Jeff Smith

@sumisu3@mastodon.nz
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Sauna サウナ, wine, craft beer, beer brewing, 日本酒, BBQ, chilis, guitar, French Horn, Flügelhorn, jazz, Irish Setters, vinyl & books. 30+ yrs in IT - mostly for Silicon Valley startups building the Asia Pacific business. Old Unix and Emacs guy. Finnish/German/Chicagoan in NZ via Japan and now a proper Kiwi.

Follow me over at mastodon.beer @sumisu3 for #beer and #brewing related.

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LocationAotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau, Matakana
Profile photoB&W photo of me playing guitar on a bench with a large mirror behind me (taken at the Wynn in Las Vegas just before security came and threatened me). Guitar is a Taylor 612ce 12 fret first edition.
Banner photoMarc Chagall’s “America Windows” at the Chicago Art Institute
Jeff Smith19h ago
Simon Harris1d ago
Instead of building computers to augment humans, we are reshaping humans to augment ~~computers~~ tech bros
Jeff Smith4d ago
Chris Mills4d ago
This exploration of #Ethiopian #Jazz #PentatonicScales is pretty cool. https://youtu.be/x-_R9sycN7w
Ethiopian Pentatonic Scales

YouTube
Jeff Smith4d ago

Hauntingly beautiful and always reaches into your soul

Nina Simone
Wild is the Wind
https://youtu.be/Xa0jbiPMt2s

She is soooo good

#jazz #NinaSimone

Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind - Live 1959

YouTube
Jeff Smith4d ago

And yet here in “clean green New Zealand” we can’t even eat our local oysters due to norovirus from actually human shit in the water coming down the river from town. As bad as the Middle Ages

https://mastodon.social/@eunews/114801343213089474

Jeff Smith4d ago

Just caught up with mom in the States. Find out that my cousin‘s daughter (German/Finnish on our side and Italian/French on her mom’s side), who happens to have a dark complexion was picked up by ICE outside of a Lowe’s in NC. Her husband is a Marine, currently deployed. She was released already thanks to some serious phone calls from the base. Lucky for her but others not so lucky. Fuck this shit!

#FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra

Jeff Smith5d ago

Ah yes - centralized planning

https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/114800363465705995

Jeff Smith5d ago
Science Scholar5d ago
Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Discovered a Huge Surprise https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-discovered-a-huge-surprise #science
Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Discovered a Huge Surprise

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

ScienceAlert
Show threadJeff Smith5d ago
Absolutely delicious. My wife isn’t a huge fan of the preserved lemons so using the bloom orange and making the candied orange peels (sugar and lots of cinnamon) are a hit.
Jeff Smith5d ago

Dinner tonight is Moroccan tagine of lamb. Cardoons on the bottom - that I grew from seed just to make this dish (the ultimate slow food). Blood orange from our tree - slices in the tagine and candied for serving time. Olives from our trees and brined at home. Parsley of course from the garden.

#cooking #Moroccan #tagine

Jeff Smith6d ago
I think I’m going to give up trying to get back into a tech job. The market is messed up and Silicon Valley is not a beacon of hope or progress. The 80s and early 90s dream of the internet bringing us all together is over. Local hardware store, butcher or landscaping looking just fine.