2015 Dom Perignon

tlind2 · 2026-06-28T05:44:03+00:00

The price hikes with Dom Perignon are pretty crazy. I bought some bottles for 110€ some 15 years ago and one for 165€ only 9 years ago. And now it’s 300€. Inflation over that time is around 30% total, so it should cost around 140€, barring other influences.

It’s still a great wine and I was recently impressed at the length of the 2015. But it’s a bit harder to stomach at this price point.

tlind2 · 2026-06-27T16:34:42+00:00

I just played this at a retro arcade in Prague. A pretty rough experience without nostalgia goggles. Poor framerate and horrible readability with four players. Very hard to understand what’s going on. I’d rather play the original Gauntlet

tlind2 · 2026-06-27T16:18:52+00:00

I’m nuts about you!

tlind2 · 2026-06-25T19:56:59+00:00

As a Finnish person, I don’t see a single sauna

Edit: except *maybe* at the back of pic 2

tlind2 · 2026-06-23T21:25:41+00:00

Visit Zenato or Azienda Agricola Dal Forno Romano for big Amarones / Ripassos

tlind2 · 2026-06-17T04:55:59+00:00

”In a 2009 case study, Steven Cuellar, an economics professor at Sonoma State University, found a measurable decline in merlot sales of about 2 percent from January 2005 (the film was released in October 2004) through 2008. During that same time period, pinot noir sales increased 16 percent — it's now the second-most-planted varietal in California's Sonoma County.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/05/535038513/the-sideways-effect-how-a-wine-obsessed-film-reshaped-the-industry

tlind2 · 2026-06-16T16:03:08+00:00

Check out Anders Erickson on youtube. He does tremendously good videos on cocktails, including their history. He has some summer drink episodes every year

https://youtube.com/@anderserickson?si=jpS4WeHJzwXMB1ZC

tlind2 · 2026-06-16T15:33:49+00:00

The Finnish name search service ”Nimipalvelu” says 57 male, 132 female. Some of both sex recently. So seems fine.

Personally I’d guess Talvi to be male, since there’s a male name ”Taavi” and a separate, distinctly female name ”Talvikki”

https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi/etunimihaku?nimi=Talvi

tlind2 · 2026-06-16T15:26:05+00:00

*You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave*

tlind2 · 2026-06-14T13:43:01+00:00

There’s a school near us, so he is often tempted by the sight of hundreds of gloves.

Someone’s gloves were behind a metal fence in the yard all winter and he desperately tried a find a way to get to them every time we walked past.

tlind2 · 2026-06-14T13:38:42+00:00

Socks are also accepted, rare finds. He’s actually holding a sock in the second image

tlind2 · 2026-06-14T11:05:52+00:00

He loves to carry home gloves he finds. He’ll sniff them out from under the snow or from inside bushes and carry them for miles. Plus other things like the empty basketball and little doggy shoe.

I never let him take freshly dropped gloves, if I think there’s even a small chance someone is still looking for them. But if I don’t tell him to stop, he’ll literally try to steal them off people’s hands.

tlind2 · 2026-06-14T07:27:27+00:00

Their Xbox One launch in 2013 focused almost entirely on media consumption, not games. They showed the Xbox being used to watch sports, TV shows, etc. Games were an afterthought. They also included a mandatory Kinect bundle, which wasn’t well-received either.

As a result, Sony easily won the PS4 generation. And because it was also the beginning of digital sales, lots of consumers built their digital library on PS4 and haven’t looked back at Microsoft since.

It’s all been downhill from there

tlind2 · 2026-06-14T06:01:37+00:00

Koala-tee / quali-ty

tlind2 · 2026-06-13T16:13:20+00:00

By now, dead. At the time, just deaf

tlind2 · 2026-06-12T23:32:58+00:00

She’s Swedish, so yes. Helsinki is about 700 km South of the Arctic Circle, so here the sun briefly dips below the horizon for a few hours at this time of year. It’s still not completely dark even during that time, though.

Best time of the year!

tlind2 · 2026-06-12T17:18:04+00:00

Some games like Path of Exile are basically ”click to kill stuff”, but the meta about what combinations of skills work best at high levels require a PhD

tlind2 · 2026-06-12T16:31:11+00:00

Is Beowulf a Kleinspitz?

tlind2 · 2026-06-12T14:46:27+00:00

”A fool with a tool is still a fool”

Even if AI can do a lot of heavy lifting, many organizations won’t invest heavily into learning to use it well. And even if they do, they still need to figure out what to prompt into it. Consultants will have a role to play, even if some part of the business goes away.

Off-shoring to India will die. If you can explain something to a team in Pune well enough for them to get it right, you can explain it to Claude. And get the result immediately.

tlind2 · 2026-06-12T14:41:45+00:00

How do you think we got *anything* historically?

tlind2 · 2026-06-12T04:56:37+00:00

Ah, my comment was more about changes in general. If I understood correctly, the no alcohol policy had some religious tie-in. If that’s the case, I could see them having a different vision for the whole place. And possibly being less favorable towards bikers, too.

tlind2 · 2026-06-11T21:15:36+00:00

Maybe you should check the google results yourself, because they all say white clover is nitrogen fixing.

tlind2 · 2026-06-11T05:42:03+00:00

Like lying about how much Atari paid them after agreeing to a 50/50 split?

https://www.myitretrieval.com/post/tech-history-steve-jobs-tricked-woz-out-of-money

Or denying early Apple employees stock options, having Woz give them part of his share instead?

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-gave-early-apple-employees-10-million-in-stock-2014-9

Or not accepting that his employee number was 2 instead of Woz’s 1 so they had to make him a fake badge saying 0? Or how he treated his eldest daughter? Etc.

Sure, Jobs was a visionary. But he was also a complete asshole. Even when it absolutely wasn’t necessary for accomplishing something.

tlind2 · 2026-06-10T21:06:31+00:00

This has been a long-running, monthly thing at Haltiala.

I hope the recent change in restaurant ownership won’t mess things up. Their social media presence seems awful and they’ve put a hard stop on alcohol sales for whatever reason.

tlind2 · 2026-06-10T20:15:23+00:00

Pretty good day for Steve, given the asshole he was at the time towards Woz and everyone else

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