheap Leaks Password in Security Notification Please make sure to see UPDATE section at end of this post. This isn’t good at all. I have security …
: If you block web activity when you surf, make sure none of the sites you personally run track your …
: Using Tunnel Bear along with Block Bear is a super easy way to get a very protected web experience …
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Saturday morning Fuller Soccer league. Kids chasing balls!
: Just completed a task that was added to OmniFocus in June 2011. 😬
: Thumbtack for Pinboard ← Nice to have a Pinboard menubar app for Mac OS X that is good!
: Truth. “Unbounded queues are the White Walkers of distributed systems.” @littleidea #OIO15 …
: Liking this app for reinforcing habits. Download Streaks 1.5 now from http://t.co/2hUBnd9zjc, …
: Fun that Ryan Adams did a full cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989. More my speed. 🙂
: Introduced the kids to Billy Idol. Too funny.
: Love the smell of fresh bits. v5.13.2 offers iOS9 split screen & slide over multitasking, long DM’s, …
: Fun listen for users of OmniFocus particularly. We interviewed Ken Case (@kcase) from @OmniFocus …
: Would be neat if Apple had some way you could walk into a store and do an OTA iOS update lightning …
: I give. There is no way to do an iOS 9 upgrade while at Dreamforce.
: This is a big deal for Apple Watch users of OmniFocus. On watchOS 2, OmniFocus lets you choose which …
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Dreamforce Keynote
There sure is a lot of waiting in lines at Dreamforce
Dear people of Dreamforce: for the love of God …
: Bug taking longer? Are they really working in open issues less than 24 hours from release? Smells …
: Heading to my first Dreamforce event tomorrow. Expecting to be very overwhelmed by the size of it.
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Great annual Olson Family Weekend with Tammy’s side of the family. Lots of kids and family fun!
: Using Due for simple stuff to keep OmniFocus clear of trivial matters. Wish Due had tags so I could …
: I am not a fan of the desktop-like menu bar in the new iOS version of iA Writer. Feels very out of …
: iPad Pro + Smart Keyboard + Apple Pencil = 98% of my office needs
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Six boats on the sandbar today. Awesome.
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Gorgeous night on lake with foreboding clouds.
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The Avett Brothers performing a great show at MN State Fair tonight.
If you can come to an Avett …
: Looks like a nice spot to play some Kubb! #RailsandAles people: come play Corn Hole at #SurlyMSP for …
: This is going to change how I use my Apple Watch in a meaningful way! Awesome work OmniFocus crew! …
: Finally native support of RSS in HipChat!
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Great dinner out with #TeamSPS in Kyiv!
: Jet lag is working to get the best of me. Bugger off tiredness!
August 2015
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Sharing fond stories about Michael Davidovich with Yuri at Shoti, a great Georgian restaurant, in …
: Off to visit #TeamSPS in our Kyiv, Ukraine office! MSP ✈️ AMS ✈️ KBP! Looking forward to the week! …
: Impressive early benchmark. We Benchmarked Amazon's new Aurora Database for use with WordPress - …
: Great dinner tonight with #TeamSPS members from Minnesota, New Jersey and Australia. 🌎
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Youngest now in Kindergarten. Both kids in school. Seems a little weird.
: New #HugOps thing? "GitHug" - PowerPoint typo or a way to show source control love? — Anne Knapp …
: Super excited about the Mesos work #TeamSPS is exploring. So much potential!
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Fabulous day for lunch on the #TeamSPS deck.
: I’ll be in Kyiv next week! Why do we love #teamSPS? Reason #17: SPS spans the world, including a …
: Needed this after 3:30a wake up today. The spice is life! pic.twitter.com/ZbstUOQBmp — Luke Francl …
: 2nd day back at school and we already have homework meltdowns. 😕
: First day of school. Summer went fast!
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Foo Fighters at Xcel Energy
Really impressed by Royal Blood opening for Foo’s. These guys rock.
Thousands of phones put out a …
: Wish there was a setting to force my Mac to be slower, and not so hot on the lap.
: The iPhone 6 does take great pictures. But then I shoot with my Canon 5D Mark II and the 70-200 …
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BreakAway Kids Triathlon
Excited for Mazie and her cousin Nora doing the BreakAway Kids Triathlon today run by Cycle Health. …
: Someone please make a simple WordPress theme based on Tufte CSS.
: Upgraded WordPress. Super easy as always. Unlike some other software. I’m looking at you MediaWiki.
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Grapefruit Shenanigans. Impressive Indeed Brewing!
: Impressed with Surly Brewing Hopshifter. Great taste!
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Fun on the sandbar at Cannon Lake.
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Gorgeous morning boat ride with the kids. Lake is super calm.
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Pretty happy with how these JACKYLED lights are working on my dock. Hard to get good photo.
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Ribeye steaks on the Big Green Egg tonight.
: I’ve become a huge fan of Twitterific muffling. Behold the true power of Muffling in Twitterrific. A …
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Doubled the seating and added 64 sq ft to my dock!
: Observation: Github repos != Wikis.
: At Edward Chenard session at FARCON! At MinneAnalytics FARCON and discussed with Sean Larson the …
: Our school sent letters on teacher selections for the new school year, all set in Comic Sans. I …
: Wish the new EFF tool Privacy Badger supported Safari!
: Google+ Profile Deleted Was fun to do this one.
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Two boat things I was most concerned about with pontoon.
Docking: done! Getting the cover back on: …
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Day off today included nap in the hammock. Now this.
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Got my new pontoon for the lake! Premier Sunsation 230DL with 115hp Suzuki and Sea Legs.
: Some day I won’t be doing my expense report on a Sunday night 2 days after its due.
: Really looks like Connected Data Transporter is a device I should have. Need to do more research. I …
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First time for the whole family at Minnesota Twins baseball game! ⚾️
Celebrating my sister Alona’s …
: Making things faster is good. 😊 Happy to report that WikiApiary’s performance issues from a couple …
July 2015
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🙌 #TeamSPS getting ready to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day! Thank you team!
Jeremy …
: Very interesting approach! #MediaWiki has needed an anti-spam tool for some time. @halfak's work on …
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Loved this scene of #TeamSPS today. Great to see people come together, collaborate and win!
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The business end of my new toy. Get it next Friday!
: Wish I could use a share extension in iOS to send an Apple Pay notification to You Need A Budget.
: Picked up Jeff Sussna new book Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy. …
: Great video from past Minnedemo presenters! Go Minnestar!
: St. Paul planning its own version of NYC’s High Line along the river ← This sounds very cool!
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Excited to finally be reading Amusing Ourselves to Death!
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Kransekake. “One ring to rule them all!” Delicious.
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The Starving Rooster in Minot, ND is an impressive restaurant! Kind of proud for my hometown — way …
: Excited to be speaking at Open Source North! Registration is open! Excited to have @thingles …
: Subscribed to Learn OmniFocus for a year. Looking forward to more learning!
: 👍 "Developers should not be thinking about machines. They should be thinking of jobs and tasks." …
: The only thing better than dinner on the Big Green Egg? Breakfast on the Big Green Egg!
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Liking these JACKYLED lights for my dock. Got two to test, will get more.
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Watermelon is one of my favorite things about summer!
: Learned my lesson on leaving loose things on the dock overnight. Shaking fist at weather!
: I gave to EFF because they fight for the users. Join me in celebrating their 25th anniversary!
: I’ve never been an active user of Reddit. I have an account because I tend to make accounts at …
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At the cabin with brother-in-laws with delicious Big Green Egg dinner!
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Brother-in-law Kubb the with Max, Hector, and Denny.
: I’m starting to defer email but not a habit yet. Like Sanebox for this and other features.
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Three racks of ribs rubbed and chips soaking getting ready for Big Green Egg and Mike Rock!
Didn’t …
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The people of Cannon Lake are serious about their fireworks! Very impressed. Will have a complete …
: The power of the Big Green Egg is incomprehensible. Charcoal for life!
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Happy 4th Big Green Egg style!
: Double hitter on Big Green Egg coming up: traditional burger and brats today followed by ribs with …
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Tyler and I restocking coffee at Urban Bean Coffee. This ginger-maple-cold press concoction is …
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Pork tenderloin off the Big Green Egg. Chainbreaker White IPA as well.
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Every night is Big Green Egg night.
: Disappointed in my city council that they are being so shortsighted on Major League Soccer in …
: Awesome looking new space SportNgin! Inaugural @SportNgin Donut Day is in the books! …
June 2015
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Fun to see my Crimpshrine “Duct Tape Soup” record is now in Apple Music (captured it from vinyl).
: Enabled Apple Music family plan and daughter (10) getting explicit albums recommended? Not good. We …
: This is incredibly cool! Can’t wait to see the whole series of pics. Congrats Dan Grigsby! More …
: 2015 MN Air Spectacular We went to the 2015 Minnesota Air Spectacular today in Mankato and had a great time watching 5 hours …
: Anyone have recommended iPad apps to learn to play a guitar? Can read music but have no clue about …
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Big Green Egg. Beer. Lake. This works.
: Had no idea there was a service as polished as Tunnel Bear for VPN and privacy services! Thanks …
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Honored to share the stage with David Novak to receive the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal …
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This is way outside of my normal tooling.
Digging.
Step 1 of basketball hoop project done!
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Tyler and I made an AM radio with our Snap Circuits this morning.
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Congrats to today’s winners!
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Great Father’s Day weekend with kids playing Kubb!
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Kubb starting with Minnesota Kubb getting things going!
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Teams warming up for Minnesota Kubb tournament! Kubb
: Amazing how many places don’t realize this. Monitoring is not an optional feature for your …
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Personally experienced the inside of a smoker while serving lunch for #TeamSPS today. Thanks for pic …
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TeamSPS celebrated first in top workplaces with a barbecue lunch today!
: Great to see SPS Commerce at the top of this Star Tribune top workplaces list! Go #TeamSPS!
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Out on the kayak this morning.
: I’m surprised that Dollar a Day doesn’t have more members. I’ve been doing it for a year, would …
: Great, fun interview with John Gruber and Phil Schiller of Apple.
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Working on the deck, #TeamSPS!
: Bought a Canon PIXMA MG7520 today and am pretty impressed with it. Finally have AirPrint in the …
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At Minnesota Orchestra with my mom! Looking forward to Sibelius and Mahler. The beauty of an …
May 2015
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Great time at last nights MN United v. NY Cosmos soccer game.
: I really can’t express how much I dislike doing expense reports. 🙁
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Tammy and I went to Ex Machina this evening. Cool sci-fi movie with a very good story. Recommended.
: Trying to get religion with OmniOutliner. Have a couple of use cases that are working really well.
: Moved my two-factor authentication setups from Authy to 1Password. Like Authy, but nice to have …
: Surprising “miss” that muting notifications for a group MMS on your iPhone does NOT stop …
: It’s odd that the Mac App Store doesn’t recommend purchases based on my iOS Apps.
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Have a good Memorial Day holiday!
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Big Green Egg after a few hours.
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Big Green Egg living this weekend. See these two in a few hours.
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Grilling breakfast on Big Green Egg. Yum.
: Alto’s Adventure. Awesome game. Great recommendation from MacSparky.
: Paid for groceries with my watch. Neat!
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… will be here this weekend.
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We put a new dock in at the cabin. Love it.
: No support for perspectives makes OmniFocus for Apple Watch useless when you defer v due date tasks. …
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Apple Watch Arrived
I ordered my Apple Watch on launch day and opted for the stainless steel with link bracelet. It was …
: Got a task into my OmniFocus inbox by talking to my watch. 🙂 Feels like magic! 🪄
: Love the fit and finish on the stainless steel Apple Watch. Weight is good too.
: UPS shows my Apple Watch should arrive tomorrow! 🤩
: Bought myself a MN fishing license today. New territory.
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9-point turn in ladder golf against Jim Bernard today. 🏆
: This Lily Robotics camera is amazing.
: Got my ProtonMail account invite. Cool to see how they are bringing encryption to email in a better …
: Neat, MnPASS can’t get transponders because a part “has become obsolete and the supply is very low”. …
: My mailbox went crazy today, then I realized I had changed my password and Sanebox wasn’t helping …
: The new Doodle iOS app is light years ahead of where it was before. Nicely done.
: I struggle to see how teams of size (1,000+) can make Slack pricing work. HipChat is crazy cheap by …
: We got rid of cable TV a long time ago. Over 6 years ago actually, and technically we got rid of …
: SaneBox Week A couple of weeks ago I started using SaneBox to help me manage my email. I love the weekly report …
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Great night for a Minnesota United FC game!
Mazie and I out supporting the United! Go Minnesota …
: Me 6 years ago: My Solution for Microsoft to Get Nerds Back. Today from Microsoft Azure: You asked, …
: Looking forward to going to the Minnesota United FC game on Saturday!
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Sunday afternoon libation. Oscar Blues Pinner.
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Future 2020 USA Kubb championship team practicing. Kubb
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Time to grill — fire up the Big Green Egg!
April 2015
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Day 2 of SPS In:fluence keynote with Sucharita Kodali of Forrester.
: Great overview of the #TeamSPS work on new products from Shivani Khanna Stumpf and Robert Davis at …
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Peter Zaballos kicking off SPS In:fluence!
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Cabin next door decided to have a fire. Wow. 🔥
: Wow. Can see Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all in the sky tonight.
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Houston, we have a Kubb problem.
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First run with new Big Green Egg this evening.
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Tammy chipping away at this 5,000 piece puzzle. Looks crazy to me.
: Have been using Sanebox for last couple of days. New tricks for a 20+ year email user, but I think …
: Browsing the Apple Watch apps and wishing I didn’t have 3 more weeks to wait. 1Password and …
: Just upgraded two WordPress networks, 20+ sites, from the couch on my phone. (MediaWiki, this is the …
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Fresh brand new Big Green Egg with an awesome Challenger grill cart. Excited to fire this up!
: I enjoy reviewing Luke Francl’s book list each year. 📚
: Now have a brand new Kubb set that is staying in my office. Hoping to get some #TeamSPS games going …
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Macchiato with the best weekend coffee buddy at Urban Bean Coffee
: Photos for Mac initial iCloud sync destroys my internet connection. Very annoying.
: Been up for 18.5 hours traveling. Another 10 hours is daunting.
: Starting ping in background to make public WiFi router pay attention to me.
: GitHub’s 2014 Transparency Report ← Glad more companies are starting to share this information.
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In Kyiv this week with #TeamSPS!
: PSA: If you have OmniFocus running in different timezones on different devices side-by-side you get …
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Daughter excited to get her fresh ipHouse notebook from Minnebar! Thanks Bil MacLeslie!
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Ready for Kubb practice! 42 batons!
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Minnebar 10
Notes from Minnebar 10:
Session 1 was great Sleep Improvement session with Dan Grigsby. Session 2 on …
: Photos for Mac initial iCloud sync is killing my broadband connection. 😕
: Business Town ← This is great…
: Push syncing coming to OmniFocus! Nice… can’t wait.
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Apple Watch Ordered
After some debate I placed my order at 3:56am CT for the Apple Watch. I’m eagerly looking forward to …
: So happy that OmniFocus new release has given me full control of the sidebar. Great enhancement!
: Messages on OS X started requiring an App Specific password for Apple ID’s that have 2-Factor …
: New OmniFocus is great! Finally full perspective support on iPhone. Also deferred in today widget is …
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Tammy and I played our inaugural game of Kubb at our cabin. Seemed appropriate to do so with an …
March 2015
: I’m a little too excited about ordering a Pedal Boat. 😀
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Making morning coffee with using a Chemex can be a meditative process. Certain series of steps. Same …
: Wish these Dirt Quads were available when I was a kid! Super cool.
: Seems odd that GitHub doesn’t have a “watch” feature for organizations. Would like to see new repos, …
: Yet Another Python Formatter ← Like the roots of this in clang.
: 10 Myths of Enterprise Python ← Good read.
: Congrats to Zivix (and my friend Dennys Bisogno) on another successful Kickstarter campaign!
: Minnesota United FC in Major League Soccer in 2018 with new downtown stadium → Already thinking …
: The ice is off of Cannon Lake!
: The Decemberists were great tonight. Awesome musicians.
: Don’t see anything Square Cash can do that I can’t do already with Bitcoin. What am I missing?
: Okay Minneapolis, we all agree we are not shoveling this snow right? Stay strong!
: Apple Fixes Keyboard iOS 8.3 Beta Searches.Don’t.Look.Like.This ← So glad this is fixed! I do this …
: Map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet ← Very cool.
: Renewed my Nice Ride subscription. Ready for the green bikes to show up!
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. #TeamSPS celebrated π day (a day early) today along with the grand opening of our deck!
See Pi Day …
: Excited to see what Rise, Day One, OmniFocus, and You Need A Budget do with Apple Watch.
February 2015
: Had a great time watching “The Imitation Game” with #TeamSPS this evening. Fabulous movie about a …
: Bummed that I cannot find a single coffee shop or restaurant in Minneapolis that accepts Bitcoin. 🙁
: Called it! @mspbjReilly: When Amazon started collecting MN sales tax last fall, ppl wondered why. …
: The Minnedemo 19 liveblog is pretty cool.
January 2015
: Comcast Using IPv6 I recently upgraded my Comcast cable modem and for the first time ever it looks like I’m connecting …
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Peter Zaballos addressing #TeamSPS today.
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First time at Red Wagon Pizza! Like that this and only 2 blocks from home. Great beer list to boot.
: Software for Good as B Corporation I’m really enjoying watching Casey Helbling and the team at Software for Good evolve their mission …
December 2014
: Wishing MacSparky did a weekly OmniFocus newsletter with suggestions and power user content. Bite …
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Christmas Eve steaks on the Big Green Egg. Nice grilling weather!
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Blokus
I got Blokus for Christmas in the brother-in-law swap on the Olson side (thanks Max!). It’s a really …
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Lego Firetruck
Modern Legos seem so very different than the generic shapes I remember when I was a kid. Did Legos …
: Happy to see Dollar a Day pick EFF today! Have been an EFF member for many years.
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I finally got Tyler to try a fruit smoothie and he decided he liked it.
: The Chess Master and the Computer by Garry Kasparov A compelling read on how an objective was achieved, but not really. This part from the end of the …
: Really like how sslmate does certificates, but I sort of want to get wait for Let’s Encrypt to get …
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The view from the #TeamSPS deck at night is fabulous.
: Nice writeup in The Line with Peter Zaballos discussing SPS Commerce massive growth!
: Just typed a 40 character random password on my Kindle. That was horrible.
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Wanted: Dropcam Window Mount
I’ve had a Dropcam now for several months and I really like the device. It is super simple to setup, …
: If you like IFTTT and Launch Center Pro you should check out Workflow. Having fun with it.
: Waiting for PayPal security code to arrive via SMS wishing there was support for proper 2-factor …
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Einstein Cabinet
Tammy got this custom made Einstein cabinet by artist Paul Carbo this week. I love it. I think this …
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Starting day at Salesforce World Tour in data analysis session!
Overview from Billy Cripe of Field …
: Deciding to refuse Comcasts modem to wireless router “upgrade”. Like what I have now.
: Had such a great evening hanging out with Layne Kennedy, Dennys Bisogno, and Steve LeVahn! Great …
: I’m dumbfounded that it took me 42 years of life to realize how well a pairing knife works to take …
: My friend Garrick Van Buren has published a book, Rebuilding Blocks.
: Didn’t know Kindle supported Family accounts. Nice to see services figuring this out!
: Have an old iPhone that I want to use without a phone plan, but it needs a SIM card. Can you get a …
: Just got a haircut without a single word of small talk from the barber. So awesome. Double tip!
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For Those About To Rock
Tyler with one of his favorite bands t-shirts.
: Seated for The New Standards holiday show! ‘Tis the season! Wonder if other #TeamSPS are at the The …
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Need coffee: got double cache fault. #TeamSPS Retry later.
: Great breakfast this morning with David Hussman! We are lucky to have a talent like him in the Twin …
: Quiet house, kids at gymnastics, listening to Bach. Ahhhh…
: I’m interviewing 5 people today. Final candidates for five different positions! #TeamSPS is growing!
November 2014
: Having long given up on optical media is there really no way for me to watch Star Wars with my kids?
: Trying to use the Square website as a consumer, not a business, is nearly impossible. Can’t even …
: Took a trip through my spam folder for first time in forever. Seems things have gotten a bit …
: Hard to say which is a clearer sign of the holidays: Christmas music and tree decorating Kids …
: Substituting honey for sugar in my Wassail Tea was a success. Adds some nice flavor too.
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Twitter Spam #NFL
If you have a Twitter account, or have many like I do I’m guessing you got this email from Twitter. …
: Days like today make me realize how badly I wish LogicMonitor had a native iOS app. Want to be …
: Really wish iOS could backup to iCloud and my computer.
: Overheard at Apple Store Genius Bar… “I did a cloud thing, I have no idea.” “There’s more than one …
: Making Wassail Tea. Officially feels like Thanksgiving now.
: Prophet ← Cool little Python module for doing financial modeling.
: Wow, Science Museum of Minnesota website is really difficult to use. It won’t acknowledge that we …
: Ads in front of YouTube train videos → frustrated 4 year old son!
: 2014 Olson Family Weekend This years Annual Olson Family Weekend was planned by Don & Kaye and the extended family had a great …
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Olson Grandkids
Don & Kaye and the six grandkids. (Left to right: Tyler, Mazie, Lucas, Elsa, Nora, Levi)
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Magic Pines
After years of talking about getting a cabin we have finally made the big leap! Tammy has been …
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Supporting the Open Internet
“It’s only an illusion that the Internet appears to be open…” — Dave Winer
As we approach the …
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Peter Zaballos doing “Meet the Expert” session for #TeamSPS!
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Tech support walkup session for #TeamSPS. Great way to solve problems and build connections in the …
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Welcome to “The Cloud”! The #TeamSPS space rocks. 😊
: Very excited by the announcement of Let’s Encrypt! We’ve needed this for a long time!
: Upgraded 2 Macs, 2 iPhones and 3 iPads tonight. #freshbits
: So happy to see The Decemberists are coming to Minneapolis! 🎶 “The thrushes bleating battle with the …
: Model train clearing snow. Surprisingly awesome.
: Question2Answer Number Captcha I’ve been using Question2Answer for a number of years now to power Ask Planet Kubb. I like …
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AWS re:Play
AWS re:Invent re:Play event! Containers?
Big beat! 🎧
: Awesome to hear SPS Commerce won Tekne Awards this evening! Missing event due to AWS re:Invent. …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Excited for Werner Vogels AWS re:Invent keynote!
Great groove!
Excited to have @iamjacknovak …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 1
Seated for AWS re:Invent keynote!
Andy Jassy “Cloud has become the new normal.” True for many! …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 0
Looking forward to connecting with the rest of #TeamSPS at #reinvent!
68 °F and the cab driver had …
: “These Days” by Foo Fighters really cannot be too loud.
: Social is all neat and silly, but I still ♥ my RSS reader the most. (I use Feedbin by the way)
: Yard is ready for snow with 15 minutes of daylight to spare.
: Being able to AirDrop from my iPhone to my MacBook is surprisingly useful.
: Tyler (4) absolutely loves AC/DC “Hells Bells”. This doesn’t displease me. 😊
: Trying Fentiman’s Ginger Beer. Wow. “It burns!”
: Claire’s should have Dad seating somewhere. WiFi would be nice too.
: I’ve been donating $1/day to various non-profits with Dollar a Day. Simple and easy thing to do.
: Why can’t there be more Foo Fighters albums.
: Please let The Decemberists have a tour stop in Minneapolis with the new album release.
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Nice — #TeamSPS product and platform offsite today! #InfiniteRetailPower
👍 #TeamSPS assembling for …
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👍 #TeamSPS workshop day kicking off! Education, training and continuous learning are key to …
: Think we may have found our cabin.
: My wife got to use Apple Pay before I got a chance. 😏
: Just calculated the first presidential elections our kids will be able to vote in. Feel instantly …
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Rich Howard and Chris Bidler jamming on some code. #TeamSPS
: I Voted 2014! Doing my part for democracy! 👍
: Didn’t realize I get to vote on removing mandatory food requirements for wine sales tomorrow. …
: Passbook has gradually moved from an app I put in my “Hidden” folder to one that is now on my first …
: Thanks US Bank I’m now setup to use Apple Pay. My regular card transactions don’t show up like they …
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TeamSPS Opens New Floor
Today is first day in new #TeamSPS floor! Expect many tweets with photos today. Collaborative, …
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Boomboxes at Franconia Sculpture Park. See also.
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Whiplash
Tammy and I went to see Whiplash last night at the renovated Uptown Theater1. Really good film about …
: All my accounts are locked down! Authentication via Authy. PayPal doesn’t support real 2-factor …
: Investors eye site near Mpls. Farmers Market for MLS soccer stadium I really hope this happens. Having an MLS soccer team, but more importantly a team playing in …
October 2014
: First thing I noticed in the new Outlook for Mac is Retina graphics.
: Finally succumbed to WordPress Jetpack. It is pretty nice. 😕
: Can I order my Apple Watch yet? Waiting is the hardest part.
: I bought $40 of Bitcoin and now I have less money! I thought this was supposed to go the other way!
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Drinking the beer means I won’t eat the candy. Healthy!
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New #TeamSPS space is ready to roll. Here is one of the many collaborative tables with great tech.
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Whole family at Wild game! Mazie is practicing teenager looks already.
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30 foot whiteboard surface with 5 operational dashboards. New #TeamSPS space is awesome!
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One detail. Each desk in the new #TeamSPS space has these handy USB power ports. Mobile friendly.
: Updated Dynamic Questy Captchas A little over a year ago I shared a method of generating dynamic Questy Captchas for the MediaWiki …
: Have you ever seen a ~ in a URL where the hostname did not end in .edu?
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Business Hours: I wonder how you put this into Yelp? From the mini-donut stand in Nisswa, MN.
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SPS Kubb Class
Garrick and I joined forces and auctioned off a Kubb Class at the annual SPS Charity Auction this …
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Minnesota United v San Antonia Scorpions
Minnesota United FC Culvers tailgating dinner with Mazie.
Good luck Minnesota United FC! Let’s win …
: Is it possible to get the ElevationLab NanoPad off of a surface? I can’t get it to even budge.
: Tammy is in full force cabin shopping mode. Not sure how this happened.
: Screen sharing through Messages in Yosemite is pretty slick.
: Drivetrain Agency sold to Toronto shopping tech company SlyceIt → Congrats to Dan Grigsby and team!
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Great Kubb event with #TeamSPS today! Sporting Planet Kubb shirts and US National Kubb Championship …
: I’m really enjoying the visual refresh of Yosemite. Refreshing. OS feels snappy too.
: I finally joined 2013 and got a Bitcoin address. 1JNbi6bHfQPMgmizA7NVprz4nj3DBJqAuM
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Awesome Kubb afternoon with my US National Kubb Championship set! Great family weekend event!
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Playing Kubb and having a Fulton with bro-in-laws on family weekend. Great time!
: Just finished John Siracusa’s Yosemite review. Such a delightful read. My Yosemite upgrade has been …
: Excited to welcome the Leadtec team to #TeamSPS!
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Watched Chef tonight! Somewhat surprisingly good movie with lots of fun kitchen scenes. Not going to …
: I just joined 709 donors giving a Dollar a Day to amazing nonprofits!
: The main thing I’ve learned from my WikiApiary project is how horribly bad the spam bot problem is …
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I’ve been to Gooseberry falls many times, but it’s always a fun time to visit again. Crowds and all.
: Hitting Duluth Coffee Company again. Solid espresso. Thanks for reccomendation Jeff Sussna.
: Impressed with Zeitgeist Cafe in Duluth. Very good brunch and awesome space.
: In Duluth area this weekend. Any suggestions of breweries or taprooms to visit? Have Bent Paddle …
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Classic Football
The kids are having a hard time considering this a game. I remember loving this the year I got it …
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Charley Hackerson sales mgmt team beat the tech mgmt team in Whirlyball today. We put up a fight! …
September 2014
: TextCaptcha looks like a nice tool. Trying it on one of my sites. Thanks @robtuley!
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Two pork shoulders on the Big Green Egg. Check back in a few hours.
: Ordered delivery from Broders’ Pasta Bar. One of my favorite perks of where we live.
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Boomboxes at Franconia Sculpture Park. See also.
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At the Taylors Falls Drive-In!
: It’s a John Lennon sort of night… ‘Watching the Wheels’ 🎶
: Now on ello at https://ello.co/thingles. Thanks Michael Fransen!
: Siri is incredible on the iPhone 6. The “Hey Siri” feature is great when you are driving.
: Wait, my AppleTV can’t use this new 7.0 release?! 🙁
: Still about 50 folks in line at Apple Store in Uptown.
: Very happy to have OmniFocus 2 for iPad!
: Better security and privacy through image proxying — Nice! 👍
: Tim Cook on Charlie Rose This is a great two part interview (part 1, part 2) with Apple CEO Tim Cook with Charlie Rose. …
: Fall Poem Mazie had a homework assignment for fall poetry that involved having your parents write a poem and …
: Restarting AWS MN A couple of months ago Bridget Kromhout and I started talking about coordinating with the Twin …
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Tyler's First Fish
Tyler caught his very first fish this weekend with the help of Grandpa Don! He was so proud and …
: Watched the Apple Watch video 3 times now. Should stop now. 😀
: shingadooties For years Mazie has been using this word that she made up. She decided that it meant “everything”. …
: Ordered Tammy an iPhone 6 via the AT&T website and it worked.
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Grilling tools. Today is what Gin & Tonic’s were made for.
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Minnesota United v Tampa Bay
Gorgeous night for a Minnesota United FC game! Stands are full! Nice to see Atomic Data sponsoring …
: I think it’s time to give nvALT and Simplenoteapp a serious go.
: Nice improvements from FastMail on the iPhone web interface.
: Nice day for Minnesota Renaissance Festival!
August 2014
: What did I do on the flight? Wrote a Backus-Naur form grammar for Planet Kubb Kubb notation.
: I finally have TSA Pre✔️ and that is awesome. 🙌
: Had no idea Raiden was available for iPad! Favorite arcade game ever!
: Getting started with Ansible I’ve been planning to start working on using a configuration management solution for my hobby …
: MediaWiki LocalSettings for Farmers I’ve been running a MediaWiki farm at thingelstad.com for a couple of years now hosting about a …
: Starting to watch True Detective and excited to hear The Handsome Family doing the intro music.
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Music at Lake Harriet Bandshell tonight.
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Summer dinner of watermelon. 🍉
: Had some progress with Vagrant and Ansible today.
: “Here is a massive pull request with tons of changes.” “Have you tested it?” “No.” 😭
: Great interview with Rajiv Pant, CTO of NYTimes. I have a ton of respect for Rajiv. Good read!
: Have had a great trip visiting #TeamSPS in Kyiv. Now starts the 32 hour day going home.
: Office365 mail offline? Maintenance window? Sure it’s 3:46a back home but it’s mid-day Kyiv. …
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Delighted to have coffee shop in same building as new SPS Commerce Kyiv office. #TeamSPS
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My Ukraine phone for easy messaging with team while here.
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New SPS Commerce Kyiv office is on the right side. #TeamSPS
: Feeling surprisingly well adjusted to an 8 hour timezone change for day 1.
: Amsterdam Schiphol, does it still qualify as “Free WiFi” when packet loss > 50% ?
: Boarded for ✈️ MSP - AMS - KBP! Looking forward to visiting #TeamSPS in our new office in Kyiv!
: Finally! Boto supports Python 3. Nice.
: Honored to be on this list! → The first winners of our Titans of Technology awards
: Wow! #EC2 IP Address Update - http://t.co/YFeDHl3UwN - Now spanning 8,831,796 addresses. — Jeff Barr …
: Excited to partner up with Bridget Kromhout and get the AWS MN Amazon Web Services Twin Cities …
July 2014
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Always fun night for Minnedemo!
Peter Zaballos introducing SPS Commerce to Minnedemo crowd! Go …
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Grand Marais Photo Workshop
Photos from the photography workshop Tammy and I took with Layne Kennedy this week.
See list of …
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Good morning from Grand Marais.
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WikiApiary Stickers
StickerMule had a great deal a couple of weeks ago so I had these fun WikiApiary clear vinyl …
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DevOpsDays MSP 2014
DevOpsDays MSP day 2 getting started with Jeff Sussna! Thank you DevOpsDays MSP for opportunity to …
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Gorgeous day for US National Kubb Championship!
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Time for the Live Auction at the #TeamSPS Charity Auction!
Charley Hackerson and I just won …
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Great to see #TeamSPS doing good at tonight’s charity auction!
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2014 TdF Begun
Enjoying stage 2 with my viewing station all setup. Mini Jambox is critical addition.
(I wish I …
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Exploring Green Line
We decided to take the new MetroTransit Green Line from downtown Minneapolis to the end-of-the-line …
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Mayday Did It!
I’m very happy to be one of the over fifty-thousand backers of Mayday PAC.
: Eyeing SaltStack to keep my Linode machines humming.
: Soccer will be a little less exciting now with USA out of the World Cup but still looking forward to …
June 2014
: Days in Boulder, CO: 4 Parking tickets: 2
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Having fun teaching Mazie and Tyler how to use a YoYo on vacation. Got myself a nice heavy one with …
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Ice Cream Riot in Denver
When we are on vacation we tend to enjoy an afternoon ice cream stop and this afternoon we had the …
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Wow Corvus Coffee! Very impressed.
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Delicious macchiato at Black Eye Coffee.
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Happy to have 2914 Coffee just a couple blocks from where we are staying in Denver. Delicious …
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Love this geeky water bottle at Linger in Denver.
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Planet Kubb T-Shirts
Do yourself a favor and get one of these awesome new Planet Kubb t-shirts!
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Mazie and Tyler getting ready for a long day of driving on our way to Colorado for a week of …
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This seems like the best use possible for this book.
: rebeccapurple It’s great to see the human side of the technology community shine.
: Great lunch today with Elwin Loomis and Heather Mickman about the Minnestar mission with fellow …
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Experiencing Five Watt Coffee for the first time. Very nice!
: Inbox Metrics Yes, I actually do graph the activity in my inbox. How does it go? You can’t manage it if you don’t …
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How Facebook
Improving ads, wow, how excited should I be? Just to be clear what this message really means is that …
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Mazie's iPad
We’ve crossed a big milestone this year. As of this birthday Mazie now has her very own iPad. No …
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New Standards for Mazie's Birthday
This year The New Standards did one of their great shows at The Dakota right on Mazie’s birthday! At …
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Cool Like My Dad
I’m guessing this shirt isn’t going to make the cut in a couple more years. 😀
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Really pleased with how the new #TeamSPS training / conference space turned out!
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Our Neighborhood in 1938
My friend Garrick shared this link to the Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online site. It is …
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The weather was absolutely perfect for a day at the Edina Art Fair!
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Tyler and I having our respective Sunday morning screen time.
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Bike the Border
I helped my Uncle Tim get a new website up and running for Bike the Border, a bike ride in North …
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Family Bike Ride
We have been trying to get a good family bike ride in each day on the weekends. It was a great day …
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Kubb at Lake Harriet
Most of the time when I see people playing Kubb around Minneapolis they are folks I know from …
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Last Day of School 2014
Mazie was super excited to be done with school for the summer. We have a 4th grader in the house …
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NASDAQ SPS Commerce Market Bell Ceremony
On Tuesday of this week I got to be part of the SPS team ringing the market bell to start the …
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Fun morning with #TeamSPS opening the NASDAQ trading day!
May 2014
: Been up since 2 AM with son. Doing that “swish cold press coffee under your tongue” trick to get big …
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House of Cards (Season 2)
Tammy and I just finished watching season 2 of House of Cards. What a great show! I just cannot get …
: Just learned that you cannot wear two different plaids at the same time. Worth noting.
: Why WikiApiary uses pages and not articles A while back @Waldyrious posed this question about WikiApiary. @WikiApiary in the lists of wikis by …
: Wanted: Dash Docset for MediaWiki I really wish there were a Dash Docset for MediaWiki. The directions for creating docsets are pretty …
: Soundtrack for today is the Big Sur playlist Tammy and I creating on one of the most amazing days of …
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It’s Big Green Egg time! Waiting for Mike Rock to arrive before opening the Indeed Brewing.
: OmniFocus is not a bug tracker! Use bug trackers for issues. Don’t put them in OmniFocus, it …
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Ridiculously good Myrcenary Double IPA from Odell Brewing! Thanks Andy! 🍺
: Awesome, and true. If you're too busy to have a weekly review, you really need to have a weekly …
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Gorgeous Minnesota summer evening.
: CTO = Culture. Technology. Operations. This is a guide for CTOs and other technology managers responsible for a software engineering …
: Tried to get the new WikiApiary Celery bots live tonight but “daemonizing” celeryd got the best of …
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At Nomad Pub Minneapolis for Burroughs Bocce Cup! Bocce is no Kubb, but still lots of fun. I wonder …
: New Glarus’ Wisconsin Belgian Red is so good. 🍺
: Want to live down the street from me? Nice S Mpls home for sale!
: Started day with CaringBridge board meeting. Great organization and great people! Thanks Sona …
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Looking forward to CIO luncheon today hosted by Genesys Works Twin Cities
: Forgot my iPad at home today. Feel like I forgot to put on pants before I came to work.
: Crazy good day today connecting the dots on our platform evolution. Love when the pieces start to …
: The Oatmeal did a great two-piece part on What it’s like to own a Tesla Model-S (and part 2).
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☕️ Delightful afternoon espresso.
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Mothers Day dinner prep starting. 4 lbs of yum. Big Green Egg starting.
Big Green Egg.
See ya in a …
: Spent most of evening after kids were in bed doing digital weeding.
: Keybase and MediaWiki I’m really intrigued by what Keybase.io is doing with identity. The ability to cryptographically …
: keybase.io I have my profile setup on Keybase.io. Keybase is an interesting product using public key …
: So impressed with Anders Noren Hemingway theme. Clean, fast, elegant. Making me like WordPress …
: Weird request: does anyone know where in Minneapolis you can get Pretzel Flipz? No knock offs. The …
: At least now the code doesn’t look like it was made by a monkey. Paul commenting on the structure of …
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Email from Mazie
I’m starting to introduce Mazie to email. I also showed her how to use emoji characters. One of her …
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Profile Photo (May 2014)
I figured it was time to move to a new profile photo on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Heck, even …
: The Worst "Mark all as read" Button Ever If you login to Twitter and go to your Direct Messages you press a button to mark all as read, and …
: Soaking in Charley Hackerson advanced sales training with #TeamSPS sales vets!
: Love this! CTO = Culture + Technology + Operations — Rajiv Pant राजीव पंत 潘睿哲 🪷 (@rajivpant) May 7, …
: minnov8 wrote an overview of the SPS Omnichannel event last week. I know Steve, and he highlighted …
: Dropcam Tabs I’ve become quiet the fan of my Dropcam. I decided to go ahead and pre-order two of the new Dropcam …
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iPhone huddle with David Novak, Shivani Stumpf, and Michael Davidovich at SPS Omnichannel. #TeamSPS
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Playing Can’t Stop with Mazie and Tammy.
: I backed The Internet’s Own Boy on Kickstarter and can’t wait to get my copy. Watch the preview.
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Fun to run into Steve Borsch at SPS Omnichannel event!
Peter Zaballos kicking off event.
Jim Frome …
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Looking forward to SPS Omnichannel reception tonight!
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Return visit to Day Block Brewing for some more delicious pizza! Plus pint of Frühlingsfest!
April 2014
: Frontline: Generation Like Tammy and I watched this Frontline: Generation Like tonight. If you are at all curious about how the …
: Sunday afternoon with Tammy and kids. Buying a new washer and dryer. Feeling middle-aged. 😀
: Do yourself a favor. Go to Day Block Brewing and get a beer flight and a pepperoni pizza. Crazy good …
: It’s my awesome wife Tammy’s birthday today!
: 👍 Garrick van Buren: You don’t need a new tool. You need to commit to getting more out of the ones …
: Yesterdays 1Password updates are great. Just one key thing missing — be able to have multiple vaults …
: Excited to have multiple vault support in 1Password on all devices now!
: Huge congrats to my friend Jim Bernard on his 3:21:34 finish today at the Boston Marathon!
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🙌 #TeamSPS getting ready for stoke.d session!
: Huge Impact of Linode Cloud Updates I host all of my personal projects on two servers at Linode. Last week Linode announced new “cloud …
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Grilled baby romaine lettuce on Big Green Egg.
Grilled flank steak on Big Green Egg.
: Considering high-end blow dryer as present for Tammy. Do folks that know such things consider these …
: MariaDB performance after Linode SSD upgrade is phenomenal.
: Super easy migration of Linode hosts to new servers. Blown away by how much faster it is!
: Watching COSMOS alone since my family is apparently not geeky enough.
: Renewed my Nice Ride subscription. Looking forward to another year with green bikes at the ready.
: Driving around with my son listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Minnebar 9
Notes from Minnebar 9:
Wonder if I’ll still have the most presenter sessions after this year. 14! 😊 …
: Good luck to #TeamSPS members Chuck Mallott and Colin Walker in this weekends Overnight Website …
: Fun to introduce Dan Megears, Luke Samaha, Paul DeCoursey, and Scott Bjerstedt to Kubb today during …
: Just signed up for a year of Feedbin. Supports Reeder and ReadKit. Happy to pay for a good service!
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Ready for “Take Kubb to Work Day” tomorrow!
: Creating entire presentation on PowerPoint for iPad with Office 365 and pretty impressed with the …
: Fabulous breakfast this morning with Minnestar board member and catalyst Justin Porter.
: So Lightroom for iPad requires an Adobe Creative Cloud license? Huge disappointment.
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Couldn’t help but fire up the Big Green Egg with such nice weather! Even for simple burger and …
: Timelapse of the April 8" snow in my backyard. Happily wasn’t home for this. 😊 Via Dropcam. The …
: Blown away by the espresso and macchiato at Comet Coffee. Nice presentation with charged water. Find …
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Sump Coffee
Blown away by Sump Coffee. Amazing macchiato, straight espresso and pour over. Slayer to boot.
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At Pappy’s Smokehouse getting ready to go into a full rack of ribs.
Willie Nelson is is a Pappy’s …
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Impressive execution at Blueprint Coffee. Gorgeous macchiato and cappuccino.
: City Museum in St. Louis is crazy!
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Kids loving Frisco Train Store. Biggest wooden train table I’ve ever seen!
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Great looking 1957 Chevy.
1964 Ford Mustang.
1965 Corvette.
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Can’t decide which shirt to get!
March 2014
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Well hello St. Louis BBQ! So good! At Sugarfire.
: Eagerly looking forward to visiting Sump Coffee while in St. Louis.
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Gorgeous Coffee in St. Louis.
Update (Mar 2023): While doing blog gardening I saw this post and …
: Spring break trip started. Lunch at Culver’s in Iowa on the way to St. Louis.
: Worked so well for Best Buy. 😕 @MNHeadhunter: BAD news. Cargill to outsource IT services; 900 jobs …
: My website will cost $0.02/mo to sit on S3. @arqbackup: Next month Amazon’s S3 storage price goes to …
: Great day with AWS Cloud and #TeamSPS today in Seattle working on simple workflow!
: Tyler is really into Puff, the Magic Dragon. Still a great song.
