A story about spam, artificial intelligence, two email addresses, several Amy’s, a Teresa, an imaginary horse and the remarkable persistence of international electronic component sales. Like most people who have owned an email address for more than approximately twelve minutes, I receive unsolicited commercial email. A lot of it even! This month alone, September 2026,…
Category: Random
Tales From The Crypt, Lasertag!
These stories are all Q-Pit related, the laser tag arena I worked in.
I had so much fun working there.
The Ooga & Booga Research Institute
A random YouTube Short about cigars somehow led to an investigation into the discovery of tobacco, an existential crisis experienced by a Tobacco Plant, and the possible evolutionary relationship between two prehistoric idiots and my Scrum Master pastel duo Randy and Dandy.
This is what chaos in action looks like inside my factory.
Inverterdata, backups and a minor heart attack
What started with a YouTube video about a transformer quickly turned into a backup audit, a near-disaster involving rm -rf, recovering missing inverter data, fixing a broken NAS backup, and unexpectedly finding voltage logs from the 2022 150kV grid incident.
Cafeine: Relapse
A while back I wrote that I had quit caffeine. Yeah. Ehmm. I fell off the proverbial wagon 😛 I’m drinking caffeine again. Some subtle changes though. I’m limiting myself to two mugs of coffee in the morning, before 11:00 AM. After that: zero caffeine. Brain, caffeinated, out.
Dear VodafoneZiggo: NO really means NO!
TLDR! Yes, I am absolutely burning VodafoneZiggo to the ground in this rant of an article. Yes, this is an extremely long rant. And yes, if you ever suffered through HorizonBox PTSD, unstable coax internet, telemarketing, packet loss, bridge-mode roulette, or support engineers replacing random objects in your house while praying to the DOCSIS gods……
AI Feels Like 1995 Again
I can’t remember exactly when we got our first computer anymore. I must have been around 10 or 11 years old. What I do remember is that it was an MSX 1. Oh boy, did I spend a lot of time on that machine. Typing in program listings from magazines. Using PEEK and POKE commands…
Sudo shutdown -h now
This weird title? Well… apparently my body decided to test that theory yesterday. In 30+ years of school and work, I had never once fallen asleep: not at school not at university and definitely not at work Not even a micro-nap. That is…. Until yesterday. Apparently ferritin at an all time low + a bad…
Piggy #4: The Overengineered House
We all know the story. Piggy #1 built with straw. Gone. Piggy #2 built with wood. Also gone. Piggy #3 built with stone. That worked. And then there’s me. Not a piggy. Just… thinking a bit further. What if I had to build a house from the ground up? Not the usual way. But properly….
Ferritin deficiency
No, this is not an academic lecture in some healthcare university semester. This is about a letter I got from Sanquin, the Dutch blood donation authority. Ferritin deficiency? It turns out my serum ferritin is too low. It is below the 30 µg/L threshold. The “normal” range sits somewhere between 30 and 250 µg/L. Mine…