[Editor's note: I've got to rant about some Dutch issues. Summary in English behind the jump.]
Deze week heb ik mij gruwelijk opgewonden over het verwerpelijke gedrag van diverse mensen die overlopend van Christelijke naastenliefde namens de Christenunie mensen hun privé-opvattingen op willen dringen.
Begin deze week stuurt staatssecretaris Jet Bussemaker (VWN, PvdA) een brief naar de [...]
So I’m sitting at the bar, sippin’ my beer, minding my own damn business. This guy waiting on his order asks me if one of the bartenders is always this cute. Since it’s the first time I’ve seen her there, I tell him I have no clue. But now, I’m kinda thinking that it wouldn’t [...]
It’s thursday evening, and for the seventh week in a row, I’m sitting at home instead of playing volleyball. And I think it’s safe to say that for me the season is over.
April 16, which was incidently seven weeks ago, was the the last round of our recreative volleyball competition. That night, we had to [...]
Trying if I can keep up this new feature (which is, of course, shamelessly stolen). Here are some things I did not know this time last week:
Emmen lies in Overijssel, too.
Internet Explorer enforces a maximum length for urls at 2083 characters.
The Netherlands has an ‘interdepartmental workforce for cartoon issues‘.
Trick shots are allowed in baseball.
Praying against [...]
Another one of those.
Blue Monday
Tuesday’s Gone
Waiting for Wednesday
Thursday
Friday Night
Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?
All on a Sunday [mp3]
Full disclaimer: thursday and friday are more or less randomly chosen.
So: Pratchett, Discworld, Hogfather.
When reading the first two Discworld (1, 2) novels in order wasn’t exactly working out for me—and I was told that the first few weren’t all that to begin with—I took a random plunge in the middle of the proverbial pool. As much as I think I like this book, I’m still [...]
A short list of things I can’t quite make sense of at the moment:
Having to leave the most kick-ass concert of the year early (thus missing most of the encore) to catch the last train home;
Having a train stand still on the tracks for a good ten minutes, then backing up, wait some more for [...]
One hundred posts ago — or as fate would have it, exactly one year ago next Sunday — I started posting at this location. Woo-didely-hoo.
Browsing back through the archives, I can’t say I’ve gotten quite the hang of it. Yet. While I didn’t start out with a clear defined goal, I must admit that I’m [...]
After having read Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion last year, there probably was no need to read Christopher Hitchens’ God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. And if I had actually read its first line (see below) or turned to page 69 (as per Marshall McLuhen), I probably wouldn’t have bothered.
Like Dawkins, Hitchens is [...]
What would you call someone who had eight copies of the same album? Well, as of today, you may call me just that. My eighth copy (and my third vinyl version) of Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell… arrived today.
What makes this version different from the other two LP versions (I [...]