Γεια σας! Είμαι Vicky και καλώς ήρθατε σε ένα άλλο Ρατζένα λαϊκό. Τώρα αυτό το βίντεο είναι πραγματικά ένας Ρατζένα λίγκης YouTubeHop. Υπάρχει πολλές εμπειρήσεις, πολλές διαφορετικές τεκνικές και πολλές διαφορετικές τεκνικές. Είμαι πίσω ότι θα έχετε πολλές εμπειρήσεις σκέψεις με μας και υπάρχουν πολλές εμπειρήσεις από αυτές οι εμπειρήσεις. Υπάρχει σκέψεις για να βοηθείτε ένα εμπειρήσι εδώ στο YouTube κάθε βίντεο γιατί όλες αυτές οι εμπειρήσεις θα είναι χρησιμοποιημένοι από τις εμπειρήσεις μέσα στο Ρατζένα λαϊκό. Λοιπόν θα εγγραφήσω σε ένας 6 x 6 σκέψεις εμπειρήσεις και δεν ξέρω αν έχετε δει αυτή τη προηγιότητα. Είμαι προσπαθώ να κάνω το πιο από αυτή η εμπειρήσι, η οποία είναι οι θεωρήσεις από Τυμ Holtz. Έχω χρησιμοποιηθεί το ένα, το άλλο στο σκέψι και θα εγγραφήσω μέσα στο άλλο της εμπειρήσι. Τώρα θα εγγραφήσω με τους εμπειρήσεις στο εμπειρήσι. Είναι σύμφωρο στην συγγραφή και έχουν σύμφωροι τεκνικές. Είστε σκέψεις γιατί θα εγγραφήσω σήμερα με τα αλκοχόλια μου. Είμαι πραγματικά αυξιότητα με τους τεκνικές. Είμαι χρησιμοποιηθεί με τα αλκοχόλια μου, που είναι να πρέπει να αφήσω πρώτα τη σκέψη μου και να έχω τη σκέψη μου πολύ αγωτική και τώρα να αφήσω τα χρώματα μου. Τώρα, όπως μπορείτε να δείτε, είναι εύκολο για να μεταφέρω όλα αυτά τα χρώματα και να αφήσω them to blend together with a straw just because my surface is quite wet since I had lots of that blending solution on top of it. Τώρα, εγγραφίσαμαι στο upo paper and the colors of the inks that I am using are pool, aquamarine and citrus. As always, you will be able to find a full list of all the supplies that I am using down below in the description area with links to online shops where you can grab everything if you like.  Now, the alcohol link is really difficult to control you need to leave it alone to do its own thing and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to leave this piece alone to dry. Now, even everything is dry you will find that there are some areas that are quite sticky especially where the ink is quite concentrated and that's a great opportunity for you to do some foiling this is a great technique it's going to stick only where those areas are and I love that the final result is quite random it's shiny and it's very organic. So let me catch the light for you so you can see where all the shine is and hopefully you can see how beautiful it looks I'm really obsessed with those alcohol linked backgrounds and you can get similar looks with watercolor paper and watercolors but with alcohol links you get a really vibrant color Plus the end result is permanent which means that you can do whatever you like on top of it without it smudging or smearing which is great especially when you do a mixed media project Now I'm working with some stamps to add some visual texture on my piece and I'm stamping everything with black archival ink I'm just mixing and matching stamps that I had in my stash I'm stamping everything with black archival ink just because I want this to end up being permanent but at the same time I find that archival ink stamps beautifully on top of Yupo paper Remember that Yupo paper is a non porous surface which means that not every ink is going to dry on top of it Now I'm going to stamp my focal point So these are the guys on the bike by the theories stamp set I'm going to stamp them with black archival ink on top of a piece that I have from an ephemera pack I just picked one Of course for such a big stamp you can also use your stamping platform if you have one to get a good impression I went with my stamping block just because I was too lazy Now I'm going to turn this into a tag just by chopping the two edges I'm also going to use my crop-a-dile to make a hole and then I use one of my eyelets to reinforce that hole a little bit and to add a metal detail on my piece I really love adding different textures on my art journals because they add visual interest and there is always something to grab the eye Now I want this piece to be a little bit popped up on top of my art journal and that's why I add some foam tape at the back and I'm going to stick that directly on top of my background Notice that I have placed the tag a little bit offset so I'm going to use my scissors and chop off a part from that wheel of the bike This way I have more visual interest as if there is something going on outside of the page And again I'm playing with textures here Now I have some metal piece I have some thread I have the Yupo paper which is glossy and of course I have normal paper which is matte I'm going to embellish my project a little bit more since I had this pack of ephemera out I decided to use some of them on my piece So I'm just going to chop off pieces and just tuck them in underneath the tag on different areas Just playing around to add more layers on my project to introduce some more color and at the same time to bring everything together And for introducing these type of layers on your project you can always use cutouts from design papers that you probably have or cutouts from magazines You can create your very own little pieces using stamps, so many different ideas to add layers I'm also going to use some design tapes I really love those packs and lately I have been using them a lot I like that they come with different designs in one pack that have also different widths and they even give you one thin strip of glitter wash tape I'm going to stick my project on top of a page from my 6x6 disc bound art journal So I'm just coloring the edges with black acrylic paint And before I stick everything down this is where I decided that I wanted to ink up and darken up the edges of my pieces Just a little bit So I'm just using a blending tool there with vintage photo I believe And I'm going to add some double sided tape This is strong tape so it's going to provide a nice bond between the UPO paper and my watercolor paper And I'm going to stick this on top and notice that my project is slightly smaller than 6x6 So I end up having a lovely black border that gives my piece a finished look Finally I'm going to stick on top one of the quad chips that says Adventure Awaits I'm making up the edges to bring everything together And my art journal project is finished All I have to do is to put back the page on my 6x6 disc bound journal Now I also get a lot of questions on what I am going to do with the back of the pages I haven't thought of it but probably I will color them all black at some point or maybe do something at the back I don't know So anyway I hope you had fun that you got inspired Here are some close up photos of the project that I made today Don't forget that this is part of a video hop Make sure to hop along with us You will find tons of inspiration and many giveaways And you will find the link to the next top at the end of this video Thank you all for watching and I'll see you next time


What's going on everyone Chris from Jasper's case breaks comm getting this 2016 optic football hangar We're gonna team in number 39 and giving away five spots in our mystery crate number five What's in the last place without the next again? Everyone about sure spot in that and then everyone getting involved in this randomizer appreciate you got our fresh lists Our two fresh lists or our players and our teams and our fresh dice We'll roll once for both lists. Good. Look Three and a six is nine so nine total times Good luck everyone one two three four five six sub Gila seven Eight and last one number nine three and six was nine nine times So Tanner Dad of Jonathan and make sure I got this Ryan Was our last spot mojo, so thank you Ryan H and then our teams nine times again three and six is nine at one two three four five six seven Eight and our last one nine down here Carolina Panthers down to my Steelers So my teams have been the the bottom team each time but I'm nice kind of fun Every time there we go. So our teams and our players Tanner with the bang with the Panthers Jonathan K with the bangles Nika with the Mar Nika with the Martins Nika with the Niners Ryan H with the Vikings Robert with the Bears Steve B with the Titans Jonathan K with the Dolphins Ryan with the Colts Darren with the Cowboys Jonathan K with the Raiders jab with the Packers Darren with the Rams Robert with the Jags Alan Murnaw with the Raven Jonathan K with the Eagles. That's the first half We are a porter in the Browns 32 now Jonathan with the Pat Steve B with the Bill Steve M with the Lion Steve B with the Falco Jonathan with the Saints Alan with the Chief Steve B with the Giants Alan with the Commander Jonathan with the Seahawks Sean with the Texans and Chargers Jonathan with the Cardinals Kevin with the Bucks John with the Broncos Steve B with the Jets and Jonathan K with my Steelers All right, so no No trade window for just a filler. So we'll get this all printed out. We need to get out That's right. The Oslo Open is this weekend this weekend That's a hard-looking 92 from this kid with a crazy name Ted Troubled I'm assuming this is a a rookie for the nationals for the Nats. Yeah Yeah, they pushed back Josiah Grace start Strasburg back on the aisle too. Man, what a bomber. Yeah So here we go On our break and our players Thanks again to all these lovely folks for getting this break filled out. Now after this we'll be doing Mystery crate number five, but right now Optic 2016 hangar Good luck everyone Jared golf rated rookie or Jared golf I tell our Irvin to end it there That's the hanger but we get to the the real fun stuff now Our fresh lists our fresh dice for our players. So Top five here top five names on the spot in that mystery crate. So good luck everyone We are rolling one and a five six times so six times for our players One two three four five Excuse me One five six our sixth time. Good luck So seven down to 32 We appreciate you some some bad news, unfortunately So steve b to steve b Thank you. We appreciate you all coming in here, but jonathan k robert p tanner jonathan k and steve b there we go steve does get in What's on the outside looking in? But gets in so thanks very much everyone. We'll be right back with mystery crate number five jasper's case rakes dot com


