Europe

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

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

xcnl > en xcnl > en So the Table of Contents ()is among the top 17.5% of pub quiz teams in the Netherlands. We deduce this from the fact that today we finished 35th out of 199 total participating teams. It was a fun time, even if the place was Read more

xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en A few months before I went to Rome I had just finished watching the HBO miniseries and finished reading a great book about the ancient Roman Republic. I had never given much credit to the Read more

xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en (If you want to skip all this and just see the photos… click here) Let me start off by recommending against taking the night train to anywhere. I took the night train Read more

xcnl > en Two sucky pub quizes in a row. We got 6th place BOTH times. Last week we had a kickass picture round (movies, 10 fo 10), and we did awesome at the general trivia, but we got 7 out of 20 in the music round and that doomed Read more

Another good night. We got off to a rocky start when the pricks from the “Alpha” team took the table that we were moving toward and left us with their tiny round table. Dicks. I gathered up all their dirty dishes and sliverware and brought it over and dumped it Read more

So I get back from Christmas holiday and my friend Ian says, “I’m a fat bastard. We need to join a gym.” Since I stopped playing frisbee, and since the feeding frenzy that was my Christmas vacation, I gained almost ten pounds. I was right where I wanted to be Read more

So today was the first Murphy’s Pub Quiz of 2006, and the TOC was represent’in! 4th place. I thought we might get third, but alas. The theme for the evening was “events of 2005”. You’d think for news afficianados like us it would have been cake, but we had questions Read more