It’s always a let down at the end. Â You just can’t spend nearly 80 hours (79 hours and 54 mintues to be exact) playing a game and then expect to be satisfied by the ending. I mean when’s the last time you played any game for eighty hours? Well, for Read more…
It’s always nice to be invited to dinner at friends’. Especially if, as in the case of Tamara and Doug, they have a beautiful place in the country and really know how to cook. Yesterday we had the pleasure of driving to a part of the Dutch lanscape that we Read more…
Sometimes you just have one of those perfect summer days. They start with sleeping in, then slowly waking up with a lot of repositioning, cuddling, and half-asleep kisses. Then they continue with lunch on your sunlit balcony looking out at the trees in the neighbor’s backyard. Followed by a ride Read more…
Photoset on Flickr Last week I was in New Delhi for work. It was the third time I had travelled to India. I had been once previously when I was about eleven, and once again in 2000 for my previous company. Both times previously I had been to see the Read more…
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…
…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…