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Drinking / Food Three Muses - One of the best bars in the area. Great cocktails including orange blossom sazerac. Their food is quite great as well, amazing things had there – lobster spring rolls, crispy pork belly, fish tacos, edamame with toasted sesame oil and star anise Jackson Brewery - As with many a pretty solid brewery with good food. The few isn’t quite traditional bar food, slants more to new orleans cuisine, but definite....
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Wineries Lone Madrone - Lone madrone is one of my favorite wineries in that area and possibly period. In particular they focus a bit more on blends and being a little crazier, their winemaker Neil is also the winemaker at Tablas Creek where he makes a slightly more traditional Rhone style. Their new space makes it even better overall, with burgers and music often on weekends. They also do a variety of ciders, which are all very well d....
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Drinking Smugglers Cove - great rum bar. Punch bowls lit on fire. 83 Proof - Best cocktails in the city, if you go try a basil gimlet if you like basil at all and have not had one before. City Beer Store - if you go one place for beer it has to be here. Its a beer store that also has about 10 taps, they’ve had beers made for them in collaboration with breweries before. The Trappist - Its in oakland, but convenient off of BART, w....
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As a frequent visitor to Sonoma/Napa area and wine drinker I often guide friends and visitors when planning their wine country trip. Even when not playing tour guide I’ll give advice to those looking for a wine tasting experience. To simplify this I’ve written up some notes on many of the places I’ve visited on several occasions and have a a set of recommended agenda over here based on your preferences. Imagery Winery Website | ....
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For those interested in tasting in Wine Country, but don’t want to read through the full list and determine you’re own agenda here’s a few pre-set ones that can help you: Personal Favorites Imagery Enkidu Benziger Sojourn By Taste Wine Beginner Cline Jacuzzi Gloria Ferrer Imagery Zin Cline Kenwood St. Francis Cabs/Bordeaux Benziger Hawkes Highway 12 Sojourn Petite Sirah Imagery Enkidu Swee..
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Unfinished business with Postgres Give me back my monolith Why I Blog Rule of thirds - roadmap planning Popular Postgres Posts Why Postgres Why Postgres Part 2 More on Postgres Performance Understanding Postgres Performance Examining Postgres 9.4 - A first look How I Work with Postgres The best Postgres feature you’re not using - CTEs Popular Marketing Posts Where to go with developer content Doing Ma..
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I frequently give talks at various Tech conferences and meetups. I’ve given talks about Postgres/Databases, Python/Django, and cultural talks around effective engineering and product teams. Currently I’m interested on speaking related to Postgres, product management, and marketing for developer focused companies. If you’re interested in having me speak at a meetup or upcoming conference please reach out to me at craig.kerstiens at gmail.com....
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Wifi: ToC Password: RollTide The wifi is an Eero setup near the TV with an extender plugged in upstairs in the loft. Upon Arrival : In winter Water will be off. In the mudroom in the wooden box is the water. You may be able to turn with hands only, though may need to use the wrench (laying right there on top) on the lower portion for extra leverage. Before departing : Run dishes on rinse cycle - no need to run for a full..
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Among my hobbies include food/wine/travel. Yes, wine is a hobby. As I know frequently enough get asked for recommendations on wine or when traveling I’ve started to condense this into various simple lists. City Guides Huntsville, AL - The place I still consider home, Rocket City, because well literally its where the rockets happen. Aside from the obvious space and rocket center there’s plenty of great southern food and times to be....
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Sonoma/Napa Benziger Winery - Good value, standard California varietals/blends Sojourn Cellars - Great pinots and cabs Iron Horse - Champagne, and great Pinot Piña - Grower in Napa, make great Napa cab at a better price point than much of Napa ($85 a bottle typically) Paso Robles Lone Madrone - Really fun set of blends here Tablas Creek - Classic Rhone style wines, good price point
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Originally produced for Uber-Setzung/Translation at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. It was later used in the dATAPLOT exhibit at the SXU gallery. This is a conceptual translation of the sentence “Sometimes I think like a computer.” into binary, where each letter is represented by a string of 8 ones or zeros. 1=YES 0=NO. […]
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Presents an abandoned meta search engine with natural language processing and visualisation I contributed to.
