Interdependent Thoughts

I will be in London from Tuesday Sept 22nd late afternoon until Friday Sept 25th morning.

Walking in the city center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this afternoon, I saw this person fixing their bike.

Een literaire memoire van Connie Palmen‘s wording.

Service announcement: I have updated my NOW page.

This week it’s been a year since my long time friend and business partner Frank died.

Today school started again, and Y is now going to the final year of primary school, group 8.

A year ago I read Libraries of the Mind by William Marx, and some of it is still very much on my mind ever since.

Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld (Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me.

Looking at the websites of some AI events and their programmes.

I today replaced the last handful of embedded Flickr images with self hosted copies, that merely link back to the source at Flickr.

Gespot in Maastricht afgelopen weekend.

Yesterday we saw the sun set at the beach near Zandvoort.

The past few days I read two titles by Kurt Vonnegut, because they were mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton that I read last month.

One hand was raised when I asked "Who has read or looked at the actual EU Inc legal proposal itself?"

I came across a recommendation by Cory Doctorow of Jo Walton‘s work, on July 1st.

It’s summer, hot and dry, and we spent the week in London, not quite the right place to cool down.

A 19th century warren next to Regent’s Canal.

The past week in London we also visited the British Library for a bit, reading and writing while enjoying coffee.

A year ago we were in Paris to visit a very large exhibition of the work of David Hockney.

I think the last time E and I met Ivo Gormley was in 2012, when we had a pleasant dinner together on Great Queen Street talking about what it was like as a Londoner to have the Olympics take place in your own living environment.

In reply to The three cornered container by Chris Corrigan What stands out to me reading this, is that I feel I have an intrinsic preference for the emergent area of the triad.

In reply to Learning How to be Idle on Vacation by Peter Rukavina Your post resonates a lot, Peter.

This spring E took down her WordPress blog and replaced it with a static website.

A lovely novella and the 2022 debut by francophone Swiss author Fanny Desarzens (1993).

It’s been a while since my last post in the Books category early February, 32 fiction books further by my count.