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BBP
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Nice! Smiley choreography!
Not much is happening here for me now... still doing my rounds. This morning I had to jump into my neighborhood instead of my usual round. It sucks:
it's HUGE.
Yesterday I joined Curryfest, a fan forum for Curry fans. Discovered I'm still reasonably "sane", but it's the nicest place I've been to where there
are pretty much no men at all. At least I haven't seen any.
And my Frankenstein videos are faring well with it!
Bought a Fraggle Rock DVD. Gosh. They're boring.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Found out to my horror that one of the rides in my favourite-place-in-the-world De Efteling, a wooden coaster called Pegasus (from 1991) has been
demolished. As it was the first large rollercoaster and the first woodie I ever rode, I have a lot of cherished memories to it... particularly that
bend at the end where the lateral Gs nearly bruise your ribs. Oof!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9dh2WVM9yg Before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFuxMGU0k0 After. |
Aren't you lying here?
According to my memory your first large wooden was the anaconda near Metz in 1993 or so
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BBP
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I definitely went into Pegasus in 1993, that was with Kzryzstov (or however he spelled his name) and with uncle, sister and aunt. We didn't go to Metz
until 1994.
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BBP
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But I was lying there. My favourite place in the world is my bed.
Not much happened today... had an unsuccessful visit to the second-hand store in Geldop...
And my E-drive crashed again. Need to run ScanDisk next time I can get it to work.
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BBP
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Went to the dentist. I'm all-right!
But for some reason (probably ten solid years of no problems whatsoever), my dentist wanted me to have an X-ray taken. First time... very strange, one
of those things straight from the heads of science-fiction writers... and not too pleasant to keep your tongue curled up for thirty seconds. But there
was no problem whatsoever... no infections, no cavities, wisdom tooth coming up on the left...
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BBP
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Tomorrow DED will be leaving to pick up grandma. He'll take her back home to The Hague. Hope she can get around there...
Not to mention the house will be empty for four days when he's gone...
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Let's have a party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BBP
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Sure! But you'll have to bring your own booze.
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BBP
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Still battling loneliness here... don't think DED has web access there.
Went to the supermarket. Fortunately I could go early with my rounds and all, but it's half an hour cycling... and half an hour back when loaded with
milk and OJ. Oh well... leek at 19 cents for 500 grams...
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BBP
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Fighting the third day of loneliness and my own cooking. Fortunately I'm not that much a picky eater...
My potato soup was great, but when it lasts 2 days, it just becomes a bit too much. And today I made something else that will last 2 days: gnocchi.
We're having way too much potatoes right now.
I managed to complete the Gabriel Knight section of my website. Sort of. I hope I can still tune it up by tomorrow.
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BBP
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A traincrash happened here last night. Two freight trains crashed head-on into each other at the Barendrecht train station, and a passenger train
narrowly escaped disaster when it crashed into the collision at low speed. One of the freight train drivers died of his injuries.
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BBP
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Yesterday we went to visit my grandmother for her birthday. She is 86 today. Hence my silence.
I finished knitting the larger version of the sleeveless sweater I made earlier. It's still too short. The thing about knitwear is, when you stretch
it horizontally, it'll significally shrink vertically.
Hmmm. Maybe I just need fatter arms for my vest.
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whatever, if it's knit and warm and still acts like clothing, I'd wear it.
is it that big green thing I've seen pictures of?
a friend made a knit hat that started from a point, but the 'w' pattern got all wrong and the colors didn't age well...
It was her first hat and she didn't like it much, but I used it for many years. She ended up going ahead and making hats and socks and stuff for years
and ended up selling many in a local market...
nice stuff, she charged $40 for a hat ten years ago...
I'm lucky for all the friends I have, but this friend I mention, I haven't seen in nearly a year.
I don't worry or fret. I know she'll be fine. She's got good socks to wear.
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BBP
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Oh yeah! My little green monster. (Little? It's nearly bigger than me!)
Yesterday my sister and I walked over to the nearby museum of modern art: Van Abbemuseum. They have a great exhibition on El Lissitzky, a Russian
avant-garde architect/painter/designer.
Lissitzky made various compositions he named prouns, seemingly random compositions of shapes but on closer inspection they do appear to make sense.
Some of his artworks have been recreated in 3d, like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQY42GhdSyc
Fountain of The Gravediggers.
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punknaynowned
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the zforum is so sad
there's so much stupid  I can't bear to watch.
Even the politics has become so poisoned here, smart people are letting the idiots run things and nobody seems to care about FACTS!
I can't talk to people if they wont start from facts. If you want to talk about fantasy, fine. But let's start that conversation by saying something
like , 'Let's just talk about nothing,' and I'd be fine with it.
But people insisting they are right and arguing tooth and nail over it and not even know the facts. And our tv news is ALL opinion, no more info
unless it's NPR ... education is bad enough here.
Now, without an awareness of difference between fact and fiction, there is no way people can learn critical thinking skills.
I'm sorry, not your fault.
Not your country, not your language.
I guess I'm feeling pretty alone...
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BBP
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No... it's... I know how it feels. And the Z-forum is definitely not the only forum I'm on that suffers this. There's not much to do on the Z-forum
nowadays... I sometimes add a vid on the YouTube thread that nobody watches, or tell about my day that nobody reads, or tell about a film I saw the
other day... The Internet is no longer the medium of the intellectual and the geeky. It's the medium of everybody. Without Internet you can't even
follow school anymore. So all the schoolkids everywhere get online... and that's where the LOLCatz come in.
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thanx B! I think you are right. Your insight that now everyone is online all the time helps me put things in perspective and try again to be more
patient.
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BBP
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If you like we could start a BB vs Punky Battle Of The Wits down there...
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hahahaha I couldn't find a way to disagree that much with you and then I'd let you win
great idea though!!!
I really enjoyed finding youtube clips and stringing them together, like a travelogue: end up acting like windows for travel intended to spark
imagination. The people who liked them were already inclined to that sort of thing. Everybody else said, 'What are you doing? What are you trying
to do?'
Maybe I should include more clips where things blow up or people make fools of themselves...
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BBP
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I've been thinking about doing stuff like that with YouTube films... not sure if I have the right means though.
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