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We were in Connecticut most of last week and this was the view of Darien from a solidly frozen Holly Pond.All this was before the snow storm of this week! I can only imagine what it is like now...

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I am back on twitter.

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Of bekijk de flash versie."Democracy without transparency is not democracy;it's just an empty word."

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If the sex accusations against the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange are not a CIA plot then HOW COULD THOSE SWEDISH GIRLS BE SO STUPID? Apparantly the charges are not "rape" but: "having sex with two different women in under one week without using a condom" which in Sweden is against the law!This is apparently what happened: NY Times reportLike... dudettes... Sisstaahhhz... Õ_ó (horrified

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Tha Texo Ferry Izzz Kewwwl (and it is a very stable boat as well!)

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Hanging out on Texel... Having a storm, pretty difficult to stay on your feet!

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(my very old coffee grounds)

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My great-grandfather and great-grandmother.My grandfather.

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Superkid got a tattoo for his 18th birthday. He really wanted one, so I took him to a classy looking tattoo shop and chose a nice tribal for the area of his upper arm just above the biceps. The artist looked a bit doubtful (I imagined) so I assured him that the subject was 18.. well, minus a day. He actually told me then that he didn't care how old his canvasses are so long as they have

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The recent qualification of World Cup enthusiasm as "Orange Terrorism" has led me to realize.. there are so many forms of terrorism that we have learned to accept and live with every day that we don't even realize they are what they are... terrorism.Safety belt terrorism. Insurance terrorism. Close-your-car-windows-when-you-park-your-car-at-the-local-supermarket-for-15-minutes-on-a-hot-day

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My kid gets angry with me and shouts at me. So I told him he's started to be like his dad, same voice. And then he laughed.

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So BP is destroying Floridas coast line and it's big on the news... Poor BP. They are not handling it well at all are they. Above all they should hire Shell's PR. Shell have been leaking oil in the Niger Delta for decennia and have managed to all but completely ruin the plant and animal life in it, poisoning the main source of drinking water for the human population ... perfectly undisturbed,

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An impression, of driving 1500 klicks in three days, of empty photocamera batteries, of donjons and abandoned houses, of ice cream colored skies and shining wet pavements, of having a coffee in a little town called Loches while waiting for the laundry, of tourists in pink bath robes and of some perfect roses.

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What I really wanted for my birthday was a big black oversized garbage bag, and to take it around my house and fill it up with all the useless presents that anyone ever gave me in the past. And for none of those people to get angry with me for throwing their dedicated rubbish away. What I really wanted is pure black bittersweet indifference, and I got what I wished for. Two whole bags full of

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How many do you see?

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If I seem a little quiet here it may be because I have bought a new pen.

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When I commented on this video on Youtube, I was being told that "it is only a war crime to shoot at people helping wounded or removing bodies if they are clearly marked 'Medic' ". (I forgot to ask in what language. For all we know that is what medics look like in Irak, they do not look very agressive to me.) And "if those guys are REUTERS journalists, what are they doing with those people

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It is officially spring and I am more than halfway through my taxes. I can't tell you everything yet, but the net result is that I will soon be filthy stinking rich, because the Dutch government is well over its ears in debt to me.

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Can you tell us the way out of Uruzgan sir?Can you speed up our way out of Uruzgan sir?Because august 2010 was what you promised usWe bought all your stories we believed in youUruzgan... Uruzgan...

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It's a Valentine dog. I know... you are thinking "huh?" "wtf...?" or "whatever" now. But it's really not that easy, you see. All done with fingers.

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I did this on my ipod. It rocks! OK to say that this sketch rocks is probably stretching it a bit, but in view of my recent hand sketches, I'd say the app is pretty good...!

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Air plane wings have upturned tips.And New York State looks cold and wet and ... quite beautiful, from the sky. And also beautiful is Great Britain at night, it looks like an elaborately woven fabric of dark tissue and patterns of gems. But of that I did not take any pictures at all. in fact after the few I took while on the fligh out to New York I completely forgot about my camera and didn't

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Seriously, this deserves some sort of Nobel Prize. This is the funniest spam ever...I should forward it to every email address in my address book.GOOD DAY,After several attempt, I deemed it necessary and urgent to contact youwith your email and to notify you finally about theoutstanding settlement of your compensation which is being given carriedout by the United Nations Human

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So, I was just wondering, who else has had this happen to them: Say you are peacefully working in a Solid Edge assembly and suddenly the smallest of error message windows appears bearing the text: "Cannot access document". Whereupon you notice that the floppy disk on the left of the menu bar has greyed out. Promptly all the blood drains from your face. You open an explorer browser and check the

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I was in NYC and I took a photo of the statue of Liberty, originally uploaded by thymeline.

