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My first meaningful print with the new Bambu P2S is a Gridfinity setup for my office desk. The grid …
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We saw Project Hail Mary today and it was every bit as good as everyone that has seen it has told …
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We got most of the TeamSPS folks at MnTech Connect together for a group photo.
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Great live demos at The Agentic Workflow: A Live Demo of Autonomous Execution Across the
SDLC from …
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Great session on AI transformation from Matthew Green of Accenture at MnTech Connect today.
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Great session on Shipping a Customer-Facing Al Agent: Lessons from Moving Fast Without Breaking …
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Looking forward to a meaningful day of learning at today’s MnTech Connect event! Many good sessions …
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“Your EFI shell is showing…”
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This years family yearbook is another amazing time capsule. Tammy makes one each year and they are …
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I’ve tried to get used to “Click wallpaper to show desktop” for long enough now …
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There is engagement to be harvested at the extremes of everything.
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Escape in Europe — Day 15
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POAP 7578037 at I passed through Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) in 2026.
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Escape in Europe — Day 14
Mazie’s Barcelona Finale
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99 Cheesecake is one of Mazie’s absolutely favorite spots in Barcelona. We have to agree! Her …
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Fun stop exploring Gaudi House.
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Bitcoin street art in Barcelona.
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Flat white at Hidden Coffee Roasters.
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Centre de Cultura é Memoria.
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Stop at Dashu for some Japanese Pokémon packs.
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Our map for today’s Mazie led tour of Barcelona.
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Escape in Europe — Day 13
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Escape in Europe — Day 12
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We had a great time meeting Mazie’s home stay host in Barcelona!
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Glad I’m not one of these two climbing and hanging off of the top cross of Sagrada Familia this …
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Escape in Europe — Day 11
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Sagrada Família in Barcelona.
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Escape in Europe — Day 10
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Can’t wait to try out Prompt 3.5 on the Vision Pro when we get home.
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Escape in Europe — Day 9
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Afternoon cappuccino with espresso starter at Strada in Paris.
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Escape in Europe — Day 8
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We are just over half of our escape rooms done for our Escape in Europe trip. The Alchemist was my …
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Morning light on Sleeping Beauty’s Castle as Disneyland Paris opens.
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Escape in Europe — Day 7
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Nice dinner at Chez Rémy Bistro at Disneyland Paris.
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We’ve got our backpacks with a change of clothes and heading to the Metro to go to Disneyland Paris! …
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Escape in Europe — Day 6
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We found Mazie in Paris!
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I’m very happy with how our Escaping Thjngs website has shaped up. It showcases our escape room …
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Return visit to Sango in Amsterdam for a special espresso and capuccino. Train to Paris in a couple …
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Escape in Europe — Day 5
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We met Charlie and Isaac, visiting from the UK, who were making the most of their unlimited beers on …
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Escape in Europe — Day 4
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Good morning from Brussels, Belgium. 🇧🇪
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Escape in Europe — Day 3
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Escape in Europe — Day 2
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Escape in Europe — Days -1, 0, 1
Day -1 (March 13)
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Delicious breakfast and coffee at Kek in Delft.
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Catching train to Delft for the day! This was supposed to be day two so tiredness will be real.
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POAP 7574839 at I passed through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) in 2026.
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Fun running into former colleagues Sam and Andy on our flight to AMS.
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Flight seems to be holding. Should be boarding in 35 minutes. MSP is much, much quieter than normal. …
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Our flight to AMS is still listed as on time, but the Misery Map sure paints an ugly picture.
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Sunday morning. Working on the Weekly Thing. Codex improving Elixir in another window. Coffee. …
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Since our flight was cancelled we decided to watch a campy movie — Anaconda to the rescue.
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Codex: The codebase feels much healthier after the recent changes. I agree Codex.
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Was supposed to be flying to Amsterdam tomorrow at 6:50 PM on DL 162 and they have already cancelled …
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Fun morning irrationally celebrating π Day - 0.01! 🥧
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POAP 7573675 at TeamSPS Pi Day 2026.
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OpenClaw just eats tokens like an animal.
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Automatic Programming Speed
This morning with my morning coffee (skipped meditation, intermingled with getting ready) I shipped …
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POAP 7572781 at Vijay 10,000 Battles Won | POAP KINGS.
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Tammy and I had a great evening seeing Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway live for Resist and …
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At Fat Pants Brewing watching the Australian GP and the start of the 2026 F1 season! My cousin Quinn …
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We saw Hoppers today and it was really good. Our kids are not so kid-like anymore, but a bunch of …
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Making Elixir Smarter
Elixir has come a super long way and is very agentic. In usage though its intelligence was really …
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POAP 7571531 at Elixir | POAP KINGS.
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Tammy and I saw Jason Isbell tonight at the Armory. This was our first time seeing him perform which …
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I have @ottoai exercising the agent-first mb micro.blog client and have Claude Code working on the …
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Our ride home parked at gate 83.
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I just learned that you can register a Shortcut in Unread to create your own actions for feed items. …
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Ringing Nasdaq Closing Bell!
We were in New York today to ring the closing bell for the Nasdaq! This is a really incredible …
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Delicious coffee this morning at Blue Bottle Bryant Park. Not going to score top presentation …
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I can certainly do a lot with OpenClaw, but when you turn around and realize you used $30 of LLM …
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Wonderful evening photo walk around Manhattan tonight.
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Just asked Claude to test mb for an extended run: Okay. I’m going to go on a walk for about an …
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My last two flights I’ve spent the entire time working with coding agents on projects. The time just …
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POAP 7570327 at I passed through LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in 2026.
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If your reading my blog you should really consider reading my daughter’s blog too. @mthingelstad has …
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Working with Claude Code to create mb, a micro.blog client optimized for agents. Fun and wild …
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We watched Family Plan 2 tonight. Not going to win any Academy Awards, but an enjoyable movie.
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Feb 28 and 20 °F in Minnesota — let’s play soccer! Go United! Home opener. ⚽️
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It is time to officially celebrate Pokémon Day. Rip ‘em!
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I got my first shingles vaccine tonight and am hoping I’m not one of the unlucky ones that …
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It is bonkers to me that I just built a project that I’ve been curious about while laying in bed, …
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Starting a Claude Code task before I begin my morning meditation… will grab the pull request when …
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I’ve been working on this new site, Escaping Things, that is the full index of all of our escape …
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POAP 7568495 at raquaza 12k | POAP KINGS.
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POAP 7568455 at Chanco 10k | POAP KINGS.
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Sometimes a concert is great music, sometimes it is a great experience, and sometimes it is …
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Excited for Brandi Carlile to take the stage!
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Thanks to Games by James call ahead list we got an Ascended Heroes ETB!
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Beautiful street art in downtown Toronto.
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Had a great time doing a lunch AMA with TeamSPS in Brampton today. Also got to see some great demos. …
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I’ve been preparing to setup OpenClaw. I decided my agents name will be Otto. Otto Thing.
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POAP 7567133 at TeamSPS 100 Quarters of Growth.
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The Lex Fridman Podcast: 491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter …
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POAP 7566168 at I passed through Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 2026.
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Just ordered a dedicated Mac Mini so I can setup an OpenClaw instance. Can’t wait to experiment with …
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POAP 7566021 at I passed through Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) in 2026.
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We had a great time at Activate today playing all the various rooms. The new puzzle mode in the Mega …
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My POAP2RSS project needed some form of an icon and the design was super bland so I had ChatGPT help …
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POAP 7565311 at POAP KINGS Sunday Scrimmage 1.
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POAP 7565227 at King Thing 10k | POAP KINGS.
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Today is the day you can go to the grocery store early and watch bewildered men stare at the …
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Tyler wanted to do an escape room on his birthday so we went to Lock & Key Escape and completed …
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I hit 10k in Clash Royale! Go POAP KINGS! Here is the battle for posterity.
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POAP 7563511 at SPS MAX Introduction.
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Bought Revenue Architecture by Jacco van der Kooij on a strong recommendation and it looks really …
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Mason Jennings show at The Dakota tonight. Lovely. 🎶
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POAP 7562293 at POAP KINGS Founder.
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POAP 7562288 at SPS Ignite 2026.
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Our SPS Ignite 2026 Give Back event tonight included building a mini-golf course with pool noodles …
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Excited to kick off SPS Ignite 2026! Today is going to be amazing.
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We had a fabulous keynote from JP Pawliw on the Last Eight Percent today.
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Om Malik has been writing incredible blog posts lately! Velocity was amazing, Evidence continued, …
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POAP 7561204 at The Molt Epoch Begins.
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We watched Knives Out: Glass Onion tonight. Fit the pattern of the first one. Was filmed during …
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Easy and just are “four letter words”. Can we just add one more option? It seems easy to …
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These signs are all over in Minneapolis right now.
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Tyler and I went to Micro Center just to browse and look around. Seeing the prices on DIMMs was …
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Crisp morning with light snow. Perfect time for a soak. ❄️🔥💦
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Watched Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere today and it was great. I’m also a huge fan …
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Miscut Perrserker
Tyler and I enjoy collecting Pokémon cards together and one of the cards I collect is Perrserker, …
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Excited to see that Perrserker has arrived in Pokemon TCG Pocket! The full art featuring a Viking …
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My cousin Quinn @quinntchrest and I taking in our first game at the new St. Thomas Anderson Arena …
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The print copies of the Yearly Thing arrived from Lulu! I’m very happy with how the formatting …
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We enjoyed watching Finch tonight. The story was surprisingly touching given that it is just one …
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We had a great time at the TCG only Minnesota Card Show at Canterbury today.
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Candlelight vigil in our neighborhood. 🕯️
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We went to Yum! Kitchen to celebrate twenty years of this being one of our regular restaurants. I …
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Orka Bar
We were watching Shark Tank one night and Orka Bar was one of the products. I thought it sounded …
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Amazon Spending
Peter Rukavina posted a graph of his Amazon spending and I couldn’t resist taking a look at my …
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POAP 7554247 at Yearly Thing 2025.
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I made a book — Yearly Thing 2025
For a couple of years now I’ve been wondering if there was a book version of the Weekly Thing. …
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Tyler and I made our way out to Chaska to check out The Forge. This was on our list of card shops to …
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I just finished up this Weekly Thing adjacent project that I started over Christmas. Just a bit more …
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We watched Knives Out tonight, again. Tyler hadn’t seen it and now that there are two sequels …
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Tammy and I saw Marty Supreme at the Edina 4 theatre this afternoon. Fantastic performance from …
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World Snow Celebration
It was a very cold morning but we made it out to see the World Snow Celebration and the snow …
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Delicious Gingerbread Latte and breakfast at Mon Petit Cheri in Stillwater.
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Tammy and I had a delicious evening at Rio 1854 — the Surf & Turf for two was amazing. …
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POAP 7552077 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad in Winter 2026.
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Good data visualizations showing ICE presence versus police in Twin Cities area.
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At our very first Minnesota Gophers basketball game in the Barn Lofts! 🏀
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POAP 7550517 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2025.
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I’ve been having fun playing Clash Royale with Tyler — he’s my coach and is really good …
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Excited to see the MSP airport has been added to the Airport POAP Rally! Follow the Rally. ✈️
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Mazie is doing her final packing and preparation to depart tomorrow for her semester abroad in …
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Escape Rooms of 2025
This year we jumped way into our Escape Room adventures, more than any previous year. We completed …
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We had a great time solving the Scooby-Doo™ and the Spooky Castle Adventure room at Escapology …
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I’ve always thought it would be amazing to go to a World Cup match and with the 2026 FIFA …
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Stone Pit Old Fashioned (bourbon, apricot, demerara, peach tincture) at Animale’s. Tasty. 🥃
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Tammy and I watched Roofman, a kind of crazy story about a guy that escapes from prison and lives in …
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I made it to Arena 23 Valkalla in Clash Royale! 🙌
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POAP 7548446 at r/POAP: Your Favorite POAP of 2025.
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Pokémon Pocket Collection at 100 Days
In September I started playing with Pokémon Pocket as the First Anniversary celebration was coming …
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Ran into some Kubb players from LiHiKubb practicing for the Loppet Kubb Tournament in Linden Hills …
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We had a great time completing the Loose Sleuth escape room at Puzzleworks. The puzzles in the room …
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Birthday Kingfield and London Fog at Five Watt. ☕️
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Impromptu stop at Tower Games and got this Penny trainer card. Like the art a lot.
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Sadly Sunstreet Breads is closing — our last visit as a family to this great bakery!
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Great cappuccino and Raspberry Cream Scone at Sunstreet Breads for birthday breakfast.
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POAP 7547791 at Jamie Thingelstad's 54th Birthday.
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Lasagna assembly complete! Carreras, Domingo, and Pavarotti are done singing. See this delicious pan …
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Making my special homemade lasagna and “playing one of the most important ingredients” I …
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We had a great time at Mt. Itasca today — cross country skiing, downhill skiing, and snowboarding …
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Very good lunch at Smoke on the Water in Coleraine today. Great view inside of Trout Lake.
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POAP 7547581 at My First ERP.
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Staying at the Doc House Suites in Grand Rapids and was impressed to see pour over setup was …
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POAP 7547377 at POAP Airport Rally 2026 Boarding Pass.
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Booked our spring break flights to Amsterdam, with train travel in the middle, then visiting Mazie …
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It seems nearly every platform does a “wrapped” or year-in-review thing now. Only some …
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Family game time with Skittles.
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This fox is a pretty frequent visitor around the lake.
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Starting on my Christmas LEGO project: the Ferrari SF-24. 1,361 pieces in 455 steps.
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Soak in the hot tub while the sauna heats up. ❄️🔥💦
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Got my complete collection of Perrserker cards in my binder.
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Tyler and I just opened a Mega Evolutions ETB and he hit with the gold Mega Lucario ex! Best pull …
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Airport POAP Rally Website
I was super excited to see POAP create the Airport POAP Rally 2026 collection. Location-based POAPs …
:
Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day. 🎄
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Wassail Tea, Lefse, Carrot Cake — these are some of the traditions of Christmas for us. 🎄
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ChatGPT’s Year in Review is pretty neat.
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This is a big deal. America’s Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill version of …
:
100 Years of the Opry!
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Opry Country Christmas
We went to the Grand Ole Opry for Opry Country Christmas. It was a fun evening with a wide variety …
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Legend of the Yeti Escape Room
We got a very slow start in the Legend of the Yeti room at The Escape Game Nashville today. This was …
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We completed the Ruins: Forbidden Treasure room at Escape Game Nashville today. This was a really …
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POAP 7542328 at Christmas in Nashville.
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Now that is a big tree! Gaylord Opryland Resort. 🎄
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Tons of Pokémon cards in this kiosk at MSP Airport — and only 400% more expensive than it should be! …
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POAP 7541524 at Horizon Workday Go Live.
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Clash Royale milestone — first card to level 16, Witch!
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Old Fashioned at Aster House.
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Mazie and Tyler finished their Gingerbread Houses for 2025! Delightful. 🎄
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The cure for sub-zero temperatures. 🥶🔥
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These meme ornaments at Runamuck Workshop made me laugh.
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MnTech Outlook 2026
Interesting comments on big goals for their organizations and the community this morning at MnTech …
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Great dinner at Salut celebrating my friend Jim’s birthday and a final visit before Salut closes at …
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This morning’s moment in Waking Up was wonderfully simple. You have one job, and it consists …
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We went to our 3rd St. Olaf Christmas Festival tonight. Mazie is in St. Olaf Chapel Choir with the …
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We tried out Loon Liquor in Northfield today for lunch. The pizza was really good and the distillery …
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I created a Connect page on my site that is simply an index of my profiles on various platforms.
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Add to List Shortcut
OmniFocus is my trusted system for tracking all of my commitments, as well as my “someday, …
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Another great New Standards Holiday Show in the books!
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Excited for this year’s New Standards Holiday Show! 🎄🎅
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I love the words play and tinker. It is very important for me to have projects that I can play and …
:
Clash Royale check-in:
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It was cool to be featured on Buttondown’s customer stories about how I use it for the Weekly …
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I gave Gemini “Thinking 3 Pro” and Nano Banana Pro a more interesting question tonight. …
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Wishing everyone in retail a good Cybermonday from the #TeamSPS Observation Station.
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Hanging out with my cousin Quinn and his friends at Fat Pants Brewing for this mornings Formula 1 …
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We saw Wicked For Good at the Edina 4 theatre tonight. Stellar movie, as good if not better than the …
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I’m feeling pretty smart ordering candle supplies for next year’s Things 4 Good Candle …
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Wonderful 11 foot tree strapped to the top of the Model Y.
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POAP 7529645 at Weekly Thing — Reddit Revival.
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Happy Thanksgiving from my Mom and I!
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1,000th candle
We were talking over dinner about the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser and thinking we should make …
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POAP 7529255 at Things 4 Good – 2026 Scent Survey.
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Bummer that the United’s season comes to an end tonight with a loss in San Diego but they played …
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Tammy and I saw Davina and the Vagabonds at The Dakota tonight. It was my first time seeing them and …
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Having fun preparing for the Things 4 Good 2026 Scent Survey. I have 10 new scents ready for folks …
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Pokémon Card Shop Saturday
Tyler and I went on a drive around the cities yesterday to check out some Pokémon card shops in …
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Commanding performance by Verstappen to take the lead on the first turn and never let up the entire …
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Tyler and I opened our first Pokémon Ultra-Premium Collection tonight. No big pulls but some good …
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After we’ve made hundreds of candles for the Candle Fundraiser it is fun to casually pour a bunch of …
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“Oh, I know I have that Pokémon card in here somewhere. Just let me look in this pile.” …
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I don’t know when or what app did this but I finally purged a bunch of Twitter …
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POAP 7521420 at Horizon Oracle Finance Go Live.
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MnTech Elevate was hosted in the Delta Sky360° Club at U.S. Bank Stadium and we got to take tours of …
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We had a great TeamSPS presence at MnTech Elevate tonight celebrating the local technology community …
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Selfie with Joel Crandall, CEO of MnTech, moments before we kick off the very first MnTech Elevate …
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Paragraph has now merged with Mirror and I decided to set up cross-posting to give it a try. …
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Farewell Ponder and Weekly Thing Forum
In September 2023, I introduced the Weekly Thing Forum with the hope of creating a space for readers …
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Burning this many wooden wick candles at once is actually pretty noisy — so much crackle! 😮
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Gall's Law
I was listening to The Omni Show — How Jorge Arango Uses OmniFocus. It was an overall good episode …
:
You can still find me on the web.
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Things 4 Good Five Year Impact
We’ve now done our Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for five years. With the amazing support of …
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Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Insights
We have wrapped up the 5th annual Candle Fundraiser. I’m proud to say that we raised $9,048 in …
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Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Results
We completed our annual candle sale raising $9,048 for the four organizations we picked! That is a …
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POAP 7496955 at Farewell Ponder.
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My happy place. Now add snow. ❄️🔥
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It is cold enough again to fire up the sauna! 🔥
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I hadn’t heard of Underwood Coffee from Duluth before but found their beans at Frgmnt in SPS …
:
I’ve had a blast learning Clash Royale with Tyler. They just announced a bunch of changes to …
:
It is a rare sight for the Northern Lights to be visible in Minneapolis.
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Realized we had some big usability issues in our donation tracking sheets for day 1 of Things 4 Good …
:
Tonight’s MN United v Seattle Sounders playoff match had everything! Without a doubt the most …
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My buddy Jim and I enjoying Kramarczuk’s sausages at Allianz Field during the Minnesota United …
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We are ready to host our fifth annual Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser today! We are supporting …
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Tyler is ready for tomorrow’s United game! ⚽️
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Glasses 👓
I picked up my new glasses today. I’ve had to use readers for a while but in the last few years my …
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POAP 7487921 at Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser.
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Even the kids elementary school has gotten into this “6 — 7” thing. 🤷♂️
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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 …
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Making more candles for the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for next week! I got the labels a little …
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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! 😊
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I’ve been using a Libre 3 Plus continuous glucose monitor and paying more attention to the …
:
Writing blog posts backdated a couple of days to when the thing actually happened is the most …
:
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 …
:
Tron: Ares
Tammy, Tyler, and I went to Tron: Ares tonight at Emagine Willow Creek. I’d been wanting to …
:
My cousin Josh’s most recent essay Can-Can is a great read told from his own experience as a …
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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 …
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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.
:
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 …
:
At the Minnesota Card Show Pokémon event today with Tyler and saw the most expensive thing …
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Team Red, White, and Blue out running the Twin Cities Marathon this morning!
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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!
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I’m using the new Use Model capability in Shortcuts to bring My Version number to life on my …
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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 …
:
Taking my (very dirty) boat in for the winter.
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Chromatic firmware upgrade to 4.0! I love the retro vibe of the updater app. 🤩
:
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. …
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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 …
:
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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We found the Illuminati. 😁
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Drive-thru metrics. Needs some sparklines. Too many numbers, not enough easy to read lines.
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After following Tyler to Pokémon TCG Pocket I decided to also try one of his favorite games — Clash …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Use Apple Intelligence Models in Shortcuts
Shortcuts on OS 26 got a big new feature with the ability to use Apple Intelligence models directly. …
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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 …
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Lakeville Art Festival
We found ourselves with some open time this weekend and decided to check out the Lakeville Art …
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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 …
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Easy Way or the Hard Way
Government censorship the “easy way or the hard way”. ABC, a television network owned …
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SPS TechJam 2025
We wrapped up the 10th anniversary of SPS TechJam 2025 today. TechJam is our internal …
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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 …
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POAP 7453396 for SPS Women in Tech Q3 2025 Lunch & Learn. The image for this POAP was created …
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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 …
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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.
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I’m slowly starting to adopt the new Planned Date in OmniFocus 4.7. At a minimum it will …
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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 …
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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 …
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It always makes me smile when we get a new sign for Road Sign Math. 🤓
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Mapping out the final six locations we need to collect for Tammy, Mazie, and Tyler to also win the …
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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. ⚽️
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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.
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POAP 7441195 at 612 POAP Challenge - Collected Them All!.
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POAP 7441192 at 612 POAP Challenge - Minneapolis Marvel.
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POAP 7441189 at 612 POAP Challenge - Culture Collector.
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POAP 7441187 at 612 POAP Challenge - Bridge Builder.
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POAP 7441174 at Midtown Global Market — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7441162 at Walker Art Center — 612 POAP Challenge.
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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 …
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POAP 7441115 at 35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Escalator at Guthrie Theater.
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POAP 7441086 at Guthrie Theater — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7441075 at Gold Medal Building — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7441068 at Stone Arch Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7438321 at First Avenue — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7438319 at Target Headquarters — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7433350 at Al’s Breakfast — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7432579 at Northrop Chair — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7432143 at Goldy Gopher — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7431210 at Witches Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
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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 …
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Delightful evening strolling through Utrecht tonight.
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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 …
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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 …
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Blogging with Messages
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Blog Categories via LLM
After using GPT-5 to create category introductions for my website I got to thinking about the …
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POAP 7409077 at 612 POAP Challenge - Lake Lover.
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I collected my 200th POAP by claiming 7409051 at Minneapolis Institute of Art, part of the 612 POAP …
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POAP 7409036 at Martin Olav Sabo Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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POAP 7408993 at Lake Hiawatha — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Out collecting 612 POAP Challenge locations at Minnehaha Falls.
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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! …
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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 …
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We have significantly increased our escape room activity in 2025! Just past half-way through the …
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A smattering of my cousins that were at Amanda & Reid’s wedding tonight.
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QMSB Trip - Day 15
✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe ✅ Bismarck
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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.
