Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph's public journal about open source, mainframes, beer, travel, pink gadgets and her life near the city where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.
The weekend after we returned from our trip to Atlantic City epitomized why we spend our summers in Philadelphia: the ability to spend casual time with family. On Saturday we spent the evening with some of MJ’s older cousins at their apartment in New Jersey. We ordered pizza and had a nice evening of catching […]
While we’re spending our summers in Philadelphia, we try to do one east coast adventure where we take some time off from work. Last year we took a road trip up to Boston and southern Maine. This year we went back to Atlantic City! The last time we went was a couple years ago over […]
The 4th of July weekend sort of began on Friday, July 3rd when I had the day off from work. Aaron was concluding his Nature-based day camp, and MJ and I had a rare Adam-only day on our hands. Unfortunately, the weather had been scorchingly hot, with temperatures reaching 100F and the heat index soaring […]
A couple years ago, a friend was clearing out an estate for a relative, and reached out to me because he had found a typewriter and mechanical calculator that he thought I might be interested in. Indeed! I wrote about the calculator here and briefly mentioned the typewriter, a 1967 Olympia SM9. We did some […]
Our Philly summer began on Monday, June 15th with our cross-country flight. We brought Zara long, since six weeks was much too long to leave her with a pet sitter, but I was really nervous about how she’d handle the flight. Most cats do just fine, Caligula even made the journey when he was quite […]
The final weeks we were in California before heading to Philadelphia for the rest of the summer was spent cherry picking, going on a safari, and checking out a local beach! But first we had a visit to the vet with Zara. She’s been doing great! But hadn’t been to the vet since concluding her […]
I returned from the Open Source Summit just in time for Memorial Day weekend, which was also the beginning of the last week of school for the boys before summer break. Saturday of Memorial Day weekend was spent doing errands, but one of those errands was going to REI and buying a couple cots that […]
Back in March I wrote The 3D printed Index Typewriter: Part 1 where I covered our experience printing and beginning to assemble the Index Typewriter – AEG Mignon by Keenan Finucan. That blog post basically got to the end of Stage 1: Baseplate Assembly and I got started on Stage 2: Carriage Assembly. So that’s […]
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the Open Source Summit in Minneapolis. For the first time, I didn’t have a speaking slot or booth duty, I was there as an attendee with a list of people and projects I wanted to meet up with, and sessions I wanted to see. On Sunday I […]
I hadn’t been to the Open Source Summit in a couple years, and boy was I in for a shift. It was a shift I expected, because AI/ML has taken over tech a big way, but experiencing it was a whole different thing. I also don’t think I’ve every heard the word “human” said so […]