Author: rainleander
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Dutch Lock Down One Year In T Minus Five Days
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Fifty One] What will you do to celebrate / commemorate / commiserate this miserable occassion? But first the news: Unused fast tests are piling up in warehouses: Trouw Fewer deaths than expected for first time in six months; vaccination possible cause Three-quarters of expats say coronavirus impacted their mental…
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I Call It An Extrovert Hangover
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Fifty] Yesterday it was my absolute pleasure to co-host Equinix Proximity. “And, boy, are my arms tired.” I was only on screen for about ninety minutes or so and then helped with hallway track for another couple of hours – by 1900 local, put a fork in me, I…
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Buy All The Things!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty Six] It was my absolute pleasure to coach Kelly Mahoney, the creative genius behind SoSplush at a Grace Hopper Celebration Open Source Day a few years ago. When I was playing with a new logo for myself, I totes commissioned her to experiment. So when I saw there’s…
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Tonight! Escape Room! Star Wars!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty Five] And, while normally, I’d post this before the stream, but I’m posting it after and … #DrumRollPlease We got out! Or, in the case of UNLOCK! Star Wars Imperial Agents, we got the crystals. But first the news: Appeal court says curfew is justified, state can refer…
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This is Not the NATO Alphabet You’re Looking For
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty Four] The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet or the ICAO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used radiotelephone spelling alphabet. The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a variant. I’m sick of having that damn thing crammed down my throat and so in the interest of chaos, mayhem, and…
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Is Resistance A Thing?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty Three] How do you conquer it? Or embrace it? Or…? There are several books that talk about it, but one full on talks about it as a massive dragon and you are the knight and it’s time to do battle, and that’s Do The Work by Steven Pressfield…
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A Clean House Is A Clean Mind
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty Two] There is an INCREDIBLE amount of construction happening at our house for the past few months and by INCREDIBLE I mean, it’s enough to intrude upon my mental well being. #GrindsTeeth #DAMNIT But when it’s done, we’ll have an amazing new top floor, an updated full bathroom,…
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Hacktoberfest Unboxing!
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty One] Tomorrow morning!0930 GMT+1 Central European Time!On YouTube and Twitch and Twitter and Facebook! I’mma unbox my Hacktoberfest thank you package !! ! But first the news: Coronavirus cases increased by 19% in last week, vaccines starting to work Amsterdam losing popularity in pandemic Coronavirus press conference: Some…
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Were You Born That Way?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Forty] Deborah Siegel, gender scholar and mother of boy/girl twins, brings to life key research about the gendering of childhood in the earliest years of life. Taking us through a personal journey peppered with blunders and epiphanies, she challenges us to move beyond pink and blue and learn something…