Well back by popular demand Laura house. Hello Laura house Hi, David for people who have never heard Laura house. She's an actress a comedy writer and Comedian she's written on some of your favorite sitcoms. She was one of the stars of an MTV series She's a great stand-up comedian. She's in one of my favorite political movies of all-time Janine from Des Moines How are you? That's so awesome. I'm good. I'm good David. That was such a nice intro So you're in love you're in love. You're excited about myself. Are you in love? I? I am in love. Yeah, I had a big relationship end last summer and I did a lot of work working through that and Then I met someone on the on a dating app two weeks ago, but it's like it's this amazing match You met somebody on a dating app. Isn't that crazy? I never thought it would happen to me Like you hope it'll happen and then it happens and you're like what? Yes Dating apps women go on dating apps. Well, I I don't think it's just women. I Have not finished yet As I understand dating apps women go on dating apps and View the men the same way men view porn They like to flirt with the men But then when it comes to closing the deal and getting the date they run away. That has been what I've heard mm-hmm That you like being flirted with But you really don't want to get off the couch and actually go out with a guy I is that the end of your point? That's what I've heard There's probably some people like that, but I in my experience Boys and girls go on there and they talk a little and they date That's been I haven't had So you've had You have Fred like your friends have been blown off Well, I have I have younger friends who are describing Ligula's Wet dream, but they're young, but tell me have you ever Been on a dating app before Yeah What yes, yeah, I did I was married years ago and then After that I got on a dating app and then After this big big breakup I got in a dating app. Yeah You met and does it work? Yeah, it's but I but I think a friend of mine my friend Scott gave me the The best advice and I didn't follow it years ago because you what I think is like Have you've been to Jerry's deli? You're the third person who's brought up Jerry's deli in the past two weeks. Yes. No way. Okay, so I heard Jerry's deli closed I did I heard I can't where all the people gonna go The one of the valley I guess is still open, right? Oh, yeah, I yeah, I think they still have a bowling alley They said yes, yeah, it's by the bowling alley. No, they have a bowling alley. Yes, they have a bowling alley pins with a Z No, I think I would feel it if the one of the valley clothes, but it's so the menu at Jerry's deli is like overwhelming So I always feel like you have to be struck like you have to know what you want to eat And then go into the menu and find it. That's what I think at Jerry's deli So I'd sit the same with dating apps. I think like You like my friend Scott was like just know 99.9% of the people on there are Awful this is the internet and I was like, oh like that's and so at first I didn't think so because I I used I would feel bad like you know because based like if you're sitting at a bar and Okay, I'll get I'll put these in your your terms so you're sitting at at a bar and Cindy Crawford approaches you and Strikes up a conversation. Do you feel good or bad about yourself? If who walks up to me? Cindy Crawford She's a married woman. I would say get away from me go back go back to a single woman who Mr. Gerber is Cindy Crawford. I'm sorry. What's up to a single woman who looks a lot like Cindy Crawford? Beautiful walks up to you starts talking. How do you feel about yourself? I would say you should get that mole on your face looked at Okay, this example is not gonna work.  I Would say you are a very attractive Jewish woman you and Scarlett Johansson are my two favorite Jewish women I would like to take you and Scarlett Johansson back to my apartment from a lot menage a choice, but since you're Jewish we'll make it a manage adieu. Oh Nice, thank you. Um So even though you blow it with her you probably feel pretty good about yourself that this beautiful woman If Natalie Portman walked up to me Okay, can I answer that question? Sure, okay somebody sent me a picture of me on the tonight show and Jay Leno is sitting to my left and Jennifer Gardner is clutching my arm. I will post this to my website Okay, and what was that sound? I we're under siege is the airplane Now it's past and Jennifer Gardner who I don't know if you know this, but she's very attractive Okay, I'm clutching my arm and I'm not making this up.  Are you messing with me? Mm-hmm. What do you think you're looking at? not granted I was married and I Wasn't gonna act on it, but the and I knew that even if I try to act on it there would So she would either come to her senses or say I always talk to men this way What why did you miss read these signals? So if Jennifer Gardner or Cindy Crawford walked up to me and started flirting. I Immediately would say Obviously, I miss reading her signals Okay, so if someone who if a woman who looked like I don't want to be mean let's say Looked something like a character Ruth Buzzy would play Walks up to you. Mm-hmm. How do you feel about yourself good or bad? Well, or with look your low self-esteem. Are you like yeah, this makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense Well, let's go back. Let's go back to your place and hit me with your purse the way used to hit Artie Johnson Well, my point is on that I didn't make is on dating apps is I If you don't have in mind that 99% of the people are are gross then if 10 Like 10 creepy gross people would Message me or whatever and then I would I this is like 10 years ago. I would think like oh, I guess this is What I attract Like oh, I guess I'm not very appealing Or I guess this is my level and you can't go into it You have to like know who you are and what you want and just be like no no no no, okay like To look to find that unicorn that you like Do you find that? You go on a dating app and you see a picture of a guy and that picture informs how you Understand all the other pertinent details about the guy Like I'm filtering whatever I'm reading through that picture. Mm-hmm Um Maybe I guess I I do think The the picture thing affects guys Different than it does than it does girls that I've been told is no longer true that women Can be stimulated by porn that they can be stimulated visually. Oh, yeah, no, I We've always been told that's not the case. No, no, I feel like I think it's it's less a matter of you can be stimulated and more a matter of whether that's the priority And I still think for women that's not necessarily the priority And I think it kind of is still the priority for guys If that makes sense women, let me tell you something that women Women women are women are like cholesterol Okay, yeah, they're they dare you want them to go down on you They're right and they're murder on your heart And nobody will tell us the truth about cholesterol They say there's good cholesterol. There's bad cholesterol But the bad cholesterol may be good and the bad cholesterol might be bad or the good might be good and the bad We really don't know and we're gonna do all these studies and now, okay, we've absolutely determined that A lot of cholesterol is bad for you, but you should eat food That's high in cholesterol because it actually lowers your cholesterol That's what women are because we hear the same things about women that they Crazy nonsense. They don't care if a man is bald. They don't care what a man looks like Because but this is but here's the reason and I'll filter this down to to one thing because it is case by case like I don't I don't inherently I don't like bald guys, but this dude is kind of bald and I'm really I really like this guy So what do you mean you don't what do you mean you don't like bald guys? I don't like bald guys who likes bald guys nobody That's why I got hair plugs, right?  I don't know what but I didn't grow up from I don't inherently like bald guys What about a bald guy who shaves his head? But that's what I mean is like No, like across the board. I'm gonna say no But this guy is pretty much bald, but I like him so it's fine. Does that make sense? How important or look so that's that's not me being twisty weird, whatever that's me going It's other things are a priority for me looks are only important in they're not as a They're important in the sense of like I don't know you at all and there's a certain level of attractiveness I need to Think I could be attracted to you But it's not that high and it's more of like who you are in an interesting way like um Ultimate guy John Goodman Is he uh Brad Pitt? No, he's John Goodman What do you mean ultimate guy? What do you mean? Oh the best guy if I could have any guy When you think of like your your fame crush John Goodman, you're wrong No, you're wrong. I'm not wrong He doesn't fit the but he's not a he he's overweight. He doesn't fit He can't be No, he's the guy. He's the guy He's the guy so because he's so talented He doesn't fit the like oh hot guy, but any woman would want to be with bill Murray But I get bill I get bill Murray.  