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title: "Week 7, Saturday:"
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title: "Week 7, Saturday: Eise and FrysIX"
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date: 2024-09-14T21:55:00+02:00
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/ixosound.png" alt="Credit: IXO Sound, YouTube" >}}
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We arrived yesterday at the beautiful town of Jubbega, and after a good nights rest in the
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_Pipowagen_ at the campingsite across the road from Esther and Arend, this morning we both woke up a
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little bit early by means of a biological hint - I had to pee but the inside of the cabin was about
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5 C and the bed was super warm and cozy. So at 06:00 I decided to deny my bladder its request, and
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managed to doze off for another few hours. Then at 08:30, Marina and I both woke up with an
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_Alarmstufe Rot_ situation, and my bladder was describing its situation to me as critical: more like
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a waterballoon about to be yeeted off the roof of a building. We manned up, and shivered our way to
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the toiliet building just up the road.
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But, after the deed was done, the beakfast was a lot more relaxing. Yesterday morning, we already
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pre-cached our groceries for the trip: filet americain, goudkuipje (_Plastique Fantastique_), some
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bread, and a bottle of freshly pressed orangejuice. Nando and Christel had added a little box of
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coffee grounds, so we were up and running very quickly. Breakfast was very quaint, and tasted
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absolutely perfect for the morning, with exception of the orange juice, which was verifiably gross.
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Our mission for the morning was to visit a special place a few kilometers west of here: Franeker.
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There, one _Eise Eisinga_ build a contraption, literally in his livingroom, about 250 year ago he
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had the billiant idea of building a _planetarium_ with all the (at that time, known) planets, the
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moon, and our star, the Sun. They all revolve with meticulously crafted gears and pulleys in the
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ceiling and attic of the house, and to this day it still runs off oa tick-tock mechanical clock, has
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the correct position of the celestial bodies, and is an absolute goreous masterpiece. Our tickets
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were for 11:30 and we arrived in Franker (_Frjentsjer_ in Frysk), and made our way around the tiny
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town, over bridges, alongside the market place, the church, and so on. It's nice that they have so
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much water here to enjoy, there was a kayaking gentleman in the water, and some boats were moored as
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well. The sun was out, and the walk around town was super nice.
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On the way out of _Eise Eisinga_'s Planatarium, we mosied our way over the farmer's market and
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smelled a very familiar smell: _vietnamese loempias_ (Deep fried Vietnaese Loompia), so we queued up
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and got ourselves one each, to tie us over until lunch. When back at the car, I got to tick another
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bucket list item off of my own list: viist _Zurich, Friesland_ (or, _Surch_ as they say here). This
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is a sleepy town of maybe a few hundred people, and I'm sure every now and again they have a
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`ZH-579668` style tourist in town. I also went there really only for one thing: to take a selfie at
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the "Welcome to..." sign.
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From here though, I convinced Marina to accompany me into a local roadstop on the north side of the
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A7 _Afsluitdijk_ (the closure dike, that encloses our water called _Ijsselmeer_). Here, we both
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ordered a sandwich, even though really what I wanted was a broodje kroket, Marina managed to guilt
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shame me out of it [a thing I am certain she will vehemently deny]. The _broodje gezond_ was super
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good though, and after a refreshing and low-calory lunch, we made our way back to Jubbega.
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## The Barbecue
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Yesterday we did see the tent in Arend's back yard, but today there were these big wobbly-guys with
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the Frysian _Pompeblêd_ wobbling around, and also Arend had put a few FrysIX flags in the
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front yard. You couldn't miss it! This event was going to be great, I could already tell, beacuse
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there was a nice sunshine out, the tent was enough to keep us dry and warm if need be, there was a
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bar and a set of barbecues, and just arriving there made me incredibly happy.
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There were about seventy or so people, mostly Dutch, but there was also a Belgian contingent (heh,
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more than just Marina), a French equippe, and even a Norwegian delegation, including an export Swiss
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slash import Finn. Such a group, with so many stories and fun times were had by all.
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A few months ago I visited my buddy Niels and Yulia in Wormerveer for a [[Fusix](https://fusix.nl/)]
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podcast, and I thoroughly enjoyed recording that episode. Today, Fusix were there with their gear
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and Sonia, too. They were going to take a few ideas and concepts and noodle on a set of recordings
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throughout the day. I had the absolute pleasure of going first, and we talked about IPv6, which was
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_supposed_ to last a few minutes, but I think we generated about fourty minutes or so of chatter.
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We emerged from the ad-hoc studio at 16:30 or so, after the recording. Niels and I rewarded
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ourselves with a _Pintje_, and that marked the start of the party portion of the barbecue. Marina
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and I had brought a few congratulatory cards which we asked people to sign, in return they got a
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FrysIX pin with a magnet and bottle opener. Those are the pins that you've seen me write about
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several times before on this sabbatical blog :-)
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I put my 22 remaining IPng.ch beersteins into the circulation, and reminded folks that they were
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absolutely free to steal these. I am not planning on taking them back home with me. Beer, sodapop,
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wine, water and tea/coffee were serves in large quantities, and at around 18:00 the smell of a
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firing up barbecue made my salivaglands explode (much like the bladder this morning) and a good 45
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minutes later, a delectable set of cold and warm dishes materialized. Omms were nommed.
