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Sunrise draping through Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport this morning.

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Heading to Kyiv to visit #TeamSPS! ✈️ MSP → CDG → KBP

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Enjoyed Darkest Hour. 🎬

Movie poster for Darkest Hour showing Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill smoking against a red background.
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🌨 It is still snowing in Minneapolis. 🤦‍♂️ I am flying to Ukraine 🇺🇦 tomorrow and will be enjoying the actual Spring weather!

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Snow day seems like a good day to get the Z-Scale train out.

Z-scale model train layout on a wood table with a black steam locomotive on curved track, miniature trees, and a switch control box.

Model trains are always fun. Tyler and I are running the train yard today. Z-Scale is hard though.

Z-scale model trains on a curved oval track atop a white table, with miniature trees and a black steam locomotive pulling freight cars.
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With all the amazing capabilities of the iPhone camera system, it still can’t expose snow properly. I have to up the exposure on all of them. Perhaps Apple needs some camera engineers that don’t live in California.

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Well over a foot of snow to deal this morning. Heavy too with the warm temperatures recently. Had to go at the slowest speed.

Snowblower cutting a single cleared path through over a foot of heavy snow on a residential driveway, with snow-covered trash bins and garage in the background.

Cleared three neighbors driveways out with my snowblower. Building karma points today. 👍🏻

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Planning to just let the snow keep falling, and get completely snowed in until tomorrow morning, then I’ll get the snowblower out. Seems like time for family movie night! 🍿

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Minnebar 13

Today I went to my 13th Minnebar — I haven’t missed one yet! For the first time ever we had a blizzard to contend with. Usually Minnebar is competing with the first great days of spring. This year, we were worried if people could get to the event because of the snow. This was also the first Minnebar for our new Maria Ploessl, our new Executive Director, to take the lead on. The event went off great, with more coordination than the last couple of years.

The sessions I went to today at Minnebar.

  • Computers Are Easy; People Are Hard with Bridget Kromhout
  • Propelling More Women into the Ranks of Engineering Leadership with Ashley Monseth, Rebecca McCann-Young, Ethan Sommer, Cailin Wertish, and Millicent Walsh
  • Blogging for Fun…..and Profit? with Chris Moffitt
  • Web 3.0: Blockchain May Provide Us the Most Human Version of the Web with Matt Bauwens
  • Pragmatic intro to functional programming with David Price
  • Docker 101 with Rebecca McCann-Young
  • Building Sandcastles with Leah Cunningham

Here are some pictures from some of the sessions I went to.

Audience seated in a darkened conference room watching a presenter at a podium beside a projected slide titled Tending the Digital Commons by Alan Jacobs Spring 2018 Presenter at a podium speaks to about 15 attendees seated at tables facing a screen showing JavaScript function composition code examples. Crowded conference room session with dozens of attendees seated facing two presenters standing near a projected bar chart on a large screen. Woman presenting to a small classroom audience, gesturing toward a wall-mounted screen showing a speaker bio slide titled Leah Cunningham.

See also Minnebar collection.

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Minnebar lunch panorama.

Panoramic view of a large conference lunch gathering with hundreds of attendees seated at round tables in a bright open atrium