Alex
@alex
the passive pasadena thrill | bsky devrel book a meeting:
in addition to running a booth at hope.net in NYC next weekend and speaking at softwareyoucanlove.ca in Vancouver in a couple months I will also be speaking at www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congre... in San Jose at the end of September! come see me + the Winchester Mystery House!
I have seen the Maine attack ads about Troy Jackson marrying his second cousin and they reminded me of my favorite part of the FDR museum: Teddy’s amusement upon learning Eleanor Roosevelt would not have to change her name when she got married
gonna go make these guys an offer they can’t refuse so we don’t have any more downtime @calabro.io
very grateful to be at Powell’s tonight for @mollycrabapple.bsky.social while in town for @writethedocs.bsky.social
great stuff in this issue of American Philatelic Quarterly, my favorite government publication that no one has managed to mess up yet
for years I have had a terrible running joke with my wife when we’re ordering wonton soup where I pronounce it “wanton soup”… this is a very happy day for me
most fascinating aspect of visiting Singapore is there’s basically no point to making an itinerary: just do the 20 most popular things on TripAdvisor and eat as you go, everything is uniformly high quality and made for tourists. also, there’s a pool after airport customs. Home and back to work soon!
sad hegemon report: I was following a school tour group through the Singapore Orchid Garden and they silently skipped Biden’s orchid without saying anything. some children looked sorry for me when they saw me photographing it.
in case we have to rename the country when we do a second republic constitution, pretty compelling name candidate from the HK airport
having a nice time in Hong Kong. this is my “I decided not to ride this cable car because the line was too long and the wind was stressing me out, but I was so proud of talking them into giving me a refund that I posed with it anyway” face