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Airport vineyard

Airport vineyard

Because Bordeaux.

 

Maple Walnut Stout

Maple Walnut Stout

Spent Collective killed it with this one.

 

Fixed Royal Mail's 500-year anniversary page header with help from @gregkare: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160530-1127-Screenshot%20from%202016-05-30%2013-25-18....

 

"I don't always lose law suits, but when I do I write an opinion piece about how every human on Earth lost as well": http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/op-ed-oracle-attorney-says-googles-court-victory-might-ki...

 
 

Utterly amazing video of the latest @SpaceX first-stage landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEz03Z8azc

 

Worse: Google actively fought against open web apps by pulling support for hosted-app installation from sources other than CWS early on.

 

People talk about Progressive Web Apps as if Google invented them, when Apple introduced them years before Chrome even had add-to-home.

 

When your office manager is cheaping out on dishwasher detergent: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160526-1445-IMG_20160526_164212.jpg

 

"Blue Feed, Red Feed; See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side": http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/

 

"Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US in terms of shipments for the first time": http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures

 
 

The first http://lightning.network implementation is here and it sounds amazing already ("better-than-Visa scale"): https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/05/16/announcing-the-thunder-network-alpha-release/

 

German word of the day for @gregkare: Spargelzeit. http://www.germanworldonline.com/index.php/the-white-asparagus-season-is-here/

 

I travel the world, mostly "poor" countries, and where do I get robbed blind of all places? The rich bavarian town my parents live in.

 

"DNA from humans, rats and other animals found in some veggie burgers": http://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/would-you-rather-have-meat-or-rat-dna-your-veggie-burger-there-could...

 

Slight culture shock. What's with all the frowns, Germany?

 

Google Fi is amazing! Getting LTE with 20 Mb/s down on Telekom in Germany, while their website said it would be Edge. ($10/GB worldwide.)

 

Finally heading back to Europe after ~6 months of wintering in warmer realms. There will be much wine and cheese in the next few days...

 

Accidentally truffle-oiled my laptop keyboard. I should leave Portland, before my brain contains nothing but food and drink.

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