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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
OK, easter is far away, so the little bunny-gimmicks on this site have been banned. ---- Today it's Koninginnen Dag, and just to show you what it means to the dutchmen, I added the Google-logo:  And here's the link to the Dutch royal house. It's not even Queen Beatrix's birthday, but her mother - the former Queen - Koningin Julianas birthday. Downtown there will be flee markets, since everybody is cleaning out their storage rooms (an important room in dutch architecture - I will remind myself to write more about the overstuffed dutch top shelves)...unfortunately I have no time for that, since I'm occupied with birthday preparations, thesis-writing, shelves-painting, coffee-drinking, Star Trek-watching etc. - but it's a nice dutch tradition... I still remember last year, where I traveled from Denmark through the Netherlands on Koninginnen Dag...people wore orange hats, waving orange flags (The Dutch royal house descend from the Oranjes), drinking LOTS of beer - all in all having a blast of a day off! It's the perfect opportunity to meet the dutchmen with their hair let down... ---- I've decided to re-write my thesis from a new perspective....33 days left... *** - | posted by Tommy on 11:07 AM ---ooo--- Thursday, April 24, 2003 Happy Vulcan Week Did anybody else miss the fact, that it is Vulcan Week? ---- We're done painting the living room - it got a very cool bunker look, and with all the new lamps from IKEA, I'm sure, it'll end satisfactory! ---- All this painting meas that my thesis has suffered a little, so today it's BACK TO WORK! *** - | posted by Tommy on 10:03 AM ---ooo--- Thursday, April 17, 2003 The winners of my search for "an animated gif for easter" has been found:   *** - | posted by Tommy on 6:18 PM ---ooo---
This pic is a sample from a screensaver, that can be downloaded from sandiegoscreensavers.com This sample from a screensaver with dancing "3D Sumo Babies Ballerinas" is currently the wallpaper on the desktop.
 *** - | posted by Tommy on 3:21 PM ---ooo--- Tuesday, April 15, 2003 If you're fast, you can see the commercial for Denmark in the daily Spits! (thislink might stay longer...) I had one 'helluva' fun time reading through it...despite a few errors it's actually quite nice to read about my own hometown with dutch eyes. All these Carlsberg, Cristiania, pølser, smørrebrød...and then they actually say that Copenhagen is like Amsterdam...: "Eigenlijk lijkt de Deense hoofdstad wel een beetje op Amsterdam. En net als Amsterdam wordt Kopenhagen door water doorsneden en staat het bol van de cafés, mooie gebouwen en vooral van de fietsen. Heel veel fietsen." A they even mention my own neighbourhood: "Groot is het niet, Kopenhagen. Maar dat maakt het ontdekken van de stad wel zo gemakkelijk. Binnen een kwartier wandel je van het naast het statige centraal station gelegen pretparadijs Tivoli ... via het indrukwekkende Rdhuspladsen naar de toeristentrekpleister Nyhavn met haar terrasjes, pittoresk haventje en idyllisch gekleurde huisjes. En op amper tien minuten afstand van de in Nørrebro gelegen Kirkegard Assistens, waar zowel de filosoof Søren Kierkegaard als de sprookjesschrijver Hans Christian Andersen begraven zijn, vind je Nørrebro Station, één van drie opstapplaatsen van de in oktober 2002 geopende metro." ---- News spot: R is shouting from the living room that the guy who killed PIm Fortuyn got sentenced to 18 years...there's been some discussion if he should serve a longer sentence for killing a politician compared to the sentence he would get if considered killing a civil person. I'm not sure what my opinion is on this subject. Overall it seems like they save events like this for times, when there is less news, so I wonder if the formation of a new government will be postponed to summer?! *** - | posted by Tommy on 11:29 PM ---ooo--- It's funny - when you're stuck the most with some paper (or in my case - my thesis), someone always comes along and un-intendedly gives you a little help. Todays helper is Lisbeth with her quote from Scott Adams on EverQuest. I went *PING*...of course it's important for my paper to view this ongoing discussion on roleplaying as part of the EverQuest society creation/maintainance. But where Scott Adams sees it as roleplaying vs. role-playing, I see it more as a matter of something close to the concept of languages - in EverQuest there's english, german, "role-playing", spanish, french, etc. The funny thing is that those who speak roleplaying have a hard time understanding anyone else... I quote too from same article: A: "I said what level are you!!!" B: "Please do not shout at me. I am just a lowly apprentice and do not understand this strange talk." Of course it's a matter of roleplaying, if you see it as from player's point of view, but if you see it from the viewpoint of the avatar, it's something completely different... Thank you, Lisbeth, for adding more to my "things-to-do list" :) Please don't make it the last time! *** - | posted by Tommy on 9:02 PM ---ooo--- Sunday, April 13, 2003 I'm starting to miss certain aspects of danish design - f.ex. the danish mailboxes  R and I had a long discussion about politics tonight at incognito - maybe...and especially...because The Netherlands had an election two MONTHS ago and there's still no new government. That is something, I'm not used to. Yesterday the BIG news was that PvdA (left, Partij van de Arbeid, labour, social democrats, democrats) and CDA (right, Christen Democratisch Appel, conservatives, liberals, republicans) won't work together. There hasn't been ONE word from either side the last couple of weeks, and now they're trying to be the one that can deliver the the most heavy weight argument for the other ones lack of co-working.
