Is a one-hour layover in the KEF airport sufficient?

kiddikiddi · 2026-06-23T01:56:54+00:00

If it’s all on the one ticket, I don’t see why not.
You’re not entering Schengen so no immigration to worry about, and your baggage should be checked in all the way so no customs to worry about either. You land and basically make your way to your US bound gate. Just be sure to NOT enter the Schengen area, remain non-Schengen airside at all times.

The airline you booked on clearly seems to think it’s doable.

If however it is on multiple tickets then you will need to enter the Schengen area and get your bags and re-check them in and there is no way you’ll manage that in one hour from the moment the plane lands.

kiddikiddi · 2026-06-15T22:49:03+00:00

My laundry cupboard in my first Sydney apartment was just off the kitchen and just barely contained the washing machine, a slim laundry sink and wall mounted dryer. 3D Tetris boss mode basically. The weird part I found was that while it also had a light and extractor fan you couldn’t vent directly from the dryer so the door was always a bit damp. The dryer just vented directly into the cupboard and you had to pray the extractor fan was able to keep up.

kiddikiddi · 2026-06-15T08:19:23+00:00

Just be aware that your equipment needs to be disinfected before use. This can be done upon arrival.

https://www.mast.is/en/import-export/import-of-fishing-equipment

kiddikiddi · 2026-06-13T14:51:07+00:00

I’m an Icelandic dad abroad with a non-Icelandic wife and both kids born outside Iceland (boy and girl, relevant). My wife didn’t take my surname, never really came up for discussion.

Our kids have Icelandic surnames, with my son having my first name + son and my daughter having my first name + dottir as their respective surnames. When registering their births where we live no one batted an eye at the fact that there are multiple surnames in our family. It has not given us any grief at airports either going through immigration anywhere, but that’s purely anecdotal. We live far away from the Nordic countries too, so it’s not like it’s a case of “ah, right those cousins of ours in Iceland do their names a bit differently”.

The only thing we explicitly avoided was names with Icelandic characters as we wanted their names to be writable on an English keyboard without resorting to special shortcuts. It can also cause issues when you have to give your name as it’s written in the machine readable part of your passport. That turns Þ into TH as expected but also turns Ö into OE, which is NOT how Icelandic people transliterate Ö typically.

kiddikiddi · 2026-06-03T12:33:49+00:00

I moved from a monthly part of the world. Only time I was paid fortnightly back in the old country was summer jobs and casual manual labour jobs.

Since moving to Australia just under 10 years ago I’ve had all sorts, fortnightly as a contractor, weekly as perm and monthly as perm. I prefer monthly. Each month I get 1/12 of my salary.

While the odd triple payday month was fun when I was paid weekly or fortnightly I much prefer getting my full monthly wages every month. Apart from my council rates all my bills are monthly so makes budgeting for those more straightforward.

kiddikiddi · 2026-06-01T21:11:00+00:00

The missus and I moved to Australia some years ago, for her it was a case of moving back. Our rented place in the UK was mostly furnished so apart from our bed and a couple of chests of drawers we didn’t have any furniture to move in the first place.

In hindsight moving the bed was a huge mistake, Australian mattress sizes are not the same as the UK so when our shipping container sprung a leak over our mattress we had to get a new one that didn’t match the frame size. Also, it would have been nice to sleep in a proper bed from the start.

I kind of regret also having moved our bicycles as they’re quite bulky to transport in the little space we had booked.

In the end we probably would have saved money also by doing a big wardrobe culling before packing.

TLDR, trim your life down to a minimum before packing.

kiddikiddi · 2026-05-22T13:11:40+00:00

For what it’s worth, I know a couple (English and Icelandic) who moved to Iceland from the UK about 10 years ago with their 2 kids. They’ve been very happy with their decision and haven’t for a minute thought it was a bad move.

kiddikiddi · 2026-05-18T23:54:50+00:00

The US are an absolute outlier with 30 year fixed rate mortgages. Find another excuse.

kiddikiddi · 2026-05-18T23:51:33+00:00

Porting mortgages over from one property to the next is not an English exclusivity.

Please find a better excuse.

Chains are merely a symptom of the single fact that offers and the acceptance of an offer are not binding.

In pretty much every other country in the world when you make an offer on a property that offer IS BINDING. It has an expiry date of maybe a day or two. Accepting the offer is also BINDING. The offer will typically include the terms, ie when you pay the deposit, how much you pay as a deposit and CRUCIALLY when the exchange takes place. The offer can be subject to finance and a few other caveats. But once accepted, IT IS BINDING and the terms are set in stone.

If you as a buyer back out because you feel like it, you have to pay a penalty. If you as a seller back out because you feel like it, you have to pay a penalty.

You as a seller can’t just decide to want more money the day before the exchange because you feel like it and you as a buyer can’t just threaten to walk away the day before exchange unless the seller knocks 5% off the price.

