Alexis Sutorius
At the beginning of September, I lost a dear friend and fellow nerd, Andy Sutorius. He passed away in his sleep from a heart condition that he kept very private. Our friendship goes back...
Yearly Archive: 2016
Where I was on 9/11
Luke & I – September 2001 About a week before that fateful day 15 years ago, I landed at MSP to meet with my good friend Luke Magnus. We were in a group of...
Real-Life Road Apples
The album that drew me in I jumped with joy when a package arrived today. But I didn’t jump very high, because my heart is heavy.
A Week in Poland, Part 4 : Kraków / Warsaw
After the emotional roller coaster of visiting Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Grant and I were both very glad to be on to brighter and happier places. We stopped in Kraków but our...
A Week in Poland, Part 3 : Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
The main Auschwitz I camp (I blogged about earlier) gets all the attention. It has most of the iconic imagery everyone associates with the Holocaust, most notably the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate (“Work Sets...
A Week in Poland, Part 2 : Auschwitz I
I feel all kinds of different emotions for all kinds of different people – sorrow, envy, pity, joy. But nothing is as breathtaking as stepping inside a concentration camp, and the inevitable and involuntary...
A Week in Poland, Part 1 : Wrocław
This week I’ve been in Poland – for the first half of the week I spoke at SQLDay in Wrocław, and now I’m doing some tooling around the country. This was some fantastic isolated...
Recovering old photos
So these jerks over at “New Ventures Corp” scooped up my domain (aaronbertrand.com), are squatting on it, and won’t entertain offers < $500 USD. So, they can keep it. I thought that all of...