And you're like, I don't know But maybe I you know generally I don't know.     I guess the pheromones. Yeah, she's very Yeah, well, that's why like like I here was my experience with dating apps was like some Some people like this this last guy we had we had we messaged quite a bit um and Here's another reason.  Like that's like I guess she just wanted to sit on the sofa and not date. It's like no like maybe That's why you have the messaging so you can go.    Can I go see a show? I just think it'd be so cool to know a comedian I was like by like just guys If you talk to them too long, they will say something that makes you not want to meet them. So how accurate How how accurate a barometer Is the text messaging? um, I think it's pretty accurate like Because you know if someone's bugging you or like if some like I've had stuff that like Maybe something in their texting was like hitting me weird But I was like, you know what I don't really know this person and then I met them and then that same thing I was like, yeah, there's something like Passive aggressive about the way they are and that's what I was sensing in the messages. So I got that what about teasing you Oh when guys tease because that I'm not into that but I'm also older Older women. I think it's not like I I can't believe I'm an older woman and I'm kind of bragging about it right now, but it's like I that's That's more of like a younger woman Awaited trick younger women So it's not appealing to annoy women teasingly not Not me But there was a time When yes that I only dated guys like that because it felt like banter and it felt like Like I wanted guys to like me so much that it it kind of actually like turned up the volume on me wanting this guy To like me, which is exactly what the the playbook says for like how to pick up women So it it it sadly like worked on me all the time Because you know if a guy was teasing about I don't know What then you know my reaction internally is like a giggle and like uh, oh then I better not do that anymore or whatever. It's sad But like a lot of younger women You want validation from men so much that like And then it's also like oh, he's kind of cool and aloof and now I want him anymore You know now I wanted more or whatever But as as a as an older woman, I'm just looking for like a dude to like You know watch tv with till we die So like I just want a nice man like Like hard to get or what like I I need a dude who like knows himself and is like loving open I'm interested in you can come out and say it can communicate like I I don't I've had so many bad experiences with because I've mostly just been attracted to like funny charming People and they're the worst.  Is that unattractive? You know what david? We're friends. So I don't want to flirt with you, but to me that's very attractive That would be like the greatest thing to me Is because I would be uh, yeah, because I would be like I would come back with something other than what you asked for And be like, why don't you here's this and you can also eat a dick and then we would And then I would go back to watching law and order and you're on kindle like I would kind of a great match But you didn't answer my question. Are you going to fetch the seltzer for me? I I might Because also you've been you've been good and like not bothering me for four hours, which I appreciate And then when you wave the seltzer in my face And you get between my eyes and the kindle with the seltzer and I say just put it on the on the table Dismissively Is that going to make you If when I when okay, if we're a couple and if when I bring you the seltzer It doesn't make you put the kindle down and want to make out with me then it's not going to work But if you're like, oh, you brought me the seltzer. Let's make out for a while then I would be like, okay, nice But I'm negging you by by saying put it on the table Women like that. It's a power thing Um, I'm playing with yourself. I'm playing with your self-esteem. Oh, yeah. Yeah, see that's not a yeah Again, that was great for me as a younger lady. I would be like Oh, I guess I should try harder to get this guy's attention because no one's dad really loved them, right? So I think women were always sort of trying to Get dad's attention through, you know, some dude I I'm gonna say something as as the father of daughters Yeah, and a divorced man Yeah I think my sister had a really great relationship With my father. I think that was pretty healthy. My father was pretty remarkable I know very few women who They always talk about men and their mommy issues I think some of the biggest problems in this world can be traced to Women and their unresolved daddy issues Oh, yeah Because I don't think I'm gonna get into trouble here But So far I'm on your side Um, I know I don't think Like I I guess I wanted to sleep with my mother and kill my father, right? I Yeah, I don't totally understand That well, you've never seen my mother other than intellectually. Oh, oh got it got it. Yeah But Women Freud the electric complex Freud kind of threw up his hands and said, I don't know. I don't know what they want Especially with their fathers Is that a fair is that fair to say that? Yeah, I would say if someone made me On a podcast talk about this I would say I So much of my adult moves are to get my dad's attention And I didn't know till later like I you don't know at the time you feel like you're an independent strong woman But a lot of it like it only occurred like you Years ago did I ever tell you the story that I was gonna hang on for one second? Let's pursue this for a second. Okay. Are you looking for a man who's like your father? No, not consciously But unconsciously I was looking for someone I kept dating people who had the same Interplay with me as my father which is Stupid which is aloof which is aloof like I like guys who like they like me so they're around but also they're kind of not around They're kind of one foot out the door, which was like kind of my dad But that's I should I mean unless you're Mackenzie Phillips's dad there are certain barriers between the father And the daughter right? I guess but I think I you know Maybe but like my friend katie for example her dad It was one of those like she was the apple of his eye Like his her dad was crazy about her and her sister And not in a gross way in a very sweet way and and love them and and she married someone the nicest guy Who was just like her dad?  Well, that's fine then And like acknowledge it I think for me for me.  So it was like oh all right travel around the world He did the best he could I travel I've been to places around the world. I don't Do you mind if I ask you a personal question? Did you ever have I want to use this word an affair In another country in another country No, you never had a foreign affair. I know I didn't I think Americans have a very transactional Relationship with love and sex. Oh, yeah.  I'll scratch yours kind of thing. Yeah, I think we're real weird about it for sure Because I also can't I can't overcome my whole culture But yes, we're very much like sex is like a much bigger deal Hello, yeah, I'm listening.  What does that mean? Are you mine forever? What's I don't want to make a wrong move here. What's going on? Like no, it's a very neurotic kind of Needy weird thing for sure.  Yeah, which is probably The way you're supposed to do it Are we I don't know. I mean I to me all I don't have the answers I'm more of like I just had to figure out what made sense for for me Like what I'm looking for and then I was really lucky and that I found I I like sort of tuned into what I was looking for and then I seemed to have found it. Well, we'll see, you know time will tell How long were you married? I was married four and a half years And then my last relationship was longer like six Hmm People change Oh, yeah, for sure also people Some people change more than others like I think some people are in more like Like I'm more prone to change because I'm like a right. I'm like an artist. I guess one could say like a creative professional creative person so I'm more apt to change and then like Some people in some professions and I just assume that You know, that's The same all over and some people are sort of more prone to change than other Before we talk about how to hate yourself trump and handmaid's tale I want to get back to smell Yeah This animal behavior. Oops like keep hitting the uh Ms. Verdel and she's a Professor we had her on I think last week she said that since women have been on the birth control pill It is altered their smell Their ability to smell And when they go off The birth control pill They smell differently and they're attracted to different types of men in other words when women Are on the birth control pill They are attracted to the wrong men I that's fascinating And once they get off it then they are attracted To genetically the right men the the men that can provide them with the right chromosomes and DNA To make the right kind of child Oh, wow.   He's a professional jazz trumpeter The guy you're going at with yes, is this la la land? Yes I'm an actress. He's a jazz I love jazz.  Yeah, he is. Where does he play? He plays um, he plays all over he plays in lots of uh, he's in several bands and um, he's um He's in the band oingo boingo. Maybe you've heard of them. Are you kidding me?  