People are really nuts. And sometimes that nuttiness spills over into the workplace. Just read this article on CNN about a woman suing because she didn’t like the “team-building” practices of her company: Employees were paddled with rival companies’ yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams Read more…
So without a partner, living in Dordrecht isn’t much fun. Therefore, I decided to move to the Hague. Bigger, nicer town and I know people there and I know they have good Indian food. The good news is there’s a huge amount of supply of available apartments. The bad news Read more…
This entire case is an exercise in the farcical. First, the prosecutors bungle the MOST IMPORTANT case related to 9/11 (because it’s the ONLY case about the whole damn thing) by tainting witnesses and generally acting like incompetents. But if that wasn’t enough, then this nutcase of a defendant gets Read more…
I forgot to post an entry after our last pub quiz two weeks ago. We finished sixth that time, only 4 points away from first place. Last night though we had a full team (thanks to the addition of Darien) and we started kicking ass right from the beginning. The Read more…
You may not know this, but I am something of an impulse buyer. Usually that just means walking out of the gas station with a few extra bags of hard candy or potato chips, or sometimes taking a break from snowboarding and coming back with a new board. Today it Read more…
This country is full of thieves. Okay, so I left my bike unlocked. But listen to the whole story. I walk out the door this morning and it’s the one day I don’t jiggle my pants to make sure I hear the reassuring clink of my keys. So now I’m Read more…
I would have been better off leasing a Lexus. I took my Justy to the mechanic this morning because a week ago it started acting weird. Jerking, making bad grinding and screeching noises, revving the engine when I took my foot off the brake, stuff like that. Of course, I Read more…
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en It’s good to see that some things never change. Before the fall of the Taliban I used to read news stories about the crazy shit they would come up with each week and shake my head and say, “Oh those crazy Read more…
xcnl > en xcnl > en So, the last time I went to a Holland Casino to play poker was months and months ago in Amsterdam and I lost my shirt, then committed the cardinal sin of hitting the ATM for another shirt and losing that one as well. That’s Read more…