Posts Categorized: 100 things

#50: 40 Books Before 40

This post in three months overdue. My original plan was to finalize my list of 40 books to read before my 40th birthday on my 30th birthday, so that I would have exactly ten years to complete them. But then life happened. Anyway, the list. (The books I’ve read are bold, those waiting to be… Read more »

First Lines: Der Prozess

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,… Read more »

Number 69

The last couple of months I came to the conclusion that my Windows XP installation was getting real messed up. Something had to be done. So yesterday I decided that it was time to ditch Windows altogether and installed Ubuntu 9.10. That’s a big fat check-mark next to number 69 on my list of 100… Read more »

Brief aan het RefDag

Op mijn lijstje van 100 dingen staat “write a letter to the editor.” Daar kan nu een vinkje bij. Naar aanleiding van weer een tenenkrommend stuk in het RefDag kon ik me deze keer niet inhouden en stuurde onderstaand reactie naar de hoofdredactie. Strikt gezien klopt er wat in uw artikel “Weerstand in VS tegen… Read more »

Concertgebouw: check

For the eight time I saw Wende put on a great show yesterday. It was the opening night of her three-night stand at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the program promised a search for the most beautiful love story, packaged in a theatrical mosaic of music, images, text and song. As I saw her previous… Read more »