Hugo Jonker

BCF came to collect my old desktop pc today. I’ve spend a bit of time cleaning it (roughly, there’s still stuff on there but nothing (I hope) that I mind sharing) over the weekend and yesterday, but now it is really gone. Kind of weird, since I’ve been using that pc for my Master Thesis and then onwards. (yes, one does gather quite a bit of bits in such a lengthy period, so cleaning is non-trivial.)
On top of that, they took the nice, fancy screen I had (boohoo, was to be expected though), and I got myself a nice, clean keyboard. The layout of it is hilarious – a dutch keyboard layout?? :) I’m almost convinced that Dell is giving away this crap for free. Luckily enough I can type without looking at the keyboard, because otherwise this would be horrendously confusing. Well, one thing’s clear: if I need to program, I’m getting myself a different keyboard.

Yesterday we (the people in the SaToSS group) had a little event to celebrate the start of our group here at UdL. Each of us gave a short (~30 min) talk on past, present and ideas for future research. There was a break with coffee, tea and wonderful chocolaty pie, and the official proceedings were followed by a nice borrel.

The secretaries, Mireille and Ragga, both helped out wonderfully with arranging the food and drinks (Ragga even came on Wednesday, even though that is normally her day off!). The event was a resounding success, and, judging by the reactions from the participants, merits a recurrence.

Afterwards we went into town for a nice dinner. Baptiste knew of a tibetian/himalayan/indian restaurant. We asked them for mix&match meal – we were with a group of nine (Sjouke + family, the other SaToSS members and Leon, a professor at UdL too), so having many small bites is an easy way to enjoy all the different flavours. It was a very, very great meal – in taste and in size :) And with that, a very nice afternoon came to a late end.