Therapeutic pickling

And I don't mean of my liver!

This is my first attempt at pickling, it's Kohlrabi and purple beans
from the garden. I planted the purple beans 'cause my daughter loves
purple. My mom brought down the Kohlrabi to plant in my garden the
last time she was to ever visit our house. They were ready to be
harvested.

At least, one was and the rest were growing so big they were too close
together. I picked them and, in memory of my mom and her love for
homecooking and crafts, asked my sister for a good recipe.

So, you see before you my own take on her concoction: curry, lemon
grass and peppercorn pickled Kholrabi and beans.

I'll see in about 3 weeks if they are as yummy as they looked. Sophia,
my oldest, told me it smelled disgusting, so I may be on the right
track...

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it's been a year and two weeks since i fired myself

and i just found out about it now, while closing my books.

Goodbye, Kunesh Interaction Design.

Hello, Fuzzy Math.

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Haiku to a manifestation

White spider come back!
I promise no dumb attempts
to crush you next time.

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Apologies to Bruce Springsteen (and you)

Something in the night
Flutters against the window
Escapes, homeward bound.

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Sometimes 'sad' isn't a big enough word

Here's the obituary I wrote for my mom, an absolutely lovely person.

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Haiku to a better, forgotten haiku

I thought a haiku
So fine it flowed sweet as wine
To escape my mind

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Four word health status

Rapid fire health tale
Of Gail Kunesh in few words:
Lungs?? Brain? Will! Spirit!!

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Hospital haiku 2

someone in there says
hello when we signal with
stimuli love souls

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Hospital haiku 1

hospital coffee
distilled nerves and memories
give little comfort

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Matt Waite's key lesson from building PolitiFact: Demos, not memos

So there was a little news around here lately. PolitiFact won a Pulitzer Prize. To say I'm still in shock is an understatement. A week later, it doesn't seem real.

All week long, we've been talking about how PolitiFact started, how it all came together. It's been fun remembering how it started out with Bill Adair having an idea and me having an idea on how we could pull it off. The crude mock-ups, the development environment on a box that was headed for the trash. I still can't believe we did it. But out of the many lessons I learned on PoltiFact, one stands out. It's become mantra for me.

Demos, not memos.

It's an awesome Pulitzer win (how many things built in Django will win the Pulitzer, btw?) for the PolitiFact team, and a great lesson for software developers and creators everywhere!

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