Honored to be on this list! → The first winners of our Titans of Technology awards

Wow!

Excited to partner up with Bridget Kromhout and get the AWS MN Amazon Web Services Twin Cities meetup group revived!

Always fun night for Minnedemo!

Peter Zaballos introducing SPS Commerce to Minnedemo crowd! Go #TeamSPS!

Proud to be part of Minnedemo (Minnebar & Minnestar) in three different ways!

Grand Marais Photo Workshop

Photos from the photography workshop Tammy and I took with Layne Kennedy this week.

See list of Photography Workshops.

Silhouette on Superior

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 stickers made. They really came out great!

If you want one for your laptop or whatever send me a note and I’ll put one in the mail.

DevOpsDays MSP 2014

  • DevOpsDays MSP day 2 getting started with Jeff Sussna!
  • Thank you DevOpsDays MSP for opportunity to sponsor a great event!
  • The primary objective of development teams is to create new services and applications.
  • The primary objective of tech operations is to insure 24x7 operations, which all change threatens.
  • Any tech organization that doesn’t acknowledge, embrace and empathize around these two facts has a broken culture.
  • Agree with this @beerops.
  • There are places where developers are not on call? Technology is on the hook, not just one part.
  • Yikes. That’s a lot of red.
  • “There is no root cause.” - Ian Malpass
  • “Root cause” dismisses the inherit complexity in large systems.
  • I prefer the term “incident report” over “root cause analysis” because oftentimes there is no root cause.

Gorgeous day for US National Kubb Championship!

Time for the Live Auction at the #TeamSPS Charity Auction!

Charley Hackerson and I just won whirlyball event at #TeamSPS auction. The sales v. tech team event is on!

Great to see #TeamSPS doing good at tonight’s charity auction!

Mayday Did It!

I’m very happy to be one of the over fifty-thousand backers of Mayday PAC.

Exploring Green Line

We decided to take the new MetroTransit Green Line from downtown Minneapolis to the end-of-the-line in St. Paul this weekend.

2014 TdF Begun

Enjoying stage 2 with my viewing station all setup. Mini Jambox is critical addition.

(I wish I could watch the World Cup this easily without a cable subscription!)

Eyeing SaltStack to keep my Linode machines humming.

Soccer will be a little less exciting now with USA out of the World Cup but still looking forward to matches. ⚽️

Tour de France starts this weekend! 🚴

Silly Faces.

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Days in Boulder, CO: 4
Parking tickets: 2

Ice Cream Riot in Denver

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When we are on vacation we tend to enjoy an afternoon ice cream stop and this afternoon we had the delight of experiencing Ice Cream Riot in Denver’s Northeast neighborhood. This shop is relatively new and the guy that owns it works the counter, makes all of the ice cream and experiments with a lot of interesting flavors.

We had Andes Mint, English Toffee and Fruit Loops ice cream! Given another visit I’d be trying the a milkshake!

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The ice cream is ridiculously good. Super creamy, smooth, tasty. I think you could put pretty much anything in it and it would taste amazing. Asparagus Ice Cream anyone? I think it would probably be delicious if you started with the base ice cream he is using.

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The shop has a great vibe. It feels like any craft coffee shop you might visit. Relaxed, sparse, clean, simple. All good stuff.

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If your in Denver and are not lactose intolerant, get yourself here! I liked this place so much I actually posted a review on Yelp!