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Raaah!People with clipboards, everywhere! Charity? Free newspaper? Marketing research? Me no want no! In downtown Utrecht there's hardly a street left you can walk through without being accosted by a polling or marketingperson. Only when I'm in an extremely good mood I sometimes consent and sabotage some marketing research (children? 4. occupation? vicar. postal code? NW1.) Usually I try to avoid the obligatory 'no' by using a cleverly calculated slalom course (thereby sending someone else into their claws) or by pretending to be talking on the phone. But in the end I just don't want to meet this kind of street spam at all!
Edwinek @ 2004-06-23 12:26:49 - 1 comments
Big BrotherReporters sans frontières has a report en on censorship and government espionage on the internet. Of course Saudi Arabia and China are mentioned, but also Belgium and Germany. The Netherlands still seem to be free.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-23 09:37:30 - comments Aha ErlebnisWhile reading a culinary article en I suddenly discover a link between Polish and Hindi: five in Hindi is 'panch' and in Polish 'pięć' (pronounced 'pyench').
Edwinek @ 2004-06-23 07:10:13 - comments Vocabula computatraliaHandy en/lt if you want to apply for an ICT job at the Vatican.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-23 07:00:07 - comments Cross your eyesRemember those images you had to look cross-eyed at in order to see some 3D image popping out of them? Here's one, only this is a text file en and it brings you an imprtant message.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-23 06:38:13 - comments DarAbout that last photograph: as I wrote, I made it at "Dar", a school for handicapped people in Jantar, Poland. My beloved officially gave them the subsidy from Step nl/pl, for the conversion of a van for the transport of handicapped people. They do very good work down there. 25 handicapped people are given instruction of daily skills and practical things like carpentry and market gardening, to give them a chance of an independent future. And I had the chance of making a photo series there.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-22 22:53:49 - comments
MysteriesWhy does Ewa have two empty tubes? And where's Ewa's toothbrush? And does Teresa have hair on her teeth? And what's the lamb of God doing with Krzysztof's gear?
Gold for SwineDe Steen der Eigenwijzen congratulates Stephan Pastis with his Best Newspaper Comic Strip of the Year award for Pearls Before Swine en, my favourite comic (OK, after Dilbert)!
Edwinek @ 2004-06-22 06:40:55 - comments SadIt just goes to show: polls only measure opinions, they are nothing to do with reality. The Dutch the most tolerant? The Germans the least decent? Reader's Digest has made a nice list of prejudices. But they're right in one respect: for another nationality, I'd really prefer Belgian. But in Belgium, please.
Ice cream?When I read this en, I want an ice cream maker as well.
Edwinek @ 2004-06-21 10:00:24 - comments Tough guysThose guys can really blow up nl...
During a street fair on the Dorpsstraat in Mijdrecht on Saturday afternoon, a balloon seller was beaten up.
The 42 year old victim from Dordrecht was selling balloons together with his family, when he was attacked by members of another family, also sellings balloons.
Centraal MuseumWe've just returned from our first visit to the Centraal Museum nl/en for a long time. It's strange that it's rarely named in the list of the great Dutch museums. It's certainly up there with, i.e., the Gronings Museum.
I hadn't seen it yet since the renovation and it's turned out really nice. The good thing about the collection, I think, is that it's at the same time clearly centered around Utrecht (lots of local artists and works about Utrecht), but also of international class. This time, I particularly liked Paul Klemann.
The garden has become a lot nicer as well. And in the Willem Arntzhuis across the street, they had a great exposition about the pop-scene in Utrecht from the 60's until now. The building in itself is great as well. The way they connected the separate buildings and how they sometimes give you the feeling of a maze (nice!), and still make it very hard for you to miss anything. Highly recommended!
Animal sex?Hmmm... When searching for "Toruń animal sex en" I'm at second place. Do I want this?
Edwinek @ 2004-06-17 20:12:54 - comments WhiteThis illustrates nicely the current development in Poland, i.e. large differences between rich and poor. So here, by order of the priest, no pretty communion dresses, but simple robes. This was no occasion for boasting.
OrderA first communion is a well organised thing. Form two neat rows please!
An African or a European swallow?Unfortunately this is the clearest picture I could make of them, they're much too fast. Swallows, there's lots of them in Poland. Lovely birds. What's also very nice is the huge number of storchs, the way I only know the from books. Nests on chimneys and telephone poles, with big birds on them and little heads looking over the edge.
