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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Hexpedition Southerly

Tomorrow (tomorrow already! gah!) I leave this hemisphere for six weeks in New Zealand. The forecast for blogging is light-to-nil, since I’ll be travelling lots and won’t usually have reliable internet access. (No camera, so no pics either.) I will be checking my email whenever possible, so Kiwis: if I haven’t already gotten in touch [...]

Weekly acquisitions

Only one this week, but it’s a doozy: Goudy’s type designs : his story and specimens : being a virtual facsimile of the Typophiles chap books XIII and XIV. This gorgeous pocketsize volume is accompanying me to New Zealand, where I can gloat over it at my leisure. Thanks very much Robert, glad you liked [...]

Weekly acquisitions

Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (just too late to feature in a game of HipBone with some Kiwi mates) Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy These three from the Boekenmarkt Spui. Munchkin. I know it’s not a book. Get over it. It’s fun.

Photos!

We had a pre-Christmas dinner last week, a pot-luck with twenty or so people. I call it a great success (of the “just a wafer-thin mint” variety), and now, thanks to Nina, we’ve got the photos to prove it! (Note to southern hemispherites: the wagon wheels are a fixture. And yes, that’s an open fire, [...]

Overheard in the coffee room

A bunch of philosophy students are having a thesis review session. “Sorry, did you say it was about Taoism or Terrorism?”

Fine print (a scam? a shame?)

PayPal just sent me an email (which you can see for yourself): Dear Tikitu De jager, Christmas is approaching! Still need to find some gifts for your loved ones? We show you how to find unique gifts on eBay. Also, find out how you can send money home with PayPal and stay in touch for [...]

Acquisitions

It’s been two weeks, and quite a lot has arrived… I’ve read a good chunk of it, and I just cleared most of my pending reviews on LibraryThing, so I’ll be pretty brief here. Nobilis, R. Sean Borgstrom. This is an RPG (roleplaying game) but I ordered it for the backstory and world creation. Reviewed [...]