Hope this rumor of an Echo-like device from Apple that uses Siri is true. I liked the Echo, but without iOS connectivity to my calendar, messages and other apps it had limited use.

Yeah! Finally got Siri to get the hard g in my last name!

Sunset.

Sun setting over a calm lake with gentle ripples reflecting orange light, silhouetted trees along the far shore

Ticket to Ride with Tammy, Isaiah, and Tiffany!

Ticket to Ride board game near end of a full game, map covered in colorful train pieces, two people seated across the table, game box visible at right.

Showing Isaiah Kubb.

Barefoot man in a blue shirt holds a wooden baton on a sunny lawn set up for a game of Kubb with wooden blocks arranged in rows.

Big Green Egg time - 2 racks of ribs on!

Two dry-rubbed racks of ribs on a Big Green Egg kamado grill, open lid, backyard with a wooden playset and lake beyond.

Rib status: delicious. Big Green Egg!

Two spice-rubbed pork rib racks smoking on a Big Green Egg kamado grill, outdoors on a patio with green lawn behind.

Friday night at the lake.

Pepperoni pizza cooking on a Big Green Egg kamado grill in a backyard with a playset and green lawn behind it.

Zombie Microservice Workshop for #TeamSPS led by AWS team. Continuous learning!

Roughly 50 people seated at rows of desks in a conference room, working on MacBook laptops during a technical workshop.

SPS TechJam 2016

Excited for Ian Malpass to kick off #TeamSPS TechJam with talk on planning for failure.

Man in black t-shirt presenting at a podium labeled SPS Commerce with a projected slide reading FAILURE is an option by Ian Malpass at Etsy.

TechJam in full swing with presentation from AppDynamics on best use of graphs for understanding systems.

Large conference room packed with attendees at laptops listening to a presenter at the front of the room

Speaker just threw the gauntlet down with Tufte on color in graphs. Them’s fighting words!

TechJam talk from PagerDuty Ophir Ronen on discovering signal in the cacophony.

Bald man in dark t-shirt speaking at an SPS Commerce podium with a Living Computer Museum slide projected behind him

TechJam Ophir Ronen “going full unicorn!”

Bald man in a navy shirt presents at an SPS Commerce podium while a unicorn and rainbow meme fills the projection screen behind him.

I told our security team that when we got our ISO certification I would wallpaper my office with it. They took the opportunity to do it for me. How awesome! #TeamSPS

Office walls and furniture covered with dozens of ISO27001 Certified ANAB plaques as a celebratory prank by coworkers.