Re: The Joys of African (and other 3rd world) construction projects

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:
LP>> Wife and I just watched a Danish documentary movie about a restaurant
LP>> group that moved a Michelin starred restaurant from Torshavn (Faroes) to
LP>> a village in on the edge of the Disko Ice Fjord in West Greenland. The
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On 2025-01-12, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
D> Why would they do that? Sounds like bad business to me. On the other hand,
D> I'm not running a restaurant. =)

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D> Does your wife speak danish or did you AI-translate the subtitles?
D> Sometimes I can rip documentaries including swedish subtitles from
D> svtplay.se and then automatically translate the subtitles so that it works
D> for my wife as well.
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My wife is EN (US) only. The movie in question had no subtitles. The
sound track was a mish-mash of English, Danish, Faroese, Greenlandish
and unintelligible. I think they had intended to pdut English subtitles
on it, but ran out of money in postproduction. Nevertheless, I could
explain to her what was happening most of the time.
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Amazon Prime video gave us an interesting selection when we search for
"Danish movie" from the home screen, almost all of them with English
subtitles; one of them even had a dubbed-in English soundtrack.

There are only two danish shows that any man needs to live a happy and fulfilled life...
Riget and Klovn!
Danish humour is the best politically incorrect humor on the planet! My father enjoys Badehotellet, so that might become necessary too once you retire. ;)

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:
LP>> My company does a fair amount of engineering support work for the CTBTO
LP>> (the Preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
LP>> Organization) which maintains dozens of infrasound monitoring stations
LP>> in remote parts of the world. My business partner/boss likes to come
LP>> along on a site visit once in a while. Easter Island, Robinson Crusoe
LP>> Island, Alice Springs, Warramunga. (Not so keen on going to Djibouti,
LP>> Tristan da Cunha.) These maintenance/field upgrade visits are planned
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On 2025-01-12, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
D> Wow! What ever they are paying you to go to those places, I am certain it
D> is not enough. You would have to pay me several 100s of thousands of
D> dollars before I would voluntarily travel there.
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A lot of people have Easter Island on their bucket list, so a paid trip
there is not too bad. Robinson Crusoe is less well known, and the

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for the next boat a month or two later. And the schedule yields to
weather conditions. I think they have 3 round trips in the summer only.

Shudder. I really do not like travel. I've been forced, by business and overly travel happy parents, to visit too many countries in a life time. My greatest wish is to be still, in one place.

D> This is worrying. Does it not worry you that you have the world government
D> as your customer? How do you deal with the ethical dilemmas that implies?
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World government my ass. A government with no army? It is a debating
society. But even so, it does useful things. The global data collection

Haha, well, this is the truth!

of the CTBTO has found many applications in all sorts of research.
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(PS: I'd be interested in hearing about you life in the South Baltic
   area, but that seems too far from the topics here. Maybe email me
   - my info in the headers is true and functional.)

Interested? Well, I'll shoot you an email. Please feel free to ask away. =)