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In ancient times, people shared content. This article holds an ever-growing list of free (like beer) color palettes. Including downloads, uh?
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A short demonstration of generating scalable maps using OpenStreetMap data and SUMO for visualisation.
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You know, software engineering is a discipline. Here's what I know about structuring a software project.
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A method to offer both, a valid documentation for the last release as well as one for the current trunk version.
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Winner of the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2001 Film and Video Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center. Scavenged snippets of damaged library A/V material reconstituted into an impressionistic glitch video narrative about ‘helping.’ Displayed as single channel video as well as multiple monitor installation.
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Disclaimer: Many will argue this never happened. I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t know. The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973 The third day of protests The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973 were a series of violent protests that erupted in several major cities across the United States, primarily on the East Coast, in response to a proposed law that would have made it mandatory for men to wear hats in public. The riots lasted for several weeks and resulted i..
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UNIX UNIX is the grandfather of all modern operating systems, and today it still remains the most powerful and least known. But if you use an Apple computer running macOS, or an iPhone or iPad running iOS, you are using a UNIX operating system. And if you do online banking, somewhere tucked away in the bank is likely a series of UNIX systems running Oracle Solaris UNIX, HP-UX UNIX, or AIX UNIX. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) likely r..
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Besides drinking vast quantities of caffeine and spending most of my free time enjoying the outdoors, I have taught, developed, and managed various technology courses at triOS College in Ontario (Canada) since 1998 in both our college and corporate training divisions. Back in 2011, I took on a different title of Dean of Technology to salvage our video game programs, and it turned into a more strategic role where I was able to help shape t..
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Apple Apple Computer was founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976. Steve Wozniak provided the technical genius for computer creation, while Steve Jobs provided the expertise in marketing and design. Their first major commercially adopted product was the Apple II in 1977, which had a MOS 6502 CPU (also used in Commodore computers such as the Commodore 64) and shipped with BASIC and the DOS operating system (later versions). The Ap....
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Growing up in the 80s was awesome! One of the best things about growing up in the 80s for me was that I developed a love of video games. I loved spending time at the arcade playing the classics like Tempest, Missile Command and Galaga. At home, we had an Atari 2600 and later a Nintendo NES. I loved it all. In recent years, I purchased my absolute favourite arcade games of all time…..mainly because I’d rather play those games than most..
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Parenting I am a happily divorced proud father of one. I’ve pretty much raised my daughter since she was 5 years old on my own, and yes, I’ve made school lunches, threw kids parties, went to great places (Ontario Science Centre, ROM, SportsWorld, Storybook Gardens, Disney World and more!), spent vacations camping/cottaging, and watched far too many Land Before Time movies. The picture on the left is my daughter while we were vacationing at..
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100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience (2012) 2001: Space Odyssey (1968) 8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars (2016) Antitrust (2001) Blade Runner (1982) Bright (2017) Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade (2007) Cloak and Dagger (1984) Contact (1997) Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Every Star Wars and Star Trek movie (from the 1970s+) Fanboys (2008) Freedom Downtime (2001) Funspot: A Small Documentary on the..
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Don’t Anthropomorphize computers. They hate that. The proper way to declare war in software development is var war; I void warranties I read your email Linux isn’t magic. It’s sudo-science. Kids: Don’t try this at ~ Code poet Byte Me I see dead pixels To truly find yourself, play hide-and-seek alone cd /pub; more beer No, I will not fix your computer There is no place like 127.0.0.1
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Future historians: They taught the AIs how to talk like corporate middle managers and thought this meant that AI was conscious, instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren’t. I’m stepping down from my position as an adult. It turns out this isn’t for me, but I appreciate the opportunity. Software and cathedrals are much the same thing. First we build them, then we pray. How I want tech stuff explained to me in order of pre..
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