Sometimes we all need to take a step back, and step outside, to properly enjoy the world around us. I had numerous professional and personal roadtrips and flights throughout July, and figured I'd take a moment to share some of the best of those little travel moments. The captions for each photo tell the backstory of these thoroughly enjoyable experiences.
Red’s Eats in Wiscasset Maine has amazing lobster rollsYes, that is an entire lobster, with tail, which is why you can barely see the roll!Lovely little hamlet of Freeport, Maine.Freeport’s famous L.L. Bean outlet stores are apparently open 24×7, 365 days per year. That’s like datacenter hours!Brunswick Maine has quite the high school for such a rural area. Great place for a user group, surprisingly enough.VTUG Summer Slam 2013′s Gritty’s “Lobstah Bake” involves Lobster. The legend is true, it really is free, and all you can eat. I dined with VMware employees, and a guy who downed 9 lobsters.Spotted this rather interesting building going up at Cornell University. Seems their long, storied history with Microsoft has paid off, in a very good way. All sorts of glass, right near the baseball field, I might add. Probably to attract the engineering students to the ball games, just to see what’ll happen.After all that traveling, it’s nice to have an adventure close to home as well. Just had to pick some fresh raspberries.Yes, the countryside really is that lovely around here in the summertime, here’s a Glastonbury Connecticut snapshot of a local farm. Gives me joy just looking at it. Hope you feel it too!
After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing.
