Tag: streaming

  • 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…

  • No Escape Room Tonight

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Thirty Eight] Cause I need an escape. Or something. I know I know – most of you didn’t even know I did this – every Saturday night I do an escape room live on a stream via YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch, but I’m just not feelin’ it. But…

  • Escape Room: EXIT Theft on the Mississippi

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred Three] It’s 1872, and you are traveling down the Mississippi on a paddle-wheel steamboat en route to New Orleans to solve a case. But then a robbery happens — right on board the boat! A successful businessman was carrying documents of inestimable value, and they have now disappeared. Are…

  • Contributing.Today Meetup : Open Source Mental Health

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Three Hundred] Tonight! At 2000 GMT+1! Streaming via Contributing.Today! I’m super chuffed to join a panel at the https://contributing.today meetup on mental health in open source with the amazing Tierney Cyren (@bitandbang, he/they), OSS Engineering + Developer Advocacy at Microsoft and the awesome PJ Hagerty (@aspleenic, he/him), founder DevRelate, Senior Developer…

  • Utterly and Completely Exhausted

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Ninety Six] It’s part of the recovery process. Totally normal. Still exhausted. But first the news: Covid hospital total drops to lowest point in two weeks, still 139 new deaths Police officers assaulted by store employees who were not wearing mandatory face masks Education sector wants teachers to be…

  • And Now For Something Completely Different

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Eighty Six] Hey hey! I’ve got seventy seven subscribers on YouTube! Go ME! But first the news: Crucial operations under threat as coronavirus spreads through hospitals Dutch coronavirus total jumps 26% after Christmas break; ICU total tops 700 Controversial CoronaMelder one of the top apps in 2020 Can I…

  • The Mysterious Museum

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Eighty Two] Sometimes you do a live stream and just embed the video into the blog post and call it a night. Nine. More. Days.

  • The! Forbidden! Castle! Escape! Room! Game!

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Seventy Five] Hello. My name is Rain. And I’m addicted to exclamation points. IN CASE YOU HADN’T NOTICED!! ! But first the news: 12,028 new Covid-19 cases pushes weekly average to nearly 10,500, a new record Network usage increases since the start of the new lockdown Coronavirus leads to…

  • How Is It Only Wednesday?!?

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Seventy Two] Yes, I’m totally writing this from the future – it’s actually THURSDAY but I forgot to write yesterday and so I’m writing TWO posts in ONE day and it’s absolutely SHITE. Well, no, not really, but it IS a LOT. But first the news: Travel organisations scrap…

  • Reminder: This Is A Safe Space

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Sixty Five] I haven’t streamed on Wednesday mornings in four weeks. Maybe more. And I just realized it might be because of a tweet I took rather personally even though it wasn’t meant personally or maliciously whatsoever nor even meant as a slight against me. But I totally took…

  • I’d Much Rather Talk About Gaming, Wouldn’t You

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Forty] I did NOT feel like puking this morning when I woke up, but, sadly, it’s because I woke up from a nightmare. Yay. But first the news: Positive Covid test total rises for third day, hospital admissions fall Rutte confirms some coronavirus rules to be relaxed; Press conference…

  • Star Wars! Tonight!! !

    [Dutch Lock Down Day Two Hundred Thirty Three] If you haven’t already, I would absolutely LOVE twenty-eight more subscribers on my channel which is currently https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4OeYtPTy-PkZmPEceEsdw/ but which I would love to get a vanity link which I can only get if I have one HUNDRED beautiful fabulous EXQUISITE subscribers. I’m looking at you, Facebook…