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I am in a negative mood, I am in no mood to blog and I have nothing to say.Seriously funny music film: "The Boat that Rocked".It is about a bunch of Pirates in the North Sea in 1966, if you were alive around that time, you will surely love it. The boat sank in 1967 - but the spirit lives on.I found it the dvd in the supermarket for 19.99 Euro's. I bought it... but then it turned out to be a

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I'm talking about downloading music through the internet.A few years ago a coworker of mine recited his young son's enthusiasm about their new fast internet connection, and how it would be possible to download all sorts of music. Laughing "but I had to tell him that would be illegal". But really, is it always?I found a very funny American tv series on the internet for which I am developing a new

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Just for fun...The blogpost that generates the most traffic here is this one... Google appears to find this a very interesting image, haha ... human nature...

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My pocket camera died last week. I am the kind of person who sticks with the same brand. So this was the second Olympus I had. Second I bought withing a year. No kidding. And the last one. Olympus, not for me. The first one choked to death over a grain of sand. The second one I bought because I am that person, and it was practical to have a spare battery and charger. The third one is a Panasonic,

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I was just wondering...

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.. and I dropped my tablet, I'm not sure it will ever be the same... I NEED that camera!The storyboard: it didn't look particularly cloudy, and it was warm, so I went out in a dress and didn't even take a raincoat. When I had arrived at the store (15 kms) it had started to look like rain. My shopping almost done - standing at the checkout (I know it doesn't look like a checkout, I told you I

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The Netherlands wants to ban the controversial anti-whaling organisation Sea Shepherd from sailing under the Dutch flag. Public Works State Secretary Tineke Huizinga said last month she wants to amend the law quickly to make this possible.The American organisation Sea Shepherd has two ships sailing under the Dutch flag. The Netherlands provided the necessary certificate of registry for this in

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Not feeling like blogging much. But I wanted to share this video, it's too cute!

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The porn bosses paid up. Both of them!Case closed, I suppose. Except the telco still deserves a good spanking.

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Today I had a meeting at the superkids school. At the end the teacher offered to make me a cup of tea but we got kicked out by the cleaners. We cycled the same way for a bit and arrived at a crossing where each of us thought the other had to go right, so we stopped and talked for a bit before continuing on. That is when we discovered we were going the same way for a bit longer after all and had

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... is overcoming your fears.After catching the spider he remarked that it was high time 'someone' cleaned under his bed, because there were a lot of things and fluff there (Now you wonder what I have been doing all the time I have not been writing my blog, if I haven't been cleaning the superkids room ...) so I invited him to be that 'someone', and lo and behold, after I helped him carry the

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I have a confession to make, I am a horrible person with a temper like from hell. I shout at people when I get angry, even in public. I shout at people I don't know when I don't like what they do in traffic. This afternoon I went skating, and a cyclist rang his bell at me when passing me downhill. I hate when they do that, because they don't seem to realize that braking for me is not easy and I

thymehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10576474771354922104noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059756998270099110.post-55674970435720791802009-05-20T20:26:00.003+01:002009-05-20T20:52:03.619+01:00

When I woke up this morning I was just having a nightmare. I usually regret waking up out of nightmares, because I don't want to leave the dream before solving the problem. This was one of those. My house was being invaded by something and I was busy defending it, with a friend. All the way to work I had that feeling of horror, of something happening that I couldn't stop. My friend thinks nothing

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Preparing for my life without tv...Thought I could bake the bread on the grill but it started transforming into a giant marsmallow (thank you Dot :)Plucked it off just in time, now texture and crust are ok but I forgot the salt!