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QMSB Trip - Day 14
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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 …
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QMSB Trip - Day 13
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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 …
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Stopped in Alexandria to try Up North Ice Cream. Tons of flavors all made in-house and delicious. …
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QMSB Trip - Day 12
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 8. ✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe 🔲 Bismarck
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Writing is Thinking
With the ever growing cadre of tools that can help us create this is an important reminder that …
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QMSB Trip - Day 11
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 7.
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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 …
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QMSB Trip - Day 10
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 6.
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We all rented bikes at [Local Motion](Island Line Trail in Burlington and rode the Island Line Trail …
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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.
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POAP 7402821 at Olson Family Vacation 2025 — Ben & Jerry's Experience.
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QMSB Trip - Day 9
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 5.
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We took the Ben & Jerry’s Factory Tour and got to see their original location where they …
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Super good soft serve Maple Creamie at Red Barn Ice Cream. 🍦
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Blending my smoothie by bike at the Stowe Farmers Market this morning.
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Brilliant 2.0 sec pit stop from Ferrari in Budapest this morning! 🏎️
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POAP 7402510 at Magnifico at Escaparium 🎪.
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QMSB Trip - Day 8
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 4.
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Magnifico at Escaparium
Today we did the World’s #1 Escape Room according to TERPECA 2024 — Magnifico! It was an …
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I upgraded to ChatGPT Pro a couple months ago and it has been amazing. Now I upgraded to Claude Max …
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QMSB Trip - Day 7
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 3.
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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 …
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Great time on the Jetboat in Montreal!
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QMSB Trip - Day 6
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 2.
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Today we did two escape rooms at Escaparium, and nine years ago today Tammy and I did our second …
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QMSB Trip - Day 5
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 1.
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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 …
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POAP 7399817 at Olson Family Vacation 2025.
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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 …
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QMSB Trip - Day 4
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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! 🇨🇦😊
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QMSB Trip - Day 3
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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 …
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QMSB Trip - Day 2
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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. ☔️
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Why QMSB?
What does QMSB Trip mean? Our summer vacation is a little different this year. It is a bit like four …
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QMSB Trip - Day 1
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Sunset on Lake Champlain from the Burlington lakefront.
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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.”
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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) …
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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 …
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Guess I’m done trying to get this deploy working for now. 💀
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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 …
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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 …
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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. A black and white close-up portrait with …
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A brand new AI startup with great pedigree and a $12 billion valuation. Thinking Machines Lab, a …
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POAP 7391295 at Lowry Avenue Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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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! 🍔🍔🍔
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It makes me super nostalgic that digg is back on the web — my profile. I felt compelled to order a …
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I submitted POAP2RSS to the POAP Directory of apps that extend the POAP ecosystem. 🤞
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Absolutely incredible valuation — first to $4,000,000,000,000. Nvidia became the first company to …
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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 …
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POAP 7388023 at 612 POAP Challenge - Red, White & POAP.
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POAP 7387993 at Lake Nokomis — 612 POAP Challenge.
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First time for me — submitted a pull request to a public repo to make a small change that I’m …
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Vibe Coding POAP2RSS
Ever since I created my first POAP drop I’ve wished that I could see claims of POAPs in …
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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 …
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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. 😊
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Worked with OpenAI Codex this morning and redesigned the website for POAP2RSS. It gave a clean …
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Seeing POAP claims show up on Feedbin thanks to POAP2RSS is making me giddy! 🤩
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I decided to declare POAP2RSS officially launched. It seemed fitting for Independence Day! How do …
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I cleaned up the RSS items that POAP2RSS outputs this morning. I decided to remove the titles on the …
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Collected POAP 7386503 for POAP2RSS Created.
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I’ve created my first project using AI to write nearly all of the code with me! Introducing …
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Just used ENS Fairy for the first time to send halaas.eth to Erik Halaas of 612 Series fame! …
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I’ve supported the Electronic Frontier Foundation for over twenty years. I am excited to have …
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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! 💧🔥🐖
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In 2023 I shared Archimedes’ famous line: Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, …
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“My God, it’s full of stars!” – Dave Bowman’s final words as he …
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Collected POAP 7379713 for Creating Community with POAP — MN Blockchain.
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I added a new award to the 612 POAP Challenge — the Explorer! This token is given to players that …
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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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Happy 𝜏 (2π) Day!
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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. …
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Collected POAP 7376382 for Washington Avenue Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Important ruling for AI model training, copyright, and fair use. This aligns with how I would think …
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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 …
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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 …
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Collected POAP 7374837 for IndieWeb is Punk.
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Posted a new @roadsignmath winner for first time in a couple years and it’s a good one. Found …
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As AI Agents continue to grow in capability it seems likely that we will want them to have financial …
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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: …
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Wisdom: Things deteriorate — experiences appreciate.
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While doing blog gardening today I saw a post I wrote 21 years ago about privacy issues. This is a …
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I am upgrading the charging infrastructure at our cabin for us and guests and decided to get this …
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Today Tammy and Tyler completed a 26-mile walk around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. They started at 6:21 …
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Surrounded by Tetrominos.
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Happy Father’s Day to all! Love these two — I’m a lucky Dad! 🥰
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Collected POAP 7371704 for Lake of the Isles — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7371688 for Bde Maka Ska — 612 POAP Challenge.
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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 …
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Got a recursive selfie while collecting the Grain Belt Sign for the 612 POAP Challenge with the …
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Collected POAP 7371441 for Grain Belt Sign — 612 POAP Challenge.
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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 …
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I dig the design of this new Coinbase One card. On the waitlist! 4% rewards in Bitcoin — awesome!
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I completed the final set of achievement tokens for the 612 POAP Challenge tonight! I also setup a …
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It seems we have a fox that has taken up residence under our shed at the lake. 🦊
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Collected POAP 7369497 for 612 POAP Challenge - Architecture Aficionado.
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Collected POAP 7369494 for 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7368654 for Riverside Plaza — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7368652 for Basilica of Saint Mary — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7368641 for Capella Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7368640 for Wells Fargo Center — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7368639 for IDS Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Collected POAP 7368638 for Foshay Tower — 612 POAP Challenge.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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My blog turns 21 today! I’m so happy that I have stuck with this blogging hobby for so long. …
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Day 2 of the Micro.blog photo challenge — curved road with mountains behind. 📷
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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: …
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I added a Pellet Sensor to the Traeger this morning. Good confidence thing to have for long smoke …
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612 POAP Challenge: Collect them all!
Way back in the day I loved Geocaching. It was so much fun, particularly before it got …
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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 …
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Nice morning to do some fishing on Lake Harriet.
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Collected POAP 7364397 for Lake Harriet — 612 POAP Challenge.
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Entropy is definitely losing at our house today: ✅ Upstairs HVAC install complete
✅ Generator …
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POAP 7361698 at Weekly Thing 8th Anniversary Supporting Members.
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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! …
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I’ve been using ChatGPT so much that I hit the limits on my Plus account. I’ve been …
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I created my very first location-based POAP. Our “Peanuts Tree” is a popular spot on …
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Screen recording claiming my very first location-based POAP.
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POAP 7358192 at Magic Pines Peanuts Tree 2025.
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The Summer of 2025 Magic Pines POAP is now minting! Available for visitors until Labor Day. 🤩 …
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POAP 7358039 at Magic Pines Summer of 2025.
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I’m wondering what MCP endpoints I would like to have:
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Boat Day 2025! Got the boat out just in time to get on Cannon Lake for Memorial Day.
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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 …
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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 …
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I’ve been a bit obsessed thinking about AI agents and this definition shared by Willison from …
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Omnivore announced they were shutting down last October, but it wasn’t until this week I saw a …
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Dave Winer today… 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!
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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. 😊
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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 …
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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 …
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Manu recently added an RSS feed of new sites to Blogroll. I popped it into Feedbin to discover new …
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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.
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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.
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Jay Cooke State Park
Finished hiking around Jay Cooke State Park 1.63 miles in 51.6 minutes. Beautiful scenery and …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
AnnMarie is an engineer. An artist. An …
Session 0 feat. Dr. AnnMarie Thomas!
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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 …
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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 …
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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 Quinn …
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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: Wow! 😮 …
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Hey #Minnebar19 attendees — you can get your awesome Minnebar 19 POAP by tapping your phone on the …
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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 …
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I had Siri read me a long email while walking and it was like stepping back to olden times. The TTS …
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Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival Roundup
I’m wrapping up my very first time hosting an IndieWeb Carnival. After a good amount of deliberation …
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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 …
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It was eight years ago today that I started using micro.blog. Seems wild that it has been that long. …
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My favorite Indieweb services — Micro.blog and Buttondown — have had a tough week. They worked …
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POAP 7343291 at You have met Jamie Thingelstad at Minnebar 19.
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Minnebar 19 POAP
Minnebar 19 is coming up this Saturday and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to create a …
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POAP 7343290 at Minnebar 19.
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POAP 7343289 at Minnebar 19: How to Newsletter.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Schooling the next generation on Air Hockey.
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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 …
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Mazie returned to St. Olaf for her friend’s birthday and Tyler, Tammy, and I went to A …
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Finished 3.09 mile walk in 76.1 minutes (24.63 min/mile). Incredible afternoon at the “the Arb …
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Potica latte at Lynette.
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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!
: For those that believe that government should be run more like a company…
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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…
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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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Pierogi at Zapiecek.
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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). …
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Finished two great days of team activities here in Warsaw. It was amazing to see many folks from our …
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I Love Warsaw Sign. 📍
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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. 🇵🇱
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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.
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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 …
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“Blogging is small-p political again, today. It’s come back round. It’s a …
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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 …
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“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.
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Telling Stories with Maps
These days we mostly interact with maps in a singular, digital manner. However, if you want to have …
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POAP Planing for Minnebar 19
I’m going to distribute a POAP for Minnebar 19! This isn’t official (yet) — but …
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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. …
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Florida Spring Break: Day 7
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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 …
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Florida Spring Break: Day 6
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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” …
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I remember 10-year-old me being envious of the cool Pinewood Derby cars my cousins Josh and Jarvis …
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Blogging as a Gift
Engagement is the powerful drug of social platforms. Sometimes it is blatant and in your face, such …
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Florida Spring Break: Day 5
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Stopped at Turner’s Donuts to get a bite before hitting the road.
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Florida Spring Break: Day 4
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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 …
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Florida Spring Break: Day 3
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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 …
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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.
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Florida Spring Break: Day 2
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Prepared for an evening of shark fishing.
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Florida Spring Break: Day 1
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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. 🤩🏖️
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Peachey's Donuts
We first discovered Peachey’s Donuts at the Minnesota State Fair where we enjoyed the …
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Florida Spring Break: Day 0
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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 …
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Renewal — IndieWeb Carnival
When I signed up to host this IndieWeb Carnival it was several months in the future and I thought it …
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I signed up to run a session at Minnebar 19! I’m going to host How to Newsletter: Lessons from …
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Got my tickets to Minnebar 19! Tyler and I are both going. I’m planning on doing a session …
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Finished 1.51 mile walk in 42.1 minutes (27.88 min/mile). Casual walk this evening. Was just too …
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Finished 3.91 mile walk in 77 minutes (19.7 min/mile). 🚶♂️
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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 …
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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 …
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Finished 3.89 mile walk in 77.4 minutes (19.9 min/mile). 🚶♂️
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I would like to create blog posts from some workouts. It seems like something that Shortcuts should …
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Months ago when I signed up to host the April IndieWeb Carnival I thought it was a great idea and …
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LEGO and Pokémon announced that they are launching a multi-year partnership in 2026. This is going …
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The LLM functions I’ve built for the Weekly Thing have worked really well. So well in fact …
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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 …
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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 …
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What a great POAP for SPS Tech Connect 2025!
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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 …
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Finished 3.9 mile walk in 72.9 minutes. 🚶♂️
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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.
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My post on Using AI in the Weekly Thing was highlighted in Josh Spector’s For the Interested …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Hospital at Puzzleworks
We did our 65th escape room this morning solving Puzzleworks “The Hospital” room in 54m …
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I “watched” the Apple Immersive Metallica concert experience tonight and was completely …
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Traditional π Day dinner is all pies! Tonight Tammy’s completely homemade chicken pot pie and a new …
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Woke up barely able to swallow after having a sore throat for couple days. Went to MinuteClinic …
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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 …
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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 …
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Tried the new Yonsei at Lake & Irving for the first time. It was so pretty on the plate I …
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Finished 2.31 mile walk in 56.6 minutes. 🚶♂️
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I asked my Weekly Thing GPT a simple question “Which issue did the Fortune first appear …
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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 …
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My cousin Josh recently shared a cappella renditions of Wild Mountain Thyme and Red is the Rose — …
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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. …
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Took my first 0.25 mg dose of semaglutide. Hoping for minimal side effects. Got it from Fairview …
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Wegovy Price Drop
I’ve been exploring ways to get semaglutide for myself. This update from today’s …
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This year’s #TeamSPS Cyberweek Challenge coin was designed as a weightlifting plate. I thought …
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Finbarr Clancy of The High Kings with an incredible performance of “And the Band Played …
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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. …
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Today I Learned: LLM’s are exceptional at making custom word lists for Pictionary-style games. …
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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.
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Cheers to 96 quarters of growth with the Growth Cup at the SPS Social.
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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 …
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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 …
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Weekly Thing GPT
I created a custom GPT for the Weekly Thing! You’ll need a ChatGPT account (I think free is …
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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. 🥃
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Replacing batteries in chirping smoke detectors at 2:30 am. 🪫😬
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I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make a POAP to commemorate my first time ice fishing! …
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MapQuest winning the Internet today with this name your own gulf site. 🤣
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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 …
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Was fun to get to put a hole in 2 feet of ice.
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POAP 7308555 at Ice Fishing on Pierson Lake.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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!
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Super Bowl LIX Ads
Ads that hit home with me from the Super Bowl. To me this one was the best by a mile. …So Win — Nike
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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 …
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I thought for sure there would not be a Weekly Thing this weekend. Then my afternoon opened up and …
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I was excited to see my question, how to choose a donut, answered in latest issue of Mike Monteiro …
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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 …
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We watched Game Night tonight. Fun movie!
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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.
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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! 🇨🇷🍫☕️
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I have about 130 posts with embedded “tweets” on my blog. If those folks delete their …
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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 …
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School cancelled for tomorrow due to extreme cold. Tyler was ecstatic to hear the news. Forecast is …
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The Weekly Thing was supposed to be back this last weekend but I decided to extend the winter break …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I set up a Guestbook for my site copying @jimmitchell who saw it at @alexwolfe site. Thanks to …
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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 …
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I suspect the reason Apple Intelligence mail categories are only supported on the iPhone is at least …
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I’ve used Sanebox for a decade to defer emails, but now I’m trying Fastmail and …
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After much debating I finally decided to get a new laptop and ordered a MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and …
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I’ve been a Sanebox user for over a decade on all my mailboxes. I’m trying going without …
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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 …
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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 …
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Micro.blog Collection Exporter
I’m adding one more Shortcut to my Micro.blog Collections Shortcuts. One of the concerns I’ve …
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One of my favorite things on a weekend morning is a good cup of coffee and writing a blog post that …
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I was emailing a friend about Drafts and how critical it is to my writing. It made me think I should …
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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 …
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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 …
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After two attempts for dinner we finally made it to Mothership Pizza Paradise for lunch today. …
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micro.one making blogging more accessible!
Congratulations to Manton on the launch of micro.one! I have been a happy customer of micro.blog …
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Little Snitch is a great app to protect your privacy. It is also incredible to use your computer for …
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Payloads for RSS, aka Podcasts!
24 years ago today Dave Winer introduced Payloads for RSS — which became the structure of the entire …
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Micro.blog Collections Shortcuts
I’ve gone “all in” on Micro.blog’s photo collection feature. I’ve …
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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 …
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Threads Moderation Changes
There has been a lot of noise today about Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on Threads about …
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Support the Web via Open RSS
I recently discovered Open RSS via an article on Lifehacker highlighting how the service can provide …
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POAP + RSS = Awesome?
Update: I created POAP2RSS to fill this gap!
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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 …
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All five of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs are now created!
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I’ve been sharing my 53rd Birthday POAP with friends and family all day today. I thought it …
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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 …
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POAP Event Trends
It has become a tradition for me to create a POAP for my birthday. I’ve been doing it since my …
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I’m “all in” on micro.blog collections. I have 61 collections with 936 images. My …
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POAP 7284931 at Jamie Thingelstad's 53rd Birthday.
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2024 in Blogging
With many thanks to Amit Gawande’s fun Post Stats Plugin and a recent discussion to add some …
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Happy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! 🎉🥂 Wishing everyone a great New Year!
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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 …
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I’m excited to welcome Jesse Lang @jesselang to Micro.blog! Along with Phil Rodemann @See3p0, …
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The New Standards were at The Dakota tonight for their regular Preener’s Eve Show! We are fans …
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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 …
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We had a great time at [Activate] in Roseville today. The games were great. All of the tech worked …
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Micro.blog Collection Creator Shortcut
Recently micro.blog added a powerful new feature to create photo collections. Using this feature you …
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I’m very excited to welcome David O’Hara @davoh to micro.blog. David shares great images, …
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Tammy and I took Lucky for a walk to celebrate her 5th Birthday!
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I just got the first version of Micro.blog Collection Creator shortcut working. It allows you to …
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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 …
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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 …
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I’ve been enjoying the Snow Fall plug-in by @manton on my website and it has me thinking that …
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I created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows …
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I make a recurring donation to Wikipedia but I figured I would make an extra donation right now. …
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My friend Patrick Rhone @patrickrhone chooses a word for each year and he just shared that …
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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 …
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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 …
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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!🎄🎁🤩
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If you’d like to “listen along” with our family our Christmas Things playlist on …
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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 …
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POAP 7281029 at Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs.
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I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to make a POAP — created Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs to …
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We all went to Mufasa: The Lion King tonight at Edina 4. I’ve always enjoyed the Lion King …
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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 …
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Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs
The random five winners of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blog gift have been selected! A little Python …
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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.
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The 2024 Year in POAP is out and I was proud to again (see 2023) have one of my POAPs highlighted — …
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Was seven years ago today that micro.blog opened up to public signups. Doesn’t feel like it …
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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 …
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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. …
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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.
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Weekly Thing Logo
I’ve been publishing the Weekly Thing for over seven years. Sometimes I need to have an image …
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Another price increase for YouTube TV?
We “cut the cord”, or more appropriately, cancelled our DirecTV service back in 2009. …
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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. 💧🔥
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Saturday morning at the lake. Delicious coffee. Wooden wick candle. Writing on my blog. Preparing …
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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 …
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This celebration of Dick Van Dyke’s 99th birthday with Chris Martin of Coldplay and All My …
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Tammy’s sisters and the husbands went to Jingle Bar at Brit’s Pub tonight. I think this …
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Appears that OpenAI isn’t keeping up with the ChatGPT Extension launch in Apple Intelligence …
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Getting a massive overhaul of Shortcuts support in OmniFocus 4.5 this morning is like an early …
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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 …
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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 …
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The start of a list. Social media is…
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Did some work today with my new EGO Power+ 18" chain saw and thought it was awesome. Electric …
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Nice treasure when I opened my chests from last week’s missions on Famous Fox Federation. By …
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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 …
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Bitcoin crossed $100,000 USD for the first time ever on December 4, 2024!
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I created a Twin Cities IndieWeb list on BlogFlock. Let me know if you have sites that should be …
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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 …
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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! 🏈
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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 …
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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 …
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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! 🍿
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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 …
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OmniFocus 4.4.3 just shipped with a bug I found in the change log! Sync – Fixed issue of the …
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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 …
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Alby is deprecating their shared Bitcoin Lightning wallet service. I don’t want to host my own …
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Wonder what Musk’s net worth will be four years from now? Elon Musk’s net worth hit a …
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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 …
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1,000 days today. Ukraine marks 1000 days of full-scale war. “For 1,000 days, the Armed …
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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 …
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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, …
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Stories are to people
as programs are to computers.
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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 …
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Weekly Thing Supporting Memberships
I have launched a Supporting Membership offering for the Weekly Thing. I previewed it in Weekly …
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I’m hosting the IndieWeb Carnival in April 2025 and I’m getting pretty excited about it. …
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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, …
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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…
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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 …
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Things 4 Good Four Year Impact
We’ve now done our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser for four years. With the amazing support of …
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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 …
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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 …
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This morning Weekly Thing 300 went out and a couple hours later my cellphone rang. It was Rajiv Pant …
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The business of social media is the business of addiction. These are the tobacco companies of our …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Not one undecillion, but two! Russia ordered Google to pay a fine of two undecillion roubles …
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The Things 4 Good 2024 Candle Fundraiser POAP is ready to share with folks at this weekends event! …
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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! 🥧
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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 …
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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 …
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Money and Elections
In 2010 Citizens United. The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First …
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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 …
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Chicago MEA Trip Log
Thursday
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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.
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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. …
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My cousin Josh’s column today, Night Riders Lament, was really good.
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North Shore Weekend Log
Friday
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We’ve driven by Glensheen Mansion many times and finally we stopped and took a tour. It is a …
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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!
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Exploring FIFA Collect
I’ve been intrigued with FIFA Collect for a bit. My interest was piqued when I saw that they …
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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 …
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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
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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!
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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 …
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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 …
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Two AI Bots Discussing the Weekly Thing
My friend Garrick recently shared about Two AI Bots Discussing His Work — a test he did using …
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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 …
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ENS Continued Progress
I continue to believe that despite the volume of scammers in crypto there is real value and …
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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 …
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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! 🤤
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Sauna on the way!
For many years I’ve had the desire to get a sauna. Usually this has two peaks — one …
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I took the pontoon back to La Canne’s for winterization and storage. I got it out on May 10th …
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After our TeamSPS Kubb Tournament a small group of us had a pickup game that was awesome. We had all …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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My GTD Structure
I suppose I’m a “list person”. Although I would say I’m a GTD practitioner. I like the …
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Big week for my Famous Foxes mission chests!
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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.
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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. …
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I currently have 326 different Masked Email addresses set in Fastmail. It takes effort but is a …
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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 …
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Serious storm system coming through clearing out this incredible heat and humidity that we’ve …
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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 …
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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. …
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Minnesota State Fair
Great night at the Minnesota State Fair with Tiffany & Andrew! 🎉
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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. …
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The thing that bugs me about Now pages is that they don’t have history. How about a …
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My Mom and Mazie (I chipped in too) decided it was time to reclaim the completely wild garden plot …
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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. …
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Wet Summer 💦
We’ve had 28.26" of rain in 2024, just 2.97" behind the wettest year on record in …
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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 …
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Gmails Spam Randomness
I subscribe to my own newsletter via Gmail so that I can see how it is treating the Weekly Thing. I …
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Dense DIscovery Launches DD Lounge
Kai Brach at Dense Discovery just launched the DD Lounge for his Friends of DD (subscribers) and I …
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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! 😎🎉☀️
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I realized tonight that with fiber at our cabin the very old Apple TVs I have are limited by their …
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Today I Learned: Culver’s has a thing called a Pup Cup that is a free treat for your dog.
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Drinkin' Hat
My cousin Josh performing this original song “Drinkin’ Hat” that his brother Gabe …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Pretenders opening up for the Foo Fighters at Target Field. 🎶
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Shopping via Terminal
My cousin Quinn had mentioned this place that sold coffee via the Terminal using ssh but I …
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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!
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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.
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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! …
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Paddling Pennington Mine
We had a great afternoon paddling on Pennington Mine today!
