Friday Night Dinner: Noon
Even when we're out of the country, we try to keep our tradition in place, and so we found ourselves on a cold and rainy evening at Noon, in Maastricht, in the Netherlands.
When we arrived just after 18:00, the restaurant was already quite full. With a few dozen tables, some high tables, and a bar where a bar keep was making plenty of colourful cocktails. We were seated at a high table right in the middle of the stylishly appointed establishment.
While enjoying a glass of cava, we shared a couple of starters. The Drunken Salmon (salmon cured in gin and yoghurt), and the Asian slow-roasted Pork Belly. Both were excellent. Flavourful and succulent.
For my main, I chose the Asian Ribs. I realised it was another Asian-flavoured dish — I know, "Asia" isn't a country. I am usually not keen on ribs, but these were boneless, and that made all the difference. That, and the lovely, and slightly spicy sauce that was slathered over the ribs with a few tiny bits of red chilli.
My partner's choice was the butter steak, medium rare. That came with carrots and a delicious mushroom foam. The sauce was made with Pedro Ximénez sherry, and had a nice shine to it. With our mains, we each enjoyed a glass of Merlot. The only (minor) let down were their chips that were served with our mains. They were slightly chewy.
It was a very enjoyable meal in a charming environment, and with very reasonable prices. A great birthday meal!
Life Line
I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
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I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
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