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<title>Zooadventurer</title><link>http://zooadventurer.com/index.php</link><description>a traveler at home</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2006 Conrad</dc:rights><dc:date>2008-10-27T21:35:32+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 09:50:37 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Zooadventurer" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>8 Days To Go</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-10-27T21:35:32+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/56K-PejwYYo/8-days-to-go.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/8-days-to-go.html#unique-entry-id-205</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[click picture


Crazier things happened...   Vote smart.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/8-days-to-go.html#unique-entry-id-205</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Falling Man</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-09-11T00:44:07+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/BRsaiFSW0Jo/The-Falling-Man.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/The-Falling-Man.html#unique-entry-id-204</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Falling Man: Richard Drew's photograph.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/The-Falling-Man.html#unique-entry-id-204</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>‘Heaven Is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens’</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-08-19T19:38:21+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/cgFk-SP-j_E/805a0dd895251064bada64946bf1fcb9-203.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/805a0dd895251064bada64946bf1fcb9-203.html#unique-entry-id-203</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[By Nathan Coley.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/805a0dd895251064bada64946bf1fcb9-203.html#unique-entry-id-203</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>More Lego</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-07-07T20:40:27+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/d631zcQiF2M/More-Lego.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/More-Lego.html#unique-entry-id-202</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Iconic pictures in Lego.   Here are some more: link.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/More-Lego.html#unique-entry-id-202</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>More Monsters</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Design</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-07-03T21:03:36+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/sJgP_D-O5bM/more-monsters.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/more-monsters.html#unique-entry-id-201</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Graphics by Dmitry Maksimov.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/more-monsters.html#unique-entry-id-201</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Lost Tribes Of The Amazone</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World </category><dc:date>2008-05-31T19:19:25+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Hz7zIXsB6ME/Lost-Tribes-Of-The-Amazone.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Lost-Tribes-Of-The-Amazone.html#unique-entry-id-200</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t we all wish to say &rdquo;Get Lost&rdquo; at times?   Almost can imagine the black person (woman?)   shouting to the red guys: &rdquo;Shoot the bastards.   Shoot that thing!!&rdquo;. 


Bet by now they already packed there things and got lost again.   I would.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Lost-Tribes-Of-The-Amazone.html#unique-entry-id-200</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Rewind City</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2008-05-29T10:11:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Ml1PbBO82Gk/Rewind-City-Orange-Tv.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Rewind-City-Orange-Tv.html#unique-entry-id-196</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Backpackers, travelers, and other lost boys or girls back in the drudgery of home not so sweet home and dull 9to5 jobs, what if we could live those best moments again?   Have a look at this  ad by Orange TV and enjoy (why resist?)   that invisible little teardrop of recognition. 


Hey, face it, I am a sentimental guy so I like it. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Rewind-City-Orange-Tv.html#unique-entry-id-196</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Wedding And An Earthquack</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-05-26T09:37:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/2z2crcQ8SFg/A-Wedding-And-An-Earthquack.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A-Wedding-And-An-Earthquack.html#unique-entry-id-195</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Guess every wedding ends up in shambles, but this is a bit unfair.   ::Link::
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A-Wedding-And-An-Earthquack.html#unique-entry-id-195</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Biggest Drawing In The World</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2008-05-25T11:39:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/5higpLn2RaI/Biggest-drawing-in-the-world.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Biggest-drawing-in-the-world.html#unique-entry-id-194</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Gosh, a guy (artist!)   who did send a parcel (with a GPS) by DHL to make a gigantic self portrait. ::link::


