Aaron Parecki

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  • Aaron Parecki
    I just realized how outrageous my schedule is the next few days:

    Fri: ✈️ ZRH➡PDX
    Sat: 🔐 Speaking at BSidesPDX
    Sun: 💤
    Mon: 🖋 Publish blog post
    Tue am: 🔐 OAuth office hours
    Tue pm: 🎥 Filming Donut.js
    Wed: ✈️ back on the road

    Why do I do this to myself
    Zürich, Zürich, CHE • 56°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Sometimes all you have the energy for is hanging out in the hotel lobby bar with a laptop instead of exploring the town.
    #citizenM #citizenMzurich #travel #digitalnomad
    Zürich, Zürich • 52°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Currently on the plane to Zurich and wow I forgot how much of an accent Swiss German is! 🇨🇭
    Hounslow, England, GBR • 50°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    ooh 5 minutes til boarding and the seat next to me is still open and i might have this nice 2-up to myself! 🤞
    San Francisco, California • 57°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Do I know anyone in Zurich? I'm gonna be there next week and I have a free evening! Drinks are on me! 🍻🏔
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 60°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    I had a couple hours in DC before my flight so I went to the International Spy Museum! It was a pretty fun collection of exhibits and random artifacts from the last couple hundred years of espionage history.

    #InternationalSpyMuseum #DC #WashingtonDC #travel
    Portland, Oregon
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    #internationalspymuseum #dc #washingtondc #travel
  • Aaron Parecki
    More signs you might be traveling too much:

    You sit down in a chair and instinctively reach to find the seatbelt.
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NLD • 63°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    The things people carry on their bikes in Amsterdam never cease to amaze me. In just 15 minutes at this cafe I've seen people carrying: a guitar, children, a rug, grocery bags, a suitcase, two large dogs, a bouquet, four cases of wine. I love how absolutely normal it is too.
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NLD • 64°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Confirmed. German airport coffee is not as good as Australian airport coffee. 👎
    Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DEU • 57°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    always a good idea to google "is it safer to crash a plane in water or over land" while mid flight
    United Flight 944 ORD to FRA in Maria-Chapdelaine, Québec • 53°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Pilot: "Flight attendants please take your jump seats"

    ~* 2 minutes of turbulence *~

    Flight attendant: "Please don't take anything off the carts. Leave the carts in the aisle."
    United Flight 944 ORD to FRA in La Tuque, Québec • 60°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Still getting used to walking on the right after training myself to walk on the left all last week in Australia
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    I just discovered a disturbing real-world vulnerability by accident.

    A couple hours after checking in to my hotel, I went back to the front desk and said "I need to add someone to my room because her flight gets in late this evening." The clerk asked my room number, and I told her and also said my name. A few seconds later, after asking me to spell the name to add, there's a new name on my room reservation. Nowhere in this process did she check my ID.

    Did I accidentally socially engineer my way into adding an unrelated name onto a room reservation?
    Melbourne, Victoria, AUS • 53°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    I do appreciate that the Qantas in-flight video points out that "your flight has great coffee too"
    Qantas Flight 623 BNE to MEL in Brisbane, Queensland • 75°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Still surprised that for domestic flights in Australia you can get thru airport security without an ID or boarding pass and can get on the plane with no ID.
    Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Happy Monday from Sydney! It feels like Spring out here!

    No time for jet lag, gotta run to meetings all day!
    Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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  • Aaron Parecki
    Minor moment of panic at the ticket counter trying to get a boarding pass when they said I need a visa before I can check in to the flight to Australia.

    Turns out the visa "application" process was just filling out a web form on my phone, and it was "approved" immediately. I was worried I was gonna have to wait a full business day or something but guess not!

    Also kind of weird is the ticket agent just had to check a box that said I have the visa, and that person would be fined $5000 if they were wrong. Seems like not the most ideal way to enforce that but okay.
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 75°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    wow I managed to get by from 11pm last night to 10am this morning thinking I was on east coast time rather than central. Thankfully my phone is smarter than me.
    Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA • 82°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    oh no it finally happened. I forgot to book a hotel for this trip and only realized when I landed at 11:30pm.
    Denver, Colorado, USA
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