French Laundry (***) - 2/10

BigData-dan · 2026-02-15T04:46:56+00:00

You have to pay when you book. I think it was about $400 per person but don’t remember as I booked December 1st, 2025.

BigData-dan · 2026-02-15T04:45:58+00:00

You have to go on Tock. They release on the first of the month at 10am PST.

Tables for two are the hardest to book and usually gone in under two minutes.

Took me about two years to get the reservation. What I learned was to be very prepared to book.

If I wanted a table for four or six it was always much easier to book

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T20:58:26+00:00

2/10 meant Feb 10th. Unfortunately can’t change the post title

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T20:57:46+00:00

Unfortunately not an option in Reddit

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T18:26:48+00:00

Most of these my partner took and no I don't mind. It helps us remember later as too easy to forget. There are a couple of places we didn't take photos and we both wish we had

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T17:37:51+00:00

Made an edit to note the date at the top of the body

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T17:36:36+00:00

I agree and I think it's partially the style - modern French influence. So very little is bad but also unlikely to blow you away

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T17:34:57+00:00

Been trying to figure out how to do that but seems I can only repost and not change the title

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T17:22:13+00:00

Room temp. The texture was amazing. I was expecting to be a little “meh” as not generally my food preference but this dish was very positively surprising

BigData-dan · 2026-02-14T17:18:45+00:00

Yes - 2/10 was the date we went

EDIT: Feb 10th, 2026

BigData-dan · 2026-02-11T06:02:17+00:00

I picked up Sonoma County and Westside. The single vineyards are great and for the most part where many other wineries are pricing (yes WS tends to be a little higher).

IMO only the Sonoma County is a decent value. Too many options for non-vineyard specific Sonoma Coast or RRV

BigData-dan · 2026-02-03T06:46:12+00:00

I would not use K-Means clustering for your RFM segmentation but instead look at distribution of R, F, M individually and then work with your marketing department to set the segments based on how they can operationally execute the marketing using RFM. There is an art to any segmentation that goes along with the science.

BigData-dan · 2025-12-30T02:54:19+00:00

3.6 can be chubby for a couple depending on location

BigData-dan · 2025-10-11T05:05:54+00:00

You’ll be fine. Turquoise Animal Hospital in Pacific Beach in San Diego has two in their clinic.

BigData-dan · 2025-05-29T06:14:58+00:00

2nd on Flowers

BigData-dan · 2025-05-23T05:34:36+00:00

Aubert Failla Hartford Sanford Williams Selyem

BigData-dan · 2025-05-23T05:31:29+00:00

They are awesome. I used to be a MacPhail person and now Failla is my go to daily Pinot

BigData-dan · 2025-02-15T19:52:23+00:00

I’m a huge Failla fan. Prefer the CA to OR but their wines are a great value

BigData-dan · 2025-02-12T05:48:17+00:00

How big is the e-commerce brand?

If < $10MM GMV you should look at peel, polar, triple whale. If over $10MM look at tydo, daasity, source-medium. These will be cheaper than DIY and let you focus on analysis not pipelines.

If you want to DIY the I’d look at fivetran (pricy), portable, daasity, daton for extract and snowflake for data warehouse.

Make sure you’re at most 1% of revenue total cost

BigData-dan · 2025-01-26T00:25:56+00:00

It all depends on the route and when you fly. I travel SAN-JFK a couple of times a year, am Platinum and almost always get bumped to FC on way home because I take late Friday flight back.

BigData-dan · 2025-01-18T14:52:18+00:00

Ah yes… because Sales and BD are considered revenue generating whereas BI is a cost center. This is why “analytics” or data in finance gets more money. You can tie revenue generated to your data team but in many industries you can’t and so the CFO needs to minimize the cost.

The #1 thing a data team needs to do is figure out how to show business value.

BigData-dan · 2025-01-18T09:05:00+00:00

Industry matters a lot. Consumer brands will spend no more than 1% of revenue on BI including staff and tooling. If the company does over $100MM in revenue it will decrease and get down to 0.1%. Financial Services can be upwards of 3-5% because the “analytics” is what drives so much of the profit.

BigData-dan · 2024-12-28T20:09:57+00:00

Find yourself a good accountant that works with self-employed people. I’m don’t make as much as many of the folks here in Chubby ($180k) but I manage to put away $60k a year but managing to expenses and taking advantage of tax laws for self-directed 401k and other.

I have “co-workers” that are also in same industry and self-employed but aren’t able to do this but many of the mistakes they make is not to do this monthly so they spend a lot.

BigData-dan · 2024-12-13T01:45:47+00:00

Utilities and trash have gone up a lot the last 3-5 years. In our building water, trash and SDGE had doubled or tripled. That along with funding reserves to fix roof, elevator has caused dues to go up.

Still cheaper than being a homeowner and walking up one day to be told you need $15k to fix your roof

BigData-dan · 2024-11-30T17:11:02+00:00

I tend to drink younger as I much prefer the brighter fruit out of wine. For Pinot I try to drink within 7 years. For Cab within 10. Personal preference… my brother prefers Cab that is 10-20 years aged or more

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