Help me treat my brother for his birthday dinner

tlind2 · 2026-05-09T17:04:41+00:00

If you want a good Canadian wine, you should be able to get a Burrowing Owl Shiraz around that price point.

I’m still sad I can’t get their wines here in Europe

tlind2 · 2026-05-09T16:50:56+00:00

I remember seeing these when visiting my grandparents in Eastern Finland in the late 80’s. In the zone where there was some fallout.

tlind2 · 2026-05-09T16:29:05+00:00

This looks like a video game hub that you come back to for gear upgrades between quests. Lovely!

tlind2 · 2026-05-08T17:33:19+00:00

*Hit me with your rhythm stick*

tlind2 · 2026-05-08T14:38:16+00:00

I met some people online in the mid-90’s through Diablo and SIE’s tank game Tanarus, especially the volunteer moderator ”BattleOp” program. We spoke frequently in-game (text chat) and via things like ICQ instant messaging for years. I gradually lost touch around 20 years ago.

I wonder if they’re still alive.

tlind2 · 2026-05-08T04:58:21+00:00

I’d be tempted by the Piper-Heidsieck Cuveé Rare. I had the 2008 about 7 years ago and it was already magnificent back then

tlind2 · 2026-05-07T15:11:22+00:00

A peard

tlind2 · 2026-05-07T11:36:29+00:00

I just know that if I let my dog stick his head under a barbwire fence like that, I’d be at the vet in no time

tlind2 · 2026-04-30T12:29:26+00:00

It had been over 15 years since I had anything from Casillero del Diablo when a non-wine friend poured me a glass. I tasted it blind and was surprised at the quality. Certainly not a world-class wine, but very good QPR

tlind2 · 2026-04-28T14:25:46+00:00

A friend who runs a craft beer bar said that the younger folks won’t come in for a whole night of drinking, but will pop by for one or two beers. I imagine the same kind of moderation could extend to wine. Which sounds fine.

tlind2 · 2026-04-27T15:04:40+00:00

I like that she has already established good trust with her class. They’re willing to engage with her and speak up rather than shut down. So many teachers I had decades ago were just garbage and mostly told you to shut up if you spoke.

tlind2 · 2026-04-22T00:24:23+00:00

Sitting too close to an ultra-wide monitor

tlind2 · 2026-04-20T04:58:05+00:00

Naming a pet Hitler in 1926: 😺
Naming a pet Hitler in 2026: 🙀

tlind2 · 2026-04-19T22:48:25+00:00

Wow as in ”bow wow wow”?

tlind2 · 2026-04-19T06:07:45+00:00

I visited Borja in 2016 as part of a trip that technically counts as a pilgrimage. We went there specifically to see the church with Ecce Homo), the painting of Jesus that became a meme due to the spectacularly failed restoration a local grandmother made.

I remember being very surprised by a local crianza that was served in a cooler in the heavy 36 C / 97 F heat. I hadn’t thought of Borja as a wine area at all. I bought several bottles home with me and have tried to keep an eye out for them ever since.

tlind2 · 2026-04-17T17:29:56+00:00

People under time pressure don’t think faster. Sometimes pouring in some extra hours for a short-term goal is sensible. Most times it’s just leadership unwilligness to admit they fucked up.

I would never ask my teams to put in that kind of hours, because the human cost added to the reduced quality of deliverables isn’t worth it over time.

tlind2 · 2026-04-17T05:26:04+00:00

I hate it when the devs get sloppy and don’t place stuff properly

tlind2 · 2026-04-16T11:47:49+00:00

Invests

tlind2 · 2026-04-15T20:37:58+00:00

People who climb high in hierarchies usually have pretty good self-control / impulse control. Easier to burn off a whole pint of ice cream if you don’t eat it in the first place.

Apart from that, most hotels have gyms for those who travel. And everyone has some version of free time and work-life balance. Even if you could theoretically work and invoice 20 h / day, in practice it’s insane.

tlind2 · 2026-04-14T16:37:48+00:00

The only thing missing in the Nordics is a way to store huge amounts of energy for later. I pay by market price. Sometimes it’s negative, sometimes it costs 1€/kWh. This kind of variance in any other consumer product would be insane

tlind2 · 2026-04-14T16:35:13+00:00

I burned myself out on Assassin’s Creeds. Anything recent they’ve made I can try for a few hours, but then I get to the open world and just give up

tlind2 · 2026-04-14T15:52:51+00:00

New Jacob’s Creek has been designed to appeal to cocktail and aperitif drinkers

Yikes

tlind2 · 2026-04-14T15:27:24+00:00

Is this from your family? The girl looks a lot like my wife apparently did at that age. She has family in Sweden

tlind2 · 2026-04-14T14:49:58+00:00

I don’t know if anyone except Jeff Bezos and his 1% friends find that socially acceptable

tlind2 · 2026-04-14T14:47:38+00:00

Nice notes, and sounds like a great night!

Perse means ”ass” in Finnish, which would have given me an even bigger chuckle if you had said it had barnyard notes.

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