This story about painted statues makes me happy for some undefinable* reason: Call them gaudy, call them kitsch, but archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target. Do check it, if only for the pictures (there is a gallery). *) Not really, I am just too lazy for … Read More

There is by the way a real chance, when taking street photos of static objects, that the Google Street View camera outdoes you. (And I ain’t just talking quantity.) The reasons I am OK with that, yet: The Google Street View camera does not make selections of the photos it likes best, whereas I do. … Read More

It is true that even after all these years, the city and I don’t get along that well. But I am glad to be back, even if for only a few days a week. Zoetermeer is never more than a destination. Here I get to bike to work, maybe stopping at Simon Meijsen’s to buy … Read More

In the past three weeks four relatively new devices I own with a combined worth of well over 500 euro broke down, and there’s nothing I am going to do about it. The IKEA alarm clock is probably still under warranty, but it will cost me the price of the damn thing alone to even … Read More

Well, not alive live… Across from the place on the Ferdinand Bolstraat where they sell belts there is a place where they will punch holes in belts, and I am guessing they are sort of ashamed of charging money for such a simple activity, so they don’t. Recently they put a tip jar on the … Read More

This, apparently, is the coolest thing in bike-land right now. Can you tell? Surely being cool and rusty is reason enough to take up two parking spots.

(This post is aimed at an audience of which every member speaks Dutch, and not every one of them may speak English, so the rest is in Dutch.) XS4All biedt zijn abonnees een ‘gratis’ virusscanner aan, en helaas heeft de provider voor het gebruiksonvriendelijkst product * gekozen, te weten McAfee (of McAffee als je zoals … Read More

That morning I found a square egg in the coop. I could see nothing remarkable about the chicken. It was the small brown one. I took the egg. It looked perfectly square, and felt so too. I studied it from all sides, but apart from its shape it was a normal chicken egg. Mary gave … Read More

The Dutch press have adopted Russian cyclist Denis Menchov as an honorary citizen. He is after all the leader of the only Dutch team participating in the Tour de France. Who else would we cheer for? So we cheer for the impassive Russian. Menchov has won a couple of Grand Tours, which is impressive, but … Read More

This fellow let me get as close as two metres. No idea what had drawn him there.