Author Archives: Konstantin Obenland
I’m currently in Austin, TX for the inaugural team meetup of Apollo, the WordPress.org-focused team that I switched to when was created a few months ago. After five days of discussions, planning, and working on code, we took some time off today and went indoor skydiving.
It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly much less dangerous than jumping out of a flying airplane! It was exciting to be able to build on my Park City, UT experience and improve my body control in a way that I was almost able to steer myself.
On Drinking Warm Beer
I’m German, living in the United States, and for that been asked about pretty much every German stereotype imaginable. One of the most common misperceptions is that Germans, or Europeans in general, drink their beer warm. Since I was asked about it multiple times again last week (I like beer), I thought I’d turn to the keyboards so I can point to this post in the future.
2014 Travel
Automattic’s job page says that you should expect to travel four to five weeks out of the year, if you join us. That’s actually a really good rule of thumb. Of course it varies from person to person, but with meetups alone you’re looking at a minimum of three weeks. I ended up spending a bit more time on the road, so I thought I should write a short recap.
In 2013 I traveled about 79,000 miles which—not being used to that much travel—felt like a lot. So going into the new year, I planned on reducing it a little, only going to meetups and local WordCamps. That was not what happened however.
Who would have thought that Vegas also has beautiful snow-covered mountains?
Spring Mountains
Yesterday, a friend of mine invited me to their aunt and uncle’s beach house for the afternoon. It’s a gorgeous place with a big patio, lots of lounge chairs, and direct beach access. We just hung out, had a couple of beers, went in the water to cool off, and finished the day with a calm game of bocce ball before a beautiful sunset. What a great way to spend the holiday weekend.
Konstantin Obenland 