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In Enschede

I’m in Twente University. The SVG Open tutorials have been pretty interesting so far, mostly for the way they’re confirming things I recently read about over the last couple of weeks, and on the plane. The thing about specs is that although they give the data about what should be implemented, they don’t really give an impression of what is popular, what is controversial, what is really difficult to implement, and so on. I’m getting a lot of this context now, and it’s quite pleasing. I think I have a quite good grasp of it now.

Also, I have a sore bum from the bike seat. I hadn’t really thought of it before, but having ridden a wide-seated bicycle for two days now, I begin to understand why bike seats are usually narrow. With the wide seats, you rest mostly on your hip bones, which gets increasingly uncomfortable the more you ride. The narrow seats allow you to rest on more padded bits of your bum. It wasn’t obvious at all until I tried it – I’d have thought the wide seats would be more comfortable in the same way as a chair is comfortable. I wander why it isn’t.

…and that’s lunch finished. Time to get back into it, as soon as I finish my glass of buttermilk, which the locals have forced upon me. It tastes like a cross between sour cream and liquid cream cheese.