Edit: Seems this was a hoax, see here]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Biggest-drawing-in-the-world.html#unique-entry-id-194</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Action Food</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-05-17T09:20:55+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/T4nOK2wzJ_0/Action-Food.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Action-Food.html#unique-entry-id-193</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Action-Food.html#unique-entry-id-193</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Life Goes On</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-05-05T11:08:06+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/k-TSfrlXmMM/4fb7030da6341c53707d5d3ad0ad4216-192.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4fb7030da6341c53707d5d3ad0ad4216-192.html#unique-entry-id-192</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4fb7030da6341c53707d5d3ad0ad4216-192.html#unique-entry-id-192</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Get Doodling! How to Waste Time at Work</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-03-08T23:44:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/EL0o2a0F7AY/0e40a44ea7096fc540b6a3f2271b42b1-191.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/0e40a44ea7096fc540b6a3f2271b42b1-191.html#unique-entry-id-191</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Backpackers, travelers, and other lost boys or girls back in the drudgery of home not so sweet home and dull 9to5 jobs, what if we could live those best moments again?   Have a look at this  ad by Orange TV and enjoy (why resist?)   that invisible little teardrop of recognition. 


Hey, face it, I am a sentimental guy so I like it. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/0e40a44ea7096fc540b6a3f2271b42b1-191.html#unique-entry-id-191</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Graphic Design is. . .</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Design</category><dc:date>2008-02-20T23:41:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/OiJtrmcxpO8/4422ad230452efe6ea3f59b2ecb990f4-190.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4422ad230452efe6ea3f59b2ecb990f4-190.html#unique-entry-id-190</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Month Veerle announced a "What is Graphic Design?"   Poster competition (with some cool prices to win too, yip).   Loads of entries followed, and well, some are really really nice.   It just picked two different approaches, one because I am a sucker for hand drawn fonts, the other cause squirrels are just plain cool. 


But hey, check it out yourself, more of those graphic gems are posted in this Flickr pool. 


edit: the winners are here.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4422ad230452efe6ea3f59b2ecb990f4-190.html#unique-entry-id-190</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Russian Election Day</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-03-02T23:39:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/YI5Yv91KeH4/fb3b747d729338e15f90a2fc71177fdd-189.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/fb3b747d729338e15f90a2fc71177fdd-189.html#unique-entry-id-189</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/fb3b747d729338e15f90a2fc71177fdd-189.html#unique-entry-id-189</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Lego World</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-02-29T23:37:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/aaVJHfg3HqE/Lego_world.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Lego_world.html#unique-entry-id-188</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Lego_world.html#unique-entry-id-188</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Pieces Of Text</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2008-02-18T23:36:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ZlYOdL5Vy0s/56bb056fdc5f9efbdf085736727ddb8b-187.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/56bb056fdc5f9efbdf085736727ddb8b-187.html#unique-entry-id-187</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Textpieces by Stefan Br&uuml;ggeman]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/56bb056fdc5f9efbdf085736727ddb8b-187.html#unique-entry-id-187</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Worldpressphoto 2008</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-02-12T23:35:05+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/0yz-aDxey1g/bf4e121723af093672e071ee1907ffaa-186.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/bf4e121723af093672e071ee1907ffaa-186.html#unique-entry-id-186</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Winner is Tim Hetherington, UK, working for Vanity Fair, with a picture of an American soldier resting at bunker, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 16 September.


Yeah, aren't we all tired of this war?
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/bf4e121723af093672e071ee1907ffaa-186.html#unique-entry-id-186</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mobile Living</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2008-02-11T23:32:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/IT5mUwDJ3ws/4e102e8ed85c7fa9199d618e7b794319-185.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4e102e8ed85c7fa9199d618e7b794319-185.html#unique-entry-id-185</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[  
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4e102e8ed85c7fa9199d618e7b794319-185.html#unique-entry-id-185</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>60 Years of Magnum Photos</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-02-11T23:29:56+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/BhOpw_iRmxs/9d9db06f0d6b838194413ba19a6e6227-184.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/9d9db06f0d6b838194413ba19a6e6227-184.html#unique-entry-id-184</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Finally the 60 Years of Magnum exhibition has arrived in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.   Explore those 60 years  yourself, loads of excellent pictures over here. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/9d9db06f0d6b838194413ba19a6e6227-184.html#unique-entry-id-184</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Putain</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-02-07T23:28:39+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/KgiGgQp6Cy0/73c31e06057af75ecb84fcfe1f8b9943-183.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/73c31e06057af75ecb84fcfe1f8b9943-183.html#unique-entry-id-183</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ photography: Marc Paeps . ::link::


