• Shared today on Facebook

    Elisa – Homemade gourmet Tim Tams?? 😍 THESE ARE AMAZING! Thank you so much!


    Discussing the finer points of wine, and why the one that costs 12x as much doesn’t necessarily taste 12x as good. 🍷


    Scott samples the salami-kabel-trommel. Verdict: “It’s fine. It’s salami.” 😂


    Overheard: “… and that was the night I passed out in the graveyard!”

    Every time one of the Snook’s uni buddies visits, the stories come out.

    “…And that was the night you lost the power of speech! And you were hitting on that girl, and we had to translate on your behalf!”

    “… And that was one of those nights when I cried. Inconsolably.”

    I’ll leave it up to you to guess who each story applies to.



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    Scott samples the salami-kabel-trommel. Verdict: “It’s fine. It’s salami.” 😂

    Scott samples the salami-kabel-trommel. Verdict: “It’s fine. It’s salami.” 😂


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    Discussing the finer points of wine, and why the one that costs 12x as much doesn’t necessarily taste 12x as good. 🍷

    Discussing the finer points of wine, and why the one that costs 12x as much doesn’t necessarily taste 12x as good. 🍷


  • Shared today on Twitter

    @liza_moss Nah, this regulation is decades old and appears to be based on an old West German tax on cards. 🤷‍♀️


    @boundvariable That was Rodd’s guess – some sort of complicated LSD delivery system on faux cards. 😂


    @supercoco9 😂


    @kevdesign Well, the cookies are Dutch, but the chocolate bar is Deutsch. 😂 Germans call it Spekulatius; my understanding is the Dutch call it Speculaas. Right? And the rest of the label is all in German…


    Sweet! Keen to watch this one. 🙂 https://t.co/9yJRxGn4gR


    Ooh, @mavi888uy has just inspired me to migrate a script I’m running locally on my laptop to a proper serverless app with SAM! Seems like every #reinvent session I watch, my project list gets longer and longer… 😂 https://t.co/cOCU13kgAZ


    All I want for Christmas is for @Google to let me forward them stupid requests from content marketers to update decade-old blog posts to link to their crappy articles, and have Google punish them by tanking their search engine rankings. Bah, humbug. 🎅


    Awww. Just watching a “year in review” video from the @awscloud team in Australia and caught a flash of me and @minxdragon taking a selfie at #communityday. ❤️🇦🇺 https://t.co/TUJcxuHTVh


    RT @NaveenS16: Beautifully laid outpost by @adhorn on Chaos Engineering — Part 1: The art of breaking things purposefully

    https://t.co/c4z…


    @DemsAbroad @drhrcarlin @votefromabroad Ahhh, good to know! I hadn’t realised I was lucky enough to be in a shipping area. Sorry to others for getting their hopes up…


    @ASpittel Weaving. Like, on a proper loom.


    LOVE IT @nathangloverAUS! But you lose points for not having video of a fluffy cat being fed. Where is floof?? 😺 https://t.co/3hVbOxmFwQ


    @nathangloverAUS Hahahahaha, nice! We left our floofy boy back in Australia, but I get regular videos and photos of him. ❤️


    @stockholmux You will be pleased to know I submitted a new phone tool icon today for “white backdrop.” I’ll let you know if it gets approved. 🙂


    RT @jennapederson: Oh this looks pretty cool! MAPS! 🗺 https://t.co/2sSeX1lnDV


    @stockholmux …and it just got rejected. 🙁 2020, I tell ya.


    Chicken Chorizo Tray Bske. Yum! @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/d8RXkbIJvM


    @GunnarGrosch @nathangloverAUS The answer to all those questions is just “Australia, mate.”



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    Chicken Chorizo Tray Bske. Yum!

    Chicken Chorizo Tray Bske. Yum!


  • Shared today on Twitter

    RT @Tolouisehansen: I am an Australian. The Australian Government should do more for climate change. Retweet if you agree. Let’s let the wo…


    Only 15 minutes until Game Day kicks off! Be sure to register ASAP at #reInvent, get some snacks and something to drink, and read through our pro tips… (And if you want to watch, just tune in to https://t.co/tHU78joN2C !) https://t.co/5oR4PrrylT


    RT @unicorn_rentals: Final Unicorn Polo League #AWSGameday at #reInvent2020 is underway. Teams are reviewing instructions now and devising…


    Thanks @DemsAbroad for my sweet new shirt. Thanks @votefromabroad for helping me exercise my Constitutional rights every election. Thanks Electoral College for doing your job, as well as all the hardworking election officials. ❤️🇺🇸 https://t.co/uen1pJEXpP


    RT @tofieldya: If your a new dev being gaslit by these dinosaur thought leaders remember this:

