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. *Â Â Â Â Â * Â Â Â * I took a walk down to the park at the bottom of the street and Read more…
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 Read more…
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: Read more…
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 Read more…
It’s that time of the season again. Trees are blooming, the weather is warming, birds are singing, all of which put me in the mood to… buy new toys for myself! My latest acquisition is a digital photo printer. Yesterday, after coming back from a shopping trip to the Hague Read more…
…I think I will subscribe either myself or Darien (who has made the casino his second home while Magreet and the baby are away) as test subjects for the highly interesting Journal of Gambling Studies. Another quality publication from Springer (my employer). Who knows. Maybe they have some good no-limit Read more…
Now, I just came back from a week long ski trip with my brother Mark and he never mentioned anything about this, so you can imagine my surprise when I received this (incomplete) email from Alena (xpcemonocg@net.br): How are you? My name is Alena. I from Russia, city Cheboksary. To Read more…
The call came on Monday while I was on vacation in France. “I am very happy to inform you that we received the grade from your professor and it was sufficient to allow you to graduate,” said the Registrar of the Rotterdam School of Management. Whew. The problem was that Read more…
I used to have a Mad magazine that would advertise “Completetly useless hand grenades for sale, missing firing pins” right next to “hand grade firing pins for sale” on the back cover. I checked my RSS feeds today and saw these two items right on top of each other: 2 Read more…
This should have been the Watergate of the Bush administration. Instead this schmuck Libby takes the fall and Bush and Cheney walk away without a scracth. Does anyone believe that this guy leaks info to reporters on ANYTHING without the express consent of his boss? Come on. I’m happy that Read more…