Wow, the last post I wrote on here was the first day of the year. That’s some serious neglect. Seriously, I have been doing a lot of travelling, and giving a lot of thought to the whole concept of travel lately. I travel for my new job more than any other job I’ve had, and …
Category Archive: General
Feb
17
Aug
27
Books that Changed Me
It’s funny, I never used to read non-fiction. I was solely an entertainment reader. My dad pointed this out to me a few times and tried to get me into reading some more educational books while I was in high school. I steadfastly refused to “get serious” with my reading choices. But at some point, …
Aug
23
Final Fantasy XII
It’s always a let down at the end. You just can’t spend nearly 80 hours (79 hours and 54 mintues to be exact) playing a game and then expect to be satisfied by the ending. I mean when’s the last time you played any game for eighty hours? Well, for me that’s easy: it was …
Aug
19
Friends Who Can Cook (and build their own computers)
It’s always nice to be invited to dinner at friends’. Especially if, as in the case of Tamara and Doug, they have a beautiful place in the country and really know how to cook. Yesterday we had the pleasure of driving to a part of the Dutch lanscape that we have never seen, a small …
Aug
04
Harry Potter VII and naked old people
Sometimes you just have one of those perfect summer days. They start with sleeping in, then slowly waking up with a lot of repositioning, cuddling, and half-asleep kisses. Then they continue with lunch on your sunlit balcony looking out at the trees in the neighbor’s backyard. Followed by a ride to the dunes, encampment on …
Jul
29
New Delhi
Photoset on Flickr Last week I was in New Delhi for work. It was the third time I had travelled to India. I had been once previously when I was about eleven, and once again in 2000 for my previous company. Both times previously I had been to see the Taj Mahal, which is still …
Jul
22
Hong Kong – Part 2
My last piece of sentimentality about my trip to Hong Kong, and my trip to Number 8 Old Peak Road, where I used to live happily on the fifteenth floor. * * * I took a walk down to the park at the bottom of the street and walked back up, mainly to …
Jul
22
Hong Kong – Part 1
Photoset on Flickr I hadn’t been back to Hong Kong in seventeen years. When I left I was a skinny, comic-book collecting, fourteen year old boy, and it was after living in the fabulous city for two years. Now I was back for a two day business trip. Hong Kong was the last stop in …
Jun
05
Hot or Not
So we get a lot of crappy TV here in the Netherlands. I think this “America’s Hottest Blah Blah Blah” was on a while ago in the US, but we were watching it tonight and this gem came up. Scenario: Dorky looking guy who got rejected giving his sound bite: “Being hot is 90% mental …
May
23
My New Wii
I know, it’s been a long time since I wrote anything. I got my cast off about a month ago, but was just out of the habit. So I didn’t write about going to Brugges (in Belgium) to play frisbee for three days, I won’t tell you about my trip to Paris last weekend (mainly …