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My (soon to be ex-) telco UPC suffers from schizophrenia. Over the phone they are extremely sympathetic and promise leniency, yet regular as clockwork two days after such a phonecall the blunt letter arrives telling me that I should not hope to ever get this unauthorized transaction reversed. The people on the phone are different ones each time, but the initials on each letter are the same.They

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Update on the porn front: although one of the offending porn sellers still refuses to credit my bill, the telco now have exteded me an ear. I have hopes that they will apply some rule that allows then to wipe my sheet clean, in the mean time I hope I have provided them with enough material to get their money back from the uncooperative webcam artists.Update on the teeth front: #2 is out and it

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Went golfing for the third time. Two more lessons to go. First lesson: swing, second: putting, third: chipping.Weather was fantastic, but on the way back I didn't get to fully enjoy it because I couldn't stop myself worrying about the sk who had insisted on taking a shortcut along a dirt path with his trike on which I could not follow on my skates... being the supportive mom that I am I let him

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The winner of the giveaway is KingOfAnkh, and the reason is not at all that I love him dearly and that he is the oldest and most loyal of my blogging friends, because that would be a really poor basis for a random net-neutral giveaway. The random number generator decided. But I am happy the prize goes to Gwyn because he needs a decent meal of stroopwafels after all the dried noodles he's been

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This package I received from Dick - Eye on Texel today. I won his giveaway last week. thank you Dick :) I think you were a little bit disappointed by having to yield this prize to another Dutchman, but honestly, all these things except the clogs are as foreign to me as if they were from another country. Besides, Texel where you live isn't even attached to the Netherlands. If it weren't for the

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There has been an attack on the queen and her family yesterday, on her birthday.A 38 year old man drove his small black car at high speed through the audience and two barricades on purpose to hit the open coach the royal family were parading in. He just missed them, and a policeman on a bicycle standing in front of the monument he hit when his car stopped. On his way there he had hit 17 people in

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The golf lesson was a slamming success with the superkid. We even managed to hit a couple of balls, one of mine must have made 50 meters, I just couldn't exactly track in which direction. For reference, the pro did about 240 easily. The superkid loved it. Fortunately the weather cleared halfway the afternoon and it wasn't raining any more when we walked there. Unfortunately I had miscalculated

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The superkid doesn't want to wear jeans to the first golf lesson, because the dress code is "no jeans on the greens". I told him it's ok, we're not allowed on the greens yet, we don't have to follow the dress code. But he will not be convinced. He is wearing his blue sunday trousers. I will tell the school, if they had a dress code that said "no open fly", "no untied shoelaces", "no wearing your

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I had a call today. On my new xperia that I got for 1 Eurocent at the phone shop and which has Aboriginal didgeridoo ringtones ok that's enough of that, stop licking the xperia I got a call from the porn boss I've been bombaarding with threat letters (one threat letter) (read "threat" = "registered"). The porn boss... the guy who owns the number the superkid called to access the website with the

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I am leaving it like this for the moment. Be honest, there must be plenty over-educated overpaid underemployed academics out there willing to lay down tons of money for this stonewashed look in interior decorating. Very modern. Sanding causes a terrible mess, but as you can see, it is worth every bit of it.Out. Goodbye!

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This morning I have cleaned out the superkids computer entirely. After gathering and storing in a safe place all the incriminating evidence I could find and had the stomach to look at. I was appalled to find web addresses of sites advertising services like: instant access without credit card, (to either game sites or porn sites) anonymous online payments no credit card needed, (for example

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It has been a few days now, that I am having this irresistable urge to write about porn. In Dutch preferrably, but maybe I should practise a bit in English first and then try to get it right before I lash out at my government with irrefutable arguments that will not be ignored and succeed in changing the law (like that will happen). (Something like this would be nice, does this only apply in UTAH

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On the little bicycle ride I forced the superkid to join me (I was on skates, he on his bike) we discovered that the surf spot has a new neighbour, a golf course. The superkid hates surfing because he gets wet. But he likes golf. He played minigolf once and he's a champion on the Wii. It is a very fitting sport and not too physical for him. I decided that it would probably be cheaper than keeping

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I just found the phone. I didn't know that I had lost it, but at some point I became aware of a small voice repeating the same sequence over and over again, and a search of the talking mouse led to the phone that was lying under the couch, and from which a voice came that chimed the ominous mantra: "Your code has been accepted. You now have access to the site untill you break the connection". It

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If the website says bumpy, they mean top, side and bottom, and they forgot to mention the indentations.If they say thickness may vary by 1.5 mm, they mean thickness will vary by 5 mm occasionally plus your tile can be flat, curved or hollow.If they say try to minimize sharp edges, they mean there will be sharp edges whatever you do. Do not expect baby-smoothness and take extra care while placing

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An interesting bit of news: Copyright and blogs.A Dutch team of lawyers investigated the policies of blog providers regarding copyright claims. They opened an account under a fictitious name with seven different blog providers, and placed a copy of the book 'The Little White Bird', on it. Then, posing as a fictitious lawyer working for another - non-existing - firm, they sent each of the blog

