Pim van Pelt
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title: "Week 14, Friday: Got screens?"
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date: 2024-11-01T21:55:00+02:00
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/eclipse-sound-syndicate.png" alt="Credit: Eclipse Sound Syndicate, YouTube" >}}
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In the morning I spent some time tidying up my basement. I really want to make sure it doesn't
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revert to the pigsty it was three months ago. I spent a almost week cleaning it up! Today marks the
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start of my last weekend before shipping back off to a dayjob. In the morning, I play with the newly
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created Microsoft flightsim and cruise around over the Zurich metropolitan area with my trusty
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Cessna. This is going to go down as one of the small wins of this sabbatical - I learned a new
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thing, and thanks to my buddy Tim invested in reclaiming an old project that had been on the wayside
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for north of 12 years!
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For lunch, Marina and I make delicious _Smos Gezond_ [healthy sandwich] with tomato, salad, ham,
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cheese on a ciabatta bread. It's absolutely delicious. But then after lunch, the doorbell rings and
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there's a guy with a truck. He doesn't speak English or German or Dutch or French or Swedish (heh),
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the languages in which perhaps we might converse. I think maybe he's polish but he is babbling and
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simply shows me a screenshot of an address in Frankfurt. Oh crap! It's the guy picking up IP-Max's
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ASR9010 which is still in my garage. The problem is however, that the company said that this router
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would _not_ be picked up today. Seeing as an ASR9010 is not the cheapest (or lightest of kit), I
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need to test this dude.
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We walk to the truck, which has Polish plates. But the guy turns out to be Russian, and I'm on the
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phone with Fred. Fred is having lunch with the crew there in Geneva, and that's my break. Anastasia
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is there also, so I put her on the phone with a simple mission: "Nastia, get this guy to confirm he
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is legit, and that you are OK with him taking your router to Frankfurt". Such a wonderful human
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thing happens next - I put my phone on speaker and she speaks to the guy, who is visibly relieved
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that he can now communicate. They babble in their weird cyrillic tongue, and after a while he hands
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me the phone with a smile. Anastasia confirmes: "we're all good!" so I let him take the pallet with
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the router. отличная работа!
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In the evening we watch a terrible movie called _The Substance_ (2024). The film stars Demi Moore as
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a TV host who is fired and given a "substance" that allows her to create a younger, more beautiful
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version of herself. However, she must take the serum regularly, and the older version of herself
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begins to rapidly deteriorate. The climax of the film involves the older version transforming into a
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grotesque, multi-headed creature. It's a body horror film that explores themes of aging, beauty
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standards, and the pressure on women in the entertainment industry.
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2305.JPG" caption="The flightsim in its final configuration" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2306.JPG" caption="Got smos?" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2308.JPG" caption="IP-Max ASR9010 ready for shipping" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2309.JPG" caption="This ASR9010 is headed for NTT Frankfurt" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2312.JPG" caption="Don't do drugs, mmkay" >}}
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{{< /gallery-category >}}
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