2020 Year-End Wrap-Up

Favorite Episodes

Matty

• “Breaking Down Gates” with Tim Banks
• “Deserted Island DevOps” with a cast of thousands

Trevor

• “DevOpsDays Chicago 2020”

Jessica

• “Don’t Worry, Do Care” With Aaron Blohowiak

Bridget

• “Tea and Anarchy” With Alice Goldfuss and Ian Coldwater

Jeff

• “DevOpsDays Chicago 2020”

What happened in 2020?

Trevor

• A year of PM land
• Streaming fun with Shuffleboard (and a little DevOps). Check out the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Shufflinsanity, or look at some shuff.io livestreams.
• Virtual conferencing!
• A doggo (Friday)

Jessica

• Jessitron, LLC
• Cut my hair
• Last Keynote Codebeam March 7&8 last talk with Avdi
• systemsthinking.dev

Bridget

• I planned to travel less. Sorry for causing (points to everything).
• Fewer events but playing with the pre-record format

Jeff

• Got a new gaming table
• Wrote a book! Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions

Matty

• Last in-person conference was DevOpsDays NYC
• New job at Red Hat!
• DevOps Party Games
• Took over from Bridget as global chair for devopsdays
• Did “less” speaking this year (“only” 9-10 talks)

90s Sci-Fi Roundup

Joe’s Babylon 5 talk at DevOpsDays Madison 2016

Joe’s Top Babylon 5 Episodes

• Season 1, ep 3: Born to the Purple, Great Londo episode.
• Season 2, ep 20: The Long, Twilight Struggle. End of the Narn/Centauri War. One of the best FX shots of the whole show. One of the best Londo/G’Kar eps.
• Season 3, ep 20: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place. More good Londo/G’Kar.
• Season 4, ep 14: Moments of Transition. End of the Minbari Civil War. Good Delenn ep, better Neroon ep.
• Season 5, ep 8 Day of the Dead. Duh.

Joe’s Worst Babylon 5 Episodes

• Season 1 ep 10: Believers. Basically Christian Scientists in space. I could have chosen TKO (Bloodsport in Spaaace!) or Infection (“He took a pretty bad hit!"). Believers is super-preachy and it has the pedigree of being written by David Gerrold (wrote the tribbles ep of original recipe Trek)
• Season 2 ep 18: Confessions and Lamentations. A deadly plague threatens the Markab. Another weak Dr. Franklin ep. Also, a deadly plague, read the room B5!
• Season 3 ep 18: Walkabout. Hey, look! It’s Wallace’s mom from Veronica Mars but oh, god, the songs!
• Season 4 ep 10 Racing Mars. Marcus AND Dr. Franklin together on Mars! Nuts and gum, together at last. Honorable mention: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.
• Season 5 ep 11: Phoenix Rising. Fucking telegoths.

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