Is he a good kisser? Yeah, a big jesus.  Yeah, it's very impressive. Hmm Yeah, he's uh great nice nice guy Yeah, so And because because he plays the hang on hang on. Let me take I got one for one second. Yeah, hang on. Let me take a sip of coffee Okay Here we go He plays the trumpet. So he's always horny Oh boy You can have that You can have that one Thank you Let's call him right now I would date a jazz trumpeter No, it's really cool because it's something I don't know anything about I never had any interest in it, but it's this Sophisticate, you know, it's this man with this sophisticated culture You know that he's developed about himself It's he's really neat, but also just it. Yeah, just a nice seems like a good guy again What are you thumping there? There's some thumping sound going. I don't know it That I'm sorry. I touched the cord. You've got to calm down Do you talk that way to ongoing boy and go man? No, I don't and what does ongoing boy and go mean? I get I get himself sir If he asked and calls me would you say baby doll?   No, that's good.  Yeah, and all the things you're not supposed to say that you get to say because you both agree This isn't the thing you're supposed to say so you say it Oh, it's so funny. Um, yeah, I um Yeah, I'd like to have that That's what I want to have If you went out with me, I might treat you to an orgasm in which I scream at the top of my lungs I wish you were your sister Hmm I of all things I would be I don't have a sister. So I would just I could probably handle that better than most I might be like wait, you're who's who did you say your sister? How about this? Making love to you and I go Name Name Laura thank you But that's like I have good self-esteem. So I wouldn't be like, oh, he didn't know my name. I'd be like, well, this dementia's really kicking out today I'm just choking around. So tell me about like felt months Dementia is really on fire today. Are you funny when you're having sex? Yeah It turns out It turns out I am but in my last relationship boy, he would just get mad if you would just be like Could you just stop doing that? It's not I was like, oh Like god forbid you're like playful You know or whatever and so I I found that's something I really Have to have I'm very by the way, I'm a very Joke coming here we here it's here comes the joke I'm very generous during love making I I'm very I always say to the woman first here. Would you like to have the belt around your neck first? Mm-hmm before I put the belt around my neck Mm-hmm. Where was the joke? It was the oh, okay I see what it was.  No, I get it now How was your memorial day today's memorial day? Uh good. I don't I don't do a lot for memorial day. I'll be honest Um So It's fine I'm having what I think of as a as a pretty much a regular monday I went to my sisters last night Mm-hmm and to open presents Yes, and they had they had fireworks for memorial memorial dave for memorial era of memorial day for they had fireworks I uh It doesn't thrill me I thought this is what it's like in syria every day Right. Oh your your sister's house Just the sound of the fireworks is oh very militaristic and I thought what do we With trump, it's just scary I think so many things are like but you're a big supporter. You love avonka You you always talk about how she speaks for you and Also, what I appreciate is is melania staying out of the way Do you know what I mean? Like give him some room to work Good for her Like she knows she would just be in the way And she's like i'll just live in another state. It's fine. Does she have her behind them? Like that's what a woman is supposed to do. Does she have her own agency? And I don't mean modeling. I mean does she Have any freedom Could she leave him or she trapped? It's so hard to say I I maybe there's like If we can boil this down to two points of view, which obviously there's more of the Look, here's here's the real truth Of that Family and the trump administration in that situation. Here's here's what it's really like Like i'll take what it looks like and i'll tell you what's really happening And then there are like the pundits and stuff who are like, I know this is There's nothing is it's exactly what it looks like Like it's exactly Some people are like this is exact. He does not know what he's doing. There is not a plan This it is exactly what it looks like. Um, I think it is. I think it's exactly what it looks like Yeah, i'm asking you about malania Yeah, but that's what I mean is like I personally am and so I'm perplexed by Everything about this man and everything around him. So I I don't know. I mean I thought I I've been wrong about everything like I thought uh, if anyone would maybe Um, break what do they call it break? Uh, when you break away Break ranks. Um, it would be tiffani Like what does she got to lose like she he treats her like shit anyway Anyway, and like you would get so much money in book deals or whatever you wouldn't need your dad's whatever he can give you So, um, which is another You know, I would have to assume daddy issues are really at work in the women around this this dude She's got she's going to georgetown law school.  Yes, but but could she do that mentally? I don't know like Like, okay. I wanted to be divorced for here's my only similarity that I can think of I my marriage when I was married it it did not work like from the beginning. I was like, oh No, like he was like, we should go live with my mom Like all these insane things were said that I was like what like that I just didn't I didn't think A person would say or do or want so I was completely unprepared for who this person really was And he just thought life was done now that we were married like that was the end not like the beginning and I asked literally I asked the priest who married us for an annulment And he was like, oh, you know, it's just hard in the beginning. I complained to my mom. Oh, it's tough in the beginning I wanted out And I stayed Because like, oh, maybe it is hard in the beginning. Maybe I I do just have to put maybe his spine Maybe I would like I stayed for so many then my mom was diagnosed with cancer and then I had this other thing to Deal with and then but like after my mom died um One year later one year and one day after my mom died I woke up and I was like I can just go And I did but it had never honestly. I am I am Smart, I went to college. I read pretty good But it had never actually occurred to me. Oh, I can just go Until that moment was the you know, like, um That was the the only way I could actually do it was when it actually, you know, sort of occurred to me So I I feel like Milani is probably in so deep into something or other I don't know that it That she's thinking about leaving. Is there anything attractive that she doesn't seem like it Is there anything that you would find attractive To about donald trump. I I think that you can Convince yourself to fall in love with somebody. I'm reading the biography Of prince charles and he said He thought diana was cute enough. I could fall in love with her. I could make myself fall in love with her Is there anything a woman could do to make themselves fall in love with donald trump? Yeah, I I think so. I mean, I think there I have been in the presence of A powerful rich Ugly mean man. I was I was a little turned on And there's and there's another woman who who worked for the same guy Who talked about like primarily it was so because she didn't like him But primarily she was like drawn to him because he's so alpha And I was like, yeah, I I get it. So like there is something about the presence of the bad guy Yeah, and and a bad guy and a really confident guy and um also um Are women capable of being attracted to a sociopath? When they when the yeah when they know he's a sociopath that when they're surprised I think so because I you Have you wow I've I've had relationships where only later. I realized I was uh like It only made sense to me when I realized I was being gas gas lighted Um, but otherwise like I'm a cape you've met me. I you think I'm smart enough But like I was being gas lighted by this guy like I want to believe it. So I'm believing it And you know, even though a lot of this action doesn't really support that he cares about me that much like but he says he does So, okay, like I I think absolutely You also depends on like the the holes in your soul, you know that you that you're born with or that you had as a kid you know like like For example, this rich powerful dude the people who seem to work around him a lot It just seemed to fit some Thing they came with like it didn't seem to be like something they figured out it seemed to be like No, no, this is a thing I can deal. You know, my dad yelled a lot or you know, whatever it was that it it it their prickliness Filled in some gaps for them or you know was familiar or something in some way they could deal so Yeah, I I think you can be also people say when you talk to him one-on-one is very charming. So I Are you talking about trump trump? Yeah, so that's like A problem like that's kind of why I you know another word for charming is manipulative And like I've I used to just want to be with a charming guy and just have fun Great banter all the time and now I'm like, oh, they're just they're just lying They're terrible people charming. Well, isn't it something like one out of four humans are sociopaths Is that true? I think it's something like that I would figure one out of four People are sociopaths and one out of four people are charming. I would assume they're the same people Probably right because they're said you're one out of four regular people are sociopaths You've got to figure the much higher for politicians right politicians actor anybody who like makes their living To the degree that people like them Yeah, that's a crazy person that you don't want to be with I Think women change I think they have I think they have seasons to their life. I think they have seasons to their month I don't think men change. I think they get tired That I that's very interesting. I I agree with you so far. I am the same person. I was I'm the same person. I was when I was 16. I'm just tired Really? I think so I think the energy less willing to put up with stuff less willing to Bend or that sort of thing.  