Instead of flowers Julie would want you to support your local live music or arts venue and the artists they serve. Donations should go to your local animal rescue group or metastatic breast cancer organizations like @METAvivor and @BCaction.
Julie is survived by her husband Paul, her parents Al and Yoma, her brother John and aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, friends and family too numerous to list but not forgotten.
DM me to learn more about celebrations of life in Mantorville and Minneapolis at @BryantLakeBowl
Julie always kept her connection to the Minnesota music scene and loved the new wave of conscious hip-hop personified by @doomtree, @yeahrightpos, and @dessadarling. To the end she never missed their live shows.
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@BNPPARIBASOPEN Despite the side effects she managed to reunite multiple dogs with their owners, sponsored the @Milo_Foundation Horse Sanctuary, and made sure abused animals got the surgery they needed at @Friends4Lifeorg @nationalpyr and other rescue groups.
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In 2015, Julie was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. Through the treatments she focused on spending quality time with family and friends. She took trips to #PalmSprings where she enjoyed the warm weather, modern design and tennis tournaments.
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In 2008 Julie made the trip across the bay to a tranquil, midcentury-modern house in the #Oakland Hills. She tastefully restored the house and filled it with her own unique, quirky, minimal style. Tommy, and then Gus, became fast friends with the deer, turkeys and neighbor cats. https://
@MontreuxJazz @LeZooUsine Arriving in #SanFrancisco in 1999 Julie embraced the industrial live-work aesthetic at her new home in the Lighthouse Lofts. Her passion for local organic food and agriculture would find her at Farmers Markets and dining al-fresco with her adopted Great Pyrenees Tommy. https://
The next few years Julie explored the world. Trips to Ecuador found her hiking the Andes and dancing on bartops. With cats stowed in carry-on she started life in Geneva, enjoying music festivals, @MontreuxJazz and modern design. Fondue, and shows at @LeZooUsine became the norm. https://
After meeting at a @FirstAvenue New Band Showcase they could be found regularly at The Uptown, 7th St Entry, the 400 Bar and other venues sharing their passion for local music. In between shows Julie expertly restored their craftsman house in Southeast Minneapolis.
In 1992 she married Paul Lindner, having met on an email list devoted to “Grunge” music six months prior.
[ the full story about how Paul & Julie met on GRUNGE-L at https://
Always a friend of animals in need Julie rescued her beloved kittens Doc and Gordo, found Peach on her doorstep and adopted the elder angora Boz.
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Having landed in Minneapolis she immersed herself in the local art and music scene, lived in Uptown and followed the burgeoning careers of @Prince @TheReplacements and @TheSuburbsBand
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In 1977 she graduated Kasson-Mantorville High School. She went on to explore her love of Russian Literature at @MNSUMankato, @UMNews and @StKate She was married to her first husband Sam Lucast and would turn heads in her distinctive Victorian garb. https://
Julie was born in Mantorville, Minnesota to Allen and Yoma Colburn. She enjoyed a childhood of reading books, climbing trees, rescuing bunnies, petting horses, and riding bikes. A natural explorer, you’d find her up north camping and on cross-country road trips. https://
Julie passed away Decemeber 12th, 2019 peacefully in her Oakland home. One of her favorite Sycamores songs was playing, softly. Her loving husband Paul and dog Gus were at her side.
I want your hair
to cover me with maps
of new places,
so everywhere I go
will be as beautiful
as your hair
– Richard Brautigan
** thanks to @ianthe12 for use of "Map Shower" From "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster".
A five year struggle with metastatic breast cancer took Julie’s life, and at first, all her hair. Undefeatable, it grew back more beautiful than before, just like one of her favorite poems:
My wife Julie passed away from #breastcancer last month. Today I published her obit in @StarTribune @SFChronicle @PB_News and at https://
We knew right away that we completed each other and fell deeper in love for 27 years. She meant everything to me.
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Here's my bittersweet #workmusic for the week.
