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Before I forget: I recently visited a new museum.
Okay, it's gimmicky. However, I have never seen what they can do with high-definition 3-D TV these days before. It's pretty wild.
Riverruns through it, the public diary of a myriad-minded man.
Yours Truly
circa 2007
Cut and Thrust (comments)
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All uncredited photos & films are mine and free to use, Woody Guthrie style.
About "The Oracle of Amsterdam"
- Toby Sterling
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- I'm just this guy, you know? Any opinions I accidentally express on this site are not those of my employer. Old friends (or foes, for the nostalgia) from Palo Alto, Swarthmore, Rome, Philadelphia, Paris, Berkeley or Amsterdam feel free to drop me a line...
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Quotes
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
(Pope)
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
(variously attributed)
Omnia Vanitas
(Ecclesiastes)
Gnothi Seauton
(Delphic Oracle)
If you want to tell people the truth, make 'em laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you.
(Wilde)
Axioms, Maxims
-Admire ability, respect effort.
-Us IS Them.
-There is nothing that many people spend lots of time and energy on that has no value.
-Everybody's Self-Interested.
-Almost everybody is trying to do the right thing
-Comedy and tragedy share irony.
-People who care most should count most, and mostly they do.
Blog Archive
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2008
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April
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- Queens' Day 2008 / Koninginnedag
- Two Beers for Queensday
- A new plan for bike safety in the Netherlands
- Bike Injuries and Deaths in the Netherlands
- Burn baby Burn
- EUR500,000 for Hot Eel Sex!
- Wait...what? Amsterdam forgets its 200th anniversary
- Allochtonen enter Free at Zwarte Cross Metal/Motor...
- Amsterdam trash recycling and a Refrigerator on a ...
- In Defense of Tom Cruise
- Dutch Parliament swears in substitute for pregnan...
- Lunatic in the Netherlands takes whole "pitfall" i...
- Salah Edin vs. Geert Wilders
- No sex before marriage = no sex...ever?
- The Sad Tale of the extra lane of the A-1 Highway
- "Don't Destroy Me Tree" Destroyed
- Corpus
- Digging "The Next Web" _ and free beer
- Rik Rollen
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April
(19)
Hope Springs Eternal
Lethe River
The one in Alaska's Valley of 10,000 Smokes, not in the Greek underworld, thankfully. Credit to Tom Miller on Wikipedia under a GNU licence.
Links I - Projects of Friends & Relations
- Reflexa Europe - Sellers of Reflect-All Paint
- One Summer in Arkansas (Marcia Sterling's novel)
- SocialText wiki guru (Ross Mayfield)
- Pete Chen - Mind and Music
- Cheek and Bluster _ Derek Wood
- My Sister Rachel
- Volapuk, blogging from Belgium while it lasts
- Website Stats - OpenTracker
- Saving the Sierras (jesikah Ross)
- Musician Mo Levone (MySpace)
- Cralan - Poet
- Amsterdam Poets Circle - WordsInHere
- Pig Iron Theater Co. (Quinn Bauriedel)
- Artiste - Marieke van de Boogaart
- Superwoman = Nafeesa Monroe
- Ad Design - Bas van Hemert
Links II - Amsterdam + Netherlands
Links III - Dutch Language (in het nederlands dus!)
CV a.k.a. Resume
Offsite Content
Hypocrite!
Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξὺς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερὴ, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή
Life is short, and Craft immense, the Moment is fleeting, to Try is treacherous, and Decision, difficult.
Life is short, and Craft immense, the Moment is fleeting, to Try is treacherous, and Decision, difficult.
Manifesto
“No man is the lord of anything, / Though in and of him there be much consisting, / Till he communicate his parts to others.” (Troilus and Cressida, 3.3.115–17)
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