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I made and uploaded this photo with my phone when I was skating. Don't worry, I have eaten a lot of chocolate biscuits since, I am not getting skinnier. The quality of the photo is a bit disappointing. This is the same photo made with my camera.Today: second time skating this year. First bumblebee - that should probably make me happy but instead it scared the crap out of me it was huge like a

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The superkid this morning, in spite of DST - managed to get up before me, and before seven (which he never does) and not only to make his own breakfast, but mine as well. Two folded up slices of bread with some chunks of cheese in them were my glorious share. He could not find the tea, but that was a minor inconvenience. Breakfast in bed on the first day of spring, watever more could a mother

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Lights off from 20:30 to 21:30 today. TVs and computers off too.. and don't drive your car between 20:30 and 21:30. Take the battery out of your laptop, your mobile, and unplug the videorecorder and the refrigerator. I made that last sentence up. Although if you are a perfectionist, that is what you will do. If you are not a perfectionist and just want to show other people that you are conscious

thymehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10576474771354922104noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059756998270099110.post-61938326836055696202009-03-27T16:55:00.007+01:002009-04-03T19:16:09.361+01:00

No-one I know is even on Twitter. Except two people I met a gazillion centuries ago and never stayed in touch with. Journalists. Journalists make a life out of periodically saying something even if it is nothing.If I would have twittered my day yesterday it would have gone like this:... (nothing) (because my computer didn't start up)... (still nothing) (it only emitted a series of beeps)... (long

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Sorry for my absence!I've been busy on my island this week! Working 12 hours a day or more... that is because I don't have a job, you know. The boss of the other place where I lost my job called me to say that he had found me a little thing for about 10 days, somewhere associated with their company, but I told him sorry, if it had been for you I would immediately have come back of course, but

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Just a quick one... in a hurry... it's done! (Photos in reverse order of course...)

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The microwave is my old one, since it still worked, I thought it was a shame to throw it out only because a new one would look nicer. It is very old. It was given to me second hand by a girlfriend eight years ago, and it wasn't exactly new even then. The oven is new. Even though the old one still worked it was so dirty and crooked, and possibly even older than the microwave. But yesterday when I

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I have mounted all the doors, boards and panels but two, and oiled the counter. Two panels and then there is nothing more to do except some cleaning and tidying - which i find can usually wait.. because if I do it now I will still have to do it next week, so I might just as well not do it now but just do it next week, saves me half the trouble!OK, just a little bit of tidying.And now I need to

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The cupboards are pretty, but they are a bit high... I need a chair to reach anything!Cooker was out of stock, will be delivered later. I could kill for a hot pasta... Yesterday I have been busy till after midnight (third time this week) unscrewing all the screws that fixed the cuboards to the wall and pushing them over 1 cm off the wall and then trying to refix everything. More or less

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Love it!Um... in the glass... that's tea.

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The superkid: "I thought you wanted black cupboards, these are all white!"And, looking for the sugar: "Ever since we have the new kitchen, I can't find a thing back here."I feel like I have been to the gym. Like I have been paying lots of money to work my own ass off... Assembled 8 cupboards, it took till after midnight. I didn't cause a lot of permanent damage, only dropped something twice. I

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Giving the words "can't cook" a whole new dimension.

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Aaahrg... The superkid broke his PSP screen. Of course he didn't remember doing it... he went off in a long rambling list of moments it could NOT have happened... "it couldn't have happened in the school taxi... because it was still working in the school taxi... at least I think it was still working in the school taxi.." etc. etc. Very helpful. Instead he wanted me to think it was a virus.I got

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I've not been sketching in a while and now I suddenly found that the shortcut to my sketch program had disappeared. Windows can remove unused shortcuts but I got it to stop doing that a long time ago, this must be different. The thing is: I use Painter Classic which is built for older computers with less memory. If it sees more memory than it can handle it gets confused and thinks there is not

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I lost my job, so I've been busy, relaxing, playing scrabble on the internet, watching the snow fall...Seriously, I've been told by my biggest client that their biggest client has postponed a job they were going to start at the end of this month, it all sounded rather serious. As usually happens, five minutes after they hung up the phone rang again and one of my favourite head-hunters called...

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Apologies to the people who can not see the videos. But I have gotten entangled in a discussion about freedom of speech in the Netherlands, and Fitna, the anti-Muslim hate movie of our own bottle-blond Geert Wilders. It seems that there are many people in America who sympathize with Geert Wilders now that he is being charged and brought to court for sowing hatred. These Americans think this is

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