HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROOMATER! ❤️
We found the nudist beach on the Isar. 😳🍺
Die Sonne scheint, so we rode our bikes! 🚴♀️🚴☀️ 11.7km / 7.25mi along the Isar and then back via Glockenbachviertal and the Wiese. @ Munich, Germany
Month: October 2020
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Blog post: in which I talk about human garbage, but not the human garbage you’re thinking of. 🔥 https://t.co/jKw5PSsq1X https://t.co/Sf0KTfNX6C
@JulieKalitis There are information sheets here, and pretty much all single use packaging goes in the Kunststoff bin.
RT @mavi888uy: #AWSDevDay is coming online!
Deep dives across 3 tracks:
👩🏾💼IT Managers
👨🏻💼Enterprise Architects
👩💻App DevelopersReg…
The forecast says rain, but so far it’s a lovely day for a train trip! https://t.co/ucqp0dZQH0 https://t.co/xJDZHfzKZf
RT @michaelmoussa: In this demo, I’ll show you how easy it is to get started with Amazon Timestream – a serverless time series database ser…
TIL my husband keeps a bird identification app on his phone.
@AU_JohnDw20 It’s called Merlin. He says, “But you have to download like 400MB of bird data before it’s useful.” 😂
We didn’t escape the rain after all… 🥶🌧 https://t.co/w4uH2K6Waa https://t.co/32crerqqoR
@boicy I saw some the other day at dusk and assumed they were bats until I remembered we’re not in Sydney anymore. 😂🦇
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In which I talk about human garbage, but not the human garbage you’re thinking of. 🔥
The forecast says rain, but so far it’s a lovely day for a train trip!
We didn’t escape the rain after all… 🥶🌧
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Rubbish. Human garbage. Trash.
Oh, did you think I was talking about him? Nope. In this case I happen to be discussing actual literal trash. I bet you feel silly now.
If you guessed that Germans would be Very Systematic About Dealing with Rubbish, you are correct. Rodd had done his research before arrival and informed me quite seriously that there were at least seven types of waste that we’d need to sort and deal with. After a few weeks, I think I’ve got it figured out.
Our building has a rubbish room (Müllraum) with three different bins. The little brown one is for organic waste (Bio): vegetable trimmings, meat off-cuts, coffee grounds, egg shells, paper towels, and things that will decompose. The blue one is for paper and cardboard. And the grey one is for the rest (Restmüll)… but not counting the recyclables.
The recyclables get dropped off in bins down the street, and there are actually four different options there: white glass, green glass, brown glass, and “Kunststoff und Dosen” (plastic and cans). And by plastic, they mean pretty much any packaging material. I’ve been checking, and just about all of them have recycling symbols on them. So really, by the time you sort all that stuff out, there’s really not a lot left for the Restmüll.
Recycling bin 
Bio bin In terms of how we organise at home, I got a couple of these Rotho Albula waste bins from Amazon. The big blue one is for the mixed recycling that we take down the street, and the little one lives on the counter for the compostables. We also have a pull-out double bin under the sink for paper and the remaining rubbish.
How very organised and logical and sustainable right? Don’t you wish we could deal with all human garbage this way? 😬
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@stilkov Yes. We were amused to see it included in the lease for our apartment in Munich. I’ve never seen that before elsewhere!
Ahhh. Our apartment lease came with an extra document about the need to air the rooms every day to prevent mould, and we were like, “Wait, what?” At least I know now it’s not just our landlord being weird. https://t.co/LHBr30f2mg
RT @nocontextroyco: https://t.co/Bf2rkBc75j
RT @monosynth: https://t.co/ob4Jo3scJU
@cobusbernard That’s what I would’ve thought, but they love their “frische Luft” here!
RT @joshgad: I do hope Trump and his wife recover. I also hold extreme resentment and anger to a man who sat idly by as all of us, includin…
@justasitsounds ❤️❤️❤️
@JoBencke Just when I think I can’t get more depressed…
Thanks @Osterjour for great lunchtime conversation! Looking forward to being part of the Munich and wider German tech community. https://t.co/bH87FvaS69
Roger Ebert always said the real test of a movie is whether it’s more entertaining that just watching the actors hanging out. I’m paraphrasing, but I feel strongly that we don’t actually need the dinosaurs for this one. https://t.co/TapGCrBkoy
Oof. That is… not what I expected. Why did they trash the Norwegian aspect? Why are there THREE mice? Why does everyone sound like FOGHORN LEGHORN? This destroys everything I loved about the book. https://t.co/Kib4KwUl1q
RT @brianleroux: Folks have rightly asked for more clarity on security practice by service at AWS and per usual they listened. An epic week…
RT @sauramaia: this is…this whole thread. it’s fantAStic https://t.co/c8QY5hfYC1
@cobusbernard It was a surprise for us, but I think it’s common here.
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Can confirm this is a particularly German thing. Our new apartment lease came with a separate document all about how we need to open the windows every day, and we were like, “What.” 😳
But hey, maybe they should’ve been doing that at the White House…
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RT @danilop: This is making many use cases easier to build 👉 Store and Access Time Series Data at Any Scale with Amazon Timestream – Now Ge…
@snaxolotl As soon as I saw your initial tweet, I heard that in my head. 🔥
Congrats to @QuinnyPig on his new arrival, and if you haven’t read his amazing post about paternity leave, you really should: https://t.co/Z8HAZUdfeL. (I don’t have kids, and I’d be lying if I said sidestepping the issue of parental support in tech wasn’t a factor.)
@codepo8 I figured it out pretty quickly, and I think the word itself is fine. It’s just unfortunate that it resembles a pejorative Down Under. I’ll just have to make sure I pronounce it correctly!