Month: November 2020
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Two weeks ago today, I got a message from OSS Shipping that our shipment from Australia had cleared Customs and was finally going to be delivered! All up it was about ten weeks door-to-door, which is actually incredibly fast for shared container shipping. (Normally you have to wait until an entire container load is filled…
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Normally for our anniversary we go out somewhere fancy for dinner, but right now everything is closed due to Covid. However, a couple weeks ago I started researching and learned that Restaurant Gabelspiel, a Michelin star restaurant in Munich, would deliver a four course meal! We placed our order and tonight the Snook got to…
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Sixteen years ago today I married this legend in Vegas. Love you, Snookums. ❤️
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This blog post is based on a talk I gave on November 13, 2020 at the Build Stuff software development conference. I was also a presenter at the 2019 conference, where I stood on stage and talked about shiny geeky tech – machine learning and computer vision and reverse engineering knitting patterns. And that stuff…
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With tightened Covid restrictions and the arrival of our shipment from Australia, we haven’t been doing as much sightseeing. The sun came out last weekend though, so I dragged the Snook out for a bike ride to Munich’s Olympiapark. Olympiapark was the site of the 1972 Olympics, the one with the terrorist massacre. As with…
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Look, it’s not all sausages, pretzels, and beer 24-7 here, people.* We are making an effort to eat vegetables too! So far we’ve had two veggie deliveries from Etepetete, which are all organic and locally sourced. Given that it’s autumn here, it’s been a lot of root vegetables (pumpkins, carrots, parsnips, turnips) as well as…