Jamie Thingelstad

I adore this new ornament that Santa left for me 🎅🎄

Mazie’s Gingerbread house is epic this year.

Lefse flower with delicious lefse from Freddy’s Lefse! 🌺 🎄

Mazie and I took Lucky for a walk today. Vests. Open water. No snow. Unusual for December 23rd.

I won the auction for the “10 of 10” museum quality brass plaque that Jeff Atwood auctioned in his I Fight For The Users post. It arrived today and is even more awesome in person! 🤩

Description from the eBay listing:

Let’s celebrate the death of Twitter in style, with the best tweet of ALL TIME! This museum quality brass plaque features a famous tweet on June 28th, 2012 (which just so happens to be Elon Musk’s birthday) by @Horse_ebooks that reads, “Everything happens so much.” It’s almost 8 pounds, 14" wide by 8" tall, and will outlive all of us, regrettably. Includes brass bolts for mounting, too (not pictured). All proceeds are donated directly to The Trevor Project charity, which provides 24/7 crisis support to LGBTQ young people.

This is a unique item, 1 of 10 in the world, and it’s for a good cause, so bid appropriately :)

We saw Wonka this evening and all thought the movie was great. Wonka tells the magical origin story of Willy Wonka. Timothée Chalamet plays the role of Wonka perfectly. I highly recommend going.

I wish we would have picked a different theater though. The seats were dirty, there was popcorn and debris all over, and the other people in the theater kept talking and making noise at various times.

Thinking about the experience had me thinking of the ideal. It would be incredible to see Wonka and get a box of chocolates to have during the movie, that are timed with the scenes in the movie, and matched with the flavors and story. There are several scenes where chocolate is a key character and having a taste to go with it would be incredible. 🤩

We made our first trip to Sam’s Christmas Village and Light Show to see the 12 million lights that they have on display. It was our favorite holiday light display we have been to. They have music playing, concessions, hot cocoa, Santa visits, and holiday music playing while you walk around the area.

Took in Tinsel Town at O’Donavon’s today with Tammy’s sisters and Olson bro-in-laws.

We had friends over and played SHEEPLE: The Best Game in the Ewe-niverse for the first time. It was a fun game to play in a group with a lot of laughs. Recommended.

When I first heard of Manuel Moreale’s People and Blogs project, I knew it was something I wanted to subscribe to and support. Keeping the web personal is vital to me. I love personal websites and blogs. A newsletter that shines a light on both sounded fabulous and would tell the stories of how we keep the web personal.

I was even more excited when Manuel invited me to participate! Issue 16 was released today: P&B: Jamie Thingelstad! 🤩

Here is a complete list of the previous people:

1. Manton Reece
2. Rachel J. Kwon
3. Kev Quirk
4. Brian Koberlein
5. Toby Shorin
6. Andrea Contino
7. Ana Rodrigues
8. Jim Nielsen
9. Ray Thomas
10. Jamie Crisman
11. Piper Haywood
12. Chris Coyier
13. Robin Rendle
14. Nicolas Magand
15. Eli Mellen

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It was fun to be able to speak at the Mntech Tech Outlook 2024 event today. Dan Abdul, Sarah Engstrom, Eric Hanson, and I introduced our companies and covered a lot of ground with Jeff Tollefson moderating. Topics ranged from GenAI, talent development, technology strategy, and more.

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of OmniFocus 4.0 and today is the day! I haven’t used any of the betas so it is all new to me. It was an easy decision to upgrade because OmniFocus is one of my most frequently used apps and the cornerstone of my GTD system.

I upgraded three Macs, my iPhone, iPad, and was excited to see a proper Apple Watch version that now runs completely independently.

My initial impressions:

1. The user experience is a big change. It will take me a bit to get used to it, but I can already see how it is more streamlined.
2. The logical role of perspectives in the user experience is way better.
3. Love that the Apple Watch version is useful. I never used the previous version and it hadn’t been updated in years. This one I will use.

Brandon Ferdig kicking off tonight’s MN Blockchain Holiday Party. The evening was a fun social event as well as a recap of the events the organization has hosted over the year. Thanks to Colin Hirdman for hosting the event.