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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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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Neat start to the day: did a system upgrade from home, and got to bike to work in sunlight. Then I get message that my office will move to Eindhoven, plus – for the first time in my life – I actually fit pants with a size less than my age¹⁾. Mondays aren’t all bad […]

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We Love the 00s / Cascada, Beursgebouw, Eindhoven

Last Friday, I went to a party at Beursgebouw. Nobody else wanted to join, so I got to observe people drunkly stumbling around, often wondering whether people with water bottles were just dancing a lot or on Ecstacy. Probably at least the latter. When I arrived, Kate Ryan went on stage. I had never heard […]

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