Author Archives: Arthur

Brush your teeth, everyday!

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Arthur

Over a year ago, I wrote a long entry about the Eurovision song contest, in which I tried to attempt to link to all winning artists from the 70s to now. Since the rise of the YouTube phenomenon it’s finally … Continue reading →

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The real Objective is not an Adjective

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Arthur

During breakfast, English pronunciation came up (yeah, we tend to have endless discussions early in the morning). This time it was the word ‘adjective’ (Webster has a neat ‘pronunciation’ sound file there too). It’s a word I keep pronouncing the … Continue reading →

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Slugs.

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Arthur

Too many more slugs Giant ones at that. Would you like French fries with that? Update: You need to fry them, obviously.

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I have a bakhara on my head

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Arthur

This afternoon, Alfons forwarded a couple of pictures of the Anti-war demonstration in Amsterdam he ran into today (for him that will be yesterday)1. I ended up making a joke about the possibility of intelligence services monitoring these kind of … Continue reading →

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Beryl

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier today, tropical storm ‘Beryl’ brought some relief (or rather, a lot of rain) to our part of the world: the last couple of days (week probably) it was muggy and hot with temperatures around the 25 and higher. Probably … Continue reading →

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Massage. No.

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Arthur

So, you’re the president of the mightiest and wealthiest country in the world and you attend the industrial world’s most important gathering. Seven men and one woman. What do you do? You have a jolly good time. You wave at … Continue reading →

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Waffling

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, I uploaded a newer Fandro version, a version that finally fixes the ‘CaseInsensitiveSensitive’ problems. I actually had to dive back in the code and at the end I needed to make a couple of changes to the program’s internal … Continue reading →

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Sapm

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Arthur

I have been watching my e-mail accounts closely and I noticed that I’ve been receiving a lot more sapm per day since July 1st. Most of them target my domain registration E-mail’s address. However, noticably, I’ve been receiving e-mails from … Continue reading →

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Hot. Damn.

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Arthur

You know, you’d think that the latest world craze is heat waves. It’s everywhere. US, check. Canada, check. Europe, check. The Netherlands. What? Oh dear. You may have noticed that xsamplex has a hard time keeping up the last couple … Continue reading →

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5.5

Posted on July 16, 2006 by Arthur

Reading games reviews on the Internet reminds me of the days (way back) when I literally ate car reviews for breakfast. Numbers, average ratings, I was obsessed with averages. However, reviews based on average (numerical) ratings don’t work: take for … Continue reading →

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This week in short

Posted on July 14, 2006 by Arthur

Surreal. Objects really look closer in mirror, particularly if they drive fast, zoom past to come at a standstill after hitting a pole. Add to that in front of the place you live in. On a serious note, I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Adventures on the Wheels

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Arthur

A couple of unrelated remarks: We saw Terry Gilliams‘The Grimm Brothers’ this weekend, which I summarized and described to my egaa as ‘remarkably painful to watch’. The premise (‘Let Brothers Grimm experience their tales themselves’) is good and brilliant: the … Continue reading →

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Oh NOES!

Posted on July 9, 2006 by Arthur

You know when the world is close to an end when twins take office. For the first time evar in politics (Metafilter-style), there’s a good chance that a twins are going to be holding the posts for President and Prime … Continue reading →

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