Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭

@patrickv
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Born & raised in #Belgium 🇧🇪, retired from long career in software #development and software #architecture. 
Worked all over the world, migrated to #Thailand 🇹🇭 with wife & dog in 2020, living happily in Khon Kaen, a city in the #Isan region in the east of Thailand.
Spending my time riding my Honda XL750 Transalp through this beautiful country, keeping my coding skills up to date, following tech news, and writing about what I see, hear and experience in Thailand.
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Nov 26, 2024
Planning a little trip on the Honda XL750 #transalp with 3 friends.
5 days, 1365km, lots of very curvy roads.
d1: Khon Kaen to Phrae 466km
d2: Phrae to Pua 188km
d3: Pua to Ban Khok through Doi Phu Kha National Park (max altitude 1700m) 275km
d4: Ban Khok to Loei 219km
d5: Loei to Khon Kaen 207km
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭May 7, 2024
Well, it had to happen one day, didn’t it? Four years after the rest of the world, I’ve finally joined the club…
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 8, 2024
The Thai press never ceases to surprise me… #thailand
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 7, 2024

More out of curiosity than anything else, I decided (perhaps foolishly) to join Threads today.

These were the first 3 posts I saw on the top of my very first view of the Threads timeline.

Mankind is doomed...

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Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 2, 2024
Being a Belgian living in Thailand, I asked ChatGPT to create a few pictures combining some famous cultural items from both countries (with some more hints on the subjects, of course). I was pleasantly surprised with the results
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Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Dec 14, 2023
Khon Kaen “International” Airport. I’ve never known any international flight to ever leave or arrive here, but ambition is everything 😀
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Dec 13, 2023
I love my De’Longhi “La Specialista Arte”. It makes fantastic espresso.
But we all know that ground coffee can be disgustingly filthy, so I’m wondering what bright mind in their design dept. came up with this contraption (part of the drip tray) that’s simply impossible to clean?
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Dec 7, 2023
The tangled mess of power and communication cables everywhere in #Thailand Is not only indescribably ugly, it’s also a serious safety hazard in various ways.
Some kids were playing with a kite yesterday in our village and this happened. Those top power lines are several kilovolts.
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Dec 5, 2023
National Soft Power Development Committee. You made that up, right? Please tell me you made that up?
#Thailand