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2011

Full disclosure 2011-12-01

Dear you, self-appointed stranger from outer space,

it took me Dream On, after Turning Tables, Light Up the World and Don’t Stop Believin’ before I got started tonight. Spotify is good at hinting inspiring tunes. More truly, both my psychologist and my recent muse have advised I elaborate on …

Picture of the mind 2011-11-29

As the big “other” writing thing is nearly complete, time has come to resume over here.

Today’s question was what occupies my mind. The question came at the corner of a conversation where I had to hear first how “not transparent” I appear to be in my social interactions …

Reading and writing in the third age 2011-08-01

A hundred and sixty pages in eight weeks. Twenty pages per week. Four pages per day. This constitutes the challenge I have set for myself, to report my work activities of the past three years. The global view must be collected entirely in writing before October, because past that time …

Your lesson for the week-end 2011-06-25
The core of hatred 2011-03-16

A recent video of a victim turning against his bully has made the news and is being discussed on MeFi. A specific comment is worth reading twice:

You know, something just struck me.

People relentlessly bullied as children never forget that bullying. They remember faces, names, places, and the precise …

Trein, 12 maart 2011 2011-03-12
Sweetness
Smoothness
Rigid meets the tongue
Pleasure
Explosion, taste
It melts — Goduria!
Bitter and sweet
Warm to swallow
—oh tasty fluids
Wanting more.

Chocolate, orange flavoured

What is the true cost of wealth? 2011-03-12

In his essay Mind the Gap, Paul Graham (a well known LISP supporter and brilliant programmer) defends that wealth is not something you steal away, that it is something you can create.

As an example he cites the wealth creation performed by Apple, driven by Steve Jobs, where the accrued …

Gent, 5 maart 2011 2011-03-12
Bamboe
voor een muur
open raam
werkzaamheden
doorzicht, door het gebouw heen
kijken naar de plein
een café
verdieping
uitzicht op bamboe
uitzicht op de plein
—in de verte
zittend in een café
met uitzicht tot honderd meter
—door een muur
—door de vernieuwing
— van oud naar nieuw
— van leeg …
Fishing for new avenues 2011-02-22

A bit annoyed at myself for missing the January update. Somehow at the end of last year I set myself as a goal to post at least monthly, and I didn’t start 2011 very well. I’ll try to make up for it, promise.

Also I celebrated this month …