The russian wishes all journalists a happy press freedom day.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/73c31e06057af75ecb84fcfe1f8b9943-183.html#unique-entry-id-183</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>White Cano: Peter Doig</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Design</category><dc:date>2008-02-05T23:24:34+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/pQ94qnzjz1U/dec8196169d70e3f64fab16eb34bf06c-182.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/dec8196169d70e3f64fab16eb34bf06c-182.html#unique-entry-id-182</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Peter Doig


White Canoe


1990-1, Oil on Canvas


200.5 x 243cm]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/dec8196169d70e3f64fab16eb34bf06c-182.html#unique-entry-id-182</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Map For Saturday</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2008-01-30T23:23:38+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/4IH6Zk_aTmE/8fdf425bc03825b5457ae84d0a633bfd-181.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/8fdf425bc03825b5457ae84d0a633bfd-181.html#unique-entry-id-181</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="355" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/0xyWnYJ1aUQ"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0xyWnYJ1aUQ" /></object>


End of January, another drab wednesday.   Life should be a bit more like on this video, not?


A MAP FOR SATURDAY is the product of a year&rsquo;s travel through 26 countries on four continents.   Emmy winning producer Brook Silva-Braga left his cushy gig with American TV network HBO to travel the world with five pounds of clothes and 30 pounds of video equipment.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/8fdf425bc03825b5457ae84d0a633bfd-181.html#unique-entry-id-181</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tag Cloud: State Of The Union</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2008-01-29T23:22:58+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/pWY3gygFtok/d5fc9d0c973d23dd75e5f36cf0ba28d7-180.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/d5fc9d0c973d23dd75e5f36cf0ba28d7-180.html#unique-entry-id-180</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The State of The Union in tag clouds.   Just to pick two, the first and last speech of mr Bush.   And no, I am not surprised at all, i'ts all so obvious, a president in decline.  


Other  tag clouds of us presidential speeches can be found here.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/d5fc9d0c973d23dd75e5f36cf0ba28d7-180.html#unique-entry-id-180</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Wooden Adventurer?</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-01-28T23:21:25+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/oGaeI3_Y440/f029f993b02f628b5a74726a3099be3d-179.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/f029f993b02f628b5a74726a3099be3d-179.html#unique-entry-id-179</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[F


Two dummy 'zooadventurer' redesigns. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/f029f993b02f628b5a74726a3099be3d-179.html#unique-entry-id-179</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Feet Want Out</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-01-28T23:17:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/XGEaE8jBwcI/385b8da4d8d8e4713a30661339d08952-178.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/385b8da4d8d8e4713a30661339d08952-178.html#unique-entry-id-178</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Mondays can be a bit drab so here the world by a dreamy foot, a colorful animation by The Three Legged Legs (cool name).   Not only did the Legs animate one of three fantastical spots, but they also directed all of the live action counterparts for the BBDO + Havaianas campaign.   So yeah, big deal, it's a commercial, but a good one, a happy one. 


...<center><script type="text/javascript">


...google_ad_type = "text_image";


...google_color_bg = "2c2622";


...google_color_text = "dcfcff";


...<script type="text/javascript"


  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/385b8da4d8d8e4713a30661339d08952-178.html#unique-entry-id-178</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Design Police</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2008-01-27T23:16:58+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/eyANN5JXqDs/design-police.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/design-police.html#unique-entry-id-177</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Should I be alarmed?


I mean  Bring bad design to justice sounds a lot like a personal attack, not? 


And of course they are right, a better visual attractive world, I am all in for that.   Nothing wrong with to want push things further (while looking at my site, nodding with shame).   So a big hurrah for the Design Police who tries to accomplish the destruction of  poor quality and irritatting grapic design.   And for us mortals and consumers, they have a neat Visual Enforcement Kit. 


