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Visited the modern art museum in Amsterdam. And the Banksy exhibit, where I accidentally bought tickets. Banksy is wonderful, but brief.

a meter-long chandelier, hanging above my bed. The view from the pillow

My desk is by the window, and during moments of contemplation on what to write on a slide, I look out with interest. For the second day, I have been witnessing some bizarre scenes. At night, some guy’s bike broke down. In the rain. Another guy arrived, hoisted the first one – with the bike – onto the rear rack, and this construction went off into the horizon. I didn’t manage to capture that. And just now, I saw a rollerblader, in the rain, down the center of the road, at a red light. Skiers probably passed by here too.

An interesting list of English words that can mean opposite things when taken out of context.

Such instances occur in Russian as well. For example, “чайник долго остывает” = “чайник долго не остывает”, and adjectives like “оригинальный”, “традиционный”, or “лихой”

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/

Can you explain why phones (both Android and iOS) sometimes connect to unfamiliar networks without my permission? It seems wildly like a security flaw. You set up a network which phones connect to automatically, displaying ads on the auto-login page. But since I’m not the only clever one, there are obstacles. What do you think they are? What causes these connections? Surely it’s not just identical SSIDs?

What a great idea

The caption for the painting “As the old sing, so shall the young Twitter.” makes one want to capitalize the word Twitter

This week and a bit of the next, I’m in Amsterdam. If you have any ideas for unusual things to see – let me know. I’m not interested in rainbow ponies

Very interesting about how to teach children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gt6m7RwlYk

Apple should be killed for their engineering solution of gluing the battery into the little bath. To remove the battery, you can’t just pull it off without breaking the seal, which almost certainly leads to sudden ignition and/or explosion. Plus, it’s soft. It can easily be squashed in your fist. Unlike the usual batteries that you can only open with a chisel. To make it easier to remove, you need to heat the lid from the other side to make the adhesive less strong. That is, you understand, yes, with the risk of tearing the battery and getting a massive explosion/fire in your hands, you need to hold it over, say, a stove. Definitely check out what happens when it depressurizes https://youtu.be/2J-h6fC1GrU

In the end, I changed the battery. The new one works great. But I don’t want to repeat that ever again.