Last night the Black Seeds played the Melkweg. I didn’t go, because today they were on the verandah of Timboektoe, a beach bar. So today I cycled to Wijk aan Zee… and got so lost along the way that I missed the gig.
I can’t post photos yet, for ridiculous technological reasons. I made a map, [...]
… and the living is easy.
The book I’m reading is the first Narbonic collection, a previously-web comic about evil mad scientists; there are four more and a sixth on the horizon. The story’s over (and rerunning as “The Director’s Cut”, with commentary), the archives are open, you know what to do.
Sincere thanks to Freek for [...]
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Today’s weather, as of yesterday’s forecast: “Unknown.”
(Funnily enough, they did know that tomorrow would have a “Chance of rain.” But then, I could have told them that this time last year. Bloody August in bloody Amsterdam.)
(Blogging has been light lately, and will continue so for some time — busy busy busy.)
Monday I blew a lightbulb in my apartment. Didn’t have any spares, so I didn’t discover until Tuesday morning that this in turn blew a circuit breaker. The circuit breaker powering the hot water system. In my morning pre-coffee daze [...]
Just a note on why I haven’t raved about Rome: I didn’t see much of it. And I didn’t get lost, or deliver my talk to the wrong conference, or save the Pope from an embarrassing situation involving jellied eels, or anything else noteworthy. I did a little sightseeing but at night, so the monumental [...]
My new passport arrived today. I’ve been putting off blogging about this, because announcing to the world that a brand-new passport is arriving in the mail didn’t seem so very smart. Now that it’s here and I don’t have to keep quiet any more, I feel I must give some advice to anyone in my [...]
It must be karmic retribution for all the times I’ve gotten off without paying fines for cycling without lights. Last night I was fined 20 euros for cycling in the cycle lane.
That’s not a typo.
I had a run-in with the Gods of Traffic and Timetabling last night. Haven’t poured enough libations on the roadside recently, perhaps, or just plain insufficient grovelling. It’s a sad story, and an unnecessary one — I decided not to cycle yesterday because the day before my ears and fingers almost froze off, but in [...]
Programmers are supposed to possess the virtue of laziness: rather than doing something by hand, if they see a way to automate the process they’ll invest the time in doing that, so that the work itself can be done more quickly. This is supposed to save time in the long run, like an initial investment [...]