Gemütlichkeit at the @concordiaclubmarrickville for Oktoberfest! 🍻

---

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RT!

---

All ready for They Might Be Giants! @jpofoz and I are rocking @made590 birds, while the Snook busted out his t-shirt from their 2001 tour.

---

If you missed my talk at Future Tech Collective last month, I made a LinkedIn post with all the links I cited while bumming everyone out about how terrible AI is for the world. 😈

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kristinehoward_last-month-i-presented-at-future-tech-collective-activity-7247072962099486720-ypYu

---

Springtime is SPARGELZEIT! Served by the Snook with a blackberry gin fizz. 😋

---

Took me the better part of a day, but I got Palia working on my Mac mini! I’m really enjoying this. Right now I’ve got a blueberry and jalapeño farm happening. 😂

Palia on Mac

---

Hey Sydney folks – we’ve got two extra tickets to They Might Be Giants this Friday night. Anyone interested in buying them?

---

Australian folks – does anyone have a recommendation for a financial advisor who has experience dealing with expat tax issues? We could use some advice!

---

One of the things I was most excited to see in Heraklion was the Phaistos Disc. This clay disc was discovered in Crete in 1908 and is covered in symbols from an unknown language. No one knows what it means. I learned about the disc a few years back when I was researching “mysteries” to knit into a scarf. (I ended up going with the Wow Signal.) Isn’t it cool? Now we have a smaller magnetic version stuck on our fridge.

---

Public service announcement: “Nobody Wants This” on Netflix is very, very good. If the idea of “Seth Cohen and Veronica Mars in a romcom” is something that gets your heart going, this is for you. It’s very funny; they have amazing chemistry; and everyone else in the cast is perfect too. Please watch it so they make more.

---

A quick catch up in Singapore with the best team ever. ❤️ #awsdeveloper #apjdevrel

---

That’s it. Final flight selfie. 8hrs and we’re home… ❤️✈️

---

This has been a great trip, but it’s reinforced something that I started to feel this year and that contributed to me leaving my job: I am *over* travel. Time to stay home for a long time.

---

Time to go home. ❤️✈️

---

Um, excuse me, Chippendale is ranked the #7 coolest neighbourhood *in the world*? 😎

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/travel/time-out-coolest-neighborhoods-2024/index.html

---

Why yes, there is a Ferris Wheel directly outside our hotel room and it starts running before 9am. 😳🎡

---

Wiesn. ❤️🍻

---

A perfect Oktoberfest day. Two years ago it was rainy and cold, but today we had blue skies and sunshine. We caught up with friends, enjoyed beer and Bavarian food, bought some souvenirs, and escaped before it got too crowded. ❤️🍻☀️ #oktoberfest

---