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The evening continued and Arend made a really nice speech which really did emphasize that this is a
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community with lots of folks with lots of different experiences and expertise coming together to
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just share a little moment of their life together in this tent in -- let's just be honest -- the
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middle of nowhere in beautiful picturesque Jubbega.
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At about 21:00 I get tapped on the shoulder, by Niels, because he's magicked up another topic for a
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podcast: open source radio and routing and its relationship to commercial and merchant silicon
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vendors. With my VPP and libvirt/proxmox/asterisk experiences, this topic is near and dear to me:
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it's fun to disrupt vendors who used to be king on the hill with application specific ASIC/FPGA, but
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now being caught up, and sometimes even surpassed by, fully open source and no-license solutions to
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the same problems. We have a really cool conversation about Open5G systems, radio towers, 4G/5G/LTE
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telephony, all completely facilitated by open source. We were joined by Joran Osinga, who has built
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and shown/documented most of this stuff in practice, radio and all. It was a really nice
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conversation, in part also because the "Fusix Studio" had a heater in it, and the temps started to
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drop in the yard :) Joran and I agreed on-the-spot, that FrysIX shall also offer IPX peering
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services for mobile-core telephony, and he and I will interconnect my house with his house. This
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way, I will have roaming in at least one small spot in the Netherlands when I visit next.
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At aount 22:30 or so the "main event" was over and we seemlessly transitioned to the _After Party_,
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with a smaller group of people, mostly those who have a hotel or _Pipowagen_ nearby. Instead of the
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tapped Heineken, we moved to bottled Hertog Jan, and still had copious amounts of sweet white wine,
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so Marina was certainly not left behind. Speaking of left behind, some of our compatriots started to
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visit the strugglebus, (not me, of course!) and overall the stories got stronger (definitely me!)
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and the mood got jollier as time past. Then, Nando rocks up after his shift at the pancake joint
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across the street (Remember this: [[De Koppenjan](https://dekoppenjan.nl/)]). In the end, it's 03:30
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and we kill it.
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It's god impossible to get a taxi or uber at this time of day, at this place in Jubbega. New plan:
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We put the frenchmen on some bicycles, and let them peddal their way to their respective hotels.
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From Job we understand that they've all more or less arrived, and there are no casualties. Mission
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accomplished!
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We crawl our way to the Pipowagen and take a good snooze. Thank you so much, Arend and FrysIX, for
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the truly remarkable and cozy hospitality. Best BBQ, ever.
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-category >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1270.JPG" caption="The breakfast we made for ourselves in the Pipowagen at De Koppenjan." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1275.JPG" caption="The car is well at home in Franeker, Friesland." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1276.JPG" caption="The waterways around Franeker are serene and beautiful." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1277.JPG" caption="The planetarium is just across the road from the old townhall in Franeker, Fryslan." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1281.JPG" caption="The Martini Church, but I don't think it's that specific Martini ... " >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1292.JPG" caption="An overview of Eise Eisinga's beautiful hand-made mechanical planetarium" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1294.JPG" caption="We visited Zurich, Friesland specifically so we could say: 'yeah, we drive from Zurich to here, it was 45min'." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1296.JPG" caption="Our not-kroketten, but declicious broodje gezond and broodje geitenkaas in Zurich, Friesland" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1299.JPG" caption="Back at Jubbega, our Pipowagen is as beautiful as ever" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1301.JPG" caption="I hand over 72pcs of 3TB hard disk to Tim, for a project he's working on. Second life!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1307.JPG" caption="The recording in the Fusix studio with Niels and Yulia. Such fun talking to these guys!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1310.JPG" caption="Arend had conjured up (hehe) a magician. Even though we were still sober, and we could see he was indeed fidgetting with ropes, he *sill* managed to confuse us with his trickery. Chapeau!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1311.JPG" caption="Arend takes the stage for a semi-rehearsed speech (with notes and everything!)" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1314.JPG" caption="Marina and I are a little bit jealous of the Frys-IX logo on Arend's car. All I got was a picture of a fox in a mountain." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1316.JPG" caption="FrysIX was gifted this 32x100G nokia switch by Niek. Thank you so much on behalf of all new and upcoming members!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1317.JPG" caption="A Proost in the IPng.ch steins, we had quite a few of these cheers-moments." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1318.JPG" caption="Marina does her best Nora en Pure impression, in the hoodie with the beautiful blonde locks over her shoulder. 💜 💜 💜" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1319.JPG" caption="A collection of congratularoty cards, signed by the FrysIX community" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1320.JPG" caption="Joran does what he does best: enthuse an audience about Open 5G and telephony" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-14/IMG_1322.JPG" caption="Niels and I are amazed at this conversation which is chock full of technology which feels 'similar, but adjacent' for us IP and Ethernet nerds." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1323.JPG" caption="After midnight, this stolen F16 afterburner was used, and the tent was toasty shortly after." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1325.JPG" caption="Arend's cute kitty came to stop by - he and I are besties now." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-15/IMG_1328.JPG" caption="And just like that, the beautiful party was over and the tent was empty. Byebye, friends, until next time!" >}}
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