Be part of this sweet graphic crusade, sticker.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/design-police.html#unique-entry-id-177</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Winner "Zilveren Kamera 2007"</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2008-01-20T23:16:32+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/MIU5Fc5_NZc/98aacc8dd97079d7627910837c710d78-176.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/98aacc8dd97079d7627910837c710d78-176.html#unique-entry-id-176</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Photographer: Martijn Beekman]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/98aacc8dd97079d7627910837c710d78-176.html#unique-entry-id-176</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>My Mobile Workspace</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2008-01-11T23:15:01+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/iUsh09AcuOY/my-mobile-workspace.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/my-mobile-workspace.html#unique-entry-id-175</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["Failure is always the best way to learn", so I might as well say, I am quite pleased with an unexpected day off from my dreary, drudgery temp job.   Too bad my 'learning experience' killed off all my inspiration genes, and all I do is stare at this 20" screen wondering what to do with it, amazed by the blandness of it all, contemplating the only thing next in line, should I get another cup of coffee, another cigaret, or both?   It's kinda sad.


About the new Zooadventurer design (see last post), rejection is looming, postponement is imminent. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/my-mobile-workspace.html#unique-entry-id-175</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>My Mobile Workspace</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2007-01-11T22:51:21+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/XrYxYWWO1ZI/81bbeae9e7200bdb0b719dcc27642e12-174.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/81bbeae9e7200bdb0b719dcc27642e12-174.html#unique-entry-id-174</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["Failure is always the best way to learn", so I might as well say, I am quite pleased with an unexpected day off from my dreary, drudgery temp job.   Too bad my 'learning experience' killed off all my inspiration genes, and all I do is stare at this 20" screen wondering what to do with it, amazed by the blandness of it all, contemplating the only thing next in line, should I get another cup of coffee, another cigaret, or both?   It's kinda sad.


About the new Zooadventurer design (see last post), rejection is looming, postponement is imminent. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/81bbeae9e7200bdb0b719dcc27642e12-174.html#unique-entry-id-174</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Scoop: The New Zooadventurer Design?</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2007-12-31T22:48:52+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/h0Qu3TDPAZs/75e30ff2271f9b068dddf9890ff60398-173.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/75e30ff2271f9b068dddf9890ff60398-173.html#unique-entry-id-173</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Though I can't confirm it, reliable sources say this will be the new design of this site, Zooadventurer.   Lots need to be done (as you can see yourself) but the general feeling is there.   It's sorta back to an earlier one, which was kinda grayish too remember, but sure more polished, more refined.   Well, I guess we will  see the final result soon. 


Or as someone already pointed to me: Let's hope so cause the present one had it's momentum, but is getting a bit boring don't you think?   I mean 'corn?'  , jeez...]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/75e30ff2271f9b068dddf9890ff60398-173.html#unique-entry-id-173</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tsunami/Tiramisu </title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-12-26T20:29:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/WcdBVZuRoEU/5b6e48f9a3dbf7ee932dd91a74f1f884-171.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/5b6e48f9a3dbf7ee932dd91a74f1f884-171.html#unique-entry-id-171</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Klong Muang Beach, Krabi


So yeah, another year gone by since that sunny morning, munching from some fried eggs, sipping hot bitter but  oh so necessary nescafe (bit hungover from last nights party, of course), topped with true bliss in the draw of a first cigarette, till somebody pointed out the sea did behave a bit strange...  


