De Steen der Eigenwijzen - English

Anyway

I'm experimenting with Posterous, which is updated frequently, pictures and more. Wanna look?

Stage coach

Trying to save the newspaper industry by taxing the internet? What if a long time ago they'd have tried to save the stage coach by taxing railways, would we still be taking a coach to work?

Bloody cheapskates!

We always used to pump up our car tyres at the BP filling station. Yesterday were at the new Shell station around the corner and thought what the hell, let's give our tyres some air. You know what? At Shell's you have to pay! For bloody air! After silently giving them a couple of pointers about the orifice in which they might place the air hose we drove away again. Cheapskates! Selling air!

Cliffhanger

Nice neighbourhood

And then it turned out I live in one of the thickest districts in Utrecht:
Newcomer PVV^* did especially well in Overvecht (20 percent of the voters), Vleuten-De Meern (19%) and Zuilen (14%). In Veldhuizen/Vleuterweide and in the quarter around the Wolgadreef in Overvecht the party even became the biggest party.

*: Populist, anti-Islam, anti-foreigner, anti-EU, etc.

Elected

For the first time since many years, I got to contribute to a colouring book yesterday. I liked that, retro-elections with a red pencil. And finally since many years I voted for a party that got to win an extra seat thanks to me. But not, of course, for THE winner.

Site of the month

Hurrah! One of the sites my beloved has made, drummer Cezary Konrad's web site, has been elected website of the month for May.

Quote

I found this in The Poetry of Robert Frost, while reading in the garden. At a moment like that, a cameraphone is just great.

A very long poem

Antwerp keeps surprising us. This time with a very long (1100 metres) poem in the Saint-Anna tunnel. And a very wonderful poem too.

Little / greater

I think every Pole, seeing this photograph, can now understand why we sometimes refer to Belgium as Little Poland (and to Poland as Greater Belgium)