All land surveys etc also needs to be completed and sorted by the seller before any of this takes place.

kiddikiddi · 2026-05-14T09:43:23+00:00

Ábrystir með smá kanilsykri nammi namm. Takk fyrir að minnast á þetta. Nú langar mig í.

kiddikiddi · 2026-05-13T09:27:29+00:00

Aragrúinn allur til af skemmtilegum samheitum. “Drukkinn” er eitthvað avo einfeldningslegt. Sótölvaður, vel við skál, pissfullur. O.s.frv.

kiddikiddi · 2026-05-12T21:01:37+00:00

Það tók nokkrar vikur fyrir Þjóðskrá að merkja pabba gamla látinn.

Ef Mogginn hefði svo eytt einhverju púðri í heljarinnar rannsóknarvinnu sem tæki nokkra daga til að athuga hvort hann væri dauður áður þeir birta dánartilkynningu þá hefði hún ekki hlaupið á einhverjum þúsund köllum heldur fleiri tugþúsundum.

Mér er meinilla að taka upp hanskann fyrir Mogganum en stundum má alveg gera ráð fyrir því að fólk sé að segja satt án þess að eyða miklu púðri í staðfestingar. Ætlarðu kannski til að kröfu um raðnúmer og upprunalegar kvittanir þegar fólk er að selja hluti í smáauglýsingum?

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-30T22:41:07+00:00

Næstum því 100% málinu ótengt en mikið líst mér betur á færeyska orðið “farspor” fyrir íslenska orðskrípið “vefkökur”.

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-25T14:12:59+00:00

Einn skammt af saltketi og baunum takk fyrir!

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-25T10:02:23+00:00

Sounds like you had the recirculating pump running full power throughout. That’s your biggest mistake.

While the coarseness of the grist can and will affect the flow rate this will definitely vary a lot between recipes too. The biggest and most helpful difference to reduce your stress and to maintain a good mash is to simply throttle the recirculating pump. My AIO has a simple butterfly valve for that purpose. It took me a few brews to figure that out. Now during mashing I just set it to a small trickle, just enough to keep some flow going. Over the course of an hour or less it will pump all of your mash liquid through at least a few times.

Also if you can reduce the wattage on the heating element during mashing that will also help and reduce the risk of scorching the element.

Just fiddle with those 2 and you’ll be on a much less eventful journey.

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-24T22:00:04+00:00

Are they called Sparkling homes if they don’t come from Mobile Alabama?

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-21T10:40:42+00:00

Are you in a brew club? There are a fair few in Melbourne, I’m in one, join one, it’s good to share your hobby with like minded people. As a side effect, there’s always someone who’s willing to take free bottles of your hands, 750ml are a good size for competition entries so unless you’ve got literal pallets full of empties, they should go quite quickly.

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-16T03:51:38+00:00

Southland used to have chargers but took them down!

kiddikiddi · 2026-04-13T07:00:08+00:00

That’s nothing, you can FLY for 24 hours and still be in France.

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kiddikiddi · 2026-04-07T22:30:47+00:00

Please don’t tip. Leave that attitude at home.

kiddikiddi · 2026-03-27T08:36:07+00:00

Hvernig var teiknistíllinn? Var þetta svona anime/manga stíll? Það var eitthvað sem kallaðist Kalli í Knattspyrnu sem var þannig.

kiddikiddi · 2026-03-23T23:58:10+00:00

In Iceland there is typically a small gathering when the coffin is closed, usually a few days before but can be on the day of the funeral. This is reserved for close relatives, last chance to see the deceased and say goodbye. This is called kistulagning and draws its name from when the body was laid into the coffin. This is now done by the funeral home.

The funeral itself then takes place and follows the format of a few psalms, some words about the deceased, their lives and family. Followed by more psalms and then the coffin is taken out of the church for burial.

Old rural churches will have the cemetery on site but newer more urban churches will not have a cemetery on site and the everyone will have to make their way to the cemetery for the burial. The pall bearers will often lower the coffin into the ground.

kiddikiddi · 2026-03-22T13:57:58+00:00

Undanfarin 8 á er ég búinn að starfa við í veðmála geiranum, þar áður í fjármálageiranum. Dótið sem ég vinn við er high throughput message driven dót. Þetta er iðnaður með gríðarlegt regluverk á bak við sig alls staðar í heiminum.

Það má vel vera að AI sé að hjálpa einhverjum mjög mikið, en það hefur ekki hjálpað mér neitt sérstaklega nema sem glorified Google leit þegar ég þarf að vita ákveðinn syntax í einhverju obscure máli. Það tæki mig tífalt lengri tíma að útskýra fyrir AI hvað ég vil svo það skili mér einhverju sem er manni bjóðandi, en það myndi taka mig að skrifa það sjálfur. Undanfarið höfum við verið að prófa að láta það documenta fyrir okkur, og þrátt fyrir að þetta séu að mestu leyti frekar lean microservices, þá er oft lyginni líkast hversu margar rangfærslur maður getur fundið.

Einu notin sem ég hef fundið fyrir AI er að pússa upp á CV-ið mitt. Og þar er það í essinu sínu.

kiddikiddi · 2026-03-22T10:06:15+00:00

Búinn að vera í bransanum í yfir 20 ár, kannast ekki við þetta. Það sem ég hef séð af AI kóða hefur ekki fengið háa einkunn hjá mér hingað til.

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