Brian Bishop

Here’s an annoying difference between Europe and the States: dry cleaning costs a fortune here. Which is strange, because you’d think that since the average business dress code is more formal here than in the US, that more people would have dry cleaning to do and therefore the prices would Read more…

So I’m on UFO 2. The second of four frisbee teams that Utrecht fields. We actually play under the name UFO 3 due to a naming mishap at the Nederland Frisbee Bond, the bureaucratic organization that organizes frisbee in the Netherlands (you simply cannot escape the bureaucracy in this country). Read more…

My company has a large office in Heidelberg, Germany, which I have been to probably six or seven times. Heidelberg is one of those quaint little European towns with cobblestone streets in the old part of town, nice gothic cathedrals, and a castle which overlooks the town from up on Read more…

If you read my last post about moving, I talked about how beautiful the day was when I came back from dropping Ann off at the airport. Here’s some proof. Dordrecht’s Scheffer’s plein (1.8MB .asf file)

There’s good news about poker night, and there’s bad news. The good news is that we have finally migrated to “no limit”, and we have moved into that phase of gambling degeneracy. We have moved into the phase where the adrenaline shoots into your veins as you calmly look across Read more…