Hard to believe this was 12 years ago (which means it was 13 years ago that a carload of guys from Montreal pulled up at the very first ACCCA in Waterloo to find me and tell me “We heard you were interested in holding an Agile Coach Camp in Montreal! We’r…lnkd.in/efDdZzMf
Ellen Grove retweeted
if we’ve brought back global pandemics, titanic disasters, railroad strikes, a King of England and Russian coups, we should also get to bring back the parts of the 20th century where they had cocaine in the soda and a minimum wage earner could buy a family home
Ellen Grove retweeted
Ted Lasso did something not many TV shows have. Challenged us to be better humans. If you really listen to what the show is saying we can all learn something. The best thing we can do is to keep asking for help and accepting it when you can.
Be a goldfish. #TedLassoFinale
Ellen Grove retweeted
#TedLasso might not be your thing, and that's fine, but the influence of a popular and well-produced show that embraces optimism and empathy is never a bad thing, especially given the tsunami of rage and bleakness we absorb through social media every day. I'm so grateful for it.
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"Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture."
- The Truth -
A shout out to Otto von Chriek on #WorldDraculaDay!
Ellen Grove retweeted
"These go to 11". "It's a big building with patients but that's not important right now." "Bueller. Bueller?" The writers' strike in the US led me to think about lines in movies that have stuck with me my whole life. Imagine writing something silly that endures for decades.
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It is Monday, so hope this brings a smile to start the week.
The Prime Ministers of Canada as Conan The Barbarian characters, with an early job they held.
23. Justin Trudeau (2015 - Present)
While living in Whistler, he was a bouncer at a nightclub and a snowboard instructor.
Ellen Grove retweeted
On what would have been the great Terry Pratchett's 75th birthday, let's all raise a banana(nana) daiquiri in the great man's name and remember, "No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."
#GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName #BeMoreTerry
Ellen Grove retweeted
(1/3) Twitter’s own policy defines government-funded media as cases where the government “may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content,” which is clearly not the case with CBC/Radio-Canada.
→ help.twitter.com/en/rules-an…
Ellen Grove retweeted
It’s easy to think “it’s just a few minutes.” But as the number of people that you hold up increases, the true cost of being late scales rapidly. Being 10 mins late to a meeting with 10 others is 100 minutes. I'm doing some work on improving meeting practice currently so this sketch speaks to me. It comes from @sketchplanator, one of the most impactful visual artists on Twitter.
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"Moving his hands carefully, Dibbler opened the special section of his tray, the high-class one that contained sausages whose contents were 1) meat, 2) from a known four-footed creature, 3) probably land-dwelling."
- The Truth -
#Discworld #terrypratchett #Lego
Ellen Grove retweeted
Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
1/22
Ellen Grove retweeted
"The Librarian of Unseen University had unilaterally decided to aid comprehension by producing an Orang-utan/Human Dictionary. He'd been working on it for three months. It wasn't easy. He'd got as far as "Oook"."
- Men at Arms -
🎨 Created by Felix Jaensch
Recurring theme of the day: waste in software development activities and organizations. How many of these did you run into today? lnkd.in/eRFA4qAd
Ellen Grove retweeted
24 days.
#RichmondTillWeDie
One of the coolest lizard facts I know is that after one round of hybridization (2 different species mating), some whiptail hybrids can reproduce using parthenogenesis (cloning themselves!)! Can you #FindThatLizard, a Chihuahuan spotted whiptail? Let me know with #FoundThatLizard






