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Channel Inn had an amazing fireworks show tonight! We drove over and watched through the glass …
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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! 🎆
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“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! 🍻
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My cousin @jellisatc posted his first new column — Making Hay — since I helped him get his website …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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POAP 7147325 at SPS TechJam 2024 - Found It!.
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POAP 7147324 at SPS TechJam 2024 - Attendee.
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Ledger Stax Arrived
This weekend I received my Ledger Stax crypto wallet! I pre-ordered this in December 2022 because I …
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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 …
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Summer Challenge: Write about a book
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
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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 …
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Summer Challenge: Do a photo walk
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Ireland 2024 Index
In the spirit of Harper’s Index, for our Ireland trip. Kilometer driven: 1,907 Damages to …
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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 …
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Summer Challenge: Spec a Gaming PC
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids …
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Two recent headlines that will make Tammy very happy:
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I dig Tetris and Tetromino things (proof? Tetris Shower), so this Tetris Font of course caught my …
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Got home after two weeks in Ireland to our sump pump system being in alarm mode making a very loud …
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 18
Weather: Very nice, cool morning. Super humid in Minneapolis.
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Back in Minneapolis! Can someone turn down the humidity? Yikes.
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Our time in Ireland is winding down. It has been great. So many experiences and memories. Wonderful. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 16
Weather: Great weather. Maybe the best day we’ve had.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Tubbrid Castle
Tonight we arrived at Tubbrid Castle. This is the most unique Airbnb experience we’ve ever …
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 13
Weather: Rain. Wind. Crappy. Better as we got further South.
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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 …
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On Day 12 of our Ireland trip and here is our driving path so far. Started in Dublin. We’ve …
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“Influencer Free Zone”. Tunnel entrance in Belfast.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 12
Weather: Cool and nice. Not much wind. Warmer in Belfast.
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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.
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I’ve been taking two daily supplements on our Ireland trip:
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 11
Weather: Reasonably pleasant. A little less windy. Cool temperatures.
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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 …
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Tyler and Mazie wanted to try surfing in Ireland and there are a number of places that do surf …
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 10
Weather: Overall good. Some sun. Kind of windy. Chilly but not too bad.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 6
Weather: Good weather today — partially cloudy and less wind.
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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 …
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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.
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I am excited to see sync improvements to OmniFocus 4.3 for Apple Watch. The new watchOS app is very …
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It didn’t occurr to me that Ireland was going to have much longer days. We are used to Minnesota at …
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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.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 4
Weather: Windy and rainy today and very cool. Highs around 55 °F.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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. …
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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.
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I do a lot of writing on my blog and the Weekly Thing. I hope that through writing regularly I can …
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When we travel in Europe I’m always pleasantly surprised to see all the various privacy …
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of thingelstad.com! Twenty years ago I posted about the difficulty …
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 2
Weather: Sunny. High of 67 °F. Pretty cool after sunset.
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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.
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Ireland 2024 Log - Day 1
Weather: Warm and Sunny in Minneapolis.
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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 …
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Soon we start our trip to Ireland and I thought it would be fun to make a POAP for it. DALL-E got me …
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POAP 7136146 at Thingelstad Ireland 2024.
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I’m giving micro.blog’s new audio narration feature a try. I used the new Zoom H1 …
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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 …
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Tough losses for the Timberwolves against the Mavericks. Tonight was heartbreaking with a bad call …
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POAP 7132736 at Magic Pines Summer of 2024.
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POAP 7131408 at SPS Learning Leaders 2024.2.
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Awesome to see my Weekly Thing Seven Year Anniversary POAP highlighted in the most recent Week in …
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Two decades ago when I started publishing on the web I would have never guessed that linking to …
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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! ⚽️
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I’m looking forward to Minnesota Technology Association Tech Connect 2024 event on Wednesday. …
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POAP 7122301 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad at Tech Connect 2024.
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I pre-ordered the Ledger Stax on Dec 10, 2022 and after a very long wait I got notified that they …
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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 …
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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 …
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Reflections on No Coffee
I haven’t had any coffee since April 1st. I’ve abstained from coffee and caffeine …
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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 …
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At St. Olaf enjoying Mazie singing in Manitou Singers for the Spring Concert featuring Andrea Ramsey …
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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 …
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We had a delightful afternoon at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Tulips are blooming! 🌷
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For fun I added my website to the IndieWeb Webring. 🕸💍 I also added an h-card microformat tucked …
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My Morning
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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 …
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Playoff basketball tonight with Timberwolves v Phoenix. Aggressive ball! 🏀 50-51 at the half.
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Blog Gardening Reflection
Today was a particularly fun session of blog gardening:
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Minnebar 18
Today was one of the biggest days of the year for the technology community of the Twin Cities — …
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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 …
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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.
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I’m two weeks into no coffee and this morning I thought I would try a mug of Pu’er Black …
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The open foundation of the Fediverse continues to pique my interest and outweigh my disregard for …
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POAP 7104649 at Cyber Week 2023.
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These new custom perspective capabilities in OmniFocus 4.2 are very welcome. I’ll be able to …
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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 …
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Day 4 without coffee and caffeine seemed to turn the corner. Felt a little less of a fog all day. …
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POAP 7099088 at SPS - Sparky AI Launch!.
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No Coffee?
I’ve been wondering how much caffeine is impacting me and yesterday, without much thinking …
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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 …
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I just completed all the blog posts for our Milwaukee Spring Break trip. This is the most complete …
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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! …
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My friend @Bricker is lighting up his blog timeline with a bunch of new and old blog posts. Worth …
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I’ve been a fan of the IndieWeb community for years, but finally decided I should get a bit …
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Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 5
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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
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We had a great time escaping the “Invasion” room at 60 to Escape! The room was fun, …
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We saw Call Me Dancer at the Oriental Theatre while in Milwaukee. The movie told the story of Manish …
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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 …
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Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 3
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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 …
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The barista “workbench” at Discourse Coffee has an incredibly broad array of mixologist …
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Enjoying one of the most unique drinks I’ve ever had — Motörhead Latte (espresso, milk, pork fat + …
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Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 2
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We went Duckpin Bowling tonight at Koz’s Mini Bowl. Koz’s has the oldest original Duck …
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Tammy and I saw Brett Goldstein’s standup show “The Second Best Night of Your Life …
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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 …
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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.
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Milwaukee Spring Break: Day 1
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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 …
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After arriving in Milwaukee it was time for lunch at Archie’s Flat Top. We are always game for …
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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! …
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POAP 7073071 at TeamSPS Pi Day 2024.
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POAP 7072949 at Pi Day 2024.
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POAP 7062741 at Gnosis Chain Dencun Hard Fork.
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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 …
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Today Bitcoin finally broke through the $70,000 resistance it had been bouncing off of for days now …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 - …
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Bitcoin near or at new all-time highs today.
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Home Electric Upgrade
We’ve had a crew from Advantage Electric at our house for the last couple days and hopefully …
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Dune: Part Two
After multiple delays Dune: Part Two arrived in theaters! Tammy got us all tickets for last …
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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. …
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POAP 7043185 at TechConnect 2024 - Speaker.
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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 …
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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 …
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Reviewing my On This Day page today made me do a double take — so few posts. Then I remembered it is …
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POAP 7025662 at TechConnect 2024 - AI Challenge.
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POAP 7025255 at SPS TechConnect 2024.
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On Artist Point in Grand Marais in pre-dawn light to catch the sunrise.
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Lake Superior, Grand Marais.
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First time winter hiking today with these hiking crampons. Amazing stability and still easy to walk …
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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.
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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.
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ENS: Blockchain Native Organization
The section from the ENS DAO February 13th update impressed me. In January 2024, the ENS Protocol …
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We’ve lived in this house for over a year and I’m now ready to tackle figuring out what …
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Tammy and I finally watched Oppenheimer tonight. Incredible movie. Everything about it pulled me …
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This chart of SPSC performance since IPO is amazing. Compared to the high growth tech giants — …
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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 …
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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 …
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While blog gardening today I found random <0xa0> characters in over 100 blog posts. A quick …
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We had friends and colleagues from Ukraine as well as local folks that have moved from Ukraine over …
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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 …
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Minneapolis Downtown Council 2024 Annual Meeting
I got to attend the 2024 Minneapolis Downtown Council annual meeting today at the Armory. Our own …
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Ordered a Magic Keyboard to pair with the Apple Vision Pro so I can dive into more of the …
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I wanted to celebrate getting my Apple Vision Pro and what better way than with a POAP! I’m …
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POAP 6991680 at You Experienced Spatial Computing.
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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 …
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First experience in Spatial Computing. 🤩
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At the Apple Store picking up my Apple Vision Pro!
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The #TeamSPS tech team gave out this “I Stopped by the Tech Lab at SKO POAP” in the …
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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 …
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POAP 6989234 at I stopped by the Tech Lab at SKO.
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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.
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A warm welcome to the newest slate of Minnestar board members: Kathryn Frengs, Tim Herby, Muneeb B. …
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Backed Project Tapestry from Iconfactory
Iconfactory launched a Kickstarter campaign for Project Tapestry today. Iconfactory is a great …
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Today Buttondown released a new comments feature! I’ve turned this on for the Weekly Thing — …
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Online Handle
Jim Nielsen’s Online Handles blog post caught my eye. I figured I would share too. Recently I …
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Trying a Roomba for the first time and have it on a mapping run. I find myself talking to it: “No, …
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Jumping into Obsidian
I recently decided to give Obsidian a serious investigation and voluntarily dive down the …
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I’ve followed CJ Chilvers writing for years now. His newsletter is one that I learn from and …
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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 …
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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 …
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It just dawned on me that one of my favorite drinks and favorite donuts have the same name: Old …
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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! 🏀
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I’ve been finding micro.blog a bit noisy lately. I was contemplating what to do about it and …
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Have the next round of books to read for my book club assembled. 📚
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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Bitcoin ETF Approved
Milestone day to recognize — SEC Approves Bitcoin ETFs for Everyday Investors. Bitcoin doesn’t …
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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! 🎉
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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 …
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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 …
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Just booked flights for our summer vacation to Ireland! We are excited for our first trip there. 🇮🇪 …
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Birthday POAPs
I’ve made it a tradition since my 50th birthday to issue a POAP token for my birthday and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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! 🎉
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Everything happens so much.
I won the auction for the “10 of 10” museum quality brass plaque that Jeff Atwood …
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Wonka
We saw Wonka this evening and all thought the movie was great. Wonka tells the magical origin story …
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I dig the simple and distinct look of the new Minnesota state flag. Certainly a more modern look. …
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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 …
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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 …
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People & Blogs: Me!
When I first heard of Manuel Moreale’s People and Blogs project, I knew it was something I …
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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 …
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I was excited to be the first to claim tonight’s MN Blockchain Holiday Party POAP! Also see …
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Brandon Ferdig kicking off tonight’s MN Blockchain Holiday Party. The evening was a fun social …
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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 …
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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 …
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In celebration of our niece’s 16th Birthday she arranged a large group of family and friends …
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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 …
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What is your favorite iPhone?
The other day Alex stopped by my office and asked me “What is your favorite iPhone that you …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Prediction: Microsoft will acquire OpenAI
I’ve been following the self-created chaos at OpenAI since Friday’s shocking …
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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 …
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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 & …
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We “successfully” solved Bigfoot’s Backyard Escape Room and helped Bigfoot find …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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We had a fun time watching Red Notice tonight. Fairly ridiculous and a fun time. 🍿
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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.
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reMarkable — you can do better than this? 😬 No, I’m not going to install Rosetta. I guess I’ll …
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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!
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Thirteen years ago today I added my 100th login to 1Password. It is amazing to me that I’ve …
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Impressive balloon display at The Depot. Are balloon displays a thing?
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I’m giving micro.blog a post after moving from hugo 0.91 to 0.117. I’m confident that …
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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.
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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" …
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Apple Silicon M3 is here! A MacBook Pro with an M3 Max has an incredible amount of power. Wow! I’ll …
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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 …
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I’m gobsmacked by the awesomeness of RSS Club. I want to figure out something to publish RSS …
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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 …
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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.
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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. 🥨😮
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Driving through Springfield, MO and into the Ozarks so have to listen to Big Smith (Apple Music). …
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Found some mathematically significant road signs on our drive for Road Sign Math! 🤓 There were a few …
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On our way to Big Cedar Lodge for MEA weekend. Departed at 6:07 am and will be driving for 9 hours …
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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 …
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DeFi with Agave sDAI on Gnosis Chain
The recent announcement that Agave launched their Savings xDai on Gnosis Chain piqued my interest. …
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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 …
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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!
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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.
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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 …
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We had a fun time with hypnotist Chris Jones tonight at St. Olaf’s family weekend. There were many …
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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. …
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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! 💦
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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 …
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I received an email this morning from a service I have no recollection of informing me that their …
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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 …
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I created a Shortcuts Collection page to connect various blog posts I’ve written about …
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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! …
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I’ve had the ScanSnap iX500 for years and the scanner is great but the software gets worse by …
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I just realized that one of our iMacs (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) isn’t able to upgrade to …
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Seems like $4 billion is the minimum cost to Amazon for missing the LLM wave. Amazon will invest up …
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POAP 6801491 at Weekly Thing Forum Launch.
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I’ve been gradually reducing my daily coffee from 24oz (4 cups) to 18oz (3 cups) and this morning …
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Just ordered 108 additional candle vessels, more wax, and scents to fill out inventory so we can …
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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 …
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Smaller Images for Weekly Thing
In the Journal section of the Weekly Thing I include any blog posts that I’ve made for that …
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POAP 6798458 at Gnosis Chain Validator Survey Participants.
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Introducing Weekly Thing Forum
I’ve been sending the Weekly Thing for six years. Every week I will get a few replies from …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. 🍻
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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! 👏
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POAP 6790247 at SPS Kubb Tourney 2023.
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Feedforward. A new word to add to the word list.
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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. 🔥
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Thank You Elon
I signed up for Twitter on Wed Dec 20 21:25:24 +0000 2006, claiming user number #82,903. Twitter …
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Some data on this summers heat. The past three months have been the hottest ever measured, …
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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 …
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Experiencing first power outage since moving into current house which has generator. Everything went …
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WordPress 100-Year Plan
Recently WordPress.com announced a profound new 100-Year Plan for hosting websites. I’ve …
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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 …
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Blog Gardening
I have been blogging for nearly 20 years and have created thousands of blog posts in that time. …
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Funny UX thing I’ve noticed with micro.blog. I use the “Reply” feature way more on …
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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 …
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Tomorrow a new chapter begins and we take Mazie to St. Olaf to start her college adventure. I don’t …
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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, …
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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. …
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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. …
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Tammy and I have both been digging into Peter Attia’s new book Outlive. The way he frames …
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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 …
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I just registered 55419.eth and 55021.eth since the previous registrant let them lapse. The subnames …
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Making Sense: Health & Longevity with Peter Attia
The Health & Longevity episode of Making Sense with Sam Harris is a great overview of Peter …
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I got my Good Enough Zine today! Thanks @bjhess and team — I’m looking forward to thoroughly …
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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 …
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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 …
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I was curating my On This Day section this morning and found this 15 year old reference to @bjhess! …
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Capturing the Micro.blog plugins I’m using now:
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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 …
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Mazie posted her first blog post about her photo walk in Soglio, Switzerland. She has her own …
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POAP 6747546 at BPEL DECOMP.
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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 …
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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 …
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POAP 6739826 at TechJam 2023 Attendee.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 17
Weather: Warm morning in Florence. Airports fine.
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Breathe it all in
On the final evening of our Switzerland & Italy trip we slowly walked around the Duomo in …
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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”. 🚶🏼♂️
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 16
Weather: Hot and sunny.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 15
Weather: Warm and cloudy in the morning. Hotter and sunnier in the afternoon.
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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.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 13
Weather: Warm and sunny, cool evening
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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.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 12
Weather: Cool and cloudy in morning. Warm and sunny in afternoon. Overall nice day.
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Family photo on the Grand Canal of Venice at sunset.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 11
Weather: Started warm in the morning. Thunderstorms in Milan in afternoon. Warm in Venice.
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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 …
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 10
Weather: Hot and hot
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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 …
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 9
Weather: Warm and sunny in the morning.
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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 …
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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 …
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Hike to Soglio
Our sixth and final day of hiking into the beautiful town of Soglio.
Part of Switzerland & Italy …
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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 …
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Sils Maria - Maloja Loop
Today’s hike left right from the front steps of the Hotel Edelweiss and walked out of Sils …
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While hiking today we passed through Blaunca. This village is a collection of four or five houses …
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Grevasalvas Switzerland
On our hike today we passed through the incredibly picturesque little village of of Grevasalvas. …
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 7
Weather: Very cool in the morning warming up through the day. Very pleasant all around.
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Hike Pontresina to Sils Maria
I didn’t join the hike today and instead ran my wallet recovery mission. However, I asked that the …
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 6
Weather: Very cloudy with rain and thunder in morning. Clear through mid-day with additional heavy …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Pretty simple calendar for this part of our trip.
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Lunch at Segantini Hütte. So amazing.
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Lost Wallet
Update: My wallet was recovered! Yesterday morning I realized I had lost my wallet. The previous day …
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Suggested Rule: The quality of a social network decreases by the square of the quantity of posts …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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My son Tyler has debated blogging for a long time, and today he asked me to set him up. He just …
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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. 🥾
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 3
Weather: Warm and sunny. Cooler in mountains but still hot and sunny at prime of day. Evening clouds …
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 2
Weather: Hot and Sunny.
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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.
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Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! 🤩
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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. …
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1
Weather: Warm & Sunny
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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 🇨🇭.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0
Weather: Very nice warm day.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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I love that my cousin Quinn has a blog, a micro.blog no less, and I can now see great stories from …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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I’m trying some changes to my feeds. I’ve been a happy user of Feedbin for years and am …
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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.
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Bevcomm is the Internet provider for our cabin and I met with the tech yesterday to help with the …
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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. 🐝
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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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Happy Tau Day everyone! 🤓
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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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28 min 39 sec
We grabbed this final family selfie as we were leaving the floor of the Taylor Swift show at …
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
On Saturday afternoon we had no big plans for the night. We were going to make dinner for …
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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. 🎶
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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 …
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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: …
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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 …
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Awesome night for MN Aurora FC v Bavarian United. Aurora with a commanding 3-1 lead in 58th minute. …
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I’ve been collecting ekekonfts.eth “🔌 Ŝԝ𝞘ፐc₶” collection on Nifty Ink. I dig these …
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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 …
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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 …
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Bison are one of my favorite animals, and I learned something new about them today. When a storm is …
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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 …
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I had wished for a micro.blog plugin for NIP-05 Verification and then I realized there are many …
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Surveillance in URLs
The Uniform Resource Locator is the glue of the web. Mostly we don’t think about URLs unless …
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Boat Day! Got the pontoon in the water. Annual voyage up Cannon River to Wells Lake and finally …
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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 …
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I added a bit of metadata to my website to enable Bitcoin Lightning “tips”. One line to …
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“I don’t know what kind of carnage I inflicted in a past life to deserve it. I must …
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I got a Sonos Move to add to my system and have a portable speaker that still has high audio …
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Wish List: Micro.blog plugin to create the static file needed for self-hosted NIP-05 verification. I …
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Kakhovka dam
Ukrainian officials estimated that about 42,000 people are at risk from the flooding triggered by …
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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 …
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Foveated Renderer. Oh yeah, always wanted one of those. 🤣 Apple Vision Pro announcement at WWDC …
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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!
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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 …
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This is the first time I’ve ever failed attestations running my validators on Gnosis Chain. …
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Blog turns 19!
Today marks the 19th year of my blog at thingelstad.com! Over those 19 years I’ve written …
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Today was Mazie’s last day of High School! 🎉 I took her out for our “last” …
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Need a reason to get donuts? 🍩 Tomorrow is National Donut Day and #TeamSPS is enjoying a day early …
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POAP 6653394 at MNblockchain - Crypto Spring 2023.
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Today micro.blog added cross-posting support for Nostr! I’ve been having fun playing with …
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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. …
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I now have a Bluesky Social account (thanks Maique for the invite!) and with micro.blog syndication …
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Lightning Ideas
Having finally gotten first-hand experience with Bitcoin Lightning, a workable and functioning …
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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. 🦬 …
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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 …
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Another example of generated content fooling people. We are going to see a massive acceleration of …
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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 …
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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. 🛫
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Oh no! 😲 Neeva is shutting down. I’m saddened by this — I’ve enjoyed not having …
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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 …
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Zoltan Pozsar (Credit Suisse) & Arthur Hayes (100x Group) on Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2023 on …
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Good macro session “Steady Lads” at Bitcoin 2023 with Mark Moss, Lyn Alden, and Preston …
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Good session on “Bitcoin Core Maintainers & the Path Forward” with Gloria Zhao, Niftynei, and …
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Interesting technical solutions to identity and privacy in the “Web 5: Open to Build” …
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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. 😎🤓
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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 …
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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.
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Having free, and reasonably performant WiFi on flights is a real game changer. Paired with a small …
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POAP 6632836 at You've met Jamie Thingelstad at Bitcoin 2023.
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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! ⚽️
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POAP 6628345 at I met Jesus during May 2023.
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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. 😊🏖️
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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POAP 6617070 at Magic Pines Summer of 2023.
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POAP 6617052 at Weekly Thing Six Year Anniversary.
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Thinking about making a crypto themed Things 4 Good Candle that you can only purchase via a L2 …
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Created a nostr account to play and see how it works. Using Damus on iOS for client. My public key …
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Finally figured out Bitcoin Lightning transactions. Ready to use Lightning at Bitcoin Miami. Want to …
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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 …
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I claimed my ENS 6th Anniversary POAP for: thingelstad.eth, weeklything.eth, 0xjjt.eth, and …
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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 …
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Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Largest Software Development Firms in the Twin Cities …
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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 …
:
MnTech Tech Connect 2023
I had a good time learning new topics and connecting with other technology leaders at the MnTech …
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A thesis I’ve pondered for years and won’t go away… The real “threat” to …
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Got a pair of Lowa Renegade GTX Mid hiking boots to get ready for our hiking trip in Switzerland …
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Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 4
No rain!
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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 …
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Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 3
Rained all day.
18,065 steps.
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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, …
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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 …
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Mazie gave a short recital at B&H Photo Video.
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New York Bagels at Liberty Bagels in Midtown! 🥯
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Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 2
Rained all day.
17,823 steps.
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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 …
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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 …
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I tried several times earlier to participate in the (historic?) Ethereum KZG Ceremony but was never …
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Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 1
Cloudy and started raining at night.
16,424 steps.
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Seeing Bono’s “Surrender” at the Beacon Theater tonight was one of the most …
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It is weird to me that I’ve been to Manhattan hundreds of times over the years, but I’ve …
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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 …
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Catching NJ Transit from Newark to NY Penn Station.
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Just claimed the POAP Tyler made for Tammy’s NYC Birthday trip to see Bono and much more. Love …
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POAP 6586107 at My mom’s birthday and the trip we are taking.
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Very excited to see Hamilton again tonight!
:
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. 🥰🥳
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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 …
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POAP 6578252 at Minnebar 17.
:
Ringing the Closing Bell on Nasdaq
The SPS Commerce executive team, along with our spouses, got to ring the closing bell for NASDAQ …
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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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As someone who is pretty terrified of heights, this Edge NYC experience seems horrifying. Lay on a …
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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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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 …
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Evening tacos at Los Tacos No. 1 after seeing Life of Pi. Tacos were amazing!
:
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 …
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POAP 6567201 at Minnebar 17 Presenter.
