{"id":1379,"date":"2007-01-07T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2007-01-13T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T14:47:11","slug":"assorted-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Assorted thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>ome (not so related) thoughts from the last couple of days:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There <a id=\"p1378\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1378\" title=\"Heathrow take-off\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/heat_row_tak_eoff.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Heatrow take-off\" \/><\/a>are a lot of people around with Toshiba laptops, particularly ones coming from North America. On my flight back home, I saw at least one lady use the same model of laptop I have. I thought that was funny and I wondered if everybody rushed out at Christmas to buy a new (Toshiba) laptop at Staples or Futureshop.\n<\/li>\n<li>On my flight to Europe, I was allowed to take my main suitcase as carry-on luggage into the plane because of concerns I might be missing my connecting flight from Heathrow to Amsterdam. As you may remember, right around that time, Heathrow was at a standstill because of fog problems.\n<\/li>\n<li>After landing at Heathrow airport, there was so much confusion about the connecting KLM flight that I (in a rush to get to the Netherlands) almost forgot to get clearance from British Customs. Hence the rush up and down the stairs.\n<\/li>\n<li>After landing at Amsterdam airport, I missed a train because I mistook a footnote for a platform number. Therefore I arrived one and half hour later than planned. I had not been able to contact my wife in Canada since leaving Halifax, which added concerns to my whereabouts in Europe.\n<\/li>\n<li>I was annoyed to find out that you pay &#8216;transaction costs&#8217; when you buy a train ticket at the Dutch Railways counter.\n<\/li>\n<li>In the Netherlands, taxi drivers use GPS devices extensively.\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not used to long walks. Maybe now I do, but I definitely didn&#8217;t before. I was used to walking when I lived in Europe, so maybe that&#8217;s telling.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some (not so related) thoughts from the last couple of days: There are a lot of people around with Toshiba laptops, particularly ones coming from North America. On my flight back home, I saw at least one lady use the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}