When I was an empoverished student I put my CV on a Dutch recruitment site, advertising my programming background. That was almost four years ago, and I never heard anything from anyone. Yesterday I got an email, and pulled my CV from the site immediately (I’d forgotten it existed). This morning I had two phonecalls [...]
From the Boekenmarkt Spui: Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches > A naked lunch is natural to us, > we eat reality sandwiches. > But allegories are so much lettuce. > Don’t hide the madness. > –On Burroughs’ Work On the psychology of Military Incompetence, by Norman F. Dixon. This promises to be horrifying. > Finally, I [...]
Ok, it’s via BoingBoing, but it’s too cool not to share. A stop-motion Mario Brothers sequence in lego, with music by recorder and sound effects by voice. Delightful.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
I’ve anonymised the following, to protect the guilty (note the cc: field): Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:39:20 +0200 From: [list admin] To: Sender <sender@domain> CC: some-seminar@domain, some-list@other.domain, another-list@third.domain, list-the-fourth@another.domain, list-v@another.domain Subject: Re: [some-seminar] March 30, 2007 Dear sender [sic], Please note that it is possible to submit your announcement to [our organisation's website], therefore [...]
Last night’s concert at the Bimhuis was pretty extraordinary. I hadn’t heard of any of these folks before, so many thanks to Marijn and Frans for prodding me into going! The Belmondo brothers are I believe Paris-based, a brass duo, do not miss an opportunity to see these guys play. Yusef Lateef is apparently a [...]
Ok, so having a laptop sometimes isn’t a bonus. Obviously if I go to bed too late, I don’t get enough sleep. But also if I go to bed too early, I end up staring at the ceiling for hours and … don’t get enough sleep. So the trick is to hit bed early, but [...]
From the Boekenmarkt Spui: Hugo Claus, “Het Verdriet van België” (“The Sorrow of Belgium”). A classic, apparently, recommended by Marijn. At a hefty 774 pages, this should keep me going for a while. “Sometime, Never: 3 Outstanding Tales of Science and Fantasy”. I can hear my mother sighing deeply… but this is good stuff! It’s [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Another photo album. In Golden Bay I stayed with my folks, on their farm. Despite this, there are no photos of sheep. We did lots of other traditional Golden Bay things though. For instance… Beaches Tata (and a shag) Wharariki (walking on trees, and a seal) Bainham on the Abel Tasman (more shags) Haymaking (you [...]
Another photo gallery. In Wanganui I stayed with Ian and his fiancée Katie. Ian is a pilot and flying instructor, and I finally (after many years of promises, of living in different places and of foul weather when we did coincide) got to fly with him, in a wee four-seater with Katie and a friend [...]
My camera arrived today, which gave me the final push needed to start putting my photos online. You’ll find the beginnings at http://picasaweb.google.com/tikitu; I’ll post here every now and then as I get new galleries up and running. First up: The Golden Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show (the A&P show). The annual show combines [...]