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Two days ago it was 87 °F, actually hot. Today cold, windy, and snowing. 🤷♂️
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For a technologist, I can think of no better way to spend $20 than a month of experimentation with …
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Voted for GIP-82: Gnosis DAO co-fund a community owned forest. I like all the aspects of this …
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I’ve been searching for a super simple way to sign strings of text with my Ethereum wallet and …
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It was great to see Aoife O’Donovan perform Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” …
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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. 💪
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POAP 6552930 at Minnebar 17 Organizer.
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POAP 6551117 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2022.
:
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 …
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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 …
:
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 …
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POAP 6516437 at Minnebar 17 Session: Creating Digital Community with POAP.
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POAP 6515881 at MnTech Tech on Tap April 2023.
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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.
:
A big thank you to my bro-in-law Hector for nabbing me one of the first run NFTy FIGs of the Bored …
:
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 …
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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 …
:
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 …
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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 …
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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.
:
We finished our weekend in New York with a walk down the High Line. This is one of my favorite …
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New York 2023 - Day 2
21,964 steps. 11.48 miles.
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Tyler and I successfully solved the Sugar Rush room at Exit Escape Room NYC! We had 3m 3s time …
:
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.
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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. 💀
:
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. …
:
Tyler and I commemorated our New York 2023 trip with a special and extremely exclusive POAP! Only …
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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 …
:
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 …
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POAP 6461292 at Rhino Review - Ethereum Staking Journal.
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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 …
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POAP 6456268 at Olson Family Vacation 20 Blizzard Rescue.
:
From The Economist Espresso on March 11, 2023. American regulators closed Silicon Valley Bank amid …
:
20 Years of Olson Family Vacation
This weekend we are celebrating 20 years of Olson Family Vacations. In 2004 Tammy’s side of …
:
“To be normal you have to be abnormal.” — Tyler
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POAP 6443362 at I met poap.thingelstad.eth - March 2023.
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POAP 6437422 at 20 Years of Olson Family Vacations!.
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POAP 6436814 at I met nanderson.eth - March 2023.
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POAP 6435177 at Weekly Thing Ukraine Fundraiser 2023.
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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 …
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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 …
:
Mazie’s going to be an Ole!
:
We went on a tour of St. Olaf today as Mazie works through her decisions on where she wants to go to …
:
Nordic Village at Riva Terrace
Tammy and I enjoyed a delicious 7-course Nordic Village experience. The food was great and the …
:
POAP 6390435 at SPS TechConnect 2023 Speaker.
:
I gave the “Always On Display” feature of the iPhone 14 Pro several weeks to get used …
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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 …
:
Scene from Potluck MN Food Hall.
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I minted Cat #2230 of the Ukraine Cats Division. This NFT project is raising funds to help Ukraine …
:
The Bad Guys
We finished our “snowpocalypse” movie series tonight with The Bad Guys. We watched three …
:
Family game of Five Crowns tonight. Tyler won with just 66 points! Tammy had 86, Jamie with 108, and …
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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 …
:
Who Invited Charlie?
We continued our “snowpocalypse” movie series tonight. This evening a bit more justified …
:
MnTech Leadership Forum: Generative AI
Today I hosted the MnTech Q1 2023 Tech Leadership Forum. The organization is changing the format of …
:
Dog Gone
With the “snowpocalypse” bearing down on us we decided to make it a movie night. We all …
:
We had fun watching Amazing Race S34 E11 as they raced through Iceland and visited so many places …
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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 …
:
Florida Man may be the strangest board game I’ve ever played. With that said, a large group of …
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I Adopted Thinking Face Emoji
I ran across this Adopt a Character campaign from the Unicode Consortium and felt like a donation …
:
Macaron Class
We drove an hour out to Buffalo, MN this morning to take a macaron class at Abundant Kitchen led by …
:
To Kill a Mockingbird
We went to the Orpheum to see To Kill a Mockingbird with new screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and directed …
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POAP 6324775 at ♥ Happy Valentine's Day from Prof Werder ♥ .
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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 …
:
Tyler wanted his favorite cheeseburger from Lions Tap for his birthday dinner 🍔 and to eat in the …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual Meeting
I was able to attend the Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual Meeting today. I believe this was the …
:
Why are your eyes Sidewalk poetry …
cast down? Look up
and listen. The world
offers its own poetry.
:
Fun and busy afternoon at REM5VR.
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Not Writing for the Timeline
I’m done writing for the timeline. There is a concept in Indieweb communities called POSSE. The …
:
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
We all enjoyed Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. If your looking for a delightful and fun story this will …
:
Art Shanty Projects
We went to the Art Shanty Projects on Lake Harriet today. Tammy has been to this many times, but it …
:
Echo Forest Launch
Today is the launch of Echo Forest. This NFT project has Minneapolis connections being led by Brooks …
:
The Product Partner Fair for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff is a whole new level of awesome! Tremendous …
:
Mazie completed her first sewing project making this summer dress with the expert guidance of my Mom …
:
David Horsager on Trust
David Horsager of Trust Edge gave a fabulous keynote for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff. David’s …
:
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! 🍀
:
Just bought tickets to see Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska at the Turf Club! I’m a huge …
:
Semisonic put on a great show filled with new songs and hits from the past. 🎶
:
It has been a long time since we’ve been to First Ave.
:
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.
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POAP 6259626 at You've met thingelstad.eth - January 2023.
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Anti-Social
Social media is a mess. I’ve lost track of what is social about it. It is a Skinner Box of …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
POAP 6209436 at POAP Checkout - Holiday Beta Tester.
:
iPhone Upgrade “Waterfall” today. New iPhone 14 Pro for Tammy and I, and our old phones …
:
Morning bowling at Tuttle’s with niece Nora. Mazie won. Let’s ignore the rest of the scores.
:
We escaped the Diamond Dilemma room at Missing Pieces with 17m 14s remaining — and only one clue …
:
Bubble Tea Time
Our niece loves Bubble Tea so we all enjoyed one at Chatime in the Mall of America.
:
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.
:
Having to get creative to thaw out the Big Green Egg. 🥶🔥
:
POAP 6168016 at POAPathon Community Call December 30, 2022.
:
The Writer of the Family
Mazie has a talent with words. Her writing is engaging and her creative use of words paints a vivid …
:
Holiday Week List
During the week between Christmas and New Years I like to focus on some different things. Write a …
:
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 …
:
Music Box for Playdate is a great example of simple, fun innovation on this unique platform. I love …
:
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 .
:
Today is Lucky’s 3rd Birthday! Some of Lucky’s favorite things: Walks, Food, Foxy Toy, …
:
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 …
:
Now that the temperatures are out of the deep freeze Mazie and I took Lucky on a walk. Walking on …
:
Tyler’s LEGO Loop Coaster is really tall! The structure alone is very impressive. I can’t wait to …
:
Through bag 9 of the Super Mario 64™ Question Mark Block LEGO. The inside contraption I believe will …
:
Tyler is making great progress on the LEGO Loop Coaster, already done through bag 7!
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
POAP 6154076 at Cabin Christmas 2022.
:
I really dig this CC0 is Punk sticker from Matt Downey. CC0 is totally punk!
:
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.
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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 …
:
We got together with friends and had a great time escaping Cuckoo’s Clock at Missing Pieces. …
:
POAP 6120873 at 2022 FIFA World Cup Winner Supporter.
:
I’m glad I grabbed a screen shot of the “Promotion of alternative social platforms …
:
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 …
:
The goalkeeping from Martinez was epic for Argentina! 🇦🇷 ⚽️
:
That was absolutely beautiful and epic. Tears or joy for Argentina. Messi the heart of it all. …
:
Suddenly penalty kick and another in the back of the net goes Argentina 2 France 2!!! ⚽️ 1m 33s …
:
GOAL!!! Argentina 2 France 0.
:
GOAL!!!! Argentina 1 France 0
:
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I’ve created 27 POAP events that have had 630 tokens claimed from 354 unique addresses. Art …
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I frequently connect with a number of people in Ukraine. I was asking how the power situation was. I …
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Crypto in Three Words
While driving around on some errands I was yammering about something crypto related with the family. …
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LilNouns DAO Votes
Time for some LilNouns voting.
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What in Ethereum ecosystem excites me
This was originally published in Weekly Thing #237 as the featured link, but I’m also …
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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 …
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Cheering for Argentina 🇦🇷 with Hector at Brit’s Pub as they won on penalty kicks against Netherlands …
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You win some, you lose some. What a crazy World Cup! ⚽️
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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”. …
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POAP 6036366 at Gnosis Chain The Merge Party 🦉.
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POAP 6029536 at Toy Drive 2022 - Project Better Days.
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Telegram is very popular in Ukraine, and I’ve become a regular user of it to keep in touch …
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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 …
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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.
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I reserved three Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names for Minnestar: minnestar.eth, minnebar.eth, and …
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POAP 5972039 at First circle Canvas of POAP-art.
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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 …
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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 …
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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! 🙌
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Just ordered 176 pounds of candle wax. 🕯️
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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 …
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POAP 5923185 at Launch of the new Pastel color palette in POAP.art.
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POAP 5902680 at ENS DAO — Delegator 2022.
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Mainnet Merge Lapse 12 "Thing"
The Mainnet Merge Paint Party was one of the fun events to celebrate the Ethereum Merge in …
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I was reminded of The $1k Project for Ukraine today reading Fred Wilson’s blog. Connecting the …
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The POAP for this weekend’s Things 4 Good 2022 Fall Fundraiser is ready and it is awesome! …
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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! 🙌
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Lil Nouns DAO Votes
Some Lil Nouns DAO votes:
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First family movie night in new house. I finally got the family room setup. We
watched Enola Holmes …
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Reddit Vault and ENS
I recently setup a Reddit Vault so that I can play along with Reddit as they try various crypto …
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I just wrapped up another Poapathon contest to get a design for our Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser. …
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I’ve seen a lot of people trying out Mastodon. I use micro.blog and it supports Mastodon, so …
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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.
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The Oura Ring detected I was sick before I did. This is what my 2nd round of COVID looked like as it …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Since upgrading to macOS Ventura I can no longer launch Safari using LaunchBar. I’m constantly …
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Want a coupon code to buy something online? You have to have an account. Login and put the item in …
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The Duplicates and Merging feature in the latest version of Photos 8.0 is really nice. I’ve …
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I first got COVID 664 days into the pandemic, and 294 days later I tested positive today, twice. …
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Disney World Log Day 10
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 9,908
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Disney World Log Day 9
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 29,580 Most steps on any day!
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Disney World Log Day 8
Weather: Best weather of the trip. Temperate and nice.
Steps: 14,974
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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!
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The Butterbeer Ice Cream is incredible at Florean Fortescue’s in Diagon Alley.
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We found the Mystery Machine! Scoooooby Doo!
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Disney World Log Day 7
Weather: Cool and sunny.
Steps: 13,194
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Having a Frozen Butterbeer at the foot of Hogwarts Castle. 🪄
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Disney World Log Day 6
Weather: Cool and sunny.
Steps: 9,137
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Disney World Log Day 5
Weather: Cold and sunny.
Steps: 11,951
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Aboard the Starcruiser Halcyon ready to help the Resistance. We visit Batuu tomorrow.
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Registered jamie.⌐◨-◨ now that Noun Name Service ENS reservation period has ended. 🙌
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Greetings from the Starship Halcyon!
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Disney World Log Day 4
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 20,148
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Went a little crazy and am registered in EIGHT of the Nouns Name Service PREMINT Missions! ✅ $500 of …
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Disney World Log Day 3
Weather: Warm and overcast, heavy rain in afternoon.
Steps: 20,758
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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. 🌧️
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Disney World Log Day 2
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 17,354
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Disney World Log Day 1
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 19,381
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First day that my Gnosis Chain validators have earned over 0.5 mGNO. Also had 8 proposals, although …
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Disney World Log Day 0
Weather: Hot and steamy.
Steps: 10,659
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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 …
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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 …
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Cats Will Eat You created “Eleven Virtual Faces” collection and I liked all of them. I …
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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 …
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POAP 5718168 at POAP Citizens - Episode #1 with Angelo Antonelli .
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POAP 5715628 at POAP Community Call #39.
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POAP 5715519 at Signer.is Email Service Beta Tester.
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POAP 5715517 at 1000 Lil Nouns Minted.
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POAP 5715516 at UKRAINIAN FLAG NFT 🇺🇦 by @Ukraine_DAO Donor - 3.22.
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POAP 5715514 at ⌐◨-◨ Happy Nouniversary from FloriNouns! ⌐◨-◨.
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POAP 5715513 at ⌐◨-◨ FloriNouns July holders POAP - thanks for hodling! ⌐◨-◨.
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POAP 5715512 at EthStaker / CLR.Fund QF Matching Round 2022.
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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 …
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POAP 5706818 at ETHGlobal Ethereum Merge Watch Party.
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Grabbed my thingelstad.lilnouns.eth subdomain (transaction) via Lil Domains.
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We are having a party to celebrate my Mom’s 70th Birthday today and we are marking the day …
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POAP 5705617 at You've met thingelstad.eth - October 2022.
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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 …
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Setting up another 12 Gnosis Chain validators this morning, for a total of 32 when activated. Based …
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We returned to The Dakota to see The New Standards tonight. We’ve seen Chan, John, and Steve …
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Successfully claimed and staked my 4 GNO tokens from the Dappnode Gnosis Chain promotion. Now up to …
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We saw BLKBOK tonight at The Dakota and it was a great show and an amazing experience. His …
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POAP 5692679 at 4000 Lil Nouns Minted.
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POAP 5692676 at 5000 Lil Nouns Minted.
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POAP 5692651 at Mainnet Merge POAP.art Canvas Pixel Placer.
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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 …
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My Validators made five proposals today on Gnosis Chain. New high. 🏆 Still just a couple weeks into …
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The RSS feed for the Pinboard’s Popular links stopped working on Sep 12th. Hoping this will be …
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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 …
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I got my Ethereum Mainnet Merge POAP today! It goes perfectly with my Ropsten Merge and Goerli Merge …
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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 …
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POAP 5649610 at TeamSPS 2022 Kubb Tournament.
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I decided to take a big “step up” in Things 4 Good Candles production and get a DigiBoil …
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Roadmap by Dariush
I stumbled upon Roadmap by Dariush (0xDariush.eth, @0xDariush) and the project intrigued me. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Noted milestones of your kid driving:
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It always feels a bit like I’m breaking the rust off when publishing the first Weekly Thing …
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Ethereum is now Proof-of-Stake!
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I have my Gnosis Chain at-home validator running and added four additional validators to it tonight, …
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Waiting for the Ethereum mainnet merge? Make your Gitcoin grants! I supported ENS Fairy, POAPin, …
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Participated in my first POAP Art canvas tonight as part of the merge call. Painted my …
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Excited to watch the Ethereum merge happen live tonight!
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POAP 5623336 at Ethereum Mainnet Merge Painting Party Entry.
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Looking forward to the Ethereum mainnet merge tonight, and digging my Ropsten and Goerli merge POAP …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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With Labor Day and some additional travel, I decided to extend the Weekly Thing summer break for two …
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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 …
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Starting three pork butts for 18 hour cook in the Sous Vides! Finish smoke tomorrow. 🐖💧🔥
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Minted Noun Cats
The Noun Cats project was my “gateway” to the Nouns ecosystem. It is the first place …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Need to Breath opening for OneRepublic tonight at XcelEnergy Center. I hadn’t heard their music …
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Iceland Log Day 16
Sunday, August 7th
Cold morning in Reykjavik. Rainy day in Minneapolis.
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Iceland Log Day 15
Saturday, August 6th Our final full day of …
Nice Icelandic day, a little misty in afternoon, no wind.
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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 …
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Iceland Log Day 14
Friday, August 5th
Nice, warm in sun. Sprinkles in afternoon.
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Family selfie from Reykjavik!
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Iceland Log Day 13
Thursday, August 4th
Morning was very cold and windy, and improved throughout day.
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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. 😲
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Iceland Log Day 12
Wednesday, August 3rd
Sunny & Windy
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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!
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Iceland Log Day 11
Tuesday, August 2nd
Great overall weather. Sunny. A few sprinkles.
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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 …
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Iceland Log Day 10
Monday, August 1st
Very nice and sunny, with high winds in parts.
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We had some fun hiking companions on the trail today. 🐏
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Kvernufoss. Very beautiful waterfall.
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Family selfie at Kvernufoss!
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While driving we wrote down words that we felt described Iceland well: Rugged, Dramatic, Varied, …
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Iceland Log Day 9
Sunday, July 31st
Pleasant weather.
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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.
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Iceland Log Day 8
Saturday, July 30th
Freaking cold and windy until 2p then really nice after that.
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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.
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We just wrapped up Day 7 of our Iceland 2022: Ring Road adventure. We are going counter-clockwise …
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Iceland Log Day 7
Friday, July 29th
Cool and Rain starting in afternoon.
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You come across some pretty wild vehicles in Iceland.
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Waterfall on way to Seyðisfjörður.
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Iceland Log Day 6
Thursday, July 28th
Windy but Mostly Sunny
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Tammy and I, along with Mazie and Tyler, celebrated our 20th Anniversary tonight while in Iceland …
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Iceland Log Day 5
Iceland Log Day 5 Wednesday, July 27th
Cool and Rainy throughout the day
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Upstream from Dettifoss is the beautiful “symphony” of waterfalls at Selfoss.
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The power of Dettifoss is amazing. From the viewing area the falls fills so much of your field of …
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Iceland Log Day 4
Tuesday, July 26th
Cool and Pleasant
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Iceland Log Day 3
Monday, July 25th
Cool and misty with some sun
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Iceland Log Day 2
Sunday, July 24th
Cool and Partly Sunny in the morning, and Cloudy and cold in Evening
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Iceland Log Day 1
Saturday, July 23rd
Warm with Thunderstorms and Hail. ⛈
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Eastern Greenland at 10:50p from 37,000 feet on way to Iceland. Such a severe landscape in the …
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DL9900 taking off now to Keflavik, Iceland. Announcement that we only have five airline attendants …
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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
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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. 🥕
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Four Letter Words
“If we can do 10, then 12 is only a little more.” “If we can just add this button …
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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 …
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POAP 5320743 at 3000 Lil Nouns Minted.
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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.
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I’ve been wearing my Oura Ring for a few months and the sleep data is useful. They enable …
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I’ve always used my WiFi SSID to broadcast my website thingelstad.com. I decided to add …
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Voting for Lil Nouns DAO proposal 22 to fund Lil Grants Season 2.
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Voted for Lil Nouns DAO proposal 21 to Buy Noun 235.
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Got my Early Birbs
I hold eight Noun Cats. I found the project before I really got intrigued by Nouns projects. I guess …
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POAP 5262030 at SPS TechJam 2022 Organizer.
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POAP 5262029 at SPS TechJam 2022 Speaker.
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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.
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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:
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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 …
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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 …
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These are the things that work and have a real benefit when I’m feeling drained and want to be …
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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 …
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Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 18 to Acquire LilNouns.eth ENS Domain. txn.
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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 …
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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 …
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Now that we have Jack Dorsey using “Web5” I assume all DNS and ENS names of “web[0-9]+” are being …
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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 …
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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 …
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Voted for Lil Nouns DAO Proposal 13 for Retroactive Funding and Lil Grants Pool. txn.
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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. 🥎
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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 …
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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. 🍓
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POAP 5106957 at You were one of the first 25 minters of FloriNouns!⌐◨-◨.
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Joined Lil Nouns DAO
I won the auction for Lil Noun 1416 and am now a member of Lil Nouns DAO, a Decentralized Autonomous …
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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 …
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Magic Pines Summer of 2022 POAP
I’m doing what I consider another fun Proof of Attendance Protocol, or POAP, token! We greatly …
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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 …
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LEGO World Map
The LEGO World Map is complete! There are two very notable things about the LEGO World Map.
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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. 🍔
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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
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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.
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POAP 4991281 at Web3MSP @ VeeCon 2022.
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I’ve been exploring various “noun” crypto projects recently. When I found The …
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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 …
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I just sent issue 219 of the Weekly Thing, which also marks the Five Year anniversary! It is also my …
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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 …
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I’m the top collector on Nifty Ink. I just have so much fun here. It is one of my favorite web3 …
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Very intense thunderstorms tonight. Knocked power out for an hour and still counting. AT&T …
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Outdoor sculpture at Hermitage Farm in Kentucky. Delicious Mother’s Day brunch at Barn8.
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Atwood Farms, Kentucky.
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Good morning from Goshen, KY. Horse country. Beautiful.
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Kentucky Derby Bets
Race 6 Race 7 Race 8
Gun It (5) to Place
Doppelgänger (10) to Show
Bells the One (6) to Win …
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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. …
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POAP 4904521 at Support #TeamSPS Ukraine Employee Emergency Fund.
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POAP 4896612 at Web3MSP GM.
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It is heartwarming to see homes in the Twin Cities supporting Ukraine. 🇺🇦💙💛
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“Sunshine and Rainbows”, Mazie’s first drawing on Nifty.Ink! I’ve been …
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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 …
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was a really fun movie. The Nicholas Cage playing himself …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I got my Sideline Behavior certificate from Soccer Parenting and The Sideline Project! The …
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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. 🎶🇺🇦 …
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 8
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 7
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Sunset on Grace Bay, Turks & Caicos.
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 6
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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! 🍹🌴☀️
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 5
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 4
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 3
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Grace Bay in Turks & Caicos. View from Hemingway’s where we had lunch.
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 2
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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. ☕️🌴
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Turks & Caicos 2022 Day 1
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We arrived in Turks & Caicos!
Our flight was delayed almost three hours due to storms in …
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POAP 4606819 at POAPathon Special Announcement April 1! .
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I could pass on any additional nasopharyngeal COVID tests.
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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. …
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Market Value up 12.4%
Our city shared this update on the assessed market value of property. 2022 Assessment Report
The …
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Taylor Hawkins drum solo from Oct. 18, 2018 Foo Fighters show. RIP. 😢
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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” …
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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. …
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I’ve been using Telegram recently to stay in contact with folks in Ukraine. I decided to create a …
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Tammy’s grandparent’s cuckoo clock is ticking again at our cabin thanks to Blackstone Manor Clock …
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POAP 4299875 at TeamSPS Cyberweek 2021 Challenge Coin.
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Someday the Wordle will be STEAM. And on that day, I will win.
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Consider for today:
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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 …
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Slack’s delayed send feature is nice, but I wish there was an option to delay sending to when …
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Tammy creates a family book each year and 2021 is another great keepsake. These books are going to …
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Imagine Dragons Mercury Tour
We all went to see Imagine Dragons Mercury Tour at the Target Center. Imagine Dragons is …
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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 …
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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!
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Two minutes on the dogsled trails out with Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge today. We had to stop and start …
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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.
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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. …
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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. …
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Giant wall of pizza boxes waiting to be filled at Hello Pizza.
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Quordle
Tried Quordle for the first time today. This may be my favorite Wordle variant.
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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 …
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We had Tyler’s birthday dinner at his favorite restaurant, Lion’s Tap! It was our first …
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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 …
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POAP 3985602 at NFT Innovation Digest - Sotuland Dreams.
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Totally agree with Paul Graham’s take on NFTs. NFTs can be used for so many different things …
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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 …
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Final prep for afternoon presentation to the amazing #TeamSPS sales team. ☕️🙌
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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 …
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The Winter 2022 issue of Reading Things, our family newsletter on books and reading, is out now! 📚 …
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It is cool to see increased workouts showing a new baseline. I started working out with a trainer …
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POAP 3884085 at NFT Innovation Digest - Lawrence Lee.
