Ramblings
Spectacle of Death
What is it about a slow, televised death that is so fascinating? I come home from MBA class, turn on the TV, and find out that what everyone has been speculating for two days is now official: Pope John Paul Read more…
What is it about a slow, televised death that is so fascinating? I come home from MBA class, turn on the TV, and find out that what everyone has been speculating for two days is now official: Pope John Paul Read more…
Ann left two days ago. Guess how long it’s been since I left the apartment. You guessed it. Two days. Actually, today I went to Utrecht with my bike to go to a pickup game of ultimate. Utrecht is an Read more…
There’s good news about poker night, and there’s bad news. The good news is that we have finally migrated to “no limitâ€, and we have moved into that phase of gambling degeneracy. We have moved into the phase where the Read more…
So while I was on the 2nd Annual Guys Snowboarding Trip I decided to see what it would look like if I grew a beard. While my swarthy half-Turkish genes were certainly up to the task, there’s just so much Read more…
Go to pictures and videos. For the tenth time in two months I’m on a plane. I’m somewhere above America, flying from Salt Lake City to Newark on my way back to the Netherlands. It’s going to take me two Read more…
I take back what I said about it never snowing in the Netherlands. I take it back because I am sitting on a train instead of a plane. My flight from Frankfurt back to Amsterdam was cancelled because of a Read more…
The last time I saw Nieves was almost four years ago. She came for the US wedding of our friends Ken and Sole, which was in the summer of 2001. Nieves was one of the au pair crop that Ken Read more…
Ann’s mom Sabine and her boyfriend Rik are visiting for the first time! We are very glad to host them, but we have to keep Sabine out of the kitchen because she has a nasty habit of breaking all our Read more…