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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.

 

At least they didn't steal anything (I think)... https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160505-1912-image.jpeg

 

This just elevated my tmux experience to a whole new level: https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers

 

Today's menu: MEX, LAX, PDX.

 

I feel very much the same about wanting to kill email (plus the protocol benefit tho): https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/04/email-isnt-the-problem.html

 

Some very good questions about The DAO™ by @PelleB: https://medium.com/@pelleb/the-dao-a-rebel-without-a-cause-9d63620ca49f#.y0auapifq

 

Question: what do you guys do with tracking issues on Kanban boards? I'm hesitant to pull them along the columns with the others.

 

... In stark contrast to that, a bank employee once tried to hide our dead father's money from my sister and me. Yay, banks!

 

In case you wondered if Bitcoin miners are all dickheads: http://www.coindesk.com/accidental-136000-bitcoin-mining-pool/

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