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SoccerTo name but one thing about which I really couldn't care less. Whoever wins or loses is fine with me. But: I do hope the Netherlands get as far as possible, with lots of exciting games. Apart from the fact that I don't begrudge my football loving country(wo)men their fun, it always makes for wonderfully quiet evenings. Deserted streets! Then add some nice sunshine...
Edwinek @ 2004-06-15 06:56:35 - comments
SeafrontThe pier at Sopot is a great place for people watching.
QuoteI have many political disagreements with all kinds of people, but they are irrelevant compared with the ones between me and anyone who is a religious believer...It’s such a disgusting idea - the idea that you would want permanent, inescapable supervision from the cradle to the grave . . . and it’s a fantastic vanity - ‘The universe is about me. God cares what I’m up to’ - masked in the most horrible way as modesty and resignation. It’s the element in us that is slavish, stupid, childish, superstitious and bigoted...It bids to all the bits of us that are not properly evolved.
Christopher Hitchens
DenonsificationLooking for a new amplifier (I need to twddle all the bttons and knobs on my current one for five minutes to get acceptable sound out of my current one) I ended up at Breem nl. A good way to get rid of lots of HiFi nonsense.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-14 08:41:03 - comments CemeteryThe nice thing about infrared pictures is that you really have to 'develop' them, i.e. do a RAW conversion and then convert them to black and white. The result can sometimes be a pleasant surprise.
Bad dogIn the twelve years I've been coming to Poland now, there have been incredibly many changes. From pavements to city buses. One of the more conspicuous changes has to do with the dogs: they've become smaller and nicer. Nowadays you see more and more friendly dogs, real pets, where they used to be mostly impressive guard dogs who produced lots of noise and saliva. In Poland, those are called 'zły pies', which can mean both bad dog and angry dog.
AmenI was in Poland pl again. My beloved's niece had to make her first communion and that's more work than you'd think. First on Sunday the real communion, than to mass again at 4 pm (a test?), after that go to mass every day of the next week at 6 pm in communion dress and join in the flower-throwing training, than on Thursday walk along with the Corpus Christi procession (you've guessed it: throwing flowers). So that's a lot of work.
The Tao of BloggingBlogging by not blogging. Or: why am I doing this? Not writing for a week only costs me a small percentage of visitors.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-13 16:54:20 - 4 comments
Save itAnother 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.
Just forget it thenOne 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 JapanBeautiful wildlife photographs fr from Hokkaido.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-03 07:12:02 - comments PleasureIn 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 SoundI'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.
LeonardoAt 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 spokenThe 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 The first timeMay, Sunday, Limburg. Time for first communions.
Says it allFather 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