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What I need right now is a way to sort Google photos by image similarity. Appears that thumbnails and minor metadata updated versions were uploaded over the past years.
Or can you search by filename? Bunch of them begin with "thumb_"
Trying to plug a four year hole of missing data when my wife ragequit G+ in May 2016 after we hired moot of 4chan fame. Lots of 1:1 posts gone :(
Luckily she didn't downgrade Hangouts, so I still have those 28k messages between us.. (Many of which are "the gbus is running late, again")
We did migrate to Matrix.org that month and I do have all of that...
Is there something like this, but for hardware or software?
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Spent some time updating bugs/feature requests related to how we handle end-of-life.
The ability of Google to understand how to interact with death and dying is important as our userbase ages. Eventually we will have more deceased users than live ones.
I have suggested adding a date of birth/death to contacts and I think that should also be available for People&Pets albums that Photos generates.
If you are interested in doing something about this I would be happy to coordinate, as I have suffered a loss recently and would like to see our products handle these situations with more compassion..
A benefit for US Googlers I wasn't aware of until I was searching for advice internally:
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Change isn't a sprint
Change isn't a marathon
Change is a relay race
-- Yancey Strickler, cofounder Kickstarter
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In the interests of bringing you a G+ that's not gloom and pitchforks I present to you the 10 minute version of Devo and Neil Young performing Hey Hey, My My.
I saw this, so now you have to as well. Those are the rules.
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Anyone worried about AI apocalypse stories should just point a nest camera at a TV and chuckle..
Time for "Managing within the Law" Bingo.
I hear that the course is better these days. Hope I can remove my M&Ms square.
Much of this reminds of the HP and Compaq merger...
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Algedonic Meters? Real time citizen feedback? For Chilean people? Looks like Cyberfolk 2019!
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Title: Quantum Supremacy, An Outsider's Perspective
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This was a good overview of the recent quantum news.
Did you know your hard disk is descended from a streetcar? Learn how in "Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History". Also includes Cray, the Oregon Trail and yes, Internet Gopher.
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via @tpt
Apple: Introducing Dark Mode for iOS 13
Android: Try our new Dark Theme in Android Q
PG&E
Expect outages of my #indieweb @withknown host 1500wordmtu.com due to @PGE4Me power cuts.
My low-power home server, solar panels, and batteries are pretty solid. ISPs? Not so sure....
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So looks like PG&E will be draining my home metro because their infrastructure causes wildfires.
Looks like my fridge draws 100 to 160W. My solar system has a backup outlet with up to 1500W so maybe I can work out a battery system before tomorrow
This is wild...
Individuals are therefore defined in terms of ongoing, bounded information processing units rather than lists of static features or conventional replication-based definitions which tend to fail in the case of cultural change.
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Chrome GPU process is taking up 3GB of memory on Mac, even up to 8GB once. Help!
I tried looking for a way to report this and found some stale things on crbug. Anyone know how to address this?
I know about chrome://gpuclean but that doesn't do much. chrome://gpu doesn't show anything actionable afaik.
10 Years ago today: Sundar tells you why SideWiki is cool.
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10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.
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@sundarpichai
Like the fish that cannot see the water...There are times when the only way to perceive the system from within it - - is when it cracks. The fissures and fractures are coming fast now. -- Nora Bateson
Whoa... Cheap q-bits would be a huge game changer...
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This is the good stuff
Many AI ethics talking points aren’t specific to AI. They’re about technology in general and they’re nothing new.
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Android Q disabled the http://
Lost a couple days scrobbling :(
BRB gotta finish rebinging the Plasmatics back catalog...
Ruha Benjamin presented this 1957 robot future by SuperGirl creator Otto Binder today. Prescient and horrifying at the same time and brings to mind Graeber's take on flying cars.
@ruha9 @davidgraeber
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Somewhat amazed that 'Carbon Copy' (Cc) lives on in the email vernacular given that most people have never had to deal with the physical version...
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