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I dig the new .day top-level domain. Not sure how I want to use it yet, but I decided to register …
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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 …
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I setup my profile on Strava to connect around fitness activity. If you are on Strava, give a follow …
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I signed up for a year of Neeva Premium. I’ve been using Neeva for several months and have …
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My first ever proposal for a DAO was voted on and approved! elfDAO will be including Toys for Tots …
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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 …
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Instead of posting Wordle games regularly I made a collection of Wordle games. 🤔
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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 …
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When I read articles from people sharing their bespoke Obsidian setups I think one of the best …
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Web 1 → read-only, publish
Web 2 → read-write, APIs, social
Web 2.5 → semantics, microformats, …
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We just booked the flights for our 2-week trip to Iceland this summer! I can’t wait to return …
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Enjoyed Ron’s Gone Wrong tonight. It was a super fun movie, with a good story, and a good …
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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 …
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I got really lucky on my first Wordle. Wordle 200 2/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨
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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
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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! 🤣
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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 …
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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 …
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POAP 3398636 at Jamie Thingelstad's 50th Birthday.
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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! 🌳
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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 …
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Famous Fox Dens Multichain
I’m so impressed with Famous Fox Federation! Today they announced that you can associate your …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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POAP 3235015 at POAPathon Holiday Spectacular - Philippines.
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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 …
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Happy to see that micro.blog’s new scheduling feature can also be used to create a new post in …
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I’ve been intrigued by NFTs ever since I came upon them. Why? For as long as computers have …
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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 …
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Great Christmas tale told in a nine tweet thread. Happy Holidays! Please enjoy this very bankless …
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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 …
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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 …
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Joined the Famous Fox Federation with Fox #7164. I staked it to collect $FOXY tokens. Having fun on …
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Great list from Ryan Holiday. 🤔 9 short rules for a better life:
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Calm in Minneapolis but it is because we are in the middle of this huge rotational system. 😬
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I don’t know if it’s even helpful for me to have this much data. 😬
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Severe weather coming through tonight. Unusual to have tornado watch in December! Hoping for the …
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I updated all of our iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, and Apple Watches. All went smooth except an …
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Taking my first try at staking some crypto. Phantom made it easy and with a couple of clicks I …
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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! …
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We got three four independent COVID-19 exposure warnings from Washburn High School today. 😬
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Got my Pfizer booster dose tonight! I’m happy I was able to get it two weeks earlier than I was …
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Nov 11: Variant identified in Botswana.
Nov 14: Identified in South Africa and Hong Kong.
Nov 23: …
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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. 🤩
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Things 4 Good on Endaoment
I had been thinking it would be really cool if Donor Advised Funds (DAF) were open to accepting …
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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 …
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Now that you can register any DNS .com domain on ENS I would love to dual-register thingelstad.com …
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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!
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Four Thousand Weeks as Rings
I’ve been reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. The …
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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: Mazie and I …
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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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ConstitutionDAO
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 …
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Angry Bunny Club
I’ve been wanting to find an NFT project that I could be part of to learn and see first-hand …
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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 …
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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 …
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All four of us “Things” are working away getting ready for this weekends Things 4 Good …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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Just upgraded my first machine to macOS Monterey. Very smooth. Took about an hour. I’m giddy …
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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 …
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MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 9: Drive home!
Weather: Clear, cool weather the entire way home.
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MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 8: Explore Indy and Custom Kicks
Weather: Little cool but sunny.
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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 …
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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.
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POAP 2252196 at Weekly Thing #200.
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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 …
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We visited the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis today and I was blown away by the sports …
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Delightful flat white this morning at Coat Check Coffee in Indianapolis.
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MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 5: Hermitage Farm
Weather: Perfect.
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Last stop in Kentucky we grabbed this family selfie with a gorgeous sunset at Hermitage Farm. Off to …
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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.
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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.
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Our family is hosting our first Things 4 Good Fall Fundraiser! We’ll be raising money for four …
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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.
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MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 3: Tour Day
Weather: Perfect. Couldn’t have asked for much better.
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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 …
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Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
We went to the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory today. Learned that it takes 47 seconds for a …
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Churchill Downs Tour
We visited Churchill Downs today and took the Superstars & Spires Tour. The history of the race, …
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Just bought tickets to see the new Dune on Thursday when we are staying in Indianapolis. I’m …
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MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 2: Chicago to Louisville
Weather: Wonderful weather. Sunny in Chicago. Clear weather for entire drive.
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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 …
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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 …
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MEA 2021 Road Trip Day 1: Drive to Chicago
Weather: Cool in the morning. Nice and clear weather all day. Nice in Chicago.
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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The extent to which Shortcuts on iOS 15 is broken is shocking. Any moderately complex shortcut will …
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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 …
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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 …
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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! …
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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 …
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POAP 1704752 at VeeFriends x Christie's 10/01.
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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! ⚽️
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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I created an official Olson Family Vacation 18 POAP token!
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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 …
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I decided to try a subscription to Sam Harris so that I can get full episodes of the Making Sense …
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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 …
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We went to the Minnesota State Fair today. My brother and his family were in town and we decided to …
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After months of little to no rain, it comes in buckets.
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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 …
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I’m a huge fan of Cook. Crazy big pay day. $750M. 💰 Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, received …
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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 …
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I’ve been experimenting with Literal.club to connect and discover books and reading …
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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. 🍑
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Grand Rapids & Hibbing Log
Weather: Cool. Mist and rain in the morning. Cool and mostly cloudy throughout the day. …
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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 …
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Pokegama Lake framed by trees.
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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 …
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Made this Action in Feedbin to skip sponsored items in feeds. It works really well! …
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After spending three nights on the Floathaus of Saugatuck I feel like I’m rocking on water …
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Varmont Road Trip Index
In the spirit of Harper’s Index, here is our index for the Vermont Road Trip. Airbnbs …
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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 …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 16, Sunday
Weather: Perfect. Warm and sunny.
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 15, Saturday
Weather: Perfect.
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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!
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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 …
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One minute at Oval Beach, Saugatuck, Michigan.
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Afternoon craft coffee at Uncommon Coffee Roasters in Saugatuck, MI.
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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, …
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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.
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Very challenging driving in Ohio on I-90. Very heavy rain. High winds. Limited visibility.
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On family vacations I still use technology, but as much as possible I try to put the Internet in …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 12, Wednesday
Weather: 89 °F, feels like 103 °F. 🥵
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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 …
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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.
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POAP 735405 at Micro Camp 2021.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Connected Device Disclosures for Rental Properties
We’ve been staying almost exclusively in Airbnb properties for a while now. We enjoy the …
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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 …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 7, Friday
Weather: Perfect.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 6, Thursday
Weather: Perfect!
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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 …
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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. …
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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. ⛵️
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 4, Tuesday
Weather: Perfect.
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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 …
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Ready to watch Dune, again!
Dune is perhaps my favorite sci-fi world. I read all six of Frank Herbert’s books in one …
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Recent NFT Activity
This block of updates from today’s Modern Finance newsletter on recent activity around NFTs …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 3, Monday
Weather: Perfect.
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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! …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 2, Sunday
Weather: Brief drizzle in the morning. Clear weather through entire route. Drizzle and very cloudy …
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Today we have part two of the drive to get to our first real destination in Accord, NY. 475 miles. …
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Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 1, Saturday
Weather: Slight fog in the morning. Good weather throughout route.
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Spending the night in Cleveland, OH so we had to get some amazing Graeter’s French Pot Ice Cream.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“Not being busy is a competitive advantage. Most people are so strapped for time they …
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The Magic Pines garden is really revving up now! I think we may have planted a bit much. The …
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Zen of Python
I joined a Zoom meeting today and André Burgaud had this great background with a terminal …
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Notes from Pantera Blockchain Call
Companies highlighted:
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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.
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Love this framing around time. An investment is an investment of capital, a meeting is an investment …
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POAP 533233 at The First Redeemable NFT in Times Square, Ever!.
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POAP 533130 at SPS TechJam 2021.
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POAP 533122 at R/W Book Club: Klara and the Sun.
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I’m having a blast playing and exploring POAP tokens. I’ve created a few for various events to …
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POAP 499168 at Night of Crypto 2021.
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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.
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Bought a little more Bitclout $CLOUT to play with creator coins and Bitclout NFTs shortly. Buy the …
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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.
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My crypto home screen as of July 2021.
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Bees Balm is fully in bloom.
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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. …
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Crypto Allocation (June 2021)
Time for another Crypto Allocation update. The last two months have seen a huge draw down in all …
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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 …
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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, …
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I love when friends surprise you with the gift of a good book! I’m looking forward to reading Tiny …
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My book club met in person for the first time since Jan 30 2020. It was great to see everyone “IRL” …
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Crypto Links
Balaji Srinivasan shared these links in a tweet. I’m putting them here for reference, with a …
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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 …
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I’m so happy to have our Andrew Carson wind sculpture back up after being in storage a couple of …
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I didn’t get the Weekly Thing done last night, but I got up early this morning and finished …
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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 …
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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.
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I’ve been testing the new calendar integration with Craft and after a week have decided to …
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POAP 324580 at ENS 4th Anniversary @Pplpleasr NFT Giveaway - Snapshot voter.
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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 …
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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 …
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Rainbow wallet now has web profiles so you can see collectibles with a browser. See my …
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Upgraded to iOS 14.6 and after everyone was updated setup Apple Card Family. Worked really well. …
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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.
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Constellation Fund is hosting Bright Night, a free virtual fundraiser tonight at 6:30pm! 💡 You can …
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Paul Boswell, creator of the Turing Tumble, just launched Spintronics on Kickstarter. I’m in! …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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!
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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 …
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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 …
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Ten Richest Men, Thirteen Divorces
It seems completely predictable that Elon Musk and Larry Ellison would represent over 50% of all the …
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My daughter is taking drivers ed., and the classes are online so we can all hear. I can report that …
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I love seeing the constant innovation in Drafts! We now have Drafts Capture for the Web? I never …
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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.
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Just preordered three ElevationLabs TagVaults so I can use AirTags on boat and pool keys!
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Emoji Vaccine Status
I like the idea of using Emoji to indicate status. Fun! Okay, looks like we're doing this. If …
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Had first lunch from Avocadish today via Foodsby. Southwest Bowl was delicious! Will be a repeat …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. 🤤🐖🔥 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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From today’s Economist Espresso: The valuation of Stripe reached $95bn in its latest funding …
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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 …
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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 …
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Techies who Peloton First Ride
When Minnestar decided to launch these “Techies who …” communities I was really excited …
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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 …
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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 …
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I’m trying to mint an NFT on Zora.co and am shocked by the variability in the network fee. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Approaching Crypto
I’ve recently clarified my thinking on Bitcoin and related crypto. To be transparent, …
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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.
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Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum
Today we visited the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Museum in Joshua Tree. We weren’t familiar with …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. 🍩
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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 …
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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 …
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Bring Back Inline Replies
The vast majority of the email I reply to I do a simple top reply. Particularly on mobile. It is …
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I 💛 micro.blog
I noticed that it was four years ago today that I signed up to back Indie Microblogging on …
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Better Weekly Thing Description
Writing to describe myself or one of my projects is hard for me. Those little “About” …
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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 …
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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. …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. 🥳
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Kicking off our family New Year’s Eve with a French 75 and getting the fondue started! 🥂 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Yesterday morning there was no snow and we were thinking out hopes of a White Christmas we’re in …
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Winter Solstice 2020
Today we “celebrate” the Winter Solstice. Here in Minneapolis the sun will rise at 7:48 …
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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 …
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Tyler tonight shared his favorite YouTube gamer Mr. A-Game’s birthday, which was a little …
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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! 🍸
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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 …
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Hit a new 30-min PR in Jess King’s Sweat Steady ride today! 408 kJ, +3 over previous PR. 🙌🚴♂️ …
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"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 …
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Facebook’s opposition to Apple’s privacy enhancements on their platform is a strong …
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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 …
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From NY Times Dec 13 2020.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I’m not sure what happened with our bandwidth usage this month but it was way up from any …
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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 …
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This was the worst production outage I’ve experienced in Amazon Web Services, lasting over 21 …
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We got takeout from Petite León for the first time tonight and thought it was great. We enjoyed the …
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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 …
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I leveled up my webinar broadcasting capabilities with the addition of a green screen. This setup …
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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. …
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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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Delicious Barbera d’Asti. 🍷
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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"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 …
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2:03pm on the day after the 2020 Election.
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5:49am on the day after the 2020 Election.
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Taking Inventory
Let’s take an inventory for a moment. We are now eight months into the pandemic and it is …
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Celebrating the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 30th Anniversary by converting from an annual …
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Lightroom is giving me troubles, and Photos is too. My iMac is stuck at “Restoring from …
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I’ve been trying to export a single photo taken in 2008 from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC. It …
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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. 🍸
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Madison Lake, Minnesota.
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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 …
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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.
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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! 🤦♂️
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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 …
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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. 🍂❄️
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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. ❄️
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41% of voters already completed voting seems high for the middle of October. I wish this had a …
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Lake Superior selfie. 😊
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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.
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Upper Falls of the Temperance River.
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Looking at a Winter Snowstorm warning with 3-5 inches of snow we decided to end our MEA weekend …
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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 …
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Facebook and Twitter Have Lost Control
From recent actions I think that we must conclude that Facebook and Twitter have now explicitly …
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This weekend I wired up two additional platforms that I’m syndicating to. I’m now …
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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. 🤣
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 PR …
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Had a great evening with a couple of friends sitting around the fire, drinking an Old Fashioned or …
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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 …
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Amazon’s marketing strategy with Ring seems to be:
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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? 😬 …
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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. …
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Last night as we were getting ready to go to sleep I noticed that a helicopter had been circling …
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It was great to be on a panel today as part of Twin Cities Startup Week talking about Managing …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.” …
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Kayaking Pokegama and the Mississippi
We spent the morning kayaking down the Mississippi. We put in at Tioga Beach on Pokegama Lake, then …
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These lanterns are very fun to watch fly. This one soared high above Pokegama Lake.
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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). …
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Oddball at REM5VR
A couple weeks back we got to try REM5VR’s newest arena experience, Oddball. it is a VR version of …
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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
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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, …
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Yellowstone 2020 Index
RV spots: 5 Vehicles rented: 2 Miles driven: 2,721 on the RV Total cost of gasoline: …
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This is one of the oddest places I’ve had to deal with a hornets nest. 😬
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Awesome win by MNUFC over San Jose tonight! On to the semifinals against Orlando! ⚽️🙌
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Most terrifying thing about renting the RV? Taking it to the truck wash before returning it and …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 13, Thursday
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Today is our final stretch with a 593 mile drive back to Minneapolis! We’ve had an awesome …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 12, Wednesday
Weather: Cool morning. Feels like rain.
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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 …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 11, Tuesday
Weather: Rain! Cool! Rain stopped after first hour or so and then pleasant driving weather …
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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 …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 10, Monday
Weather: Clear and Sunny, Warm. Cloudy into the evening.
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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.
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Yellowstone Log: Day 9, Sunday
Weather: cool in morning. Warm and pleasant rest of day.
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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 …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 8, Saturday
Weather: great, clear, mid-70s
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Yellowstone Log: Day 7, Friday
Weather: mid 70s. Nice.
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The KOA that we are at has no WiFi and no cellular signal. We’ve been offline for 3 days …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 6, Thursday
Weather: started out rain/drizzle. Cleared up and was great day.
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We all had a great morning fly fishing on the Gallatin River! Tammy caught 2 trout, Tyler got a …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 5, Wednesday
Weather: lovely day
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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. 🎣
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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. …
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We had a fabulous afternoon tubing down the Madison River today outside of Bozeman, MT. We went with …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 4, Tuesday
Weather: beautiful day
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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 …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 3, Monday
Weather: beautiful day
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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 …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 2, Sunday
Weather: lovely day
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417 miles on tap for today. Final of long drive days to get to Yellowstone area. Filling gas at …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 1, Saturday
Weather: hot and humid in mpls, weather much better in Medora
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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. 😊🛣
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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 …
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Yellowstone Log: Day 0, Friday
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Email from our daughters high school: “Due to budget cuts, the number of counselors serving …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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Distribution Center Simulation
I was able to participate in one of the first run-throughs of our new Distribution Center Simulation …
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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 …
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Refusing to Amplify is not Censorship
Recently Twitter made the decision to tag some of President Trump’s tweets as incorrect and …
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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, …
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A lot of people and small businesses are going to need our help recovering and rebuilding along Lake …
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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! 🚀
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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 …
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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
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Minnesota State Fair is officially cancelled for 2020 due to Covid-19. That seemed like the only …
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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. 📈 …
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Who do I want to be during Covid-19?
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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, …
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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.
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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 …
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We made the jump to an electric lawn mover tonight. We bought the 21" Self-Propelled EGO Power+ …
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Nice spin session on Peloton this morning, 30-min Rock & Roll class with Emma Lovewell! Geeky …
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All data that I have read points to this pandemic lasting for a long time. “The World Health …
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Great Season 40 of Survivor “Winners at War”. I wanted Natalie to win though. Tony played a strong …
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“The average number of passengers on a commercial flight within the U.S. right now: just 23. Every …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Tetris Shower that we did over a decade ago is still one of my favorite home projects …
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Boat Day! Beautiful morning to get the pontoon from storage. Heading up Cannon River to Wells Lake …
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Importing Jekyll site to micro.blog
I successfully migrated my blog archive from Jekyll to micro.blog. I haven’t seen much written …
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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! 💐
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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 …
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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. …
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We got takeout from Zetta’s tonight and thoroughly enjoyed the “somewhat original flatbread …
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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 …
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Another great Peloton spin class with fellow #TeamSPS members this morning — 30 min 80s Rock Ride! …
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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.
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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! 💥🚴🏼♂️ …
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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. …
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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
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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? 🤷🏼♂️
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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 …
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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. ☕️
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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 …
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I find it interesting that my Pi-hole blocks 10-20% of DNS requests made when nobody is home. …
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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 …
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Would be pretty nifty to get a Zoom app for Tesla. 😁
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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Did a great 45-minute spin class on Peloton today! #FitByFifty
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Sitting in our covered porch listening to it rain and thunder is one of my favorite things about …
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I set a new 20-min PR on Peloton today! 🙌 #FitByFifty
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It seems that Lucky enjoys reading the classics. 😂
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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 …
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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 …
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Doing family voting process for potential dog names! Scout and Milo are at the top. Lucky, Cosmo, …
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Acts of Goodness
I was able to spend some time this morning with my good friend Michael Rock on FaceTime over coffee. …
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Rapid Transitions: Edina Liquor
This sales data is remarkable. From our municipal liquor store… Edina Liquor
The three Edina Liquor …
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After three days of working from home my daughter (14) asks “Dad, when do you do your work? All you …
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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!
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Donated to Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. Organizations like this are going to need to help a …
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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! 🥧🤤 …
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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. 🎶
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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, …
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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 …
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Wow — Pythonista 3 finally got an upgrade to some of the newest iOS features! And release notes make …
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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! 🔥🍔❄️
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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!
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Impressive Super Bowl and congratulations to the Kansas City and the Chiefs! Some excellent …
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LEGO Masters could be a really fun show.
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Good first half for Super Bowl LIV. 🏈 Cheering for the Chiefs!
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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 …
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Just queued up the first issue of my Weekly Thing newsletter that will go out via Buttondown! …
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A bunch of #TeamSPS volunteered to demo multiple rooms at Erik’s Ranch & Retreats as they get …
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Easiest way to make customers not feel valued? Address communication with “Dear Valued …
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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.
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Driving north on I-35 and clearly this car didn’t see us at all.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 🏆
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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! 🙌
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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 …
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Took advantage of Apple’s annual holiday sale to get some upgrades ordered! 🎁 New iMac and iPad Pro …
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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 …
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Sounds great, and I’m having fun trying to virtually follow #KubeCon. Maybe next year I can …
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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. ✈️🥱
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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 …
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Wrapped up another great trip in Kyiv with #TeamSPS Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Time to head home! ✈️
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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 …
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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 …
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Congratulations to the Seattle Sounders FC for winning the 2019 MLS Cup! ⚽️🏆 Exciting game! Toronto …
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For the third time in four years we’ll be watching the Seattle Sounders play Toronto FC in the MLS …
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Missing James Whatley’s Five Things on Friday during its “odd hiatus” — looking forward to the …
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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 …
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I think the noise cancelling in the AirPods Pro makes me nauseous. Wasn’t sure of cause the first …
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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. 🔥
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Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween! 🎃
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Initial impression of AirPods Pro:
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Has there ever been a 7-game World Series where the home team lost every game? ⚾️
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Game 7 of the World Series between Astros and Nationals is an absolute nail biter. Tyler and I are …
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Game 6 of the World Series is off to a very exciting start! 2-1 Astros at the bottom of the 1st! ⚾️
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My original AirPods were badly in need of replacement after going in the pool with me. Just ordered …
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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! 🍂😬
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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. 🔥🛠
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Finally the Astros win one in the World Series! 2-1 now. Tyler’s spirits are lifted with his …
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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 …
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Mark O’Leary and I shared context and excitement with one of our teams as we continue our …
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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, …
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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 …
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After watching the Yankee’s school the Twins, I’m rather enjoying watching the …
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Tammy and I thoroughly enjoyed Mike Birbiglia’s The New One tonight. Birbig’s is one of …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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Disappointing showing from Tottenham against Brighton this morning. ⚽️ 3-0 #BHATOT
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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 …
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This never gets old. Tesla Version 10 on the way! 🤓
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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. 🥧
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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. …
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Walked into the pool with my AirPods in my pocket. Oops. Hoping they come back to life tomorrow. 💦
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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.
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Dan Hon’s article on this Audi Concept Car video is a great read (see section 1.1). 👏
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Finished a Saturday morning Peloton spin class. I need to remember how good it feels to do that. …
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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. …
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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!
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Northfield Shares a Dinner
Having dinner with the city of Northfield! Thanks to Northfield Shares a Dinner! 🍽🤝 Thank you to …
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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. 🍒
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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. 🔥
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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.
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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. …
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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.
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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! ⚽️
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The 2019 SPS Brew-Off was great as always! We have amazing home brewers in #TeamSPS, and it’s …
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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. 🤔
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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! …
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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 …
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Automatic Git Pushes with Gitwatch
I’ve been using blot.im to publish my websites for a while. Originally Blot only used Dropbox …
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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! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🙌 …
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This Copperstar Galactica IPA from Beards Brewery that Tammy brought back from Michigan is amazing. …
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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 …
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Great performance by USA 🇺🇸 over Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 winning 6-0 in CONCACAF Gold Cup. Some …
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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 …
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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! 🔥🍔🍺
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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 …
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+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? 🤣
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2019 Edina Art Fair
We weren’t able to get to the Edina Art Fair until shortly before it was closing today. We …
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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! 🔥🔥🔥
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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! ⚽️👏
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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! 🤤
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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 …
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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. 🎲
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Currently 564/2,591 on this mornings spin! The Peloton leaderboard definitely gets me pushing …
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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
⚽️ Seconds before Minnesota United GOAL! 1-0
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We found our name on the big MNUFC sign at Allianz Field!
