Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Somehow initially hard to find, so lets document this (these dates were obtained on 20250625, but changing the dates does not seem so change the times):
Notes:
- Embarcation is 60 minutes before departure. Be on time!
- Book through their Norwegian site: it gets you more discount.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/15
Having the Tom Bihn Brain Bag as day-to-day backpack, I wonder about the PeakDesign Travel Backpack.
The features I like most about the [WayBack] Tom Bihn Brain Bag are:
- that it has 2 big main compartments,
- the rail system allowing easy attached removal of one or two laptop caches [WayBack],
- the freudian slip insert [WayBack],
- the snake charmer accessory [WayBack],
- the materials last forever
(my first lasted 20+ years, so I gave it to mentally retarded brother. To bad he disposed it, not realising how durable it was “it was too big for my work-stuffand too small for my diving flippers, so I threw it away”)
Two more things I like, but are not available any more (new products are being designed for them):
I wonder about the material differences between the two too backpacks.
Here are some links if you want to compare them yourself:
Via: [WayBack] After 2 weeks of researching I finally bought what I believe to be the best carry on backpack in the world: The #PeakDesign Travel Backpack. Seriously i… – Jason Mayes – Google+
On fabrics:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/26
Interesting: Tram 2 in Amsterdam amongst the best 10 in the world.
The best tram rides:
- Queen Streetcar, Toronto (Canada)
- George Benson Waterfront Streetcar, Seattle (VS)
- St. Charles Streetcar Tour, New Orleans (VS)
- Streetcar F, San Francisco (VS)
- Trams van Hong Kong (China)
- Tram 96, Melbourne (Australië)
- Tram 2, Boedapest (Hongarije)
- Tram 68, Berlijn (Duitsland)
- Tram 2, Amsterdam
- Tram 28, Lissabon (Portugal)
–jeroen
via: Tram 2 bij de beste ritten ter wereld – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/17
Last time when I was in the USA, I got myself a new T-Mobile USA SIM card with a local phone number so I could call and have data.
There are a few pre-paid T-Mobile USA plans interesting, depending on how long you visit the USA:
Voice+Text+Data:
- Pay by the day USD 3/day for Unlimited Talk/Text/Data with the first 200 megabyte of data at 4G speed and the rest at 2G speed.
- Pay by the day USD 2/day for Unlimited Talk/Text/Data with the data at 2G speed. 2G speed is maxed at 128 kilobit/second.
- USD 50/month for 0.5 gigabyte of high-speed data and the rest at 2G speed. (works better for > 25 days of USD2/day).
- USD 60/month for 2.5 gigabyte of high-speed data and the rest at 2G speed. (works better for > 20 days of USD3/day).
- USD 70/month for unlimited high-speed data. (works better for > 23 days of USD2/day)
Data only:
- 0.5/1.0/2.5 gigabyte per day for USD 10/15/30.
- 0.5/2.5/4.5/6.5/8.5/10.5/12.5 gigabyte per month for USD 20/30/40/50/60/70/80.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/14
The Europen evening premier of Frozen Planet in Concert was much fun, and great to see the antarctic species we encountered alive at the big screen.
But the Ziggo Dome venue was too large to provide the right acoustic for a symphony orchestra like this Het Gelders Orkest. The sound was OK. Great though were the video footage, the humble introductions by the composer/conductor himself and Dutch translations by presenter Sacha de Boer.
Last two years (and hopefully next week “Return of the King”) the sound of Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest playing Lord of the Rings Live in De Doelen had awesome acoustic.
The Ziggo Dome should work on their acoustic system to match De Doelen.
http://www.ziggodome.nl/event/297/Frozen-Planet-in-Concert
https://www.rpho.nl/concerten/alle-concerten/2013/04/21/1400/lord-of-the-rings-live-the-return-of-the-king/
–jeroen
via: Jeroen Pluimers – Google+ – The Europen evening premier of Frozen Planet in Concert was….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
While scheduling this year’s projects, it was clear that it would become impossible to have the summer holiday in the summer (last year was also outside, as we fulfilled Nicolette’s dream: visit the Antarctic region).
So we moved this year’s holiday to early November, hoping that would be outside the Fall conference season.
Alas, EKON (Entwickler-Konferenz.de), this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, moved themselves to November, so this will be the first EKON ever that I won’t attend (out of 3 or 4 people that never missed one). Sorry guys I will miss the great speakers, sessions and workshops (:
I am going to speak on two other European Delphi conferences though:
I’m really looking forward meeting the attendees, speakers and organizations there. Conferences are always a lot of fun and a great way for me of learning new things.
--jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/12/07
While catching up my feeds after an astonishing holiday around the Antarctic Peninsula (some photos at Flickr), I bumped into a Google Reader issue with the GExperts.com RSS feed: all posts seem to be stamped 20111117T0555.
Funny, as I remember being late to report GExperts 1.35 for Delphi XE2 was released a while a go :)
It reminded me to ask Thomas to publish the XE2 version of his Experimental GExperts build though.
Lets hope he is faster than me catching up :)
--jeroen
via: Google Reader feed for GExperts.org.
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