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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…

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

youtu.be/jnrV3mrJT0Y?si=Mxpk6P…

"She says 'Hey'"
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#Lost

#lost

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

A bowl of 'oliebollen' covered in powdered sugar

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.

Glow Eindhoven 2025.

Canon R10, RF-S 10-18.

#Photography #Glow2025 #GlowEindhoven

An elaborate light projection on a church, in many colours and probably the most prominent a white dove.
A light projection on the white Light Tower building in Eindhoven, which is a very short building, not much of a tower. The projection was animated but the photo freezes the moment a mermaid like woman appears with an outstretched hand.
#photography #GlowEindhoven #Glow2025

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Avenue des Champs-Élysées.
#Paris #ChampsÉlysées #Photography
Avenue des Champs-Élysées through a long lens, which compresses the nearly 2km and shows all the traffic coming. Many people have taken this picture. Meanwhile two pedestrians are crossing the road, as well as two cars. The Arc de Triomphe at the end of the road is seen between the rows of trees at the side of the road.
#photography #Paris #ChampsÉlysées

Arc de Triomphe.
#Paris #ArcDeTriomphe #Photography
Arc de Triomphe on a cloudy day, with traffic in front of it. The photo is a long-ish exposure, so the cars are blurred. A woman at the side stands perfectly still on the edge of the pavement, admiring the Arc. It is as if she contemplates crossing the road, but don't worry she is just looking and walked away to the foot tunnel later on.
#photography #Paris #ArcDeTriomphe

Eiffel Tower.
#Paris #Photography #EiffelTower
Eiffel Tower at night, from very close up looking up at an angle. The tower is bathed in its night time illumination, which turns the low hanging clouds red. Bare branches of a tree are in the foreground.
#photography #Paris #eiffeltower

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Miakoda :neurodiversity:
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You hear about the guy who slipped at the top and died? Tragic. His last words were "Ah, Eiffel!"

Aparupa Dey catching bird catching fish.

I love how she's immersed in the water herself with her camera.
#Photography #wildlife #India #AparupaDey

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#photography #India #wildlife #AparupaDey

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

#awsoutage
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Paco Hope
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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.
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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
#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
My selfie at the train station on the way back from the run. I'm wearing a tracksuit, the start number and the medal.
#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
#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

#JoséphineJobert

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

#food #London #Doobydobap

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.

Celina Bhandari explores lesser known tourist spots in Italy.
youtu.be/BwCErFyZ1fU?si=9QgTh4…

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…

McAfee products are surprisingly difficult to remove from your computer.

By car: 13 minutes.
By public transport: 54 minutes.

Well there's your problem.

Screenshot of Google Maps indicating that the route by car takes 13 minutes and by public transport 54 minutes.

Just found out that the ASML Marathon Eindhoven will no longer provide a secure area where you can hand over your bag and valuables, but require you to rent a locker for €6,50. These are the extra costs for travelling by public transport I guess, which apparently is not promoted...

Squirrel

Canon EOS R10, EF 400mm F5.6L
1/640s, f/6.3, iso 2000
#Squirrel #Photography #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10

Red squirrel in a tree, with an acorn in its mouth
#photography #squirrel #canoneosr10 #canonR10

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Sometimes I have posts on my mind for so long that I need to do a search to check I haven't posted it already... Sorry for duplicates if the search failed. (Meta if this is the duplicate)

YouTube thumbnail: How to do "x"
YouTube title: Tips to learn doing "x"
Actual YouTube video: Subscribe to my course to learn doing "x"
Course, presumably: Buy my book
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