Volgens mij is het grootste voordeel van wonen in Amsterdam Hoi Tin op de Zeedijk. Dat varkensvleesbroodje is echt prima.

The more I write English cursive, the more the features of Arabic script make sense to me: a letter being different depending on whether it occurs in the beginning, middle of end of a word; certain ligatures; different ways that letters flow into each other; some letters not connecting even

Een vrouw van ongeveer 20 jaar kwam donaties te verzamelen voor Amnesty. Ze vroeg of ik 30 jaar of ouder ben om mee te doen of zo (rare regel maar oké). Ik antwoordde jawel, ik ben al 36. Ze zei "wuau echt?" Ik snap echt niet hoe ze anders kon denken want volgens mij zie ik er toch niet zo jong uit…

Vanmorgen terwijl mijn vrouw en ik aan het ontbijten waren, zag ik opeens een grote spin die stilletjes op mijn stoel kroop. Mijn vrouw schreeuwde. De hond probeerde hem op te eten :(

Dating site for people in accounting: =VHOOKUP

magazine screenshot (1993) archive.org/details/BYTE...

Finally the actual meat of termpencil is underway (it's however both ugly and buggy)

Working on a little ASCII art editor. This is something that I wished existed (and that I'd even needed for my own job at times) and as usual, decided to make my own because... reasons. It is not out yet, but currently supports: - basic editing - generating a preview script - save/load

At one point in my teenage years, being the unbearable putz that I still am, I began to seek out increasingly stranger and novel music. I am now listening to White Light / White Heat and I'm quite certain that that is what originally radicalized me around age 16.

Additional Kraftwerk take: Kraftwerk cannot create new materials because their materials can only truly be born in an age where modernist ideas were relevant and in vogue within the discourse. Kraftwerk cannot truly make a new album in this environment. (tensions and Schneider's passing do not help)

Another Kraftwerk take: a (German!) colleague described Kraftwerk as "some techno act from many years ago" and that still haunts me. Techno! Kraftwerk predates the idea of techno and also I already expressed my gesamtkunstwerk take (which I stole from Uwe Schütte)

The Salami Method of Acting

I am going with friends to see Kraftwerk tonight. You know what that means: I get to info dump how Kraftwerk more so than a musical act is in fact a gesamtkunstwerk and groundbreaking in fact in that way

Taking another sick day is all that stands between me and finishing Metroid Prime

Folk songs about naval disasters go so fucking hard

An acquaintance was telling me that LLMs are saving a ton of work and told me his elaborate CV optimization workflow to send highly tailored CVs to get those interviews by asking two separate LLMs: one writing, one acting as HR to filter him out. This man was unemployed for close to a year.

Wild how there are people named after animals like bears and lions and the occasional cat but no child is named after wonderful objects such as Pencil, Computer, or even Cookie

til svelte is controlled by a secret cabal of bureaucrats

Spicy but true: Top Gun is a display of peak military aesthetic and is, really, a recruitment ad. That said it is made great by the homoerotic tension between Maverick and Goose. Parallels can and indeed should be made between their relationship and that of Achilles/Patroclus in the Illiad.

Got some of somebody else's groceries. Supermarket said I should keep them. I did and now I'm living somebody else's high protein lifestyle. Do not recommend

Dogs are right: it IS exciting to see someone from the house OUTSIDE

inside every even somewhat creative person is an unquenchable thirst for certain kinds of art supplies and stationary

Pretty sure I heard a young adult man say "that's AI" in the sense of "that's bullshit"

One thing I love about watching Dutch TV is that there are really about 20 actors in the Netherlands and they are in every single production

Crazy to think that so many of us live in places where one could use witchcraft against you, and you'd have no legal recourse whatsoever

I saw somebody referring to Marjorie Taylor Green as MTG and all I could think of was "damn I'd go for some Magic: The Gathering right about now"

To on my energy bill, I have decided to boil water at night and freeze it to use later during peak hours

One thing I don't understand about antifa is why would you be against Tifa from FFVII?

Elderly neighbor update: saw him the other day and he carried a new printer which he intends to install on his own

can't stop thinking about that one time more than a decade ago when a colleague gave me a ride in his weird Range Rover and on his radio playing the entire time were pop songs covered by a church choir

I know more than I should (or want) about Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl and I predict that Taylor Swift has begun a villain arc in which we discover she is, in fact, deeply conservative and will start presenting progressively shittier opinions.

Marriage is between two people who now have to endure each others' family group chats

Pretty Vlaai (for a White Guy)

Dubai Chocolate implies a chocolate for every other emirate: Abu Dhabi Chocolate, Ajman Chocolate, Fujairah Chocolate, Ras Al Khaimah Chocolate, Sharjah Chocolate and Umm Al Quwain Chocolate.

Just saw my elderly neighbor riding his bike one handed, with the other hand carrying enormous paintings

I recently experienced a crisis in which I wasn't able to comfortably use any pen. They would skip, stop working, feel terrible, and so on. Ended up buying a sort of nice fountain pen and liked it. I got another one and learned cool facts. Now I'm on r/fountainpens and I realize I'm screwed

Kinda wild to think that the region of Burgundy could have easily been in Kanto and have had a drunk smoking gym leader

The HEMA produced one of the worst decks of cards imaginable

I wish slack let me make it kind of ugly. The "custom theme" options just don't quite cut it. They're too worried about it looking "OK" and I sometimes don't want that

Rumor is that after relentlessly pursuing the subject for many days and informing neighbors, the dog is on her way to earn a Pulitzer for her reporting on "cool new smell on the sidewalk one house over"

My elderly neighbor texted me on Signal which is weirdly badass

This may be an unpopular opinion: I genuinely enjoyed the 2017 remaster of David Bowie's "Heroes". I feel like I'm rediscovering the album in very subtle ways and it absolutely works.

Your average Dutch neighbor: Appears to be 70 (was born during the German occupation) Lives on the 4th floor (there is no elevator) Has some trouble walking (bikes faster than you) Speaks great English (your Dutch sucks) Has lived there for 50 years (and will continue to long after you're gone)

You know how in a data center you would buy different brands of hard drives to decrease the chance of the same failure affecting all drives at the same time? So I just realized my wife does this with avocados: we have multiple varieties in the hope that they will not ripen exactly at the same time

I went to the local bar and met an elderly man who lives in one of the house boats in the area. It was somewhat awkward but I felt like this is the sort of thing that should happen more often

Went to LinkedIn and came across an inspirational post about how Random Vibe Coding Startup is changing the game because they were playing backgammon with their kid and lost the dice so they "vibe coded" a dice rolling app which only took several minutes BUT YOU CAN LITERALLY GOOGLE "ROLL TWO DICE"

Somebody told me that she "didn't know Yiddish was a real language" recently and I think about that a lot

I'm not saying you should do this but you could absolutely give someone an Atomic Wedgie at KubeCon

Italians being sensitive about the world butchering their cultural heritage of pizza - bro have you seen what they did with THE TORAH in the sequels?

Of course right after I say "nah it's good I understand Dutch" the first time I get addressed the most basic question trips me up because I wasn't expecting the word "desk" to be there making me feel like a complete fool