Ah, those where the days.   Boxing day with Scrooge remakes, cats playing with silver wrappers, a stuffed fridge with cheap bubbly wine and left-over tiramisu, it just doesn't do it. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/5b6e48f9a3dbf7ee932dd91a74f1f884-171.html#unique-entry-id-171</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Listless, What Else?</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Music</category><dc:date>2007-12-25T00:31:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/-PSxL4Mwg2E/7eaa0783d54ee6b621fb31d66bed147d-170.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/7eaa0783d54ee6b621fb31d66bed147d-170.html#unique-entry-id-170</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I never understood the importance of best-of lists appearing everywhere this time of year.   Somehow they never seem to change (the best top zillion song of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody, sigh...), or I am clueless about the importance of it all, feeling 'did I miss something essential?' ...  I am not, or shall I say, don't want to be reminded.   So, no best of thingy for me, just the ten latest songs i did play/shuffled this hour thinking of this 'Change' promise (resolution?)   - Still no inspiration though,  but the soundtrack is ok so far, sublime in fact. 


Funny, you almost would think I want of be part of it. 

...You might have noticed that new blue 'go to top' button to the right, it's new!   Everything will be fine after all, uhu.   All to your convenience. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/7eaa0783d54ee6b621fb31d66bed147d-170.html#unique-entry-id-170</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Space Collective, The Future of Everything</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-12-24T09:43:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/M1Z1BbplVrs/space-collective.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/space-collective.html#unique-entry-id-169</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<object width="420" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://spacecollective.org/external/scepisode.swf?  vid=ep0"></param><embed src="http://spacecollective.org/external/scepisode.swf?  vid=ep0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="300"></embed></object>


 Space Collective.org is a "cross-media information and entertainment channel for post-ideological, non-partisan, forward thinking terrestrials", as they say. 


I stumbled over this site looking for inspiration, food for the obvious Xmas thoughts, pre-newyears resolutions, well, as the wandering mind goes on a break from work, having no clue how to spend the holidays to come.   Anyway, watching a couple of the videos on Space Collective I contemplated one or two things. ...  Well, this is me after all, dunno much about the future of everything, but guess it's once again Time For a Change, to shake things up a bit. 

...Maybe I can come up with something more grandiose during my the long overdue  Xmas shopping frenzy (FOOD!) 

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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/space-collective.html#unique-entry-id-169</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>On The Beach Of Time</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><category>Movies</category><dc:date>2007-11-24T08:33:23+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/UTg1xdpTjQI/Beach-of-time.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Beach-of-time.html#unique-entry-id-165</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Snotty leaves on the pavement and no (barely enough) sun. ...  So yeah this is the third winter in a row I didn't  (but planned to, my wishbook doodled with little suns, palmtress and smiley 30+ Celsius marks) retreat in warmer climates. ...  No luck in finding sufficient means and no brilliant thoughts to start - once again - climbing the ladder of easy escape, I am stuck to this sillyness, surviving the wrong climate with the least adapted personality. ...  Teleport me to Darfur or some other godforsaken ( just politely worried souls to ease our western mindsets) place.


...Anyway, winter time is killing time.   Reading books (or rather the sweet attempt; What is the what by Dave Eggers is eagerly waiting to get finished for more over then, this is pathetic, 3 weeks already) or with penguin movies, Happy Feet, or Disney's latest one, Surf's Up.   And no, don't bother to point at the pointlessness of it, I don't get it too, that latest animated Antartic animal craze, tap-dancing artic birds or surfing frosty dudes.   To think of it, the only frame I can remember watching is what looks like a pristine (80's?)   version of Raileh Beach (see pic) but I guess that's to no ones surprise....
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Beach-of-time.html#unique-entry-id-165</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Genesis Project</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-11-05T21:46:51+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Y08a9gu649A/genesis-project.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/genesis-project.html#unique-entry-id-164</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Genesis is the latest project of world-renowned photographer Sebastiao Salgado, now on show in London.   This image shows an Antarctic iceberg between the Paulet and the South Shetland Islands.    Antarctica, 2005.   The Genesis project is designed to reconnect us to how the world was before humanity altered it almost beyond recognition.


