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She/Her or It/It's, trans to the people who know me. I'm less active here, oh well...
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Litterally the first time in my life I found the actual info I needed in one of these stupid powerpoint presentations! Oh well... http://ggn.dronacharya.info/ECE2Dept/Downloads/QuestionBank/VSem/AWP/Section-D/Lecture_16.pdf
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As to how my Instax took it... yeah, judge for yourself
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For this pride month...

...yeah, I quickly needed to check the gamma for my camera, but none of the test patterns pleased me. So I made my own test pattern.

It's very busy (too many ideas) and not very professional (cause it's me) but have fun!
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Tried out "vegetarian cheese" today... not bad, not bad.

Bit too young for my taste but I definitly don't have the budget for old cheese right now and in fact, this is cheaper than any cheese; which is partially the reason I took it. Also, just curiosity.

I do like how hard they try to avoid saying "cheese" on the package; even tho I know it's for kinda a dumb reason.
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The thing is already gaining pretty serious "early video editor" swagger... It can open it's own files, juggle around with (my own proprietary of course) edit lists, mark clips for deletion that it'll just skip in playback, easily-ish move around the whole clip; and now I slowly gotto think about the whole other side of the package, which is gonna be the tool to assemble these clips back together. Not bad of a progress for a few evenings work and about 300-ish lines of code!
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My PC is too potato to render video
Normal peopls:
  • Get a better PC
  • Use an older video editing package
  • Downrender to a lower resolution

Me:
  • Implement my own crappy video editor
Anyways yesterday I forgot to sleep
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re: Also no that wasn't me, i only reblog 'artistic nudity' :bluefox_blush:, gross kink mention
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Pride flag for people who like to get railed
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re: That one dumb 'french region' meme
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The world trying to prevent the saxophone from being invented:
Sax faced many brushes with dea…
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I always seem to get the most obscure errors on my work's windows laptop... it's increadible how much bad luck I seem to attract, especially with this windows 11 machine

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My hobby? Giving memes on social media a round-trip like these... and inventing new fictional worlds out of mundane objects
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The internet after you download an adblocker
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Often the last kind of CRT you see in day to day use. Still cute...
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long post, pancakes at the end!
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I just went on a small bit of a nerdout about pancakes/pannekoeken/crepes, and here are some things I uncovered:

First of all, vocabulary. This is what Dutch call a "Pannekoek". (see attachement 1). It's typically eaten with powered sugar, or syrup (we'll get to that latter a bit later).

This is what the French call a crêpe. (see attachment 2). It's the same size but a bit thinner than the Dutch "Pannekoek", and the Dutch use the word "Crêpe" to refer to the thinner format when it matters in context. It's typically eaten with powered sugar, nutella, or with some alcoholic "Flambée" (flamed). I mostly see the latter rather than the former when going to events.

This is what the Dutch call a "Poffertje" (see attachment 3). It's eaten with powered sugar.

Now I get conflicting results on whether the English "Pancake" refers to 1), 2) or 3). As far as I have been able to make out, the British might have used "Pancake" in the past to refer to 1) (at least that's how I learned it), but what I got confirmation on is that the American "Pancake" would very probably be closer to 3) (but a bit bigger). See attachment 4.

Interestingly, the one American source I have says he mostly eats 2) (and call them "crepes") but also claims that most Americans never even heard of them.

Now I said something about syrups? Let's go to the country I mostly associate with this bakery, Canada.

I lack a source outside of Quebec, but from my sources inside Quebec I gathered that they mostly eat type 2) (tho from experience it might have been closer to type 1), but maybe that was on the cook), and very occasionally type 4). They too use the term Crêpes, of course, and so I asked them what the English-speaking half of Canada refers it with and he said he didn't know for sure, but he seemed to remember they called it "Crepes" with a solid Canadian-English accent.

That confirms indeed that my American source was correct on the name of the bakery, and that it wasn't just because he learned to appreciate them when he was in Paris once. Futhermore, a third (Dutch) source claimed the same, so I declaire it as official, Crêpes refers mostly to the same thing in French, English, and Dutch.

But this whole research was technically not about type 2), it was about type 1) (and kinda type 3)). Because when I was a kid in the Nederlands, it was something for birthdays. For someone else, it was for milestones (which let's face it, a birthday pretty much is). It was eaten at lunch, and it was a whole happening.

The mere thought of people eating "pancakes" for breakfast seemed crazy to me. And yet that seems to be the norm across the ocean, but also among quite a big percentage of Dutch folks (though some *do* eat it as lunch on random days instead). I didn't know that!

Oh bakeries, how many more cultural differences and secrets are there to uncover about you?
Attachement 1: A typical Dutch …
Attachement 2: A French "Crêpe"…
Attachement 3: Dutch "Poffertje…
Attachement 4: American "Pancak…
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