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The Outlaw King
backdating this to fill in Friday after watching this on Sunday before I watched The Outlaw King last Sunday. I saw the trailer a while back and was interested to see how it would go. I read a good article from IndieWire about how after the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) premiere, David Mackenzie went back…
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Dawg
There are Desperate Dan, Dawg, and Minnie The Minx statues in Dundee. Since, y’know, The Dandy. For some reason, passing them yesterday, Ben asks their name, so I tell him as we pass. “I want a photo!” Obviously. It’s a HEIC so Google Photos turned it into a video: He loves the attention.
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Major League – The Missing Years
I caught this yesterday since majorleaguenj rarely post so Instagram pushed a notification to me this was in their story. And I’m so happy I did. Three of my favourite Major League songs are on this title. Baltimore and Philadelphia were both songs on the Cities and States split with Giants At Large. Genuinely…
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Learn-ups
I’ve said it before, but the more I work at Automattic, the more I feel the Creed applies to me. This week, I’ll be ticking off a few parts of it and I did so twice today by holding learn-ups for some colleagues. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I…
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Most oddly named towns in each US state
Saw this one on Twitter the other day: Most oddly named town in each US state pic.twitter.com/Bv04osyD5O — Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) November 24, 2018 Not geographical curiosities but still geography related. Terrible Maps didn’t link the article but I will – These Are the Most Oddly-Named Towns in Each U.S. State by Estately. Ding Dong. Oh,…
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Geographical curiosities
I’ve long had a love of what I refer to as geographical curiosities. I’m not sure if there is a proper word for it. For a while, I even had it mentioned on my personal homepage (history). I saw the flash talks from this year’s Grand Meetup had been uploaded last week so I went…
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Double trouble
My neice was over today and so there were games played, fights over who won games, and baking – banana bread cupcakes & pear bread made. Tasty!
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First user research interview
I sat in on a user research call today. Brandon from Brnkl gave us some fantastic overview of his site and how he has things set up. User research is something I’ve known about for years but never participated in. Really glad I did, it was super nice to hear how our platform empowers someone…
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Spicy chips on pizza
Still thinking about the pizza I had last night and the extreme beliefs my coworkers & I share about pizza toppings: https://twitter.com/derekspringer/status/1065331334027997184?s=21 Read the thread from here: I had pizza earlier. It had spicy chips on it. pic.twitter.com/KuFryr58Qj — Doug (@dougaitken) November 21, 2018
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Weird job titles…
One of my co-workers shared this article by Business Insider and mentioned that we feature twice on this list of “17 wild job titles companies are using to attract millennials” Fun fact. Automattic has been using the title Happiness Engineer for at least a decade. Well before the term was in common parlance. I’m a Millenial.…
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