Yeah Yeah, the voice that's that's my how to hate yourself show is about that voice I never thought of it. It gets tired as you get tired. That's how me about the how how to hate yourself show What it was that the improv sold out you're doing them once a month It looks like it. Yeah, um two years ago. I did how to hate yourself as a solo show and it was just like my stories um, I kind of do like Two things of like me as me telling stories, and then I book I sort of bookended it with like Me is like almost like a like a send up of a motivational speaker or whatever of You know, like but I'm teaching you how to hate yourself with like great tips, you know, like Like notice people who are better than you like just you know, like stuff Stuff people can really use what is the format of the show? If I were to go to the improv and see it It looks like a stand-up show. So the the format of the show is I I come out. I um sort of instill people with the philosophy I don't really do like a big character, but it's the idea of like, you know That little voice inside of doubt and shame and you've done all this stuff to get rid of it But it comes back Why does it come back because that voice is right? So let's just embrace it and like And then I I give some talks about like, you know, I found some great ways to hate, you know Great techniques that can help you hate yourself like some people for example are like Stuff is going well and they're like, well, how can I hate myself? Because things are going pretty good for me right now and I'm like, oh no, there's always a way you can hate yourself For example, you just lost 10 pounds and you feel really good about it Wasn't 20 Now you can feel bad like double what you don't have Double what you don't have Oh, I just Dude, there's always something to compare it to or um You know, if you see a tesla, you should feel bad. You don't have a tesla. They're better than you like there's if you're So if you're george cluny, how can you feel bad? Right?   You had an accident.  Yeah, self. Yeah, but what is self loathing patriotic? Isn't that the american way aren't we supposed to hate ourselves so we consume To fill that void that's interesting because the message is so like Proud to be an american but yes the the reality of being an american is You should always be buying something to feel better It's not enough to just be an american, right? Right now.  Greg barron went up and talked about that.  How many comedians Hate themselves Oh, I gotta say a hundred percent probably I think I think I think that when I started doing comedy I hated myself But over time I the audience and my then wife healed me. I think if you can get enough love thrown your way You can be humanized Yeah, I I think so, too. But also you said you didn't change But now you just said you went from hating yourself to to to not hating yourself Which is a big change Yeah, I I think the audience I think they help you It's sad that you need an audience, but they do know that's a it's a very extreme thing to Need people to applaud till you feel better It is it's it's when anybody's been like, oh you do stand up. That's so brave.  Why don't you love me? I just said my father killed 75 I mean, it's really sick. I mean I can remember being on the road and doing jokes about tenting The fetus's head when I was making love to my pregnant wife and going Why didn't that joke work?  It's not true It doesn't matter. You were thinking that It's so valid. Um, I saw you on stage and you know, we go back to your being on the road and you were in austin But I saw you on stage and I remember like So you're doing pretty good. It was just like a regular.  I understand if this was the first joke. I told You've been here for half hour enjoying Laughing But suddenly you go. Oh, he must have really done that I Like what's wrong with you? You were like You were just like And I was like that's so great like You can buy into The of course I'm making all this up.  That's that's a not good That's not a proper thing a human does people remind me of jokes that I've done On stage and they're always the jokes that never work And and and they're the ones that make me laugh the hardest I there is a joke that I did in vegas one night According to somebody reminded me of this joke And I tried this joke three times that it never worked it's me In vegas and I said, you know, I went to the mustang ranch or the bunny land ranch And I grabbed a prostitute by the neck started squeezing and said Let me know when I get to three hundred dollars What's the only thing that's funny about that is That I told that At like a fancy casino Oh my god thinking Well, certainly they know that I would never do that Right that I'm playing a character who's mentally ill The difference between Louis Black and Andy kindler and me is you can go to Louis Black and say well, this joke didn't work They didn't get it. I don't know or they weren't smart enough and you can say to Andy kindler.  They got it. They usually When a joke doesn't work I know that they got it But they don't want to give it up for a guy Squeezing a prostitute's neck and saying let me know when I get to three hundred dollars. Yeah I didn't even understand any of that because to me it's like, you know, you're at a comedy show Like he's not a guy sitting next to you on a plane Just telling you what he did last night. Like it's a comedy show. You have a microphone in your hand Yeah, I've never but but also I love comedy and like people who go to comedy shows Are most likely You know casual comedy goers, you know, like sure. I like comedy, you know, it's it's not They're number one thing.  But you know, I just realized about myself and talking to you what They're they're these husbands who are happily married. They have kids They're active in the church. They have a great job They carpool they mow the lawn and then every Tuesday night At three in the morning they sneak out go to the bus station and do something horrible To a runaway and then they come home Oh, okay And I think that's who I am with my comedy I'm on the right page when it comes to politics morality. I don't gamble. I don't drink I don't do drugs. I don't chase women. I don't cheat. I don't lie. I pay my taxes I'm a good decent hard working honest human being Every week or two.  That's your thing. I I I'm a terrible um I can only enable you I can only enable you with it because I'm like good for you.  Don't do horrible things Laura house. How do people follow you? This was so much fun It was this very good. This was a good. This was a good lazy memorial day conversation This was This was good. You learned about yourself. Um, yeah, uh, twitter. I'm laura house. I am I'm laura house uh laura house.com is the website and um There's videos and stuff on there. It's fun.  Thank you. Laura


When farmers change to no-till, very few escape the almost inevitable teething problems. Which is why if someone comes around promising you Moonlighter Roses, I'd think twice. Al Miron has had his share of concerns and mishaps with Residue in his first years of no-till. Well, when I first started no-tilling, I was concerned about the Residue. And I had an older planter. It was a John Deere 7000. And on my third year of no-tilling, my first year I had planted corn into a sod field. On the second year, beans went into the corn stocks. And on the third year I came back into corn. And the Residue was plugging up the planter. It would not move through the planter very easily.  I've never had a problem since then. So how did he resolve his problems with Residue? I guess he had some fancy equipment, right? Nope. But Al has a PhD in ruminant nutrition and this gave him a unique insight into his soils. And it's because of these ruminant bacteria that are growing and the soil is more biologically active and they're breaking down that Residue very quickly. We're looking at a bean field right here that last year was in corn. This corn made a little over 211 bushels to the acre. I don't feel that I have enough Residue and we can look at that and you can see that the Residue is rather limited because the soil biology is breaking down that Residue. Got it. So knowledge of a living soil was like Al's superpower that helped him realize that Residue wasn't going to overwhelm his operation? Exactly. And I suspect this knowledge was a big factor that kept him in no till when the going got tough. And maybe when his neighbors were disavowing the practice. Okay, so Al is definitely East River but he's only one example. Are there more examples? Of course. Our next video on Residue will take us down to Clay County. Join us for another insight into Residue.


