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The Breakfast Club
Last weekend we watched The Breakfast Club with the family. This movie from 1985 caused quite a stir when it came out. I remember watching it at the time while being in high school myself and loving it. I watched it multiple times but it cannot have been on regular tv. Probably it was on a paid movie channel that came out where we live around that time. The movie made a big impression on me as a teenager, probably because it deals with the emotions and insecurities teenagers struggle with. It was easy to identify with and for me…
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Personal Web Page Developments
Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage. In the beginning I didn’t use the homepage option. As time went by I started to think about the possibility of using a homepage as a ‘diary’ to keep family living abroad informed of what was going on on my end. That kind of got…
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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 myself when the desktop was in use by other family members it now was kind of constantly in use by my daughter. As this was really bought as an entry model laptop it had the base 128Gb configuration in terms of harddisk space. I soon…
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Zwaartekracht en aardkorstgetijden
De meeste mensen weten wel dat de zwaartekracht van de maan eb en vloed veroorzaken. Maar ook de aarde zelf vervormt een klein beetje door dezefde zwaartekracht. Het hoogteverschil van het water tussen eb en vloed kan gaan van enkele meters tot meer dan tien meter. De aardkorst is stijver en dus is de vervorming kleiner maar de aarde stulpt aan de kant van de maan toch nog enkele decimeters uit. Gelezen in de wetenschapskalender van 2021.
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Bedrade hoofdtelefoons
Het is waarschijnlijk technologische archeologie in de nabije toekomst : de bedrade hoofdtelefoon. Maar als je er een hebt dan zul je vast al gezien hebben dat er zwarte cirkels staan op de metalen plug aan het einde van de draad. Die cirkels isoleren de verschillende metalen delen van de plug. Elk deel fuctioneert als een contactpunt voor een ander signaal. Als je maar 1 cirkel hebt dan is de plug tweepolig, een pool voor het signaal en een voor de aarding en afvoer van elektriciteit. Een plug met 2 cirkels is driepolig en kan stereogeluid produceren. Zijn er drie…
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Back To The Future 3
Final movie of the trilogy. It took some will power to start watching the last movie. Luckily friends had told is that this one was not as bad as the second movie or we probably would never have watched it. Compared to #2 it is infinitely better but first movie is still the best one in my opinion. If anyone asks me if the trilogy is worth watching I would answer no. The second movie is a waste of time compared to which this last one is actually quite enjoyable. In this movie Marty travels into the Wild West of…
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Tot aan de Ijzer
Deze week Tot aan de Ijzer uitgelezen. Niet het boek van Max Deauville maar reeks van De Standaard uit 2014. Toen verscheen van 28 juli tot eind van het jaar een reeks die dag na dag Wereldoorlog 1 volgt van het begin van de oorlog tot aan de Ijzer op het moment dat de vlakte onder water wordt gezet. De reeks is nog steeds te lezen op de site maar als abonnee kon je de reeks ook downloaden als pdf. Dat leest wel aangenamer. In elk geval is het wat mij betreft een aanrader die de gruwel van de oorlog…
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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 one. After connecting the new PS3 to the tv I hooked up the old one to my monitor in the study to see if I could still get some old games off. Since it has been sitting on my desk the black screens have disappeared,…
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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. I ‘missed’ this at the time and we were still wondering how Trump could ever win after having insulted, women, Mexicans and hispanics in general among others. I still find it surreal that voters could forgive all that but apparently could not forgive Clinton for…
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Scientific Quote 1
“Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star.” ― Paul Dirac
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