: Debating if there would be enough interest at Minnebar in a session on the CTO part of a technology …
: I’ll be hosting another Minnebar on Minnebar session this year. Join the conversation!
: Processed all images on my website through ImageOptim and reduced total size by 136MB, 16% on …
: Got my Automatic today for my Mini Cooper. Looking forward to seeing the data!
: Submitted pull request to add WikiApiary extension counts to Shields.io!
: Hanging out at Sparrow Cafe, nearest neighborhood coffee shop. Great to see a crowd here.
: brew install npm … and into the rabbit hole I go. 🕳🐇
: PHP Post-Facebook Facebook is famously built in PHP, and I think it is really interesting to watch what they are doing …
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Went to a store today and this happened. Converse for all!
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Nice macchiato to start of the day.
: In Portland. Planning to hit Public Domain and Stumptown. Any other must stop coffee places?
: ALL parking in terminal 1 was full. Got redirected to T2 to park. First time for that.
: I flipped thingelstad.com to using Pelican. Bit of a mess right now, but is fast and static.
: Playing with Pelican: There should be a plugin that generates stats and graphs on your articles. …
: Internet Broadcasting Systems sold for $20 million ← Congrats to Elmer Baldwin, Todd Carter, and …
: Moving WordPress blog posts to Pelican is really easy. Moving your images and media? Not so obvious.
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Monday morning Blue Screen of Death.
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Hanging at Golden Leaf Smokeshop with Jim Bernard having a cigar and scotch. Will not be my last …
: Looking forward to a great evening with #teamsps tonight!
: Congrats to Justin Kaufenberg and team! @TECHdotMN: Minneapolis startup @SportNgin closes $15m …
: Giving my OmniFocus GTD projects a serious review and refactor. Needed. Tracking lots of open …
: The new PHP ← The “People’s Language” is improving! Good to see PHP turning the corner.
: I’ve always known that OmniFocus tasks could repeat, but had never realized projects could repeat! …
: You should go see Bridget Kromhout present at DevOps Minneapolis meetup next week! She’s awesome! 👍
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Remembering Farhan Muhammad
On Tuesday morning I was shocked to get an email from Jennifer at ILM Professional Services …
: Disaster, send help! 😀 I have no coffee in my house? How could I let this happen. [_]D — Karl ☕️ …
: Very saddened by the sudden and surprising passing of Farhan Muhammad. Worked with him over a number …
: Having lunch 2 blocks from Canada and -18 °F below. Welcome to North Dakota.
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Over recent years I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about the lack of women in technology …
: Dropbox Arbitration Opt-Out If you missed the news that Dropbox is now automatically putting all users into an arbitration …
February 2014
: Heading to North Dakota for my grandmas 80th birthday. Forecast is -38 °F tomorrow morning. …
: Seated for Mike Birbiglia at Pantages!
: Always makes me smile when I get spam that starts with “Hi %%first_name%%,”
: I find the “back and forth” of scheduling frustrating, so I set up a Doodle account with a public …
: Excited about WhatsApp being bought? Remember ICQ?
: Thread on #wikitech mailing list on meetings v. mailing list discussions. Shared common trait? …
: Sent meeting invite at 6:05am. Got first acceptance at 6:07am. #TeamSPS has early risers.
: Excited to head to CoCo MSP for a while with #TeamSPS today!
: Go to Hacker News. See Erlang article at first spot. Note all is normal in universe. Repeat in 6 …
: The difference in snow plowing between Minneapolis and Minnetonka still shocks me.
: Seriously LeapFrog, why does your Mac software have to be so frustrating!
: Wow. Speed skating win by 0.003 seconds. Amazing.
: Oh joy, looks like I’ll be attempting to super glue my temporary crown back together.
: FastMail may have switched me to a webmail convert. They have a ridiculously fast interface.
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Minnedemo
Minnedemo tonight! Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard are ready for the demos.
Cool to see PCs for People …
: Moved all my personal email from TuffMail to FastMail and am super happy with it! Huge improvement.
: Nice scientific pictures show off - TeX ← High art geek here
: Welcome Liam Confrey to #TeamSPS!
: Z-Scale model train awesomeness with Tyler.
: Upgraded MediaWiki Foreground Skin to 4.0.3 of Font Awesome today.
: Twelve four-year olds at our house for Tyler’s birthday party. Good this is only 90 minutes!
: Has anyone done a network sniff in Facebook Paper to see what behaviors it is reporting back to the …
: Excited for CaringBridge board meeting today!
: In awe at the depth and strength of the #TeamSPS sales teams! Amazing group Charley Hackerson, David …
: Peppers at the Super Bowl. Crazy. Yertle the Turtle on the set list? Wasn’t the line in this game …
: Facebook won’t let you delete a friend list!? Only archive it? There is ad targeting value in that …
: Nespresso ads hit me all over the web. Clearly the algorithms know I like coffee, a lot. ☕️ They …
: This Newspaper Python module looks amazing! Can’t wait to try it on my link wiki.
: Happy that it’s above zero today!
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Saturday morning donut with my buddy.
January 2014
: Hanging in HipChat with Dan Megears getting MXToolBox MailFlow monitoring for #TeamSPS email round …
: Just bought tickets for Tammy and I to see Neil deGrasse Tyson in May at Beth El Synagogue! Excited!
: Highlight of the day? Meeting with David Hussman! Minneapolis is lucky to have a talent like him …
: OMG yes! Miss Bolo! @iandees: Someone please write a browser-based massively multiplayer Bolo game.
: Congrats! Awesome! Looking forward to talking at @mtnwestdevops in the company of such illustrious …
: I was so disappointed this wiki wasn’t about actual fish hooks.
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Chef Tech Lunch for #TeamSPS!
: Went shopping and not sure if I bought a computer or just clothes for work. 💸
: Minneapolis has a complete lack of artisanal toast.
: Getting the Right Notification to the Right User ← Huge new feature on Status Page allowing per …
: How long until Google Ad Sense can target households based on interior temperature? People who are …
: I just assume Amazon has everything. Then I search for Z-Scale model train stuff and nothing. 😒 …
: I scored 318 points with “GOOBER” in SpellTower!
: Sort of surprising Day One doesn’t allow audio files to be put in an entry. Seems odd.
: Opt-Out of Google Plus Gmail integration It’s lame when the only time you need to log into services is to disable privacy invading features …
: Me too. @murphybytes: I can never keep useradd and adduser straight
: Got WikiApiary database moved to yoyo-migrations. Yoyo works well.
: Made the leap to using Composer to manage MediaWiki extensions like Semantic MediaWiki!
: Awesome 8 year old question, Mazie: “Was J Jill related to J Crew?”
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First time for reading glasses.
: Hoping multiple vault support is coming soon for 1Password for iOS. Am eager to use the feature but …
: No more Vicodin = Not nearly as sleepy. On the upside, tooth is all good now. Thank dentists for …
: Happy to have found yoyo-migrations for Python.
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Kinetic Sand is weird and really cool.
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Great pre-birthday dinner with Tammy and kids at Broder’s Pasta Bar, one of my favorite restaurants. …
: Fun day hacking on WikiApiary and hanging out at Urban Bean Coffee. Working on adding Celery to the …
: Infracoder meetup means I’ll finally get to meet Donnie Berkholz too! 😊
: Christmas decorations go up with Christmas music (of course). What do they come down with? James …
: Happy New Year! “De-Christmasing” well underway at our house.
December 2013
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Playing Clue with Mazie and Tammy. It’s about to get wild here on New Year’s Eve!
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Can’t go wrong with Sinatra on New Year’s Eve. Bubbly.
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Not midnight yet, but Happy New Year’s Eve from Tammy and I!
: Just turned my espresso machine at home on while out running errands. The internet is amazing.
: Why I donated to EFF: they keep the Internet free and open! You should too!
: For those following along with my tooth problem: in the middle of a root canal.
: Is it okay to drive on Vicodin?
: Life with toothache: 800mg ibuprofen + 2 Vicodin. Repeat every 8 hours.
: Dash for macOS ← Can’t believe I didn’t know about Dash. Great reference app for developers.
: At pharmacy getting Vicodin prescription filled. Tooth still very painful.
: I have never experienced tooth pain like this. Horrible.
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Loving this Christmas t-shirt. 🍻
: Hoping to get a multiplayer Carcassonne for iOS game “in person” at Christmas Eve.
: Didn’t have my anti-spam settings right for Wiki on a Stick. It was blank, likely will just reset …
: Santa gets tired of the sugar. @dberkholz: OH: The kids said to make sure we left Santa a beer …
: Toothaches suck. Happy the dentist could get me in today. Most painful 15 mins I’ve spent in a …
: Just reset a Furby Boom from a gross, farty “boy” to a new girl and got “joy to the world!” from …
: Here’s Everywhere You Should Enable Two-Factor Authentication Right Now Two-factor authentication is …
: One Year for WikiApiary Yesterday WikiApiary had a very meta tweet when it wished itself Happy Birthday! A while back I …
: Heading to visit #teamsps Parsippany with Amy Patton.
: Upgraded Piwik to the just released 2.0. Very easy. Great new bits.
: Enjoying our annual family viewing of Elf. Christmas!
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Holiday cookie baking at friends.
My job on cookie day: spritz gun!
: IFTTT also an Office 365 channel could be a game changer for using you at work. Not sure if APIs …
: So you are supposed to fly to Indianapolis to enroll in TSA Precheck program? That’s nuts.
: Seriously, the new WordPress admin interface is awesome. Fast. Easy. Makes me want to use it more. …
: I now have my SPS Commerce mailbox on Office 365. Very fast. I may actually just use the Outlook web …
: Initial exploration of Status Page and impressed. Definitely going to work further with it.
: Attending CaringBridge board meeting remotely from the office this morning. Great cause! A bit …
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First trip to Kharkiv to meet #teamsps was awesome! So much talent and enthusiasm. Great time! …
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Team meeting and tech walkthrough with one of #teamsps Kharkiv Dev teams.
Now that is a beer!
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Good morning from Kharkiv!
Looking forward to awesome day with #TeamSPS in Kharkiv. 2nd double …
: Facetime call with family while in Ukraine. So great to be able to see family so far away!
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Final packing before heading off to Kharkiv, Ukraine to meet SPS Commerce #teamsps! Next 20 hours: …
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2013 New Standards Holiday Show
Excited for another The New Standards holiday show tonight! Already spotted Vice President Mondale …
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Was behind this car the other day and was surprised it wasn’t The Mad Adder.
: How did I not know that Daily Show and Colbert were on Hulu Plus? That’s nearly worth the $ alone.
: Buying Glengarry Glen Ross, again, in HD this time, because it’s that good of a movie.
: Very good Minnestar board meeting this morning. Such a great organization. Planning for next …
: New album from Minneapolis classic country duo The Cactus Blossoms. I was at the Turf Club for the …
: Dude on plane is texting on his flip “feature” phone. Triple pressing keys. Like watching someone …
: Really love HipChat, but it doesn’t work well on airplane WiFi. Would be a big win if it worked …
: Hello Manhattan! It’s been a while. Nice to see you again!
: For those excited regarding Amazon Prime Air CONCEPT, here is an Australian company doing it next …
: Saw Frozen today. Really good.
: The old school Mac Pro looks absolutely ridiculous on display in the Apple store.
November 2013
: Stumped on this dumb Python import nosetests error. Help Jeroen De Dauw Paul Finally figured out …
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Crazy good post-Thanksgiving dinner with Mike Rock and family. Great to spend time with awesome …
: Tammy just discovered ebates! She’s excited like she discovered the next Twitter.
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Christmas tree up! A lot of memories with various ornaments.
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Kids Running for Kid's World Marathon Challenge
Our neighbor Nicole organized the Kids Running for Kid’s team to raise money for the Save the …
: Made a profile for myself on Ohloh and also setup WikiApiary as a project on Ohloh.
: Making Wassail Tea. Holiday can officially start now.
: Short week is packing 5 days of stuff into a 3-day schedule. 😕
: Clever idea! pdfconvert.me is a free email service which will take the content of a message and …
: Little scared to upgrade my master branch of Semantic MediaWiki. 😕 Composer newbie.
: I wish there was a properly-weighted indoor “Nerf like” Kubb set. I’d buy 2-3 immediately.
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Remembering how epic the Green Machine was as a kid.
: Meet a Minnesota CTO interview I did with Jeff Pesek, published today!
: The End of Private Cloud – 5 Stages of Loss and Grief ← There never was a private cloud, just a …
: Heading to Parsippany to spend rest of week with Rob Krystyniak and rest of #teamsps.
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Resuming my Marklin Z-Scale model train layout project with the kids.
: Any outstanding wagers on how long until Microsoft Office for Mac support full-screen mode? My money …
: Not being able to see free/busy times when scheduling from iOS is a real annoyance.
: I’m sort of embarrassed by how sloppy my filesystem has gotten in some areas. I blame the cloud.
: procps security updates cause rkhunter warnings that give pause.
: Layne Kennedy's Light Over Iceland Photographer and friend Layne Kennedy just put together this great book combining a ton of images …
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Burroughs Fundraiser for Mazie’s school. Fun event!
Live auction time. Be careful about raising hand …
: Fun to finally meet Donnie Berkholz, fittingly at the airport. Looking forward to connecting again …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Great seats for day 2 AWS re:Invent keynote by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.
The kerning on the ’ in the …
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A giant frog is singing over an artificial waterfall. Only in Vegas.
: Seriously, this should be illegal. This from the Wynn in Las Vegas. The use of this service is …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 1
Ready for AWS re:Invent!
Perhaps the largest dining hall ever. AWS re:Invent
Great seat for AWS …
: AWS re:Invent - Day 0 Looking forward to joining other #teamsps folks at AWS re:Invent! I’m not sure why, but I always …
: Installing English → Russian dictionaries on my iPhone for trip to Kharkiv, Ukraine in a couple of …
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Tammy and I hanging out with Ira Glass! 😀
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Need Dogwood Coffee beans. Stop at Urban Bean Coffee. Get a delicious macchiato. Repeat as needed.
: PSA: Don’t let a wonderful Minnesota fall go by without giving Hüsker Dü or The Replacements a …
: Person at SuperAmerica gave me free air for my tires when I asked for quarters. That’s nice.
: Star Tribune in April 1999 on BigCharts Acquisition I’ve been cleaning through old files and found the copy of the April 30, 1999 issue of the Star …
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Getting ready for Big Green Egg steak time.
Big Green Egg smoke.
: Fun to see some new Road Sign Math geeks after #TeamSPS meeting yesterday. 😀
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Presenting at #TeamSPS meeting today! Crew filing in!
Archie Black kicking off #teamsps meeting.
Say …
: Texpad for iOS ← LaTeX continues to intrigue me.
: Productivity Apps for iPad A bunch of people at work got new iPad’s recently and I figured some may find it useful to know what …
: Managing my calendar is a lot like doing a jigsaw puzzle.
: Slapped with a Large Trout A funny thing happened on Twitter yesterday. My wiki project that keeps a database of nutrition …
: I’m impressed by this new version of Launch Center Pro.
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Secure erase = 1 day 8 hours? 500G disk. Wow.
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Going through old stuff and throwing things away.
: iTunes Genius recommends Hüsker Dü “Candy Apple Grey”. A for accuracy. F for timing. 😀
: OMG, Bad Religion Christmas album? I’m so confused.
: WISH LINKIN PARK WOULD GET THE CAPS LOCK ON THEIR KEYBOARDS FIXED.
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Nice morning for Tyler and I to have a father/son breakfast.
: Exedore ← New Mac Python tool.
October 2013
: Proud of this! @PlanetKubb: Planet Kubb: New Planet Kubb Scoresheet Now With on Pitch Stats Kubb
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Morgan-Logan neighborhood Halloween block party.
First time experimenting with leaving a bowl of …
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1,909 letter English word. From daughters dictionary.
: 1,000+ editors @wikiworks: Most collaborative #SMW-based #wiki via @yolandagil research: @Mozilla …
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TeamSPS Platform 2013
Everything set for #TeamSPS Platform offsite!
Nice — #TeamSPS Platform assembled!
Peter Zaballos …
: Sure am hoping Mac OS X 10.9.1 is coming real soon now. 😕
: Excited to get #TeamSPS together for SPS Commerce Platform offsite tomorrow! It’s going to be great! …
: I’m doing 8 presentations this week. Slide deck overload!
: Saddened by news of Lou Reed’s passing. Amazing artist. May need to listen to Magic & Loss today.
: Deleted LinkedIn iPhone app. Can’t trust them after recent Intro release.
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Not too cold for Minnesota United FC soccer tonight! ⚽️
Mazie and her friend at the final Minnesota …
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Real label from our utility room. Awesome.
: Upgrading to OS X Mavericks at work. Cisco VPN works so what the heck.
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Traveling old school with CBS MarketWatch duffel this trip.
: This screwed up my drive last night. Was curious. → 3rd Ave Bridge over I-94 dedicated to former …
: ✅ Upgraded home machines to Mavericks. All smooth. ✅ Upgraded iOS apps to newest. Cable modem on …
: It is shocking how deeply burned in my brain my Delta Skymiles number is.
: Website security question: “Where did you first meet your spouse?” How often is that the city you …
: I successfully setup GNU mailman this morning. Where do I go to get my merit badge?
: Adobe loses my credit card info, then give me Experian Protect My ID membership which gets all my …
: Just got $5 from Aaron using this new Square Cash thing. Sadly cannot return the favor as it …
: In other news, we got “Booed” tonight. Love our neighborhood.
: Running WikiApiary, a wiki that tracks as many MediaWiki sites as possible, sometimes you find some …
: Renewed S/MIME certificate tonight FWIW. Decided to also get S/MIME certificate for Tammy. Didn’t …
: Home from the Dells. Was super fun to run into Tom Keekley Lori Keekley and boys while there!
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Mini Steam Engine
The steam engines at Riverside & Great Northern Railway in Wisconsin Dells were awesome.
: 36 °F starting to feel too cold for shorts.
: Starbucks is as much a coffee shop as McDonalds is a restaurant.
: Lua keeps showing up in interesting places. @mestery: Lua Scripting Support Added To NetBSD Kernel
: Got my internal-only #TeamSPS CTO blog going tonight. Yet another use of WordPress.
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Gallon of blue stuff ordered by Lori Keekley. Tom Keekley drinking.
: 12 hour day today. Felt like 3!
: I must have ordered the most expensive sandwich that Subway sells.
: Well that wasn’t the morning I was planning on. The network gods were not smiling this morning.
: Very nice to be able to check in on #TeamSPS weekend maintenance work using HipChat.
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Happy for The New Standards to take the stage at The Dakota. Here with Mike Rock and our …
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The neighborhood is doing the Children’s World Marathon Challenge today. Love where we live.
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Still have 5 leather coin purses in reserve since nobody seems to make them anymore. Old Man Tech.
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Filtering through my camera gear to see what should go on eBay.
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Uncle Tupelo nostalgia inspired by this sticker on my camera hard case.
: Facebook to rip search opt-out from under those who were using it ← Time to delete account yet?
: Classic Van Halen getting things rocking at #TeamSPS sales event! Guessing most of #TeamSPS at …
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Minnedemo 15
Minnedemo 15 was great!
Proud to have SPS Commerce sponsoring Minnedemo 15!
Nice to see Lou …
: Liked 60 Minutes segment on disability benefits abuse? Listen to This American Life #490: Trends …
: Another Planet Kubb network site! Kubb on! Chippewa Valley Kubb League
: Just shredded my first CD-RW using this new shredder. That was fun. 😊
: Best win with You Need A Budget so far? It’s made personal finances a team sport with Tammy instead …
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Golden Espreso. Doesn’t it look so good?
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Smartwool and Birkenstocks. I think this is a thing I can do now.
: Congratulations Alona & Dylan! On September 27th my sister Alona tied the knot with her fiancé Dylan! They had a very nice ceremony …
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Mazie's First Hockey Game
Mazie and I went to the Minnesota Wild game last night along with Alone and Dylan. It was Mazie’s …
: Just watched two people manually force quit all the apps on their iPhones. 🤦♂️
: Was just thinking that Apple TV should update automatically. And then noticed there is a new setting …
: Good luck to all my Kubb pals at the Dallas, WI Kubb Tourney today! Unite People and Create Peace! …
: 1Password 4 for Mac Review — I’ve been using 1Password 4 for a couple days and like it a lot.
: My mom has a better iPhone than me. 😕
: Eek. "Experimenting with HBase" for financial transactions: more or less tragicomic than MongoDB for …
: Hoping the fact that I can never spell bureaucrat right means I am not be a bureaucrat.
: Casey Helbling and Justin Porter Join Minnestar Board ← Excited to officially welcome Justin Porter …
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Great seats at the Wild game! #TeamSPS 🏒
September 2013
: Anyone else having iMessage issues today? Seems my none of my iMessages on my phone were sent today. …
: Tammy and I leveled up in You Need A Budget in the last couple of months.
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Beautiful day to visit the apple orchard. Apparently not the only ones with this idea.
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Hat inspired by Paul.
See Alona & Dylan’s Wedding post.
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Tammy and I at my sisters wedding.
See Alona & Dylan’s Wedding post.
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Congratulations to Alona & Dylan!
See Alona & Dylan’s Wedding post.
: Crazy day juggling SPS Commerce 2014 business planning, awesome CaringBridge offsite and now off to …
: My OCD tendencies still have me checking App Store for updates even though it’s automatic now.
: Just upgraded to iOS 7.0.2 from my nightstand. Remember when this required iTunes? So nice.
: Google picks CoCo for ‘Tech Hub’ program ← Huge news, congrats CoCo MSP team! 🎉
: Pro Tip: Don’t tell Mac OS X Finder to Quick Look a 60MB SVG file.
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Just hung this BigCharts.com memory in my new office.
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Up early for #TeamSPS release window. Thankful for espresso.
: Would pay $20 for a single Claritin-D tablet right now. Allergies, ugh! 🤧
: Love how the new You Need A Budget for iOS flashes the budget balance when you enter a transaction. …
: Encryption question: can a Certificate Authority (eg. Verisign) decrypt data encrypted with keys …
: I wonder how much battery it takes to move that second hand in the iOS 7 clock icon.
: iOS 7 notification center should hide the stock display on the weekends. And it’s odd that you can …
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Sugar’s “Copper Blue” is still an unbelievable album.
: Why does Apple make it harder and harder to rate songs in iOS?
: Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua ← I like nginx, bonus Lua here too!
: Me: Look at that big airplane. Tyler (3): Yeah, he just took off from airport. Me: Where do you …
: My dentist’s website uses a black background. This seems totally wrong to me.
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Lynnhurst garage sales today. Lots of activity in the neighborhood! Tammy has a table at a neighbors …
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Tyler and I starting day out right at Urban Bean Coffee.
: Very happy with OmniFocus 2 → OmniFocus 2 for iPhone: Background Sync and a Bold Redesign
: Want to be my neighbor? House is for sale
: Me: “Why are you up so early?” Tyler (3): “I have a meeting Dad.”
: I think it’s time I revive my usage of PGP encryption in addition to the S/MIME I’ve been doing. My …
: Notification Center: “There’s a lot going on tomorrow.” No kidding. There always is. 😊
: Updated 2 iPhones and 2 iPads to iOS 7 tonight. Will be feeling around in the internals the rest of …
: Don’t use Hadoop - your data isn’t that big ← Amen.
: Rubiks Kubbs: Making a Rubik’s Kubb ← This is awesome. 😊
: Shifted wakeup to 5:15a today, which gave time for 30 mins on spin bike. One more shift to 5am left.
: Just discovered Tammy’s phone is eligible for iPhone 5S upgrade pricing. Uh oh…
: When Google finds the email I sent on a mailing list 20 years ago it gives me pause.
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Sometimes the espresso just looks so great. ☕️
: I had no idea that the State Department funded EFF’s Tor Project. The State Department funds Tor to …
: Gartner: AWS Now Five Times The Size Of Other Cloud Vendors Combined — just incredible what AWS has …
: Very fun evening hanging with David Novak exploring big ideas!
: Scaling with Queues ← queues are magical for performance.
: Yahoo’s Logo Reveals the Worst Aspects of the Engineering Mindset ← great reminder of the …
: Delectable is Untappd for wine. Nicely done app.
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I finally got a chance to watch We Are Legion. Very good.
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Delight already delivered from Twig the Fairy at Minnesota Renaissance Festival!
Rung the bell 4 of …
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Mazie and I had a great time at Minnesota United FC soccer match. We wore our matching 2013 US …
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Shot of Adado from Dogwood Coffee. Delightful. ☕️
: Had Ford Fusion rental car this week and was (to my surprise) impressed with it. Biggest annoyance …
: Opinion requested: is it fine to walk around a hotel in your bare feet?
: WiFi in hotel “You have successfully logged on. You are now able to move about the Internet.” — move …
: I had forgotten how left turns are almost non-existent in New Jersey. Jughandles everywhere!
: Did anyone else’s allergies just get terribly bad in the last few days? Even with Claritin-D I’m …
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Minnesota State Fair
Minnesota State Fair today! Cherry wine slushy — brilliant! For those unfamiliar, Butterheads!
Here …
August 2013
: Minnesota on a Stick show at MN State Fair grandstand tonight.
: At University of Minnesota Computer Science Memorial event celebrating the accomplishments of John …
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Excited to read This Machine Kills Secrets, my book club pick this month.
: I sure know a lot of folks at VMworld. I may have to attend next year.
: LinkedIn: Yes, I know my daughter! Tonight while on LinkedIn I was prompted for some people I might now, including this one. So, yeah, …
: Considering moving my daily wake up from 6a to 5a. Feels daunting.
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Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal published this short blurb on me joining SPS Commerce. They …
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SPS University! #TeamSPS growing.
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Blank Big Green Egg canvas. Awaiting its subject.
Whole tenderloin ready for Big Green Egg.
Today’s …
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Tyler and I had a great time on the MetroTransit light rail for fun! Tyler loves the train!
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Good macchiato and cookie at Urban Bean Coffee.
: Fun discussion with Paul DeBettignies exploring ways to grow #TeamSPS tech team — great way to cap …
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MN Twins with #TeamSPS. Great to meet more people at tonight’s Twins event!
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Team SPS getting ready to go to Twins game! ⚾️
: Excited to start a new adventure today at SPS Commerce!
: In other news, I setup an account on Untappd. So, if you do that, you can find me there.
: Just placed my first order on Bite Squad. Totally confused how much to tip for the driver, isn’t …
: Passed through Kubb Capital of North America (Eau Claire, WI). No stopping, 9 hour road trip today.
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Little healthy snack while on the road.
: 61 mile road construction zone on I-90? Ouch.
: Noting that Minnesota Kubb has hosted three Kubb tournaments this year. Think only USA Kubb has …
: Goodbye Saugatuck! Think we will be back. Great time! Time to drive, all day.
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Beach Kubb with Tyler today.
: Case of wine procured from Fenn Valley Vineyards.
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New Holland Brewing Sampler
While in Saugatuck we went to Holland a couple of times, it’s just 10 miles or so up the road. We …
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Saugatuck Beaches
I had no idea that there were beaches like this in Michigan! We’ve been having a great time in the …
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Saugatuck Brewing Sampler
More opportunities to try local beers at Saugatuck Brewing. I picked a bunch of hoppy brews. The …
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Saugatuck Dune Ride
Us at the top of one of the higher dunes at the midpoint of the Saugatuck Dune Rides tour. The dune …
: Returning to Salt of the Earth in Fennville for an encore dinner. This place was great!
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Music in the park with Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellies in Fennville, MI.
The fiddle player for Lindsay …
: Debating wether I should have 2 4G servers or 1 8G server at Linode for my personal server. 😕 One …
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Super fun day on the beach today.
: Astounding beer selection at Saugatuck Brewing Company. Including 118 IBU IPA. Flight ordered.
: Found out this morning that Sona Mehring and I share common Perl skills! $_ FTW! 🙂
: Good CaringBridge program meeting this morning → great progress!
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Mom grilling for sisters birthday!
: Great video about 2013 US National Kubb Championship tournament.
: Updating to WordPress 3.6. Hope this is smooth. 😊
July 2013
: Did The Economist annual subscription price actually go up? Yikes.
: Just discovered a ground hornets nest right in our backyard. Luckily nobody bitten.
: Makes me chuckle how Canon camera firmware updates describe bug fixes as “Resolves a phenomenon …
: Paging Large Datasets in Semantic MediaWiki I’ve been working with Yaron Koren’s new Miga project to provide an offline, mobile optimized way of …
: Password v. Passphrase Today’s xkcd highlights what might be one of the biggest security mistakes of our digital age: using …
: Spent a solid 4 hours cleaning the garage with Tammy. Looks great.
: How long will a 3 year old cry and scream at the bottom of the stairs insisting someone “carry him!” …
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There are a lot of people at the American Swedish Institute playing Kubb! Nice job Minnesota Kubb! …
: Enjoying some Really Goods with my coffee. Delicious. (Official sponsor of US National Kubb …
: Don't Ruin the Past with Reality I really enjoyed this article and photo for The 40-Year-Old Photo That Gives Us A Reason To Smile. …
: Pro Tip: Small business owners, don’t name your WiFi the same as your business if it’s not open to …
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Goodbye to my friend, John Riedl
Three years ago my friend, mentor and former professor John Riedl shared the news with our book club …
: Pictures from 2013 US Nationals Kubb Championship I didn’t get much time to take photos at the 2013 US Nationals Kubb Championship. Saturday was a day …
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Backyard Kubb with Kent.
Kubb destruction.
: Very impressed with TradingView. If I were to build BigCharts.com again today, I would like to think …
: Researching collaboration for a better world: John T. Riedl (1962 – 2013) ← My professor and friend …
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Great crowd at Minnedemo tonight.
: Made a super simple MediaWiki extension for parsing URLs.
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Mazie wearing her new US National Kubb Championship shirt.
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Tyler getting his Kubb on with new US National Kubb Championship set.
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Home from US National Kubb Championship Kubb tournament and eating my Really Goods.
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“US National Kubb Championship: Congrats to Jamie Thingelstad on winning the US National Kubb …
: Might as well cancel 5am alarm and just get up. Upside is time to make coffee.
: Talked Tyler through the worst of the thunder on the monitor without him ending up in our bed. …
: 40 minutes at the Apple Store and $149 later I have a new piece of glass in my iPhone 5. All better …
: Ugh. Just shattered my iPhone screen. 🙁 Time to head to the Apple Store tonight.
: Stopping MediaWiki Spam with Dynamic Questy Captchas This method of using Questy Captcha has been defeated by some spammers. Please check out my updated …
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Tyler was excellent helper mowing the lawn this morning.
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Whole tenderloin (4 lbs) came off the Big Green Egg great!
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Today’s weather brought to you by Tanqueray & Tonic.
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Cactus Blossoms at The Turf Club
Packed show for The Cactus Blossoms live recording at the Turf Club. “The Cactus Blossoms and so can …
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Kubb blaster training. Small yard.
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Winnie the Pooh enjoys tiny coffees too. Urban Bean Coffee
: Having a great time with the family on the TCBC Watermelon Ride!
June 2013
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The Avett Brothers on stage!
Nice! Avett’s just sang “When I Drink”. Didn’t think they would hit …
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Brandi Carlile takes stage. See list of Brandi Carlile shows.
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Kubb set for sale at Ingebretsen’s in Stockholm, WI.
: Just heard on MPR that Peter’s Grill is closing tomorrow! May have to make a final lunch stop …
: Decided to give SaltStack a go for managing my small Linode setup. Feels like a good fit.
: Pro tip: Apple TV parental controls is a great way to hide all the dumb “channels” added in the last …
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Today’s exercise in flat packing: pirate ship sandbox!
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It’s possible that I may have more demitasse cups than Urban Bean Coffee. 😊
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This may be coffee cheating, but its awesome.
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Not my Big Green Egg. Still awesome.
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The gorgeous Nyland Sack Trophy just unveiled on Planet Kubb!
: To the person that turned Tammy’s keys she lost by the Lake Harriet bandshell into the cafe so when …
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Got this “I Biked” sticker for riding my bike to the park tonight.
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Enjoying Lucid Duo Double IPA at Pairings Food & Wine. Delicious.
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Kubb pitch setup. Ready to camp!
Tyler helping put in the center pins.
Not bad, but not a master …
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Jay Farrar and Son Volt take stage. I’ve been listening to his music for 22 years.
If you know who …
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Colonel Ford opening for Son Volt at First Ave. Nice.
: Spent the late night hunting a bug with MediaWiki 1.21 and Semantic Forms. Oi!
May 2013
: chef frustrates me with its Ruby-ness. Why can’t we have some deploy frameworks in Python?
: Saw a BMW X6 on the road this morning. What is going on in Munich? 😬
: Got my MediaWiki farm upgraded to 1.21. Some great improvements, and excited to open the door on Lua …
: In North Dakota. Have had to resort to Starbucks.
: Just backed D is for Django kids album by Girlyman members.
: This morning I bought the new Daft Punk album on iTunes. Just now iTunes sent me an alert that the …
: Proud to be a backer of the Aaron Swartz documentary on Kickstarter.
: That espresso shot was a disaster. Tough at home when you are only making 1-2.
: Figured out the root cause of slowness on my MediaWiki farm.
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Minnehaha Creek by our house. Love this spot.
: Attending CaringBridge board meeting this morning. Great things in all areas. Go Sona Mehring and …
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Aria looks a lot different for this benefit than it does for minnedemo!
: At the Movable Feast Open Arms event tonight. Very nice.
: At Tyler’s school program. Brought Canon 5D. No memory card. 😬
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9-8 B-Squad wins!
OMG! The Nads show up at Dusty’s to celebrate B-Squad win!
B-Squad and Nads …
: Today is the anniversary of BigCharts.com I still remember watching those first chart requests …
: Shouldn’t all these Google I/O presenters being wearing Glass? Surprised they aren’t.
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Mazie and I just beat Super Mario World! Take that Bowser!
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Cactus Blossoms at Turf Club.
: It makes me happy that the IRC /me command works in places like Skype and Messages. 🤓
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Mothers Day BBQ Ribs
Made dry rubs for 5 full racks of ribs and pork shoulder. Firing up Big Green Egg today for Mothers …
: Renewed my Nice Ride subscription. Such a great service!
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Thanks to Matt Ellsworth for introducing me to Mos Def’s “The Ecstatic”.
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Very good macchiato at Urban Bean Coffee this am.
: Happy with today’s #mnmarriage vote!
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A Big Green Egg blank canvas awaits the artists brush.
: 10th Annual Olson Family Weekend This weekend we got together with Tammy’s side of the family for the 10th Annual Olson Family …
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Two pitches going at Olson Family Kubb Tournament!
My son’s king shot.
Sister-in-law Michelle and I …
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Good throw to start game of Kubb!
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Snowy May drive to Lanesboro for weekend with Olson family. Left bikes at home.
: Great lunch with Matt Hardy learning about Kidblog. Cool stuff going on there!
: Fun panel conversation this morning at The Collaborative event with Justin Kaufenberg.
: Congrats Marc Frons! Well done! @rajivpant: BtoB Business Media selects @MarcFrons among Top …
April 2013
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Double down. Urban Bean Coffee ☕️
: What’s the big problem with having wires on your bike computer?! I like wires!
: Trying to buy tubes for my road bike. Every tube has equal number of 1 star and 5 star reviews. 😕
: Just finished a fabulous bike ride on my road bike without pulling a kid behind me. Awesome.
: Really looking forward to The New Standards tonight at the Dakota! See list of The New Standards …
: Started down the path of leaving Quicken after 15 years and moving to You Need A Budget. I’m …
: I just backed Aaron Swartz Documentary - The Internet’s Own Boy on Kickstarter.
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Strong hour on my spin bike. Felt good. Legs had a lot left if them. My Vitamix treat after the …
: Trying to abandon Quicken and make the leap to just using my bank website like the kids do these …
: Trying to use the Paychex website and filled with rage over “Server Error in ‘/’ Application.”. Way …
: Display MediaWiki job queue size inside your wiki I wanted to find an easy way to show the current size of the MediaWiki job queue on WikiApiary. When …
: Thanks to my buddy Kent for turning me onto The Gaslight Anthem. Started with The ‘59 Sound. Great …
: As you reflect on the gun bill vote yesterday, it’s worth watching Larry Lessig’s TED talk “We the …
: Explosion at Boston Marathon. Know only that Jim Bernard is fine.
: On related news, the Boston Marathon iPhone app is really, really bad. Unfortunate. Such potential.
: Digging some ideas of putting Panic Status Board panels together with data from WikiApiary. Hmmm…
: Catalog Unsubscribing I make it a routine task to request removal from any and all catalogs that show up in our mailbox. …
:
There is something so beautiful about running water and snow.
: Linode NextGen: RAM Upgrade ← Love to see Linode doing great stuff. My server is migrating now.
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Sure snow in April isn’t exactly welcome, but it is pretty. 📷
: I can’t wait to fire up both Big Green Eggs soon. I need to get some grilling going!
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Seriously; so good. Espresso!
: Excited to hang out with Mike Rock tonight for what I’m positive will be yet another great evening …
: So awesome to be able to be outside getting the yard ready, fire going and just having a nice time. …
: Slides from my Minnebar Build Advanced MediaWiki Websites are on the wiki.
: Sessions for Minnebar 8 are now on the wiki. Presenters please add any materials to your sessions.
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Minnebar 8
Minnebar crowd assembling. Getting serious in advanced MongoDB session! Attending Hadoop session. …
: Seeing Chastity Brown at The Cedar tonight. Very good.
: No really, that’s cool, keep talking on your cellphone and being annoying to everyone else on the …
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Seated for Sigur Rós show. Excited to see them play.
Sigur Rós blew that up!
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Delicious espresso at Metropolis.
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Standard espresso at Wormhole Coffee in Chicago.
Wormhole Macchiato! WINNER!
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Dysfunctionale at Piece Brewery and Pizzeria!
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Macchiato at Gaslight in Chicago.
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Chicago-style from Lou Malnati’s tonight.
March 2013
: Excited to “drop some science” at my MediaWiki session at Minnebar.
: The Jawbone Jambox is practically a magical device to me. Audio quality, size, portability - blows …
: Wonder if Goodreads API will drop access to ratings now that Amazon bought it.
: I sure am glad that Google got rid of Google Reader to clear the way for Shopping Express! 😤
: Got coffee squared for weekend in Chicago. How about best deep dish pizza? Gino’s East? Kid friendly …
: Just requested replacement of my Dollar Shave Club handle for the 4th time. Anyone else have handle …
: Sue Gardner announced that she is moving on as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation today. …
: My Lightroom catalog has 74,721 photos in it. 😲
: Minneapolis Photo Center workshop with Mike Rock! See list of Photography Workshops.
: Mediawiker ← Sublime Text 2 plugin to edit MediaWiki pages directly. Very nice!
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Great espresso at World’s Most Dangerous Coffee Shop Urban Bean Coffee with charged water. ☕️
: So predictable how LARGE BANK Co. “forgets” how to pay my homeowners insurance out of escrow nearly …
: Python gives me this great productivity flow, like Perl used to. But unlike Perl, I don’t feel dirty …
: Congrats to Mike Bollinger on the 40 Under Forty Award!
: Why is it so hard to find personal finance software that doesn’t suck?
: Making short list of things to talk to Dr. about at physical. Suddenly feeling very old. 😕
: If your replacement for Google Reader is a free iOS app on your phone your probably going to be in …
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Google Reader RIP; Long Live RSS!
Today Google announced that they are shutting down Google Reader. People on Twitter are apoplectic …
: RSS Infinity Mirror Reading about Google shutting down Google Reader, from the guy that made RSS, using Fever on my own …
: I’m presenting at Minnebar 8: Build and Deploy Ridiculously Advanced MediaWiki Websites! Also as …
: Took my Linode VPS to a loadavg of 13+ with a nasty bug in a WikiApiary bot. Fixed now. Happy LiSH …
: Tonight’s bedtime routine was a -27 on a scale of 1 to 10. 😳
: Played “labyrinthian” in my Letterpress game. Rest of the day will be easy.
: Trying to explain to Mazie what a cassette tape was. Makes no sense to her.
: One of my Minnebar 8 sessions: Build and Deploy Ridiculously Advanced MediaWiki Websites.
: Wow, Piwik 1.11 looks like a very solid release. Love the new settings improvements and native HTML …
: Cold snowy day to wait 20 minutes for the bus. 🥶
February 2013
: Bought the Alabama Shakes album last night without sampling from one text from Kent. Listening now.
: Initialized four new wikis this morning and it’s not even 8am. 😊
: This is big! @mediawiki: @Wikipedia starts supporting Lua for writing templates
:
Preparations for Tyler’s Thomas the Train birthday party underway! Listening to Thomas & Friends: …
: Flatten my funnel! Thomas-speak is starting to sound totally normal. Life with a 3 year old boy!
: Watching Bob Mould on Austin City Limits. So good. Oh wow, Celebrated Summer! I can’t hear …
:
I'm a boy and I'm three.
When Tyler came down from his room this morning I gave him a big hug and wished him a very, very …
: Saw Book of Mormon today. Pretty funny!
: KARE11 HDTV signal seems dead. Anyone else in Minneapolis see this too? I show 90+ signal strength …
: Remember that GoDaddy is a terrible company that you should not do business with. Ignore the Super …
: 2013 Minnesota Kubb Tournament Photos Spent 12 hours outside on Lake Calhoun yesterday. Dressed right, but still gets cold. Great day of …
: Sir Topham Hatt sure is stern a lot.
January 2013
: I just created my first ever MediaWiki barnstar — You make WikiApiary awesome! I think this level += …
: I’m clearly not grokking Python classes. May have to bug Paul for some pointers tomorrow.
: Took Tyler’s crib apart today. Big boy bed time. Wish me luck. I’m gonna need it. Is it a guarantee …
:
Lately Tyler has taken to sitting down at the iMac, logging in on the guest account, starting a …
: My sister-in-law just got a Snood. I’m calling it a Thneed.
: Having 2nd beer of the night. 🍺🍺 At home. Nothing special. Just having a beer. Now two. Almost never …
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At Firefighters Hall & Museum with Tyler. This place is pretty awesome, for both little and big …
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Macchiato Urban Bean Coffee “Bryant style”.
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“That regulation?”
A Kubb comic… and my first comic attempt ever.
: Wow. Just observed a guy on the bus using Google+. First time for that. Facebook dominates the bus …
: Nice! #MediaWiki website Dungeons and Dragons Wiki http://t.co/tKoWd7gr registered. — WikiApiary …
: Attempting to write Python for WikiApiary that is not embarrassing. 🙂
December 2012
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Preener's Eve 2012 with The New Standards
Excited for the The New Standards “Preeners Eve” show tonight at the Dakota! Got to walk over from …
: Being that guy on a conference call via cellphone in the coffee shop.
: Another award for a website that allows you to set a 20 character password but silently stores less …
: Please Charge Me Something For Christmas the brother-in-laws on Tammy’s side pick names. There are only four of us but we like …
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Mom’s been baking! Slice of pumpkin for me. Maybe two. 😊
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Santa brought me a kickin’ Letterpress shirt! Nice!
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Two porterhouses going on Big Green Egg for Christmas Eve dinner.