Really dude, what's this? This is the 3.5 inch HX and FT 480 by 320 TFT screen with capacitive touch This is one of those funny stories where I actually bought these screens like almost 10 years ago And I forgot about them, but it's a nice capacitive touch 3.5 inch display and this is just the breakout so he's I spy you can use pins for 8-bit or SPI mode and I was like, oh, well, let's make a feather wing version of this too. So this time I've got the feather plugged in I've got a little issue here where this doesn't sit quite flat So I'm gonna fix it in the next revision But the touch part and the LED display part works great and what's cool is you saw that this is a multi-touch So, you know, it can detect multiple fingers at the same time Using the I squared C interface for the capacitive touch So all I got to do is I got to fix this see this little part is bumping into the chip I'm gonna move this down and then hopefully this will be ready to put in this in the store


So, hi, I'm Jacob Rosenberg from Bloomberg and we've been talking at events like this the last couple years about building our cloud and the infrastructure that goes into it and the things that we hope to do with it and all of the interesting technology challenges of working in the space we're in, but not so much about actually getting people to use it. So, today I'm going to talk a little bit about an idea that, you know, people don't just adopt this technology. We have a large developer community and you have to incent them, you have to convince them that they want to make the change to a new world and a new technology stack. And so, the title of this talk is, your cloud is amazing. So why aren't you running everything on it?  So, you see a lot of really interesting presentations at events like this. People talking about kind of speakers, talking about their incredible dream state, how wonderful their world is, all the cool things that they've built and deployed and are theoretically using all throughout their infrastructure. And get really excited. You start to believe the dream. You start to think, oh, wow, their world must be great. They've got unicorns and rainbows. They've got amazing infrastructure that solves all their problems. They sleep weeks at a time without a non-call page and life must be grand to be them. But then you have to go home and when you go home, okay. So you confront your reality and reality may not be as fun as the imagined one that you had. Maybe in that reality, things are broken. Maybe in that reality, you're in the midst of migrations from an old technology to a new one. Or you've got application teams that don't want to build on your infrastructure, want to do something different. You've got piles of tech that as high as the mountain everywhere you look and you start to despair. You start to look around and wonder, why can't my infrastructure, why can't my world be as great as that cool thing that I just saw last week? And you end up in kind of despair. So this talk is not about the fantasy. Don't despair. Don't give up. The world is actually a lot more nuanced than everything is great and our infrastructure is perfect or everything in your world is terrible or great or whatever. It's a much more complicated thing than that. This is a talk about facing your demons and then building towards the thing that you actually dream of doing. We all have technology demons that we deal with. Sometimes these are in the form of tech debt. Sometimes these are in the form of business challenges. Sometimes there are things that we're stuck with that we chose ourselves and are the way we want to go but we have to kind of fight through them to get where we're trying to get to. And I think the point of this is don't get frustrated. Don't feel like it's impossible to get to a better place. This is about some tools to get there. So let's talk a little bit about my dream state. All right. So here we go. Jacob's dream state. I may like wine a little bit. So every organization has to figure out their dream state. This may be my personal dream state you're looking at right now but it's not the Bloomberg technology dream state. You need to figure out what that is and you kind of need to keep it current. Keep it updated. What's true now isn't going to be true forever and a lot of the technologies that you've adopted and have been coordinated you and your company are going to be irrelevant in a couple of years. It's just a matter of change. So there's different stakeholders also who contribute to that. It isn't just infrastructure teams. It isn't just the business. It isn't just application developers. It's a whole bunch of things. So here's a sanitized version of kind of what I think mine would be. I really like open source software. Maybe it's a little obvious at an event like this, right? Because there's a little bit floating around here. It's right there in the name of the conference. But we at Bloomberg like using contributing to open source software. We write a whole bunch of our own stuff as well and we contribute to a lot of projects and we do use some things that aren't but we try to balance the using other things with that. And we try to, anytime we're solving a non-Bloomberg specific problem, take advantage of what's great in the community and be part of that. And some of the logos you see here represent things that we use and contribute to. Some things we're just exploring. Some things that I just find intriguing. But the point is it's fun to be able to work as part of a community rather than just be a customer. And it gets back to a phrase I like, which is community not contract. It's a different relationship. So the second thing would be kind of commodity open hardware. I think it's interesting to see how much this is just starting to take off. But in the server space, it's actually been around a while. You can move away from buying appliances and solutions that you can't really open the box and see what's going on towards a place where you can. And you can join like-minded people who want something different than what the retail universe is willing to sell you and make stuff now. This is obviously pioneered by Facebook with Open Compute Project, but there's a bunch of different efforts around networking and storage as well as the core compute products that started out there. And the combination of open source software and commodity hardware can be incredibly powerful. So horizontally scaled applications. We get to the application piece, which is really tricky. Having applications which are well built to work in these kind of environments that we want to live in are critical. And the horizontally scaled applications are the ones that tend to be the thing that we would like to see. These tend to be not single instance. Sometimes we're talking about distributed or clustered systems. Sometimes we're just talking about taking advantage of long-sending, existing concepts around HA. But the point is that don't build single points of failure. Design services based applications that scale horizontally and take advantage of compute in different sizes. What we produce in our cloud is limited some. And we've deliberately limited it in an attempt to try to take advantage of the hardware that's available, but also to keep people from building vertically scaled. And it's helpful to force people a little bit with the things you make available to them. So it gets to kind of an adjacent concept, which is these kind of cloud native designs. There's a whole lot of different names and a whole lot of different buzzwords, microservices, factor service, all the things. The 12 factor approach, a general push around statelessness, which usually ignores the fact that many pieces of your application can be stateless, but there's always some essential state in most interesting applications. But getting the people to build the applications at your company to think about how they can take advantage of the behaviors of a cloud environment, which are going to be a little different than perhaps the technology stack that they originally built on, as if their applications have lasted a long time. This is kind of an interesting thing, because much as this very large-looking aircraft is not inherently comfortable in the sky, it requires a little bit of help in the form of four very large engines to fly. A lot of the applications that exist in a world like ours didn't originate in this world and require some kind of assistance to get there. So there's a fair bit of re-engineering work that needs to happen for them to really be cloud native. So that's kind of the 2017 infrastructure dream. Sounds great. I'm sure everything that I have looks just like that. And there's nothing that doesn't fit into that box that's all perfect and easy and simple and we're flying cars and robots making our coffee and that little beer cart that finds us and distributes it as soon as we're ready for one. That's actually not true. So the reality of any large company, any company that's been in business for 10, 20, or in our case 35-plus years is going to have tech data accumulated. It's not a bad thing. It's simply the reality of having built stuff, successful companies that scale quickly and grow really fast are going to sometimes generate a certain amount of tech data. If you're well-behaved, you're probably good at cleaning it up as you go along, but the chapters are good that you probably have had a bunch of times when you haven't had the opportunity to do that. In addition, there's probably times when technology changes have happened as you've been working at something and something that was a great design in 1997 probably isn't as good a great as perfectly designed in 2017. And so it's become tech data rather than having been created as that. It accumulates. And when you have millions of lines of code or tens of millions of lines of code or hundreds of millions of lines of code, you're going to have to touch it every now and then, maybe not fully refactor it, but at least go in and poke at it. And that's a huge amount of work, even if you're a very large company. So actually