Digital Wanderer

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Amsterdam and London — 3, Museum Night

We flew to Amsterdam specifically on November 6th for a reason — on this date they host the Museum Night, also known as  n8 (read as "night" in Dutch). Here in Europe people don't sweat it — they named an official event slightly informally, and it's totally fine.

By the way, just in case. The English word for "Dutch" is "Dutch", and nothing else. Many people confuse it with Danish — "Danish".

Museum Night in Amsterdam isn't free, a ticket cost 13 lats. This price, however, includes all sorts of different events and installations across 50 venues, plus free transport (any kind), plus one visit to any participating museum after the night. Overall, it's a good deal if you hit up at least a couple of events on the night itself, because a separate museum trip will already run you half that amount, and transport isn't cheap either.

A wide river with several moored houseboats. On the far bank are autumn trees and city high-rise buildings under a grey cloudy sky.

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Респект мужикам

Aaron Feuerstein intentionally declined to patent Polar fleece, allowing the material to be produced cheaply and widely by many vendors, promoting the material's wide acceptance.[2][3][4]

То есть дядька, который изобрёл суперский синтетический материал "полярка", то есть polar fleece, не стал его патентовать, лишь бы все пользовались.

Ещё помню, как Jonas E. Salk отказался от патента не вакцину против полиомиелита, тоже круто.

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Amsterdam and London — 2, departure and arrival

Our crew, team, group, or call it whatever you want, consisted of three people. Me, the punk, and Jerzy.

I took the evening bus, for greater peace of mind, while the punk almost missed the morning train, as is to be expected of him. When he finally ran up, the train immediately started moving.

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