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annoying extras
if we wanted to take pictures of this hindu temple we had to pay a fee (on top of the entrance fee). i dislike extra fees, so i tucked the camera in my bag and only shot this one from the outside....
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here we go again
one of the happiest days of the year is the one i get to say my mom “see you tomorrow”, knowing that i will really see her the next day. :) have a nice christmas everyone, and see you on the other...
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get your act together!
i don’t do a lot of posts where i complain, but the cats saga is taking its toll on us. our return tickets were long booked on british airways, but if we knew it’d be such a nightmare to ship the cats...
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yesterday, a french tourist asked us for some directions to a nearby hill. straightforward stuff, follow us, and on that road go straight ahead till you get to the top. and then, as i visualized the...
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looking for plan b
currently floating in a sea of drupal modules and dreaming of winning the jackpot and building a spacious loft, with minimalist decoration and lots of windows. also, of doing some sort of masters in...
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if it was my home (country)
ifitwasmyhome.com is a little google maps mashup that lets you visualize the bp oil spill by superimposing it on your current location. these things are always tricky to visualise, for lack of...
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“and so the games started and the country went wild, as expected. for some reason though, i’m not feeling it. shanghai is hot, the media seems to only focus on what they see fit… maybe all this...
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a list update: 22% done!
i’ve crossed quite a few random things off my 101 things in 1001 days‘ list in the past few months, so it’s time for a list update. let’s see… – riding a paddle boat: check! i spent my birthday this...
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sir nicholas winton
on the same day the postcrossing stamp was launched, czech post also launched a stamp to honour nicholas winton. sir winton is known as the british schindler, for having saved over 600 jewish children...
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“all that red on the map, like a blood stain”
the morning after the US election, i heard someone utter that description of the results and it stuck. stunned and spinning and scrambling for explanations, the world puzzled at the websummit, the...
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george dantzig’s story goes a bit like this: he got late for class in college one day, saw 2 math problems on the board, assumed they were homework and copied them down (not knowing they were famous...
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the long run
some time ago, we were talking with a friend who works with kids at risk — many of whom the parents seem to have simply given up on as “too much trouble”… and it got me thinking about the long run....
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nothing matters
TGD: It takes a certain amount of confidence to sketch something and throw it out there without second guessing yourself. Do you think that comes from having done so much of that, from such a young...
View ArticleOù voulez-vous aller aujourd’hui?
yesterday, a french tourist asked us for some directions to a nearby hill. straightforward stuff, follow us, and on that road go straight ahead till you get to the top. and then, as i visualized the...
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looking for plan b
currently floating in a sea of drupal modules and dreaming of winning the jackpot and building a spacious loft, with minimalist decoration and lots of windows. also, of doing some sort of masters in...
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if it was my home (country)
ifitwasmyhome.com is a little google maps mashup that lets you visualize the bp oil spill by superimposing it on your current location. these things are always tricky to visualise, for lack of...
View Articleolympics
“and so the games started and the country went wild, as expected. for some reason though, i’m not feeling it. shanghai is hot, the media seems to only focus on what they see fit… maybe all this...
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a list update: 22% done!
i’ve crossed quite a few random things off my 101 things in 1001 days‘ list in the past few months, so it’s time for a list update. let’s see… – riding a paddle boat: check! i spent my birthday this...
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sir nicholas winton
on the same day the postcrossing stamp was launched, czech post also launched a stamp to honour nicholas winton. sir winton is known as the british schindler, for having saved over 600 jewish children...
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