It’s that time of year again! Latest discovery: How to prepare a Kiwi. (Via xkcd, which comes recommended. Buggered if I know where it comes from originally — if you know, give me a shout.)
On the subject, there’s a fantastic animation on YouTube: Kiwi!.
Previous editions:
Animals Have Problems Too White Ninja gets a Kiwi kiwi en kiwi gaan nergens [...]
The Annotated Alice, Lewis Carroll’s twin masterpieces annotated by Martin Gardner. Several years ago now I briefly owned a copy of this edition. I showed it to a girl I fancied, on the day I bought it, and she said “For me? How kind!” So of course I said “I knew you’d like it,” and saved my teeth-gnashing for [...]
If you haven’t already played with LibraryThing’s unSuggester, go play now. John Emerson has some notable book/antibook pairs which are worth a look.
I was tooling around with the ordinary recommendations and was dismayed to discover that since last time I checked my sf predeliction has apparently overwhelmed the stats completely. To my puzzlement but delight, [...]
Still no City of Saints and Madmen.
Marie Nilsenova’s PhD thesis, Rises and Falls: Studies in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation. Again, it’s fun to know people who write books! Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games, which is about a different sort of game theorist. From the kringloopwinkel, where we also bought an electric organ. Introduction [...]
I left Richard Bona’s concert at the Melkweg last night feeling an unpleasant mix of awe and irritation. Funnily enough, both reactions can be traced back to one thing: his professionalism.
We went to the kringloopwinkel this evening to look at a piano, and instead ended up buying an electric organ! Two keyboards, a set of pedals, switches and sliders in brightly-coloured plastic, the works. It arrives on Thursday, I’ll get a photo up once we figure out where it goes.
It’s started again…
Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, much easier going than Pale Fire (I’m still working on that one though). I vaguely remembered this as not very impressive but I’ve totally come around about it — it’s not as beautifully written as Lolita but also not as emotionally difficult, and it has some [...]