The magic of Christmas, via Big …
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PSA: it’s fun to adore shiny espresso machines, but if you don’t have this part right, it doesn’t …
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Mazie’s sleepover with two friends just ended. They went to sleep after 1am and were up at 7am. Let …
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Just made Aunt Belle’s Carrot Cake for dinner with Mike Rock and family tonight. Yum! Cake frosted.
: Great 8thBridge holiday party tonight! What a crew!
: Donation to Wikipedia done, finishing trifecta of EFF + Creative Commons.
: A ridiculously long Letterpress battle with Tammy.
: Ugh! Some days being a parent feels like your doing a tour in ‘Nam.
: This week+ long sore throat has me drinking Premium Earl Grey with honey like I’m an addict. 4 to 5 …
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I win for biggest lens at skating practice.
: Yesterday renewed EFF membership, today did annual Creative Commons donation! Join me!
: I renewed my EFF membership. They work to keep the Internet free and open. Join me and get a 3x …
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Crowd filling in at Minnedemo.
Great demo from Spark Devices! Great demo from Smart Things! …
: 2012 New Standards Holiday Show Super excited for the The New Standards holiday show tonight! Of course Mrs. Braintree is at The New …
: Just consolidated my Linode 1024 and Linode 768 host into a single Linode 2048. Expecting better …
: I guess Google messed up Reader again. I gave up after they forced Google Plus. Using Fever and host …
: Adding Email Mention Notification to WordPress P2 I’m using the P2 theme on a couple of websites, one of them is for the team minnestar to help …
November 2012
: Sitting next to James Wallen who has Whooping Cough. This seems like a bad idea.
: Brilliant! Borrow it? 🙂 @mnadel: Just bought digital calipers so I can measure my filter basket to …
: Making Wassail Tea for Thanksgiving Day!
: Played synchronicity in Letterpress. BAM! 😊
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Tiny coffee. Urban Bean Coffee.
: AT&T turned LTE on in South Minneapolis? I have it. LTE full strength in warehouse district too. …
: I wish there was a Mac version of Letterpress where I could have multiple games open at the same …
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Dads and Donuts at Berry Patch
Today I got to take Tyler to Berry Patch for pre-school to attend Dads and Donuts day! Tyler was …
: Took a moment during election coverage to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.20, released a couple hours ago! …
: I won a nice game of Lost Cities against Tom Keekley.
: New Bob Mould album “Silver Age” is very good!
: It would be nice if you could stash words in Letterpress that you want to remember for a future …
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Mission accomplished! Beer at Wits!
Mike Doughty playing at Wits!
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Agile Day Twin Cities 2012
Presenting at Twin Cities Agile Day today!
Minneapolis Institute of Art is nice venue for Twin …
October 2012
: So, how many pieces of candy do you give to trick or treaters? I do 3-5 depending. Estimate 80 …
: Guest network now openwireless.org For years I’ve ran a guest WiFi network at home that has been called “Thingelstad Guest”. It makes …
: MediaWiki Template Filter Title I was recently doing some cleaning on our Read/Write Book Club website and ran into an interesting …
: There should be an Emoji version of Letterpress.
: Surprised that Letterpress doesn’t have achievements.
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Nice seats for Gopher game! Thanks Kent! 🏈
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Double Macchiatos at Urban Bean Coffee with Kent. ☕️
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Playing Lost Cities this way.
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Visiting National Eagle Center
While in Wabasha for the weekend we spent the morning at the National Eagle Center.
Mazie and I also …
: What part of “Keep your kids behind the yellow line.” do these parents not get. Seriously!
: Tammy is shocked that I’ve never heard of Goonies also. WTH.
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Upgraded espresso art this morning at Urban Bean Coffee. That’s a macchiato!
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It wasn’t a good day yesterday to do the Pedal Pub. Cold, rainy.
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AT&T LTE Spotting
AT&T has announced that they are working to bring LTE to the Twin Cities market by the end of the …
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New Standards at The Dakota
We returned to The Dakota last night after seeing Robyn Hitchcock the night before for The New …
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Robyn Hitchcock at The Dakota
On Friday night we went to The Dakota to see Robyn Hitchcock. Tammy enjoyed his music a lot in high …
: Back at the Dakota for The New Standards! Love their rendition of “After the Gold Rush”. Stout …
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Blue Monk, best drink at the Dakota.
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Delicious macchiato with Jim Bernard at Urban Bean Coffee.
: 2012 Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament The Kubbchucks played at the 2012 Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament on Saturday. In between games I …
:
Happy Birthday Mom!
Today is my Mom’s 60th Birthday! Happy Birthday Mom! If my Mom is any indicator, 60 is the new 30! 🙂 …
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When you try this hard, stuff is gonna happen! Collateral damage from macchiato pour at Urban Bean …
September 2012
: iPhone 5 shipped today. Week earlier than order said it would.
: “ISO 25,600 is the new ISO 100.” ← Yes, I just wrote than in an email.
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Ate entire meal of nothing but fried things out of deep fat friers. Will pay for this. Great to run …
: I rather dislike that iTunes highlights a genius mix for me titled “Adult Alternative”.
: Iceland Trip Video I had a great time in Iceland recently with friends Steve, Dennys and Layne. Dennys made this very …
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Sitting by the fire, lakeshore sounds in the air. Nice breeze. Great Olson Family Weekend day 1!
: PSA: It’s still too warm for wool socks.
: Back from Iceland. Listening to Sigur Rós this morning and thinking about the glaciers.
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Yum! was out of the “mini” chocolate chip cookies so Tyler had to get a full size one. He didn’t …
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Just got done chasing Northern Lights around Selfoss, Iceland. 1:30a. Time to sleep.
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Glacier view from this morning. Stunning. Ridiculously windy.
: Going out to shoot the Vatnajökull glacier! The light is awesome!
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We tried waiting out the rain yesterday to shoot the Vatnajökull glacier. The rain won.
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Backing Up While Traveling
Time to backup all of the Iceland trip photos to two separate 500G portable drives. Not going to …
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Atlantic Black Sand in Iceland.
: Northern Atlantic Waves Waves crashing onto the shore in Iceland. Play the audio while you look at the pictures. The …
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Glasshouse Through Trees at Night
: In Selfoss, Iceland for tonight. Going out for some night photography.
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Goodbye Djúpavík! Way up north!
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Djúpavík Herring Factory
We decided to explore the Northern reaches of Iceland and drove to Djúpavík. Djúpavík is home to a …
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Got a kicking Ford Transit to explore Iceland Euro-style.
August 2012
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Packed for Iceland Photography Trip
I finished packing my kit to head to Iceland for a week of photography tonight. Here is what I …
: Portland, Maine seems like a pretty cool place.
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What a great time we’ve had in Maine.
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View from our rental in Port Clyde, ME. Tide is out.
: Vacation stat: Number of dirty diapers changed on public park benches: 2
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The $18 umbrella stroller at Rite-Aid is nirvana for traveling parents.
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Love these two so much. Both pictures by my other love, Tammy.
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Coldplay Concert
At Coldplay concert. Floor left, row 35. Noticing all the redundant tech systems in the Coldplay …
: Surprised how 3 days after the fact this (these?) hornet stings are really swollen.
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Three racks of St. Louis ribs on the Big Green Egg.
Smoke.
Sauce.
Surly Sÿx! Thanks Kurt!
Ribs done. …
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Now that is a Big Green Egg!
July 2012
: Wow. Apple’s web site to schedule a Genius Bar appointment doesn’t work right in Safari 6? Can’t …
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Came across this snake while hiking on Rock Island this weekend. Anyone know what kind of snake it …
:
Played a quick game of Kubb yesterday in Sister Bay, WI waiting for our boat ride.
: Bummed that I was out of town for Luke Francl last Minnedemo (for a while at least).
: Upgrading my Macs at home to Mountain Lion an hour before leaving town for a few days. I lose all …
: Americoob Attempting to Siphon Traffic from USA Kubb I recently went to usakubb.com forgetting to use .org to go to usakubb.org, the website for the US …
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Trolley Train
Tyler and I visited Choo Choo Bob’s today and somehow this happened.
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Near perfect espresso this morning. ☕️
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Photos from 2012 US National Kubb Championship
This last weekend the Kubbchucks, our Kubb team, traveled to Eau Claire for the US National Kubb …
: I’ve been reunited with my Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball and it’s so great.
:
Reference Macchiato
When I go to a good coffee shop I almost always order a macchiato. I enjoy them, but far too many …
:
Terms of Service Screens
Got this a while back on my iPhone.
That gave this.
You got that right? Good.
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Tofu joins the Jalapeños. Big Green Egg.
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Looking forward to popping some of these in my mouth! Big Green Egg.
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Coffee ice brewing. Check back in 8 hours.
First drip of coffee arrives 48 mins later. all good …
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2% Real Maple Syrup
I’ve been using only real maple syrup at home for a while. I kind of take it as a given that people …
: Bookmarking with Semantic MediaWiki I have been doing a lot of exploration using MediaWiki and the Semantic MediaWiki suite of …
: Website for my Photography I’ve got a new website where I am highlighting my photography, Thingelstad Photography! My …
June 2012
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Fudge making at Chrest family reunion.
: Tyler and I watching the race cars at 24 Hours of Le Mans. Happy that I can watch it live on the …
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Airport BSOD
These just never get old. 🙂
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My Setup for WWDC on Monday
This was my setup for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday. It sure would be …
: SSH through GoGo Inflight WiFi is surprisingly responsive.
: Interest in Twin Cities OmniFocus Meet Up? I’ve been an OmniFocus user since the very first release and use it all day, everyday on my Macs, …
: This made me laugh yesterday. What a great network name!
May 2012
: Just realized I have shmuts all over my shirt and it’s probably been there all day. 😕
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Corn and asparagus on Big Green Egg. Simple today.
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Making some coffee with the Yama Cold Brew Tower.
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Letting the coffee bloom in the Chemex.
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Great morning for Kubb & Koffee.
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Good morning Urban Bean Coffee.
: The Collaborative Technology Summit 2012 At The Collaborative Technology Summit event on panel 2 talking about 8thBridge and evolution of …
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At the The Fitzgerald for Jeremy Messersmith show.
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At George and the Dragon for first time and I’ve got a major crush. Loving it!
: I ran this command in the wrong directory! sudo find . -type f -print -exec rm '{}' \; luckily the …
:
We all had fun playing in the creek tonight after dinner.
: On this day in 1997 Philip Hotchkiss, me and a team of 6 launched BigCharts.com. Great memories!
: My Sessions at MinneBar 7 MinneBar 7 was just a little over a month ago and the videos the two sessions I did are now online. …
: Just created my very first MediaWiki bot! It’s working like mad for me right now. 😊
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B-Squad 2012 Season Underway
Another year of Men’s Recreational E-League Softball has begun. The suspense is heavy this year. The …
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Bakers Wife ridiculous today. Didn’t expect mothers day donut rush!
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Nice macchiato Urban Bean Coffee! Think I overheard the Urban Bean brain trust brainstorming a Ham & …
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Trampled by Turtles on the roof of our building!
: My Running a VPS with Confidence session from Minnebar just got online.
: Just sent a diff to add two Tag Cloud features to Semantic Results Format extension for Semantic …
:
The New Standards at the Dakota. So good. 🎶
See list of The New Standards shows.
: 23,307 now. 🙂 @niceridemn: As of today, we’ve been up and running for a month - we’re at 23,306 …
:
Daft Punk “Alive” may be one of the best electronica AND best live albums there are.
April 2012
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Tyler at the Keys
This weekend we were at Tammy’s folks and Tyler disappeared upstairs on his own. I went up to find …
: Thank you Dan Wilson for playing Free Life. Great song! Great arrangement!
: My FSA needs a Doctors Note to pay an expense that was incurred at a Doctors office? All I can see …
: There is something wrong about the Nice Ride fob being made to attach to a keychain. Would rather …
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Graphite launch day! Go team!
: Girlyman with Edie Carey at City Winery ← That’s us! 😊
: It’s a good coffee desert here filled with thousands of Starbucks.
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Lunch at 7th Avenue and 17th Street.
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Macchiato at Ninth Street Espresso.
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Walking the High Line. Awesome.
Other times on the High Line: 2012, 2018, 2023 (Tyler and I), 2023 …
: I would not say I have been unusually stressed lately. But, the 4 bandages on my fingers from nail …
: I seriously think Minnebar is breaking some records getting video from sessions up so fast!
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Getting fire started. Perfect night for it.
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Watching Fresh tonight. I have no need to know anything more about this topic. I believe I’ve read …
: I feel a growing desire to learn LaTeX.
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Bummer. Matthew Dornquast not able to attend award ceremony. Congrats!
: Great breakfast with Sona Mehring this morning at Sun Street Breads. Delicious biscuit, and even …
:
Minnebar 7
Dug out my MinneBar 4 shirt for Minnebar 7.
Final edits to the Minnebar 7 post event survey done. …
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Panorama photo from the stage right before Minnebar 7 started.
: I’M OUT OF COFFEE! #CRISIS #ALLCAPSJUSTIFIED
: On my way! @fultonbeer: Tapping a new beer at 3 today: The Ringer! It’s a session-style American …
: I have, very nice! @MetroTransitMN: Have you enrolled in Auto Refill yet? Get Auto Refill & never …
: May have to drive tomorrow instead of MetroTransit just to stop at Urban Bean Coffee on the way in.
: I need to get myself to a Chemical Brothers show. If only there was one to go to. Watching Don’t …
: Travels to Iceland My friend Dennys Bisogno just self-published a photo book on a trip that he and my other friend …
: Going to stop for some New Glarus’ Wisconsin Belgian Red before we leave Wisconsin.
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Crazy good macchiato at Johnson Public House!
And the 2nd macchiato is just as good.
Having a 3rd …
: Best WiFi network name ever: 3girls1catandapizzaplace
March 2012
: Tyler can now climb out of his Pack-n-Play. This is not a welcome development.
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Enjoying a Hopalicious at The Green Owl Cafe in Madison. Minneapolis needs a place like Green Owl!
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Delicious macchiato at Bradbury’s in Madison. Definitely real deal.
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Macchiato report from Barriques in Madison. Okay, slightly above average.
: Agree. @jdludlow: Ah crap. April Fools Day is almost here already? If you’re “hilarious” and have a …
: Driving out of town with American Pie by Don McLean playing! 🎶
: Infinite scroll is torture for OCD types like me. You can never finish!
: MediaWiki Template Get Hostname I was working on a template for one my personal wikis and needed to get the hostname for a given …
: Got my Nice Ride token. Excited to use the green bikes.
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Green Hat
This morning Tyler and I made a donut run for the family. He was digging his green hat.
: At the theater for Hunger Games. It’s a teenage zoo here.
: 😊 @damonallison /* this is the ugliest code you will ever see. squint hard and pray right now */
:
9 yards of mulch distributed. Will push it around tomorrow.
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Second wood project started. Oooph. 😊
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First wood project of the day done.
: 9 yards of mulch and a third cord of firewood coming tomorrow. I’ll be sweating and dirty.
: @dantull My god, it’s full of pixels!
: Decided to subscribe to Nice Ride this year.
: Joining the Dollar Shave Club This Dollar Shave Club service seems to be making the rounds and it happened to be a time when I was …
: Tyler having a 2nd minor brush with croup. Stuff sounds terrible and makes me nervous. Feel bad for …
: iPhone and iPad doing OTA upgrade to iOS 5.1 at the same time. #darksideofmoon
: I was happy with Python — until I needed to spawn to the shell for a command. 😬
: Please convince me I don’t need to try Minecraft.
: Watching Wilco on Austin City Limits.
: Another Reason You Need to Use a Password Manager Got this in my mailbox just now. Dear Slicehost Forum Member, Our records show that you have used …
: Sidewalks are super slippery everywhere. Nearly fell several times on walk to bus.
:
Cool Kubb Bumper Sticker
The Kubb Fever continues. This vinyl sticker is really well done and looks perfect on the Mini. This …
February 2012
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Smell of Fresh Kubb
I got my package from Old Time Games today with my 2nd Kubb set. The kitchen smells like wood …
: Ubuntu is requesting a reboot. 208 days uptime. 😢
: MediaWiki Templates Why MediaWiki needs Lua: {{#vardefine: time_delta|{{#expr: {{#timel: U|2/24/12}} - {{#timel: …
: Reading Python Essential Reference (4th Ed) by Beazley and love Python’s style.
:
We joined the Tangen family for a trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts today to see the opening …
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Kubb Practice
My buddy Garrick came over yesterday and we enjoyed some practice rounds of Kubb across the street …
:
Winter Trees on Minnehaha Creek.
: Versioned Backup of Typerighter Account My friend Garrick has been working on a really cool project called Typerighter. Typerighter is a …
:
Tyler Turns Two
Tyler turned two today! We had a festive birthday party with family over last weekend so that Hector …
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Girlyman at 7th Street Entry
Last night we had the pleasure of seeing Girlyman play at the 7th Street Entry, part of historic …
:
The Shining
Friday night I had my friends Jim, Tom and Tim over for the first “movie night” in our new family …
:
Vegetarian cooking class tonight at Kitchen Window! Instructors name is Anna Dvorak. Wonder if she …
: Shutting Down Some Websites I recently decided to prune some websites that I was hosting, mostly ideas that I set up and then …
:
Warming up on Kubb pitch for winter tournament at Theodore Wirth Park.
: Huh, vim was originally written for the Amiga? Had no idea.
: This is awesome! @wikiworks MediaWiki devs choose Lua as the future scripting language for templates
January 2012
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Super Fort
This morning Mazie, Tyler and I built a super fort in the living room! Here is the view from inside! …
: Tyler's Domain Tyler’s domain name came up for renewal, tylerthing.com. I didn’t even realize this the registration …
: Double event day! 8thBridge team and family ice skating this afternoon at The Depot Minneapolis. …
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Morning Smoothie
We’ve had the Vitamix for about three months now and a morning smoothie has become part of our …
: This new Metallica EP, Beyond Magnetic, is pretty great!
: SOPA Scrapbook I participated in the SOPA blackout on January 18th. All of my personal websites went dark at 8:00am …
: Missing Minnedemo tonight. BIG customer launch. Will be a memorable event with Code42 announcement!
: The SOPA page on Wikipedia is not blacked out. Good.
:
Forty
Two weeks ago I turned 40. I’ve been wanting to write a “Forty” blog post but each time I think to …
: Participating in SOPA Blackout I just added these crontab entries 0 8 18 1 * /srv/www/maint/sopa/deploy-sopa.sh 0 20 18 1 * …
: Enjoyed vegan cooking class at Cooks of Crocus Hill from Robin Asbell tonight! Delicious food and …
: Lightroom 3.6 was 117MB DMG file. Lightroom 4.0b1 is 409MB DMG? Yikes.
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Birthday Dinner at Heidi's Chef's Table
I had a big birthday this year and Tammy surprised me with a number of things, including a very cool …
:
Lightroom 4 Gets Maps!
I’ve been an avid user of Lightroom since the very first 1.0 beta and for as long as I’ve remembered …
:
Yama Cold Brew Drip Tower
A few weeks ago I was discussing various ways of making coffee with Ry4an at the office. He had seen …
: Nice! ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Wikipedia article, thanks to @dreamyshade! http://t.co/7cLCsSvd — …
December 2011
: At dinner and two 20ish developers at table next are praising the greatness of .Net and C#. Using …
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Morgan Remodel Final Pictures
For 18 weeks I wrote a weekly update on the progress of our remodel project. At the end the work was …
: WeSolver I’ve been having a lot of fun working with MediaWiki and particularly the Semantic MediaWiki …
: Preener's Eve 2011 with The New Standards Many friends at The New Standards “Preeners” show at Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant. See list of The …
: Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
: CaringBridge Illuminate I have been fortunate enough to have the privilege of serving on the board of CaringBridge for the …
: Love seeing Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, on the fundraiser campaign for Wikipedia. (I’ve …
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Tyler's First Stitches
Tyler had his first visit to urgent care tonight. He was running around the house like he normally …
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Couple of cute Instagram photos of Mazie and Tyler from tonight.
: At Northern Brewing for Minneapolis Homebrew Day announcement.
November 2011
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Our Family - November 2011
Thanks to Angie for taking the photo!
: Updating my offline backup disks. 4TB of data.
: Forget WordPress caching plugins if using nginx, just use fastcgi_cache_path. Same for MediaWiki.
: Solid Browsermob load test on my new Linode VPS with nginx.
: Count 404's in group of access logs I found myself needing to see all of the 404 errors in the access logs for all virtual hosts on my …
: Move to Linode This website (and all the other websites I run) should all be running much faster now. This weekend …
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Tammy's Favorite Picture of Me
Tammy went digging deep into our Lightroom library looking for photos for our new exercise room. She …
: Great Minnestar board meeting this morning with strong plans for Minnebar and Minnedemo in 2012!
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Good Commies Hi-Res Cover Art
Four of my friends from the B-Squad Softball team are in a band called the Good Commies. I was …
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iTunes Match Updates Ratings and Play Counts
Apple launched iTunes Match today and having all my music in iTunes, with three different computers, …
: I think I might be getting “over the hump” with nginx. Had to debug something in my config and it …
: Upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 this morning and have more battery at 5p on iPhone 4S than I’ve ever had. By a …
: The lua-nginx-module is very cool.
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The other day the coffee maker in the office was out of commission. From this note you can see the …
: First Snow of 2011 First snow of the year just started falling. Really big flakes slowly floating down. First snow is …
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Garage Reclaimed
While doing our remodel we lost the use of our garage. We used it for storage and the contractors …
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Typing Big Green Egg on iPhone
Have a Big Green Egg? Have an iPhone with iOS 5 on it? Then you absolutely need to go here Settings …
: Just made my annual contribution to the EFF. You should too!
: Watching Jeremy Messersmith on NPR Tiny Desk podcast. Very good.
: With all the changes at Google Reader, it may be worth revisiting Fever again.
: Want a Piwik extension that shows number of IPv4 versus IPv6 requests.
: I have an IPv6 only website since Linode supports that. But none of my networks support IPv6. Can’t …
October 2011
: Importing 300 CR2 files from Canon 5D Mark II with a POS USB card reader (vs. FireWire reader). This …
: Listening to Elton John and now I want to throw a big house party! 😀
: Maybe I’ll come around, but I’m hating on the new Google Reader so far. Shared Items was my favorite …
: Awesome @zacharyjohnson I made a video game for you. Play it now! Happy Halloween!
: When I see someone using a pay phone these days I just assume they are doing something illegal.
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Happy Halloween 2011
Ran out of candy at 7:30p. 100+ trick or treaters. Crazy night!
Eating a vegan chocolate bar and …
: I really need to see The Decemberists in concert. I like their albums more with every listen.
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Chile Cornmeal-Crusted Tofu
I seem to have a food, movie, food, movie, food, movie stream going here so why not add one more …
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Margin Call
I can’t remember where I first saw Margin Call referenced. The movie depicts a 24-hour segment of …
: I don’t think our new family room could have come out any better. Starting a movie tonight. “Margin …
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Hot-Sauce Glazed Tempeh
Our month of eating vegan has gone really well. Tammy has tried all sorts of new recipe and made …
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Moneyball the movie
Last night Tammy and I went to Moneyball. I read the book a while back and really liked it. I was …
: Bummed that Origins Coffee is done for the season. Dude makes a killer espresso. Hope he pops back …
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Ratatouille on Big Green Egg
Our month of eating vegan has a lot of new challenges. One of the biggest is what to do with my …
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Dolphin Tale
Tammy, Mazie and I went to see Dolphin Tale tonight.
Tammy and I both agreed that this movie was …
: Anyone have a phonetic spelling for my last name that would help Siri? I can’t get the hard g. 😕
: On hold for AT&T to start the cross-upgrade process. Me: iPhone 4 → iPhone 4S. Tammy: iPhone 3GS → …
: Perfect. dennis ritchie is gone but the memory we've allocated to him will live on forever — …
: Dennis Ritchie’s passing makes me want to go back and re-read The C Programming Language.
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Beautiful Jacks
Homelink Entertainment is doing all the low voltage work in our remodel. One of my goals in the …
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Making Soup in Vitamix
One of the things that wowed Tammy about the Vitamix was that you can make soup in it. Real soup. …
: Remodel Update Week 18 There are still a number of things on our punch list, but, the remodel is done! When we started the …
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Jobs Cake
We have a lot of Apple people at 8thBridge. On Thursday we marked Steve Jobs’ passing with a cake in …
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Tyler Double Doodling
Tyler has been having a great time playing with the Magna Doodles lately. He will not just play with …
: Vitamix in the house I think everyone knows that I’m the gadget guy at our house. Tammy will often cite that she is …
: Building git, so I’m installing about 200 packages first. That makes sense. 😕
: Got my iPhone 4S pre-ordered!
: Great night for Minnedemo! Thanks to St. Thomas for hosting. 8thBridge demoing tonight! Watching …
: Always Connected — I’ve talked to some of my super-wired friends about what I call “digital …
: gapingvoid: Rays My daily gapingvoid cartoon showed up in my mailbox this morning with Gloop. It seemed like a good …
: Steve Jobs, t_hero.png My friend Kent found this and commented on Facebook about it. I wanted to capture it for posterity. …
: Seems one of Google’s best known bloggers is copying Tammy and I on his most recent 30 day …
: Detect Slow Cacti Polling I’m a big fan of graphs, and as such am a big fan of Cacti. I’ve used it at work and at home. It’s a …
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Marathon Morning
It was a beautiful morning to walk over to Minnehaha Creek and watch the Twin Cities Marathon.
: Remodel Update Week 17 This was a big week for the project! The painting is mostly done now. The final colors are on all …
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Soccer with Puddles
Mazie had a soccer game on Saturday. The field had a few puddles on it. The kids had no issues …
September 2011
: Good CaringBridge board meeting this morning with Sona Mehring Lars Leafblad and more. Proud to be …
: Tomorrow Tammy and I start our 30 day vegan challenge! I’m a little concerned I have no idea what to …
: iPad Stolen I had my iPad stolen out of my hands tonight while waiting for the 8:50pm 4K bus at Lake and …
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Tyler and I played outside a bit tonight after dinner. He spent some time playing with the lock box. …
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Keep Out
Mazie and her friend Gigi were playing today and decided to add some ad hoc signage to the …
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LoFerno Fire Pit
Last weekend I bought my last fire pit. A number of years ago I saw Jeff Lohaus LoFerno fire pits at …
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Family Room Built-in
The fancy built-in cabinetry was put in today for the family room. It looks really great. There is …
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32 Plants Planted
The landscapers were here this week and got the yard looking a lot better. We decided to do the …
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Contagion
Last weekend Tammy and I had a nice dinner at Kings Wine Bar (one of my new favorite places) and …
: Remodel Update Week 16 This week was the 16th week of the remodel. In the very first project plan we would be done now. …
: Hoping that the materials for SMWCon are shared for those that can’t attend.
: Trying to update Final Cut X but App Store can’t seem to authenticate me. 🙁
: Landscapers blew me away with how fast they finished. 2 days and done.
: Alright, no more pistachios. Ate about 20 and feel notably “wrong”. Must be a little allergic.
: Remodel Update Week 15 More finish work continued this week. The exterior of the new mudroom got painted. The real door …
: Cube: Time Series Visualization ← This looks incredibly interesting. Cool possibilities.
: Giddy to have my espresso machine back operational! New heating element in place and general tuneup!
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Ring the Bell 2011
We made our first trip to the Renaissance Festival on Labor Day. As I do every year, I had to swing …
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Delicious Pancakes with Fresh Berries.
: Remodel Update Week 14 This week was all about finish carpentry. Happily the tile floor in the mudroom got installed and it …
: Eating my first Saucy Burts meatball sandwich. Delicious!
: Remodel Update Week 13 I think week 13 of the project will go down as the least exciting week for me. The only thing to get …
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Midnight in Paris
Tammy and I got to see a movie last night after a very, very long time. Can’t even remember the last …
: As Fall starts to approach in MN, so do Hüsker Dü and The Replacements on my playlists.
August 2011
: Been listening to The Decemberists all night.
: Document Versioning in Mac OS X Lion I’ve recently seen updates to some of the applications that I use regularly supporting the new …
: Test Post for RSS Feed I’ve seen this problem for a while now where Google Reader isn’t getting my RSS feed for days, and …
: Mazie's 2011 Today was the 2011 So Long Summer show! Our neighbors the Miller’s host this every year for five …
: Remodel Update Week 12 We are entering the home stretch on the remodeling project. The work now is no longer about …
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Tyler's Tractor
Shortly after Tyler was born my Mom got him a pedal tractor. At my Grandparents farm there was …
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Impromptu S'mores
Our neighbors down the street, the Conley’s, hosted an unplanned S’mores evening last night. Mazie …
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Playhouse for the Kids
Tammy had noted that Mazie and Tyler really like to play in playhouses when we visit people. Our …
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Ballroom Jeans, and that doesn’t mean dancing.
I had no idea this was a problem requiring a specific …
: Thanks to sage guidance from Dan Frankowski I got my first AppEngine site running tonight at the …
: Remodel Update Week 11 This week the remodeling was all about drywall mudding and taping. Tape, mud, repeat. Repeat. Repeat …
: Remodel Update Week 10 I’m posting this weeks update a little early, the progress is so fun to see. The theme for this week …
: Efficient Market One of the things that I really like about eBay is that I don’t have to set a price. I typically am …
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Majestic Trees
One of my favorite things about living in our neighborhood is walking around with the old, majestic …
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Gypsie
Tonight we put Gypsie to sleep. Tammy took her to the vet a couple of months ago because we noticed …
: Remodel Update Week 9 The remodel continues to go well. This week carpentry was mostly outside. The new mudroom got the …
: Forcing myself to leave the warm, and comforting, arms of Apache for the speed and power of nginx. …
: Yeah, got my very first IPv6 only website running on my new Linode host. ipv6.thingelstad.com …
: Doing some Unix cleaning tonight and found the website I host for my cousin had been compromised. …
: Wow, my new Linode VPS is easily 2x faster than my old Slicehost VPS.
July 2011
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Somewhat rare that we all get in the same photo. Also Tammy with brand new hair color.
: Remodel Update Week 8 The remodel is continuing along really well. This week all the framing was completed. There were …
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U2 360° FanCam
At the U2 360° show they had this “gigapixel” Fan Cam thingy. It would be interesting to know a bit …
: Tyler got a new background to his landing page website. tylerthing.com Gave me an excuse to use the …
: Did some big time exploring with MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki tonight. Cool stuff!
: Crazy impressed with Linode so far. Hope to have my sites moved this weekend. Wish it was easier to …
: Electrician named Sparky The last two build-outs that I’ve worked through at the office have had the same electrician and …
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Tammy put up a blog post about how much Tyler loves to play with shoes. This was one of the pictures …
: Remodel Update Week 7 The update last week felt really significant with the new floors in and all. This week felt like an …
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U2 at TCF Stadium
Tip for tonight’s U2 show: Bring a Ziploc bag to put your phone in, just in case.
Pre-U2 blackberry …
: App I most want full screen support for in Lion that doesn’t have it now? OmniFocus I’m sure it will …
: It’s Wednesday. Where’s Mac OS X Lion? Downloading Lion… Starting Lion install… MacBook Air is now …
: Tomorrow is officially Mac OS X Lion day! Looks like the Internet will be busy sending bits around.
: Trying to buy a doorbell online. Surprising that very few websites let you listen to the chime. 🙁
: Next year will mark our return to the Winnipeg Folk Festival! 353 days to go.
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Car Seat Does Fit in Mini
Tyler got to ride in my Mini Cooper for the first time today. His infant seat definitely would not …
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Car Seat Toy
I brought Tyler’s car seat into the house so it could be put back in the van. He then decided to …
: Perceived Project Progress Our remodeling project is scheduled for 12 weeks. I’m very familiar with project execution, that is …
: Remodel Update Week 6 Week six was a big one! The difference between last week and now is really fun. Last week we had a …
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Soggy Outside
Inside: 76 °F with air conditioning.
Outside: 91 °F and 75% humidity with a dew point of 81 °F.
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Minnehaha River?
After Fridays big rains I was curious to see what Minnehaha Creek was running like when I came home. …
: I had a blast hacking MediaWiki tonight with my awesome book club gang: John Riedl, Dan Frankowski, …
: Rumor was that Mac OS X Lion would be released tomorrow. Haven’t heard much in the last day or two. …
: Any of you out there use Linode? I’m about to sign up and would be happy to send the referral to a …
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Square Surprisingly Useful
A couple of months ago I got a Square credit card reader and associated Square account for my iPhone …
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Bubblers Against Bottled Water
This weekend we went to the Minnesota Arboretum. It was ridiculously hot and when we got done …
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Concrete Trucks
Today was a big day for our project. This morning a bunch of guys showed up between 6:45 and 7:00am. …
: Sat on the “blaring fireball” (aka sun) side of the bus. Poor choice. Still managed to ssh from the …
: Remodel Update Week 5 This last week was short with the 4th of July holiday, but there was still some nice progress. The …
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Tammy and I watched Cedar Rapids tonight. It was fine, but not as funny as I hoped.
: Filtering Google Plus Notification emails It sure didn’t take long for Google Plus to start filling my mailbox with email notifications of all …
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Today the reinforcing steel arrived to insure that the basement walls never slide in over time. …
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Glow in the Dark B-Squad Shirts
The 2011 B-Squad shirts have an easter egg.
They glow!
Keekley you brilliant bastard!
: Just had a surprisingly pleasant support call with Adobe getting activation counts reset. Was very …
: Vandals trash closed state parks ← This is pathetic.
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Black Keys at Roy Wilkins
On Sunday night Tammy and I went to see The Black Keys at Roy Wilkins Auditorium. I only recently …
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First Week of Standing Desk
Today I started my second week of using my makeshift standing desk. My initial observations are: …
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Last night Mazie and I finished reading Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. I really …
: Just upgraded 8 WordPress sites to 3.2 in about 5 minutes. Super easy. (Wish MediaWiki was that …
: Epic Fourth of July! Today was the best Independence Day in memory. The day started early. Pancake breakfast. Mazie and …
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Tyler the Monkey
Tyler loves to climb on things, and he doesn’t give up easily. This morning I had the Tour de France …
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Bubble Jack
I had a chance to try the Rush River Bubble Jack IPA tonight at Cheeky Monkey Deli in St. Paul. …
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T-Rexing a Donut
Turns out that Tyler likes donuts! 😀
: Remodel Update Week 4 The destruction in the yard slowed in week four and the destruction in the basement accelerated. …
June 2011
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We got a pleasant surprise at the office today with the delivery of some delicious cupcakes from …
: Dirt Conveyor If you need to take seven inches of dirt out of a basement floor, it is best to have a cool portable …
: Day 2 of standing desk: my feet hurt.
: Who has people hammering outside their house at 7:12 AM? Oh yeah, me. Sorry neighbors!
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Basement Destruction
Today the heavy equipment came inside and made a bunch of noise while tearing out the basement …
: AT&T: Stop Reminding Me You're Expensive Okay, these monthly text messages from AT&T; drive me crazy. Let me inventory all the ways these are …
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Cars 2 in 3D
Mazie and I went and saw Cars 2 this weekend. We splurged and saw it in 3D! It was a ton of fun with …
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Concrete Poured
Last week we had a lot of digging in the remodel project. It was exciting to come home today to …
: 3 o’clock beer, sitting outside, watching the kids play in the wading pool, after mowing the lawn.
: Remodel Update Week 3 Week three of the remodel project has been substantial. Arriving home to heavy equipment in the yard …
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Tyler Mowing
Tyler thought it would be fun to push the lawn mower for a while. (Note: that is our neighbors lawn …
: Saturday at Science Museum Tammy had her 2nd photography class today. Last week I went with the “Dad standby” and we went to …
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Standing Desk Trial
I’m taking a trial run at a standing desk. If I like it I’ll see about something more nicer than a …
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Construction Excavation
I came home tonight and was excited to see the first significant work on the excavation around the …
: Multi Ping Pong We had a Ping Pong Tournament at this years Olson Family weekend. I took video of a bunch of the …
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Considering Mini Countryman All4
I’ve had my Mini Cooper S for two years now and I still like it a lot. It’s been a really good car …
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Fun Day at Zoo
Yesterday Tammy had a photo workshop at the Minneapolis Photo Center. This was a class that we had …
: Google Reminding People to Update I got this email yesterday for a blog that I help my brother-in-law out with. I haven’t ever seen a …
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Open Eye Backyard Puppet Show
Last week Mazie and I had a delightful evening sitting in Garrick Van Buren’s backyard watching a …
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Saving Plants
My Mom came to the rescue of more plants. This week the excavation starts on the remodel and the …
: Remodel Update Week 2 The I-beam is in place! This week the project has gotten dirty and more serious. I would say that …
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Tyler Learning to Sit in a Chair
Tyler is still very much constantly on the move. He has started to enjoy the novelty of sitting in …
: Windsource Savings We have been enrolled in the Windsource program for years now, ever since it was first started. …
: Remodeling — bunch of guys are sliding an I-beam into our basement.
: Hunger Games Trilogy Tammy had read The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins a few months ago and really like it. I had …
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First Twins game for me of the 2011 season and first game for Tammy since Target Field opened. …
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Mazie with her Spring 2011 Soccer trophy.
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Tammy got two tickets to the Twins for her birthday from my Mom, with babysitting included.
: Remodel Update Week 1 The first week of the project really just focused on getting things ready for real work. The deck …
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Spring 2011 Cyclones
Team photo of the Spring 2011 Cyclones after the last game today. They played a great spring season …
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The King's Speech
We finally got around to watching The Kings Speech last night. Very good movie and incredible …
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Mazie's 2nd Soccer Season
Mazie is playing soccer again this year with the Cyclones in the Fuller Soccer Club. The whole team …
: Memorial Day Tribute My friend Dennys Bisogno is a great photographer and is now doing some video work as well. Here is a …
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Tyler figured out how to climb into this area of Mazie’s art table. He thought it was a lot of fun, …
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Our remodel meant that a pretty sizable Azalea bush in our yard had to go. My Mom couldn’t stand to …
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Congrats to Jim on First Marathon!
This weekend my friend Jim ran the Minneapolis Marathon. This was his first one and he looked great, …
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Hot Dashboards
It was really hot today. It seems that the thing to do today was to take a picture of your car …
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Remodel Project Starts
This week we started the remodeling project on our house. I plan on taking photos of the process. …
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Outdoor Burner
Here is a scenario. You are doing a brisket on your Big Green Egg. It’s a weekend, and the meat will …
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Inside Job
I finally got a chance to watch Inside Job tonight. Wow. Very good documentary on the financial …
: Wonder if Eddie Vedder’s next album will be “Recorder Songs”. Maybe “Kazoo Songs” instead.
May 2011
: Set up a Square account in preparation to accept credit cards for upcoming garage sale.
: My daughter is alternating between an absolute angel and a demon with sharpened horns and fangs. …
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Mazie In Tree
Mazie’s kindergarten class had a picnic at the Rose Garden by Lake Harriet. She decided to do a …
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Memorial Day Grilling
Memorial Day is required grilling in my book. I did the entire meal outside. Simple burgers, …
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Twins Fan Tyler
Tyler did his best to try and help our last place team. Doesn’t seem to have had much effect yet.
: We just hired Quartersawn as the general contractor to do a house project. Upon signing the …
: Asking For Too Much Softball season has arrived again and the B-Squad is back out trying to win a game. My softball team …
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Foo Fighters in Council Bluffs
It has been a day since the Foo Fighters show and my ears are still ringing. This had to be one of …
: Why I run my own websites Marco Arment had a blog post today on the recent changes to Twitters API. He highlights that …
: Did some testing with OmniPlan 2.0’s collaborative features today. Amazing. Can’t wait for the …
: Technotarian I was reading this very interesting article on Bitcoin by Jasan Calacanis and used the term …
: Great Minnestar board meeting this morning. Things are coming together nicely!
: Great piece on CaringBridge on the news tonight. Quality. Organization I’m proud to work with. …
: Just won the Change Game on 48¢!
: Star ratings seem such poor taste for Classical music. Is there a website for reliable metadata for …
: Happy that I remembered I have a thermos! Keeps the weekend Chemex coffee nice and hot!
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One of my favorite photos from Minnebar. Paul DeBettignies prepared to deal with power challenges.
: Created two new address book groups “MinneBar Pings” and “MinneDemo Pings” so I remember to nag …
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MinneBar 6 Photos
Yesterday was an absolutely great MinneBar event. I lugged the big camera around to get some shots. …
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Minnebar 6
I got the privilege of kicking off and introducing Ben and Luke this morning at MinneBar 6. About …
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A couple of months ago we were at my Aunt Susie’s house and she had this bottle of wine with a very …
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Twilight Zone on Netflix Streaming
How great! I was looking at Netflix tonight via Apple TV and noticed that the original Twilight Zone …
: Really bummed to be missing the Minnebar organizer/sponsor dinner tonight. I’m on Dad duty all …
: The new Beastie Boys album is just amazing. Floored.
: Hotel WiFi is significantly worse than Personal Hotspot via iPhone. I’m surprised how often I’m …
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I spent the night at the Rosewood this week for an overnight trip to Palo Alto. Beautiful grounds …
: MacBook Air is so light, I think I’ll just bring both of them (work & home) on this trip. 😀
April 2011
: G. Love & the Special Sauce with Mike Rock, Ellen and Tammy.
: Enjoying a 2nd very good macchiato at Angry Catfish. Recommended.
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Tesla Roadster Sighting
First spotting of a Tesla Roadster in Minneapolis. Parked outside of Café Lurcat. Given the plates …
: $15/day hotel WiFi, please meet my iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot. We won’t require your services.
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$75 for gas! Bit of a shocker when we filled the minivan up with gas.
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Backyard Lights
We have done a number of things in our backyard to make it more of an outdoor living space. We …
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Pot Rack
After much searching Tammy found a pot rack that works in our kitchen. It was a bit of a bear to …
: At Minneapolis Photo Center for session 3 of Lighting Workshop. Very good thus far. See list of …
: I really wish there was a Tiny Wings version for the iPad.
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My New Espresso Bar
We had a new cabinet installed recently and the countertop and plumbing were finished today. I now …
: Just swapped my boot drive for an SSD with no more than 3 minutes of downtime for screws and a …
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Seeing The New Standards at The Dakota tonight. Amazing seats.
See list of The New Standards shows.
: I didn’t even realize I had videos on Google Video until Google sent me an email saying they were …
: Very bothersome that the Mac Twitter client doesn’t honor Spaces. It forces itself in every space.
: Awesome new Community Supported Kitchen program from Corner Table and Scott Pampuch.
: Congratsulations! @TECHdotMN: Zencoder Raises $2M for Cloud-based Video Encoding
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Family, Cousins
A few weeks ago we went back to North Dakota for a long weekend to visit my Grandma Rose. In her …
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Improved Workspace with Monitor Arm
My friend Garrick recently posted about an ergonomic improvement to his workspace. He got a monitor …
: Odd Facebook Conversations On Facebook I follow a handful of people who are semi-famous, and I don’t know but I know there …
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What plants for our backyard?
Last year we had some hardscaping done in our backyard. We created a little planting area next to …
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Tyler’s Awesome Yoda Shirt — “Judge me by my size you do?”
: Centralized Data Breaches The design of the Internet allows for an incredible amount of decentralization. My blog, is run on …
: Triumph of the City: Minneapolis My book club is reading Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser, an economist at Harvard University. …
: Fun watching people file into Target Field to watch the Twins game today! Jets just flew over Target …
: Got an Ignite Minneapolis ticket. That was too hard. Please charge something for the next one.
