Diary
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The new MacBook Air M1
When the lockdown started last year in March it meant many changes. For one thing we ended up working from home and learning from home for the kids. The oldest one had to follow on line classes and do homework. This meant that my MacBook Pro changed ‘owner’. Where I was using it before for…
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1942 Joint Strike
In 2020 there was a lot of time to spend at home. We ended up playing quite some games with the family. Card games mostly. But the old PS3 also saw increased use and it started to fail with frequent black screens during playing. So I bought a second hand one to replace the defective…
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Laurie Penny about Trump’s alt-right internet army
Reading the book reviews I learned about Cybersexism by Laurie Penny and how this is a must read. Reading the bio on her blog it states Laurie Pennie is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter. She reported for the Guardian about the republican convention in 2016 where various alt-right characters united behind Donald Trump.…
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Maradona
On November 25th 2020 Maradona died. Even for someone like me this was quite a shock. I’m not a big football fan, I basically only watch European and World Championship matches, no club matches. As a kid I went to a couple of Beerschot games with my grandfather and as a teenager I used to…
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A little personal calculator history
In another post I mentioned some nostalgic feelings for calculators and how the scientific calculator seems to have become an endangered species. Who needs a calculator nowadays when you can get apps for your smartphone to do ‘mostly’ the same ? Well, I don’t know if you noticed this but even on a modern ‘phablet’…
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2020 : Year of the Lockdown
A few more days and 2020 will finally come to an end. It has been a strange year and the end of year festivities will be equally strange. I’ll be glad the year is behind me but unfortunately the outlook of at minimum the first quarter of 2021 is bleak : covid-19 ruling the agenda.…
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US President Elections
After a long week of counting someone finally decided yesterday evening that it was safe to say that Joe Biden is the new president elect. Trump, as expected is not willing to accept defeat and continues to claim victory. The news came in too late yesterday to open up a bottle to celebrate so I…
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Rock Meise
Door de hele corona heisa is de geplande Rock Werchter uitstap met Wim en Kate natuurlijk vervallen. Ter vervanging hebben we dan besloten om toch bij ons af te spreken zoals voorzien maar dan zonder Werchter uiteraard. Een paar dagen voor de afspraak krijgen we telefoon van Wim : Teo is ziek dus het gaat…
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Snoeiwerk
Na het etentje van gisteren is het vandaag tijd voor de jaarlijks snoei van de hagen samen met Moeki en Petje. Het weer valt mee, in het begin nog redelijk heet maar daarna bewolkt. Gebruik nu eindelijk voor de eerste keer de kleine heggeschaar op benzine die ik gekocht heb. Gaat toch beter om te…
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Post Lockdown dinner
Deze avond voor het eerst weer eens op restaurant na de lockdown om de verjaardag van Katrijn te vieren. Ze heeft gekozen om naar de Villa San Martino te gaan in Oud Heverlee waar ze al vaker is geweest. We hebben afgesproken bij haar thuis rond 18u30 samen met Moeki en Petje. Hannelore en Merijn…
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