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Happy with fire pit setup. 🔥
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Burch Old Fashioned. 🥃
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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 …
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Used the Scosche Rhythm+ heart rate monitor for first time today. I liked it on the forearm versus …
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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 …
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Just ordered my MacStories 10th Anniversary T-Shirt! 👕
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Got to watch the Space X Arabsat-6A launch from two days ago. Still amazes me watching the booster …
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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, …
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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 …
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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. 🎶🥃
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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! 🐨
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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, …
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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. …
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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! 🤯🥦
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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 …
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With all the amazing computational photography power of an iPhone XS, why can’t it properly …
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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 …
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Tyler and I played in our first Pokémon friendly tournament today. I’m glad he knows what …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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3D Printing custom Valentine’s Day things for the kids to give their friends! 💕
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JSONFeed on Blot
I’ve been enjoying Blot a lot. I’ve enjoyed its approach to blogging. There is plenty of …
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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 …
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Minnesota Kubb 2019 Winter Tournament
The Kubbchucks played our 8th annual Minnesota Kubb Winter Tournament this weekend. After a week of …
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Tech Summit 2019
View from the control room as we get ready to start #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2019! Yesterday’s …
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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 …
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Ordered End of Trust, McSweeney’s Issue 54 done in collaboration with the EFF! 💜
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Just signed up for a 4th site on Blot. This one will be to finally get a decent site for my Book …
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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 …
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I’ve used an Airport Express (Gen 1) with an auto-switching amp to get AirPlay audio. The …
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Quiet Friday night putting together tomorrows issue of the Weekly Thing. 👨💻
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Closed on the sale of our old house. Now done with the moving stuff. Time to get settled into the …
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Got a 2nd HomePod and am trying out a stereo pair. They sound incredibly good for the size.
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“You’re one of 772,904,991 people pwned in the Collection #1 data breach.” That is a …
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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! 🔥
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I just preordered Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. I was going to buy it anyway so the additional …
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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!
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Today is moving day! 📦🚛🏠🥳 Internet service up and running at the new house! 🥳
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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 …
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I’ve now created three blogs on Blot and am enjoying it a lot. I’ve got a “good …
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Our family plays Clue every year on New Year’s Eve while we await the new year, and this year …
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Went to Bohemian Rhapsody tonight and thought it was great! 🎬 Turns our New Year’s Eve is a …
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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. 🎬
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I’ve been throwing a bunch of content at Blot and have been very impressed. Speed is okay even with …
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Maybe Blot?
There is a bit of a trend on micro.blog to use Blot for longer form blog hosting. I’ve not dug …
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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 …
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Macro Blog?
I’ve had a hard time finding a blog platform that I really enjoy. I tired a long time ago of …
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Book: When Breath Becomes Air
I’ve had “When Breath Becomes Air” sitting at our cabin for a while, but
decided …
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We all watched Kiki’s Delivery Service yesterday. Another in our Studio Ghibli …
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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, …
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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. 🍿
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I’m going to give Agenda a solid workout to see if it’s a better solution for tracking …
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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! 👍🏻
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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!
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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.
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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 …
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I am “fixing” my Twitter import into micro.blog and needed to get rid of hundreds of …
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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. …
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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 …
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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! 🎄
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To all Music services: Why can’t I find any Christmas channels, playlists, stations, etc. that …
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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
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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 …
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Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins! Christmas tradition, watching Elf! 🎬🎄
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From our family to yours — Happy Thanksgiving!
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This new 27” Retina iMac is starved for memory. 64 GB of SO-DIMMs on the way!
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Carefully disassembling my single 1.2 TB Lightroom Classic catalog into Lightroom CC and iCloud …
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I’ve had more spinning beachballs in macOS Mojave than I’ve had in any recent version of …
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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!
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Got sick with something pretty bad right before leaving Ukraine. Got progressively worse while …
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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 …
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Monopoly “The .com Edition” can provide hours of entertainment just by looking at all the companies …
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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. ✈️
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I’m finding myself frustrated with pure static hosting. It adds too much friction to …
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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! 😁
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Wait, the newest version of Apple Photos cannot import DNG files? What the … 😤
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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 …
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Got my tickets to the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup (Group D) matches at Allianz Field! Can’t wait to …
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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 …
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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!
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iOS has Pythonista for Python, and Scriptable is awesome for JavaScript, but I wish there was a Lua …
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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 …
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I found my trick-or-treat! 🍺 Thanks Andy Domeier! White Oak Jai Alai IPA – such a great IPA!
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Achievement Unlocked: Giving out full-size candy bars for Halloween! 🎃🍫👍
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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.
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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 …
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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! 🥁🤘
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Franconia Sculpture Park
We had a great morning exploring the Franconia Sculpture Park! We are lucky to have great public art …
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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. 🤬⚽️
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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! 🍷
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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.
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We need a movement to ban cable news from waiting areas. 🚫
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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. …
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Two of my three Macs are upgraded to macOS Mojave. The last one that is still upgrading is an iMac …
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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 …
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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. 🎬
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It seems that the nVidia GPU in my 2012 MacBook Pro 15” Retina is failing fast. Screen goes black, …
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Upgraded Nintendo Switch to 6.0 and Tyler and I are trying out Switch Online. It’s fun to play …
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Now have a VIN for my Tesla Model 3 reservation and a scheduled delivery date for the weekend! 😎
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Wired my iOS 12 Shortcut so “Hey Siri, Loons win!” starts playing Wonderwall. 👍🏻⚽️🎧
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Have all my relevant Apple devices upgraded to iOS 12, watchOS 5 and related device OS versions. 👍🏻
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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!
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Time it took AT&T to fix my iPhone Xs upgrade order today: 97 minutes. Time it took my barber to …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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I finally order a Tesla, and then Elon Musk decides to lose his mind. 🤦♂️
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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).
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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 …
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Michael Franti & Spearhead at MN Zoo! 🎶
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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 …
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A few days ago my dog Chase injured his CCL (Dog version of ACL) in his right hind leg. Today he …
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Started allergy medicine — I don’t remember a year that I had to start this early! 🤧💊
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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 …
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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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Ithaca Falls. 😊👍🏻
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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 …
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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.
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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. 😳
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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. 🎬
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I made a Workflow in iOS that pulls a specific budget amount for me from YNAB’s API, then …
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Biked into work today! 🚲 Two weeks makes the start of a streak.
:
MN United v LAFC
Great start to MN United v LAFC! Some serious soccer! ⚽️ Totally amazing, gorgeous goal from …
:
Beef tenderloin on the Big Green Egg tonight. 🔥🤤
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Pulled the lever to make espresso this morning and to my shock and horror realized the pump in my …
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Backed Stages Card Game on Kickstarter, a grand tour bicycle race themed card game! 🚲
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📅 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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Bingo at Stanley’s!
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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 …
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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 …
:
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 …
:
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.
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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 …
:
Minnesota United FC v FC Dallas
Time for some Minnesota United FC v FC Dallas soccer! ⚽️ Family selfie at Minnesota United FC …
:
First clematis flower of the year.
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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! 🙌🏻 …
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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.
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Took my Canon 5D Mark II with the 70-200 f/2.8L to Tyler’s baseball game today. Good reminder …
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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 …
:
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 …
:
Brandi Carlile at the Big Top Chautauqua
Brandi Carlile taking the stage at Big Top Chautauqua. 🎶 Crowd is excited! 🙌🏻 Her performances …
:
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.
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Got a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Extend today. I am very impressed with how easy setup was. Easily …
:
Idyllic evening on Morgan Avenue.
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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 …
:
Got the pork shoulders on just as the rain started to pour! Hoping to smoke through 5 hours of rain …
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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 …
:
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 …
:
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.
:
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. 👍🏻
:
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. …
:
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! 🙌
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My children both tend to pick Comic Sans when picking a type. 😳 I have no idea where I went wrong. …
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Big Green Egg smoking. 🔥
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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! 🔥
:
Freakish heavy rain, hail and high wind weather came out of nowhere. ⛈💨
:
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 …
:
The Tesla coil at Museum of Space and Industry in Chicago impresses me every time. ⚡️😲
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Just finished the Mission: Mars room at The Escape Game in Chicago. Loved the room! Best escape room …
:
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 …
:
Sailboats in Chicago going out to the lake.
:
SPS TechJam 2018
Today is our annual #TeamSPS TechJam event bringing the global SPS technology team together to …
:
Hanging out with the amazing Bridget Kromhout at our SPS TechJam speaker dinner! Looking forward to …
:
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! 🍺
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Learned that you cannot make whipped cream in an ice cream maker bowl. 🤦🏼♂️
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I like the augmented memory effect I get when adding a link to Pinboard and it tells me I previously …
:
MN United v SJ Quakes
Ready for MN United game! ⚽️👏🏻 MN United game time! ⚽️ Goal for the Yellow Team to give San Jose …
:
Saturday morning 8 and under baseball! ⚾️
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😲 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 …
:
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 …
:
I think if you averaged all bike rides in Minneapolis today, you would get my ride around the three …
:
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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Left a cairn. 🙏🏻
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
North Shore requires a stop at Betty’s Pies. I’m a pie traditionalist. Blueberry, cup of coffee.
:
Gooseberry Falls is roaring with spring melt.
:
Home Free stage photo. 🎶
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Excited to see OmniFocus 3.0 for iOS ship date announced! Wonder why it’s not in App Store for …
:
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.
:
Gorgeous evening to sit outside and relax.
:
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 …
:
Kids are all of a sudden into Beanie Boos. 🤷🏼♂️
:
Happy Earth Day everyone! 🌏
:
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 …
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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 …
:
St Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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tag 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. …
:
Great Georgian dinner at Gogi with our Kyiv leadership team. 😊
:
My collection of travel cables is bonkers. 😬
:
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.
:
Sunrise draping through Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport this morning.
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Heading to Kyiv to visit #TeamSPS! ✈️ MSP → CDG → KBP
:
Enjoyed Darkest Hour. 🎬
:
🌨 It is still snowing in Minneapolis. 🤦♂️ I am flying to Ukraine 🇺🇦 tomorrow and will be enjoying …
:
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. …
:
Well over a foot of snow to deal this morning. Heavy too with the warm temperatures recently. Had to …
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Planning to just let the snow keep falling, and get completely snowed in until tomorrow morning, …
:
Minnebar 13
Today I went to my 13th Minnebar — I haven’t missed one yet! For the first time ever we …
:
People flying their drones through VR goggles looks kind of creepy. 😬
:
Had a great time at my 13th Minnebar today! 🌟
:
Join me in supporting Minnestar and the Twin Cities technology community by becoming a Community …
:
Bridget Kromhout kicking off Minnebar 13 Session 0. 👏
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
The Decemberists at the Palace Theater.
:
I was really happy that India Palace made Lachha Paratha for us tonight (not on the menu). I had …
:
This graph is in Why We Sleep and is super interesting. Only just getting started on this read and …
:
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 …
:
Went to setup Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS service and it looks like Eero Plus must work in …
:
Visited the Michigan Avenue Apple Store when we were in Chicago. Amazing architecture. The building …
:
The view from the 360 Chicago deck on the John Hancock Tower was incredible. Family selfie from the …
:
The Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago are incredible. You can find detail in …
:
Chicago Cloud Gate sculpture. Inside the Chicago Cloud Gate. Chicago Cloud Gate.
:
Time for Hamilton! 🎭🎶
:
$1 million three different ways ($1, $20, and $100 bills) at Chicago Fed Money Museum.
:
Delicious espresso at Caffe Umbria this morning.
:
Array of 3D printers at Museum of Science & Industry.
:
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!
:
Forty minute wait for deep dish at Lou Malnati’s? Sure.
:
Ready for Sharks 4D movie at Shedd Aquarium!
:
Delicious unfiltered Foiken Haze New England IPA at ERIS Brewery and Cider House. 🍻
:
We had a blast at Wizard Quest today and completed our challenge with a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating! This was a …
:
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.
:
We had a great time at the Rick Wilcox Magic Show tonight! 🎩 I got to go onstage for one of the …
:
Dinner at Moosejaw Pizza & Brewing. 🍽
:
Great family travel accessory, Anker 10-port USB charger.
:
Family selfie at the Wisconsin Dells Kalahari Resort! Tyler’s black eye memorialized.
:
Delicious Kingfield at Five Watt Coffee this morning. Heading out on vacation shortly.
:
At Martina for our first Gnocchi Night. Delicious.
:
Seeing Patricia Barber for the first time at Dakota Jazz Club. 🎶
:
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 …
:
Still thinking about today’s awesome lunch at Tori Ramen with Patrick Rhone. The Bali Bali! …
:
Shredding paper like I work in the White House. 🤣
:
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. 👍🏻
:
:
Why MailChimp for Weekly Thing
I’ve now completed the migration and automation of the Weekly
Thing using
MailChimp, and …
:
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.
:
2018 π day shirt! See Pi Day Collection.
:
🥧 #TeamSPS getting reading to celebrate π day! See Pi Day Collection.
:
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 …
:
Had a wonderful visit to the Taj Mahal this morning. Amazing palace.
:
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 🚙 …
:
I got schooled today in ping pong 🏓 . Next time I need to practice up before I come to visit.
:
We had an amazing day today with #TeamSPS in Pune! It was fabulous to meet everyone! 🤝
:
We got to celebrate International Women’s Day while in Pune with Bristlecone. It was an honor to get …
:
Kent, Amy and I took a moment to prove that everyone looks dorky in a VR headset. 👀😬
:
Nice welcome from our partners at Bristlecone!
:
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 …
:
Suggestion: if your store is named Helvetica, maybe use the Helvetica typeface? 😏
:
Fabulous visit to Indmax #TeamSPS in Hyderabad. Thank you for the warm welcome and great questions! …
:
Miniature temple in Hyderabad.
:
Fabulous evening at Taj Falaknuma Palace. Amazing palace and very good dinner at Adaa.
:
Visiting Midnight Bazaar in Hyderabad.
:
Beautiful collection of roses. 🌹
:
A very warm and generous welcome to Hyderabad from our partners at Indmax. 🙏
:
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! ✈️
:
Nice evening of good food and conversation with Bristlecone team.
:
Cool candle display at Taj Hotel in New Delhi.
:
Traffic in Delhi and Noida is “up close” and personal.
:
Had a very good visit to HCL today. Impressive capabilities and people!
:
Amy, Kent and I got a warm welcome from our partners at Bristlecone after 20 hours of traveling and …
:
The customs hall at the Delhi airport has some cool artistic touches.
:
Dan Wilson at Icehouse
Dan Wilson taking the stage for his 3-ring Binder “all-requests” show at Icehouse! 🎶👍🏻
:
Fun performance of The Lion King at Justice Page Middle School tonight! 🎭
:
Still finding Alto’s Odyssey very fun. Great game! 👍🏻
:
I’m amazed at the “superpowers” Workflow gives me automating routine things from my phone! 🙌🏻
:
My sons 2nd grade class also has a mindfulness practice. It’s a great idea and it seems to work for …
:
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 …
:
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. …
:
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 …
:
Alto’s Odyssey is a beautiful game experience.
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Beef tenderloin into the Sous Vides bath. 🤤🥩
:
I guess I exceeded the temperature for the spatula. 🤨
:
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 …
:
🎬 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! 🎬
:
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.
:
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 …
:
In celebration of Super Bowl LII here we are in front of the ice sculpture of the numerals downtown! …
:
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’m reading 📚 Why Buddhism Is True and the references to “modules” of the mind keep …
:
Forestry.io
I have been happy having my blog hosted in Jekyll and built as a static
site with Netlify. There is …
:
The Cactus Blossoms at the Turf Club. So good! 🎶
:
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 …
:
Sunday morning project: Figured out how to connect Workflow and Pythonista and rewrote the links …
:
Excited to head to the world’s largest winter Kubb tournament at the Loppet today! Go …
:
I have an irrational enthusiasm for updating firmware. 🤩😎🤞🏻
:
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 …
:
A lot of snow coming down in Minneapolis! ❄️ Two hours running snow blower. I’m done for …
:
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 …
:
2017 in Links
For years I’ve been keeping all of my links on
Pinboard and this year I decided to start …
:
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 …
:
I have been impressed with the Anki Cozmo — it’s amazing how much character this little robot …
:
Getting the whole family shoveling the snow makes it very quick! 🌨🌨🌨
:
New light hung! 💡 This is about the extent of my handyman skills. 👷🏻♂️
:
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. 👍🏻
:
So many books. Wild Rumpus Books. 📚
:
Family movie night watching Leap! Everyone liked it. 🎬
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A smartphone filled with social apps is a manifestation of Buddhist monkey mind.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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?
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Time for family New Year’s Eve. Game of Clue is first up! 🎲 It was Mrs. Peacock in the Hall …
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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 …
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Static site generators are great in so many ways, but the friction in publishing with them is …
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What apps make you better?
I’ve been very intentional about which applications I put on my iPhone and even where I put …
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I want to be an energy efficient household but this monthly report from XcelEnergy does nothing to …
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… 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.
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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 …
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… 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 …
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Been getting errors on disk 3 in one of my Synology DS416 units. Swapped out the bad disk and …
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You remove all the social apps from your iPhone and you realize it wont fill all your idle moments. …
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Another super fun Book Club meeting tonight! Good conversation about Daemon by Daniel Suarez.
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Looking up recipes for Christmas, proud Minnesotan moment with this intro on Wikipedia: “Glorified …
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Really happy to see micro.blog public release today! I’ve been enjoying micro.blog since the …
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Saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi and thought it was great! 👍
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😤 … when you sit down to do something quick on your computer and you spend 30 mins fixing cable …
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Trying to figure out what size rubber grommet I need for my espresso knock box bar. A bit …
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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 …
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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! 🌳🌳🌳
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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 …
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Great Minnestar board meeting today. It’s very rewarding to think about how far this …
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Amazon Prime Video now on Apple TV! I can finally watch The Man In The High Castle without the …
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I just donated to Wikipedia. 😊🎓 Support free knowledge!
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Removed Google Analytics
I’ve never desired to put a lot of tracking code on my websites, but I had left Google …
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Eero Plus subscription with security and ad blocking, and now Encrypt.me and 1Password for Families …
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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! 😤
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After a long hiatus I’m finally watching the last episode of Game of Thrones, Season 7. 🤫
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Scanning “Twitter Moments” is pretty good confirmation that Twitter and I parted ways a …
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Family theater 🎭 this afternoon with Snow White and the Seven Vikings. Good performance at the Old …
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Had a nice time at Julmarknad at the American Swedish Institute this morning! 👍🏻
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First trip to Lucky Oven Bakery; very good food, broad menu, good coffee. Very busy though, expect …
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Our daughter is writing the Christmas letter this year. Think it will be the best one ever! 😁
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AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote Notes
My quick reaction to the notable announcements at AWS re:Invent 2017.Compute
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There is perhaps nothing more Midwest than a Lutefisk Dinner in a church basement. 88th Annual …
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Espresso shower head and gasket certainly needed replacing.
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Watching the AWS re:Invent day 2 keynote and I keep noting that the they spend a lot of time talking …
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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 …
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I wish 1Blocker had a built in system for sharing and subscribing to custom packages made by other …
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I’m still new to my Audible subscription but am liking it thus far. Think it will result in …
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Thanks to Jarrod Whaley I have a nice little Python script so I can easily update micro.blog without …
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Looking forward to speaking at the MHTA Annual CIO Panel next week!
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AWS re:Invent Keynote 2017
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Bitcoin went up 21% in the last week! 🤭
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Join me in supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation in their 2017 fundraising campaign with …
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Gas station on my commute just added Apple Pay to pumps. Hope that is a trend that accelerates. 👏🏻
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Realized today that the group gasket and shower screen on my espresso machine is supposed to be …
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Envisioning a Cloud Native Wiki
A few years ago I dove deeply into the wiki ecosystem and learned all
about MediaWiki, its plugins …
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Got my ScanSnap iX500 setup tonight. Cloud scanning seems to be working well.
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Family night out with dinner at Bacio and then went to Coco. What a great movie! Highly recommended!
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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 …
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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. 🤷♂️
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Finished Stranger Things 2 tonight. Very good. 👏🏻
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US Internet won’t be able to finish my fiber install until spring. 😭
Ground is freezing and not …
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Family time to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. 📺 Traditions!
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Making the Wassail Tea for Thanksgiving!
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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 …
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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 …
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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!
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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
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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 …
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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.
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Home networking: Mesh WiFi is all cool and everything, but I still prefer the “blinky lights” of Cat …
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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! 🤣
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There should be a proper espresso demitasse emoji. ☕️ misses the point.
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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 …
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My book club is reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez this month! I’ve wanted to read this one for a …
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Got Workflow working with the Mailchimp API. Weekly Thing automation leveling up! 👍🏻 My biggest ask …
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The Kubbchucks are registered for the 2018 MN Kubb Winter Tournament!
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Give a person a find/replace and you power them once. Teach them regular expressions and you give …
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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! …
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Coldest Halloween 🎃 in 15 years definitely impacted turnout. ❄️ First year we didn’t run out …
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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!
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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. 😂
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Some scripting magic and I’ve finally resolved the missing images from most of my blog archive …
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Just saved myself a silly amount of time with 18 lines of bash. So great. 👍
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Fun R/W Book Club meeting on A Crack in Creation tonight talking about CRISPR and gene editing! 📚
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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. 🍌🤷♂️
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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What’s better than using AirPods for music? Using a single AirPod to make calls or listen to …
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I’ve posted more than most users on micro.blog’s discover tab. Definitely isn’t …
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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?
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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!
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Brandi Carlile’s The Story is such a great song. 🎶
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Last boat ride of the year. 🙁
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Tomorrow’s Weekly Thing will delivered from MailChimp instead of TinyLetter! 🤞 Hoping for the …
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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.
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Really enjoying that Curb Your Enthusiasm is back with new episodes! 🤣
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PSA: The Canadian Girl Guide Mint Cookies are vastly superior to Girl Scout Thin Mints.
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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 …
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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!
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Recommend registering your email at Have I Been Pwned. Great awareness tool of data breaches!
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My book club is reading A Crack in Creation this month. Looks like a good read! 📚
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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. 👏🏻🏃🏼♀️👏🏻🏃🏼👏🏻
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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! 👍🏻
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Got my Series 3 Apple Watch today! Way faster than original. Have LTE setup too! ⌚️
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Setup iCloud Family Sharing for storage. Nice to have that option now!
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Gave another copy of Getting Things Done to a #TeamSPS member. One of my favorite things to do!
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Goodbye JPEG. Hello HEIF!
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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!
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“Feels like” temperator of 93 °F right now? Minne-soh-tans are already in pre-winter …
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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 …
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Trying out the Siri face in watchOS 4. Curious to see how it adapts and responds.
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Updated iPhone and iPad to iOS 11. Now the slow, slow process of watchOS 4 upgrade.
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Good morning! Espresso crema… ☕️
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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. 😂
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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. ⛵️
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Moved two small static sites to Netlify and am very impressed. Powerful and easy. Plus opens Hugo as …
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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 …
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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!
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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. …
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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! ⚽️😊🤞🏻
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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 …
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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? 😊
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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.
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Rough but functional version of R/W book club page is now up! Still a lot of 🛠 to do.
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Currently tweaking Minnestar DNS settings! Don’t mess it up! 🤞🏻😊
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Just now trying some HomeKit things and am really impressed.
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Got a great start getting my book club website relaunched. Not ready to share yet but coming along. …
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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. 🔥
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Drinking delicious coffee with the morning breeze editing the Weekly Thing for this week!
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Tammy is already planning out the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse.
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Family selfie one minute before totality!
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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!
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If you are in the path of totality for the eclipse Solar Eclipse Timer seems like a good app to …
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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 …
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Would be cool if there was a Homebrew Website Club in Minneapolis… 🤔
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Overheard at restaurant “We still use Lotus Notes Sametime!” 🤔😏😄
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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! 👍🏻 …
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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!
