Eoin Colfer’s And Another Thing… is the sixth part of Douglas Adams’ increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It was released October last year on the 30th anniversary of the first H2G2 book.
To put it short and unimaginatively: the book is Mostly Harmless. The regular cast appears, earth is once again demolished, [...]
Author Archives: Evil Nickname
First Lines: And Another Thing…
March 9, 2010 – 22:42
First Lines: Der Prozess
March 8, 2010 – 22:20
Josef K.’s trail started on the morning of his 30th birthday, when two officials came to arrest him. The trail ended on the eve of his 31st birthday, when two officials came to take him away for execution. In between, a mind boggling and incomprehensible trail—or process, if you will—takes place.
It’s a shadowy business, this [...]
“Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss”
March 1, 2010 – 23:28
Tijden veranderen. Met de val van het vierde kabinet Balkenende zien we SGP-boegbeeld Bas van der Vlies naar alle waarschijnlijkheid eerder dan verwacht van het politieke toneel verdwijnen. Ik vind het daarom een heel geruststellende gedachte dat we aan zijn opvolger, Kees van der Staaij, ook een hoop plezier kunnen gaan beleven:
De SGP wil dat [...]
First Day at the Job
March 1, 2010 – 21:45
Today was my first day at my new job. With installing a load of browsers and other apps on my system, an introduction to the website I’ll be front end engineering on and a whole lot of reading up and looking at code, it was a pretty quiet first day. I’m sure that’ll change.
With this [...]
Last Day at the Job
February 26, 2010 – 18:08
After about five years and five months, today was officially my last day of work at my current job. OK, so technically I haven’t worked a full day this year, but still, today was the end of an era. Next monday, March 1st 2010, my current job ceases to exist.
The last two, three weeks were [...]