: I’m going to suggest that we have a new title, Font Stack of Boredom™, for the following CSS block. …
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Tammy got a new haircut yesterday at Lili. She looks amazing.
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Got my Fitbit
A couple of weeks ago I revisited the Fitbit site to learn more about their product. After doing …
March 2011
: Just got my Fitbit. Have it charged and paired with my account. Looking forward to seeing data.
: My Fitbit just shipped. Excited to try it out.
: Wow! @ESPNResearch: 5.9 million brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge… and TWO have the Final …
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Tammy got this cool bookshelf for the kids to keep their books in.
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Tyler taking a (very) brief rest on a blanket while playing.
: Someone make a Pinboard2Wordpress plugin? Put up a draft page of API documentation here: …
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Vacation Coffee Break
I’m on vacation this week. We went to North Dakota earlier. Today I spent the day with Tyler and it …
: One of my favorite mashups we ever did at MarketWatch put realtime news on a live timeline. Cool …
: TimelineSetter: A New Way to Display Timelines on the Web ← I’m a big fan of timelines as a tool to …
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This is our plan for the day. 592.2 miles.
: Less is More Sometimes a song has lyrics that are so striking you can’t help but take note. This is a great …
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Artists’ Point in Grand Marais.
: First Shots with Lensbaby For Christmas this year Tammy got me a fun lens for my camera, the Lensbaby Composer. When I did the …
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First Shots with Tilt-Shift Lens
While I was shooting this weekend in Grand Marais I took an opportunity to try out my new tilt-shift …
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Tilt Shift Lens
I recently added a new lens to my camera bag, the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L. This is one of those weird …
: Tethering my iPad via my iPhone 4 on the bus. This works very well.
: How Much Do I Write? At my last book club meeting one of the guys asked if anyone had plans to write a book. Two of the …
: My Mobile Data Usage Trends Now that I’ve upgraded to iOS 4.3 I was itching to enable Personal Hotspot on my iPhone 4. I take …
: Save the Lead I tapped on a unsubscribe link today to rid myself of another spam list. This URL quickly flashed …
: On the phone with AT&T getting mobile hot spot enabled. Surprised that I only use around 300MB of …
: Tyler Walking Tyler is an exceptional crawler. He passed his 1 year birthday without feeling the need to work on …
: Great day of photography with Steve LeVahn and Dennys Bisogno on the North Shore!
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Nice photography options this morning in the snow at Artist Point in Grand Marais.
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Dennys grabbed this shot of me shooting in the snow today at Artist’s Point in Grand Marais.
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Busted For Bad Camera Management
This weekend I am up in the Grand Marais area with my friends Steve and Dennys for a photography …
: Just got an offer for tickets to see Def Leppard with Heart opening. Thought it was 1988 again.
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Lasagna on Big Green Egg
This weekend we had friends over for dinner and I tried something new. I decided to try making my …
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Tyler refused his morning nap after swim class this morning. By the time we got to lunch, he was too …
: iPad 2 (0.34 inch thick) is 0.005 inches thicker than Kindle 2 (0.335 inch thick). I read that as …
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Digging out some SATA cables and bare drive adapter this afternoon to rescue a Mac. I always find …
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I gave a talk today at a class at the University of Minnesota. I used it as a trial run for …
February 2011
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Ristretto
Last night we had dinner at our friends the Rock’s. After dinner Mike fired up his Gaggia espresso …
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Was Wrong on OpenID
My friend John asked me to present at a class of his next week at the U of MN. I took an old Keynote …
: Weeds Season 6 just hit iTunes. Yeah!
: New OmniFocus task: Upgrade to WordPress 3.1 tonight. 😀
: Just spent two hours cleaning vandalism off of one of my websites. (mediawiki, not WordPress). Nasty …
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368MB of Ads
It has been a really long time since I used the Wired application on my iPad, but I recently fired …
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Michael Birawer Prints
The hallways of the 8thBridge office just got classed up! The building added a number of Michael …
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The Black Keys: Brothers
I heard an interview with The Black Keys on Fresh Air on MPR. That is probably the least hip way I …
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We got snowed in again. The weather says we got 14 inches of snow on Sunday. Happily it was a long …
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Driveway Avalanche
Our driveway provides almost no opportunity for me to get snow out of the way. I blow a lot of it …
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Tammy surprised me with a Chemex Coffeemaker for Valentine’s Day. I brewed a batch of coffee with it …
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I was at Ambrosia Espresso for a coffee yesterday. I got my typical macchiato. They got it right on …
: I 💚 Unix Maybe this should be titled “I [Heart] Shell”, but it seems more fitting to lay praise at Unix. …
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New Standards at Lantern Festival Gala
One of our favorite bands, The New Standards, announced they were playing at the Lantern Festival …
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New Standards Pano at Lantern Festival Gala
Here is a shot of the scene while the New Standards performed at the Lantern Festival.
This was …
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Minnehaha Creek was picturesque this morning coming through Minnehaha Creek West Park with a light …
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Minnehaha Creek caught my attention this morning, and it did again this evening on the way home.
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Happy Valentines Day 2011
Mazie made me this awesome and sweet Valentine. Happy Valentines to everyone!
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Heart Shaped Pancakes
Valentines Day dinner. This was Mazie’s special request. Of course she was so full of chocolate she …
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Double Big Green Egg Table
When I got my Big Green Egg I got the large table to go with it. It seemed okay, not great. I knew I …
: Listen to “Calamity Song” off of the new Decemberists, and then listen to “South Central Rain” on …
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EGGfest Chili
This weekend I made EGGfest Chili for the second time. This recipe is from the new Big Green Egg …
: Wow - launching Twitterific 4.0 with the “light” theme is a breath of fresh air. Upgraded my …
: Basic Currency of the Internet Great quote from OkTrends, the OkCupid blog: The basic currency of the Internet is human ignorance, …
: Having fun with Daytum. After 1-month I’m pretty happy with my beer page.
: Family Websites Updated We took a little time this weekend and updated everyone else’s websites this weekend. Tyler now has …
: LinkedIn InMap LinkedIn created this cool InMap visualization of your network. Useless really, but it sure looks …
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Sunday Afternoon Sledding
We all got bundled up this afternoon, grabbed the Mountain Boy sleds and headed over to the sledding …
: Why No Mail Encryption on iPad? I like to use digital signing in email, and some friends have done the same and we can exchange …
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Big Green Egg Buyers Guide
I’m a huge fan of my Big Green Egg. I have been a casual griller for a long time, mostly on a gas …
January 2011
: Giddy for my book club meeting tonight. Topic is Wikileaks.
: Birthday Photo Shoot My sister asked me to do a favor for her. She has a good friend that was turning 40 and she wondered …
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Mazie the Butterfly
Mazie getting her fingernails painted to go with the butterfly face. Having a lot of fun at the …
: "Dad, I am glad to see you" I was out of town most of this week. When I got back Mazie made this great picture of her and I.
: Tyler and his Music Table Tyler is working hard at learning to walk. Pushing his music table is a favorite of his. Add video. …
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Gorgeous view from Mt. Tamalpais. What a great tiny get away from San Francisco.
I grabbed this …
: I just posted a 7 character URL that Twitter “shortened” to 12 characters and obfuscated in the …
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Abrasive Ale is so good. Megahops!
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Making EGGfest Chili from Big Green Egg cookbook. Smells awesome! On the Big Green Egg for a couple …
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Empty Airplane Seats
I didn’t think this type of thing ever happened any more. On a ridiculously full flight and have two …
: Sunday morning, tuned into Ely, MN for Pathways with Ray Nargis.
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Mazie the Singer
My mom was visiting today and Mazie wanted to perform a song for her. Out came the microphone!
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Playing with Blocks
Mazie and I had a ton of fun this afternoon stacking up blocks as fast as we could and then having …
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Tyler Playing with his Shoes
Tyler was having a blast flinging his shoes around on the coffee table.
And then he coyly hid them …
: Guy on bus is listening to his Android phone using white iPod earbuds. Is that allowed? 😀
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The new Minnedemo demo room is huge, which is great. Nice to have a place to sit. My buddy Ira …
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I got my Grantwood MacVelope today for my 11" MacBook Air. I like it. It’s fun, small and will …
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From yesterday’s junk mail. Why not a more direct message, like “Stuck in a contract? We’ll pay to …
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"Synced" Is Not a Word
Let me nitpick for a moment. I’m a huge fan of Omnifocus and I use it on my Macs, iPhone and iPad. …
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Apps With Notifications
I’ve got a lot of applications on my iPhone. They are spread over multiple pages, and some of them …
: Kindle Icon Confusion Just yesterday Amazon released the Kindle application into the Mac App Store. They also released a …
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Huge Snowman
Some people in our neighborhood build a huge snowman in the park every winter. Mazie stood next to …
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One Hour of Cardboard
This wasn’t a record, but pretty close. That’s one hour of cutting and tying into bundles.
And, even …
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Snowshoeing in the Park
Mazie and I put on our snow shoes and went for a loop around Minnehaha Creek West Park and down …
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Tyler Conquers Stairs
This weekend Tyler decided that the stairs were his. He can climb them in no time, and immediately …
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The Mountain Boy Sleds I ordered have arrived. The sled pads are attached and ready to rocket down …
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TRON: Legacy
We saw the new TRON movie tonight as part of my birthday fun. In short, it was great.
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Happy Birthday: MacBook Air
I’m writing this blog post on my super light, super fast, and super tiny 11" MacBook Air. Thanks to …
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Tyler helped Dad unload the dishwasher this morning. Chase’s lack on an opposable thumb made him …
December 2010
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Spotted the KBS Pro Cycling team having lunch at Yum! Bakery.
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Getting ready for New Year’s Eve Bistecca alla Fiorentina.
: Just ordered some huge porterhouse steaks from Clancey’s for upcoming dinner with Mike Rock and …
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Park Husband Here. (This scene required commentary.)
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Sorry State of Sleds
One of the really cool things about our new house is that we are just down the street from “the …
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Mazie the Young Photographer
Mazie the Young Photographer.
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Mazie's Angry Bird
Mazie’s Angry Bird.
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Snow Fire. 🔥❄️
Minnesota Grilling.
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Merry Christmas 2010
Our best to you and your family on this wonderful holiday season!
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Kids See Santa 2010
Tammy took Mazie and Tyler for their annual trip to see Santa Claus. Mazie was super excited to see …
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Smaller Desktop Footprint
For many years now I have sat down at my desk in front of giant monitors. I’ve wanted to become more …
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Mazie Doing Puzzle
We are celebrating Christmas this weekend with the Olson family. It’s afternoon break and puzzle …
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Tyler Working on Standing
Tyler is getting better better at standing. We expect it will still be a while before he is walking. …
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Got my Glif!
My Glif arrived in the mail today! I was one of the many backers on their Kickstarter campaign. This …
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Mazie Español
Mazie has been taking Spanish class at Burroughs and today they had a program where all the kids …
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Learning Carcassonne
I’ve been learning how to play Carcassonne with some friends. I had the fun experience tonight of …
: OmniFocus and Sync Server Possibilities I often like to dream that I get to wave a magic wand and influence the future product plans of …
: Wow… Minneapolis Schools cancelled again tomorrow. Just got the call.
: Been on Lyndale for 1 hour. Made it from 50th street to 28th street. Watching green lights while …
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Good Passwords with 1Password
This morning I read the news about Gawker having 1.3 million passwords taken from their servers. …
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Remote.app and Cover Art
I keep a mountain of content in iTunes and I am constantly accessing it one way or another. The iPad …
: Sparklines Used Well I absolutely dig the way the My-Cast weather application for the iPhone uses sparklines. Works just …
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Spent a few hours this weekend blowing snow.
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Chase Running in Snow
After taking care of the necessary snow removal chores we all got dressed and went for a walk around …
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Plowed In
I realize that getting plowed in is part of the deal. That plow line is just under 5 feet deep 3 …
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Snow Shelf
I couldn’t figure out any way to clear the alley where I leave the recycling out. Just too much …
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No grilling today.
Over a foot of snow in the driveway.
And, not much of anywhere for it to go. …
: Attract Customers with WiFi Name A while back we were traveling and I noticed that this coffee shop, Kavarna, didn’t just have its …
: Twitter Spam It’s clear to me that spam on Twitter continues to be a growing problem. Tonight I posted a simple …
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Oatmeal Ratio
Mazie and I enjoy our oatmeal. It is one of our favorite breakfasts. When she was really little I …
: Canon Listened to me! Just over a year ago I posted my plea to Canon asking that they make it so I can lock the mode dial …
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First Photo Book: Stone/Steel/People
A few weeks ago I took a workshop at the Minneapolis Photo Center. The workshop was led by Layne …
: The New Standards Holiday Show #5 is awesome! See list of The New Standards shows.
: Very fun evening at Pizza Luce for the Drivetrain Agency event. Thanks Dan Grigsby!
November 2010
: Brilliant: Swivel Tree Stand Last year I decided I had enough of our old tree stand and got rid of it. We decided to pick up our …
: It's When You Wake Up? Why is it so different to go to sleep at 2am and get up at 6am, versus going to bed at 10pm and …
: Upgrade Bonanza! Some of you reading this realize how much I like to upgrade things. I really do. I’m not saying it …
: Eyjafjallajökull My friends Dennys Bisogno and Layne Kennedy sent a link around to this amazing video of “that …
: No More Beatles Rumors Finally we have The Beatles on iTunes. Now we can be done with all the rumors about The Beatles on …
: Editing a Book I’m working on creating my very first photography book. The editing process is arduous. The light is …
: My dentist has a guest WiFi network. For some reason this surprises me. Stream a movie rental while …
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Shipping Air
This one, 5 foot section of rubber was the only thing shipped in this box. Wasteful.
: Transit Equality “It is hard to feel like you are better than everyone else when you ride the bus.” — me
: It would be nice if someone could explain daylight savings time to babies.
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My mom had us over for a wonderful breakfast this morning. Here is a nice shot of Tyler and Grandma.
: Chlorofluorocarbons With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons. — …
: Unsubscribing I’ve started the process of having our name and address removed from all the junk mail that we get. …
: Just added my 100th web login to 1Password.
October 2010
: 10+ lbs of pork shoulder rubbed for the Big Green Egg. Halloween smoke! Wasn’t expecting a frozen …
: Hey Surly Brewing, is the wax on darkness intended to be an “are you sure?” deterrent. Took 5 mins …
: It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. Time for Pathways with Ray Nargis on WELY. Good morning Ely, MN!
: I signed up last night! Introducing Kernest Konstellations!
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Listening to Uncle Tupelo, No Depression. Amazing how good this album still is. 🎶 ★★★★★
: Up early taking daybreak photos downtown Minneapolis with Layne Kennedy on workshop.
: Check out Eventburn. Built by my friend Dan Frankowski and Max Harper. Social media view of events. …
: Listened to Hüsker Dü, Land Speed Record, while reviewing a legal doc. Went surprisingly well …
: Bob Mould at The Dakota Bob Mould blasting it at The Dakota! Awesome! Start with Wishing Well. Bob just put away the …
: Sunday morning, time for Pathways with Ray Nargis on WELY. Hello Ely, MN!
: Wow. Fell asleep on my bus ride home. Missed stop. Taking a little adventure. 😕
: Now time to tune into Pathways on WELY! Say Hi to Ely, MN.
: Sunday morning music, Tammy vetoed Ray Price and switched to The Beatles.
: Hey LaunchBar! You’re great, BUT, could you make your UI a little more fun so I don’t feel all …
: Finished monthly update of offline backups. 4 TB safe and sound.
: At the Dakota for Ruthie Foster show. Nice!
: Most wished for iPad app? OmniOutliner. OmniFocus is great, and an outliner on iPad would be killer.
: I finally spent some quality time on Quora. I like it. Here is my profile.
: Had a really great CaringBridge board meeting this morning. Smart group, much opportunity, and great …
: Just spent the last two hours exploring DevOps with OpsCode and Chef. Nearly got my EC2 instance …
September 2010
: New Apple TV has shipped, should arrive on Friday!
: Made our first trip to the new Linden Hills Coop today. New location is great! Much nicer …
: Listening to WELY this morning. Ray Nargis, Pathways. Best of radio.
: Watched Wall Street with Tammy tonight, she had never seen it. Prep for seeing Wall Street 2 …
: I declare it officially fall, and thus, officially The Replacements season. Listen on. 🎶
: Listening to Greg Merkle’s album while working through email inbox. Great music.
: Everyone should listen to some Hank Williams Sr. at least once a year or so. So good.
: Was great to reconnect with Farhan Muhammad today over lunch!
: It blows my mind to see how much we packed for this weekend trip!
: At The Collaborative Technology Summit event this morning. Will be on the 4th panel discussing tech …
: I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to chsh zsh on my Mac. Hello again zsh. It’s been too long …
: Required installing many dependencies but I now have chef and knife gems installed to start playing …
: Turning off Google Instant. That feels much, much better.
: Burstable performance instances — Considering AWS EC2 Micro instances? Read this doc to understand …
: The Lightroom 3.2 → Facebook workflow is very, very slick. Only problem is you cannot replace a …
: Planning out deploying thingelstad.com on Amazon EC2 with autoscaling and independent SQL/NFS …
: As odd as this seems at first, Amazon EC2’s new “micro” instance is a game changer. Ridiculously …
: Game Center First Impressions I’m all setup on game center. Find me as “thingles”. I’m curious to see what non-game things Game …
: First impression of Google Streaming Search: hate it. Distracting, clunky. It’s like someone not …
: Curious: are baseball games played faster when temperature is colder? 🥶
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Mazie's First Soccer Game
Last week Mazie had her first soccer game! She’s in the Fuller Soccer Club on the Cyclones. With no …
: I feel like I should rename Fall to “Claritin”. 🤧
: That was the nicest bus driver ever.
: Another great book club meeting tonight. I relish book club nights.
: Not a fan of the new visual elements in iTunes 10. Reminds me of the grayscale of NeXT.
August 2010
: Got a great rundown from OpsCode on Chef and managing cloud instances on EC2. Very impressive!
: Heading to Minnesota Renaissance Festival!
: Absolute mayhem at Wuollet this morning!
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Beautiful night at Lake Harriet.
: Parked and ready for movie at the drive-in in Door County. Awesome!
: Amazing espresso this morning. Refresher training session from Mike Rock put my game back on track. …
: This new talk from Larry Lessig is worth watching. Great stuff.
July 2010
: Just setup my Magic Trackpad. Will take some getting used to, but has promise. See if I can replace …
: First blush of OmniFocus for the iPad is: stunning. Love the UI. The Forecast view is great! Hope to …
: Really pleased with how our landscaping project came out. Functional, efficient and relaxing.
: Tasty pork tacos at Chef Shack for lunch today. Pretty busy today with a line.
: BrowserMob seems to be a winner in this space. Like that you can write your own test cases using …
: Temp on the grill is stable at 200 °F. Nothing for me to do tonight so time to sleep and check on …
: Had pulled pork tacos for lunch at Chef Shack today - 5th St and Nicollet parking lot. Awesome chow!
: Moving about 2.5TB of data to the new LaCie 4Big drive. This is going to take a while. :-)
: Installing dozens of apps on my new MacBook Pro. Nice and fast!
: Trying to figure out if I want to partition this 6TB drive or just have one big volume.
: Guys doing our landscaping just fired up the stone cutter at 7:45am. Good morning neighbors! 😬
: On a different bus at a different time. This 790 to Plymouth is not my 156.
: Just ordered LaCie 4big 8TB drive to go with new laptop (and an OWC ExpressCard/34 eSATA adapter for …
: Just ordered my new laptop. 17" MacBook Pro, loaded.
: Theme for today has been Me v. My To Do List. So far, I’m doing pretty good!
: Two iPhone 4’s are waiting for me to pick them up at the Apple Store in Uptown tomorrow. Other one …
: Prime Rib Rubbed for the Egg. Grilling in the rain — no reason to not grill! Prime Rib on the Egg. …
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Fresh Strawberry Tart with Port Glaze
Delicious recipe from a (new?) local Minneapolis food blogger Healthy and Gourmet.
: Pork Shoulder on Big Green Egg Happy 4th of July!
: Very nice painting by Michael Birawer at Target Field. It looked about 8 feet wide.
: Day Game at Target Field, simply great!
June 2010
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I’m just digging the new Mos Def album “The Ecstatic” even more and more.
: Depressing Phone Tree “If you are calling regarding a death claim please press 9, if you are calling regarding a cancer …
: Big Green Egg truck spotted in front of Settergren’s Ace Hardware.
: Flickr, Leaving You in Control I want to take a moment to applaud Flickr. It really frustrates me when websites do not give you …
: US v. Ghana at Riverview Theater Today my brother-in-law Hector and I went to the Riverview Theater to check out the US v. Ghana game …
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Swing Set on the Way!
We are redoing a lot of the outdoor space in the backyard of our new house. We’ve wanted to put in a …
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iOS 4 Folders for Context
I’ve written before about how much work it is to navigate a lot of apps on the iPhone. Today’s …
: First CSA Box of the Season As many know we try to support local, sustainable food production as much as possible. We’ve tried …
: Anyone out there with personal experience using an eSATA ExpressCard adapter on a MacBook Pro? I’d …
: Garage Tunnels Why isn’t it common to have a tunnel from your detached garage to the basement of your house?
: At the Dakota for tonights The New Standards show with my lovely wife! See list of The New Standards …
: Normal State of Alertness But a new study suggests that coffee doesn’t really give us caffeine fiends the jolt we think it …
May 2010
: Hotel WiFi is giving me 4.5 KB/sec. Anyone got a USRobotics modem sitting around?
: Doing a make on git is so clean that I just like to sit and watch all the commands go by so cleanly.
: MediaWiki is sort of blowing my mind.
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Social Media iPhone Icons
Noticed this on my iPhone screen the other day.
What is it with the blue? These companies are …
: Minnebar 5 Another record breaking attendance for Minnebar! It’s great that even in year 5 Minnebar is drawing …
: After lugging all 740 pages of Team of Rivals from the library on the bus multiple times I finally …
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Tyler loves to giggle. Happy Baby!
: Find My Phone Used “Find My iPhone” tonight to, find my iPhone. So nice to not have to search and search. Just …
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Happy Mothers Day
Wishing my wife an awesome mother’s day. She’s a great mom! Love you dear!
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Scape Goat beer from Big Sky Brewing.
April 2010
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My book club picked Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, a whopping 754 pages. Wish me luck!
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Why do most architects write like this?
: Please Rate Me Annoying behavior to game the ratings in the AppStore.
March 2010
: Big Move Started Yesterday we started the big move. There have been many preparations but yesterday with the help of …
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Thirtyhood.
1987…
thirty something.
2010…
Parenthood on NBC.
“Just sitting here watching the wheels go round and …
: 4 of 5 stars to Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.
: You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. — Tyler Durden
: Bent Nail IPA My brother-in-law Denny gave me a bottle of this Bent Nail IPA from Red Lodge Ales in Montana. They …
: Lil’ Brother Playing Bass Shut up and go play the bass.
: iPad Ordered! Placed the order this morning for the iPad and am excited to see the future of touch computing in …
: Stock Charts in HTML5 HumbleFinance produces really nice looking, smooth and interactive charts in HTML5 using Canvas. …
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I’ve heard really good things about Lift Bridge beers and I finally got to try a couple. The rumors …
: Avett Brothers, one of my favorite new bands, was on Austin City Limits. It’s worth watching.
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Democratization of Media — G. Love and Garrick.
: Flavors.me ← Having a personal landing page is getting more popular. I like the concept, but I don’t …
: Forks over Knives looks like a great documentary. I’ve read the book, The China Study, and it makes …
: Harmony ← Very cool HTML5 painting tool.
: I’m 1000% jokey and your 100% jokey. — Mazie
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Peeing and Hockey — What a great chart.
: Tron Legacy Trailer ← Wow! I can’t wait to see this! Block your calendar for December 17, 2010.
: TypeWith.me ← Firing up the open sourced code from Etherpad.
: I’ve been looking at my blog and feeling total blockage. Is it the theme? Is it my fingers. I have …
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Dinner in New House
Today we closed on our new house. It was an exciting day filled with activity and signing many, many …
February 2010
: I’d really like a new MacBook Pro to have Core i7 and two eSATA-II ports. I’m planning on going …
: I’m considering one of the LaCie 4big Quadra units. Anyone have one of these?
: I’d really like a new MacBook Pro to have Core i7 and two eSATA-II ports. I’m planning on going …
: Having your kid fall asleep on your shoulder is one of the best parts of life.
: Very quickly being reminded how newborns sleep, or more accurately, don’t.
: Five years ago today Road Sign Math launched. Someday I’ll get to rebuild it.
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Tyler Born!
Welcome Tyler Thingelstad to the world! Tammy rocked the delivery!
8lb 3oz and 22 inches long! …
: Reaction at our house to first half Super Bowl ads: “Ahh, that was dumb.”
: This Super Bowl half-time show makes me think bands should have “Best Before” dates.
: Why do people on eBay think that I will add a Buy-It-Now price when I specifically listed it without …
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Showing Your Kid to Program
My friend Jim and I were talking the other day and he asked me for some recommendations on a way to …
: Great Minnedemo tonight! Way to go everyone that demoed!
January 2010
: At the Farrar & Gibbard concert at the Varsity with my friend Kent. Awesome. Farrar singing Big …
: Preparing the house for another open house today.
: Putting my Pleo (s/n 1650) on eBay. Sort of sad for the little guy.
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Surly
Got in on the Surly Brewing tour this week. It was Surly-licious.
: Purchased Yojimbo, I’m liking it a lot. Feel late to the game. :-)
: Is “utilize” ever necessary? Isn’t “use” always fine instead? Related: See word lists.
: Tuned into Pathways on WELY this morning. Nice cup of espresso to go along. Tammy’s making …
: It’s National Pie Day? I need a slice of Triple Berry fast!
: Pork Shank with White Beans is looking like a good option for tomorrow.
: If you like fast word games you really need to play Word Crasher for the iPhone. It’s awesome!
: Played with Twilio today. Impressed.
: Word Crasher is a great iPhone word game. Awesome game play!
: Got a first pass through my workshop photos. Good set of 60 photos to edit do some post-processing …
: Photographing the Nude Workshop with Doug Beasley. 2 days. 5 models. 1,668 photos. Time to edit …
: At the inaugural grilling class at Kitchen Windows new space! Awesome! I’d be happy to live on the …
: At the coffee shop working on photos. Girl is dumping her boyfriend at next table over. He’s not …
: Day 1 of photo workshop concluding. Great day with some great shots. Loading 200 raw photos, …
: Taking a challenging photography workshop at the Minneapolis Photo Center today: Photographing the …
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Moon
Very interesting movie. It’s hard for this movie to not be compared to 2001, but it stands tall even …
: Just got a call to confirm our first showing for the house. Nice! Then mad dash to get house …
: I really wish that the Mail application on the iPhone used and displayed the IMAP flag status. Would …
: Finding a boys name that we like is proving really difficult. And we only have about a month left to …
: Watching Nature episode “Christmas in Yellowstone”. Really good one.
: Wrapping up a great day with family.
December 2009
: Intermediate stage for porterhouses on Big Green Egg. Firing up to 700 °F to finish.
: Preener's Eve 2009 with The New Standards Just seated at The Dakota for The New Standards show with Tammy, Phoebe, and Dave-O! Their cover of …
: Book club night. Always smart and lively conversation.
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High Resolution Album Art #3
More high-resolution album art for others that may have these albums: Chan Poling “Calling All …
: Seated for Avatar 3D. Looking forward to it! Hanging with brother and sister-in-laws.
: Weeds Season 5 on iTunes! Finally get to catch up with one of our favorite shows.
: Holiday Cookies party with friends! Awesome day!
: Drobo problems: Does not properly sleep/wake with Mac Pro, and under heavy load will randomly reboot …
: Wassail Tea ready to bring into the office tomorrow!
: In a room with not one, but two, people who have been on Jeopardy.
: Spirit of the Web I don’t intend to make a habit of quoting myself, but I really like this. “Every time a blog is …
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Lusting over new espresso machine.
: Stopped by Holidazzle parade floats. Not so fun when your trying to get home.
: A 35 minute call to Australia cost me $122.15 from AT&T! I realize it’s international, but that is …
: Just got my new Minnesota Public Radio membership card. I’ve been a member since 1995. Wonder how …
: Double-extra Happy Birthday wishes to my friends Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard since they are both a …
: Getting ready for The New Standards Holiday Show at the Fitz! See list of The New Standards shows.
November 2009
: After 5 days I have finally found my watch. Indeed, Mazie had been “tricky” and hid it, then …
: Luckily found out early my Big Green Egg is frozen shut. Also lucky there is charcoal in it to burn …
: Haven’t been able to find my watch all day. My guess is Mazie hid it and then forgot about it. …
: Turkey in brine ✓ Rub ready ✓ Sweet Potatoes ready ✓ Wassail Tea made ✓ Carrot Cake made ✓ Let …
: Yeah, my sweet potatoes are going to have marshmallows on them. You got a problem with that?
: Just got Chrome OS running in Parallels 5 to play with it. Nifty.
: For fun, here are my photos from the first Minnebar in 2006. The whole group looks like one of …
: Watching Objectified. Great documentary.
: I’m carrying my camera today instead of laptop. My camera turns out to be much heavier. :-)
: Picking up two whole beef tenderloins for tonights grilling extravaganza! I (heart) Clancey’s. I …
: In celebration of getting U2 tickets for next summer, I’m sharing this from McSweeney’s.
: Just scored 2 tickets to the U2 concert in June!
: Had a surprisingly pleasant interaction with two different health insurance companies.
: John Muir’s birthday should be a national holiday. I’m declaring today John Muir day. What an …
: At the Mpls Photo Coop for Final Cut Studio Workshop. Great space! My first time here. Won’t be the …
: Enjoying some quiet time at Toraccino with a Macchiato before heading to Mpls Photo Center for …
: At the Minnesota Public Radio Future of News event today, getting started.
: Heart is in Ely this morning. Listening to Pathways with Ray Nargis on WELY.
: Running my MacBook Pro in target disk mode to attempt to recover a broken Parallels VM. Very slick!
: Twitter’s new Retweet mechanism needs a global setting to turn of ALL retweets, in addition to the …
: Just finished a great home movie in iMovie. I know some people think iMovie blows, but I couldn’t …
: iTunes Smart Playlist: Three Plays I’ve written before about some of the ways I use Smart Playlists in iTunes to enjoy my music more. …
: I’m an avid Safari user, and when I launch Firefox I wonder if they are purposefully making it ugly. …
: With Apple and Google getting less cozy, how long until Safari allows easy switching away from …
: What the… Bing is indexing one of my websites which has an explicit robots disallow. C’mon people!
: Just got the new retweet features turned on in my account. Looking forward to being able to disable …
: Upgrading my Vista license to Windows 7 is going to cost me $200? What the? Someone at Microsoft …
: Simply great song from the The Avett Brothers, I and Love and You.
: Canon, let me lock my mode! I’ve been absolutely loving my new Canon 5D Mark II. It’s a serious camera and having a full-frame …
: Ugly Bug in Mac OS X Address Book? I don’t have an official bug report for this but I’m seeing a very ugly bug in Mac OS X Address Book …
: Adding Symbols to Mind Maps I’ve been aware of mind mapping software for a while but had never found an application that worked …
: Ridiculous Web Surveys It amazes me when I actually attempt to take a survey on the web how poorly designed they are. Most …
October 2009
: Brilliant: “ketchup squirts of maple syrup down the middle” - Garrick Van Buren
: Flipping through the new B&H Photo Video catalog. 🙂
: Apple Store finally has Magic Mouse in stock. Time to run an errand. I’m totally digging the Magic …
: Apple TV 3.0 release. Looks really nice. Looking forward to upgrading the three Apple TV’s at home.
: I finally found a mind mapping tool that works for me. MindNode Pro. Gets out of the way and just …
: Ubuntu Karmic Koala? Where do they get these names. :-)
: Car got towed!!! $138 lighter but getting Mini Cooper back. Oh, and $42 parking ticket. Thanks to …
: Ugh - everyone is drinking Surly Brewing Darkness except me!
: My Twitter account just got lists enabled. This is seriously useful. Now Tweetie needs to get lists …
: New Video Stingers (v2) A little over a year ago I created a handful of stingers to use on video content that I create. The …
: Saving at the Dentist Found out totally by accident yesterday that I save 5% if I pay the dentist on the same day I have …
: If you are thinking of going to BC Liquor to get remaining Surly Brewing Darkness, stop. They have …
: Unix Lesson for Today Learned after much difficulty today that find doesn’t actually spawn a shell, and as a result trying …
: Surly Darkness Haven’t tasted Surly Darkness yet, but I was lucky enough to get a bottle into the house.
: Video: Open Internet This is a really great video that explains in plain language why Net Neutrality is so vitally …
: Would love to be at Surly Brewing Darkness Day but not going to stand in line for 4 hours. :-/ Will …
: Unauthorized Transactions This morning when I checked my email I found many more unread messages then typical. A bit …
: Happy Birthday to Microsoft [Windows 7]!
: Shooting Anvils Forget about model rockets - let the anvils fly!
: Mail.app Smart Mailboxes I’ve been using Smart Mailboxes in Mail.app for the first time ever and finding them very helpful. …
: R.I.P. Thawte Web of Trust Still saddened that the Thawte Web of Trust system is being shut down by the new owners, Verisign. …
: Inspired Software Keynote I was honored this year to be invited by the Computer Science department at the University of …
: Just listened to Steve Earle’s appearance on KQED’s Forum. Great interview.
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Resisting the temptation to wear my Sorels this morning.
: Just finished an OCD-like marathon session watching the last FIVE episodes of The Wire. Done with …
September 2009
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Just sitting here working away with some reasonably heavy I/O operations on my Drobo and it …
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Just finished watching season 4 of The Wire. Amazing season in an amazing series. Brutally up close.
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Four pounds Beef Tenderloin going on the Big Green Egg.
Plated.
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Very nice Steamworks Coffee Macchiato.
: “Don’t be stupid - we reserve the right to kick you out if you’re being a dick (or any other reason …
: “Improving a pain-in-the-ass does not make it a kiss! And we need a kiss!”- Doc Searls, Rebooting …
: Kawishiwi Falls While we were up in Ely this past weekend we took a brief hike out to Kawishiwi Falls. I’m a sucker …
: “Welcome to the W-E-L-Y Ely Timberwolves High School Football radio pre-game show.” - WELY 94.5 FM
: Aaron Kaercher & His Crazy Neighbors playing outside at Northern Grounds Cafe in Ely, MN.
: For what I believe is the third time I downloaded my RAW files off of my compact flash card, put it …
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Big Green Egg Pro Tip: Vent Alignment
Over the weekend I decided it was time to do a full cleaning of my Big Green Egg. Now and then I …
: Canal Park and Gooseberry Falls We drove from Duluth to Ely this morning to start our weekend in Ely. We got some photos in Canal …
: Fancy Flash Websites on the iPhone There are a bunch of reasons that you shouldn’t have a website that is just one big flash …
: Freezer Canning Tomatoes For the first time I decided to try some canning. I didn’t feel confident enough to do real canning, …
: iTunes 9 Removes Old iPhone Restore Images Upon upgrading to iTunes 9 today I noticed that some old iPhone restore images had been dumped in my …
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Brand new gasket for the large Big Green Egg tonight. It always feels like the grill is shiny and …
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Mazie, Tammy and I all went to Ponyo today. Fun movie, great story. Mazie loved it.
: 2009 State Fair We had a great time at the Minnesota State Fair this year. This year was the first year that Mazie …
: Suggestion: If going to the Renaissance Festival, leave your iPhone at home.
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Dark humor via bumper sticker.
I started out
with nothing and
I still have most of it
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Julie & Julia
Fun movie. Light. Good laugh or two. Cool context of cooking and blogging.
: iTunes Feature Request: Song Linking A couple of weeks ago I was having an email dialog with my friend Dave Oosterhuis about iTunes …
: “Domain names, like ideas, are cheap.” — me
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Delicious corn at Minnesota State Fair.
: Max's 30th Birthday Party My brother-in-law Max turned 30 today and there was a nice get together at the Bayside Grill on Lake …
: State Fair Day Big day at the Minnesota State Fair today. Mazie had a blast.
: CAPS LOCK DAY CAPITAL LETTERS REALLY DON’T GET THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE. MAYBE WE NEED TO HAVE A CAPS LOCK DAY …
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Deck Resurfaced
Sometimes I get really excited by projects we have done around the house (garage shelves, rain …
August 2009
: Just ordered my tickets for Surly Fest!
: We have been in Lignite, ND this weekend visiting my family. It’s really nice to see everyone. In …
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Apple Store preparing for Snow Leopard release.
: How to Expire Tweets on Twitter A lot of people consider Twitter a microblogging platform. I don’t really agree with that. I think …
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Still totally digging my Mini.
: Frankhouse Enjoyed listening to Frankhouse tonight at the 318 Club. Good jazz. Friend of mine is the …
: Goodbye Blue Dog Mural This week we said goodbye to one of the most distinctive art features of our house. In January of …
: Mazie Photo Shoot Last Friday Mazie and I had a super fun “Daddy-Daughter” day filled with many fun things. Part of …
: TED Video: Hans Rosling Dataset Mindset The visuals in this talk by Hans Rosling at TED blew me away. Animated displays of 200 years of …
: Holy crap did the WordPress plugin Hot Linked Image Cacher just save me a ton of effort in moving …
: Just finished an emergency dog bath for Chase. I have no idea what he got into, but it smelled …
: iPhone Pro Tip: Launch Apps with Spotlight With the 3.0 release of the iPhone software Apple brought the platform level search capabilities of …
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Surly Hell
I got an email from Four Firkins at 10:13 am that they had received their very first limited …
: Very nice 16 mile ride with Tammy, Michelle and Hector.
: Why don't RSS Readers support kill files? As I was flowing through my RSS subscriptions in Google Reader I was struck for the millionth time …
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17 Again. Wow. Bubble gum. To be clear, Tammy’s pick.
: I seem to be very focused on the themes of Creative Commons, GNU Public License and having control …
: Frog A few days ago I took the leap and jumped to a new camera body. I made the big jump and moved to a …
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Izzy: Could Not Be Happier
We had a wonderful time at the Off-leash Dog Park this afternoon. Izzy particularly.
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Water Lily
We were having a nice afternoon at Como Park today and the Water Lily area was just breathtaking. …
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Watched Frontrunners about the very competitive student elections at Stuyvesant High School.
: I’m not much of a football fan, but it’s odd even to the casual viewer to see Brett Favre playing in …
: Getting nginx and php-fpm working to make things zippy.
: I am being reminded of the incredible ferocity of thousands of mosquitos in the North Woods.
: How can your dog live in your house for 2.5 years and still think, very rarely, that they should …
: Really surprised how busy Ciao Bella is. Recession? Unemployment? Apparently not here.
: I’m trying to suck all of my Tweets off of Twitter and there seems to only be 3,200 tweets. However, …
: Signature Required Delivery I got an opportunity to appreciate the asymptotic behavior of packages that are shipped requiring a …
: Using Google Reader I was excited to read about recent enhancements to Google Reader, particularly the “Send to…” …
: Dropping the www I’ve debated this many times, but finally decided to pull the trigger and remove the “www.” prefix …
: “Blue jeans are the Photoshop CS4 of good looks.”
July 2009
: Entrepreneur in Residence at Split Rock Partners Earlier this week Split Rock Partners did a press release regarding my entrepreneur in residence …
: My Solution for Microsoft to Get Nerds Back I was catching up on my Daring Fireball feed today and saw that John Gruber had put together a …
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Waiting for Coldplay to take the stage at Alpine Valley!
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Away We Go — fun movie, puts a smile on your face.
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Self-help Books That Will Actually Work.
: Tron Legacy in 2010 This is a couple of minute preview from the upcoming Tron Legacy to be released in 2010, released …
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This is a good example of what a Big Green Egg looks like when it’s full blast, north of 700 °F. And …
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Bistecca alla Fiorentina on the Big Green Egg.
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Pork shoulder on the Big Green Egg.
After 10 hours.
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Omar of Surly Brewing tapping the firkin at Grumpy’s.
Surly Firkin Furious! 🍺
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Two pork shoulders to go on the Big Green Egg tomorrow at 7am!
: Burger Jones First Impression Tammy, Mazie and I joined my sister-in-law Angie, Mazie’s cousin Nora and Grandma Olson for lunch at …
: Fancy Email Signatures with hCard Microformat I recently redid my email signature. I’ve been using an HTML signature for a while and my friend …
: Joining the Board of CaringBridge I’m very late in sharing this news. Starting at the beginning of this year I was asked to join the …
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Flow is a powerful and moving documentary on the struggle to keep up water as a public resource.
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Another New Glarus Brewing beer. This time in New Glarus! Drinking Organic Revolution, very tasty.
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Watched Wendy and Lucy. Sad movie. Wendy is broke. Her car needs a new engine. She loses her dog, …
: Darkness Spending the night in the country is a good reminder of the power of night. The sun has long been …
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Enjoying a pint of New Glarus Brewing’s Totally Naked.
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Stellar pulled pork sandwich with muenster cheese on Texas toast at The Old Fashioned in Madison.
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Not my Big Green Egg. Looks delicious.
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On Sunday we hit Nelson’s Ice Cream for some giant ice cream cones in Stillwater.
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We finally got a chance to watch The Wrestler. Very good movie, but pretty violent at times. …
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Peppa Pig DVD Covers Part 2
Another contribution to the Internet for high-resolution cover art. Here are the front and back …
: Wisdom without wisdom, man is driven to build up a monster economy, which destroys the world — E. F. …
: Xefer Twitter Visualization This graphic can generally be put in the pile of visualizations of stuff that isn’t important, but …
June 2009
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iPhone 3.0 Phone Label
This is a little change in the iPhone 3.0 release that I hadn’t seen anyone mention. When you change …
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Flying Scotsman
Good movie all bout Graeme Obree’s pursuit of various cycling records.
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First Shot at Homemade Ice Cream
Cooking was definitely the action for this years Father’s Day gifts. Tammy signed me up for a couple …
: Macchiato Isn't Caramel me: Macchiato please. barista: Caramel Macchiato? me: No, macchiato. barista: Espresso Macchiato? …
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Star Trek Movie
We finally went and saw the new Star Trek movie. I really enjoyed it. I hesitated seeing it for a …
: Isn’t Hüsker Dü a band? What’s with the Hūsker Dū board game? I guess it’s all in the ū versus the …
: Happy birthday to not you. — Mazie
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Peppa Pig DVD Covers
I find it frustrating when I cannot find good quality, high-resolution album or DVD cover art on the …
: CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. — Comment by Jordan Young on TechCrunch
: Learning to Make Sausage A couple of weekends ago we all loaded up into the car and drove up to Grand Marais to spend a …
: Flank steak off the Big Green Egg for lunch today.
: Interviewing Your Kid? Mazie is about to turn 4 years old and she is bubbling with excitement about it. She tells me …
: Unordered Lists to Comma Separated List I was tweaking some layout in Tumblr today and I really wanted to take a list of tags and display …
: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was …
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Up
Mazie was ecstatic to see Up. She was giddy running to the theater to see it. We all really enjoyed …
May 2009
: Freezer full of over 30 pounds of sausage from the sausage making class at the North House Folk …
: Learning to make sausage with Craig from the North House Folk School.