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Figured out how to digitally sign git commits. Cool capability. See verified label on 85ce711.
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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 Guiding …
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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. 🚴🏻
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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! 🎶
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Today was a very good day. 👍🏻😊🏆
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Big Green Egg today – tenderloins! 🔥
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Dusty’s — time for a dago!
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Driving Change
The newest episode of Driving Change with Jeff Martin of Collective Genius is out with yours truly! …
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For those that saw the kitten item from this weekend, the Humane society put it to sleep. We were …
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The lost kitten we found wasn’t doing well. We surrendered him to the MN Humane Society. …
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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.
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I’m trying out the eero plus security service and got my first weekly report. Says it blocked …
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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! 👍🏻 🎼
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Placed my US Internet order for 1G fiber! Plan to be in my neighborhood this fall! Help is on they …
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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.
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Oh no, my wife has started to obsessively look at new houses. There is no way to stop this train! 😲
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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.
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It was great to see so many friendly new and familiar faces at Minnedemo tonight! I ❤️ our tech …
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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.
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Driving to Winnipeg Folk Festival today to start the third segment of summer vacation!
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If you’re looking for a solid content blocker for Safari I’m liking Better for iOS and Better …
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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 …
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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.
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Trying to explain the 21 stages of the Tour de France 🚴♀️🇫🇷 to my 7 year old. “How long would …
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Pizza! 🍕 Big Green Egg! 🔥
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Awesome 4th of July jello! Thanks Joe Thiegs!
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Homemade pizza on the Big Green Egg tonight.
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Looked in the App Store for a quality app for the 2017 Eclipse and nothing but low-quality or scam …
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Happy Sunday July 2, 2017… the first Sunday you can buy beer, wine and liquor in Minnesota!
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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. …
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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 …
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Grand Haven Beach, Michigan.
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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.
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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. 💕
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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!
:
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. ⚽️ …
:
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. 🤔
:
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 …
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Last day of school for both kids, last day of T-Ball and Daughters birthday to boot. 🤩
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Withings getting acquired, and the brand merging in with Nokia, makes me worry about my Withings …
:
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 …
:
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… 😍
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Fidget spinner thing happened.
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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 …
:
Lost my leather coin purse. Good thing I inventoried some replacements.
:
Holiday weekend. Mandatory grilling. Big Green Egg for the win! 🍔
:
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.
:
Today was a 10 out of 10. Way to go everyone!
:
Got the bags out too. Quest to have all the yard games! 👍🏻😊
:
Nice afternoon on Cannon Lake.
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Speaker Suggestions
Through my work and being an active member in the technology community, I have a chance to see a lot …
:
Tyler and I having real All-American drive in dining at A&W!
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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.
:
The Mini Cooper loaner I have shines the Mini logo on the ground by the drivers side. Makes me …
:
The giant display on the right is supposedly a monitor. Looks like a home theatre. #TeamSPS
:
Cool to see the Star Tribune’s immense globe back in their lobby for the 150 year celebration. …
:
Remember to look up 👀 from time-to-time.
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Taking car to the shop this morning. Will get to learn what the terrible noise is coming from the …
:
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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 …
:
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
:
Horseshoe Pits Completed!
Last weekend we finished putting in the horseshoe pits at the cabin and
I’m very pleased with …
:
Added support for JSON Feed to my blog. 👍
:
My mother sent me this photo of a “bike mower” that she saw at a garden show today. What …
:
First afternoon on Cannon Lake for 2017! Cooled off at the sandbar.
:
One of our trees didn’t make it through the winter. 😔
:
Smoking ribs for dinner. Great day for the Big Green Egg.
:
Attempting to bake cookies in a solar oven. 🤞🏻
:
This Surly glass that my Todd the Axe Man came in is really cool.
:
Oh no! The dandelions have taken over the yard!
:
Outlook’s new built-in grammar checking is helping me realize I use the word …
:
Andy Domeier and I right before kicking off yesterdays awesome TechJam. #TeamSPS had a great day …
:
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 …
:
SPS TechJam 2017
Kicking off #TeamSPS TechJam community event. Great day of learning and sharing technology solutions …
:
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 …
:
Took in a great Minnesota United win today with my friend Jim Bernard!
:
Repair trip to the Genius Bar. iMac has a broken spring on the hinge. One AirPod won’t pair. …
:
Big effort today in spin class at Urban Cycle.
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
This weekend I resumed my horseshoe project and got the platform dug in for one end. Looks great. …
:
This weekend we got the pontoon out and as has become tradition the kids celebrated “Boat …
:
Got to meet Chris Hadfield after he spoke at SPS Influence today. Great message from an amazing …
:
Right AirPod is now refusing to pair. 😕 Happened one other time and pairing again fixed. Not working …
:
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.
:
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. …
:
Waiting for my micro.blog invite code. ⏳
:
Got the iOS app installed via TestFlight today. Now just waiting for invite. Long day. Great …
:
Awesome win MN United! ⚽️
:
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 …
:
Watched the The Magnificent Seven.
:
Watched Avenger’s: Age of Ultron.
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Well deserved! Congrats Nick Roseth! #honored #grateful #MSPBJtitans pic.twitter.com/IPtPBDW102 …
:
Ice cream break at Mom & Pop’s in Mankato!
:
Lunch at The Naughty Greek.
:
Fun afternoon playing mini golf at Can Can Wonderland.
:
We watched A Dog’s Purpose. Great movie.
:
Son Volt off to a great start at First Ave!
:
Minnebar 12
Session 0
:
Watched Moonlight tonight. Great movie.
:
Watched Get Out tonight. Creepy.
:
Watched Beauty & the Beast.
:
Leadership Pipeline
Notable how many references there are to “reviewing calendar” and looking at where time …
:
Have been really disconnected from Twitter lately, and it’s good thing. It’s rather a hot mess when …
:
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 have observed in myself this dynamic of low-effort, low-value
activities removing the need to do …
:
Steve Wozniak at Augsburg College
Steve Wozniak, or “Woz”, was a guest at Augsburg College today and it was a pleasure to …
:
Minnedemo 25 Recap
Minnedemo 25 was last night, and it
was fabulous. I’ve gone to all but a few Minnedemo events …
:
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 …
:
Got my first shipment of Nordskogen Coffee today! Looking forward to pulling some shots of espresso. …
:
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 …
:
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.
:
Watched Lion tonight.
:
This is neat. Would be cool if OmniFocus did some fun stuff like this. Love this data visualization …
:
Watched Hidden Figures today. Great movie.
:
Watched Lo and Behold.
:
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…
:
Watched Sing! Fun movie!
:
Enjoyed Star Wars: Rogue One — great movie.
:
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 …
:
Worth the upgrade for the Widget alone! Weather Line’s free update is out!
Today Widget, new font, UV …
:
The brisket at Q39 has me researching how to make brisket on my Big Green Egg better. So good! I …
:
Great lunch at Blind Box BBQ today.
:
Great Big Smith reunion show at Gillioz tonight. Wow!
:
Delicious breakfast at Early Bird Breakfast Pub.
:
Delicious coffee at Brick & Mortar Coffee.
:
Stunning barbecue at Q39. Wow.
:
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.
:
LEGO® Creator Winter Holiday Train assembled!
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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.
:
👏🏻 Spotted so far @newstandards Holiday Show --> @MNBrian @thingles @toddhauschildt Hi all!! …
:
Minneapolis looks nice tonight.
:
I really want to take a week and play with AWS Step Functions.
:
That’s pretty great! Biggest foosball table ever #Reinvent2016 pic.twitter.com/ID8qi3wWXA
:
Like this a lot. Asked about evolution, this is the best model I have to explain it, I've used …
:
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 …
:
Cold. Rainy. Time to smoke some pork! Big Green Egg! Wrapped pork for final step of journey.
:
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Enjoying Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. Recommended.
:
💯 I’ve developed an allergy to clip art on slides. Makes my eyes red.
:
Love seeing #teamSPS in new office in Toronto! Looking forward to visiting next week! It was lunch …
:
Went on a boat ride on November 4th on Isaiah’s boat! Gorgeous day on Pokegama Lake with …
:
This digital pinball machine is so great. Would be fun to have one.
:
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 …
:
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.
:
Espresso in a rocket 🚀☕️ demitasse this morning.
:
Feeling like I need to invest in learning and using Little Snitch.
:
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 …
:
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!
:
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 …
:
Panorama inside the mirror maze at Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Very cool.
:
Just finished Watson Adventures scavenger hunt at Art Institute of Chicago! Fun time and we won! The …
:
Really wish iOS could print to a PDF and then send the file via a share sheet.
:
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 …
:
Hell or High Water
Watched Hell or High Water tonight.
:
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 …
:
Minnedemo 24
Interesting chatbot demo to create a fundraising campaign. All built around a chatbot …Raisable
:
Great time watching The Okee Dokee Bros at Prairie Burn Music Festival! Enjoying this music …
:
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. 😕
:
Progress on horseshoe pits! Still to do: putting them in the ground, sand, and throwing platform …
:
Holy crap is Brandi Carlile amazing. Get yourself to a show!
:
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 …
:
Got carried away with the crayons at Dino’s Pizzeria waiting for dinner to arrive.
:
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.
:
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 …
:
Gooseberry Falls is always a great stop.
:
You can track this rainbow all the way from end-to-end. Nice night on Lake Superior.
:
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 …
:
My daughter is focused on all living things — even flys.
:
Horseshoe pit backboards built!
:
Great conclusion to today on Cannon Lake.
:
Pork shoulders on the Big Green Egg. Smoking!
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Awesome SPS Commerce charity auction today! #TeamSPS doing good! Thank you Charley Hackerson & …
:
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 …
:
Tammy and I needed 5 more minutes to beat the Maine Room at Maine Escape Games! 20+ locks! Hard for …
:
Had dinner at Terlingua in Portland, ME tonight. Amazing ribs. Cornbread great. Recommended!
:
Bike tour stop at Portland Headlight!
:
Delicious macchiato and cappuccino from Bard Coffee to start final day of Maine vacation.
:
Tammy did her research and found Urban Sugar Truck for some delicious Portland, ME donuts.
:
Tammy and I had a great day hiking around Monhegan Island today. The trails we did are highlighted …
:
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 …
:
Spent the morning here. Ogunquit, ME.
:
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.
:
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. 🙁 …
:
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? …
:
The act of writing down your list of todos is more important than …s/todos/next actions/. +1 for GTD.
:
The picture doesn’t do justice to the smells coming off the Big Green Egg.
:
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 …
:
Time to smoke! Big Green Egg.
:
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.
:
Super fun day at the lake with friends & kids from the neighborhood at the lake today!
:
Minnesota? Wisconsin? Hard to say. 😊🧀🍔
:
Crack of Dawn in Faribault, MN.
:
Time to start holiday weekend with some steaks on Big Green Egg!
:
Dinner out at Bella Cucina with Isaiah and Tiffany.
:
Lunch at PK Egans in Canby, MN visiting the Keatings.
:
Breakfast at Kornerstone Kravings & Bakery in Canby, MN visiting the Keatings.
:
Must do South Dakota stop at Wall Drug!
:
Armadillo’s Ice Cream Shoppe in Rapid City.
:
Black Hills Burger & Bun in Custer, SD.
:
Great hike to the top of Black Elk Peak in SD today!
:
102 °F in Hot Springs, SD today. Safari mode on.
:
Kids are digging for mammoth bones at the Mammoth Site & Museum. Uncovering a tusk!
:
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.
:
Trying out the Deadwood Social Club.
:
Delicious chocolate at Chubby Chipmunk Chocolate Shop.
:
Lunch at Stix n’ Twigs in Dickinson, ND.
:
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.
:
Whole family had a great time seeing Home Free tonight at Minnesota Zoo!
:
Me by a sculpture of my spirit animal, bison.
:
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!
:
Not Your Father’s Root Beer. Not very good either. 😕
:
Sumo Sighting
SumoLogic Sumo Sighting on Kubb King at #TeamSPS TechJam event… Sumo Sighting with Surly Brewing at …
:
Smoqehouse — delicious pulled pork sandwiches in Faribault!
:
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 …
:
Near perfect night to sit outside.
:
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 …
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Yeah! Finally got Siri to get the hard g in my last name! Here's how to retrain Siri's …
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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. …
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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 …
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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.
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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!
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Searching Craigslist for “Seadoo” jet skis. Need to stop doing this. 😀
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Technical Downsizing
Around ten years ago I ran my own servers at home. I had a free-standing half-rack with several …
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Ugh. 27% packet loss and Comcast tech that was here last week found “no issues”.
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This week was an awesome milestone for #TeamSPS with a huge product launch on our new platform! …
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Watched Sing Street tonight.
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Renewed my Nice Ride subscription for this year!
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Deleting Old Tweets with TweetDelete
I’ve been a long-time user of Twitter (user #82,903 joining in December 2006) and while …
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Still absorbing and reflecting on Simon Sinek talk at SPS In:fluence today. Great perspective and …
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… and another person starts their path on the GTD journey. 👍🏻 Took the boss's recommendation …
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The MacSparky Mailing List ← Cool to see MacSparky starting a mailing list. Just signed up!
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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 …
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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 …
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Big River Pizza
Went here before the Mumford & Sons show with Monique and Dave and was really wowed by the …
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MHTA Spring Event 2016
Thought provoking opening presentation by Susan Brower, Minnesota State Demographer, on workforce …
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Moved my blog to Squarespace. Need to tweak theme but import went smooth. Let me know if you see …
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Great speech! Nicely done! State winner Ariana Pope has such an inspiring story! From @BDPA to …
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Nice to see… the previous 5-min limitation seemed really arbitrary.
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Proud that SPS Commerce is a sponsor of the Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony. Amy …
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Well done overview of DevOps in the Enterprise from Ross Clanton this morning at Aeritae Consulting …
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Classic Programmer Paintings ← Some funny stuff here.
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Love this! Awesome Nathaniel Andersen! #teamsps knows how to run unicorns in aws! …
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Drone racing? This is awesome!
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A CAPTCHA on an email newsletter unsubscribe page? Is that CAN-SPAM compliant? That’s a new low IAB.
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Very true! 💯 Great food for thought from @gtdguy. He has a way of cutting through all my BS & …
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Can’t wait to use this with Workflow! Scripting the @OmniFocus 1.14 TestFlight with Editorial to …
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RIP Merle Haggard. 😢 Merle Haggard, country music giant whose career spanned six decades, has died …
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Large iCloud Photo Library uploads can destroy my Comcast broadband connection. 🙁
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Super happy to see 1Password for Families real now and able to start paying for it. Great product …
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Great read… Why do we work so hard? https://t.co/0eHw1HTumK [Outstanding essay on work and life.] …
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Say Something by A Great Big World - amazing song, great album. Hat tip to Hadar!
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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.
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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.
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The April Fools thing online should have gone away with your dialup SL/IP connection. Internet …
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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 …
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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 …
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Used Siri dictation to spell my password to Apple TV. Worked great!
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Mac OS X, iOS, tvOS and watchOS updates all going crazy tonight!
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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 …
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Microsoft is the only name I would trust in this group. Microsoft, Google, Comcast, LinkedIn and …
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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!
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Looks like another great turnout! Is the #devops Minneapolis meetup the best one ever?...... …
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Very impressive ChatOps and Mesos work happening at #TeamSPS! Great enabling technology. Love demos.
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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 …
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Wow. Never do a Twitter search related to politics. Frightening.
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Is there any way to get only some of your iCloud calendars on your Apple Watch? Other family …
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. #TeamSPS celebrating Pi Day! See Pi Day Collection.
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Life after death: How will you handle your digital legacy? ← Not enough for Facebook to monetize …
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Mazie's Phone Essay
We are talking to our daughter about getting her a phone for her birthday this year. She’s not …
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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 …
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First family bike ride of 2016 today!
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Trying different spots to put in horseshoe pits.
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Alpha Go — “Machines have conquered the last games. Now comes the real world.” After third straight …
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Half of me is excited about AlphaGo playing so well. The other half of me wishes it wasn’t.
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Good luck to Lee Sedol in match 2 v Alpha Go! I wish I could say I was confident about winning match …
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Me thinks Day One for Web might be coming… 👍 We are searching for a passionate React / Front-end Web …
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Fun Kubb event! https://t.co/L4OwMhwBT6 - the Kubb Krawl is on! Target Field to @CHSFieldStPaul May …
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I ordered something off of Amazon while waiting at a stoplight on my drive home. That’s a first for …
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This summer I’ll have Basketball, Kubb, Horseshoes, Bags, Ladder Golf and “home” disc golf course at …
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How to Build Backyard Horseshoe Pits ← “First rule of building backyard horseshoe pits — they are …
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Saw on billboard tonight: “Artisan Dry Cleaning & Laundry” What the…
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Zootopia. Very good movie. Amazing animation. Fun story.
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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!
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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. …
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What a crazy marble music machine! Via Layne Kennedy
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Interesting so much of my cloud storage is now iCloud or native sync solutions for a given app that …
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Nice example of very practical use case. Use API Gateway custom authorizers to support OAuth & …
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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.
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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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Watched Brooklyn tonight.
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We went to Tinto Cocina tonight.
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Spillo Wishlist
I’ve been using Spillo for
about a week now and am finding it really great. Here is a quick …
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Spillo, a powerful Mac Pinboard app
I’ve been using Pinboard to store bookmarks for years and have always been very happy with …
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Super talk from Mary Poppendieck with #TeamSPS today. Exactly aligned with where we are going! …
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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.
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Wonder if anyone is working on an AWS Lambda/S3 powered super simple to host #wiki. Seems like a …
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Had no idea Megadeth was still putting out albums. Some new metal would be fun!
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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.”
:
The Big Short
We saw The Big Short last night and I was simply blown away. Parts of it hilarious, suspenseful, …
:
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
Already upgraded! Nice! We’ve released Day One 2.0!
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Delicious #TeamSPS dinner at Upstairs in Montclair, NJ this evening.
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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 …
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Remembering how much fun Letterpress is! 🙂
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Listening to Lennon Legend this morning. “Imagine” if we all had 36 more years of music from John …
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Love that Bloom County is back. 😊
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I hope Hans Pinckaers will continue developing En Passant. One of few clean, non-adware chess app …
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Pro RC Racing
Some friends sent me this video from a European Pro RC Race. It’s the most amazing thing ever! …
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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.
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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.
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MindNode now supports tasks in trees. Good idea.
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I’m a bit infatuated with the Fornetto Forno Wood Fired Oven. Not to replace Big Green Egg. Nice …
:
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? …
:
TeamSPS tech meetup starting! Love the knowledge sharing!
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Getting ready for #TeamSPS global sales meeting! High energy!
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I sense ChatOps in progress. #TeamSPS Very easy, install and go HipChat V2 API Wrapper for .NET …
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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 …
:
Had a fun time doing the Schell’s Brewery Tour today.
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Tammy and I at the #TeamSPS Social!
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Interact Contacts ← Finally a more powerful contacts tool for iOS.
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Great timing for #TeamSPS in Canada! In the Works – #AWS Region in Canada https://t.co/N1YTXjckUt …
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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.
:
Kids Book: Finding Winnie
Tyler got …
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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!
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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 …
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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 …
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Congrats to the You Need A Budget team on the huge new launch! Can’t wait to move to the version! …
:
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!
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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.
:
Playing Skittles and letting it rip. Fun!
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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.
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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!
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Eating lefse and drinking Wassail Tea. Officially Christmas.
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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.
:
My daughter visited my office today and sketched out this microservice architecture.
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So far, the out-of-the-box experience with the Synology DS416 is pretty great!
:
Holiday reading: High Output Management, Building Microservices, and B4B. 📚
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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.
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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.
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Been eating Siggis Dairy skyr (yogurt) and am impressed at how simple the ingredient list is. Real …
:
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.
:
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 …
:
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!
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Oh boy. of all the slides i ever have written or ever will write, i'm pretty sure these will …
:
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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.
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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
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Graph all the things, and graph all the things that graph the things! #TeamSPS
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@thingles @jolexa Almost as brilliant as cron for a cron....
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One chatbot requesting action from another chatbot. Chatops ^ 2 for #TeamSPS
:
Tooling from SumoLogic, AppDynamics, LogicMonitor, and Catchpoint have totally changed the game for …
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Truth! The most annoying coder you’ll ever work with is you from six months ago. And you’re always …
:
Pre 5am parallel coffee brewing!
:
I’ve been upgrading the same MediaWiki tarball for 4 years. Think it may be time for a fresh …
:
At Minnesota Wild game. Goal!
:
With a hat-tip to Derek Sivers put together my own /now page. Related NowNowNow.
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Time to watch Elf! Family tradition for Christmas tree day!
:
Drinking Wassail Tea. Listening to Christmas music. Decorating Christmas tree.
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Thankful for knowing smart and awesome people like Bridget Kromhout! 😀 Thankful for @thingles; hired …
:
Happy Thanksgiving from me and my mom!
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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.
:
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
:
Flat White vs Latte ← ☕️
:
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.
:
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 …
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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
:
Grilling after dark is sort of like flying a plane on instruments only. Super excited about the …
:
Visiting Five Watt Coffee for a chai latte.
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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
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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 …
:
🍺 #TeamSPS getting a tour of Surly Brewing!
:
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?
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Ready for Halloween trick-or-treaters!
:
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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 …
:
So much fun raking with the kids today.
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Back from vacation, caught up on chores, ready for a great week!
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This should not surprise anyone. Do yourself a favor and delete your Facebook profile.
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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 …
:
The Halloween fireworks over Magic Kingdom are amazing. View from Polynesian across the lake.
:
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.
:
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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.
:
My weekend project: cleaning and discarding on large scale.
:
Taking the pontoon to storage for the winter. Biking back to lake.
:
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!
:
AWS re:Play
Holy crap Zedd! Lost my re:Invent badge while dancing — recovered it! Zedd put the volume on 11 …
:
AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Good seat for Werner Vogels AWS re:Invent tech keynote. Looking forward to announcements! X1 …
:
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 …
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Congrats to Code42 on another successful fundraising! Series B stands for "Big" at @code42 …
:
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.
:
My plan for the rest of the day, much needed R&R. Ribs for dinner. Full rack of delicious on …
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Open Source North 2015
Looking forward to presenting today at Open Source North!
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Journaling Habit
For years I’ve thought it would be great to keep a daily journal. I
bought Day One for iOS and …
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As someone that just could never get cozy with Evernote I’m really digging the new Notes app in iOS …
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Millions of Facebook Users Have No Idea They’re Using the Internet ← Oh my. 😫👎🏻
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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 …
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Liking this app for reinforcing habits. Download Streaks 1.5 now from http://t.co/2hUBnd9zjc, …
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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 …
:
Fun listen for users of OmniFocus particularly. We interviewed Ken Case (@kcase) from @OmniFocus …
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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 …
:
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.
:
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
:
Six boats on the sandbar today. Awesome.
:
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!
:
Great dinner out with #TeamSPS in Kyiv!
:
Jet lag is working to get the best of me. Bugger off tiredness!
:
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. 🌎
:
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?
:
Super excited about the Mesos work #TeamSPS is exploring. So much potential!
:
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
:
2nd day back at school and we already have homework meltdowns. 😕
:
First day of school. Summer went fast!
:
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 …
:
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.
:
Grapefruit Shenanigans. Impressive Indeed Brewing!
:
Impressed with Surly Brewing Hopshifter. Great taste!
:
Fun on the sandbar at Cannon Lake.
:
Gorgeous morning boat ride with the kids. Lake is super calm.
:
Pretty happy with how these JACKYLED lights are working on my dock. Hard to get good photo.