Anyway.   I love this picture.   A frozen castle, it's so beyond or before 'and they lived happily ever after'. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/genesis-project.html#unique-entry-id-164</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>English Language Works</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2007-11-01T20:25:31+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/mJBgPvkp3Dg/englishlanguageworks.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/englishlanguageworks.html#unique-entry-id-163</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ah well, another website design by me, my first corporate one, and yes, this week it went online.   Englishlanguageworks is the language course site of David Maytum (based in the Netherlands), and not only is he a nice guy, he excels in his job too.    Check it out for yourself.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/englishlanguageworks.html#unique-entry-id-163</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Zombies In Plain English</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-10-26T21:46:54+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/p3W10xw4yc8/973d09de60e7fa3ae0c9ea1e67c1bb5f-162.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/973d09de60e7fa3ae0c9ea1e67c1bb5f-162.html#unique-entry-id-162</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><object width="425" height="366"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bVnfyradCPY&rel=1&border=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bVnfyradCPY&rel=1&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="366"></embed></object></center>


A cute little warning form the guys and girls  (and dog) from Common Craft.   Happy Halloween.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/973d09de60e7fa3ae0c9ea1e67c1bb5f-162.html#unique-entry-id-162</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Urban Camouflage</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2007-10-28T09:22:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Y83UcmaEnDk/urban%20camouflage.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/urban%20camouflage.html#unique-entry-id-160</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Hullo, you are right (you, as in all the others), it's a fair assumption this blog is dead.   Temp job boy has taken over most of my mindset these last two months. ...  Sometimes when I look at him, steelnosed in greasy jeans,  boldly parading the killing fields of a dreary job (he is trying so hard), I just can't be surprised he is this big a presence;  too tired, too numb, too frustrated to do anything else, least to follow his/my original (creative) plan, I only can sympathize with this poor little sod 8 to 5 victim.    No wonder he rather volunteered for invisibility, cruising the streets and his whereabouts with a mask of unnoticeable uniformity.


&ldquo;It is just easier for Japanese to hide,&rdquo; Ms. ...  &ldquo;Making a scene would be too embarrassing.&rdquo;   She said her vending machine disguise was inspired by a trick used by the ancient ninja, who cloaked themselves in black blankets at night. (from the NYtimes)


That is another way to put it, shame/fear should be restrained, and never (how Zeitgeist uncool, eh?!) 

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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/urban%20camouflage.html#unique-entry-id-160</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Heima</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2007-10-04T19:44:20+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/82n3UalG4lk/Heima%20Sigur%20Ros.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Heima%20Sigur%20Ros.html#unique-entry-id-159</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["Heima" means home.   And home is where the heart is.   Yeah, whatever.   Sigur Ros is an Icelandic band and "Heima" is a there visual presentation of playing at home.   And maybe it's because I am in an 'autumnesk' mood, or maybe it is that I always have a weak spot for barren, surreal  landscapes, and yes, sure it helps I physically  tune in well with the eerie sound of Sigur Ros, even picked a song of theirs to play at my one someday day event funeral, so anyway, point is, even though my objective judgments are faltering as ever, I just think the trailer looks beautiful.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Heima%20Sigur%20Ros.html#unique-entry-id-159</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Running Free</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Movies</category><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2007-09-09T09:39:48+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/kC3H5KpXYLI/Running%20Free.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Running%20Free.html#unique-entry-id-157</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center></center>


Nothing new again.   My excuses for my non-presence, lack of posts lately.   I&rsquo;ve been frustrated, stumped and annoyed, and sorta braindead I stumbled over this little movie from the DepicT!   competition.   If I was in a better mood (or the sun did shine, whatever ticks me to the other side), I would have shown one of the other last years winning movies 'And the red man went green', but I choose for some classic B&W.   Maybe all will be fine, eventually. 