: Ya know what Dad? I actually don’t care. — Mazie (almost 4)
: The Hot Spots for Organic Food. This is a very interesting graphic for two reasons. I love to see …
: The Gang at the Saints Game! ⚾️
: Now Reading for Wordpress 2.7+, a “more updated” version of the Now Reading plugin for WordPress.
: Big Green Egg Tandoor About a week ago I stumbled upon a blog post from a fellow Big Green Egg enthusiast that explained …
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Yesterday our neighbors across the street daughter had found a batch of very small baby kittens. …
: ColdSnap Garden Photography Workshop This weekend, thanks to my awesome wife, I got to spend Saturday and Sunday at a photography …
: Dozen cars in line at the drive-thru at Caribou Coffee this morning. GET OUT OF YOUR CAR AND SAVE 15 …
: My first deep dish pizza on the Big Green Egg.
: Jim Bernard and Mike Black at Dusty’s after B-Squad game.
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Chase
I just submitted my very first photo to JPG Magazine in their “Shoot Your Pet!” theme. Crossing my …
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Entrepreneurship Class at Carlson
About a month ago I spoke at an entrepreneurship class at the Carlson School of Management. Nice …
: Why do Cyclists Tweet? I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from the release of VeloTweets. Thank you everyone for that, …
: Introducing VeloTweets - The Pulse of the Peloton A couple of months ago I started to notice that there were a lot of professional cyclists that were …
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The Typographic Desk Reference
A couple of weeks ago I was reading one of my favorite typography websites, I Love Typography, and …
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Starting to work up three racks of ribs for Mothers Day dinner on Big Green Egg.
Checking in on the …
: I’m quickly approaching an EPIC FAIL for Mother’s Day. Ugh.
: Finally took the time to get all my home directory dotfiles into a Git repo. Feel happy and tidy.
: Having a blast and learning a lot at the Grillmaster Pizza class. Bonus, Anna Klombies’s husband …
: I really dig iStockphoto. It is like a project accelerator.
: Took less than 24 hours for the cat to puke on the BRAND NEW carpet. I don’t think the cat realizes …
: Just made my first Thawte Web of Trust assertion!
: Great time at Minnedemo tonight. Awesome night. Thanks to Luke and Ben for making it all happen! …
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I’ll be a pro at the next B-Squad game with these awesome shoes.
: Heading to the B-Squad game! New, super pro baseball pants tonight. Watch out everyone! Injured …
: I officially declare, that as of today, it is too warm to wear wool socks. Will revisit in November. …
: Dreading having to empty the basement to have new carpet installed tomorrow. 🙁 Debating with Tammy …
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Getting ready to put dry rub from Mike Rock on the 7.5 pound grass fed brisket.
Brisket rubbed and …
: Mazie and Tammy being silly.
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Tetris Shower
A couple of months ago we decided to re-tile our downstairs bathroom shower. After 20 years the …
: The B&H catalog arrived! Excuse me while I drool.
: Decalcifying my espresso machine.
: This is a great coffee infographic.
April 2009
: Listening to Bad Religion “Generator”. Watch out everyone! 🎶
: Finished first B-Squad game. It was awesome!
: Vet diagnosed Chase with a staph infection. 14 days of medication for him.
: Aquarium sold! Good guy buying it too. Fish will have a happy home.
: Starting a business is the most public, most expensive, riskiest way of all to be wrong. — The …
: I like Manbirdpig Flu — Malibar
: I’m considering a WordPress theme change for my site. Any pointers for awesome, clean themes? It …
: Installing Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition in a VM on my MacBook Pro. I want to play with the pretty …
: Bummed that I couldn’t make ruby.mn tonight.
: Interesting box at One on One. GIRLS ONLY - BOYS KEEP OUT!
: I was super lucky this year and got a good number of these amazing sausages made by my friend Kevin. …
: Sea Monkeys Tammy’s brand new, never played before, softball team has their first game tonight. I can’t wait to …
: Starting Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade on last two boxes.
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Tammy and I continued her birthday weekend extravaganza with a second, really good movie, State of …
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Role Models
We were on a real role with movies this weekend and decided to finish it off with a rental on Apple …
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The Soloist
Tammy and I went to see The Soloist last night and I thought it was just a great movie. I hope we …
: Open Font Library CSS3 is bringing @font-face, which finally allows us to use a variety of real fonts on the web. …
: Starting 2nd Ubuntu upgrade to 9.04. First one went very smooth.
: Blasphemy: Aren’t Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” and Whitesnake’s “Here I Go” essentially the same song?
: I’m reading my first book via email from DailyLit. Rather like it for the right kind of book. …
: Wha? Ubuntu 9.04 released? Time for do-release-upgrade?
: Yikes - that’s a lot of stuff.
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Money-Driven Medicine
My book club meeting tonight was just awesome. Highly recommend people read the book Money-Driven …
: I’m really struggling to get the hang of the Goldtouch Ergo keyboard. The command key is hard to …
: Suspenders ← Cool starter project to get you going with your Rails work faster. Nice.
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First Attempt at Commercial Photography
I’ve been continuing to work on my photography skills and looking for projects to work on that are …
: Minnedemo on May 7th, 2009 The next Minnedemo is now scheduled for May 7, 2009 at 6:00pm. It is free (as always), but …
: I’m really liking Instapaper, particularly with Tweetie integration. But things stack up faster than …
: TiVo didn’t record Frontline because American Idol and Biggest Loser took priority. Injustice of the …
: Proposal: Tag “140++” means a SIMPLE SOUNDBITE is ridiculous to deal with a complex topic. Twitter …
: Watching 60 Minutes segment on 401k Plans and getting angry. Greed is everywhere.
: Poisoned Waters ← I love PBS’s Frontline, but sometimes watching it makes me want to dig a bunker …
: It seems that my daughter is likely to have the same kind of nightmare problems I had at night. Just …
: Looking at info on CoQ10 and DHEA.
: Oracle buying Sun saddens me. Greed beating passion.
: Took about 3 minutes to realize that Tweetie for the Mac is going to be my preferred client. Time to …
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Mazie decided to do a little project with all of the dog toys the other day. Pretty cool. (Don’t …
: Petard? Kindle dictionary for the win.
: Mazie and Caroline at the Minnesota Zoo!
: Crushing peppercorns. Attempting to channel Mike Rock.
: “Well, I’m full from food, but I’m not full from dessert.” - Mazie
: Kindle dictionary for the win! Iatrogenic? Means complications caused by medical care.
: Iran gives American journalist 8 years ← Roxana Saberi sentenced to 8 years of prison by Iran. 😲
: (Number of Pages Left to Read) / (Days Until Book Club Meeting) > Number of Pages I Comfortably Read …
: Well, I’m full from food, but I’m not full from dessert. — Mazie
: Suggest that Twitter no longer “Fail Whales” but is instead “Harpooned!”.
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At Clancey’s getting large hunks of meat to bring to the Big Green Egg!
Reviewing The Cook’s Bible …
: Heading to CaringBridge board meeting. See you soon Sona Mehring!
: My Apple TV’s work insanely better if I don’t sync any content to them. Just connect to iTunes and …
: Just had a great work session using OmniGraphSketcher. This program has a lot of potential, still in …
: It’s funny to me that IE8 has moved Windows Update from the Tools menu, to the Safety menu. Be safe!
: The 2GB memory limit in my MacBook Pro is starting to become a real problem. swap - swap - swap…
: Prediction: Twitter will NEVER make as much money from me as the various Twitter client developers …
: Mazie and I went out for dinner tonight at Lion’s Tap! Daddy’s little princess went in her dress-up …
: Spring in Minnesota Today, at 11:45 am the temperature at our house went over 70 °F for the first time in many, many …
: The increase in temperature has definitely resulted in an increase in techno music for me.
: Okay. So I just had to try out Birdhouse. It’s actually pretty fun and it is very fast since it’s …
: I don’t want Daddy in our family anymore! — Mazie (mad!)
: Tres Chickens on Big Green Egg.
: Making plans for tomorrow’s breakfast. Old Recipe Johnny Cake on the Big Green Egg.
: You could spend a nearly infinite amount of time goofing around with Cacti.
: It seems fitting that make doc for git takes way longer than making the binaries.
: Lighting little Green Egg for first time. Quick burgers tonight.
: Premium Insurance Caps, Phytomax, Mito Caps.
: At least it wasn’t a pillow.
: Kindle 2 has arrived. Initial impression is pretty good. Screen flashes a lot, but is very crisp.
: Mazie had her first ever scuffle at pre-school. Seems her and her friend disagreed and a scratch on …
: Bro-in-law wants me to help him find a good Windows box. There are none. 🙂 iMac with Boot Camp?
: Just got back from presenting to a class at the Carlson School. Tired out.
: Mazie Mastering her Skuut It was the first weekend in April, but that didn’t get it warm. In fact we had snow overnight this …
: There still is no Vimeo app for the iPhone. C’mon Team Vimeo!
: Encoding HD video in iMovie on my MacBook Pro results in a REALLY hot lap. 72 °C right now.
: It’s really cool that the Flip Mino HD plugs right into your computer. But I’m always nervous it’s …
: “I wanna watch a TV show!” — Mazie
: Mazie out on her bike. She’s doing great on her Skoot!
: Just ordered a Goldtouch Split Ergonomic Keyboard for my Mac. Wrist pain has returned. Too much …
: Conversation with Mazie… Mazie Dad, say "Why is the sky blue? Me Okay, why is the sky blue? Mazie …
: Flight Control for the iPhone is still fun. And addictive!
: Mentioned my Twitter info at the end of a talk I gave today. Looks like some picked up my Tweets. …
: Amazon Elastic MapReduce looks interesting. Opens up some new solution paths!
: Friendly Social URLs Using Redirects Have you ever thought it would be nice to be able to easily give someone the URL to your Facebook …
: Installers are evil. I have no idea what voodoo they do, and I’m sure there is voodoo. Everything …
: I thought I had IE8 installed but now Windows Update has insisted on uninstalling whatever I had, …
March 2009
: Just ordered a Kindle 2. It’s time.
: Flight Control - Great iPhone Game This last weekend I grabbed a copy of Flight Control for my iPhone. It looked like the kind of game …
: Rule #78 for Bloggers: Never post about not posting for oh so long.
: I am now a Thawte Web of Trust Notary. Cool!
: Tracking Twitter Followers with Cacti Two weeks ago I was one of the guests on Midmorning on Minnesota Public Radio for a show about …
: Twouble with Twitters Current just posted a video mocking the “twittersphere”. Well done, and pretty funny too. :-) Of …
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Tammy and I went to I Love You, Man tonight. Pretty funny. It was exactly what you would have …
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I went looking for some nice music for this morning and wasn’t finding anything in my collection. I …
: Twitter and Onions garrickvanburen: Cullect has shown me that indexing, archiving, and ranking tweets has much in …
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View-Master
I was flipping through the March 14th copy of The Economist and ran across “The final reel” story. …
: We need a website that ranks coffee shops on reliability and speed of their Internet connections. …
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Milk
Tammy and I watched Milk tonight. It was a great movie. The story of Harvey Milk is amazing. Great …
: OmniGraphSketcher looks really cool.
: Just got a copy of the MacHeist 3 bundle. Looks like a great bundle.
: My Robot Returns I missed the 2 year birthday of my Twitter robot, Thinglesbot. He turned 2 on March 11. He was …
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Willie and the Wheel
I got this album about a week ago and have been really enjoying it. Willie Nelson. Texas Swing. You …
: Nice night at iPhone Pub Night. Thanks to Dan Grigsby for organizing!
: I’m already exhausted and bewildered considering all the iPhone Twitter clients getting push …
: Best day in months. Wow. Awesome everything. Spent hours outside. First shorts day of the year for …
: Wow. Jim Allchin (Ex-windows God) released a CD? Music, that is. I’m speechless.
: So odd to see Stringer Bell on The Office. Related Idris Elba.
: Installing Internet Explorer 8 to see what Microsoft has been up to. This is Webkit right? Oh wait, …
: Only Apple can make us excited to get copy/paste functionality. :-)
: Lightroom Keyword Lists Lightroom Keyword Lists ← I don’t know if I feel it’s necessary to have standardized keyword lists …
: Guest On Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning Today This morning I got the opportunity to be a guest on Midmorning at Minnesota Public Radio. The topic …
: Enjoying a scoop of ice cream with family outside in t-shirt. It’s 55 °F out. Love Minnesota!
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Nice evening of grilling on the Big Green Egg.
: Be Smarter, Calibrate your Thermometers I’ve been firing up the Big Green Egg throughout winter and as the weather has started to get a …
: Happy Pi Day! See Pi Day Collection.
: In the room at the U of M where I first met the Internet. I feel like I should have brought a gift …
: I kind of like Safari 4’s tab placement. Don’t hate me for it.
: Last night of clay class tonight.
: PSA: All you WordPress folks remember to change your timezone offset. Took me until now to remember. …
: iPod Shuffle Isn't First to Talk The new iPod Shuffle released today has made some waves for using voice prompts. It’s a great …
: iTunes Needs iTunes Syncing Apple just released iTunes 8.1 with a bevy of new features, but there is a critical need for iTunes …
: Mother of All Funk Chords I rarely send out YouTube video links, but this remix is pretty darn cool. Nice.
: P2: The New Prologue I was a fan of the original Prologue, and this new iteration of it looks even better. I’m struck by …
: RAGBRAI 2009 Full Route Announced The full RAGBRAI route for 2009 was published this week. We are going to be going along the southern …
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Firing up Big Green Egg to smoke two racks of ribs.
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First Try at Studio Photography
Yesterday I took my first attempt at doing studio photography. I’ve done a variety of different …
: Scheduling Help: When Is Good Like all of you reading this, I have some things that I just hate to do. It’s not that they are …
: Baked Ziti from April 2009 Cooks Illustrated. Looks great!
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I’m late to the game getting into The Wire, but I’m just finishing up season 1 and am really …
: Chase's Mug Shot Chase was being a very good dog as my model for some test shots while I was getting my camera setup …
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Registered for RAGBRAI!
I first heard of RAGBRAI several years ago when I was riding like a crazy man doing centuries nearly …
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Photos from Overnight Website Challenge
Last weekend I made three trips to the Sierra Bravo Overnight Website Challenge to get some photos …
: Graffletopia ← Using OmniGraffle? Need stencils? Stop your search, here they are. Wow.
: Elizabeth Kreutz ← Really good professional photographer that is covering Lance Armstrong’s return …
: OmniGraffle Scripts OmniGraffle Scripts ← Several scripts by Peter McMaster that help do some nice things, like drawing …
: Vicky Cristina Barcelona — Okay movie. Interesting. Perhaps a little slow. No big revelation in the …
: IndieBound IndieBound ← Saw a poster for this while we were at Wild Rumpus in Linden Hills. It’s a cool …
February 2009
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Photographing the Overnight Website Challenge
I spent this morning shooting the first of three sessions at the Sierra Bravo Overnight Website …
: Leaving to go shoot the Overnight Website Challenge. Full kit-belt geared up. Related: See Photos …
: I love the smell of this Coffee & Tea Ltd.
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Bottle Shock
Fun and happy movie about the beginnings of the California wine valley. Not a great script. Fine …
: 20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution ← Cool overview of brand logo evolution. Interesting to see how …
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Fired up the Big Green Egg and did a 3 lb. grass-fed beef tenderloin on it tonight. Basic …
: Family Ski Weekend Earlier this month we went “up north” and spent the weekend at Giant’s Ridge with our friends the …
: Had to dig out a smaller suit. Yeah for weight loss.
: Removing clay from wheel. Throwing.
: Helped neighbor resolve MobileMe syncing problem. MobileMe support did a good job.
: Apple TV just restarted spontaneously on me. Rare, and annoying.
: Great cartoon on the bathroom wall at One on One bicycle studio.
: Start Seeing Black Dogs ← As someone that has a black dog, this site and it’s goal is absolutely …
: Back to Bartering. Yes, we need to go back to the old system. Really? Yes, bartering. Yes, they do …
: Mazie and I are reading and relaxing at Cafe Mozart this morning. Really great espresso.
: PDML Photo Annual ← This looks like a really interesting photography book brought together by …
: Finalizing our plans for the day in Chicago. I 💚 Chicago. Heading over to see Hector’s place …
: Mazie chilling at a restaurant.
: Michelle and Tammy expressing their emotions.
: Driving to Chicago — heading down the interstate in Wisconsin.
: I’m not buying or drinking. No Starbucks for me. There is no culture here. Sterile. Unhappy people. …
: Kiln Success First pot from ceramics class made it through the kiln. It’s about 3 inches tall. Glazing next. …
: Flashback: BigCharts Partnership Portfolio from 1997 We recently converted my home office to hardwood flooring from carpet. Doing this required that the …
: Photography, Taking the Long Way When I was getting ready to go up to Wintergreen for my dog sledding trip I was talking with my …
: Photos from Wintergreen Dog Sledding Trip I finally edited and uploaded the photos from the Wintergreen Dog Sledding Photography Workshop I …
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Wintergreen Plunge Mittens
When I went up to Ely to go dog sledding I was pretty comfortable with most of my gear, but I wasn’t …
: Not the best looking restaurant, but really great food.
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Mazie skiing for the first time ever. She did really awesome. Ruled the bunny hill. She went down it …
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Eat Lamb
Simple and to the point advertising. Also proof that the Internet truly is everywhere, and …
: The Turning Gate Lightroom Web Galleries ← Nice set of additional web galleries that can be added to …
: My home office is ready for the hardwood floor installation tomorrow!
: North Shore Photography Workshops ← Photographer offering workshops to improve your shooting, using …
: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms looks like an interesting opportunity to take a vacation …
: Google Forcing Software Update Install I just upgraded to the new Google Earth 5.0 beta and was really surprised when I first launched it …
: Wintergreen Photography Workshop in Google Earth I just pulled the data out of my Garmin GPSmap 60CSx from my dog sledding trip. I just love being …
: Bend to Visualization The scene just wouldn’t bend to visualization. — Ansel Adams
: Winterdance When I left for my dog sledding trip I decided that I would get into the spirit of things with a …
: Wisdom You aren’t cold and dead, until your warm and dead. — Jason Zabokrtsky
January 2009
: A cloudy day is natures giant soft-box. — Layne Kennedy
: All things considered, a pretty great forecast for dogsledding!
: I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle ← I’ve done some playing with …
: I like 1 minute cause it’s just like an hour. — Mazie
: C-Lazy-U This video is from C-Lazy-U, the dude ranch we stayed at this last summer with the Tangen’s. It is …
: DirecTV Canceled A couple of weeks ago I finally pulled the plug on DirecTV! I wrote about the comparison I did …
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Kopplin's Coffee
I’ve been doing plenty of complaining lately about coffee shops that are so inept that they cannot …
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Thermapen, Grill Like a Pro
A few months ago my neighbor Mike and I decided to put my Big Green Egg through it’s first real …
: Going to Red Stag Supperclub with Tammy because Andrew Eklund talks about it all the time. Must be …
: At the pharmacy again. Feel like this is happening more in recent years. Getting old?
: How Shift Lenses Change your Life ← I haven’t played with a tilt-shift lens before, but seeing some …
: Poem on kids step stool. This little stool is mine I use it all the time To reach the thing I …
: Finished the book for my book club! Meeting is tomorrow, just in time. Now I can catch up on …
: Did Slicehost drop the 10% prepayment discount over $240? Huh?
: Lunch at Yum! celebrating our new President! Awesome Mac-n-Cheese! Mazie loves it!
: The next Minnedemo is now scheduled for February 6, 2009 at 7:00pm. It is free (as always), but …
: Alocola Brings Location Info to the Web My buddy Dan Grigsby has just launched his first iPhone application. The application fills an …
: I use OpenDNS, and you should too! A few months ago I switched my home network to using OpenDNS for domain name lookups. Prior to that …
: Chase and Izzy chilling out on their bed.
: Fluid Love for Mint ← I’m really enjoying using Mint for stats on thingelstad.com, and I’m a fan of …
: Mazie has always had her Lions since she was a little baby. Yesterday our neighbors gave her this …
: We’ve been enjoying the reprieve from -20 °F to 20 °F with some great winter grilling on the Big …
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Bamboo Hardwood Floors Installed in Bedroom
Our house was a complete disaster zone this week. We’ve had a number of projects done recently and …
: Celebrating the “heat wave” with some pork chops on the Big Green Egg!
: Mazie getting ready for brunch at Butter.
: Doesn’t it seem ridiculous that my Apple TV’s can sync with iTunes over the network, but my iPhone …
: Where are the best photography spots in Minneapolis? I would really like to get out and do some fun shooting but would love to find some new spots that …
: -42 You know, it has been really cold here in Minneapolis lately. But, my relatives in Lignite, ND have …
: Freedom of American Coffee Enjoyment Resolution I suggest that congress work on enacting the following legislation: Whereas many residents of the …
: iTunes Tip: Using a "No Playlist" Playlist I have all of my music in iTunes and it is my central hub for distributing nearly all content to …
: Hardwood floor installation has begun!
: I wonder how long the HD acronym will be around. At some point it will just be the default right?
: Huh? Sliced Apple Recall? Possible Listeria contamination? Go to the co-op people. Get your food …
: Time to start a slow drip of water in our shower to avoid a nearly certain frozen pipe overnight.
: First swim class in several months.
: Me: Can I have a double espresso. Panera: Ahh, what was that? Me: Just two shots of espresso. …
: MobileMe Sync Loves Apple, Inc. I was really hoping that the 10.5.6 Mac OS X update, which promised nice improvements to MobileMe …
: Stopping Twitter Updates on Facebook If you are a friend of mine on Facebook you are going to see a lot fewer updates from me going …
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Too cold to walk the dogs this morning.
: Awesome Customer Service from Petzl When you buy outdoor equipment there is always a stark difference in price between the store brand, …
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Bottle Cap Tripod
This is pretty cool. While I’m not going to support anyone using plastic water bottles, if you have …
: Kiva Impact I’ve been a Kiva user for over a year now and have done several micro-loans with it. This is a …
: Lightroom Tip: Smart Collection for Pictures Without Location Lightroom 2 introduced a badly needed feature, Smart Collections. I was ecstatic about using Smart …
: Mazie Sings Santa Claus is Coming to Town Mazie really got into Christmas this year. It made Christmas so much more fun for me this year just …
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I'm going Dog Sledding, with my Camera!
This will be me in a couple of weeks, except I’ll have a camera strapped around my neck too.
Photo …
: Aerogarden Progress: Everything is going except parsley, but that takes the longest.
: Upgraded Apple TV Hard Drives I’ve been really pleased with the newest releases of the Apple TV software. Notably, the …
: Any Given Sunday is a great “background” movie.
: Updated email encryption certificate 1 day before it expired.
: dd commands that run for 2+ hours could really use a –verbose flag
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AirTunes Bug in Apple TV 2.3
I was doing some work on my Apple TV’s today, swapping out hard drives, and at the same time we’ve …
: Midway through upgrading one of my Apple TV’s from 40G to 250G. Easy so far. The dd steps on Apple …
: Finished tearing up bedroom getting ready for painters to arrive. Just started the ball rolling on …
: The Kiln room at Northern Clay Center. This is one of the 4 gas kilns, on the other side of several …
: Tried to sign up for a trial subscription to JPG Magazine today. I don’t think this was the result I …
: Tetris Tiles ← Very cool tiles to do Tetris inspired layouts in your home!
: All of iTunes now DRM Free The announcement today that all music in the iTunes store was going iTunes Plus and removing the DRM …
: Keep Track of DRM Protected Content in iTunes I mentioned in my post on DRM being removed from iTunes that I track DRM content using a Smart …
: Bummed that Slicehost doesn’t support IPv6. No AAAA record for me. Lame.
: Had the first of my personal training sessions today. Starting a 3 month training program (3x week) …
: Called to cancel DirecTV and they saved me (for now) with a better rate that nullifies some of the …
: How to Remove Your I’ve become more of a fan of Facebook over recent months (see my profile). They have made a number …
: MobileMe Needs Time Machine I’m frustrated with MobileMe synchronizing again. I have no idea what happened but around 10:00 am …
: Sweet Shop Baking Class Caramel Pecan Rolls from Kitchen Window class. Tammy making donuts!
: “Somebody’s hands are sticking out!” Mazie’s reaction to some interesting art.
: Stating the obvious. Please, no calls or texts during the movie. — AMC Theatres
: Just setup Mint on my site to see if it really is that much better than other packages.
: Created an Apple TV patchstick. Let’s see how this works out!
: There are too many radically different recipes for Æbleskiver. Completely baffled and unsure of how …
December 2008
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Getting ready to do some New Year’s Eve grilling!
Preparing Big Green Egg for grilling. Music …
: A little surprised that I still know my Northwest Airlines Elite number by heart.
: Egghead Forum ← Place to go and learn about all things Big Green Egg.
: Naked Whiz T-Rex Steak ← Really great description of making the “perfect steak” on your Big Green …
: Needed: AirFoil SDK for iPhone This should exist. Background apps are still not an option, but it would be so great if AirFoil was …
: Preener's Eve 2008 with The New Standards Just ordered a Blue Monk Lemonade. Seated for The New Standards at The Dakota. Waiting the arrival …
: Shocked there is no aquarium management app for the iPhone.
: Got three AirTunes setups in the house with independent amps and speakers. This is really great. …
: Best Typefaces of 2008 ← Nice review of some of the best fonts introduced in 2008.
: Sitting down to watch The Real Dirt on Farmer John.
: Starting acclimation for starfish, Pygmy angel, cleaner shrimp and some coral frags in my …
: Off to what I expect will be a memorable meal at the Bayport Cookery (archive.org).
: Settled in for the night in Jamestown, ND. Finish the drive tomorrow morning. We’ll be on the road …
: Very nice Christmas day with the big family in Lignite, ND.
: 2:57 pm: Leaving Olson’s and driving to Bismarck today. North Dakota bound! 11:30 pm: Longest drive …
: Merb merging into Rails 3 ← Big news!
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Christmas Tree pancake for Mazie this morning!
Finished pancake with chocolate chip ornaments and …
: Chase in the Snow I was shoveling the driveway for what seems like the 20th time already. For some reason I haven’t …
: YakTrax I’ve been taking the dogs out on walks every morning, provided the temperature is about 0 °F. Now …
: After watching Young@Heart, Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’ seems like a different song. Good movie. Highly …
: Fluid.app makes Pandora into a standalone app pretty well!
: Subscribing to Pandora (after lapsing) due to Airfoil’s magic. Will use Pandora 100x more than …
: AppleTV units could benefit from a /sbin/reboot in the crontab at 4:00 am. Wonder if I could add …
: If you have a LaserJet 2605dtn and are using Leopard - you need to get firmware 20071108. It will …
: Mosaic installation on the fireplace is starting. Pretty cool.
: Wrapping Tammy’s christmas presents and am really excited that somebody finally started putting a …
: Coldplay the "Biggest Band in the World"? I was browsing through Last.fm’s “Best of 2008” coverage. There have been a number of blog posts and …
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Merry Christmas 2008
Merry Christmas everyone! This year is a travel year for us. We’ll be heading back to North Dakota …
: Are “Hip Hop” and “Rap” really the same genre? They seem totally different to me.
: My friend Greg Merkle got his first album on iTunes – it’s really great.
: Trying to thaw a frozen pipe.
: AirTunes FTW in a big way – blog post to come in the future. Happy camper this morning.
: Total meltdown from Mazie staying up an hour after bedtime. Complete FAIL.
: git seriously needs tab-completion for branch names.
: Getting 5 (!) countertops replaced today. Process starting now. Guys are here taking large mirrors …
: Ugly Bash Scripting I started down this rabbit hole tonight trying to make a bash script do more than I probably should …
: Have had the fireplace going for four hours. Birch, oak. Love fires.
: Just hit me how great it would be if the WordPress theme world lived on something like github. Fork! …
: At a coffee shop and the woman at the table next to me is selling a Yellow Pages listing to a guy. …
: Making some new loans on Kiva. 100% repayment rate so far.
: Wrestled Capistrano down today. Now have multi-stage Capistrano deployment working for this PHP …
: Really digging the new album from The Killers. - Day & Age.
: To all Minnesotans: it’s not that cold out. You live in Minnesota. Move on. 🥶
: MacBook Battery Toast I was just updating our oldest Mac, my original MacBook (black) that is now pretty much Tammy’s …
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I know they are man’s best friend and all, but sometimes there is just no way around it, dogs suck. …
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Date Night! Great dinner at Rinata in Uptown and now movie, Four Christmases!
: Mazie had Belgian waffles for the first time this morning. She’s a fan! The “big” waffles hold more …
: Testing out SQL schema, fixing, git pushing. Having fun. Beethoven is helping along in the …
: Downloading a 22.6MB app to decompress a 3.9MB file. This makes sense.
: Creating some process flow diagrams using Instaviz on my iPhone before going to sleep. Thanks for …
: It’s really lame that iTunes doesn’t have the classic christmas specials. No Rudolph! At least they …
: Dad: “The balloon popped, it’s broken, you can’t have it.” Mazie: “Daddy, I want the balloon.” …
: I just took the plunge this evening and updated WordPress to 2.7. So far I’m pretty impressed. I …
: Mir:ror - RFID for the Home I’ve been wondering when these little RFID gadgets will start to make a presence in the home. Big …
: Installing Boxee to try it out. Hmm.. On first launch Boxee hard crashed my MacBook Pro. Not good. …
: At Apple Store to warranty replace a defective AppleTV. Of course Apple TV unit works great at the …
: Hard to believe I’m paying $1.71 for premium gas.
: Waiting to go to my meeting with court officer about my traffic ticket from several weeks ago. Done …
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Another Contribution High Resolution Album Art
Another contribution to the world to improve album art.
: DirecTV v. iTunes & Apple TV I recently was doing a review of some of our monthly expenses. With the economy in the toilet I …
: Holiday Hay Ride Most years at my mother’s office they invite family, and especially grandkids, to join the …
: Everyone should congratulate my bro-in-law, Hector Fernandez. He’s rocking his MBA run like it’s the …
: The gunfight in the saloon at the end of Unforgiven is top notch.
: Comcast Broadband Upgrade - Faster A while back Comcast announced that they were rolling out a new high-speed option called DOCSIS. I …
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'Back to My Mac' Needs iTunes Sharing Support
I’m now working full-time on my Mac’s and I’ve been surprised by how useful the Back to My Mac …
: My Nabaztag Rabbit just reported the stock market is “up up up!” It is so very wrong. Wishful …
: Trying to resolve a medical bill via several 800 numbers and IVR systems. Going nuts.
November 2008
: Having 200+ DVD’s ripped into iTunes + ubiquitous Apple TV is proving pretty cool. 1TB+ of content + …
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Just finished reading Traffic. Really enjoyed it.
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At the movies for Bolt with Maze. So fun that she digs movies.
: Great Thanksgiving! Tomorrow resume 6am walk with the dogs and keep the fitness program on-track.
: iDisk not having an iPhone App is just crazy silly.
: This Amazon 50 albums for $5 is dangerous for the wallet.
: Still not feeling 100% but went to spin class anyway. Glad I did.
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Eco-Friendly Painting, Safecoat
Tammy has wanted to change some colors in our house for a while. If you’ve been to our place you …
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Improved Updating of Apps in iPhone 2.2
I didn’t see this covered in any of the reviews of the iPhone 2.2 software but I’m really excited …
: Joining M4V Files is Painful I’ve been processing my entire DVD library in the background on my Mac Pro using Handbrake, moving …
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Refill Products, Reduce Plastic Waste
Tammy drives a lot of our green decisions in the house. For a long time she’s been using all natural …
: Upgraded to Handbrake 0.9.3 in the middle of my big DVD ripping project. Presets are all different, …
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Bunny pancakes this morning for Mazie!
: GitX is actually nice for seeing branching activity in your project. Also nice to see diff’s very …
: Looking at ways to do push-deployment of PHP from GitHub.
: Frenzic may be the best iPhone game yet. I liked it on the Mac too, but the touch interface is …
: At pharmacy. Turns out this problem with my neck is either a staph or strep infection. Antibiotic …
: Today in Review: PHP, Coda, Git, Ubuntu, GitHub, TextMate, FBML. Awesome.
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Garage Shelves, Awesome
One of the earliest posts on this blog was a celebration of the installation of 6 inch rain gutters …
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Twitter Down for Database Maintenance
Lately Twitter has actually been reasonably reliable, at least compared to it’s previous daily …
: Under 300 - First Milestone Complete Today I hit the first milestone on my fitness program. I stepped on the scale to do my weigh-in and …
: Watching The Spirit of the Marathon.
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Bear pancake for Mazie this morning.
: iBrow Lately Mazie has really been into letters and trying to figure out what letter a word starts with. …
: Happy to report that the Airport Extreme can map internal requests to external port mappings. Whew.
: DNS-O-Matic is pretty darn cool. Happy days!
: Favorite word for today: metacognition
: Dogs and/or Cat pulled the Firewire cable out of the Drobo again. Grrr!
: Really enjoying this new Sigur Rós album.
: Trying out the new Intense Debate plugin for WordPress. Moving comments off of my blog, even with …
: Mac users: you ever just run Console while your using your machine? Wow there is a lot of trash …
: Installing Parallels 4.0. So great: Vista has decided it is no longer “genuine” in the middle of …
: Just won the Change Game on 36¢. Dime, 4 nickels, 6 pennies!
: Any suggestions on what to do with a bunch of old laserdiscs? I’m not going to hook up the player, …
: After more than a year of grinding my espresso at 3, I moved to 1. Finer grind. It’s like …
: So, when can we get a POTUS Podcast going. Please add that to the list for change.gov.
: MobileMe sync is really pathetically bad.
: Major GTD action from Tammy and I in the Thingelstad house.
: At Madagascar with Mazie. She is “excited”.
: Cold out today, but not too cold to fire up the Big Green Egg for some burgers.
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Checking out Art Attack in Northeast. Loved this painting from Eddie Hamilton so much it is coming …
: Mazie is absolutely in love with this mornings snow! Pretty morning walk with the dogs earlier.
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Contribution to High Resolution Album Art
I’m a big fan of high resolution album art. It improves the overall music experience for me. I like …
: Tammy out tonight and what do I watch in the background thread on TV? Nova “Fractals”. Frontline. …
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Double Espresso
Just had one of those coffee shop experiences that drive me crazy.
barista: Hello! What would you …
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Mazie's 2008 School Picture
Mazie’s 2008 school picture just came in. Here is Daddy’s little girl. Last years scowl seems …
: My MacBook Pro is up to 133 °F. No wonders my arms are sweating. Time to shut it down for the night. …
: Glued to election coverage. This will be the rest of the night. Yes! Congrats Barack Obama. Now …
: I Voted, 2008! I got out and placed ballot #382 this morning around 8:30 am. Contrary to what I’ve heard in many …
: I can’t seem to convince Mazie that it’s Barack Obama day. She keeps saying “Mom said it wasn’t …
: Conversation with Mazie. Me I'm going to see if I can find that on the web. Mazie On Charlotte's …
: Facebook Election Widget This election year is the first with a very well established social networking world. I thought this …
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Mazie and Mom at Yum
Mazie and Tammy being ridiculously cute at lunch today.
: Just got my deposit back from the London rental company. Happier!
: Just got two backdrafts in one session from my Big Green Egg! 🔥💨
: Just finished a great 18 mile bike ride. November rides without jackets are great.
: PSA: WordPress users, remember to adjust your Timezone setting after the time change.
: Paging through the B&H catalog. This is the only catalog I ever look at.
: Baked Oatmeal Tammy found this recipe in the October 2003 issue of Cooking Light magazine and thought it would be …
: Pause, Pause, Play? I was flipping through the Economist this morning and this ad for Cathay Pacific caught my eye. I …
: Updating two Slicehost slices to Intrepid Ibex. Hopefully goes as smooth as my home machine last …
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Mazie's 3rd Halloween
Mazie greeted her 3rd Halloween with much excitement and anticipation. I think this is the first …
October 2008
: Some nights it is totally fair to say that I hate our dogs. Halloween is one of those nights. Total …
: Upgrading my home server from Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron) to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Upgrade to Ubuntu …
: Oops - Just ran out of candy. Tammy says I give out too much. All the lights turned off.
: Happy Halloween everyone! Just had our first kids stop by. Mazie is so excited about Halloween – it …
: aptitude install ruby is a lot less than aptitude install ruby-full.
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Caught on Camera at One on One
When I worked downtown I was really lucky to have this very cool independent coffee shop just a …
: Stop Twitter Direct Messages My relationship with Twitter ebbs and flows. Sometimes I find it very enjoyable, and at other times …
: Initial estimate shows that dropping DirecTV and going iTunes/Apple TV plus OTA HD will save me $432 …
: Leopard seems much faster talking NFS as compared to SMB.
: Turning my Windows Server 2003 box into a Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server box.
: Waiting for Metallica to take the stage. This is gonna be loud!
: Break the Bottled Water Habit I’ve posted before about the immense problems with bottled water. Tammy and I have been on a massive …
: King Corn Tammy and I decided to relax a bit tonight and rent a movie. I felt like watching a documentary and …
: TED: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow I’ve known about flow and experienced flow all of my life. I think I started to really understand it …
: Weight Loss Check-in for Oct 24, 2008 For those of you tracking my progress on my weight loss journey here is an update. Since my last …
: The USB drive on my Airport Extreme just blew chow - complete erase and new filesystem. There goes …
: Just watched the Nova episode on the Space Shuttle Disaster. Well done. Sad.
: Considering a switch from del.icio.us to Ma.gnolia. Thoughts?
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Fourth Spin Class
I went to my fourth spin class tonight at LA Fitness. First off, after four sessions I still think …
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Texting Car Repair
I dropped our Honda Odyssey off this morning for regular maintenance at Richfield Honda. I was …
: Diving in with DNG I’ve hesitated and resisted migrating all my native Canon Raw (CRW and CR2) files to DNG. However, …
: Mill City Farmers Market for the last weekend. Stocking up.
: Textmate, Rails, Git. The rust is slowly breaking off of my hands.
: Watching Frontline: The Choice. Good show.
: Canon 5D Mark II Video - Reverie A couple of weeks ago Canon made a really big splash by announcing the Canon 5D Mark II. I’m a …
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Weight Loss Tool: My Diary
I’m a couple of weeks down the path to losing a bunch of weight. This will be a long road and to …
: Mill City Farmers Market is great this morning. (and every Saturday morning)
: I’m surprised there isn’t a Hundred Pushups iPhone app.
: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” followed by “Shout at the Devil”. Wow. Need Genius on my iPod. 🙂
: Markets are recovering by websites are not. Much of the web just not working… NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, …
: Bee Docs' Timeline 3D: Mac Developer Special Touch One of the things that makes the Mac so great is the wonderful independent, or “indy”, software …
: Google Language Detection Problems When I was traveling in the UK I had a couple of really interesting experiences using the normal set …
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iPhone Feature Need: Block WiFi Network
I really dig my iPhone and it seems to get better and better with every software release. However, I …
: MinneWordCamp Not Happening Back in February I posted a feeler to see if people would be interested in getting a Minneapolis …
: Weight Loss Check-In This is the end of the second week since I took a hard diet change and got serious about getting …
: Booking person from London that we got our apartment from is attempting to rip us off and not return …
: Canon Exceeded Download Capacity? A few days ago I watched this amazing video that was created on the brand new Canon 5D Mark II. I …
: New Kitchen Toys for Applesauce Tammy and I have both been eating much better the last couple of weeks and we’ve been doing a lot …
: Lightroom 2 64-bit Printing I was doing some printing in Lightroom recently and was struggling. The prints were coming out …
: Great cup of Boulder Blues green tea.
: Watching Glengarry Glen Ross. It’s time for my semi-annual viewing. “Put that coffee down. Coffee’s …
: Neil Young, Harvest Moon → Genius = Nice Fall Friday playlist.
: Apple TV 2.2 Upgrade Upgrade morning. All three Apple TV’s up to 2.2 and iTunes up to 8.0.1. Genius on Apple TV is, …
: Foreclosure Alley This is an incredibly depressing video of the reality of home foreclosures in southern California. …
: At the Humane Society to learn about dog training classes for Chase and Izzy. Serious punk rocker …
: I seriously doubt there is any band that goes better with fall than The Replacements.
: Looking to extend my AIM network via Twitter. Use AIM, @ me your username. You can find me on AIM …
: Using the MPR iPhone application to listen to Barack Obama’s speech. Thanks Damon Allison and …
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First Spin Class in 4+ Years
Tonight I went to my first spin class in over four years. I was pretty nervous and joked with Tammy …
: Joined LA Fitness Tammy and I have had a gym membership for a while. Let’s just be nice and say that the membership …
: Too Fat, Losing Weight I’ve struggled with my weight for a long time, my entire adult life really. In 2000 I started an …
September 2008
: Just added the WordPress LifeStream plugin to my blog.
: Since I no longer go to Starbucks I guess I wont be tasting coffee from a Clover machine.
: Just scheduled time to contest my ’no left turn’ ticket from yesterday. First available meeting with …
: To: Numbers.app From: me I suggest you work with me, and be good, or you will be replaced. …
: Got pulled over for illegal left turn in a trap on Lyndale. 😬
: Saying goodbye to nearly 5 months off. What a great, great summer it has been. Feeling very …
: iWork really badly needs a Numbers.app 2.0. It’s a nice try, but needs a big boost.
: Indian-style Potatoe-Spinach soup with Chicken. Yum!
: MacBook Pro Battery on the Ropes I’ve been thinking that my MacBook Pro’s battery has been especially lightweight lately. To be …
: Time to do a cycle on my battery. Only 51% of capacity available!
: At a movie with Tammy and totally excited. Seeing Burn After Reading. First movie out in months! …
: Fun day at Minnetonka Orchards with family.
: Running DVDFab inside of a Parallels VM working on a DVD. Seems to be working.
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Backdraft on Big Green Egg
A couple of days ago I was grilling some chicken breasts on the Big Green Egg and opened the top too …
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Stacking Wood, Exhausted
Today I turned this “fireplace cord” that I got the “special” delivery of the day, about 20% more …
: Too Much Trash This is a sign of bad housekeeping on your computer. Exactly what were in those 74,959 files anyway? …
: Which is it? This was from a couple of weeks ago when iPhone OS 2.1 came out. It’s so common on the web to …
: Painless automated install of both Vista and XP in two VM’s went great. Walked away and came back in …
: Just got a CrashPlan connection going with my neighbor. Speed looks promising. May be able to stop …
: Bracing myself to setup Windows XP and Windows Vista virtual machines on my Mac Pro.
: Creating a 4TB volume (with 2.03TB of free space) on my Drobo. Future home for my iTunes library. …
: Watching Mazie’s very first dance class. Precious!
: The arrival of two pit bull/bull mastiffes to the dog park added much stress.
: Abalastow Compendium My buddy Dan has issued an SEO challenge to the students in his class. I thought it was pretty cool …
: Trying Twittelator on iPhone. Like the more advanced features.
: Commercial defending high-fructose corn syrup = the definition of corporation over health.
: Just ordered a log hoop for the upcoming Big Green Egg chiminea.
