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Sayulita

I had a nice chance to spend the week in Mexico this week. A friend of mine rented a house here in Sayulita and asked if we wanted to go along. Since I work remotely, so long as there’s a fast enough Internet connection, I’m good to go. Now, the family is frolicing around on the beach while I type away in cyberspace. What a world!

That advice from The Hitchhiker’s Guide was right, though: we should of brought more towels.

Allow to comment on the odd design of these matches:

First off all, the Venus statue. Sure. Makes sense for matches. And there’s a train, of course, and the Pantheon goes along with the statue…plus you can win $1,500 pesos? I’m not really sure what’s happening here.

I like to think there’s a caper where someone stole the Venus de Milo and is transporting it on a train. Perhaps an overworked Mexican detective is working with interpol investigating where this Mexican train is traveling and trying to find the statue. I don’t know, they sent the Venus di Milo to a musem in Mexico, or it was being transporting between the Panama Canal and Boston, or something. A sort of The City and The City situataion? Hijinks occur, and they end up solving the mystery with some match sticks.

That’s probably it.

Here’s some photos of the area:

Quick Hits

• Come see me talk about Pivotal - I’m all wrapped up in some road-shows for Pivotal now. There’s many in the month of March through-out the US: Austin, Houston, Columbus, Cincinati, Charlotte, and more. Come check us out if you’re interested, free show, man.

• They put mayonnaise on their beards in Belgium. Wait, that’s not right. Three EU conferences - my trip report from the three conferences I went to recently, Monkigras, FOSEM, and Config Management Camp. I’m trying to strick a mega casual tone here on the Pivotal blog. Tell me if this is “anything.”

• Why Are 95% of Private Clouds Failing? - the answer is mostly, “didn’t really understand what and why.” Cloud is rough, man.

• Lets review.. Docker (again) - there’s been a slow drip of anti-Docker pieces recently, mostly calling into question the technology. Hype cycle in effect!

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