Op oudejaarsdag liep ik een rondje door Amsterdam. Ik begon in Bos en Lommer, zakte af door het Vondelpark en via de Bilderdijkstraat en Jan van Galenstraat weer terug.
Kinderen gooi je niet bij het afval.
OB tampons en een gietertje te koop.
Gedisciplineerde rijen bij de oliebollenbakker en de Hema.
Hokjesgeest bij het parkeren van fietsen en brommers.
Een toetsenist op weg naar een oudjaarsfeestje.
Er gebeurde niet veel maar ik heb me wel vermaakt.
Two books I read recently: The Hours, which I read this week, and Fahrenheit 451 today. (That makes Fahrenheit 451 the first book of 2022 – not a bad start.)
The impossible: comparing these two totally different books. I’m going to try, very briefly. I will tell you in advance that I found Fahrenheit 451 to be a lot more my thing.
The story in The Hours is told from a three-person perspective. The story contains a lot of monologue interior and relatively little action. I would call Cunningham’s style baroque. The main characters in The Hours suffer under the great lives of others, which makes them feel limited. They want to break free from that, which is this book’s theme. It reminds me of Hanya Yanagihara’s overrated A Little Life, but in The Hours, unlike the pathetic protagonists in A Little Life, the protagonists do manage to move themselves to positive action.
The story in Fahrenheit 451 is told from the perspective of one person. The story is built primarily around action, and the background is mainly told in dialogues between the protagonist and the extras. Bradbury’s style is tight and firm. The main character lives in a dystopian country in the future, where people’s abilities are suppressed, and all books must be burned. The protagonist “awakens” from his role in this dictatorship and takes action against it, which reminds me of 1984.
Uitgeest.
Read The Lunduke Journal and you get tremendous joy from someone’s dedication to
something – anything. In this case, Computer History.
A nice article is for example The History of The Graphical User Interface.
I felt like making a nerdy list. The computers I have owned. A history.
BTW also worked with DEC 10, VAX, ICL mainframe – VME, IBM mainframe – System 390 and beyond, Solaris, Aix.
TI-99/4A. Talks BASIC. Peek and Poke to move you directly into its memory.
Toshiba MSX computer HX-10AA. Running the failed MSX operating system standard. Could already do a lot more with it.
Tulip PC compatible.
IBM PS2. Unimaginative bin. Dialed into the Internet with it for the first time. Via Compuserve.
IBM Thinkpad 500. My first portable, in quotes. Thing weighed like lead.
IBM Thinkpad T20, T30, T41. All very good.
Lenovo T410. Na de verkoop van de PC divisie overgestapt op Lenovo.
Apple MacBook 2009. This was my first MacBook. Only then did I notice that the user experience of a Mac is so incredibly better than that of Windows. It also boots within 10 seconds, whereas my Windows machines always take over a minute or even (much) longer.
Apple Macbook Pro 2013.
By far the best of them all. Still performs top notch. Indestructible.
Lenovo Ideapad 510. Plastic device. Poor touchpad. But then again is by far the cheapest in the list.
HP EliteBook 1040 G3. Pretty robust and comfortable.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020). With touch bar. Could have left that out from me.
Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro.
Update 2025: still working on a Lenovo Ideapad, and the MacBook. The distance between MacOS and Windows is decreasing. I have some old laptops running Linux, which is doable because I am a techie.