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By Kristan On August 11, 2015 · In Uncategorized

This weekend Husband and I binged watched all of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp on Netflix.

It was weird, bizarre and really hilarious. Neither of us had seen the original movie, but we’re definitely going to watch it (it’s also on Netflix which is amazing!). It’s awesome that they […]

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Simple things to make me happy

By Kristan On August 10, 2015 · In Uncategorized

I cannot even describe how excited I am that Simple Shoes are back!

These have been my official shoe since I was 16 years old, a few years ago the company was bought out, poorly managed and then shuttered. The last pair of simples I got from eBay. The day they arrived I […]

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Dyson. Customer experience level: Wow.

By Kristan On August 7, 2015 · In Blog

I have this small dyson vacuum. I have used it as our only vacuum since we bought our house (which is like 900 sq ft and mostly wood floors, but we have a dog and 2 cats)

I haven’t always emptied or cleaned it when I should but it has dealt with my abuse […]

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Friction

By Kristan On August 5, 2015 · In Blog

Lately I’ve been looking for and trying to eliminate sources of friction in my day to day activities and thoughts.

Particularly I’ve been applying this notion to purchases, if something isn’t going to reduce friction of an existing activity I make myself question it more.

Approaching it the other way when I notice […]

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Focus

By Kristan On August 4, 2015 · In Blog

This is a topic I read about and am curious about.

I have dyslexia and ADHD, two conditions which hugely impact the quality and quantity of my ability of focus.

The interesting thing about ADHD is not that it takes away from my ability to focus but that it often means I don’t control my […]

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Actually a Dream Come True

By Kristan On March 15, 2014 · In Uncategorized

This week I started a new job. I’m at the same company but working on the private enterprise cloud project. I’ve been hunting the job for about a year and am really pleased that I didn’t give up over that time. I’m not known for skills with delayed gratification.

This week I got the […]

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The cloud ate my data

By Kristan On January 21, 2014 · In Uncategorized

So much cloud storage!

I spent a couple hours the last few days organizing my various cloud stores.

There is a really frightening amount of storage available, and for free.

Evernote
Box
SkyDrive
Amazon Cloud
Google Drive
iCloud

I’ve managed to remove duplicates I had across various stores and then decided […]

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Quantifying Me

By Kristan On October 28, 2013 · In Quantified Me

I’ve started a Quantified Self project and made a couple of first steps.

I’ve started with the basics, setup a local Splunk instance and am making a script to fetch FitBit data and also a little web app to let me add entries on the go.

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All Things No Time

By Kristan On October 28, 2013 · In Blog

Lately I’ve been exploring lots of different things.

Some tech. stuff…
* AppleScript
* Ruby
* Temboo
* WordPress (themes, plugins, and more)
* Hootsuite

And some podcasts…
* NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour – I love this one the best. I sanded and repainted a […]

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Bits!

By Kristan On July 12, 2013 · In Blog

Trying a new Mac OS client for posting content.

It’s called bits

Been playing with a few things at work I’ve found interesting. Particularly Splunk and Jenkins.

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