Well, Queen's day is upon us. 24 hours from now the canals will be filled with bumper to bumper boats, beer will flow through the streets, men everywhere will be urinating in public, pack-rats (Some
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Well, Queen's day is upon us. 24 hours from now the canals will be filled with bumper to bumper boats, beer will flow through the streets, men everywhere will be urinating in public, pack-rats (Some
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It's important to get out of your daily routine and get back to nature, even if you didn't really come from nature to begin with, you can go back and pretend. That's what the staff of the internation
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WE INTERRUPT THIS POST TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY REVOLUTION DAY! 25 DE ABRIL 1974
Yes it has been 30 years since Portugal's carnation revolution. I can't tell you how much I wish I was in Lisbon thi
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What really made my week: my houseboat neighbors slapping together a pseudo boat, just in time for Koninginnedag (Queens Day) It started several months ago, as far as I can tell something like
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It is not often that one particular article can cause me to get so upset and generally horrified about the author and anyone who might believe in him/her. But the latest issue of Foreign Policy has a
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Progress is made, at a very slow pace. The proposal is slowly being rebuilt, and in the process - I'm discovering new weblogs and uses for weblogs. Though I could do without the excessively clever t
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Slight crisis in my world, my PhD proposal got heavily criticized by an important scholar. I still have one month to get it ship-shape, but this is a major setback, and from now til then I'll be
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I'd like to remind readers that I fully intend to publish this blog every other day usually around this time. Despite my recent lapse for an extra day or so, I just wanted to renew that garuntee.
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