Paul Lindner

That time the LinkedIn SF Office and the How Weird festival intersected...

The Circus Bella preview show in West Oakland was a joyous fun time!  Many chances to see them, check https://www.circusbella.org/humorous for future shows.

Found the darkness, the shooting stars, and peace in the wee hours. 

#perseid #meteors #astrophotography

I reconnected with my purpose yesterday at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. 

I paid my respects and formed bonds with the community so we can work towards common goals.  So uplifting because collective action starts with individual connections.

Saw the flying cars ride at Disneyland this week.  We sure go that whole future wrong....  https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

Flames! Lights! Action!  Well worth the drive to the Sacramento Spark Drive Thru.  Loads of Burning Man art, music and spectacle! 

Read all about it at https://www.svspark.org/spring-spark-drive-thru-2021/

Thanks to Juan and Ryan at Dark Hall Coffee and the fine folks at The Coronado for welcoming me.  I'll be back!

@darkhallcoffee  @thecoronadophx

Photo credit: Computer History Museum

A year of transition and adventure.  A year of beauty and joy within our pandemic struggle.

view from Haleakalā Observatory, Maui Hawaii, 2012

Outside of a Dog, a Projector is Man’s Best Friend. Inside of a Dog, It’s Too Dark to See

A photo taken in 2015 that still inspires hopes and wishes.

Photo: James Chiang

Titles on MTV have been showing 'undefined' for over a week..  It's funny no one notices or cares that it's messed up....

From the January 15th,1903 edition of the Hendricks Pioneer.

I'm saving this for the next time someone suggests creating a support/help doc instead of fixing the actual problem...

You can find this engraved sign in the Shreve Jewelry Store elevator in San Francisco.  It says:

WE BEG YOUR PARDON..
THE BUTTONS DO NOT LIGHT
UP BUT THE ELEVATOR WORKS

I asked the staff about it.  They said that fixing the light would require replacing the entire panel. But that would trigger a building-code upgrade for the whole elevator system.  Total cost?  $80,000.

Cost of sign?  $3

This is Nancy O'Malley scaremongering in the Alameda County DA race.  Also check out the bowl of Cheetos and the ashtrays.

Do you want robot taxes?  This is how you get robot taxes.

http://www.signwavingrobot.com/

From Boys Life November 1926

https://books.google.com/books?id=uGJQePNkYJMC&lpg=PA12&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false

Didn't realize I was doing "ledgers" way back at the University of Minnesota.  As you can see we weren't that excited writing line-of-business apps.  Also funny how Privacy Enhanced Mail never took off.  Pity that.

Here's the executive summary for Forms Nirvana from an old design doc:

This document describes an open-architecture forms routing and approval system suitable for routing requests through a multi-person authorization chain. Once a request has been authorized, the completed request can be automagically submitted to another system (for example, the financial system for posting to the general ledger). While WWW is initially envisioned as the vehicle for user interaction with the system, the request routing logic is separated from user presentation so that other technologies (such as E-mail with digital signatures) can be used as well. Provisions are also made for entities other than human signers to be part of the authorization chain, so consistency checks can be automatically applied to the form's content.

You can read more about Forms Nirvana in this Minnpost article.

Tagged: #throwbackthursday

Spotted at Bella Vita in Rockridge, Oakland.

Found this geeky license plate in the LinkedIn parking lot.  Question is, what's origin, master and local branches

I suspect these are simple bluetooth low energy beacons.  Will find out more on my next visit.  I have to wonder about the cost-benefit of these.  It seems like you should already have a regular schedule for cleaning.  So that leaves out-of-band events.  Seems like a sign with a phone number for call/text would have worked as well...

Look at that upstream rate from the KMTel's (http://kmtel.com) $45 fiber plan.

... as I sit here with 20% Comcast packet loss on my 30/7 for double the money.

An interesting article about this phenonemom:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/tired-of-waiting-for-corporate-high-speed-internet-minnesota-...