Hi everyone, As I have admin rights to this weblog, I am shamelessly going to use them to bring you the following newsflash: as an example of a modern independent woman I have created my own travel blog. So go check it out at http://thetravelingbelgian.blogspot.com Happy reading! PS: next weekend we’ll be in Rome and on March …
Monthly Archive: February 2006
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27
Feb
23
Free Speech, Cartoons, and the Holocaust
xcnl > en I recently had an exchange with my good friend Ian that I think is worth mentioning. It had to do with the fact that recently a court in Austria put a guy in jail for three years for denying the Holocaust. This seemed at first glance to smack of hypocrisy, given the …
Feb
23
Flying Airships of 2010
xcnl > en xcnl > en Man, I love stuff like this. An update to the Hindenburg. A luxury dirigible ferrying people at 175 mph and a relatively low 8,000 feet in the air. It just sounds cool. I want one. Of course, I’d prefer if mine didn’t explode.
Feb
21
More Government Stupidity
Listen to this crap from an AP article: On Tuesday, Bush plans to visit the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., to talk about speeding the development of biofuels. The lab, with a looming $28 million budget shortfall, had announced it was cutting its staff by 32 people, including eight researchers. But …
Feb
19
Annual Snowboard Trip III – Part 2
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en (If you want to skip all this and just see the photos… click here) Let me start off by recommending against taking the night train to anywhere. I took the night train from Utrecht to Munich, it …
Feb
16
Baby News
Another baby was born in New Jersey. Congratulations to our friends Ryan and Amy, proud parents of Natalie Ava Warren. She is soo cute and small. Smaller than me! I am looking forward to babysitting her. Her pictures can be found on flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenpics
Feb
16
Annual Snowboard Trip III
We had to change the name of the trip this year since two of the original guys from the previous ‘Annual Guys Snowboard Trip’ are not in attendance and now we have to be more gender-neutral since our friend Katy Stefanidou joined us from Munich. This year the snowboard trip is in Kaprun, Austria. It’s …
Feb
03
Machinima
— Update — This one is even funnier. From Wow. Lethal Weapon spoof. Thanks to my friend Dan for this gem. This is actually the third “machinima” I have watched after reading about the phenomenon in Wired.I watched this one made to explain the French riots from the point of view of a poor black …
Feb
01
Pub Quiz – S02E03 & 04
xcnl > en Two sucky pub quizes in a row. We got 6th place BOTH times. Last week we had a kickass picture round (movies, 10 fo 10), and we did awesome at the general trivia, but we got 7 out of 20 in the music round and that doomed us. The funniest highlight of …