Books by Karen Lord 🔗
Earlier this week I read We Will Rise Again, a selection of short sf hopepunk stories and accompanying essays centered on civil disobedience, resistan [...]
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September 9, 2026 7:14 PM
I will be in London from Tuesday Sept 22nd late afternoon until Friday Sept 25th morning. I will be in London ao for Big Data LDN. [...]
Saturday Is For Chores 🔗
Walking in the city center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this afternoon, I saw this person fixing their bike. In the midst of shoppers, tools were spread out an [...]
Johnnie Walker van Connie Palmen 🔗
Een literaire memoire van Connie Palmen‘s wording. N.a.v. wat Palmen er in een interview in de Volkskrant over zei had ik heel veel zin in dit boek. W [...]
NOW Page Update 🔗
Service announcement: I have updated my NOW page. A Now page contains the general activities I’m spending time on these days. It contains the things I [...]
Where I Am Now 🔗
This week it’s been a year since my long time friend and business partner Frank died. And it’s been two years and three months since I realised I was [...]
Last First Day of Primary School 🔗
Today school started again, and Y is now going to the final year of primary school, group 8. For each of the school years we took a photo of her leavi [...]
Comparative Literature As Core Need In Desk Research and AI As Tool 🔗
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. Particularly what William Marx calle [...]
Brainbaking on Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter 🔗
Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld (Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me. Using artefac [...]
August 20, 2026 10:30 AM
Looking at the websites of some AI events and their programmes. Hundreds of sessions over several days. You’d think that they’d expect you to have you [...]
Last Flickr Embeds Finally Removed 🔗
I today replaced the last handful of embedded Flickr images with self hosted copies, that merely link back to the source at Flickr. This way I am cert [...]
Is zoervleisj een soort rendang? 🔗
Gespot in Maastricht afgelopen weekend. Is zoervleisj een soort rendang? Enquiring minds want to know. Wel zoervleisj gegeten vrijdagavond, maar gehee [...]
Eclipse 🔗
Yesterday we saw the sun set at the beach near Zandvoort. We were there because of the 89% or so solar eclipse that peaked around eight in the evening [...]
Cat’s Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 🔗
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. The protagonist [...]
On Reading and Influencing EU Legal Proposals – The Timeline 🔗
One hand was raised when I asked "Who has read or looked at the actual EU Inc legal proposal itself?" in a session where we discussed the EU Inc propo [...]
Thessaly / Philosopher Kings Trilogy by Jo Walton 🔗
I came across a recommendation by Cory Doctorow of Jo Walton‘s work, on July 1st. I bought a range of her works then, and in the past month read what [...]
Week Notes 31-26 London Edition 🔗
It’s summer, hot and dry, and we spent the week in London, not quite the right place to cool down. A week of dunking ourselves from the almost too col [...]
Camden Market 🔗
A 19th century warren next to Regent’s Canal. Back in 2018 I walked through here along the canal from King’s Cross to Regent’s Park with friends remem [...]
Zines at the British Library 🔗
The past week in London we also visited the British Library for a bit, reading and writing while enjoying coffee. Many people used the publicly access [...]
My Smallest David Hockney Exhibition 🔗
A year ago we were in Paris to visit a very large exhibition of the work of David Hockney. It was amazing, and we spent much more time there than anti [...]
The Good Gym Is Still Running 🔗
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 [...]
The three cornered container 🔗
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 e [...]
Learning How to be Idle on Vacation 🔗
In reply to Learning How to be Idle on Vacation by Peter Rukavina Your post resonates a lot, Peter. In my journey of the last years overcoming burn-ou [...]
Static Website Envy 🔗
This spring E took down her WordPress blog and replaced it with a static website. In the past weeks she did the same for her business website (and add [...]
Berghütte / Galel by Fanny Desarzens 🔗
A lovely novella and the 2022 debut by francophone Swiss author Fanny Desarzens (1993). I read the German translation, titled Berghütte (mountain cabi [...]