Welcome to this weblog. My name is Edwinek, and yours...?

My name is
Mail me at
Attention:your e-mail will stay totally confidential. It will never, never ever be shown on the site, nor shown, given or sold to others. So don't worry and confidently fill out this form.
My URL is

Save it

Another culinary highlight is threatened by extinction en, real soy sauce. Can't Unesco add a list of food to their World Heritage list? To save real taste from the advancing stomach-filler industry? There's soy sauce ... And then there's real soy sauce.

Tsang Heh Kwan, 74, makes real soy sauce, the dark, viscous kind the great Chinese chefs used thousands of years ago, known as "black gold" when Dutch merchants brought it to the kitchens of Sun King Louis XIV in late 17th century Versailles.

In a small factory in Hong Kong's rural outskirts, she is one of the last people preparing the sauce to the ancient formula. When she dies, she says, perhaps it will die with her. She is unwilling to see it simply commercialized without respect.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-03 10:35:39 - comments}

Just forget it then

One of my reasons to want to go back to New York (the other one being that it's a fabulous city) is photography. NY is a fantastically photogenic city. Especially the bridges. And now I read en that photography on or near the bridges is no longer allowed for security reasons. Apart from the paranoia of this: aren't there already a number of pictures of the bridges available? And do they really think they can stop terrorists this way? At least you can still find some by now illegal pictures of the bridges the site en.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-03 07:14:56 - comments}

I want to go to Japan

Beautiful wildlife photographs fr from Hokkaido.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-03 07:12:02 - comments}

Pleasure

In the end I bought a slightly different one, the Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro en. What a fabulous piece of equipment. I thought my old headphones were good (also Beyerdynamic), but these are many times better still. Highly recommended.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-03 07:03:16 - 1 comments}

Sound

I'd been thinking about buying new headphones for a long time. Yesterday, I went out listening to a few and really liked the Beyerdynamic DT 831 en. Verrrry nice sound.

I also couldn't help noticing that here too, the sky's the limit as far as price is concerned, as this one shows. It also turns out you have to break them in: Well, it of course is not counted in months or years but hours of operation. I have heard of suggested amounts like 300 hours. Unfortunately there are some audiophiles who try to cheat by actually NOT wearing the headphones during this time. However, it is important that they be worn because the accoustic impedance of an audiophile's head is an important component in the breaking in of the headphones. It is suggested that the true audiophile wear the headphones for 300 hours while listening to pink noise at a medium volume.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-02 13:02:02 - comments}

Leonardo

At interconnected.org you can read the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci en using RSS, 1 page a day.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-02 08:31:53 - comments}

Well spoken

The amateur gourmet en says exactly what I've always been saying: If you limit your diet because of health concerns, you may want to rethink that. Do you really want to limit the enjoyment of your fine dining years so you can extend the duration of your baby food years? Let's hope not. Also, everything they tell you is unhealthy will be declared healthy after a few years and vice versa. So just don't eat too much, but eat what you like.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-02 07:37:27 - comments}

Oh dear

Almost as bad as leaves on the track.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-01 22:57:04 - comments}

The first time

May, Sunday, Limburg. Time for first communions.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-06-01 22:49:51 - comments}

Says it all

Father Ted: "I'm not a fascist, I'm a priest. Fascists dress in black and go around telling people what to do, whereas priests..."

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-31 18:01:24 - comments}

Wow

I never thought that after Kleines Arschloch^* I would be enchanted by another animation film. Yesterday we saw Les triplettes de Belleville en. Animation with a capital A, what am I saying, a capital dropcap over three lines. At least. Not the by now tedious and boring Japanese style, and neither is it American. Completely different. With lots of humour and a lot of attention to detail. Superb film. Go see it!

^*Which IMDb describes as: The Film is based on the comic-figure of the same name by German cartoonist Walter Moers. Who has managed to make enemies out of German Neo-Nazis and the Jewish Central Comitte in Germany. At the same time. And as offenses go, Kleines Arschloch has probably been his broadest sweep in all directions so far.

If you can stomach a bit (a huge bit), then you will probably like this film, it is funny and intelligent, if also visvious and sinister at times.

However, the following groups will take offense to material in this film:

Christians, Muslims, Truckers, Bikers, Senior Citizens, children, adolescents, Policemen, Animal lovers, Anti Drug campaigners, Pro-Drug campaigners, people with any sense of shame and dignity, people opposing violence, Neo Nazis, Royalists, Men, Medical Practitioners, Hospital Staff, Women, Clergy, Radio announcers, Teachers, Parents and Musicians.

But really, the film is fun!

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-30 20:52:44 - comments}

suspicious

Why do the pigs at butcher shops always look so happy?

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-30 19:07:32 - 1 comments}

Sob

Nature can be a bastard sometimes.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-30 19:02:42 - comments}

Light

Wall

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-30 18:57:49 - comments}

Good company

Almost forgot to tell y'all this. A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to the presentation nl of Alle dromen van de wereld (All the dreams in the world) Johan de Boose, who proved to be a very nice guy. Not just we were in good company, the book was as well.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-28 19:41:31 - comments}

To?

To eternity?

(P.S.: Vanaf is the Dutch word for from)

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-28 19:18:50 - comments}

Blockhead

On the same site en, you can make your own blockhead.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-27 22:53:37 - comments}

Legoing me

My Danish alter (l)ego en:

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-27 22:47:37 - comments   [Subzero Blue]}

Helpless

You're helpless as a sailboat, without a mast. But there are worse places to be helpless.

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-27 22:05:35 - comments}

Your appreciation

It was about time to do something with my PayPal en account. So from now on I have a

button. Well, from tonight, since I will have to build it into the left bar. But the one in this post is fully functional (hint).

^{Edwinek @ 2004-05-27 09:41:53 - comments}