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EFC Day 1-2

Posted 19 years ago · 12 Comments

I finally arrived in Ebeltoft yesterday, a lot has happened since, we've mostly been introduced to the teachers and some of the courses. Also, there's a new principal this year and to my surprise it's Søren Høy, former Filmland host. I think the experience that's kinda made me see how unique this stay will be, was during our guided tour of the campus, when we walked through Big Bear, the main cinema, Søren Høy was alone in there with his kids, watching Pingu, like other parents would do in front of their tv.

He also had a treat for us this evening, a sneak preview of David Lynch's Inland Empire, the only copy of the movie in Denmark. Unfortunately the movie is incredibly bad, it's 3,5 hours long and just watching it from start to finish is an achievement worth bragging about. There'll be another sneak preview tomorrow (and one each month in the future), hopefully that'll be better.

Arla vs. Kohberg. Fight!

Posted 19 years ago · Tagged: arla, kohberg · 3 Comments

Den her bliver lige på dansk eftersom der kommer til at være en del danske udtryk. Jeg er netop blevet sommerafløser ved Arla, da jeg skal have tjent nogle penge inden jeg smutter til København. Det er anden gang jeg har arbejde på en fabrik, og blev hurtigt overrasket over de store forskelle, så tænkte jeg ville lave en lille, personlig sammenligning af de to. Den sidstnævnte kører dog med underskud, så det har nok sin del af forklaringen. Det er dog stadig nogle ret pudsige forskelle, når man tænker på det begge er fabrikker der ligger indenfor 10 km af hinanden og begge kræver ufaglærte medarbejdere.

	Christiansfeld Mejericenter – Ejet og styret af Arla Foods.	H. C. Andersen Bagergården – Ejet og styret af Kohberg.
Arbejdstid	21:00 – 5:00	9:00 – 17:00 (Til tider 3:00 – 11:00 uden advarsel)
Arbejdstype	Pakning af ordrer.	Samlebåndsarbejde, ovnpasning.
Timeløn	140,-	114,-
Nattillæg	21:00 – 3:00: 65,- 3:00 – 5:00: 45,-	21:00 – 3:00: ~60,- 3:00 – ?: 0,-
Overarbejde	+50% første time, +100% derefter.	+50% første time, +100% derefter.
Akut overarbejde (fx pga. maskinfejl)	Dobbeltløn, dvs. 2x timeløn første overarbejdstime, 4x løn anden time, 8x løn tredje time, osv.	+50% første time, 100% derefter og fyringstrussel.
Pauser	To pauser á 30 min., den ene med løn.	Én pause á 30 min., uden løn.
Arbejdsmiljø	Udleveret arbejdstøj sikkerhedssko, detaljeret introduktion af sikkerhedsregler.	Udleveret arbejdstøj, eget ansvar for fodtøj, ingen introduktion af sikkerhedsregler, maskiner med defekte nødstopsmekanismer.
Awesomeness i træsko	80 træsko.	2 træsko.

Det jeg så ikke forstår er hvorfor folk år efter år bliver på Bagergården når der få kilometer væk er en fabrik, hvor arbejdet, lønnen og arbejdsmiljøet er langt bedre.

January issue of >pcplayer

Posted 20 years ago · Tagged: pcplayer, star wars · 4 Comments

Latest issue of >pcplayer is out, do yourself a favor and go buy it. I've contributed with a two-page interview with a Star Wars Galaxies player, mainly as a follow-up to a similar interview in the march issue, and the retrospect article in a recent issue of the magazine.

Blog amok

Posted 20 years ago · 10 Comments

I just paid for another year using this domain, which means my blog recently had it's one-year anniversary. I'm not really sure why I created it in the first place, probably just because I like writing whatever comes to mind. Well, for some reason everyone around me seems to be creating blogs of their own;

I've been reading Kim Rom's blog for a while, he has a unique talent of making the weirdest things interesting, and his articles in the Danish game magazin >pcplayer is always interesting, so I was positively surprised when Morten Skovgaard, editor-in-chief at >pcplayer, created a blog of his own, because he has a similar, humorous writing style. Check out MortenSkovgaard.dk.

Niclas Darville, another writer at >pcplayer, also recently created a blog. Not much there yet, except for a bit of Bush-criticism, which is never bad. Some of the users of the >pcplayer-forum have also created blogs, both in Danish though: If you're interested in hardware you should check out JacobHL's hardware-blog, for ramblings about math and food (so far), take a look at Thomas Lundsgaard's blog.

>pcplayer and Nintendo 64

Posted 20 years ago · Comments Off

Another entry in a short period of time, maybe the site will actually be a bit active again?

I've suddenly been overrun by nostalgy. I was at my dad's place today, and not only did I find my good, old Nintendo 64 console, but also 32 >pcplayer magazines. A bunch of them from the old Egmont-era, when they consisted of astonishing 130 pages. One of these was the final one before the staff had to close it down in 2001. One of the issues features the original layout, from mid-2000. My stack of magazines looks pretty darn cool now. Collecting-fetishes for the win!

As mentioned I also found the old 64-bits console. At the moment it's in a shopping bag, waiting eagerly to be connected to my tv, along with a selection of some of the best games ever made; Goldeneye and Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I have a Ocarina of Time-savegame just after the completion of the three first dungeons if I remember correctly. My fingers are already itching.