Anne C. A. Baanen @Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com

A couple of visiting jackdaws!

concept: Vrije Universiteit, but it's dedicated to the Germanic goddess of love, beauty and fertility Vrije

Of course everyone hated that name because the U already stands for university. So now it's just the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in English and in Dutch.

Doesn't stop people thinking it's the University of Vrije.

Fun fact: The Free University Amsterdam was renamed to VU University Amsterdam because there were too many international students who thought they didn't have to pay anything to study there. (allegedly!)

Java, the shopping mall of programming languages,

the UwUnique and its OwOn

MONGOLIAN BARBEQUE IN NAME ONLY, FOR IT IS NEITHER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_barbecue

our algorithm can't be racist! many of its most important boxes are black!

"My daughter receives her favorite Apocalyptic Post-Rock album" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awfm_B9KqFM

Famous judge, Learned Hand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand

Log Check, by the B-52s

concept: movie set in Ancient Rome, but instead of everyone inexplicably speaking in Received Pronunciation, they have Italian-American accents

Happy Midsummer to the Fediverse 😎☀️🌞

keyboard design

emoji were invented to stop the emoticon+parenthesis spelling debate

(observe how the Linux style guide melds emoticon and parenthesis :-)

Hardware needed for running linux:
- 386 AT
- VGA/EGA screen
- AT-type harddisk controller (IDE is fine)
- Finnish keyboard (oh, you can use a US keyboard, but not
without some practise :-)

(source: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01)