refactoring everything to be cloud native when you've got 10 millions of lines of code, it could be a stop the presses, don't launch anything for five years kind of effort, which is unlikely to ever be something that you could do as a business. It'll take months or years or maybe more than years. I don't know. So how do you tackle it? Well, there's no magic wand. There's no secret that I can tell you. It's actually a whole lot of boring individual things. Here are some of the things that we've been trying and some of the things that we think work. And it's a matter not necessarily of the silver bullet, because there are no silver bullets, but a whole lot of lead ones. So the first one is embracing incrementalism. What is incrementalism about? Well, the idea is that you're not going to tackle everything at once. If you have a redesign that is required for your applications to move to an infrastructure and you have to rebuild every part of a large, complex, high-risk system at the same time, you're probably not going to do it. Or if you do it, you may rebuild for five years and then flip a gigantic switch and then really hope everything's going to work okay. My experience has been those really hope everything's going to work okay moments usually end in tears. And tears are the cleaned up version of that sentence. So incrementalism about breaking it into bits, taking it a smaller chunk at a time and having the overall infrastructure work at each stage of this so that if you get dragged off to a different fire in the middle, you're not in a place where everything is broken. So first piece of this is don't try to do it at once, but at least try to stop doing things that go the other direction. You probably have a sense of what these are. Once you make a decision to move in a certain direction, as you start to look at other projects going on, you'll see a slew of them that are probably going in some other direction. And they'll take you further away from the ideals. So if you can, try to share the vision of what it is that you're trying to do. Have other people understand why you're doing it and where you're going with it. And try to convince them that they don't want to go in that wrong direction. That they're just creating more work for themselves later, that they're potentially adding additional risks, that what they're doing may not actually benefit the larger company. You won't convince everyone. You never can. But if you can at least do your best to try not create more to clean up later, that's a plus. And over many years, it actually becomes a pretty big deal. Second piece is you're going to have a lot of legacy stuff. In the beginning, it'll all be that. 100% of what you have will be stuff that probably isn't the way you want. And you'll have to start building something in the shiny new microservice amazingness or whatever it ends up being by the time you get around to it. There's probably technologies not even invented that will make all of that technology stack look bad. And the point is when you first build it, it's going to be a little island. And you're going to have to find ways to have that little island interact with the rest of the universe. And probably you're not going to be quite sure if that new thing is actually going to ever replace all the old stuff. So one of the early projects you can do is to start to fence off some of the old things. Build interfaces, build APIs, build ways to connect into that world that mean you don't actually end up having to touch all that stuff, but you don't necessarily have to import all the things you're trying to get rid of into all the new things you're building as well. And then back to the first point about try not to make things worse while you're making things better. There's a fair amount of cruft that comes from doing this. You're going to end up building facades in front of things and translation layers that you will probably end up throwing away at some point. That's fine. You kind of have to take a breath and get over that fact because part of incrementalism is about understanding that you're building scaffolding. And scaffolding goes away before you open the building. But through that process of construction, you kind of need it, partly because it's the only way to get at the things you want, but also for safety. And building these kind of interfaces does permit you to kind of interface very different systems together. So while it does potentially seem like the kind of thing that is wasted effort, throw away work that we all try to avoid and inherently, it's helpful in being able to tie things together. Another thing is as you touch things, for other reasons unrelated to this particular project, you'll probably have opportunities to go in and deal with things. And you may not want to do a full-scale remodeling, but if you're going in to do one thing, fix a little bit every time. There's a whole lot of bits and pieces that you need to do something about. You're not going to get it all done at once. But if you're going in and cleaning up a security problem, you may want to go in and take a look at some of the API layers you have. If you're going and changing a backend database, it may be an interesting opportunity to question whether this is the right way to store your data. If you're doing a database access layer project, it may be a good time to think about whether some of these bits and pieces can be moved into cloud environments. So taking little bits and pieces that ride with other projects means that you're not going to have to justify 100% of the engineering work as part of migration to the new shiny, perfect world. It also means sometimes you'll learn about the project from a different perspective. You'll see that the work that you're doing is actually helping or hurting, in some cases, the overall effort of trying to move in this direction. So if you can gradually finish entire segments, you can check them off. That's great. But even if you can't, just being able to do little bits and clean things up, it helps a lot. So the second of the big ideas here is this engineer more operate less concept. So this is an elegant staircase design.  And when you get to the top, you may go nowhere. What was just painful work in your pre-cloud world could be fatal work, could be dangerous, could be impossible in your post-cloud world. Let's say that you have tasks that involve a certain number of human beings, and then you've increased your node count massively because you've gone to smaller horizontally scaled systems. And before you know it, you're in a place where you can't keep up with that workload anymore. Or it's just become ephemeral machines. And there's no way for human beings to get in and flip the switches and do the doodads. So what do you do with this? Well, you can operate things, you can administer things, but you can also build automation around that. And so if you have an opportunity to get in and do some of that, it's an interesting way to reduce the amount of pain. So automate everything as you transition to cloud. It's kind of a very pat thing to say, right? Because we've heard about the magic of a lot of these things. I like the idea of the automatic donut machine. It is my continuous integration, continuous deployment model of choice. Partly because I like donuts. They don't go as well with the wine, but they're very tasty. But also because the idea of them is very interesting. There's a batch concept to them, but there's also a continuing flow. There's the ability to think about releases and rollbacks and things like that as well. The point is this is the time to go in and start to add this kind of technology. It's going to facilitate what you're trying to do if you didn't already have it. But it also means it'll make your testing easier. It'll make your ability to do parallel systems easier. It's something that no one ever has time for, but has enough benefits for your overall engineering group. It's worth doing if it hasn't already happened. Another big piece is packaging. So if there's ever a time to get software packaging into a better place, it'll be now. If your systems aren't packaged neatly, deployments are going to be really messy. Your ability to recreate stuff is going to be hard. You're not necessarily going to have an elegant deployment model. There are a lot of different ways to go in this. Certainly a lot of software is still packaged to native OS packages. Some people do things with containers. It's about a third of all the presentations here seem to be somehow related to that. And there are other options too. The point is choose something. Choose something that works. Choose something you can automate. Choose something which actually helps your engineers deliver stuff faster. And I'll let you rebuild all of these things in an automated way and you get the benefits. You get the benefits because you can rebuild those ephemeral instances if that's the way you want to go. If you need to do testing because you're moving functionality over or even just the reduction of the complexity of doing deployments, it's a pretty beneficial thing. It's not to say this is an easy thing. This is touching a lot of infrastructure that you've probably avoided touching for a while, but it's a helpful piece. And then there's a last thought in this area which is you need to be a little ruthless about some of the bits and pieces that you have. You shouldn't actually try to move everything to the cloud. There are going to be some things that just aren't going to make it. What is a good example of something? Well, so inflexibly licensed software is my personal favorite. If you have software that has physical dongles that manage its licensing, it's probably never going to make it. And the amount of time energy you fight with that is probably not worth it. Weird proprietary networking schemes that are physically unique to that product. Another good example of something that's probably never going to happen. And there's probably a slew of things like this, something that requires unique hardware, or something that requires unusual presence. There's a