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Old VAXen never die...

...they just move North (shamelessly stolen from the NetBSD/VAX web page).

No, I didn't take an actual VAX up North (my two VAXen are currently in storage in Germany), but a large suitcase full of other electronic parts went with me to Trondheim, Norway in early December. As expected, this resulted in a special luggage examination at Nuremberg airport. Luckily, the customs officers didn't require an explanation of every single of the many PCBs...

So, as some of my readers already know, I have decided to end my commitment with Coburg University at the end of 2019 in order to accept a position as associate professor for compiler design at NTNU in Trondheim.

Arriving at the airport in Værnes, I was greeted with the appropriate weather:

Luckily, I got an upgrade to my rental car from a puny Polo to a nice Mercedes GLC. This helped quite a bit, considering the road conditions:

So, last week I started my new job at the institutt for datateknologi og informatikk (Department of Computer Science). Stay tuned for more!

Tags: NTNU, Trondheim, moving, snow, IDI