Tempus Tommy

A Dane living in The Netherlands

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."

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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?!
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posted by Tommy on 11:29 PM
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archives:

Trying to make the central heating work again.

links:

game-research.com

gamasutra.com

Susana Tosca (My former advisor)

dutch in dk (A blog: twin blogger - mirrorwise)

Klastrup's Cataclysms (my friend)

Bygballe's blog (my friend)

Louise's thoughts (my friend)

Frank Schaap (a Dutch researcher working in the same area as I)

Nick Yee's Hub (an Online Study in MMORPG)

books on my desk:

Michael Argyle:
"The Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior"

Danii Elkonin:
Legens Psykologi (The Psychology of Play)

Erving Goffman:
"The presentation of Self in Everday Life"

Erving Goffman:
"Behavior in Public Places"

Erving Goffman:
"Frame Analysis"

Lisbeth Klastrup:
"Towards a Poetics of a Virtual World" (not yet in press)

Edward Hall:
"The Hidden Dimension"

update Feb. 23

mail:

tommyblogger@hotmail.com

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