Today I had the weirdest experience. I was ordering dinner, a vegetarian burger, and the waiter just nods, walks off, and after a modicum of screw-ups brings the food. No questions whether I’m completely bonkers, screams of disbelief, exorcism attempts with or without spraying of holy water (water with holes in it), throaty chanting to […]

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In Africa they have Ebola

Sure, in Africa they have Ebola, in Russia they have Путин, and in China they have, well, barely anything at all. All of that is a walk on rose petals compared to the burden I must bear this night – and every night like it – as I make a snack: do I go with […]

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I just ordered a $50 barbie doll… There’s no way to phrase that, so it doesn’t sound weird, is there? Browsing the Britney memorabilia section of eBay late at night is dangerous. Also 15 t-shirts in size S which are sure to fit me… I should probably go to bed before I decide that the […]

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Today, we deduced that the reason people talk funnily in Limburg is because Maastricht is closer to Africa, so everybody has throat Ebola. We also agreed that the thing really missing from SOAP Web-services is an assistant mode, so a valid response to any invocation is a clippy suggestion to try out some other great […]

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