DepicT!   is Watershed's unique filmmaking competition, part of Encounters International Short Film Festival, which challenges filmmakers from across the globe to come up with a compelling, imaginative idea and distil it into 90 seconds of cinematic originality.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Running%20Free.html#unique-entry-id-157</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Trophies</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-09-05T21:28:03+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/l53XwuGZ8fE/f1d0b8d8b6db573821b71dd09d7135d7-156.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/f1d0b8d8b6db573821b71dd09d7135d7-156.html#unique-entry-id-156</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The trick is not to worry.   The catch it's still grey skies.   And autumn hasn't even started.   Oh boy, this is great!   Happy thoughts are so, hmmm, funny.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/f1d0b8d8b6db573821b71dd09d7135d7-156.html#unique-entry-id-156</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Slave To The Wage</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-08-10T12:13:47+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/pOF7gx9HSlU/slave_to_the_wage.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/slave_to_the_wage.html#unique-entry-id-155</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Oh the tragedy, all it takes is one little decision and then, quelle surprise, you're stuck.   So yeah I made the final leap, jumped the bandwagon, reached the bottom of my wallet, whatever mistakes you can make when you spend too much time daydreaming till it hits you, mondaymorning, 8 o'clock sharp, this guy is in working boots again, steel nose diving (yip new sturdy shoes too!)   in the dready world of temp job work.   Gosh, what took me so long?


Well, there is no one to blame then myself.   I was stupid, a fact.   Stupid, broke, stuck.   Hail our glasses!
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/slave_to_the_wage.html#unique-entry-id-155</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Summer's Gone</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-08-09T21:36:22+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/3v-Ie3qSkRc/summer%20is%20gone.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/summer%20is%20gone.html#unique-entry-id-154</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/summer%20is%20gone.html#unique-entry-id-154</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Gorbachev's Luis Vuitton</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-08-04T00:45:33+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/sZ9ObpHvl1s/Gorbachevs%20Vuitton.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Gorbachevs%20Vuitton.html#unique-entry-id-153</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I  like the picture (by Annie Leibovitz), but it's kinda ironic that a former communist leader becomes the advertisement icon of the new line of (uber-commercial) Luis Vuitton Travelbags.   This guy is a long way from home.


From IHT: Gorbachev was initially reluctant to participate, but he was persuaded when Louis Vuitton made a donation to his environmental charity, Green Cross International, which is cited in the ad.   The other ads mention support for Al Gore's Climate Project.


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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Gorbachevs%20Vuitton.html#unique-entry-id-153</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cup Noodles Revisited</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2007-08-03T11:20:12+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/8az8SwjM1Lg/Cup%20Noodles%20Revisited.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Cup%20Noodles%20Revisited.html#unique-entry-id-152</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With Top Ramen and Cup Noodles, we taught an entire generation that quality ramen noodle soup is never more than three minutes away." 

...My college years poverty-food was always a endless row of stale cheese sandwiches or occasionally, when craving for decent dinner stuff, a frozen 'sat&eacute;' I heated in the watercooker (Do Not Cook!).   And later when traveling, and still on a budget, I always went for at least something freshly cooked, cut or chopped by street stall ladies, that without exception had that warm but tired smile of a grandma managing the grandkids to empty there plate full of veggies.


I guess it was the instant in the noodle always that ticked me of, putting it high in the order of crappy mystery food, just under tv-dinners and Jell-O  pudding. ...  And at a certain age you just  don't want to be associated  with anything remotely convenient.   Nah, you want the raw thing, to kick ass, so shove that future astronaut food your parents presented as the killer invention. 

...I like to think it has something to do with the death early this year of Mr Noodle himself, Mr Momofuku Ando (安藤百福).  ...  So reading his obituary and the numerous web articles that followed, a unique personal story got unfolded and in my subconscious I  likely realized eating another cup makes me part of history; that this is not just some snack, no, this is post war heroism melting in my mouth. 


...Yeah, that midnight cup you collect in a bumpy  Chinese Airlines 747, sent back to your chair with the biggest of stewardess  smiles: "You're welcome sir."  ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Cup%20Noodles%20Revisited.html#unique-entry-id-152</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>No Escape</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Movies</category><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-07-31T00:08:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/TRMKNSOlsNg/no%20escape.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/no%20escape.html#unique-entry-id-151</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A collective of young Dutch artists known as Studio Smack were commissioned to put together a video reflecting the enormous amount of visuals that plague us every day.   They stripped away everything in our path but commercial and graphical messages leaving us with a very dark and sad truth.


