Jamie Thingelstad

March 1, 2012

Cool Kubb Bumper Sticker

The Kubb Fever continues. This vinyl sticker is really well done and looks perfect on the Mini. This sticker is sold by Des Moines Kubb.

Dark vinyl decal on a yellow Mini Cooper showing a wooden kubb block topped with a crown and the word KUBB written vertically

February 28, 2012

Smell of Fresh Kubb

I got my package from Old Time Games today with my 2nd Kubb set. The kitchen smells like wood tonight.

I’ve got special plans for this set! I’ll post pictures when I’m done customizing them.

Kubb game set pieces including rectangular blocks and cylindrical batons arranged on a granite kitchen counter, with a crowned king piece in the center.

February 26, 2012

Ubuntu is requesting a reboot. 208 days uptime. 😢

February 25, 2012

MediaWiki Templates

Why MediaWiki needs Lua:

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February 23, 2012

Reading Python Essential Reference (4th Ed) by Beazley and love Python’s style.

February 19, 2012

We joined the Tangen family for a trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts today to see the opening of the Sports exhibit. The weather was so gorgeous that a spontaneous game of tag broke out in the MIA courtyard afterward.

A group of adults and children playing tag on a dry winter lawn outside a large stone building with bare trees.

February 19, 2012

Kubb Practice

My buddy Garrick came over yesterday and we enjoyed some practice rounds of Kubb across the street at Minnehaha Creek West Park. We played three games. The first one quickly went to him and the last quickly went to me. The one in the middle was an hour long ebb and flow of knights shifting from side to side.

Two people playing Kubb on a dry grass field in a park in winter, wooden blocks arranged in rows, bare trees in background.

Man in dark jacket and jeans stands on a dry winter lawn where wooden Kubb blocks are scattered across a roped-off playing field with bare trees behind.

Wooden Kubb pieces scattered on dry brown grass in a park field, including a king block and several kubbs lying on the ground.

Two adults and a child playing Kubb on a dry grassy field in a park surrounded by bare winter trees and houses in the background.

Man in jeans and dark jacket crouching to throw a wooden baton toward upright wooden kubbs on a dry grass field lined with bare trees.

Four rectangular wooden Kubb blocks arranged on dry winter grass near a wooden stake in a park.

February 18, 2012

Winter Trees on Minnehaha Creek.

Black and white silhouette of bare winter trees against a pale sky above a snow-dusted path and creek

February 15, 2012

Versioned Backup of Typerighter Account

My friend Garrick has been working on a really cool project called Typerighter. Typerighter is a notepad for your browser. It has almost no interface and just lets you focus on writing. He’s done some really cool things with it, like making it easy to keep notes for each day and …

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February 12, 2012

Tyler Turns Two

Tyler turned two today! We had a festive birthday party with family over last weekend so that Hector and Michelle could join in the fun from New York. Today was his actual birthday and we had a nice day together to celebrate the big day! Tyler got a fun mobile from Mazie for his …

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