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Recent blog posts

The 50:HERTZ Club Train at ADE 2024 At the time of writing this, the 50:HERTZ Club Train should be returning to Amsterdam Centraal after its final trip for the weekend. The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is held every October with conferences and festivals for professionals in the industry and festivalgoers. This year 50:HERTZ organised the "Club Train" consisting of eight separate 4-ish hour trips all starting and ending at Amsterdam Read more.
Stadler's Growth in the USA Tucked away in the fields of Bussnang, Switzerland is the headquarters of one of the world's largest railway equipment manufacturers, Stadler Rail. Well- known for its configurable high-speed, intercity, and regional trains such as the SMILE, KISS, FLIRT, and GTW, Stadler also manufactures trams, locomotives, and other custom equipment such as rack railway rolling stock. You can find their equipme Read more.
Stabilise video using FFmpeg FFmpeg has the ability to stabilise a video using a 2 pass approach. I first learnt about this from a post on Paul Irish's website and later also shared the link. Their post also includes a useful single command to stabilise and create a comparison video to see the before and after. The purpose of my entry is to add some references and commands that I've found useful mostly for me to look up later Read more.
Departure timers to improve level crossing safety The Netherlands has a fairly large and busy railway network with close to 400 passenger stations on 3000 line kilometres and with its largest operator, NS, transporting over 1 million passengers per day. Where rail meets road there are over 2000 crossings throughout the country. That comes out to a crossing every 1.3 kilometres on average.1 Given the high density of rail traffic and the number of Read more.

Recent toots

We meet the Tommie & Tess loc again, this time as part of the 50:Hertz Club Train for ADE at Amsterdam Centraal. #amsterdamcentraal Read more.
Just my luck, I planned my afternoon trip to coincide with the 9536 service to see the ICNG-B in action but this service is cancelled today :blobfoxcry2: https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20241014/9536 Read more.
Video of bendy boi being dragged away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjzTXPgGqw Read more.
Bendy boi just wanted to graze on grass. https://www.transport-online.nl/61581/lijnbus-vast-in-weiland-in-groningen- foto/ Read more.
Tommie & Tess' locomotive at 13:20 at Amsterdam Centraal headed towards Science Park with NMBS carriages. 🤔 Read more.
It's good to see that issuing fines to drivers at level crossings for unsafe behaviour actually leads to a change in behaviour. In the last 6 months, 6395 fines were issued to riders using cameras for crossing when the red lights were flashing. During the rollout of the cameras a reduction of fines were seen after the initial installation phase. A €300 fine for cars, motorcycles and trucks, or a Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking an Ichnusa Non Filtrata by Ichnusa View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Salted Maple Stout by Totem View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Peach Ice Tea Table Sour by Vault City Brewing View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Non De Jus! by 100 Watt Brewery View check-in.

Recent Anilist activity

Pesky plans to watch Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season View activity.
Pesky completed Rising Impact View activity.
Pesky watched episode 19 - 25 of Rising Impact. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 16 - 18 of Rising Impact. View activity.