: These Mojave Experiment ads are – desperate? Anyone else think it’s exactly like Folgers instant …
: Reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and wishing I had a spot in the yard for a garden.
: 2 for 5 on the “ring the bell” sledgehammer. Not great. 🙁
: Wishing my Big Green Egg chiminea wasn’t 3 weeks away. 😕 Rearranged the deck for it, great spot and …
: Got the fountain running for the first time in 3 years. Now it’s setup outside. Much corosion to …
: Just finished replacing the gasket on the Big Green Egg. More work than I expected, but closes so …
: Queueing to get in Ralph’s World concert. Mazie very excited! Bumped into Mykl Roventine at Ralph’s …
: Sun coming up much later these days. Fall is here.
: Note to self: must put iPhone earbuds in my computer bag to have with at all times.
: Rather excited about news that Amazon is entering the CDN market. That is a good thing. Will help a …
: Facebook should make an IMAP interface to their messaging system. Growing annoyed that I have to …
: Like much of the new Twitter layout, but not a big fan of these super big tabs on the right.
: I wish the iPhone would have had an IR emitter in it. Would be a great remote setup.
: Waiting to speak at Dan Grigsby’s class and watching him pulling off the Professor thing like a Pro!
: The new Canon 5D Mark II looks shockingly cool. Never thought of HD video through a fisheye.
: At the “Grillmaster: Smokehouse” class at Kitchen Window. Fired up! Learning about smoking oysters. …
: My least favorite error from MobileMe (which is paid for): idisk.me.com server returned “payment …
: Waiting for the DirecTV guy to come and take my TiVo away from me. Grrr…
: Seriously, is it ever a good idea for an IVR system to ask you to “speak” your social security …
: I cannot believe how painful it is to transition health insurance around. Frustration level: 10+
: Half-way through massive Quicken slog through piled up bills during our trip.
: You now have to pay sales tax when you buy Wii Points? Huh…
: Burgers on the Big Green Egg tonight!
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Mazie and cousin Nora in Chariot!
: Four Macs upgraded to 10.5.5. No issues at first blush. Taking dogs for walk.
: For the life of me I cannot figure out why spammers so badly want to create accounts on my WordPress …
: Many errands this morning. Taking break for afternoon espresso and some laptop time. New Michael …
: I think Chase (dog) is finally getting out of his “funk” from us being gone. Izzy (other dog) is …
: Address Book just sync’d itself into corruption nightmare. This is not good. Had to revert to an …
: Installing X Code and iPhone SDK because I’m overly optimistic.
: Just merged my Lightroom travel catalog into my main catalog at home. +2000 photos.
: Something on my firewire chain just blocked up my machine again. Grr… need to diagnose this.
: Odd to return to your house after 4 weeks. Everything is in goofy places. :-)
: Upgraded to iTunes 8.0 on Mac Pro. Updating iPhone to 2.1 next.
: Just landed in Minneapolis! 🛬
: Last day in London. We pack this morning and get a cab to Heathrow. Get to sleep at home tonight, …
: Great final night in London with friends Alice and John.
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Great, but brief, visit to the Kew Botanical Gardens. Great place. This mornings coffee and scone …
: Wondering how many pairs of shoes Tammy has gotten for Mazie while I drink my coffee. Shopping!
: Heading to the tube to meet Greg Merkle for a couple pints at the pub!
: Having nice espresso and croisant with Mazie.
: Checking out of this apartment shortly and saying goodbye to broadband until we are home on …
: First half of AT&T bill that includes London trip: $417.74 😬
: Why can’t Apple TV have these super cool iTunes Visualizers. (I know, probably not enough juice in …
: There may be no food that Nutella doesn’t make better.
: Lance Returns to Racing! I had read rumors over the last couple of days that Lance Armstrong was going to be returning to …
: iPhone firmware 2.0.2 will be the first release I will never install. 2.1 will be out by the time I …
: Crazy shows on BBC – tonights is a show called “Other Peoples Breastmilk”. Wow. Last weeks crazy BBC …
: I still can’t see iTunes 8 in Software Update? What gives? Got Quicktime update, and Front Row …
: Since when is there a .travel TLD? Was I asleep when that was announced?
: Just tried to merge 20 DNG (RAW) photos in Photoshop CS3. 2 GB of RAM = FAIL!
: Listening to Minnesota Public Radio here in Bath because I miss home a bit.
: Just put Mazie down for nap. Raining all day in Bath, but didn’t stop us from seeing the sights. …
: Mazie and Tammy left Dad to pay the bill for lunch while they shop down the street. Hmmm.z
: Nice lunch at Bottelino’s in Bath.
: Spore sounds so laborious I have a hard time reading all about it, much less even considering …
: Mazie is getting a stellar nap. Big win. She hasn’t gotten a nap for 3 days and she was starting to …
: Here in Bath. Pretty happy with the place. Think we will likely extend our stay to 3 nights. And I …
: Excited to go to Bath today for a couple day mini-trip from London.
: Boarded train on the way to Windsor Castle for the day. Bit of craziness finding the right train.
: Rainy, rainy day in London. Fun sightseeing with Tammy’s parents and aunt/uncle.
: Back to the apartment from a very long Mazie day. Lot’s of fits thrown today. Had tea with Grandma …
: Heading to the Tate Modern shortly. Taking a 3 year old to a modern art museum = FAIL!
: Stumbled on a great market outside London Bridge tube stop. Having delicious lunch.
: Shot some pictures today in Adobe RGB (vs. sRGB). Can’t tell any difference on the screen, but I’m …
: Playing with Twhirl for the first time in a while. Really nice.
: Trying out TweetDeck for the first time.
: Very excited to have found the Daily Show on the basic, basic Sky TV subscription this apartment …
: At the Cambridge train station waiting to head back to London. Raining today.
: Visiting Apple Store in Cambridge!
: In Cambridge, getting a mocha.
: Watching Charlotte’s Web on train with Mazie as we travel to Cambridge for a quick day trip
: Seriously thinking of getting Mazie (3 years old) her own iPod Touch. She’s really learned our …
: Microwaving dinner for myself after a quick 1-stop tube trip to Whole Foods. Stocked up on Mac & …
: Growing more than a little worried about the AT&T bills that will follow this month in the UK. On …
: The 2GB of RAM on my MacBook Pro (max) is feeling like a room with a 5 foot ceiling. It also feels …
: Ran to coffee shop for working WiFi, but they close at 8pm! What are the chances the coffee shop …
: Visiting Apple Store in London (Oxford Circus).
: Raining in London again. Late start to the day. Still figuring exactly what we’ll do today.
: Relaxing day in London. Playground time with Mazie at Hyde Park, nice Lebanese food for lunch, good …
August 2008
: Raining this morning! Leaving shortly for Stonehenge! On the bus to Stonehenge with whole crew. …
: Going to another show tonight. Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre with Tammy.
: Is there an official name yet for someone that collects domain names?
: Downloading MP4 of Obama’s speech over HSDPA wireless modem. “8.3 of 104 MB (6.2 KB/sec) - 4 hours, …
: Dinner at Noura (awesome!) then 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre at Picadilly Circus.
: Going on Charles Dickens walking tour.
: Watching changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. Crowded!
: Just boarded train back to London. Coming back a day early to soothe a sad Mazie.
: Grabbing 10 minutes of great WiFi at Caddon View in Innerleithen before sleep. Heading back to …
: On a train to Edinburgh. Train has WiFi and power. Nicely done UK!
: I’m blogging. My mother is on the couch writing in her diary. Same or different? 🤔
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Heading to Scotland
Tomorrow morning, bright and early, Tammy and I head off to the train to spend three days in …
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Royal Observatory and Prime Meridian
Today is pretty much summed up with one picture, and if you are familiar with this location you know …
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Mazie and Daddy Day in London
This morning Tammy and my Mom took off for Liverpool. When we were looking at our trip over here, …
: Zorro the Musical When we told people that we were coming to London one of the most popular questions was “Are you …
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Mom Arrives in London
Yesterday afternoon my Mom arrived in London to join us for part of our month abroad! She is hanging …
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Whole Foods to the Rescue
Food culture is always interesting, and now with Mazie I’ve started to appreciate the food culture …
: Plan to plug iPod into TV here in London is thwarted by confusing SCART connector!
: Woke up today before 7am on my own. I think this means I’ve adapted to London time.
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Espresso Abroad
I really like my coffee. The apartment we are staying at here in London doesn’t have a coffee pot. …
: Harrods — World's Largest Something This morning we decided to head to Harrods (store) and visit the worlds largest department store. My …
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iPhone App - Units
I had seen this application in the AppStore before we left for London but for whatever reason I …
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Lightroom 2 Makes Vacation Look Even Better
I upgraded to Lightroom 2 as soon as it was available. I was lucky enough to be part of the beta …
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Visiting Friends Alice & John
One of the benefits of visiting London is that we got the chance to visit with our friends Alice & …
: Watching the UK version of Big Brother. Very odd show.
: Tammy has decided we should move to London. Hmmm.. Wasn’t expecting that. :-)
: Just spent a great few hours with old friends from Minneapolis, Alice Kim and John Granholm, who now …
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Getting to London
The trick with spending a month in London is that you have to get there, and that has to be done on …
: Living with a 3G Modem I’ve mentioned that our “included Internet access” at our London Apartment is a 3G USB Modem (Huawei …
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London Apartment
Our London trip is a lot different from our Summer of Love West Coast Road Tour. Notably, we aren’t …
: C-Lazy-U Horse Run Video While we were at C-Lazy-U I did an audio capture of the horse run. I also got a chance to capture it …
: Winnipeg Folk Festival 2008 Kids We go to the Winnipeg Folk Festival every year (see music from 2008, but kids only go every other …
: Mazie and I up and having croissant breakfast this morning. Today we get the apartment situated and …
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Quordy - Awesome Game
I have been really impressed with the games landing on the iPhone AppStore recently. I’m hopeful …
: Hello from London! Getting situated. Barely online via 3G USB modem. (ugh!) Bootstrapped my Mac onto …
: Boarded plane! Mazie got scared walking onto plane but thinks it’s fun now. Wish us luck!
: These huge £’s bills don’t fit in my wallet.
: Here is where we are staying in London. If you have suggestions, especially kid friendly, send me …
: Linking Brightkite into my Twitter account in preparation for our London Summer of Love …
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Our friend Marilee Poe Tangen took this picture of Mazie and I love it.
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Organizing iPhone Apps
I’ve loaded my iPhone up with a decent number of applications now and found it difficult to find …
: WordPress iPhone Application and RSD Link I posted before from the WordPress iPhone application when it was released. Its pretty nifty. When …
: “That guy can run.” No kidding. Usain Bolt’s 100m was amazing. ⚡️
: Wondering what is on Phelps’ iPod. Anyone?
: Just got another update from Hector in Beijing at the Olympics. Bro- and Sis-in-law are having once …
: Wow – Spitz talking to Phelps. Nice. Wish Lemond could show half that much character to Armstrong.
: Whoa – totally digging Quordy on AppStore. Would like to see some games coming out with network …
: Best iPhone file utility: DataCase, File Magnet, MobileFinder, Files? DataCase seems best, agree?
: Why does swimming almost never have a false start, but track does a lot?
: Researching average weather for our London/Scotland trip. Conclusion #1, bring rain jackets.
: Can Al Trautwig be any more annoying? Seriously, we all get the scoring system. It changed years ago …
: So far OmniFocus for iPhone v1.0.3 seems to have fixed my syncing problem. Yeah!
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Shopping for plane activities for Mazie. Coloring books!
: Just logged into my Slicehost server via pTerm on iPhone via EDGE. Slow, but works.
: Drinking cold press coffee. Still good after a few weeks in the fridge.
: First ALT.NET Meetup I received an email this morning from Ira Mitchell clueing me in on a group that Freemind is helping …
: Go Dollar! As we are preparing for our trip to London I started watching, with great displeasure, the demise of …
: Reasons to Love Cold Press Coffee I wrote a little over a year ago about my introduction to cold press coffee. Shortly after that post …
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Scoring Gymnastics, Bring the Computers
Tammy and I have been watching a lot of the Beijing Olympics this year. Tammy is a huge gymnastics …
: Summer of Love Resuming - Preparing for London Tammy and I are doing final preparation for the second big trip of the Summer of Love. We leave on …
: John Lennon’s “Imagine” has to be one of the best songs ever written.
: Just declutered a zillion cables into 4 boxes: power, network/phone, computer, audio/video.
: Thanks for all the Brightkite invites – Barry Hess to the rescue! I’m all setup now. I must have …
: Listening to Crooked Still from todays On Point. They are so good.
: Really confused why my Mac Pro hangs on boot if my external firewire drives are plugged in. Unplug …
: Reading about Ubunty 7.1 to 8.04 upgrade. Thinking about just doing it. What the heck? Brand new …
: Just slapped a new 2TB Western Digital drive on my Mac Pro. HD video just eats up drive space.
: Don's 70th Birthday Party This past weekend Tammy and her sisters Corinne, Angie and Michelle threw a surprise birthday party …
: iPhone App - SleepOver I haven’t posted anything about the release of iPhone 2.0, but the approximately 20 applications …
: Iron Chef Minnetonka - Egg Tammy just hosted/produced the most recent Iron Chef Minnetonka night. This time around was a very …
: Olympics on. Hanging out around home. Pancakes for breakfast.
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Starting the Big Green Egg for todays brisket cook! Smoke!
11 hours from now we’ll have brisket. …
: It’s Thursday - Lunch at Yum! with family!
: Feeling intimidated. “For what it’s worth, brisket is generally regarded one of the hardest cooks in …
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Started soaking wood chips for tomorrows brisket. Half hickory and half black cherry wood.
: Just got nVidia GeForce 8800 GT to replace overheating ATI Radeon X1900 XT in Mac Pro. Got the …
: Found the hornet nest Chase got too close to yesterday. Need RAID.
: Slicehost is great. “up 153 days, 22:17”
: Now the proud owner of minnewordcamp.com.
: Downloading and applying iPhone 2.0.1 update. Suggest the 2.0.1 release should re-use the title “The …
: Lunch at Tejas after picking raspberries in Lakeview.
: At Honda dealership after dropping off Odyssey. Waiting for Tammy and Mazie.
: Computer Overloaded Rare change this afternoon with me feverishly working on my Mac Pro getting a bunch of stuff done. …
: Nearly 20 minutes for my iPhone backup to complete. Grrr… iPhone is now syncing. I started this …
: 2 hours of yard work… nicely done.
: Hanging out while we wait for a table at Original Pancake House.
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At the dome (early) for the Twins game. Batting practice for Cleveland Indians. The Twins mascot is …
: At The Bad Waitress! Bad Waitress has open WiFi. I 💚 open WiFi. I 💚 Bad Waitress!
: Mazie: Terrible two’s? Ha! No way. I scoff at two. TERRIBLE THREE’S!
: Has anyone “fully” IPv6 enabled their home network? Curious for some info if you have.
: So far I’m really liking the move to OmniFocus. So much more GTD power. iPhone version is nice too. …
: Electric Outlet Debugging A few months ago I took the plunge back into aquariums. I got a small, mini-reef setup and put it in …
July 2008
: Switching to OpenDNS (who needs to try when Hadar says it is great!)
: Just switched to using Comcast’s DNS server. I’ve always ran my own on the local LAN, but trying to …
: Listening to Tammy deal with insurance crap, COBRA, etc. Sounds like complete nightmare.
: Mac Pro video card/freezing issues have started again. Time to pull out the X1900 and replace it. …
: Just called AT&T and got my options for iPhone usage while in London. Ugly.
: Started reading Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling.
: iTunes 7.7.1 seems to see a lot more AppStore updates than 7.7 did 5 minutes ago. Hmm…
: Seems like a lot of “spam friends” coming on Twitter lately. It needs to be easier to identify these …
: I love logging onto WiFi at Caribou Coffee as foo@bar.com. Always makes me smile.
: Lightroom 2 in 64-bit Glory Lightroom 2 was just released today and I immediately got the upgrade. After waiting a bit to get …
: It’s odd that sometimes Finder initiated restart will hang forever, but /sbin/restart will work from …
: Just test drove a Toyota Prius. Pretty nice. A bit boring though.
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Checking into Moon Dance B&B.
: At Blue Moon in Red Wing having an espresso.
: Off to Red Wing to celebrate our anniversary.
: Rachmaninoff, Espresso, The Economist.
: Overheard during haircut: “My cellular phone is so old it doesn’t even have a camera!”
: Lunch at Indio! Very promising. Mojito on the way!
: Getting ready to fire up the Big Green Egg!
: Just won eBay auction for a Bogen/Manfrotto background support system. Time to play with some studio …
: Hanging at One+on+One before heading to lunch.
: Taking the first step to adopting OmniFocus.
: MobileMe is really failing. Having constant problems with just sync functionality. Not happy. …
: Homemade pizza on Big Green Egg was awesome! Need to do better with the dough next time, and need …
: Having people look at our garage and propose new cabinet and shelving systems for better …
: Furnace technician says I have a faulty furnace board. Luckily under warranty.
: Just made pizza dough for tomorrow nights Big Green Egg fun.
: Firing up todays stage in the Tour de France. Trying to ignore TdF Blog for a couple of hours. 🙂
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WordPress for iPhone
I just installed the WordPress application on my iPhone and am testing it out. It will be fun to be …
: Walking down memory lane looking at photos from 2002 to 2004 in Lightroom.
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Smoker started. Ribs ready.
Ribs are on! Rack seems too big, not happy with it.
Challenging getting …
: MobileMe definitely has many issues. I’m having way too many problems just syncing contacts between …
: Good luck to Tammy on her triathlon this morning!
: Started soaking Down East Hickory and Black Cherry wood chips for tomorrows ribs.
: Having a nice morning playing outside.
: Put gas grill on CraigsList and got an email from someone wanting it in < 15 minutes.
: Eating a plain chicken breast grilled off the Big Green Egg. It’s like a revelation!
: Checking out OmniFocus. Considering it as a replacement for Backpack since OmniFocus has a nice …
: Cup Plants Flowering The cup plants have decided to pop open their flowers. In a week there will be a couple hundred of …
: Woohoo! First 2 updates came through AppStore. Facebook 1.1 and Tap Tap update.
: Installing Twinkle on my iPhone. Twinkle sounds? Ugh. OFF.
: Inbox Zero™ is so far from me right now.
: Evernote worries me. I’m not sure why. Backpack seems a lot easier and portable. Evernote feels …
: I really wish that Quinn would come out for the iPhone. I don’t want to buy one of the lame Tetris …
: Just registered thingelstad.me. Also got: mazie.me, jjt.me, jamiethingelstad.me. Mazie will be the …
: Queuing for the Star Wars exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
: B-Squad fan night huge success! At Dusty’s!
: Alarms that have false positives are pointless.
: Impressed with Trism. Nice game for iPhone!
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At the MN Thunder v. Burnley FC game!
: Got MobileMe push working! Needed some iPhone reboots.
: I’m trying to convince myself that I actually need a Canon WFT-E3.
: Now that we have Remote.app for the iPhone, can we have Remote.app for the desktop too?
: Getting MobileMe for calendars and contacts, but using a 3rd party IMAP for mail is a bit confusing. …
: If only MobileMe allowed you to use your own domain name for email I’d consider going in with both …
: Setting up push syncing via MobileMe for contacts and calendar.
: Upgraded 4 blogs from WordPress 2.5.1 to 2.6. All looks good. I wish WP Automatic Upgrade worked …
: Getting video artifacts on my primary video card again. Fans are already set pretty high. May have …
: Ventura considered running for senate? Oh please, no. Thankfully it’s not going to happen, but that …
: Buying lots of music from various Winnipeg Folk Festival performers. Crowd favorite so far seems to …
: Great climb up Hautacam today for the Tour de France.
: Wow. Looking for “Frenzic iPhone”. Google returned old, worthless junk. Summize gave me precisely …
: I’m surprised Frenzic isn’t out for iPhone 2.0 yet. Would love to play it with a touch interface.
: Winnipeg Folk Festival 2008 Albums We just returned from the 2008 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Every year we pick up around 20 albums from …
: We did shopping for Winnipeg Folk Festival today. Tammy got me a cot that is so big I’m not sure it …
: Not in a good place with our pets. Would love to ban all dogs, cats and fish from the house right …
: Driveway Paved A few days ago the driveway was removed and prepared for a brand new asphalt driveway. I had charged …
: Driveway Removal This past Thursday the contractor got started with our driveway removal. I was watching, and …
: Cooking my first meal on my Big Green Egg! Tenderloins — they were awesome!
: Heading to the wedding! Congratulations to my mom and Kurt on their wedding! Ceremony done. Caterer …
: Lunch with a bunch of relatives at Yum! Kitchen & Bakery.
: Finished opening remarks for my Mom and Kurt’s wedding.
: Just picked up my very own Big Green Egg!
: Helping set things up for Mom’s wedding!
: My Haircut “#1 on the sides, high, to a #2 finished with a #3 on the top.”
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Tiny Tonka T-Ball
Mazie and I had our very first Tiny Tonka T-Ball game last night. Sorry, no pictures or video from …
June 2008
: Summer of Love Day 43 Log 8:24 am: On the road again. 429 miles until we are home. 11:06 am: On I-35 north. We are in the …
: Summer of Love Day 42 Log 12:45 pm: Heading home. 1:17 pm: 906 miles to go. 3:01 pm: DQ stop in Ogallala, NE. 3:04 pm: Excited …
: Just passed 3,000 photos for our 6-week Summer of Love road trip!
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Horse Run
We are having a great time here at C-Lazy-U. Every evening they send the horses out to the pasture …
: Great day rafting down the Colorado River followed by an awesome massage.
: Summer of Love Day 36 Log 2:07 pm: First ride at the dude ranch was really great. My horse for the week is Buster. 10:59 pm: …
: Summer of Love Day 35 Log 9:27 am: Nice breakfast at Cali Cochitta B&B in Moab. Heading to see Arches soon. 10:51 am: Great …
: Summer of Love Day 34 Log 2:49 pm: Hello Utah! 2:50 pm: Driving from Sedona, AZ to Moab, UT today. Quick stop in Moab on way …
: Summer of Love Day 33 Log 11:55 am: Heading to Montezuma Castle National Monument. 1:45 pm: Lunch at Judi’s in Sedona. 2:49 …
: Road Trip So Long You Need An Oil Change Yesterday we passed a milestone on the Summer of Love. After 29 days on the road and driving 4,541 …
: Summer of Love Day 32 Log 9:25 am: Heading to the Grand Canyon today! 5:16 pm: Waiting for Tammy and Mazie to emerge from …
: Summer of Love Day 30 Log 8:56 am: Packing up. Leaving Las Vegas and awesome Mandalay Bay. Heading to Sedona, AZ! Laundry day …
: Summer of Love Index - Updated Number of days on the road so far: 29 Mileage on the 2006 Honda Odyssey at the beginning of the …
: Summer of Love Day 29 Log 4:26 am: I seem unable to sleep in Las Vegas. This sucks. 9:44 am: Heading down to the pool. Lazy …
: Take a Lap in the Lazy River Have a couple of minutes? Join us on the Summer of Love for a trip around the Lazy River at Mandalay …
: Summer of Love Day 28 Log Heading to the pool again. Fathers Day cake? Sure! Fathers Day cake! Black Cherry Mojito at lunch. …
: Happy Fathers Day 2008! This year marks something that will not happen again until 2014, when Mazie turns 9. Father’s Day is …
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The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
A while back at one of my book club meetings John Riedl mentioned the author Tracy Kidder. I …
: Summer of Love Day 27 Log 11:42 am: Heading to the pool. 4:21 pm: Trying to figure out best Fathers Day activities in Las …
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Daddy's Girl Turns Three
Today my little girl turns three years old! Happy Birthday Mazie!
Mazie has been blowing my mind …
: Summer of Love Day 26 Log 9:56 am: Leaving Monterey for our next stop, Las Vegas! 12:37 pm: Paying $4.66/gallon for gas. 3:33 …
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$5.50 Gasoline
We’ve happened to take our longest road trip ever during the most expensive gas prices ever. We’ve …
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Driving to Vegas
After days of beautiful scenery and amazing vistas our view today is all blacktop. We are on our way …
: Summer of Love Day 25 Log 11:11 am: Heading to Carmel this morning. 1:48 pm: Amazed with Carmel. Blue Dog gallery is …
: Summer of Love Day 24 Log Driving down CA-1 to Big Sur. Listening to Jack Johnson. (12:29 pm) Feet have sand on them (12:41 …
: The traveling family is taking the 4th week of the road trip to eschew a restaurant, and I’m making …
: Summer of Love Day 22 Log 12:03 pm: Leaving San Francisco, headed to Monterey for next stop on Summer of Love. 2:08 pm: …
: Expansive, Powerful and Majestic Our Summer of Love trip was never intended to be a camping or hiking trip. We booked all of our …
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Sounds of the Redwoods
While we were walking with the big Redwoods I stopped for a moment to do a quick field recording. …
: Summer of Love Day 19 Log 9:13 am: Anybody know the best, sourest, densest sourdough bakery in San Francisco? 11:19 am: Really …
: Summer of Love Day 18 Log 1:24pm: Stop at Ramone’s Bakery in Eureka, CA. 1:46 pm: Having a very nice stop in Old Town section …
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Walking Among the Redwoods
It has been a few days since we were up in Crescent City communing with the big trees. The Redwood …
: Summer of Love Day 17 Log 3:01 am: Mexican at Torero’s in Crescent City, CA. 10:55 am: Breakfast at Good Harvest in Crescent …
: Curly Redwood Lodge We checked into our 7th hotel tonight after driving on the Redwood Highway and pulling into Crescent …
: Redwood Highway (US-199) Join us for a time-lapsed view of the 40 minutes of driving from the Oregon/California border on the …
: Summer of Love Day 16 Log 1:02 pm: At Full City Coffee in Eugene having a Cafe Borgia. Yum! 5:53 pm: Pit stop on way to …
: Bricking my Linksys WTR-54GS Sometimes I really should know better. There are some things you just don’t do, like updating …
: RailsConf 2008 Recap We just left Portland today on our continuing Summer of Love trip. You wont find much about Portland …
: Super Mom This is definitely a parent story. If you don’t have kids, you may just want to skip this. :-P Being …
: Summer of Love Day 15 Log 11:24 am: Awesome bakery stop this morning followed by an improptu haircut at a cool barbershop. …
: Find Friends on Flickr I find myself really liking Flickr more and more. I’m really pleased with the features and how …
: Summer of Love Index Number of days on the road so far: 14 Mileage on the 2006 Honda Odyssey at the beginning of the …
: Trying to find a way to buy carbon offsets for the Summer of Love. Confusing, and way too hard.
: Seattle Recap I’ve been trying to post updates from the Summer of Love trip pretty regularly but we seem to have …
May 2008
: 819 photos taken so far on the Summer of Love. At this rate, I expect to end this trip with ~3,000 …
: New Blog Theme? I’m experimenting with a new blog theme. Before I go through trouble getting it all wired up, I’m …
: Checking out Powell’s Books in Portland. This place is huge.
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Mount St. Helens
Today we hooked up with the Tangen family on the Summer of Love. Kent is here going to RailsConf as …
: Baby Monitor in the Hallway Tammy and I are hanging out in this extremely cool, funky hotel in Portland called McMenamins …
: Blogger Born? Smaller Than A Redwood Fire up your RSS reader and get ready to add a feed! Some of you know that my wife Tammy has had a …
: Delicious Library 2 Released Last night Wil Shipley, and the Delicious Monster team, released Delicious Library 2. Delicious …
: Greg Merkle: Great Music This post is a bit of a tease since you can’t (yet) just go out and buy this music. I know Greg …
: Rhythm of Travel Doing extensive travel with Mazie has a certain rhythm to it. I’m sure this is very familiar to all …
: Dinner at Mama’s for Mexican!
: Seattle has a lot of cool indie coffee shops.
: Mazie throws blanket on floor. Dad picks up. Go to step 1.
: Attempted unwise flash of WTR-54GS to DD-WRT while traveling. Doesn’t look good. Have a brick right …
: At the REI flagship store in Seattle. When you pass away, if you have been good your whole life, you …
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What happens when you give a near 3-year-old a digital camera and explain how to take pictures? You …
: Summer of Love Day 6 Log 9:00 am: Woke up in Seattle and noticed that the F5 Networks office is right across the street from …
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Sounds of Glacier
About three years ago Dante Vono sent around some links to photos he had taken in Italy. They were …
: Summer of Love Day 5 Log 10:08 am: On the way to Seattle. 10:13 am: Going through Kalispell, MT. 2:07 pm: Relaxing lunch in …
: Glacier National Park Photos
: Site Performance as seen by Google I mentioned earlier that I had moved my sites over to Slicehost. My reasoning for this was …
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Sites Now on Slicehost
If you are a regular visitor to my sites you have likely noticed that a couple of months ago things …
: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer I finished Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer this evening. It was enjoyable to both start and finish …
: Trail of the Cedars Contrary to the predictions of the weather people, today was a better day than yesterday. The …
: Rainy and Cold Today was our first full day in Glacier National Park. This place is pretty amazing. Our cabin is a …
: Summer of Love Day 2 Log 7:23 am: Up earlier than I would like. Time change to mountain time to blame. 9:21 am: False alarm …
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Dumbo
Today was another driving day. We got up early in Glendive, MT and hit the road after having …
: Summer of Love Day 1 Log 9:57 am: Van loaded. Hitting the road. Sleep in Montana tonight! 12:15 pm: Lunch in Alexandria, MN. …
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All Day on I-94
Today we loaded up in the Honda Odyssey and started our big trip. Packing was a bit last minute, we …
: New iPod Classic 160G Before heading out on the Summer of Love, our 6-week family road trip, I suggested to Tammy that we …
: In 24 hours we leave for our 6-week trip around the western US. Much to do before leaving.
: Hoping Tammy is doing well in the Gear West duathlon. Thinking Hector is likely done now.
: Gibber Jabber Yesterday we had a birthday party for Mazie. Her actual birthday is a few weeks away and we’ll be in …
: I keep thinking that I need a license for Yep. It does a great job. I’m not sure why I sit on the …
: Battling with iTunes and my new iPod Classic 160G to get it to take my DVD rips. Just wont go and …
: Have now officially begun travel packing for Summer of Love - West Coast.
: Just saw Iron Man. Great flick. Definitely one to see in the theater.
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40 Under Forty Award
I got the exciting news a couple of weeks ago that I was selected to be one of the recipients of the …
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Taking Mazie to School
One member of our family sure is happy to have Dad home this summer! Mazie has been Daddy-this and …
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Walking the Dogs
I always feel bad that Izzy and Chase don’t get enough exercise. We are pretty bad at getting them …
: Themes: The Worst of the WordPress Ecosystem This is frustrating. I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to find a new WordPress theme for …
: Minnebar 3 At Intro to iPhone Development session. At Screw You, LAMP presentation from Dan Grigsby. At …
: New 130GB iPod has been syncing for two hours and it’s half-way done. Wow.
: Nearly done with tomorrows (errr, todays) Minnebar session materials. Wow – 50 sets of handouts in …
: MarketWatch Farewell Video Last night was my absolutely amazing farewell party at the Bernard’s house. The gang put together …
: Power WordPress Presentation Materials I’m doing my Power WordPress presentation at Minnebar today. I decided to do the presentation today …
: Just turned in SecurID, company ID, American Express card, etc. whew… Completely overwhelmed with …
: I think that one of the four ports in this USB I have doesn’t get power. Stuff works fine on the …
: Changing Primary Workstations As I get ready to leave Dow Jones I’ve been working to get my home office setup more streamlined for …
: MarketWatch, Dow Jones Chapter Closing Today I’m closing a very long chapter in my career. This is my last day at Dow Jones/MarketWatch. …
: Upgrading my Windows XP virtual machine to SP3. Long, long, long… will visit it in the morning.
: Completely flattered by all the amazing emails I’ve been getting from people as my final day at Dow …
: Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 Launch There are a few points in the history of BigCharts and MarketWatch that I’m especially proud of. …
: Playing with Bento for the first time. This has some real promise. Would be a killer app if it had …
: Awesome dinner and conversation with Greg Merkle tonight. Great stuff!
: Realizing how completely opaque, confusing and non-sensical Unix file system permissions can be to …
: Power WordPress Session at Minnebar Minnebar is approaching this weekend, May 10th! I’m really excited and I just couldn’t stand to not …
: Going to catch the end of the Living Green Expo!
: Sitting down for a game of Risk. I’ve only played this on the computer so far. “You don’t know real …
: All the money references in the movie Wall Street just smack you around all over about how old it …
: Previewing my Handbrake rip of Wall Street on my Apple TV. Looks great with full functionality. …
: This new service, Dropbox, looks pretty cool. I may happily be able to abandon FolderShare finally.
: At This American Life live broadcast.
: Wiping my MacBook Pro hard drive clean for the next person.
: Listening to Big Smith on the way to work. Wahoo!
: The newest Handbrake may make my iTunes/movie project achievable in a finite period of time. Nice.
April 2008
: “Give me the beat boys and free my soul; I wanna get lost in your rock ’n roll and drift away.”
: Scanning photos really highlights how amazing a good digital camera is. Hard to get a scan to look …
: I really hate it when companies have unsubscribe pages that are just insanely broken. Surprising (?) …
: Listening to CD from Greg Merkle. Very good!
: Long Distance phone bill for May: $0.05
: Taking more stuff home to slowly drain my personal stuff out of my office.
: Iron Chef Minnetonka - Yogurt A couple of years ago we had a fun evening at the Bernard’s house where our friend Dean Eichaker and …
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Jazz on Street
I’ve been thinking about putting up more photos that I take. I played with the idea of a photoblog, …
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Mazie's School Picture
I love this picture! Mazie had her very first school pictures at preschool this year. She seems to …
: I wish that anyone that did anything with avatars would just get their act together around one …
: Something seems to be driving increased Twitter adoption. I’m getting a lot of people I know signing …
: Just seeing that Postini has grabbed some emails from me that were not spam.
: Wondering if there is any reason to use Subversion and git, or just wholesale use git only.
: Just got Mario Kart for the Wii!
: Suspect FireWire cable just wasted an hour of time.
: Never record DV and HDV content on a single DV tape. Makes importing a total nightmare!
: Just received another $100 deposit from Google Adwords for Road Sign Math. I should really pay at …
: Checked out Craftaganza at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Pretty cool. Go if you can.
: Dropped Izzy and Chase off at Downtown Dogs.
: Happy Big Birthday Day to Tammy!
: Totally bailing on the Get in Gear 5k. Tammy too.
: January-like snow at the end of April!? Ugh!
: Just found a wood tick crawling on my back in bed. Blaming Izzy for bringing it into the house. …
: Beware, Perian 1.1 and iDVD using H.264 video sources is bad mojo. You have to remove the Perian …
: Gearing up for Tammy’s birthday weekend!
: The $300,000 Watch That Doesn’t Tell Time ← Anyone up for a $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell the …
: Yum Kitchen gets WiFi The Internet continues to expand! I was recently at Yum! Kitchen and Bakery, a regular favorite …
: For some reason I feel like I need to avoid Facebook chat as if it were some virulent strain of bird …
: Al's Breakfast A few days ago I got a hankering for hash browns. It seems most breakfast places have moved to …
: Just submitted a serious bug in iMovie to Apple.
: Totally ecstatic about the warranty repair job on my Aeron chair today. Like new!
: Spent the entire evening playing digital librarian. Moving photos and home movies around to their …
: File copy was taking forever and I just noticed I was on my 802.11g network. Flipped to 802.11n, …
: Just converted 240 images from CR2 to DNG. First ever use of DNG. Attracted by the 10-20% reduction …
: iPhone just restarted itself while syncing. 😕
: Just imported my first DV tape from the Canon HV30. Quality is amazing.
: Finally watching Paris-Roubaix. Thanks TiVo.
: Just watched “Run Fatboy Run”. Nice feel good movie.
: Surprising number of birthdays at Hickory Park.
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Big Smith & Blue Mountain at The Bottleneck
(Lawrence, Kansas) Tammy and I are hanging out in Lawrence, Kansas this weekend. We are here to …
: Local Burger and Miltons (Lawrence, Kansas) When doing her research for places to check out in Lawrence, Tammy ran across an …
: Just found out my broken Aeron chair is still under warranty! Free repair. 😊
: Sonic stop in Missouri on the way to Lawrence, Kansas!
: Very disappointed that my Mac Pro has the same video problems after they replaced the 2nd card in …
: Truth Revealed! Fresh dent in MacBook Pro is from wife dropping it!
: Adding yet another Vista BSOD to the my running count.
: Left BlackBerry in NY cab. Contacted cabbie but he got taken to JFK. Ugh! Luckily getting it back …
: Just upgraded all my WordPress plugins. So happy to do that in 2.5 now. Wishing there was an …
: Threat level is still orange. Be afraid!
: If KML is the HTML of geo, what is the XHTML of geo?
: I sent this tweet four hours ago. Your getting it now, in the future, from me in the past. One of …
: Minneapolis Getting Comcast Love This rolled by in my newsfeed a few days ago and caught my eye. The New York Times had a short piece …
: TED - Podcast You Should Be Watching TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED has an annual conference that in recent years …
: Wow - if you “Restore to Factory Defaults” an original Apple TV you are left with v 1.0 on it. Eek…
: My computers are turning on me and its ugly!
: Mac Pro going into the shop for diagnostics and repair. Apple TV being swapped today.
: Funny that using OS X still makes me so much happier than any other OS I use on a regular basis.
: Ugh – finally gave up and made an appointment for my Mac Pro. This has to be a hardware issue.
: Anyone know if you can change Time Machine in Leopard to run while on battery power? Only running …
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Still thinking about Into the Wild from last night. What a movie. Think I need to read the book.
: Good Luck to Hector in Ironman Arizona My brother-in-law Hector is racing in Ironman Arizona this weekend! On Sunday morning he is going to …
: Continued refining and thinning of household “junk”. So much more to do. Simplify.
: CSSEdit just saved me major pain and anguish. Happy.
: Just reinstalled my Mac Pro and my dreaded video problem persists. I’m worried this is hardware …
: Why is it so predictable that the one button Mazie would be most obsessed with on my MacBook Pro is …
: Tammy is doing her first iMovie project and it looks really great. This is why iMovie made the right …
: Very annoyed that I cannot just download a Google Earth installer anymore. You are forced to …
: At Gasthof’s for German beer and food! And accordian music!
: Reading about directed acyclic graphs.
: Question: is there ever a case where “utilize” is more appropriate than “use”? Related: See word …
: At party celebrating Dr. Dave.
: Watching 60 Minutes on TiVo. Nice to see Al Gore has upgraded to Leopard.
: Matinee movie! Leatherheads.
: How Software Is Built Interview A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to do a phone interview with Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell …
: Feeling fairly stupid having trouble migrating to WP 2.5 built-in avatar support and ditching …
March 2008
: Getting tired of the more and more elaborate April Fools things from various Internet sites. Perhaps …
: Heading to The Bulldog for early ruby.mn fun.
: Watching Clifford Stoll’s TED video. Dude seems totally insane.
: Seems the USB hub in one of my Dell monitors is dead. 1 hour of my life wasted.
: Watching Frontline “Bush’s War” in the background. Hard to even watch. Watching a disaster in …
: Updating three Apple TV’s to 2.0.1.
: Enabling Time Machine via network drive for all Macs.
: Summer of Love Preview This summer is going to be filled with a lot of travel. I’m taking the summer off after leaving my …
: Flashback: BigCharts on CNBC Flashback to February 4, 1998! Here are a couple of videos that I stumbled upon on my machine …
: I wish time didn’t go so very fast when I’m jamming on my laptop in the evening. One of the tweets …
: The question isnt if, but to what extent, I’m addicted to the Internet. One of the tweets …
: Wish I had an Xserve running Leopard server at home. Starting to feel the need for something like …
: Playing Magnetix with Mazie.
: Airbags Kaput, What Would You Do? A couple of weeks ago my aging 1999 Audi A6 Avant decided to start flickering a little red light at …
: FriendFeed Duplication via Mashing I’ve been working with financial news for years now and there is a really common problem in …
: More FriendFeed Fun I wrote earlier about FriendFeed and I’m continuing to really enjoy it. I’ve played in the past with …
: New York Taxis Get Computers I seem to be on a string of complaints about screens being placed everywhere (annoying ads and zip …
: Zip Code Insult for Gas I’ve already written about how annoying it is to be bombarded with advertisements while buying gas. …
: Installing drivers for my ancient HP ScanJet 5500c. Scanner heading to be recycled. Drivers are …
: Just spent 90 minutes rerouting cables, moving peripherals and optimizing my desk. Five more hours …
: It’s annoying when sales people are so obviously trying to figure out a “tickler date” to call you …
: Watching MacBook Air commercial and experiencing lust.
: Yeah - found a plugin to block registration spam. I’ve been getting hammered with it the last few …
: Life Tip #845: Completely finish the electrical wiring work on your aquarium before filling it with …
: Ordering a Canon HV30. Finally making the jump to a new, hi-def video camera.
: Wow – Safari 3.1 really is blazing fast.
: Obamas “More Perfect Union” speech one of the most amazing I’ve ever heard a politician give. Brave …
: Vista SP1 has totally hosed my WiFi card. How ridiculous can Vista get. It worked fine before.
: First Gary Gygax dies. Now Arthur C. Clarke. Not a good week for geek heroes.
: FriendFeed is Pretty Cool In September 2007 I came up with the idea of using a Yahoo! Pipe to create the Thingelstad …
: Publisher Party at Hearst Tower I got a fun opportunity to attend a really nice event hosted by True Ventures, Automattic, Sphere, …
: Finally checking into the Westin. Long day. The broadband in this hotel is horrible. Westin gets my …
: My Mac Pro just froze on me twice within thirty minutes. Not good. 🙁 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x00192D43): …
: Happy St. Patricks Day everyone!
: Getting lots of server errors while using Google Reader today. Anyone else?
: Heading to dinner at Tamarind in New York for meeting with Sapient.
: Getting ready to tap a maple tree!
: Heading to Horton Hears a Who. Hoping it’s not sold out.
: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Graduate! I graduated! Or, well, at least I got the certificate! I finally took the plunge this week and took …
: I think I left my super fancy iPhone headphones on the last plane! Argh!
: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Day 3 Today was the last day of Rails Studio. Dave and Mike took us through the finish line with a packed …
: Tip: Paying Attention with Laptop I’ve spent the last two days in this all day Rails training class. Here is my #1 tip for helping to …
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Wii Suggestion, Flickr!
One of the great things about the Wii is the built in support for the Internet. The freely available …
: Hanging out at Starbucks playing with some code and surfing.
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Beautiful Evidence
I’m the newest member into a small book club that only counts tech geeks in its membership. The …
: Flashback: The Day Webfront Died I’ve been cleaning up some old, old files on my machine and have run into some really fun stuff. …
: Fluid and Site-Specific Browsers So, you may be wondering what a site-specific browser is. In a nutshell, it is just a web browser …
: Hello Again, Twitter Last November I decided to pull the plug and wish Twitter “buh-bye”. Those that follow me have …
: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Day 2 Today was day two of Rails Studio. Dave Thomas and Mike Clark really ramped up the fire hose today. …
: Rails API using Fluid SSB I’ve been diving big into Ruby on Rails this week with this class I’m taking. One of the things I …
: Looking forward to South by Southwest being over and Twitter returning to normal.