bunch of cases where it's just never going to happen. So what do you do with these things? Well, so we talked mostly about refactoring up to this point, but there are places where you just kind of need to go in and think about wholesale replacement. And that's a scary, time-consuming and pleasant thing. So my basic feeling is on a lot of these things you punt. There's an 80-20 rule to a lot of these things, and yes, you're going to get tremendous benefits by moving infrastructure to something that's more programmable and I'm sure you'd like to have everything in that world. We would, certainly. But you're going to get a lot of the benefits by going after the things that are a lot easier to go after. And if you can engineer your way around touching some of these things or at least leave them for last, you'll end up fighting and potentially dying on a project that may be a very small part of the overall system that you have. Getting back to the earlier section where we talked about fencing things off, you can ultimately fence off some of these weird dependencies and strange technologies and leave them. And maybe abandon them for a future day when you'll have an opportunity to tackle them. Maybe wait for other technologies to supersede them. Maybe wait until you have the time to do some really unpleasant heavy lifting necessary to port that functionality out for your business. But just because it's there doesn't mean you have to try to do it. And the desire to check off every box and finish everything shouldn't sign you up for what could potentially be difficult or at least a poor return on your time energy. There's usually so much stuff to do. You can save some of the things for last and come back when maybe the situation's better. So third big section is about tearing down organizational walls. So kind of people have accepted this Conway's law idea that systems resemble the organizations that build them. And infrastructure is not really an exception. We build a lot of organizational lines around who owns infrastructure and who is permitted to touch something. Who is not permitted to touch something. What are the interfaces between the two? It may be in the form of a ticketing system or a budget request or something very slow and inefficient. Engineering groups, testing groups, operational groups, IT groups, different organizations of different names for them. They all tend to have a certain amount of shared common purpose but often there's a certain amount of distrust or at least a difference in organizational vision or purposes. You're getting to a place with a lot of these technologies where you're going to be giving people a lot more power and or at least you have an opportunity to do that. And the question is what do you do with it? And my advice is just tear down those walls. Now how does that work? Well first is everyone's got to learn how to use this stuff. So if the only people who learn about the new technology are the group that builds the cloud or the only people that learn about your CICD or the team that builds that system, you're not really going to get a lot of people buying into it. So teach everybody, right? Training and education are pretty essential to successful adoption of any of these things. Teach people how things changed. Teach them why it changed. Talk about the other things you considered and how you got to your conclusion and why this is something that needed to happen. There may be different organizations that have different ideas about things but they probably have the same upstream business drivers that are pushing them to go faster or manage their costs differently or test better things of that nature. Talk about what's actually important there and why people wanted to do something differently. Everyone should get the same message. It shouldn't be just communicating to each organization about their part. It should be communicating the overall picture to everyone so we're all on the same page because you need to share a lot of information. Once you build things, the other thing that you need to do is be transparent about what isn't working. You'll probably find that things break from time to time or things at least performed differently than they did before. Share your metrics, share your logs, share your operational data to the extent you can. Share configurations, share your changes. Be open about what's happening in your world. Part of it is a trust thing. You're changing a lot of the things that people really understood and knew. If you know what a server is and you know what a virtual server is and there are static things in your world and a cloud is a much fuzzier concept, it may be very hard to get people comfortable with exactly why things are happening that they don't understand. So just share. Also, if you build systems that collect and expose these things, you'll probably see other people will use them. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean you need to build all these things as services for everyone, but certainly a certain amount of transparency and directness can help build some common patterns of good things to do as we build applications on top of infrastructure. It is very comfortable and quite frankly very easy to point fingers at what changed anytime something goes wrong. If we update something, that's the first thing we're probably going to look at the next time something goes sideways. And it's probably the right thing to do. The last thing that changed is often the thing that is the reason for a problem, but the more you can actually share information, the less likely you are to have kind of uninformed finger pointing about that kind of thing. You'll have the data to show what didn't, didn't happen. And I think the more you share those across engineering teams, the more you can kind of build a certain sense of trust. I guess the last interesting piece is it starts to come into a theme that I imagine is not all that unfamiliar. So you want to enable a certain amount of self-service and trust people to do the right things. It's important that you give due consideration to the fact that the people who are working in these environments are probably also engineers. They're also fairly smart people. If you've taught them enough, they're probably able to not be a danger to themselves and others. Sometimes things will go sideways no matter what, and you need to help them to learn what happened when they do. But we're evolving into a world where people aren't necessarily going to have a set of trusted people who are the only guardians of system stability. The people who build applications and the people who run infrastructure both have a vested interest in the success of the overall environment. And you have to work together to actually get things done. These shouldn't be super unfamiliar principles. If you've been in an organization which has talked about DevOps any time in the last decade, these are probably a lot of the same concepts that you've talked about then. But this is not a theoretical statement or a new kind of role. This is actually about handing the keys over to people who you probably may not have trusted to have that kind of control and dealing with the consequences of that, which is really icky feeling if it's not in a place where there's trust in communication between organizations. The thing that's pretty difficult about this is that you do have a lot of history where people built barriers between each other. The little poster here in the middle has the bank teller and the patron opposite sides of that. And this is a model that a lot of organizations built. There were people who were empowered to go in and touch the magic things in the vault. And there were people who were somewhat distrusted as participants on the outside of this. And I think the key part of tearing down those walls is to acknowledge the fact that we may not have perfect trust. We may not have a completely open environment, but we're all in this together. And we're trying to work together to achieve whatever our business objectives and goals are. So the last stage of this is about helping all the people in your engineering organization who are taking part in this to help themselves to learn about the metrics, to learn about the automation that's been built, to understand about how all these different changes are going to affect them and to have a voice in talking about what they do and don't want. We're going to have people who are not going to be comfortable with this and may object and may opt out and it may actually be a fairly long period before everyone's on board. But without a certain amount of shared experience, shared fate, you end up in a place where this is something that is getting pushed out, something that's getting inflicted upon engineering organizations that have their own agenda, their own things they have to do, things that need to be delivered to the business. And for most of us, these all fit together, right? The work that we're trying to do is part of that same mission. And being focused on that is why we're here. So thank you for your patience. We've reached the far end of the crazy rainbow. There's still a lot of stuff that we're still working on and I think it'll be a number of more years before I would say we're anywhere near done with what we're doing with the cloud. In the last few years, we've gone from the proof-of-concept phase into something where I would actively say we're using our cloud for real production applications. The most exciting milestone of this is that when we've had occasional outages or blips, we now have people who are legitimately really mad about it versus just kind of triflingly inconvenienced, which is a nice sign someone actually cares. But I think the point is that whether or not you do have rainbows and unicorns as part of your system design, being able to manage the transition and being able to deal with the difficult parts is how you get to a place where you are able to take advantage of the infrastructure that we're talking about in building here. Thanks.


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