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 and [...]
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, [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 bit [...]
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 to [...]
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 William Golding [...]
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 can see how two blokes marry in [...]
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 in [...]
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 a [...]