Tonight's cocktail, because I finally got a bottle of Italicus:

Me, Myself, and I

1 oz Mezcal
1 oz Amaro Montenegro
1 oz Italicus

Stirred, poured over ice cubes, and garnished with blood orange peel (which I happened to have at hand)

Sounds a bit odd perhaps, but works!

Two of my favourite flow states:

1. Playing a groovy bassline in a jam session
2. Solving type vs. instance problems in a complex data model on a whiteboard

Maybe I just have a weird brain, but the deep immersion and disappearance of the universe beyond the task at hand feel similar 🤔

For tonight's cocktail, I was having a Fernet feeling and thus thinking of a Toronto, but ended up making a San Francisco Treat. The ingredients are in the picture - equal parts! Flamed an orange peel on top.

If you missed the announcement on LinkedIn yesterday, Helsinki Data Week (of which I'm happy to be one of the organizers) is coming back this year on the last week of October! It was loads of fun last year, and we have exciting plans for 2025... Stay tuned!

#databs #HDW2025

After a hearty Christmas meal, a good digestif is necessary. Went with a Bijou:

2.5 cl London Dry gin
3 cl sweet vermouth
1.5 cl green Chartreuse
1-2 dashes of orange bitters

Expressed & discarded a lemon peel, garnished with a Maraschino cherry.

Delicious! Merry Christmas all!

What can the 13th century Mongol conquests teach us about data & analytics?

Nothing much I suppose, but I am greatly enjoying the latest @fallofcivspod.bsky.social episodes while commuting to my clients' offices 😂

#databs (in many ways)

Tonight's cocktail:

(Almost) French Manhattan

1.5 oz cognac (Hennessy VS)
1.5 oz sweet vermouth (Cocchi Torino)
0.25 oz Cointreau
1 dash each Angostura & orange bitters

Garnished with a Maraschino cherry

Utterly ridiculous how bad the PowerPoint web app interface is. I can't connect arrows to objects? THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT aaaargh

Just a little nightcap for tonight's cocktail. Amaro Caldo - simply pour some hot water on Amaro of your choice, garnish with a rough lemon twist or not, perhaps add a bit of honey or not. This time I went with Cynar, but Averna is my usual go-to. Simple, cozy, warm - maybe demure, as they say 🙏

After a binge of about two years and some 800 episodes, I have finally caught up with the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.

I'm not sure how I can deal with this minuscule weekly dosage of @almurray.bsky.social and James Holland from now on. It's like I've been put on C-rations!

New toy! Got myself an early Christmas present, a Tokai Jazz bass, made in Japan! Can't wait to take her on a ride tomorrow 😎

Friday night cocktail time! Finally managed to get a bottle of Cynar, and proceeded to make Too Soon as my first Cynar cocktail. Invented by Sam Ross, it is described on pg. 151 of the Sasha Petraske book. Pretty good!

I'd like to be able to hop on the bandwagon and say I got here to escape Xitter, but really I had to get on Bluesky because when a date asks me if I am on social media, it sounds weird when I tell them to find me on LinkedIn...