: Caffeine for your Mac Here is a little piece of free software that you don’t realize you need for your Mac, particularly …
: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Day 1 I’m in Denver today for the first of three days of Rails Studio. Rails Studio is one of the …
: Really happy I didn’t waste time and money to go to SxSW for soap operas and parties.
: Fugaise Restaurant Tammy and I just got back from a fabulous evening out. We were invited to join our friends across …
: At a dinner with at least 10 doctors. Tempted to stab myself with a knife to see some action. One of …
: Just pushed all the clocks ahead an hour. This early DST stuff is still odd.
: Getting a fire going in the fireplace. Nice contrast to the frigid cold outside.
: Getting services at the Government Service Center.
: Heading to lunch with Tom Von Kuster and Paul Bieganski. Thanks Dan Grigsby for the intro.
: Updating Vista to SP1. Wish me luck. I feel I’m going to need it. Vista SP1 Dialog: “The …
: Very impressed with the iPhone 2.0 release. Disappointed that I have to wait until June!
: Just spent a really frustrating hour trying to move a 4.5G set of files over my Wireless network. …
: Demo for Lightroom User Group meeting is ready to go and I think it’s going to be pretty good! …
: Checked into Hampton Inn in Bismarck for the night. Rest of drive tomorrow morning.
: So far me managing my own VPS on Slicehost is not outperforming Dreamhost. Problem is the guy at the …
: Mazie to Dad using iPhone, “Dont do that.”, pointing at the iPhone. One of the tweets highlighted in …
February 2008
: Leaving Sammy’s Pizza in Minot, ND. Only 90 more minutes of driving. (8 hours driving so far.)
: The Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová show sold out in less than an hour!
: In the pharmacy drive-thru at Walgreens feeling 132 years old.
: Watching the Oscars out of some odd feeling of obligation. What the heck!? Glen Hansard & Marketa …
: Just baked three loaves of banana bread. Yum. Chase just ate half-loaf of banana bread off the …
: Just ran into Dan Grigsby having coffee with Matt O’Keefe at my local coffee shop.
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Quiet Lately
I haven’t been posting much the last couple of weeks. My travel schedule has been a bit higher than …
: Having a frustrating time trying to export a movie out of ScreenFlow. I’m totally impressed with how …
: Just calculated that I have 7,624,000 pixels on my desktop. One of the tweets highlighted in my …
: Back in hotel room. TV doesn’t work in this room. I find the failed TV more annoying than I think I …
: Just finished doing the majority of the initial setup on my Ubuntu slice at Slicehost. Pretty simple …
: Watching The Family Guy on Hulu. Shocked I’m actually using Hulu. Solves broken TV problem.
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Just finished tour of Fox Business studios. Pretty cool.
: Giving up on NetNewsWires and NewsGator and going back to Google Reader. Just can’t deal with the …
: Ordered an HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn. Looking forward to having a nice printer with all the whistles …
: Reading about the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 and trying to convince myself I need one.
: Just got my Nabaztag hooked up to Twitter! Welcome Twitter people to Thinglestag!
: Totally obsessed about getting my MacBook Pro laser etched. Any suggestions?
: Why isn’t there a Flickr channel on the Wii? This seems like such an obvious and easy thing. Please …
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Interested in a Minneapolis WordCamp?
I’m conducting a quick test to see how much interest there would be in hosting a Minneapolis …
: Got a NabazTag from my wife for Valentines day. Can’t wait to connect it to Twitter!
: At coffee shop, noting how different it is when two women chat at a coffee shop versus two men. So …
: Upgrading third and final Apple TV to 2.0. So far I’m really impressed with the new features. I …
: Holy crap! Apple TV’s now show up as AirTunes remote speakers. How cool! Just had 3 systems all …
: Struggling to keep my personal mailbox under control. Email is a virus.
: Wishing there was a WordPress user group in Minneapolis. And yes, I realize I could start one.
: Apple TV Take 2 Initial Impressions Today brought the Apple TV faithful a big win with the release of Apple TV Take 2, or more …
: Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update is Out! The long awaited, and huge (341MB), update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 is out now! Get it while it’s hot! …
: Living in Minnesota it gets cold. Really cold. But this is a bit over the top. Yeah, like I said. …
: Trying out Coda for the first time and thinking that it may be perfect!
: Confluence Case Study A case study was just posted at the Atlassian website on the use of the Confluence wiki solution at …
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In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto
I just finished reading Michael Pollan’s newest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. It …
: Happy to be using my MacBook Pro again. Missed it after a week on that horrible Dell Latitude.
: Just finished great dinner at Los Dos.
: Checked into Holiday Inn in New Jersey. This hotel may redefine the meaning of cheap. So tired!
: I can’t have jam.ie, too bad. I could have thingl.es. The domain maz.ie is actually available. That …
: Ann Coulter being interviewed on the TV. The evil is warping the image and starting to melt the …
: Watching Walt Mossberg talk about the iPhone and technology trends. Cool!
: Just loaded summer travel plans into Dopplr. Phew!
: Threat level ORANGE! Stay terrified.
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This weekend we were in a store and I saw this t-shirt. It was a must have for Maze!
If you have …
: Impressed by an actually interesting Super Bowl! Congrats to the Giants!
: Mazie's First Voicemail Another “Proud Papa” post. This landed in my voicemail a day ago. Made me melt. Your browser does …
: Delicious Library 2 Interview I love Delicious Library. Why? Delicious Library to me epitomizes the belief that software can …
: Mazie and the Mirrors After swim class today Mazie and I had our usual bagel routine and afterwards we walked down the …
: Just won the Change Game on $5.67!
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Jumpnode Network Appliance
For the last few months I’ve had a Jumpnode appliance in my house keeping a tab on all of my …
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Tufte Returning to Minneapolis June 23 & 24
I was checking out Edward Tufte’s site the other day and I noted that he is going to be returning to …
January 2008
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Solving Offsite Backups
Nobody likes to deal with backups. It’s a chore. It usually has some expense to it. But we all know …
: $8 for the MnPASS lane!? I’ll pass on that.
: Registered for RailsConf 2008 Registration just opened up for RailsConf 2008 in Portland, Oregon. I’m heading out to my first …
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Chase's "Procedure"
Tomorrow Chase will have been living with us for one month and a week. It seems like so much longer …
: New Year Resolutions - Tech Edition I don’t have New Year resolutions every year, but this year I figured what the heck. Looking back, …
: Revamped OS X Desktop Sometimes I get stuck on something, particularly late at night and I get totally obsessed. It’s …
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Shaving Green
Our house keeps getting greener and greener. Tammy has done an awesome job of finding alternative …
: Spreading the Digital Love This will be brief since I’m posting it from my iPhone. I spent the night with my brother-in-law …
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I just upgraded WordPress to 2.3.2 on all of the sites I run. Of course this starts with the …
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36th Birthday!
Today I turned 36! It was a great, great day spent with my wonderful wife and amazing daughter. And, …
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Defensive Domain Names
I purchased thingelstad.com in April 1999. I’m a little surprised that it took me until 1999 to buy …
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Get a Gravatar and Be Cool!
If you have commented on my blog you have likely noticed this blue Gravatar image appearing next to …
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Get a Monopod and Improve Your Home Movies
Do you have a video camera? You need a monopod!
This Christmas I got the Bogen-Manfrotto Pro Black …
December 2007
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It's a Wii Christmas
It’s very possible that my friends and family think I need to have more fun. There must have been a …
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Western Digital 1TB My Book
A long, long time ago I decided to do an experiment. I built a server with 1 terabyte in storage. I …
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Beat Guitar Hero III on Medium
Big day today! I beat Guitar Hero III on medium. Wahoo!
I don’t think I’m even going to attempt …
: Awesome Bluetooth Headset Dude! I got my brother-in-law Denny a new Bluetooth headset for Christmas and my brother-in-law Hector …
: Merry Christmas 2007 Christmas 2007 is a wrap! Great time with family. Mazie really started to grok the holiday this year …
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2007 Holiday Letter
Tammy and I are both pretty shocked that we got a holiday letter out this year. It just sort of …
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Guitar Hero III - 497 Note Streak
I’m still having a blast on Guitar Hero III. I played for a while yesterday trying to clear some …
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Vimeo Solves Video Problems
I have been searching for a good video hosting service for a while. Something that solves my online …
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I thought about naming this post “I have a dream” but I figured the SEO impacts would be all wrong. …
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Dow Jones Disco Party 2007
Oh my. Really. Wow. Absolutely fabulous! That is the only way to start any post on the 2007 Dow …
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New Apple Store in New York
I was out in New York last week and couldn’t pass up an opportunity to check out the brand new Apple …
: Christmas Tree 2007 We’ve been a bit slow getting our Christmas tree up this year. We finally got one today and I …
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Guitar Hero III Rocks the Wii
I’m totally obsessed with my Wii all over again and it’s because of Guitar Hero III - Legends of …
: Nintendo Wii Servers Overloaded It seems that delivering Wii’s to stores isn’t the only supply problem Nintendo has. Every time they …
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OLPC XO-1 Arrived
My One Laptop Per Child XO-1 arrived today! I haven’t had any time to work with it so you will all …
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Blog Cred to Dictionary Evangelist
My RSS reader is filled with a lot of technology stuff, a variety of Apple websites and a ton of …
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iPhone Screen Broken
On Thursday of this week I experienced a disaster. I got a phone call and while taking my iPhone out …
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Welcome Chase!
It was nine months ago that we added Izzy to our family. Today we added another dog to the family. …
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Winnipeg Folk Festival Finale Study Guide
I have given myself and a couple of my friends (him and him) a task for the upcoming Winnipeg Folk …
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Mount Your iPhone While Flying
Ever since I’ve gotten my iPhone I now have a new routine before I travel. I make sure to sync the …
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Pleo Hatches
After months of waiting Pleo has finally arrived! Pleo is the first robot from Ugobe.
It seems not …
: Copyright Notice in RSS Feed If you are reading thingelstad.com via the RSS feed you will notice that I have added a copyright …
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Crash Pen
It seems that I lost my Crash pen today. This makes me very sad. I’ve had this pen for a few years …
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Linksys WTR-54GS: Making Travel Better for Internet Junkies
I recently picked up a Linksys WTR-54GS travel router based on the positive recommendation of my …
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Open Thread: Presenting at Code Freeze 2008
I’m presenting at Code Freeze 2008 in January. The title of my presentation is Innovation in Product …
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MarsEdit
I’m totally geeking over MarsEdit right now. MarsEdit is the desktop blogging client that I recently …
: Stay Focused in WriteRoom I’m writing this post on a plane. I’m drafting with MarsEdit to post later. There isn’t much …
: Top 10 Apple Wishes - iTunes Edition It’s the holiday season and along with that comes the time for everyone to make wishes for gifts. …
: Website Updates (Nov 2007) I just finished a pretty long session or upgrades and improvements to thingelstad.com. Here are some …
November 2007
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CPR Training at Red Cross
Tammy and I had our first of two sessions getting CPR certified last night at the Twin Cities Red …
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Upcoming Office Holiday Party
Our annual holiday party at the office is coming up this weekend. It has been a tradition for many …
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Rays of Sunlight on Artists Point in Grand Marais.
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iTunes Ecosystem
I mentioned in another post how much I’ve been enjoying iTunes. A few weeks ago I extended my Apple …
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Apple, Please Make This - Apple TV + iPhone = iCar
The iTunes ecosystem is pretty amazing. It spans my exercise routine (iPod Nano), entertainment on a …
: Can't I Buy Overpriced Gas In Quiet? The other morning I pulled into SuperAmerica [link removed] on my way into work to fill up the tank. …
: I Made a Pie! I made a pie! That’s right! A whole pie, from scratch, the whole deal. I made the crust. I steamed …
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The Office Men's Bathroom
At our office we have a long running joke about the men’s bathroom. By long running I mean several …
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Butterball!
Tammy and I had a great time last night at the Butterball! Through the generosity of my friend Dan …
: Chipai Fishing Trip Video It’s been a long time since June when my father-in-law took all the brother-in-laws fishing in …
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One Laptop Per Child, and Me
Technology has the promise of being the great equalizer, or a great divider. I don’t think enough is …
: Launch of MinnPost.com Last night Tammy and I joined some friends and attended the launch party for MinnPost.com. MinnPost …
: Initial Review of GMail's IMAP Service I’ve been yearning for native IMAP for a long time now. Essentially since the day I got my iPhone. …
: iTunes Social Edition I’ve become a huge fan of iTunes. I’m pretty sure this is the biggest about face that I’ve ever done …
: Mixed Green Messages I just took a trip to San Francisco. The hotel I stayed in had some odd mixed messages related to …
: Sous Les Sapins Photos from our weekend in Eastern Iowa staying at Sous Les Sapins Guesthouse with friends.
: Buh-Bye Twitter I’ve tweeted my last tweet. If you’re a diligent visitor to my blog, you’ll notice that the Twitter …
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The Hold Steady at the State Theater
On Thursday I went to see The Hold Steady for the first time. The Hold Steady is a Minneapolis-grown …
October 2007
: Hiding in the dark having ran out of candy on Halloween!
: Wiring up Mail.app with GMail/IMAP. First impression — painfully slow.
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2007 Block Pumpkin Carving
The annual block gathering to carve up some Halloween pumpkins. We got a great one this year!
: Just grabbed thinglestad.com (e and l transposed). This is the most common mispelling of my last …
: Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting @ Acadia Cafe.
: At the Dolphin Show with Mazie! One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Having lunch with Mazie at Yum! One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: At dinner with my wonderful wife waiting for food and then going to RadioLab. Date night!
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Leopard Has Arrived
It’s been a busy night here. This morning Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” arrived and I started installing …
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Mazie's Big Girl Bed
Monday was a big day in the Thingelstad household! A few weeks ago we ordered Mazie’s new toddler …
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Minnedemo 3 a Wrap
Does anyone know where the reference to Mo’ started? Like, we got our mo’ in the second half. Our …
: After using the iPhone for a few months the Blackberry can feel like you are carving on stone …
: Person at the counter just totally blew up at their boss while taking my order.
: I had a lot of fun on Jyte today.
: I think either Tuffmail or Fastmail.fm will do all that I want from an email host.
: Becoming an MPR Sustaining Member.
: Finished cleaning and rearranging the garage. Time for afternoon espresso.
: Just finished a night of Wii gaming and Apple geekery with my friend Chad.
: Mazie and I rockin’ out with the Foo Fighters.
: Mazie and I having a great time at Mill City Farmers Market. Great music today!
: Finished making my Butternut Squash and Garlic Puree.
: Just ordered a Ball of Whacks.
: I’m never going to agree to ship to Canada on eBay ever again.
: Declaring today National iPhone Liberation day.
: “kids drain the life out of you” — Dean
: Missed a Change Game win by 1¢!
: Watching Charlotte’s Web with Mazie. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Wilco Concert! Its hard to watch Wilco without being a bitter old man. Do they really need that many …
: Minnedemo On my way to Minnedemo! Open WiFi at O’Gara’s! Yeah! Crashplan demo at Minnedemo! FanChatter demo. …
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Tammy Finishes Twin Cities Marathon
This past weekend Tammy finished the Twin Cities Marathon! This was her first marathon attempt ever. …
: Have resorted completely to Meebo after Trillian and Vista separated with irreparable differences.
: Just edited and posted the first-ever player written post on Road Sign Math.
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Iconize Me Avatars
I’m giddy! It’s like Christmas around the Thingelstad house. Why? We have new avatars!
Several weeks …
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Moneyball
I just finished reading Moneyball. This book was recommended to me by a friend who really likes …
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Moved to Dreamhost and WordPress 2.3
It’s been a couple of busy late nights here for me. I’ve been doing major work with my websites, …
: Lunch at Trotter’s Cafe in St. Paul.
: Uh oh, I think I just bricked my BlackBerry Yep, BlackBerry is bricked. Have to send it in. Ugh.
: Throw out all your plastic now! It’s killing you!
: Pleading that the seat next to me remains unoccupied. Flying Rule #754: Don’t leave your stupid bag …
: Viewing a PowerPoint presentation that would make Edward Tufte scream.
September 2007
: Just finished watching Jarhead.
: iPhone software update failed, restoring iPhone firmware to attempt again. Biting nails. iPhone …
: Feeling like the guy that dissolves in the storm of papers in the movie Brazil. Starting to question …
: I need a ship. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
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2007 Minneapolis Bike Tour
Tammy and I got to be one of the 4,500 participants in the very first Minneapolis Bike Tour a couple …
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Electric Arc Radio
A little over a week ago Tammy and I went with some friends to see Electric Arc Radio. You may have …
: Sitting at my desk, sweating. Thinking about how much I hate our office space. Around 83 °F in …
: Too hot to be sitting at a computer. Over 80 in my office.
: First Twitter reference just made at OPA Tech Day.
: Done with the short route at the Minneapolis Tour bike ride
: Etymotic Research ER6 Earbuds for iPhone One of the unexpected byproducts of getting the iPhone is that I’m listening to a lot more music on …
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Stop Drinking Bottled Water
Tammy has been leading the way on a number of environmentally conscious improvements in our house. …
: At Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Got a cape and a staff to go with it! Very busy today! Hazzah!
: Just played a bit of network Battle Tetris. Wow!
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Mazie's First RenFest
This weekend we were adventurous and decided to take Mazie to her first Renaissance Festival! And …
: Went to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival with Mazie and Izzy. Was a total success! Yeah Family …
August 2007
: At Rafferty’s Pizza in Nisswa! 🍕
: Amazing sky tonight. Unfortunately too late to roll out the telescope.
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Mario Strikers Charged for Wii
I just got this game. I'm a total "noob" and am horrible, but if you want a laugh my friend code is …
: ✅ Theme on WordPress version of Road Sign Math. ✅ Google Analytics wired up. ✅ RSS endpoints have a …
: jsMath doesn’t work so hot on iPhone. It does try though.
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Last week I called home while on my way to a meeting in New York. To my surprise when the phone was …
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Last Wednesday night Jim and I decided to go see a Mets game while in NY for business. We took a …
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Beastie Boys Bombard Brooklyn
No Sleep Till Brooklyn! That was the last song that the Beastie Boys played at the McCarren Pool in …
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Son Volt at the Zoo
I’ve been seeing Jay Farrar play music for around 15 years now. It started with Uncle Tupelo, …
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Uptown Art Fair 2007
My favorite art fair in the cities was a couple of weeks ago, the Uptown Art Fair. (Post from 2005 …
: 2007 Minneapolis Office Picnic
: Deciding to give Pownce a chance.
: John Lennon’s “Imagine” may be the best song ever written.
: Green Lake Triathlon Up and leaving really early for the Green Lake triathlon — Tammy’s first triathlon! Hector, …
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Canadian Fishing Trip Recap
A few weeks ago I went on a fishing trip into Canada with my three brother-in-laws and our …
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Got a Message
While I was in Canada fishing I was without any means of communication. The only thing that would …
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Major Blow for US Cycling
It has long been wondered if US cycling would be able to survive the retirement of Lance Armstrong. …
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Welcome to Lunkerville
Everyone wanted to catch a really big Northern on the fishing trip. Big is pretty much anything over …
: First ever batch of cold press is brewing. Just pulled the stopper and letting the cold press …
: At a wedding in Stillwater. Long lost relatives on my side of the family.
: Landed in NY. Getting ready to deplane. Cab ride is horrible. Traffic is a mess. Getting naseous. …
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24" iMac
5 months ago I said goodbye to my iMac G5 and sent it on to live happily with my sister. After it …
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LaserJet Memory Upgrade
I think I’m like most people and never really think about my printer. Last week though I thought …
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Just watched “You, Me and Dupree”.
: iMovie ‘08 may be the answer to my video problems! Ridgedale store was a bust. On the way to …
: Tammy is getting addicted to Frenzic.
: Wondering why I’m sitting here tapping on my iPhone with a MacBook Pro 12 inches away.
: Like iTunes before it, have now succumbed to flickr. Stunned and in awe over this WordPress Flickr …
: Oceanaire proved too fancy for 2 year old.
: Amazed by how much money you can spend on a gas grill! Wanting a Big Green Egg too!
: Wishing that del.icio.us was integrated with Safari on my iPhone.
: While much better with the 1.0.1 software, Safari still crashes way too much on the iPhone.
: Upgrading firmware on all network devices and breaking things.
: Day 2 of Uptown Art Fair done. Success.
: Heading to Oceanaire for dinner.
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Frenzic and Quinn
I’m not a big gamer — and I’m really not a FPS (first person shooter) gamer. I’ll pass on Quake and …
: Getting seated for Private Lives.
: Looking at the 35W bridge during intermission. Wow.
July 2007
: Installing iPhone Software v1.0.1
: Celebrating Backpack’s adoption of OpenID!
: Sitting down to watch Breach
: Getting seated for Spamalot!
: Going on a bike ride to get Mazie!
: At the Mill City Farmers Market.
: Watching the final time-trial of the 2007 Tour. Go Disco!
: Doping in the Tour The 2007 Tour de France is winding down, and is frankly a complete mess. The culprit, doping. Or, …
: The new version of Backpack is live! Awesome!
: Finished an amazing lunch at Peter’s Grill.
: Just took some time to actually look at the flowers and plants in the backyard. It’s pretty amazing.
: Glad to see the climbers in this years Tour have finally gotten mad.
: Getting a sales pitch on Gartner.
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Worst CD Ever
I recently went through the process of reviewing my rather large CD collection and culling out …
: Drinking my cold press. On a telephone call.
: Listening to The Wall by Pink Floyd.
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Cargo Shorts Banned from Cycling
Tammy, Mazie and I went on a bike ride today. Tammy is prone to comment about how great it is to …
: Mazie at her very first movie - Ratatouille. We’ll see how this goes. Made it through notably loud …
: Rode our bikes to Yum! for lunch. Open WiFi at Yum makes my iPhone happy. Full of good food. Will …
: Drinking amazing espresso roasted yesterday at Jim’s in Linden Hills. One of the tweets highlighted …
: Listening to new Jason Isbell album Sirens of the Ditch.
: Expecting that my life will be markedly better when the new version of Backpack is released. Can’t …
: twitterfeed is kind of cool and it supports OpenID.
: Finished cleaning most of the dog puke in minivan. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch …
: Checking out Lumberjack Days.
: Have posession of Harry Potter #7!
: The iPhone is an even better flashlight than the BlackBerry.
: Very long meeting and I’m last on the agenda. Awesome.
: Inspecting TextDrive as an alternative hosting provider for my site. So far, like it a lot.
: Playing Tetris over the network with Tammy.
: Trying really hard to resist the urge to create PowerPoint slides for todays meeting.
: Eating the best Jimmy John’s sub ever. Mayo. Yum.
: Reviewed business dinner menu with chef. It’s going to be great.
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2007 Winnipeg Folk Festival Recap
Last weekend I made my fourth visit to the Winnipeg Folk Festival (previous years were 2006, 2003 …
: Initial iPhone Impression I’ve now had the iPhone for a couple of weeks and it is about time that I share some of my thoughts …
: Maximum Runtime for iPhone Battery Shortly after getting my iPhone I went to the Winnipeg Folk Festival, a 4-day folk music festival. …
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Randy's Sanitation does Organics
We got an announcement in the mail a while ago from Randy’s Sanitation. We have been Waste …
: Game Over: 65,265 points – 226 lines.
: Checking out Tammy and Mazie’s 2008 Folk Festival chairs. Tammy has a footrest!
: Finishing a fabulous dinner at Lucia’s.
: 2007 Winnipeg Folk Fest via Twitter This was the first Winnipeg Folk Festival since I started using Twitter. I sort of “micro-blogged” …
: Final preparation underway to leave for Winnipeg Folk Festival.
: Tammy is watching a show on TLC about 1,000 pound dude that hasn’t stood up for 7 years. OMG!
: Tweeting about my iPhone “just cuz”.
: Happy Independence Day everyone!
: Sitting by the pool at a friends house watching people jumping off the diving board.
: iPhone Activation One of the ways in which the iPhone claims to be revolutionary is how you activate it. Rather than …
June 2007
: I got my iPhone I stood in line for a few hours on Friday at the Southdale Apple Store to insure a shiny new 8G …
: iPhone Day via Twitter I didn’t get an “I was there on June 29, 2007” t-shirt or anything, but the iPhone wait via Twitter …
: Push Conference 2007 Listening to director of National Institute of Play. Listening to Clyde Prestowitz, author of Rogue …
: Getting even happier with my iTunes-centric music world. I should have caved years ago. 🙂
: Watching AllThingsD Gates/Jobs interview. Transcript.
: Tammy declares that I cannot wear my new fishing shirt to work, citing that “there has to be a line …
: 2007 Olson Family Weekend This year was the 4th annual Olson Family Weekend! This year was Angie’s turn to plan and there is …
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Canadian Fishing Trip Intro
I will soon be departing on a Canadian Fishing Adventure. T-minus nine days before I head out with …
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Cold Press Coffee
I had a great coffee moment today that I just have to share. It’s worthy of sharing because there is …
: Mazie's First Baseball Game Grandpa Bruce came into town for the Memorial Day weekend. It was a nice time, and the most time …
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Serious Development in JavaScript
JavaScript is a really powerful development environment. Really.
Many developers don’t agree with …
: Congrats to my sister Alona for passing her social work exam!
: Going Offline with Google Gears I just spent a little while getting caught up on a variety of sites with Google Reader. Reader is my …
May 2007
: Car service is a fully decked black suburban! I feel like I’m in the secret service. Where is POTUS?
: Used the BlackBerry 8800 + GPS + Google Local to get coffee in completely random locale. Now …
: Dissapointed that it seems very hard, to impossible, to get a plug-in converted Toyota Prius.
: iTunes 7.2 just showed up in Soaftware Update with DRM-free downloads. Guessing I know what Jobs …
: Directory Structure for Digital Photos It seems that a lot of people have a hard time settling on a file structure to use for their digital …
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Drive to Work Take 2
Time for “Take 2” of my drive to work time elapased video!
I really liked the first take at this, …
: My Robot and Steven Wright A friend of mine forwarded this screen capture from a friend of his who grabbed this great Twitter …
: Sitting down to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” again. First time.
: Wondering if anyone I know uses StumbleUpon? If you do, ping me.
: Got home after running (and walking) my first 5k in forever.
: Just bought greenrequest.com.
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Solatube Installed
A few weeks ago I was flipping through a recent issue of Home Power magazine and I stumbled upon an …
: What food would you give up the Internet for? Tammy and I had a really funny conversation today on the way home from the grocery store. I prompted …
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Finished watching Children of Men. Hmmm…
: Drive to Work I’m having some more fun with the time-elapsed feature of my new camera. It has an ability to take …
: Pleo may ship in the next month – exciting!
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Shoe Experimentation
I’ve went a little crazy over the last few weeks with some new shoe experimentation. To put this in …
: Assembling Mazie's Birthday Present One of the cool features of my new Canon SD750 is a brain-dead simple way to do time-elapsed movies. …
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Canon SD750
I’ve been thinking for a while about upgrading my small, travel-friendly camera. I’ve had a Canon …
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Jon Stewart Stand-up Night
Last night we went to see Jon Stewart do his stand-up show at the Orpheum downtown. I’m a very …
: New UI for Google Analytics is strikingly good.
: Just rebooted the Road Sign Math server — it was down for 4 days. Need to move that to WordPress!
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Frost/Nixon on Broadway
Tonight while I was stranded in New York I decided to take a moment to forget the travel struggles …
: Stranded in New York Tonight, for only the second time in the 10 years or so that I’ve traveled for business, I got …
: Stranded in New York Tweets Flight home is 2 hours delayed from New York. Other flights are getting cancelled. I’m screwed. …
: Leaving Enterprise Search Summit conference. I give it a C.
: Starbucks people are using wireless headsets. Getting too close to McDonalds. 🙁 One of the tweets …
: In New York and skinny jeans are everywhere.
: Happy Mothers Day to all the mom’s out there!
: OpenID Makes Identity Easy I’ve been using OpenID for a couple of weeks now, and I’m really impressed. I created an OpenID …
: Delicious Library find similar function is totally cool.
: Wishing that Twitterific would dual-post to Twitter and Facebook.
: Just scheduled installation of a SolarTube for our house.
: Just realizing that I need to get a mothers day gift for my wife!
: At the Metropolitan for morning seminar. Crazy room!
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There are a few movies that I’m particularly geeky about. “Apocalypse Now” rates at the top of my …
: Capacious Memory I just upgraded my Mac Pro to 7 GB of memory. It’s really great to have the room to stretch your …
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Minnebar 2
I’m rather late doing my writeup on Minnebar 2007. I guess the advantage of being so late is that I …
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New Adobe CS3 Icons
In the most recent iteration of the Adobe product line Adobe decided to make a radical departure …
: Weekend Away to Birdwing Spa A couple of weekends ago Tammy and I went on a weekend getaway for her birthday. Now that we have …
: Just signed up for TimesSelect.
: Created a Google Calendar account for my 22 month old daughter for “her stuff”. That’s normal, …
: Bumper sticker on drive to work: “Friends don’t let friends drink Starbucks.”
: Maybe I should drink less coffee. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Wishing Twitterific could post in the same way Spotlight allows a search to be done. Avoids a big …
: New Look for the Site I’ve grown tired of K2, the Wordpress theme I was using. It’s a nice theme, but I didn’t like how …
: Ordered another 4GB of memory for my Mac Pro.
: Starting MinneLightroom I continue to really love Lightroom. I’ve been finding more and more value out of my 35,000 photos …
April 2007
: Helping my brother-in-law get Parallels setup on his MacBook.
: Got first run at MinneLightroom website up and running.
: Listening to John Prine on the drive in this morning.
: Pouting after Jim hurt my feelings. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Upset that the Amstel Gold cycling race got 2 hours, while Paris-Roubaix got 1 hour.
: Stunned by how hard it is going to be to do a cross-platform (win to mac) upgrade of Photoshop. …
: Just registered c12free.com.
: Wife “green lit” several consumer electronics things. What the hell is going on?
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American Craft Show 2007
We went to the American Craft Council Craft Show in the River Centre in St. Paul today. We missed it …
: Wanting something… One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Highrise: CRM for Home? I realize that I’m probably on the verge (or well past the point) of being considered a 37 Signals …
: Mr. Mom Weekend via Twitter I’ve been a bit enamored with Twitter for a bit now. Mr. Mom Weekend was a great time to do some …
: Mr. Mom Weekend Wrap! I’m late writing my wrap-up post from the 5-day Mr. Mom Weekend adventure. Mazie and I spent our …
: just installed the newly released Opera Browser on the Nintendo Wii and twittering from it!
: Watching Tour of Flanders on TiVo.
: Installed GPS application Spot on my BlackBerry and recorded GPS location for first time.
: Happy to be alive after morning cab ride in Manhattan! Ther driver kept falling asleep while we were …
: Wondering if Jim has had coffee. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Unsubscribing from the digg RSS feed. It’s just too much now.
: Lightroom Keywords I’ve been digging into Lightroom and continue to be excited about the ability to use my digital …
: Pay Attention to Snacks Mazie and I had a nice Sunday. We ended up skipping swimming class. Mazie wasn’t feeling very well …
March 2007
: Struggling with how to manage my digital media assets best.
: Parenting a Puppy is Hard We had a pretty good Saturday. Even though I was up way too late I woke up at a reasonable time with …
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The Knob
I’ve ogled this ultimate Mac accessory for a long time. I found myself in the Apple Store today and …
: Running the Gauntlet Today was a challenging day for Mr. Mom. It started right away. Somehow I slept until 7am and woke …
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First Day as Mr. Mom
I’m taking a moment to relax a bit and plugging this post up on the blog. The photos from the day …
: Riding on school bus with Mazie. One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
: Just installed Twitterific 2.0. Very nice!
: Thinking that Twitter has tied into more “systems” faster than anything that has ever existed.
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Bye Bye iMac G5
It’s been just over two years since the Mac invasion of my house began with my first Mac in over a …
: GPS Track Rant Why is it that almost all GPS units decide that when you save your active track into memory that …
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Just got back from The Last King of Scotland.
: Having bagel and cream cheese with Mazie after swim class.
: Beautiful weekend for those in Minneapolis. Officially marks the first weekend where shorts are a …
: Ordering Graeters Ice Cream for lasagna dinner.
: Playing with Market Perception product on MarketWatch. Pretty cool!
: OMG! GPS unit that attaches to your DSLR hotshoe! OMG!
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Apple TV in the house
Yesterday I got one of the first shipment of Apple TV units to arrive at the local Apple Store. The …
: Location and GPS in Lightroom Many of my friends know that I’ve been pretty infatuated with the new Adobe Lightroom product even …
: Minnebar 2 on April 21st Spring is here, and along with it is the 2nd annual Minnebar “unconference”. Reserve the date now …
: Listening to Graveyard Shift by Uncle Tupelo. Hometown, same town blues Same old walls closing in …
: Finally finished my presentation for the Advanced Internet Programming class I’m presenting at the U …
: Ecstatic that my Hosted GMail account got POP download now. Can finally transfer my mail archive up.
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Welcome Izzy!
Today we welcomed the newest member of the Thingelstad family, our new dog Izzy!
Tammy, Mazie and …
: Still suffering the horrors of a 28.8 kbps dial-up. Windows Update ran all night long.
: Thinking about learning java just to write a Twitter client for my blackberry.
: In Minot, ND! Hotel and sleep await. More driving tomorrow to The Farm.
: Getting frustrated on the small end of a ridicoulous 28.8 kbps dial-up connection in rural North …
: Narrowly escaped running out of gas approaching Fargo.
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We're Getting a Dog!
We’ve been thinking about getting a dog for awhile. We figured we would get one sometime after we …
: Introducing my Robot A couple of months ago I heard about Twitter for the first time. I logged onto it, created an …
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Linked: How Everything is Connected
The subtitle of this book is enough to garner intrigue – “How everything is connected to everything …
: I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.2. Of course, it’s not just a Wordpress …
: Just finished watching Idiocracy. Huh. 🍿
: U2’s Joshua Tree was released 20 years ago. Wow – I feel old.
February 2007
: Excited about the arrival of my Bluetooth barcode scanner!
: Hoping the market doesn’t tank today. Predicting the Dow will be up 100 points 1 hour after open. …
: Ordered a Bluetooth barcode scanner to make Delicious Library even more awesome.
: If you find yourself in the parking lot of Lakewinds Coop waiting for your daughter to wake up – …
: Buying a 2G microSD card for my Blackberry 8800. I can’t wait to try out some MP4 files.
: One of the great things in The Week is their highlight of different comics found in various …
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Weekend in Chicago
Tammy and I had our first big weekend away without Mazie. We went to Chicago and took advantage of …
: What I Learned on AM Radio This past weekend Tammy and I drove to Chicago for a long-weekend getaway. We drove there late on …
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Finished watching Stranger Than Fiction. Pretty good movie.
: Read Sin City Volume 4: That Yellow Bastard. Thanks Lou!
: Got Gmail working on Motorola Razr!
: Downloaded the release version of Lightroom! It has been upgrading the library from beta for 1+ …
: Of course my UPnP media server failed right before leaving. Fixing it so there is music in the house …
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Just watched Fever Pitch. Maybe baseball is cool. 🙂
: Wondering how many connections the most connected person on LinkedIn has.
: Why isn’t there a site like Cogmap for managing a family tree? This seems so obvious.
: Everyone Votes on Wii Can I just take a moment to say that I’m hugely impressed with what Nintendo is doing with the Wii. …
: Making Tab Work "Right" in OS X I’ve found myself continually frustrated with the behavior of Tab in OS X when filling out forms on …
: 50th and France WiFi I’m happy to report that if you find yourself in the 50th and France area of Minneapolis with a …
: PackRat - Taking Backpack on the Road I mentioned earlier that I’ve become a huge fan of Backpack. It is my home page in all of my …
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Watching the Freedom Writers.
: Blackberry Break I just got back home after a business trip. This trip entailed an offsite training event. At any …
: Really missing espresso. Really. Badly. Brew is just no substitute. One of the tweets highlighted in …
: Microsoft should have to pay reparations for creating PowerPoint.
: Considering if Twitter will be the new Enterprise Resource Planning package of 2010.
: We had brunch at Salut today, and got to try this giant croissant that they had just put on their …
: Bye Bye Thunderbird, Hello GMail I’m waving a white flag. I give up. I’ve decided to no longer attempt to host my own email. I’ve …
: Permalinks and SEO I’ve been playing with different permalink structures on my site. For the last couple of weeks I’ve …
: Super Bowl in the rain I’m watching the Super Bowl and I have to comment that the rain beading up on the helmets makes HDTV …
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Just finished watching The Devil Wears Prada. Pretty good movie.
: Going over to neighbors to help put in new WiFi access point.
January 2007
: Are John Gordon and Dave Gordon brothers?
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Minnesota Rollergirls
Last night Tammy and I went to the Minnesota Rollergirls with some friends. It was my first time and …
: Fanatical About Backpack I think amongst my cadre of hyper-geeky, super web savvy friends I was probably a little late to get …
: Searches Reaching My Site I’ve had Google Analytics on my website since it became free. It’s amazing the amount of detail it …
: Update on Weight Loss Program It’s been about five weeks now since I posted about Traineo. I really started in earnest on my …
: Reading about WordPress 2.1 and thinking about how long it will take for the plug-ins I use to get …
: Proud of bench pressing 225 lbs at the gym today. 🏋️♂️
: Mazie screaming after waking up too early from her nap. Debating what to do.
: Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.7. Saw this on my WordPress Dashboard. “WordPress 2.0.7 5 hours ago.” Now …
: thingelstad.com Moves Out I spent a couple of hours getting this website moved out of the server in my laundry room and to the …
: Transfering data to Garmin GPS60CSx over USB and so happy to be done with serial ports.
: Realizing it is almost impossible to find Z-scale model train stuff locally.
: First CNN on Twitter. Now the BBC. How long until we have MarketWatch on Twitter?
: At dinner with Dave Thomas and other Rails geeks.
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The Water Tastes Different
My wife thinks I’m loosing my mind.
We recently ordered new drinking glasses for home. The ones we …
: Drooling over just announced iPhone — must have. Imagining twittering on iPhone.
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My Birthday
A couple of days ago it was my birthday! Have I mentioned how amazing my wife is? Anyway, it was my …
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Just got back from watching Casino Royale
: Noticing that CNN is using Twitter for breaking news!
: Just installed the Twidget Twitter Mac OS X Widget so I can Twitter without even launching the …
: Looking at Z-Scale trains at Hub Hobby.
: Have you played with Twitter? If not, try it. Be a friend. Tell me what you think. It’s pretty …
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New Baby Monitor
We have been perpetually frustrated with the baby monitor that we got when Mazie was born. We got …
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Article in Twin Cities Business Journal
Excuse me for a moment of self-promotion. 🙂 I was featured in an article published last Friday in …
: Death by Metadata My software needs to start doing more work for me. Really. Either that or I need to get a digital …
: Must Have Thunderbird Add-Ons I’m not one of these folks that scours the internet for Firefox extensions only to make my web …
December 2006
: Weather is freaking me out Alright, the weather is really starting to bother me. Today, December 30th it was 41 °F while we …
: We Love the Wii I’ve been wanting to use that headline for a while now. ;-) The Wii made the trip to North Dakota …
: Merry Christmas 2006 Tammy, Mazie and I all want to take a moment to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a great …
: Cha-Ching The other night while catching up on my RSS feeds in Reader I stumbled upon a small software project …
: Traineo While reading TechCrunch about a week ago I saw a headline about a “web 2.0” community-centric …
: Operation Junk Mail I’ve decided enough is enough. Perhaps it’s just the holiday season, but our mailbox has been …
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Wii Component Cables
My component cables arrived for the Wii today. I finally was able to move off the incredibly lame …
: Butter Bakery Tammy and I checked out a new restaurant this weekend. Butter Bakery is in south Minneapolis and …
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Mac Pro in the House
About 2 months ago my primary workstation died. The machine was behaving very flaky, not posting …
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Mazie's Kitchen
I got to play Super Dad today and put together Mazie’s christmas present. December 3rd? Sure – she’s …
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USB Drive Roundup
At the end of August I picked up a new USB thumb drive that would perform at a pace capable of …
November 2006
: Dad Skill #138 Singing the A-B-C song backwards. (Wait for the 3rd verse…) Try it. It’s harder than you would …
: Mazie Conquers Stairs Lately most of the news on the Mazie front has been about new words. Lot’s of new words. She can …
: Migrating .Text to WordPress I recently bit the bullet and migrated my ancient DotText (.Text) blog to WordPress. It wasn’t …
: Wii Meets the Family Releasing the Wii shortly before Thanksgiving was a brilliant move by Nintendo. I’m sure thousands …
: I had my telescope out for about an hour tonight and sadly I still feel like a complete “noob” using …
: The Kindness of Strangers So, you don’t just walk into a store and get a Wii on the very day it comes out. This morning just …
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Wii In The House!
Wii is in the house! Yeah!
Okay, so it only took about a week for me to turn into a total fanboy in …
: Good Spam Filtering for Home I’ve started to get deluged with spam again at home. The last time this happened I decided to switch …
: PS3 and Wii Bananza My friend Chad brought over his brand new Playstation 3 today and I got my first taste of the …
: Threat Level Orange I just got home from another business trip. I seem to be in the middle of another spat of business …
: Smaller Than a Redwood Tammy has launched her website, Smaller Than a Redwood. You should check it out. Her website is …
: The last three weeks have been a backyard fire extravaganza! We’ve had three great evenings burning …
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Wii Obsession?
I’m not a gamer.
Starting a post titled “Wii Obsession?” with a statement like “I’m not a gamer” may …
: I recently caught up to this new episode of Nova called the Monster of the Milky Way. I like Nova, …
: New Site Up! After wasting a lot of time messing with the routing options on my Zywall 10 I think I finally got …
: Perhaps the Geekiest Thing Possible? So when your wife is upstairs on her computer, and you are downstairs on your computer, how do you …
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#37
I had a busy day on election day with an 8am meeting at work. I was determined to get out and vote …
: New Website Coming! This post is a heads up that a new thingelstad.com is on the way! I’ve finally made the push to get …
October 2006
: Google Reader Google released a new version of the Google Reader a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been using it for …
: First RUM Meeting I attended my first Ruby Users of Minnesota (RUM) meeting tonight. I’ve wanted to go for a long time …
: How Many of Me? This site showed up in one of my RSS feeds recently, How Many of Me? It is a fun little site that …
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Triple Caffeine
The title of this post is a reference to what one of my friends calls my regular coffee order. Iced …
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Birth of a Painting
Right around 4 months ago Tammy and I spent the evening at our neighbors house with a really cool …
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Holiday MinneDemo
Minneapolis is becoming a much cooler place to be a techie geek, startup business sort of guy. …
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Sore Thumbs!
