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Episode 1 of season 4 of Bridgerton introduces us to great new characters. I love Yerin Ha as Sophie Baek, Katie Leung as Lady Araminta Gun and Michelle Mao as Rosamund Li. I suspect the tension this season is going to be in that household...

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I follow Korean foodie Doobydobap on YouTube and noticed that despite having visited many Asian countries, she had never done a video about food in India before. That is fixed now and resulted in over two hours of video.

Part 1 is Delhi:

youtu.be/PjNLVgwLOJs?si=cjB6_1…

Part 2 is Mumbai:

youtu.be/7tataOP0ME8?si=ppG2Gp…

She's planning to go back to visit more cities.
#Doobydobap #FoodBlog #India



Went to Eindhoven today to photograph some of the famous statues as a very small photography project. The intent was to make the photos somewhat different from the norm, using just one lens. Canon RF 35 F1.8 on Canon EOS R10.

First Anton Philips in front of the train station.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #Statue #AntonPhilips

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Finally the statue by Rodin in front of the Van Abbe Museum (not in the frame).

To me the statue always seems to be twisted, distorted, against the norm, and I tried to do that justice in the photo.

#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #statue #Rodin



Dating app experience for men:

  • you don't even open the matches page, there's never anything there anyway
  • no new profiles in your area today


Dating app experience for women, as I understand it:

  • don't even swipe, because there are too many messages waiting to reply to


It's that time again that people should invest in Samsung shares, i.e. I bought a new phone and tablet. These things are way too expensive nowadays.


Optimism is opening a can of pringles, taking out one chip, and closing it again. See also delusion.


So Greenland was named that way really as propaganda...

Here's an episode of a history podcast, from a year ago, about the history of Greenland and its current status.

youtu.be/mmhg6Eunl2Q?si=BU_myA…



Fun quiz by Crystal to check whether your job is right for you. (Just keep the results to yourself...)

youtu.be/jnrV3mrJT0Y?si=Mxpk6P…




I'm home this New Year's Eve, so these are my homemade, mutant, 'oliebollen'.

Happy New Year!



"Please rank all options", while there are 15 of them, is going to cause some selection bias in the survey results... Only a certain type of person is going to do all that...


Microsoft Windows: Great news! The latest security update was installed without a restart.

It would be really good news if this was the norm.








I felt bad about not using redundancy features in what I'm running online. Well, only a little bit bad, I'm only a single person doing unimportant stuff. But apparently major corporations are also not running redundancy either, so I feel a bit better.

What is worrying about the AWS outage in New York however, is that it seems to have affected critical things in EU and UK as well. And wordle.
#AWSOutage

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I don’t know the details, but it’s easy to do stuff like this when it’s DNS. The DNS infrastructure might not be down or non redundant. If you publish the wrong DNS record, or you accidentally delete a record that is vital to a lot of services, it looks like this. The infrastructure can be up and running perfectly, but just providing the wrong answer.


American lives in Europe for 13 years and gives an update about the differences.
youtu.be/M1QvVnjiegE?si=_WvT8r…
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He just posted a follow-up to that one regarding some of the moronic American responses. Pretty amusing in a horrifying kind of way.


Justine's experiments with film photography: 'The art of getting it wrong'. Includes the quote: "If you're deep in the phase where nothing is working, stay there a little longer".
youtu.be/yl7CqKggMYo?si=vEPjLZ…
#Photography


Still recovering, but happy I did a better time than expected this year on the quarter marathon, at the Eindhoven Marathon event. 1:17:10, though friends did almost the same time on double the distance... Anyway, for me it was ok.
#EindhovenMarathon


I really love seeing Joséphine Jobert in Saint-Pierre. Almost makes up for her not becoming the inspector in Death in Paradise.
#JoséphineJobert #SaintPierre
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She brings such a strong physicality to her roles that goes beyond the beauty actresses are often selected for.
#JoséphineJobert

IMDb: Joséphine Jobert



Doobydobap does London and it's an amazing multicultural food experience. She finds all the special places. What I would like to know from people that know London, did she cover some foodie experiences that you didn't know yet?
youtu.be/nXeFDt1_Ud0?si=B9-mn5…

#Doobydobap #London #Food



Today is Jenna Ortega's 23rd birthday, Happy Birthday!

I am at the moment not able to do the usual birthday rewatch, but will make up later this week.




Today was the first time I forgot to put a cup under the Senseo and tested the efficiency of the collection tray, despite fearing to do that many times before. The test results: that collection tray works really well, holds at least a full cup of coffee, and its design is such that there is no coffee splashed anywhere. Much impressed.


Stephanie Lin about feeling like an NPC in her own life, the comfort zone shrinking until it's a tiny bubble, and how she got out of that.

youtu.be/Or1U-ZDP1OE?si=bQhDjw…



Ruri Ohama talks about the effects of AI on the economy and on jobs. I don't think she covers what the current video title says, but that's just because apart from a smart woman she's also a smart youtuber. It's very interesting nonetheless.

youtu.be/yt4S6_Uw884?si=VBT9Fs…