Jamie Thingelstad

Writer of The Weekly Thing. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Minneapolis is home.

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Stats on Minnebar 19:

  • Largest minnebar ever
  • 167 sessions
  • Over 2,000 registered attendees

Wow! 😮

Super strong kickoff to Minnebar — one of the best I can recall. Great energy, logistics well orchestrated, materials very well done. Amazing. 👏👏👏

Large crowd seated at round tables in a bright convention center atrium listening to a speaker at a podium beside a projected slide. Crowded conference hall with attendees seated at round tables during a lunch break, sponsor logos displayed on a large screen behind them.

We saw Thunderbolts tonight (opening night) and it thought it was pretty cool. It had a bit more complexity to the story than your average Marvel movie.

Marvel Studios Thunderbolts movie poster featuring six armed characters in tactical gear against a smoky urban backdrop opening May 2

Standard Water is putting drain tile into our basement to better manage ground water. What a crazy process and it shows how much this is going to help. There was a literal stream of water when they jackhammered the route. Wish I could have watched the action!

Jackhammered basement floor trench with new white PVC drain tile pipes laid in muddy soil, shovel and tools nearby Jackhammered trench filled with gravel running along a basement floor perimeter for drain tile installation

I had Siri read me a long email while walking and it was like stepping back to olden times. The TTS was lacking, not recognizing acronyms and with poor inflection. And I couldn’t even just ask “read this”, that failed. Instead I had to manually select the text and then press “Speak”. 😬

Finished 2.54 mile walk in 60.9 minutes (23.98 min/mile). Delightful evening for a cool neighborhood walk with Lucky. 🚶‍♂️

Satellite map showing a 2.54 mile walking route traced in green and yellow through a residential neighborhood near a lake.