posted by Tommy on 3:06 AM ---ooo--- Friday, April 11, 2003 Do you have problems with ants?
posted by Tommy on 4:14 PM ---ooo--- I just bumped into an aquintance on the internet....Shonen Knife It looks like they have updated their web site from the old version that calls "Heavy Songs" a 'new album' (released in May last year)...  They are a COOL japanese girl band, that I had the pleasure to see at the Roskilde Festival in 1993. I think they were just as baffled about us as an audience as we all were about them as a band...the indication of this was that they took photos of each others (a JAPANESE band) with the audience as backgroup....a weird and cool experience. I will search the record stores for the album with the only song I remember: "The Concrete Monster", that is about a Park Monster that every night ruines the decoration of the Park (hmmmmm...) One last picture from on of their concerts  *** - | posted by Tommy on 2:34 PM ---ooo--- Yesterday I helped Richard design his birthday invitation - I'm very glad he likes my wacky suggestions.  It's meant to have the left and bottom part bend behind, so the upper left is the only part you see when you receive it...the white square should be cut off. After this and Lisbeths front page, I'm thinking of trying to gather all my earlier designs into a portefolio... ---- The most annoying advice about writing academic stuff is this: "Write as you read". But, I have nothing to write right now...I'm still trying to get thoughts sorted in my head about what social interaction IS, and there's one month until I leave for Denmark, and 1½ to deadline, and.....ARGH! *** - | posted by Tommy on 9:40 AM ---ooo--- Thursday, April 10, 2003 If this is the news of today, I'm ... [speechless] ... Woman motorist runs into mooning rugby player ---- It's STILL snowing home in Copenhagen! Argh! *** - | posted by Tommy on 1:16 PM ---ooo--- Wednesday, April 09, 2003 I changed the book stack on my desk...it was kind of VERY outdated! *** - | posted by Tommy on 1:58 PM ---ooo--- NARF!!!!!!! The theme from my favorite cartoon: 
They're Pinky and The Brain. Yes, Pinky and The Brain. One is a genius, the other's insane. They're laboratory mice. Their genes have been spliced. They're dinky. They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain. Brain. Before each night is done, their plan will be unfurled. By dawning of the sun, they take over the world. They're Pinky and The Brain. Yes, Pinky and The Brain. Their twilight campaign is easy to explain. To prove their mousey worth, they overthrow the earth. They're dinky. They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain. NARF! ---- Since I'm also a big fan of Star Trek, it's fun to see this splicing: K'Pinky and the Brain - and I do love cocktails, so this splice is cool too: Pinky Brain ---- And here's a little brain-food for those who like The Beast (online game that followed the movie A.I.) and in particular the riddle-side of all those ARGs (Alternate Reality Games), that are roaming the internet these days. ---- I finished next stage of my chapter on Social Interaction theory: a Danish book on basic sociology used at the Danish Universities as introduction to the subject. This gave me the chance to work out the frame of my project and put other theories I know into context. It's heavy stuff to do as self study, but also very rewarding...now I only need to make the appropriate notes :) ---- The weather is indecisive today...one second the sun shines brightly and the second after it's hailing....the wonder of nature? I will as precaution sit on the balcony wearing sunglasses and bulletproof vest. ---- Even I got sick and tired of that disappearing cursor, so it should be back to normal now...(sorry!) *** - | posted by Tommy on 1:16 PM ---ooo--- Friday, April 04, 2003 YIPPIEEE!!!! I just got my monthly package with all my danish mail - I've got monet back in taxes...around 1000,- dkr. which is appr. 150 €. A little band-aid for my stressed economics. ---- Since I just finished my Anthony Giddens, I think this is SO funny: Anthony Giddens in his Study... Go go, Lego! (Remember Lego is danish - maybe that's why it's SO expensive?) *** - | posted by Tommy on 3:26 PM ---ooo--- Lisbeth hands in her ph.d. paper in a few hours....I'm SO proud of her, I could burst! I know how hard all this has been for her, and how many obstacles she has faced. Lisbeth, you're SO cool! My favorite heroine...*insert HUGE kiss here* She asked me to design the front page, which I did...with honor! I hope it's going to pay off, sweet girl! TONS of red wine and olives when I return to Denmark... ---- Otherwise the balcony here in Leeuwarden has been turned into a garden with kitties... Explanation: We bought flowerbulbs, that has been planted, and gave the kitties new collars and leashes. They are happy...especially because the neighbour cat wanna 'play' all the time... ---- I got new books for my thesis: the classics by Ervin Goffman, and Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: "The Social Construction of Reality"...now I just hope they're going to turn out ueful! ---- I love Richard, because he makes coffee for me using a timer clock on the coffee maker. That way there's fresh coffee for me, when I get up (which is some hours after R leaves for work *blush*). Do your lover do that, huh? *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:58 PM ---ooo--- |
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