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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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Rummikub!

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The top blocked domain that my Pi-Hole is protecting me from every day is api.segment.io. That isn’t a web browser thing that 1Blocker could even block. It is API calls embedded, I suspect, in iOS Apps. I love having multiple layers of surveillance blocking!

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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 exercise around vulnerability and bias led by Brave New Workshop’s Margi Simmons and a wonderful panel from women leaders in #TeamSPS! Thank you Kara Boespflug, Jenny Nolan, Anna Picchetti, Nikki Riemersma, and Bre Taft.

See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 @ SPS, and 2018.

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Enjoying Tina Schlieske doing solo acoustic show at the 318 Cafe in Excelsior. 🎶

Musician in white shirt playing acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone at a small indoor venue at night
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Well, that isn’t supposed to be there. 😤

Continental tire tread with a screw embedded near the edge of the tread
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We had a lot of fun at REM5VR tonight! Beat Saber was my favorite. 🎮

Indoor VR arcade with several people wearing headsets playing games across multiple pods, monitors on walls showing gameplay.
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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! Green line is total requests, blue is the number that were blocked. 🙌

Line chart showing Pi-Hole DNS queries over 24 hours with green total requests peaking near 520 and blue blocked queries staying mostly below 200.
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After the Tech Talent event today John Avenson, VP of Technology for the Minnesota Twins, took a small group on a short technology tour of Target Field. It was an awesome time! I loved hearing how the network works and how all the cabling is routed around.

Press box at Target Field with a long work counter facing floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the empty baseball stadium, several people in business attire standing and working along the counter. Target Field baseball stadium covered in snow, with the field tarp blanketed in white and empty seats dusted with snow under a clear blue sky. Broadcast control room at Target Field with multiple monitors, keyboards, and equipment racks labeled Rack 30 through 36, with a Minnesota Twins pennant visible. Exposed equipment racks and patch panels with dense colorful wiring mounted in open bay doors on the exterior wall of Target Field.

Upon seeing this cable tray, Amy Patton blurts out “That’s beautiful” with absolutely no irony. Only in tech… 🤩🙌 (PS: I agree!) Nice job Target Field tech team!

Overhead cable tray at Target Field filled with neatly organized yellow, teal, black, orange, red, and blue cables running along the ceiling.