I went through the archives of my team’s blog at Automattic and found this treasure, courtesy of Sheri Bigelow:
The pictures for this gif were taken on Kauai during our devision meetup there. Kauai is known for its wild chicken, so naturally one of the meetup achievements was to “Photobomb a feral chicken”. Achievement unlocked!
In ongoing effort to get myself out of my appartement (I work from home, so it truly is my castle), I decided to learn how to golf. It’s an outside activity, I can call it sport (without any actual physical effort), it’s mostly in beautifully landscaped surroundings, and I might even get to meet people outside my work or family.
I found that the Get Golf Ready program is a perfect fit for that. It’s designed to teach adults how to play golf with beginner golf lessons. For an affordable $99, you get five lessons that get you started with the game: putting, chipping, full shots, drive, a.s.o. Exactly what I was looking for!
Today I went for my first lesson:
Everyone knows you play 18 holes of golf, but today I learned that two strokes out of every par (a predetermined number of strokes required to complete a hole) are considered to be putting strokes, on average half of all strokes in a round of golf! So putting is super important, which is why we started with that. We’re a very diverse group of five student, who were let by a great golf instructor/teacher. He’s really enthusiastic and made the lesson today really fun! He took a lot of time and went well beyond the scheduled 90mins of instructions, touching all kinds of different subjects, from putting (of course), to golf rules, to etiquette, and even a short intro to the golf carts they use there.
Two Trees from the Olivas Links Golf Course.
I had a great time today and a lot of fun. I can not wait to learn more, and might just go back and practice some putting on my own now!
After yesterday’s Portland WordPress Meetup, we headed over to Bailey’s Taproom, where we invented the game of Beer Checkers. At least we thought we did, until we wanted to register beercheckers.com. Also we played with slightly different rules: Drinking was a reward. Continue reading
From left to right: Ryan, Alison, Konstantin, James, Derek, and Bryan.
Picture by Mike Schroder.
Three Meetups, two WordCamps, a conference, and a birthday. Coming back from a team meetup in Florence, Italy, the awesome WordCamp Orange County kicked of the month of June, which will be a busy, WordPress-filled one for me.
I’ll speak at the Ventura WP Meetup and then travel to Portland, Oregon where I’ll be co-working with Michael Fields, attend the Portland WP Meetup, participate in an advanced jQuery training, and join many other Automatticians for a jQuery conference. Back in Ventura, I will speak for the first time at the Topanga Canyon WP Meetup, and celebrate my 30th birthday one day after that. For the grand finale, I’ll be traveling to Canada for the first time in my life and volunteer at WordCamp Montreal. Throughout the month I will also meet a lot of my Automattic colleagues for the first time, which always makes for a good time.
Last but not least, I hope the new version of WordPress will be released this month, making the new default theme Twenty Thirteen available to millions of WordPress users.
Konstantin Obenland 