Category Archives: Those-wonder-years

Strike. Past.

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Arthur

Over the weekend I was reminded of an incident that happened during German classes when I was (way) younger. I was called upon to write my homework on the blackboard and I refused to do so. I had done my … Continue reading →

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Have we met before?

Posted on December 28, 2005 by Arthur

And then I was browsing the news photos at Yahoo and noticed this piece of artillery and I was thrown back in history, when I was a little naive younger adult who was called into military service to serve at … Continue reading →

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Hey you!

Posted on December 4, 2005 by Arthur

Via Alfons, I found out that one of my nephews is breakdancing. Better yet, according to sources, breakdancing is actually still pretty popular over in Europe. I find this hilarious, because over 20 years ago, both yours truly and his … Continue reading →

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Buran-Buran

Posted on September 30, 2005 by Arthur

A picture featured at CBC grabbed my attention: a Soyuz rocket booster readied for launch at Baikonur Space Complex. Hey, isn’t that a Buran, right there in the lower right corner? Back in the 80s, after all those succesful Shuttle … Continue reading →

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Count the options

Posted on September 24, 2005 by Arthur

I had the urge to play an MSX game on one of those MSX emulators that you can find on-line. I use an older version of BlueMSX, which makes it a bit easier to ‘change ROMs’. So I went from … Continue reading →

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HCC is going to be…

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Arthur

I read that the Dutch National Post (KPN) is taking over the Dutch internet provider HCC-net. To be more precise, it’s actually KPN’s subsidairy XS4ALL (More on XS4ALL’s exciting service over at Niels’ [English!]). Yahren ago, the HCC (organizer of … Continue reading →

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Flatland

Posted on September 4, 2005 by Arthur

Alfons made an aerial picture of a neighbourhood I’m pretty good familiar with. It brings up both good and bad memories: memories about the homecoming last year and the ones of my youth, 25-30 years ago. One thing I noticed … Continue reading →

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FIFA Soccer 2005, Xbox style

Posted on May 18, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier this month, I decided to do away with my PC version of FIFA 2005 [I’m facing the ever-shrinking harddrive-dilemma] and afford myself the Xbox version. Playing it the other moment I ran into the situation as shown in the … Continue reading →

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Stop-words-watch

Posted on May 8, 2005 by Arthur

For no particular reason, something reminded me of a practice in primary school (in The Netherlands that’s approximately [or was] from age 4 to age 12): periodically, we were tested on our vocabulary: in turns, we kids were taken separately … Continue reading →

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Which Vega?

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Arthur

Talking about not-wasted talent (they do exist, trust me), I see that Suzanne Vega’s still around. I consider her one of the better lyricists around, probably on par with the other lyricist I can appreciate, Leonard Cohen. Um, I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Delicious Monster

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Arthur

Back when I was younger (weren’t we all?), I religiously followed every single little issue of a Dutch music magazine called Oor. Around 1993, it briefly discussed an album of Delicious Monster (‘Joie de Vivre’), a British band with an … Continue reading →

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The turbo button that wasn’t

Posted on May 4, 2005 by Arthur

Our first computer was an MSX-2 computer. At that time hobby computers were highly popular and in the computer market then, these MSX computers heavily competed with other computers like the Atari 520/1040 and the Amiga 500/1000. At a certain … Continue reading →

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The word is:

Posted on May 3, 2005 by Arthur

Reading my last entry, I suddenly got a laughter-attack. Hype and ‘techno-mumble-jumble’ remind me of two words: Ren-Sha Turbo If you don’t know what that means, don’t bother right now: put it aside. Here’s a hint: it has to do … Continue reading →

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