    The junior level requirements when they got…


    @DuchessFounder Yeah, none of that when I started out. Even “DHTML” was fancy. Ooh, onmouseover! 😂


    RT @isahuerga: You can still join us and play this AWS GameDay! Login at https://t.co/lVn1T1NAWV https://t.co/GOK93qRFA8


    Mittagessen. 😋 @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/1z4kY3AROA


    @fink_jess It is indeed! 😂 https://t.co/wWgRmf5BGz


    Quite a lot of jockeying for position as we come into the home stretch at the #reinvent #gameday! One of the closest competitions we’ve seen this year… @unicorn_rentals @jarrodspiga 🦄 https://t.co/3nkZV4UYxU


    RT @apaipi: Get my book about retrospectives antipatterns, or other new books about agile development, really cheap now. I am sure you have…


    RT @adhorn: Few minutes until @Werner keynote at #reinvent (8:00AM PST) where he will be going to shares his insights on building truly res…


    Weird. My Mom is sending us some gifts from the US and took a photo of the restrictions on shipping to Germany. Individual playing cards… are forbidden? 😳 Why in the world would that be?! https://t.co/0CXW467mfM


    @GunnarGrosch @Werner Hoping to get in a few more rows on my jumper, of course! https://t.co/JoHqhkvOK5


    @darkosubotica @Werner Looks like a nice bottle you got there!


    Great tour of Amsterdam, courtesy of @Werner. Incidentally, I’m going to be appearing on the AWS Netherlands user group @awsugnl after the keynote! You can join us at: https://t.co/WXjRRqv1uF https://t.co/wahuFXc95a


    “When it comes to women’s health, progress has been very slow.” YES. Glad to see this important topic getting featured! #reinvent @AvaWomen https://t.co/lvUxQaIaJO


    RT @marknca: “If you’re as old as me, you also prefer using the terminal and a collection of not so great scripts”, @werner

    NEW SERVICE: A…


    @jennapederson The one thing I don’t get – and isn’t in their FAQs – is why it’s a separate hardware device, when I have to imagine a lot of the target audience are already wearing smart watches and trackers… 🤔


    @BezPublic Wow! Good find. 🙂


    RT @BezPublic: @web_goddess It’s allegedly an artifact of an old West German playing card tax that hasn’t existed since ~1980, preserved by…


    RT @Stuart_A_Scott: NEW #reInvent announcement by @Werner – AWS Fault Injection Simulator, coming in 2021 – Chaos Engineering!
    #reinvent20…


    We are LIVE with @awsugnl at https://t.co/WXjRRqv1uF! One of these kids is not like the other… because I have a beer, silly. 🍺😂 https://t.co/PBt2slsYpS


    “I’m feeling such great energy from all this AWS stuff… like, what CAN’T be done?!” Lots of excitement from David at @awsugnl! #reinvent ❤️ https://t.co/8ut9ibERFF


    Let’s be honest – this is exactly the type of thing I moved to Germany for. ❤️🍫🤩 https://t.co/LdzStFFdga


    @DeirdreS Congrats to you and your team!!


    RT @jennapederson: I’ll be talking with @kb_chirps and @karypis about the Amazon Neptune ML #reInvent launch at 2:30pm PST/4:30pm CST today…


    @dtraub Shhhh. I’m convinced it’s running on a forgotten computer beneath someone’s desk, and if you remind them, they’ll take it away!


    RT @darkosubotica: Hey is that AWS CloudShell or are you just happy to see me? 😍 https://t.co/H7SvC7eD9A


    RT @samnewman: Any Aussies should feel very happy to share this quote from me:

    “Eddie McGuire is a giant dick. Go Swannies”. – Sam Newman…


    @drhrcarlin @DemsAbroad @votefromabroad One of the email newsletters had a link to the merchandise store. (I bought the shirt!) They had a free different things – stickers, pins, bags, etc.



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Thanks @demsabroad for my sweet new shirt. Thanks @votefromabroad for helping me exercise my Constitutional rights every election. Thanks Electoral College for doing your job, as well as all the hardworking election officials. ❤️🇺🇸


    Mittagessen. 😋


    #reinvent keynote time for @djwerner and I’m ready to go! 🧶


    Let’s be honest – this is exactly the type of thing I moved to Germany for. ❤️🍫🤩



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    Let’s be honest – this is exactly the type of thing I moved to Germany for. ❤️🍫🤩

    Let’s be honest - this is exactly the type of thing I moved to Germany for. ❤️🍫🤩


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    #reinvent keynote time for @djwerner and I’m ready to go! 🧶

    #reinvent keynote time for @djwerner and I’m ready to go! 🧶



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