:
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 …
:
Doubled the seating and added 64 sq ft to my dock!
:
Observation: Github repos != Wikis.
:
:
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.
:
Two boat things I was most concerned about with pontoon.
:
Day off today included nap in the hammock. Now this.
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
🙌 #TeamSPS getting ready to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day! Thank you team! …
:
Very interesting approach! #MediaWiki has needed an anti-spam tool for some time. @halfak's …
:
Loved this scene of #TeamSPS today. Great to see people come together, collaborate and win!
:
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. …
:
St. Paul planning its own version of NYC’s High Line along the river ← This sounds very cool!
:
Excited to finally be reading Amusing Ourselves to Death!
:
Kransekake. “One ring to rule them all!” Delicious.
:
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 …
:
The only thing better than dinner on the Big Green Egg? Breakfast on the Big Green Egg!
:
Liking these JACKYLED lights for my dock. Got two to test, will get more.
:
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 …
:
At the cabin with brother-in-laws with delicious Big Green Egg dinner!
:
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.
:
Three racks of ribs rubbed and chips soaking getting ready for Big Green Egg and Mike Rock! Didn’t …
:
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!
:
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 …
:
Pork tenderloin off the Big Green Egg. Chainbreaker White IPA as well.
:
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! …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Honored to share the stage with David Novak to receive the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal …
:
This is way outside of my normal tooling. Digging. Step 1 of basketball hoop project done!
:
Tyler and I made an AM radio with our Snap Circuits this morning.
:
Congrats to today’s winners!
:
Great Father’s Day weekend with kids playing Kubb!
:
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 …
:
Personally experienced the inside of a smoker while serving lunch for #TeamSPS today. Thanks for pic …
:
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!
:
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.
:
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 …
:
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!
:
Sunday afternoon libation. Oscar Blues Pinner.
:
Future 2020 USA Kubb championship team practicing. Kubb
:
Time to grill — fire up the Big Green Egg!
:
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 …
:
Peter Zaballos kicking off SPS In:fluence!
:
Cabin next door decided to have a fire. Wow. 🔥
:
Wow. Can see Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all in the sky tonight.
:
Houston, we have a Kubb problem.
:
First run with new Big Green Egg this evening.
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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.
:
In Kyiv this week with #TeamSPS!
:
PSA: If you have OmniFocus running in different timezones on different devices side-by-side you get …
:
Daughter excited to get her fresh ipHouse notebook from Minnebar! Thanks Bil MacLeslie!
:
Ready for Kubb practice! 42 batons!
:
Minnebar 10
Notes from Minnebar 10:
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Photos for Mac initial iCloud sync is killing my broadband connection. 😕
:
Business Town ← This is great…
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Push syncing coming to OmniFocus! Nice… can’t wait.
:
Apple Watch Ordered
After some debate I placed my order at 3:56am CT for the Apple Watch. I’m eagerly looking …
:
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 …
:
Tammy and I played our inaugural game of Kubb at our cabin. Seemed
appropriate to do so with an …
:
I’m a little too excited about ordering a Pedal Boat. 😀
:
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 …
:
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!
:
. #TeamSPS celebrated π day (a day early) today along with the grand opening of our deck! See Pi …
:
Excited to see what Rise, Day One, OmniFocus, and You Need A Budget do with Apple Watch.
:
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.
:
Comcast Using IPv6
I recently upgraded my Comcast cable modem and for the first time ever it looks like I’m …
:
Peter Zaballos addressing #TeamSPS today.
:
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 …
:
Wishing MacSparky did a weekly OmniFocus newsletter with suggestions and power user content. Bite …
:
Christmas Eve steaks on the Big Green Egg. Nice grilling weather!
:
Blokus
I got Blokus for Christmas in the brother-in-law swap on the Olson side (thanks Max!). It’s …
:
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.
:
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 …
:
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.
:
Wanted: Dropcam Window Mount
I’ve had a Dropcam now for several months and
I really like the device. It is super simple to …
:
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 …
:
Einstein Cabinet
Tammy got this custom made Einstein cabinet by artist Paul
Carbo this week. I love it. I
think this …
:
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!
:
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 …
:
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!
:
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:
:
Substituting honey for sugar in my Wassail Tea was a success. Adds some nice flavor too.
:
Twitter Spam #NFL
If you have a Twitter account, or have many like I do I’m guessing you
got this email from …
:
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.” …
:
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 …
:
Olson Grandkids
Don & Kaye and the six grandkids. (Left to right: Tyler, Mazie, Lucas,
Elsa, Nora, Levi)
:
Magic Pines
After years of talking about getting a cabin we have finally made the
big leap! Tammy has been …
:
Supporting the Open Internet
“It’s only an illusion that the Internet appears to be open…” — Dave Winer …
:
Peter Zaballos doing “Meet the Expert” session for #TeamSPS!
:
Tech support walkup session for #TeamSPS. Great way to solve problems and build connections in the …
:
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 …
:
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. …
:
AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Excited for Werner Vogels AWS re:Invent keynote! Great groove! Excited to have @iamjacknovak …
:
AWS re:Invent - Day 1
Seated for AWS re:Invent keynote! Andy Jassy “Cloud has become the new normal.” True for many! …
:
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.
:
Nice — #TeamSPS product and platform offsite today! #InfiniteRetailPower 👍 #TeamSPS assembling for …
:
👍 #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 …
:
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 …
:
TeamSPS Opens New Floor
Today is first day in new #TeamSPS floor! Expect many tweets with photos today. Collaborative, …
:
Boomboxes at Franconia Sculpture Park. See also.
:
Whiplash
Tammy and I went to see Whiplash last night at the renovated Uptown Theater1. Really good film about …
:
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 …
:
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!
:
Drinking the beer means I won’t eat the candy. Healthy!
:
New #TeamSPS space is ready to roll. Here is one of the many collaborative tables with great tech.
:
Whole family at Wild game! Mazie is practicing teenager looks already.
:
30 foot whiteboard surface with 5 operational dashboards. New #TeamSPS space is awesome!
:
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
:
Business Hours: I wonder how you put this into Yelp? From the mini-donut stand in Nisswa, MN.
:
SPS Kubb Class
Garrick and I joined forces and auctioned
off a Kubb Class at the annual SPS Charity
Auction this …
:
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!
:
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.
:
Awesome Kubb afternoon with my US National Kubb Championship set! Great family weekend event!
:
Playing Kubb and having a Fulton with bro-in-laws on family weekend. Great time!
:
:
Excited to welcome the Leadtec team to #TeamSPS!
:
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 …
:
I’ve been to Gooseberry falls many times, but it’s always a fun time to visit again. …
:
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 …
:
Classic Football
The kids are having a hard time considering this a game. I remember
loving this the year I got it …
:
Charley Hackerson sales mgmt team beat the tech mgmt team in Whirlyball today. We put up a fight! …
:
TextCaptcha looks like a nice tool. Trying it on one of my sites. Thanks @robtuley!
:
Two pork shoulders on the Big Green Egg. Check back in a few hours.
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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’ 🎶
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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 …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Ordered Tammy an iPhone 6 via the AT&T website and it worked.
:
Grilling tools. Today is what Gin & Tonic’s were made for.
:
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!
:
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 …
:
Starting to watch True Detective and excited to hear The Handsome Family doing the intro music.
:
Music at Lake Harriet Bandshell tonight.
:
Summer dinner of watermelon. 🍉
:
“Here is a massive pull request with tons of changes.” 😭
:
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. …
:
Delighted to have coffee shop in same building as new SPS Commerce Kyiv office. #TeamSPS
:
My Ukraine phone for easy messaging with team while here.
:
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.
:
Excited to partner up with Bridget Kromhout and get the AWS MN Amazon Web Services Twin Cities …
:
Always fun night for Minnedemo! Peter Zaballos introducing SPS Commerce to Minnedemo crowd! Go …
:
Grand Marais Photo Workshop
Photos from the photography workshop Tammy and I took with Layne Kennedy this week. See …
:
Good morning from Grand Marais.
:
WikiApiary Stickers
StickerMule had a great deal a couple of weeks ago so I had these fun WikiApiary clear vinyl …
:
DevOpsDays MSP 2014
:
Gorgeous day for US National Kubb Championship!
:
Time for the Live Auction at the #TeamSPS Charity Auction! Charley Hackerson and I just won …
:
Great to see #TeamSPS doing good at tonight’s charity auction!
:
2014 TdF Begun
Enjoying stage 2 with my viewing station all setup. Mini
Jambox is critical addition. (I wish I …
:
Exploring Green Line
We decided to take the new MetroTransit Green Line from downtown
Minneapolis to the end-of-the-line …
:
Mayday Did It!
I’m very happy to be one of the over fifty-thousand backers of Mayday PAC.
:
Soccer will be a little less exciting now with USA out of the World Cup but still looking forward to …
:
Days in Boulder, CO: 4
:
Having fun teaching Mazie and Tyler how to use a YoYo on vacation. Got
myself a nice heavy one with …
:
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 …
:
Wow Corvus Coffee! Very impressed.
:
Delicious macchiato at Black Eye Coffee.
:
Happy to have 2914 Coffee just a couple blocks from where we are staying in Denver. Delicious …
:
Love this geeky water bottle at Linger in Denver.
:
Planet Kubb T-Shirts
Do yourself a favor and get one of these awesome new Planet Kubb t-shirts!
:
Mazie and Tyler getting ready for a long day of driving on our way to
Colorado for a week of …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
How Facebook
Improving ads, wow, how excited should I be? Just to be clear what this
message really means is …
:
Mazie's iPad
We’ve crossed a big milestone this year. As of this birthday Mazie now
has her very own iPad. …
:
New Standards for Mazie's Birthday
This year The New Standards did one of
their great shows at The Dakota right on
Mazie’s …
:
Cool Like My Dad
I’m guessing this shirt isn’t going to make the cut in a couple more years. 😀
:
Really pleased with how the new #TeamSPS training / conference space turned out!
:
Our Neighborhood in 1938
My friend Garrick shared this link to the
Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs
Online site. It …
:
The weather was absolutely perfect for a day at the Edina Art Fair!
:
Tyler and I having our respective Sunday morning screen time.
:
Bike the Border
I helped my Uncle Tim get a new website up and running for Bike the
Border, a bike ride in North …
:
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 …
:
Kubb at Lake Harriet
Most of the time when I see people playing
Kubb around Minneapolis they are
folks I know from …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Fun morning with #TeamSPS opening the NASDAQ trading day!
:
Been up since 2 AM with son. Doing that “swish cold press coffee under your tongue” …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
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”
:
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 …
:
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).
:
☕️ Delightful afternoon espresso.
:
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 …
:
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 …
:
Email from Mazie
I’m starting to introduce Mazie to email. I also showed her how to use emoji characters. One …
:
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
:
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 …
:
iPhone huddle with David Novak, Shivani Stumpf, and Michael Davidovich at SPS Omnichannel. #TeamSPS
:
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.
:
Fun to run into Steve Borsch at SPS Omnichannel event! Peter Zaballos kicking off event.
:
Looking forward to SPS Omnichannel reception tonight!
:
Return visit to Day Block Brewing for some more delicious pizza! Plus pint of Frühlingsfest!
:
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 …
:
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!
:
🙌 #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 …
:
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 …
:
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.
:
Minnebar 9
Notes from Minnebar 9:
:
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!
:
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.
:
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 …
:
Blown away by the espresso and macchiato at Comet Coffee. Nice presentation with charged water. Find …
:
Sump Coffee
Blown away by Sump Coffee. Amazing macchiato, straight espresso and pour over. Slayer to boot.
:
At Pappy’s Smokehouse getting ready to go into a full rack of ribs. Willie Nelson is is a …
:
Impressive execution at Blueprint Coffee. Gorgeous macchiato and cappuccino.
:
City Museum in St. Louis is crazy!
:
Kids loving Frisco Train Store. Biggest wooden train table I’ve ever seen!
:
Great looking 1957 Chevy. 1964 Ford Mustang. 1965 Corvette.
:
Can’t decide which shirt to get!
:
Well hello St. Louis BBQ! So good! At Sugarfire.
:
Eagerly looking forward to visiting Sump Coffee while in St. Louis.
:
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 …
:
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.
:
… 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 …
:
Went to a store today and this happened. Converse for all!
:
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:
:
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.
:
Monday morning Blue Screen of Death.
:
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! 👍
:
Remembering Farhan Muhammad
:
Disaster, send help! 😀 I have no coffee in my house? How could I let this happen. [_]D
:
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.
:
Over recent years I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about the
lack of women in …
:
Dropbox Arbitration Opt-Out
If you missed the news that Dropbox is now automatically putting all users into an arbitration …
:
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!
:
:
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.
:
Minnedemo
Minnedemo tonight! Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard are ready for the demos. Cool to see PCs for …
:
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 …
:
:
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!
:
Saturday morning donut with my buddy.
:
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.
:
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 …
:
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?”
:
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.
:
Kinetic Sand is weird and really cool.
:
Great pre-birthday dinner with Tammy and kids at Broder’s Pasta Bar, one of my favorite …
:
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.
:
Playing Clue with Mazie and Tammy. It’s about to get wild here on New Year’s Eve!
:
Can’t go wrong with Sinatra on New Year’s Eve. Bubbly.
:
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.
:
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 …
:
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!
:
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 …
:
First trip to Kharkiv to meet #teamsps was awesome! So much talent and enthusiasm. Great time! …
:
Team meeting and tech walkthrough with one of #teamsps Kharkiv Dev teams. Now that is a beer!
:
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!
:
:
2013 New Standards Holiday Show
Excited for another The New Standards holiday show tonight! Already spotted Vice President Mondale …
:
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.
:
:
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.
:
Christmas tree up! A lot of memories with various ornaments.
:
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.
:
Remembering how epic the Green Machine was as a kid.
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Meet a Minnesota CTO interview I did with Jeff Pesek, published today!
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The End of Private Cloud – 5 Stages of Loss and Grief ← There never was a private cloud, just a …
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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.
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Any outstanding wagers on how long until Microsoft Office for Mac support full-screen mode? My money …
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Not being able to see free/busy times when scheduling from iOS is a real annoyance.
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I’m sort of embarrassed by how sloppy my filesystem has gotten in some areas. I blame the cloud.
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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 …
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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 ’ …
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A giant frog is singing over an artificial waterfall. Only in Vegas.
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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 …
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AWS re:Invent - Day 0
Looking forward to joining other #teamsps folks at AWS re:Invent! I’m not sure why, but I always …
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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.
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PSA: Don’t let a wonderful Minnesota fall go by without giving Hüsker Dü or The Replacements a …
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Person at SuperAmerica gave me free air for my tires when I asked for quarters. That’s nice.
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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 …
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Getting ready for Big Green Egg steak time. Big Green Egg smoke.
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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. …
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Texpad for iOS ← LaTeX continues to intrigue me.
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Productivity Apps for iPad
A bunch of people at work got new iPad’s recently and I figured some may
find it useful to …
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Managing my calendar is a lot like doing a jigsaw puzzle.
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Slapped with a Large Trout
A funny thing happened on Twitter yesterday. My wiki project that keeps a database of nutrition …
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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.
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iTunes Genius recommends Hüsker Dü “Candy Apple Grey”. A for accuracy. F for timing. 😀
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OMG, Bad Religion Christmas album? I’m so confused.
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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.
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Exedore ← New Mac Python tool.
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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.
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@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!
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Sure am hoping Mac OS X 10.9.1 is coming real soon now. 😕
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Excited to get #TeamSPS together for SPS Commerce Platform offsite tomorrow! It’s going to be great! …
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I’m doing 8 presentations this week. Slide deck overload!
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Saddened by news of Lou Reed’s passing. Amazing artist. May need to listen to Magic & Loss …
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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.
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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.
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This screwed up my drive last night. Was curious. → 3rd Ave Bridge over I-94 dedicated to former …
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✅ Upgraded home machines to Mavericks. All smooth.
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It is shocking how deeply burned in my brain my Delta Skymiles number is.
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Website security question: “Where did you first meet your spouse?” How often is that the city you …
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I successfully setup GNU mailman this morning. Where do I go to get my merit badge?
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Adobe loses my credit card info, then give me Experian Protect My ID membership which gets all my …
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Just got $5 from Aaron using this new Square Cash thing. Sadly cannot return the favor as it …
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In other news, we got “Booed” tonight. Love our neighborhood.
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Running WikiApiary, a wiki that tracks as many MediaWiki sites as possible, sometimes you find some …
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Renewed S/MIME certificate tonight FWIW. Decided to also get S/MIME certificate for Tammy. Didn’t …
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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.
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36 °F starting to feel too cold for shorts.
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Starbucks is as much a coffee shop as McDonalds is a restaurant.
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Lua keeps showing up in interesting places.
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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.
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12 hour day today. Felt like 3!
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I must have ordered the most expensive sandwich that Subway sells.
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Well that wasn’t the morning I was planning on. The network gods were not smiling this morning.
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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.
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Facebook to rip search opt-out from under those who were using it ← Time to delete account yet?
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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 …
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Liked 60 Minutes segment on disability benefits abuse? Listen to This American Life #490: Trends …
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Another Planet Kubb network site! Kubb on! Chippewa Valley Kubb League
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Just shredded my first CD-RW using this new shredder. That was fun. 😊
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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.
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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 …
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Just watched two people manually force quit all the apps on their iPhones. 🤦♂️
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Was just thinking that Apple TV should update automatically. And then noticed there is a new setting …
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Good luck to all my Kubb pals at the Dallas, WI Kubb Tourney today! Unite People and Create Peace! …
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1Password 4 for Mac Review — I’ve been using 1Password 4 for a couple days and like it a lot.
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My mom has a better iPhone than me. 😕
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Eek. "Experimenting with HBase" for financial transactions: more or less tragicomic than …
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Hoping the fact that I can never spell bureaucrat right means I am not be a bureaucrat.
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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 🏒
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Anyone else having iMessage issues today? Seems my none of my iMessages on my phone were sent today. …
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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.
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Crazy day juggling SPS Commerce 2014 business planning, awesome CaringBridge offsite and now off to …
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My OCD tendencies still have me checking App Store for updates even though it’s automatic now.
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Just upgraded to iOS 7.0.2 from my nightstand. Remember when this required iTunes? So nice.
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Google picks CoCo for ‘Tech Hub’ program ← Huge news, congrats CoCo MSP team! 🎉
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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.
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Would pay $20 for a single Claritin-D tablet right now. Allergies, ugh! 🤧
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Love how the new You Need A Budget for iOS flashes the budget balance when you enter a transaction. …
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Encryption question: can a Certificate Authority (eg. Verisign) decrypt data encrypted with keys …
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I wonder how much battery it takes to move that second hand in the iOS 7 clock icon.
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iOS 7 notification center should hide the stock display on the weekends. And it’s odd that you …
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Sugar’s “Copper Blue” is still an unbelievable album.
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Why does Apple make it harder and harder to rate songs in iOS?
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Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua ← I like nginx, bonus Lua here too!
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Me: Look at that big airplane.
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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.
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Very happy with OmniFocus 2 → OmniFocus 2 for iPhone: Background Sync and a Bold Redesign
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Want to be my neighbor? House is for sale
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Me: “Why are you up so early?”
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Notification Center: “There’s a lot going on tomorrow.” No kidding. There always is. 😊
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Updated 2 iPhones and 2 iPads to iOS 7 tonight. Will be feeling around in the internals the rest of …
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Rubiks Kubbs: Making a Rubik’s Kubb ← This is awesome. 😊
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Shifted wakeup to 5:15a today, which gave time for 30 mins on spin bike. One more shift to 5am left.
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Just discovered Tammy’s phone is eligible for iPhone 5S upgrade pricing. Uh oh…
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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. ☕️
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I had no idea that the State Department funded EFF’s Tor Project. The State Department funds …
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Gartner: AWS Now Five Times The Size Of Other Cloud Vendors Combined — just incredible what AWS has …
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Very fun evening hanging with David Novak exploring big ideas!
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Scaling with Queues ← queues are magical for performance.
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Yahoo’s Logo Reveals the Worst Aspects of the Engineering Mindset ← great reminder of the …
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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. ☕️
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Had Ford Fusion rental car this week and was (to my surprise) impressed with it. Biggest annoyance …
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Opinion requested: is it fine to walk around a hotel in your bare feet?
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WiFi in hotel “You have successfully logged on. You are now able to move about the Internet.” — move …
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I had forgotten how left turns are almost non-existent in New Jersey. Jughandles everywhere!
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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 …
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Minnesota on a Stick show at MN State Fair grandstand tonight.
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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.
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I sure know a lot of folks at VMworld. I may have to attend next year.
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LinkedIn: Yes, I know my daughter!
Tonight while on LinkedIn I was prompted for some people I might now,
including this one. So, yeah, …
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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. …
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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.
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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! ⚾️
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Excited to start a new adventure today at SPS Commerce!
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In other news, I setup an account on Untappd. So, if you do that, you can find me there.
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Just placed my first order on Bite Squad. Totally confused how much to tip for the driver, isn’t …
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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.
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61 mile road construction zone on I-90? Ouch.
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Noting that Minnesota Kubb has hosted three Kubb tournaments this year. Think only USA Kubb has …
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Goodbye Saugatuck! Think we will be back. Great time! Time to drive, all day.
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Beach Kubb with Tyler today.
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Astounding beer selection at Saugatuck Brewing Company. Including 118 IBU IPA. Flight ordered.
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Found out this morning that Sona Mehring and I share common Perl skills!
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Good CaringBridge program meeting this morning → great progress!
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Mom grilling for sisters birthday!
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Great video about 2013 US National Kubb Championship tournament.
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iOS: https://t.co/RCgS3Fqfdd
Mac: …
— Bloom County (@bloomcounty) …
cron into cron FTW!
~ in a URL where the hostname did not end in .edu?
1JNbi6bHfQPMgmizA7NVprz4nj3DBJqAuM
“Have you tested it?”
“No.”
Parking tickets: 2
celeryd got …
brew install npm
On Tuesday morning I was shocked to get an email from Jennifer at ILM
Professional Services …
procps security updates cause rkhunter warnings that give pause.
✅ Upgraded iOS apps to newest. Cable modem on …
Tyler (3): Yeah, he just took off from airport.
Me: Where do you …
Tyler (3): “I have a meeting Dad.”
$_ FTW! 🙂
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I was really hoping that the 10.5.6 Mac OS X update, which promised nice
improvements to MobileMe …
Tammy
and I have both been eating much better the last couple of weeks and
we’ve been doing a …
If you are a regular visitor to my sites you have likely noticed that a
couple of months ago things …
So, you may be wondering what a site-specific browser is. In a nutshell, it
is just a web browser …
Oh my. Really. Wow. Absolutely fabulous!
It’s
been a busy night here. This morning 
I just got this game. I'm a total "noob" and am horrible, but if you want a
laugh my friend code is …
I recently went through the process of reviewing my rather large CD
collection and culling out …
I
mentioned earlier that I’ve become a 
Last
night Tammy and I went to the 
The
other night while catching up on my RSS feeds in
I’m
not a gamer.
The
title of this post is a reference to what one of my friends calls my
regular coffee order. Iced …
We spent Wednesday in Charleston. The real newsflash is that we *didn't
drive* anywhere the entire …
While
getting the Internet side of life setup while on the Great Adventure
I made a trip to 
Amongst the celebratory gifts I got for father's day this year was a
pretty surprising toy. I had …
Yesterday
morning we went to the 
A couple of weeks ago I deployed my first intranet application for home.
If your not familiar, an …
Those of you that have had to endure me rambling on and on about
computers at some time probably …