I am a frequent “CrackBerry” user. That’s the slang term for a BlackBerry for those that are not “in …
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Georgia Aquarium
On the way back home from the Great Adventure we took a slight detour through Atlanta specificially …
September 2006
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 37 On September 30, 2006 our Great East Coast Adventure came to a conclusion when we arrived back home …
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East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 35
It’s official! We have just finished the 5th week our trip. This was our last true day of vacation …
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East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 34
We spent Wednesday in Charleston. The real newsflash is that we *didn't drive* anywhere the entire …
: Thank You for the Sleep I wrote earlier that Mazie was having a horrible time getting her sleep. Asheville was the breaking …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 33 On Tuesday we loaded up in the van and headed for a short drive to Savannah, Georgia. Drive more? …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 31 Let me get caught up first. On Friday we left Asheville and headed to Charlotte to spend the weekend …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 28 Today we ventured out of Asheville again and went to Chimney Rock Park. The park was pretty cool. We …
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Fender Bender
Here’s a big bummer.
Last night while driving back to the hotel getting ready to put Mazie down a …
: MacBook, Parallels and Windows Vista Just because I’m on vacation doesn’t mean that “geeking on the ‘puter” stops. I’m happy to report …
: Mazie's Words Over the last couple of months Mazie has really started to develop a lot more language skills. It’s …
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Crazy, Sleep Deprived Dad!
Ever since we’ve arrived in Asheville, Mazie has had a horrible time sleeping. She’s just screamed …
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East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 27 - AT
Today we left Asheville and headed into the mountains. We drove about 30 miles northwest of …
: Traveling With a One Year Old It’s now the 25th day that we’ve been “on the road”. For me, this now marks the longest I’ve ever …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 24 We have arrived in Asheville! We got going quickly this morning and clicked off the last 4 hours of …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 23 Today is a driving day! I’m catching up on the Big Adventure from our hotel room in Roanoke, …
: Reflections on the Northeast Corridor We’ve ended our three weeks in the New Jersey/New York area. I find myself pretty eager to get away. …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 22 This was the last week in New Jersey and we began preparation for the last two weeks of vacation. …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 17 Today we extended the Great Adventure both North and South. The day started very early when Mazie …
: First Two Weeks I just put up a bunch of pictures from the first two weeks of the Great Adventure. These were edited …
: Great Adventure in Google Earth So you have been following along with update from the Great Adventure but your confused about where …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 16 Day 16 of the Great East Coast Adventure was a lot of fun. Mazie got us all up at the normal time …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 12 On Day 12 of the Great Adventure I pretended like I was an average east coast commuter. I had a …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 10 It’s Sunday morning and the beginning of Day 10 of the Great Adventure. We are in Washington DC …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 8 Day 8 of the Great Adventure starts with a relatively lazy morning as we prepare to head to …
August 2006
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 4 So the headline from the Great Adventure tonight is that Mazie absolutely hates, and I need to …
: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 3 On Friday we embarked on the Thingelstad Family Great East Coast Adventure 2006! What is this …
: Game On: Time to Lose Weight Over the last couple of years I’ve really let my weight slide. Or should I say, climb. Slide would …
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Jump into 802.11n
While getting the Internet side of life setup while on the Great Adventure I made a trip to Best Buy …
: Speed Matters I’ve got a bunch of little USB flash drives hanging around. It is almost as if they rain from the …
: Best Kiss Ever Mazie is growing up so fast. She’s such an amazing kid. For the last couple of months if I asked she …
: Celebrity Spotting: Doug Savant We are all in Iowa City this weekend to see our friends Lisa & Eric and particularly their new baby …
: I won the Change Game! Today when I stopped at Starbucks and got my morning coffee – I won the Change Game! That’s only the …
July 2006
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Brain Games
We got the Nintendo DS because we liked these brain games. We bought both Brain Age and Big Brain …
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Looking for Land
Tammy and I have been talking for a couple years now about getting some land that we could …
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Nintendo DS Lite
Yesterday we were at Best Buy on my occassional visit to wonder around the store and just check …
June 2006
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MacBook
Amongst the celebratory gifts I got for father's day this year was a pretty surprising toy. I had …
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Mill City Farmers Market
Yesterday morning we went to the Mill City Farmers Market. It was our first visit, and only the …
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Wordplay
Last night Mazie’s aunt came over and babysat while Tammy and I went out for a “classic” date – …
: Happy (Delayed) Fathers Day Being a dad rocks. That pretty much sums it up. I could just end this comment now and be done. Dad’s …
: PAX Tammy and I decided that we wanted to make sure to raise Mazie understanding the value of charitable …
: Save Some Birds Over this past weekend I applied some bird protection to our house. We live in an area with a lot of …
: Solar Panels Started Our solar heat project completed today! Just before 2:00 pm today Innovative Power Systems turned on …
: Xcel Energy Cheating Customers I’m mad. I’m a big supporter of alternative energy. For the last 3 years I’ve voluntarily paid a …
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An Inconvenient Truth
It likely isn’t going to come as a surprise to anyone that the people who are currently finishing an …
: Slow Down I left work late on Tuesday. I thought I would try to get home a little earlier and hopped into the …
: Mazie Walking! Two weekends ago Mazie really started to walk. She’d been able to take a step or two for a while, …
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Network Revamp
My home network has been pathetic for the last few months. While doing our solar project and other …
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Safety Stairs
I’m a super-excited Dad! I’ve been on the search for a long time for a gate that we could put on the …
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Solar Project Update #3
In the last couple of weeks we’ve had a lot of progress with our solar project. The work on the roof …
April 2006
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T-Rex Flying
This last weekend I finally said “uncle” and took my T-Rex to Hobby Warehouse in Richfield to get …
March 2006
: Solar Project Update #2 After much consideration and a meeting with our contractor I’ve decided to change the location and …
: Noise Canceling Headphones First Impression I got to try out my new Sony noise canceling headphones on my recent trip to New York. My impression …
: Mazie at 9 Months It seems amazing that in only 3 more months Mazie will turn 1! She is doing great. She has recovered …
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Deer at Bird Feeder
If you like to feed birds you are completely aware of the ever-lasting battle with squirrels. They …
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Noise Canceling Headphones
I stepped off of my last flight, from Dallas to Minneapolis, and wanted to immediately go and get a …
: Solar Project Update I’ve referenced our solar project on this site a couple of times, and this last week marked the most …
February 2006
: Mazie Graduates to Bigger Car Seat We got Mazie’s next car seat today, a Britax Marathon. They had a sporting pink one with flowers all …
: T-Rex Assembled I just spent the last 4 hours assembling my Align T-Rex 450SE. Luckily I got the high-end one that …
: iPod Nano Happy Valentines day! My wonderful, beautiful wife and daughter decided to get me an iPod Nano for …
: Mazie's Sick So yesterday when I got home from work Mazie was having dinner and she was really sick. She didn’t …
: First Attempt at RC Camera Yesterday I received my recent order from Helidirect, a wireless video camera. This little toy is to …
: Quick Mazie update – she has teeth! Her bottom two teeth have come through and boy are they sharp. I …
: Shotgun Microphone I’ve started to take more digital video now, and I was appalled by the quality of audio I was …
January 2006
: New Camera Lens For my birthday this year Tammy surprised me with a new lens for my camera. She got me the Canon …
: Roof Replacement About three months ago I decided to have a new roof put on our house. We are in the process of …
: Yum! Kitchen and Bakery Continuing my trend of mentioning new restaurants that we really like I would be remiss without …
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Canon 12x36 IS II Binoculars
I recently got my after-Christmas Christmas present. What’s that? Well, if I had something on my …
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The Earth Is Enough
I recently decided that I needed to re-read this book as well. Similar to A Walk in the Woods, I’d …
: Desktop Blogging I may be in a minority of people running a web site and still creating content by typing into a web …
: Sudoku Have you played Sudoku (Wikipedia: Sudoku) yet? My mother turned me onto it. She figured I would …
: Birthdays and Set Points Tomorrow is my birthday, or more appropriately, in about an hour it"ll be my birthday. I’m turning …
: The Year of RAW I have decided that as of 2006, I’m going to officially make the transition to shooting all digital …
: Open Letter to Hopkins School Board We recently were notified by the Hopkins School Board that our school district finished the year in …
December 2005
: 300 Gallons! Yesterday we had Brian Broughten, the founder and owner of Advanced Aquarium to our house to get …
: Salut and Ravello We stopped by two new restaurants yesterday and were happy with both. We had lunch at Salut in …
: Photo Storage Article Published I sent my Digital Photography Storage Explosion article to our editorial team at MarketWatch to see …
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RC Helicopter
My friend Chris, who is constantly finding new things to get into and get everyone he knows excited …
: Mazie Sleeps Through Night! For the first time in the 196 days since she was born, Mazie slept through the night last night. She …
: Mazie at 6 Months Mazie turned 6 months old on Dec. 14th, and she had her 6-month Doctor appointment on Monday. She’s …
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Celebrity Spotting: Al Franken
Okay,so maybe this is the Minnesota version of a celebrity spotting. It’s not Madonna, or Bono, or …
: I 💚 Hobbies I’ve had fun this week getting caught up on some hobbies, restarting others, and considering picking …
: The "Not-So-Open" WRT54G This past week I was in Radio Shack and saw they were running a great deal on the Linksys WRT54G …
November 2005
: Home Vacation I’m taking this week off, using up some of my remaining vacation time before it vanishes. Tammy and …
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'tis the Season
The holiday season is now officially upon us. We were at Southdale today and Mazie got her first …
: Miss… TiVo… So… Much… We just had our roof redone, and of course they had to rip the DirecTV satelite dish off the roof. …
: Google Analytics - Overload? I was really excited to see the release of Google Analytics this week. I’ve been looking for a …
: Restaurant: Naar Grille Tammy and I went to our first movie since Mazie was born today. We saw Walk the Line if you are …
: Digital Photography Storage Explosion This is also avaiable in PDF format. You can also download the data used for analysis. Abstract …
: Terabytes of Disneyworld A couple of years ago when Tammy and I visited Disneyworld I was struck by the pervasive use of …
: Construction Zone Our house has been a construction zone this last week, and will hopefully start to wind down after …
: San Jose Trip I spent last weekend in the San Jose area for my friend Scott’s wedding. Scott and I met when we …
: Baby Stuff A couple of weeks ago Tammy, Maze and I all loaded into the minivan and headed on down to Iowa City. …
October 2005
: Mazie Moves... To Her Bedroom Newsflash! Mazie has moved to her bedroom! This seems like a pretty giant step to me. I took her …
: Music Everywhere! A few months ago I bought the Roku M1000 MP3 player for Mazie’s room. I really liked it, even wrote …
: Corteo We went to see Corteo, the traveling Cirque du Soleil production that is getting ready to leave …
: 2005 Olson Family Weekend Last weekend was the 2nd annual Olson Family weekend. This is a fairly new tradition on Tammy’s side …
: Mazie's First Concert On Saturday Mazie went to her first concert, and it was rocking! Our neighbor suggested that we go …
: Just Typing Sometimes I just feel like typing something on this here website. I guess that’s the advantage of …
: Rix Bar & Grill We tried a new restaurant today. It was my mothers birthday a couple of days ago and we went out for …
: Honda Odyssey Pt. 2 We’ve had the 2006 Honda Odyssey for two weeks now and I thought I would share some of my comments …
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Mazie Mazie Mazie
Little Maze is getting less little by the day it seems. Along with getting bigger she’s really …
September 2005
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Honda Odyssey
Ever since Mazie arrived we have been learning that taking a car seat in and out of a station wagon …
: Purple HDMI TiVo I thought I had dodged this bullet, but this morning when I turned on my HD DirecTV TiVo I got …
: Change Game Setback A friend and I got coffee today and the total came to $4.58. I gave the person at the register a $10 …
: Dad Tips I’m no expert on this matter. In fact, I’d say I’m far from it. But clearly I’m doing an adequate, …
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Trouble Having a Geek Dad
I wonder if when Mazie is older she will think this is a cool picture, or shake her head about her …
: LDAP Coming Soon I spent a few hours today playing around with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Address Protocol). Why? …
: Mazie 3-month Update I think both Tammy and I are stunned at the thought that little Mazie is only going to be 3 months …
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The Farm
I come from North Dakota, and like the majority of people that come from North Dakota, I’m only one …
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Jamie v. Racoons
A few weeks ago we had some sod put down in our backyard. The first two weeks went as they should, I …
August 2005
: Weekend Geekfest I spent a bit of time this weekend on my home network. I had a “security incident” about 10 days ago …
: Four Hours of Frustration I just spent the last four hours trying to get my new network topology in place. The result of all …
: Two Weddings in Two Days This is wedding weekend for us! Tammy’s sister Michelle is getting married tonight and we are both …
: Make Minneapolis Bicycle Friendly A few months ago I sent a suggestion to the mayor of Minnetonka to request that they work with the …
: Mazie's 2-month Checkup Mazie had her 2-month checkup today with the pediatrician. I arranged my schedule so that I could go …
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I just finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I rifled my way through the sixth …
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Landscaping Wonders
Last year we had the landscaping in front of our house redone completely. We used a small, native …
: Mazie at 8 Weeks This Tuesday Mazie will be 8 weeks old. It’s time for us to schedule her 2 month appointment. I …
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Camera Upgrade: Canon 20D
I’ve been going on and on for a while now with all my friends about how I’m not going to get a new …
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Uptown Art Fair Conclusion
Tammy and I returned to the Uptown Art Fair after having previewed yesterday. We brought Mazie with …
: Uptown Art Fair Preview Tammy and I spent the afternoon at the Uptown Art Fair. This is by far our favorite art fair in the …
: del.icio.us I just discovered del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. What’s that you say? …
: Now I've Made .Text Unhappy I’ve modified and specialized this website so much it’s rather ridiculous. I use .Text for the site, …
July 2005
: 20-21 Restuarant Tammy and I went out for our anniversary this evening to 20-21, the new restuarant in the Walker Art …
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Congratulations Discovery!
When I was in the 2nd grade I had my heart broken. It wasn’t over some cute girl as you may expect. …
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Bicycle Commuting
I’ve been riding into work, bicycle commuting, for about a month now this summer. This is a big part …
: Lance Wins #7 I could have posted this a couple of days ago, Armstrong has had the 2005 Tour de France wrapped up …
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Mazie at 6 Weeks
Mazie will be six weeks old in a couple of days. This seems to be a pretty big milestone, at least …
: Hiking With Baby I was reading some “evergreen” content on BabyCenter.com tonight. They have some semi-decent content …
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Cutest baby ever, at least to her Dad. 🙂
: A Walk in the Woods It feels like a crime to re-read a book, at least for me. My reading list is as long as my arm …
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Go George! Hincapie Wins Stage!
Everyone, really, anybody knows Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France.Not everyone knows one of …
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Mowing the Lawn
This is a rather pointless post but I wanted to share that I think Ihave found the best music for …
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RC Cars Live!
Some would say that I have too many hobbies. I can’t help it! Ifind most things (particularly things …
: Blog Upgrades Applied a couple of upgrades to the blog this morning. Decent amount of work that will have …
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EarthRoamer: Now this is an RV!
Tammy and I have occasionally thought about getting an RV. We like to take long road trips and like …
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Windows Media Player as Infant Education
I learned a new trick tonight while holding Mazie. We were sitting onthe couch and I had my laptop …
: Mazie Turns 1-Month Today is Mazie’s 1-month birthday! It’s an odd stretch of time. It seems in some ways like forever …
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Happy Independence Day!
We aren’t doing much exciting for the fourth this year. I really like fireworks but with Mazie being …
: Lance and #7 (cont.) We are now past the 3rd stage of the tour and it’s clear that Discovery (formerly US Postal) has …
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Not All Fun and Games
Tomorrow Mazie celebrates becoming three weeks old. She is filled with anticipation of exciting …
: Lance and #7 It is the eve of the 92nd Tour de France. I love cycling. I think it is the best sport in the world, …
June 2005
: Comment Spam Protection Just implemented some further spam protection to keep the evil doers at bay. I installed this great …
: Power… Out… Again… Stunning! Shocking! Our power went out again at 4:04 pm today. It returned, fitfully with a lot of …
: Too Cold! Too Hot! The people at the hospital were clearly out of their mind when they decided that we could go home …
: Stopping TrackBack Spam with DotText I’ve seen a huge increase in trackback spam to my sites lately. It’s now reached hundreds a day. I …
: Mazie, The First Week A week ago today Mazie introduced herself to us. Since then Tammy and I have shifted from glee to …
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Being Daddy
Mazie turns 4 today, 4 days that is. It’s been an incredible four days. I realize everyone all over …
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New Addition
It is tradition that a husband get his wife a present after the delivery of a baby. After being in …
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Happy Birth Day Mazie Kaye!
Mazie Kaye Thingelstad was born on June 14th at 3:17 pm. She weighs 7 lbs 11 ozs and is 21 inches …
: Hardcore Geeking! I’ve been having fun with what I expect will be my last weekend of hardcore geeking with my gear at …
: Another Baby Update This should hopefully be the last of these baby updates before I’m putting up a picture of the …
: Back on the Air! I’ve been asked many times in the last day “Why is thingelstad.com down?” I guess I should be happy …
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Roku M1000
Today we go straight from the PhatBox MP3 player in the car to the Roku M1000 for the baby’s room. I …
: No Baby Yet Well it seems public opinion polling on thingelstad.com wasn’t very accurate for the baby delivery. …
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PhatBox Installed
I’ve felt for a long time that the car was absolutely the best platform for digital music. You can …
May 2005
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The Christmas Bell
Last week my mother came back from my grandparents farm with their computer. It had died, seemingly …
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Tree Mosaic
A few months ago my mother remodeled her kitchen and in the process she took out a window. This left …
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Star Wars III
Tammy and I went to Star Wars Episode III today. We made a point to go to the DLP theater at the …
: Daddy Boot Camp I went to North Memorial today for Daddy Boot Camp. They recently renamed the class to the much more …
: Fun with MRTG and SNMP I’ve been busy (obsessed) with getting SNMP monitoring of my home network working with MRTG for the …
: Breastfeeding Class Tonight Tammy and I took the breastfeeding class at North Memorial. I have to admit to a bit of …
: MnPASS I got my MnPASS transponder on Tuesday. I had my first opportunity to use it today on my drive into …
: Bike to Work Week Next week is national Bike-to-Work Week! Take the opportunity to dust off the bike, pump up the …
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thingelstad.com Data Center
Over the last few months I’ve been on a steady march to increase my server capacity at home. Why? …
: Finding Pants In Manhattan I woke up in my New York hotel at 7:00 am this morning very tired. I didn’t get to sleep until …
: Airplane Stare I’m writing this on a plane. I’m flying from MSP to LGA, or for those not so “in the know” from …
: Bad Leadership It’s really hard for me to stop reading a book. Once I start I feel like I’m obligated to finish it. …
: Google Web Accelerator, Just say NO! I’ve got a ton of respect for Google. They do an amazing job with search. Products like Google Maps …
: HTTP Compression I finally got HTTP compression working on content that matters – like ASPX pages. It looks like …
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Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway
Last night I saw the new production of Glengarry Glen Ross at the Royale Theatre on Broadway. We …
: Mac OS 10.4, Tiger? If you have been reading my site for a while you know that I’ve been reconnecting with my Macintosh …
April 2005
: Living Green Expo Tammy and I went to the Living Green Expo today. This is the 3rd year that we have went to it and …
: Attached To Baby I got a great email today from someone that used to work at our company. I haven’t seen her for …
: D.I.Y. Mosaic Tammy and I have taken a couple of mosaic classes in the past. It’s a surprisingly approachable and …
: Edward Tufte Yesterday I attended Presenting Data and Informtion taught by Edward Tufte. A number of people that …
: Happy Birthday! Today is my lovely wife’s birthday! Happy Birthday! I learned very quickly when Tammy and I started …
: Satellite Operators Devolving A while back we upgraded to a HD TiVo for our DirecTV setup. I’ve been loving the new TV (amazing!) …
: Baby Stirs We are now in the 35th week of the pregnancy. Of course I say we in the modern husband way that …
: Intranet for Home A couple of weeks ago I deployed my first intranet application for home. If your not familiar, an …
: Forget-me-not I’m horrible at remembering certain things. At the top of the list is remembering to change the …
: Name Voyager Tammy and I have been working with the name issue. The responsibility of giving another person the …
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New Laptop, Sony VGN-S360
While we were on our trip we swung into a Ballio’s electronics store. We don’t have these in …
: Photos From New Mexico and Colorado I just put up some selected photos from our trip to New Mexico and Colorado. Enjoy! Add photos …
: Vacation Is A Wrap Tammy and I just finished a really great meal at the “too trendy for a pregnant lady and her …
March 2005
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Final Night at Star Hill
The weather in the mountains here is very erratic. On our final day at Star Hill we woke up to snow …
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Stargazing Night Two
We spent the daylight hours today looking around northern New Mexico. We went in a big triangle from …
: To Infinity And Beyond We just finished our first night of viewing at Star Hill. Phil, the owner of Star Hill spent the …
: Getting There We drove yesterday for just under 14 hours to get to Denver. We had driven this route before and we …
: Haiku Driving with numbers Patterns surround us, flowing Enjoy Road Sign Math
: The Children's Blizzard I just finished reading David Laskin’s The Children’s Blizzard. If you grew up in the upper-midwest …
: Dead iMac G5 On Monday of this week I woke up and as I usually do after getting ready for the day went to sit …
: Make Minnetonka Bicycle Friendly I recently received a flier from the League of American Bicyclists regarding the Bicycling Friendly …
: Customer Service I just had one of those amazingly rare situations of having great customer service, with a bank no …
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Gettin' Jiggy With Power
Our power service is horrible (example, another). There is just no way around it. We seem to get …
: NetGear GS716T I’ve written on our site about some of the trials and tribulations I had with my previous gigabit …
: Baby Class Tammy and I went to our first baby class tonight. We are taking the 6-week Introduction to Child …
: [Moron] Dad Tip I’ve commented before on the incredibly poor quality of reading materials for dads-to-be. One of the …
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Lost in Babies-R-Us
Today Tammy and I truly realized how completely and totally clueless we are in some respects to our …
: I Don't Play a Plumber on TV I like to think that I’m not a helpless guy around the house. I try to fix things here and there. …
: Flying Rant Subject really says it all. This is definitely a rant. I’m writing this on a plane. I’ll post it …
February 2005
: Pokipsy For some reason I feel like writing something on my website tonight but I don’t really have a …
: Baby Update Tammy has decided that she is now “officially pregnant”. How this differs from the last 26 weeks I’m …
: Turn Off Annoying TVs! Ran across this product today and am tempted to order it just to have fun in sports bars! Some …
: Road Sign Math Launched! I’ve been dreaming up this driving game for a long time and I finally decided to launch the website! …
: Fractions and Life Every year just seems to go by faster, doesn’t it? How many times have you said that to yourself? …
: Weekend in Iowa City We just got back from a quick overnight trip to Iowa City to visit friends. We wanted to get out of …
: Lance on Oprah On Friday I got an email through one of the cycling mailing lists that I’m on that Lance Armstrong …
: Marketing Security Updates It was patch week from Microsoft this week. This month brought 9 or 10 security updates depending on …
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Million Dollar Baby
Tammy and I went to see Million Dollar Baby at the late matinee today. You would have to live under …
: Transferring thingelstad.com I just initiated a domain transfer of thingelstad.com from Register.com. I finally got fed up with …
: Yesterday hMail, today SquirrelMail Had last morning with hMailServer. This morning it was SquirrelMail’s turn. Decided to use this …
: Nice Bike Ride in February I took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather today to get out on my bike. I realize that you …
: Switch to hMail I’ve been a longtime user of Xmail for my home email services. Xmail has been stable, reliable, etc. …
: Felt a Kick! Tammy has been feeling the baby kick for a couple of weeks now. She didn’t know what it was at …
January 2005
: thingelstad.com Server Rebuilt My frequent visitors (all two of you! :-P) likely noticed that my site has been down since Saturday …
: HD Antennae Comparison Warning, this is a really geeky post. Reading about comparing the performance of two HD TV …
: Reading for Dad's to be I’ve picked up and received a number of books for men who are about to be a dad. I’m pretty amazed …
: Baby Update We had our second ultrasound appointment yesterday. It was amazing to see how much the baby had …
: MacMice Not So Great I have to withdraw my endorsement of the MacMice 2-button wheel mouse for the Mac. There are two …
: Now in High-Definition! If you are a regular reader of my site you may be thinking I’m on a consumer electronics binge at …
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Birthday Boy!
Today was my birthday. We went out of town to celebrate and spent a couple of days at the Spider …
December 2004
: Amazon Raising Funds for Red Cross I really don’t think the impact of the earthquake and tsunami have or will hit me. It’s hard to …
: Baby Check-In - Week 18 I haven’t chatted much about the baby since the initial announcement. It seems a little weird that …
: Fargo Redux We had a nice stay in Fargo however it is far from being the vacation get away that you may want to …
: Dell Coupons & eBay I’ve been trying to order this Dell 2005FPW monitor for a bit now and there is this (amazingly …
: Fargo Vacation Like a large percentage of my office mates and I’m guessing the country at large I’m taking this …
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Panasonic PV-GS400
I’ve now entered the world of digital video in addition to the digital photography one I’ve been in …
: In Code I just finished reading In Code by Sarah Flannery. Sarah’s book is about her love of mathematics and …
: Merry Christmas Tammy and I begin our Christmas journey today. We alternate Christmas and this year is a trip to my …
: Google Owns Everything in 2014 ← This is a well done, interesting future view of history now.
: Mac Mouse Done Right A little piece of heaven was waiting for me in my mailbox tonight. A few weeks ago I purchased an …
: Special Numbers Do you know what a googol is? A googol is a very, very large number. 1.0 * 10100. Or, in long-hand… …
: Trouble in Gig E Land In February I upgraded my home network to Gig E. The speed is great. However, a couple of days ago I …
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Oceans Twelve
Tammy and I along with her two sisters and their significant others went to see Oceans Twelve today. …
: Prime Number Hunt I’m reading a book on math (specifically cryptography). I was doing some searching online about …
: The Da Vinci Code The last time I read a book as aggressively as I read The Da Vinci Code had to be the Dune series. I …
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Let it snow...
Photo recap of the weekends activities. Feels like Christmas now!
November 2004
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What's the Matter With Kansas?
I heard about Thomas Frank’s book What’s the Matter With Kansas? on The Daily Show shortly after the …
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Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland is a really great movie. We went to see it today during a matinee and it seems …
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iMac G5
Those of you that have had to endure me rambling on and on about computers at some time probably …
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Change Game
Introduction When my wife and I decided to get married and start living together she found one of my …
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Thingelstads Announce Pregnancy
MINNETONKA, Nov 25, 2004 (BABYWIRE) – Jamie and Tammy Thingelstad took a moment out of their …
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Xbox Mod Night
Circuit boards, chinese takeout and ultrageek action. What can be more fun!? Sometimes a picture is …
: Stiff I just finished reading what has to be one of the stranger books I’ve read. Stiff is in a way like …
: MarketWatch Acquired by Dow Jones News hot off the wire! MarketWatch is being purchased by Dow Jones. Still very early. It’s great …
: Check In So far, so good in the quest to return to normalcy on the bathroom scale. Mostly the sugar headaches …
: Fiasco! This morning we had a mini-fiasco right here at home! Tammy was taking pictures with the Canon …
: Jay Farrar at Cedar Cultural Center I realized as I was watching Jay Farrar play on Thursday night that I’ve been watching him play …
: Day 1 It seems that I always decide to start focusing on eating better and dropping weight on Mondays. …
: A Short History of Nearly Everything I just finished reading the new Bill Bryson book A Short History of Nearly Everything. I’ve read a …
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Ira Glass at the Pabst Theater
On Saturday we found ourselves doing something that we both recalled we hadn’t done probably in a …
: The Incredibles On Friday night we went to see The Incredibles on opening night. We erred on the side of caution and …
: First Avenue R.I.P. I found out today that First Avenue has closed its doors. Anyone that spent there twenties in the …
: Friday Night Lights Friday Night Lights is the movie that you get when you mix Hoosiers with Any Given Sunday. The movie …
: Wassail Tea Ingredients 2 1/2 quarts of water 10 sticks of cinnamon 10 all spice berries 1/2 teaspoon whole …
October 2004
: Circus Juventas Boo Ball Tammy and I volunteered at the Circus Juventas Boo Ball last night. I think it’s a fairly common …
: The Man with 22 Clocks Hates DST I really don’t care for daylight savings time. There are a couple of things I appreciate. The …
: Electronic Voting Software I’m sitting here watching 60 Minutes tonight and they are doing a piece on electronic voting. If …
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Got The Xbox
After vowing to never buy another video game system ever again after dumping more money than I care …
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I Heart Huckabees
Tammy and I enthusiastically went to see I Heart Huckabees last night at the Uptown. We had seen a …
: Grand Superior Getaway This past weekend we spent our weekend up on the North Shore just north of Two Harbors, MN at the …
: Uncivil War The Uncivil War is not a book I would have typically purchased for myself. It was sent to me along …
: Defending the Caveman Last night Tammy and I went to Defending the Caveman by Rob Becker. I’d heard this was a really …
: Team America This Tuesday we got the opportunity (Thanks Chad!) to go and see a sneak preview of Team America. …
: I wouldn’t say that I’m a Francophile, but blocking cell phone signals in theatres sounds like a …
: TC 10 Mile Run I got to be the spectator today while Tammy did her longest running event ever. Today was the Twin …
: Napolean Dynamite Tammy and I went to Napolean Dynamite this evening. I have to admit right off that this movie did …
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New Vacuum
Having your own website is pretty fun. You get to be your own editor and can decide what things you …
September 2004
: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I think it was three years ago that I caught the Harry Potter bug. In a matter of a couple of months …
: Chet Ringwall in the Paper The Minot Daily News ran a big interview with my grandpa from my birth-fathers side of the family. …
: Hot Air Balloon Scams I broke this originally in early June when I wrote my Expose on the Hot Air Balloon industry. My …
: The Forgotten Last night Tammy and I went to The Forgotten. The movie was moderately entertaining, however I …
: Son Volt Back Together I got this email in my inbox today: NO ONE EVER SAID IT WAS OVER: SON VOLT REFORMS AND RETURNS TO …
: Thunderbird 0.8 I mentioned before that I’ve ditched Microsoft Outlook in favor of Thunderbird. I’ve been using …
: What is wrong with MSN Search? I’ve been having some “fun” (that’s in the geekiest sense of the word in this case) playing with …
: Too Fat for the Fat 40 The Fat 40 is over for another year. This has come to be my annual ‘rite of passage’ it seems. This …
: iPod Mini I’ve been belaboring the idea of getting an iPod for months. Really, this is probably one of the …
: Meditation Class I’ve been referenced several times to the benefits of meditation but I’ve never really understood …
: Norah Jones Concert Last night Tammy and I went to the Norah Jones concert at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. It was …
: The Metabolic Plan My friend Phil recommended The Metablic Plan by Stephen Cherniske to me recently and I just finished …
: Jesse James Century Ride Today Tammy and I, along with John Murphy from my office rode the Jesse James Century ride. This is …
: Public Radio does RSS I stumbled across this on the Internet tonight. Guess I just never thought to check, but National …
: Labor Day! Labor day is such a bittersweet holiday. It is always a fun time, but for those of us in the …
August 2004
: Manchurian [Haliburton] Candidate Tammy and I went to see the new version of the Manchurian Candidate last night. Much more …
: Renaissance Festival We made our 2nd trip of the year to the Renaissance Festival, this time with Tracy and Jeff. The …
: Satellite Radio We’ve decided that before we go on our next big road trip we are going to take the jump to satellite …
: Site Tuning I’ve been having a lot of fun lately tuning up our site. I’ve been able to “stand on the shoulders …
: Is fear of flying contagious? I’ve flown many times. In fact, at one point I was flying about 50% of the time for work. Week in …
: Garden State Tonight Tammy and I took it easy and went to a movie. We decided to check out Garden State. I really …
: Bourne Supremacy Tammy and I went to The Bourne Supremacy last night. Fun movie with a lot of action and suspense. …
: Heart Rate Data from the Peloton Many of you know that I’m a gear junkie. I record my heart rate on all my rides and runs. Why? …
: Thunderbird I’ve really not cared for Outlook Express for quite a while now so I’m giving Mozilla Thunderbird a …
: Vacation Recap It’s a week later and we finally finished putting up everything from our trip. It takes a while to …
: 0600 Zurich - 1800 Uptown Art Fair I just finished putting the journal entries that I kept while we were on the hiking portion of our …
: Death by Meeting While I was on vacation I wanted to read a light-hearted business book. I like to have something to …
: Casaccia to Soglio Today’s Stats: Moving Time 3h 54m Distance: 9.2 miles Ascent: 1,656’ Max Elevation: 4,822’ We had …
: Piz Lunghin Summit Today’s Stats: Moving Time: 5h 4m Distance: 9.5 miles Ascent: 3,589’ Max Elevation: 9,124’ Shirley …
: Pontresina to Sils Maria Today’s Stats: Moving Time: 4h 58m Distance: 11.9 miles Ascent: 2,506’ Max Elevation: 7,437’ There …
: Zuoz to Pontresina Today’s Stats: Moving Time: 4h 19m Distance: 8.5 miles Ascent: 2,526’ Max Elevation: 9,061’ Last …
: Zuoz to Chamanna Des-Cha Hut and back Today’s Stats: Moving Time: 4h 13m Distance: 9.6 miles Ascent: 2,956’ Max Elevation: 8,520’ When we …
July 2004
: Scuol to Guarda First of all, let me wish my sister Alona a Happy Birthday! I was on the other side of the world and …
: Heft On Wheels Most people that know me know that I used to weigh quite a lot. Then I weighed a lot less. Now I …
: Planes, Trains and Automobiles I’m sitting in the most luxurious form of transportation that I’ve ever experienced. We are taking a …
: Zurich and on to the mountains... After our amazing train ride we arrived in Zurich. Switzerland is such a different place than …
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Last Call from Paris!
In my last note I mentioned how confusing Paris was to get around. Amazingly enough I think I’m …
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Paris Update
Yesterday was our 2nd anniversary. It seems like it’s been so much longer than two years, in a good …
: The Stepford Wives Oh boy, we did it again, went to yet another movie in Paris. This time the Stepford Wives. Fun …
: Spiderman Deux Tammy and I went and saw Spiderman 2 this evening in Paris. I always think it sounds kind of wierd …
: Fin de Course or Intermission, Act II The thing that I liked most about coming to see the Tour de France in person were the sights and …
: Tour de France 2004 Stage 20 - Montereau to Paris (Champs Elysees) Today we saw what we came here to see, history being made. Lance crossed the finish line on the …
: I Need a Vacation From My Vacation I’m writing this entry on the bus ride back to Paris. We got up again at 6:00 am so we could head …
: Tour de France 2004 Stage 19 - Besancon to Besancon Today was the best ride of the trip. Tammy and I figured that while we had suffered up some mountain …
: Tour de France 2004 Stage 18 - Annemasse to Lons-le-Saunier Today we left Grenoble and departed for Beaune where we will spend the next 2 nights. We rode on the …
: A Glass of Ice Water What happened to refrigeration when Europe got their hands on it? There is nothing that is really …
: Tour de France 2004 Stage 17 - Bourg d'Oisans to Le Grand-Bornand Today was the dreaded day of the tour climbing two Hors (beyond) category climbs. Tammy took a sick …
: Tour de France 2004 Stage 16 - Bourg d'Oisans to L'Alpe d'Huez Today was the most hyped stage of the 2004 Tour de France. When the tour route was announced last …
: In Grenoble! Tammy and I are in a smoky Internet cafe in Grenoble… Sounds like the beginning to a good novel. :-) …
: Tour de France 2004 Stage 15 - Valreas to Villard-de-Lans This is the first day that we actually get to see the Tour de France on the road. We went out for …
: Ready to go... I was pleased to wake up this morning feeling better than yesterday. A good nights sleep thanks to …
: I Can't Believe It! I got a cold the day before we go to Europe! Argh! It’s Chris Tersteeg’s fault – he gave it to me. …
: Chequamegon Fat 40 — I'm in! Way back in February I submitted my entry for the Chequamegon Fat Tire race. I’ve done the “Fat 40” …
: Getting Ready for France Tammy and I dropped our bikes off at Erik’s Bike Shop tonight to get them packed in the Trico Iron …
: ALARC Legends 5k Tammy and I did the ALARC Legends 5k this morning. Tammy has just started taking a running class …
: Learn to Row Pictures I took my camera gear to rowing class today and went with our coach Lauren in the launch (motor …
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Mother's Kitchen Demolition
Tammy and I went and helped my mom today with the demolition of her kitchen. She’s been working on …
: All 8, Row! We had our second “on the water” session in our Learn to Row class tonight at MRC. Tonight was …
: Learn to Row Tammy and I are taking the “Learn to Row” class at the Minneapolis Rowing Club. Tonight was our …
: Canon PowerShot S500 We recently added yet another camera to our collection of digital cameras. There is absolutely …
: Stillwater Fireworks I lived in the Twin Cities for a number of years without anyone ever mentioning a thing about the …
: The (Not So Good) Taste of Minnesota Tonight Tammy and I planned to cap off a really great 4th of July weekend with a trip to the Taste …
: Watermelon Ride Every year TCBC holds it’s annual 4th of July ride called the Watermelon Ride. It’s aptly named …
: Internet Oddities I ran across this Tron suit page and was stunned, confused and frightened. Just had to share it.
: The Tour is On! It is really a treat to be a cycling fan in America these days. As little as 4 years ago it was hard …
: The Terminal Tammy and I went to The Terminal tonight. I gotta admit that I liked this movie a lot more than I …
: Race Across America The hardest sporting event in the world is finishing up right now. RAAM (the Race Across America) …
June 2004
: More Bandwidth, Same Price I called up TimeWarner today about my cable modem service. I’ve had it for a couple of years now and …
: Rain and the Average Cyclist (Tour of Saints) Here is the scene… You’re sitting in your car watching the rain drops steadily hit the windshield. …
: Minnetonka 8k We did the Minnetonka Summer Festival 8k run this morning. This is the first time we have done this …
: Music Nirvana Achieved! Anybody that has talked to me about music recently knows that I’ve been working on a huge project to …
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Fahrenheit 9/11
Today was the opening day for Fahrenheit 9/11 (there was an early opening in New York on Wednesday). …
: What is that yellow thing on your wrist? If you are curious it is a Live Strong wristband. This is part of the Wear Yellow fundraising …
: Bicycle Hit and Run It’s amazing to me how hostile some drivers are to people on bicycles. This article in the Star …
: Space History The first privately funded spacecraft successfully reached suborbital space today!
: Power Blip Our power, which is horrible and goes out on a regular basis blipped today. This was a very short …
: Dodgeball! We went and saw Dodgeball tonight and I have to admit that while it’s a pretty stupid movie it is …
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Paintball
Tammy and I went and played paintball today. It was pretty fun. Neither of us had done this before. …
: Fresh Strawberries Tammy and her Mom went and picked fresh strawberries today. I’ve already had at least a pound and a …
: MarketWatch Golf Outing We just got done with the annual MarketWatch golf outing today. It was a great day.
: Prince Tammy and I went to the Prince concert last night at the Xcel Center. I’ve never seen Prince before …
: Privacy or the Lack Thereof “The average American is listed in at least 50 databases, and that’s not counting government files.” …
: Good Article on Digital Photography Here is a series of three articles called Beyond Megapixels (part 1, 2 and 3) that is a very good …
: Stillwater Classic On our way back from our camping excursion we stopped in Stillwater and watched the final stage of …
: There is nothing redeeming about mosquitos We just got back from a quick overnight car camping trip to St. Croix State Park. The beauty of car …
: Easy Does It 5-mile Run Tammy and I just finished the Easy Does It 5-mile run in Plymouth. We were going to do the Rally for …
: Bike Racing in Downtown We just got back from watching Stage 3 of the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival. This is the …
: Grilled Tandoori Chicken 1 (4 to 4 1/2 pound) chicken, cut into 8 pieces, skin removed 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1/2 cup …
: Just got back from seeing Super Size Me! Should be a wake up call to everyone. Also saw a preview …
: Tailwinds Are Nice I’ve been commuting to work on my bike again. It’s such a great way for me to get to work and with …
: Rain Gutters Installed It seems lately that nearly every day there is something happening on our house. We don’t have any …
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Edina Art Fair
Tammy and I went to the Edina Art Fair today. The fair is bigger than it has been in recent years. …
: Lance Commercial It’s prime time for the cycling season right now. Over the course of the last 4 years I’ve developed …
: North Col of Everest or Bust One of the guys at MarketWatch in our New York office, Rowan Hajaj, recently took off to go to the …
: Apple Duathlon! I’m exhausted! Tammy and I completed our very first multi-sport event. We did the Apple Duathlon in …
: House Painted Our house is finally done getting painted. Everything is back where it belongs. Yeah!
: Go California The People’s Republic of California is an interesting state. While there are many referendums and …
: House Painting nearly complete At this very moment the painters are removing the plastic covering from all the windows in our …
: Expose of the Hot Air Balloon Industry I’m sitting on a huge story and I think I should be calling our headline desk to break it. There is …
April 2004
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Project Terabyte!
A couple of months ago, not that long after I decided I needed gigabit networking at home, I decided …
February 2004
: Got Gig? A couple weeks ago I made the big jump to GigE at home. Why have gigabit ethernet at home? Why not! …
June 2003
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Apostle Islands Kayak Trip
Tammy and I took a weekend kayak trip with Trek & Trail out of Bayfield, WI recently. The trip was …
March 2003
: Bob Evans Pancakes! I’m sitting this morning at the counter of a Bob Evans restaurant in Marion, IL. I’ve never been to …
: Discovery Cove Photos from our day in Discovery Cove!
: Magic Kingdom Woke up early and can’t fall back asleep. Figured I would just write a little. Tammy is sound asleep …
January 2003
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Blue Dog Mural
When we were on our honeymoon in Denver, Tammy saw this piece of art in a gallery and instantly fell …
July 2001
: Ardell & Rose Chrest's 50th Anniversary
March 2001
: Hellweek, Day 7 - Rollercoaster Ride We followed up the death ride with the Rollercoaster. I have to admit, aside from the headwinds and …
: Hellweek, Day 6 - The Leakey Death Ride I SURVIVED THE DEATH RIDE! Before I get into the details of the death ride, let me give you where we …
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Hellweek, Day 5 - Born to Boerne
Todays ride was a mentally exhausting ride. 102 miles that took nearly 7 hours to complete. We …
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Hellweek, Day 4 - Fred's Ride
Fred’s Ride is named after a friend of Nick’s, the Hellweek organizer who passed away a couple years …
: Hellweek, Day 3 - Southern Comfort We had a re-route on the beginning of today’s ride since one of the bridges was flooded, this cut a …
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Hellweek, Day 2 - The Harper Image
Today was a long ride. 😀 Little over a thousand more vertical feet of climbing than we had …
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Hellweek, Day 1 - LBJ Ramble
Let’s actually start with yesterday, Friday. Got into San Antonia, got the bike from luggage, all …
: Hellweek Gear Test 2 Second gear test, got everything working the way I want this time. Below you can see the ride that I …
: Hellweek Gear Test 1 Took my GPS on my ride with me to do a gear test before heading to Texas. Had the heart rate monitor …
March 2000
: Caribbean Vacation: Day 2 Boats rock a lot, even big ones. Rum, Gin and Tequila don’t help the rocking boat. Tomorrow is the …
: Caribbean Vacation: Day 1 Got into San Juan at 4:00p. Got sent to the El San Juan Hotel instead of the Old San Juan Hotel, …