Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

An introduction:

I live in a small town in the Canadian prairie with my wife and four kids.

I work from home as the IT sysadmin for a private school board that serves 4000+ students in three shared responsibility schools as well as traditional home ed. throughout Alberta.

I am of primarily Dutch descent en ik kan een beetje Nederlands spreken.

I spend my spare time with strange liquids: photo chemicals, beer, and kombucha.

What easily-typeable do you default to for ≠?

The fact that they call people who go to tertiary education later in life “mature students” says everything you need to know about those that go straight out of secondary school

Today's jam:

Snarky Puppy - The Curtain (Alternate Take) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG-gXiDPG8Y

Latest email of links for your clicking: https://buttondown.email/levisan/archive/levis-link-list-96-100/

I'm starting to think that the intro/extroverted breakdown is not actually useful but I can't seem to put it to words

If you’re doing forced subtitles on your content and you’re not fixing glaring issues in the transcription, you’re doing it wrong

Some Dutch drinking songs for your entertainment https://levisan.me/articles/dutch-drinking-songs.html

Today I'm learning about that time that NATO killed a bunch of civilians and thought it was okay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_during_Operation_Allied_Force

Movie recommendation: **Gran Turismo (2023)**

Based on the true story of a kid (19 at the beginning) who was good at a racing simulator game and got picked to be trained as a "real" racer.

(Don't watch the trailers, it gives away too much of the story.)

I used to think "confirm email" fields were dumb.

But the number of times I've seen people do the likes of @hotmaol.com…

My enjoyment of staying home and my desire to go places so I can take photos of different things do not jive well

I find it funny that they included Facebook in this list but not something like the invention of the transistor or printed circuitboards (without which we wouldn't have computers smaller than a room), or the internet (without which we wouldn't have the web), or the web (without which we wouldn't have Facebook) https://www.emlii.com/78-events-across-100-years-that-completely-changed-the-world/

Fun linguistic fact: the Dutch word for "lawyer" is "advocaat" and that word shares the same etymological root as the English "advocate". Is that not perfect or what?

Bonus related fact: there's also a (delicious) brandy-based drink sold in 🇳🇱 called advocaat and one of the theories behind the name is that it was originally called advocatenborrel, or "lawyers' drink"

Companies that do "street view" photography should intentionally photograph streets with things like deciduous trees in the sidewalk during times of the year when they are leafless

You see a social media account that, contrary to the norm, requires your "follow" to be approved. Do you take this to mean that the person doesn't want not-actual-friends to follow?