Thomas A. Frederiksen

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Pushing biotech bits around for fun and profit. All opinions are my own.

Professional crastinator and holder of a black belt in partial arts.

Born at 337 ppm and not happy about current levels.

Pronouns: He/Him

Accidental curator of the Atari ST collection at datamuseum.dk

Absolutely AuDHD

#nobot #noindex #nosearch

Sometimes you find a place that's really nothing special in terms of price or prestige, but which is still truly special for some other reason.

For me, tonight, that place is Shawarma Bar in Guldsmedegade in Aarhus. Probably the best in Jutland.

The concept is deceptively simple: Flatbreads cooked on site during the quiet parts of the day, spit built in the morning from proper meat, iceberg, tomato, and red onion chopped daily. In no way unique, but excellent quality.

The reason it's special is time. My first visit was shortly after they opened their doors in 1996. I've come by whenever I've been in town since, sometimes frequently, sometimes years apart. I must have had hundreds of their shawarmas over the years. Every one of them the same good quality and taste.

That's 30 years of doing one thing and doing it really well. You don't get that much these days.

This toot was tooted under the sea.

Trying to book #CrossBorderRail journeys in advance is always great fun. Trying to go between Copenhagen and Stockholm in late July is interesting.

The only operator able and willling to sell me tickets right now is Snälltåget, so I get to join a bunch of presumably very tired sleeper train seated coach passengers at 06:00. I'm sure they've had a delightful upright night and will be pure bundles of joy the remaining five plus hours to Stockholm...

SJ are perfectly happy to sell me Malmö-Stockholm at a more reasonable hour, but no one wants to admit to running trains across the bridge on the 27th of July.

I wonder if the Elsinore-Helsingborg ferry would make any sort of sense?

Felt terrible yesterday and slightly less so today, so I tried going on a walk with my oldest. Managed less than 2 km at a ridiculously low pace and with stops at every bench. Thought something was seriously wrong.

Came home to the news that the Copenhagen are pollen record for alder has been surpassed by quite a bit. Anything above 50 is high. Yesterday was 2304 and today is 320.

No wonder I'm not at peak performance.

Added bonus: I can now do a rolling firmware update and degrade performance rather than disconnect clients outright. This has already proven popular with the rest of the household.

I finished the day by capitulating and installing an extra access point upstairs.

The deck separating the two storeys of our flat is 25 cm of reinforced concrete and I just couldn't find a stairwell position that managed to cover everything in a reasonable way.

One @mikrotik wAP ax on each storey has me maxing out our outbound line from anywhere in the flat (yes, I know they're outdoor APs but the antenna radiation pattern and the ridiculously good value for money works for me).

Started the day with a lovely walk in -11C and sunshine. My kind of winter weather.

Following the dreadful accident in Spain I fully expect a few real life car fanatics to spout their usual nonsense about the dangers of public transportation in the places where I can't avoid them.

I've gathered the official Danish statistics for traffic fatalities in the years 2002-2024 to have facts at hand:

Road: 4574
Rail: 111

Rail figures include suicide by train and incursions on the track by eg. drunk people. Please stay off the track and talk to someone if you feel like it's all too much.

@BastilleBSD That settles it then.

Good thing it does. I wrote the poll while FreeBSD was installing.

Finally found the time to set up very basic temperature monitoring of the two always on systems I have a home. Simple cron jobs for now on both the newly installed FreeBSD box and the OpenBSD router.

Summer will tell if I've been overly optimistic about warning limits...