Here is the YouTube video.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/no%20escape.html#unique-entry-id-151</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Flip-Flops Flipflop</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2007-07-27T08:15:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/zDm1rJkhw-I/flip%20flops%20flip%20flop.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/flip%20flops%20flip%20flop.html#unique-entry-id-149</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Next winter memories are setting in, and so in the end the sound of summer 2007 may as well be the tick of endless raindrops on a tent, the fast swoosh of that same tent instantly consumed by a blazing bushfire.   Or perhaps you are blessed and it will just be one of the evergreens, the thump of a dropped icecream in the sand, the shriek then laughter of a (too)pretty girl in a swimmingpool you've been watching all day, or likely that crappy euro-disco tune, nested in your brain since that worst hangover on local drinks.   Ah well, whatever it will be for you, to me it is the streets or beaches filled with feet sounding like chewing gum, a blue skied world of flip-flops flipflopping. 


Comfortable, airy and with built-in sounds effects... it says it all, in summer nothing can top the anti-footwear, flip flops, or whatever you name them.   Some insist on calling them thongs, jandals, beach slippers, but pardon my semantic choice,  I just stick to flip-flops, as I stick to ping-pong when a normal person would probably say table-tennis, or tuk tuk for a motorcycled taxi, even outside Thailand.   See, I am a sucker for objects named after the sound they make, and strongly believe that getting along lies in this simpler lingua franca. 


...But as always, after a couple of days of walking and strolling, I have to admit defeat to an unwillingly body, to a stubborn set of toes stuck in a permanent toe jam. 

...Still, boys and girls, do me a pleasure, don't give into Birkenstock's (or whatever comfy high dollar brand), definitely forget about  Crocs, but most of all to that  latest fashion craze, topless sandals ("Dare you to go topless this summer? ...  I saw a pretty girl walking with a pair of those new acclaimed 'nude sandals', she dressed in a breezy top and flower skirt, skin and smile radiating in sync with a perfect summer, and it just didn't seem right. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/flip%20flops%20flip%20flop.html#unique-entry-id-149</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Words We Say</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-07-24T18:22:21+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/sBQY6xNOmC0/interview%20conradzoo.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/interview%20conradzoo.html#unique-entry-id-147</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's not your real name, so is it a joke, a dormant literate ambition, or , i almost don't dare to ask, perhaps a some kinda personality disorder?


Well, its common knowledge most people are twisted one way or another, but the truth is less prosaic.   It was during my first long trip, i needed a hotmail address - my first, only seven years ago, imagine the simple life of back then. 

...On to your site, Zooadventurer - it sounds to me like you hint to an active and frantic life, but I really can't see it. 

...There are two, no three different kind of adventures: the ones you actually experience, the ones planned, and the ones that happen anyway without  any involvement on your side. 

...I can do anything, and frankly i am quite good in what i do, but often i think what's the point of some make-believe goals of perfection. 

...But you're right, its not a very smart thing to blurt out in the lush meadows of commercial bliss.   But Paris Hilton does it, so well, thought i might get away with it, celebrating the  emptyheaded muse in my beautiful mind.


...Aren't you just vague about them cause perhaps there is nothing to show for, that this Conrad zooadventurer business is what it is, an empty void?
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/interview%20conradzoo.html#unique-entry-id-147</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Showcase</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2007-07-21T08:50:43+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/0_CEFVUNEEA/rapidweaver%20showcase.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/rapidweaver%20showcase.html#unique-entry-id-145</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The day that heaps of people rush out to down todays top story  ( Will Harry die or not? ...  The suspense...), my little surprise moment was less global, awaited with fewer anticipation,  nah, on hindsight is was more like a sudden (but sorta friendly it turned out) tab on the shoulder with a grumpy morning temper me turning around, "Yeah, wot?". 


...Yeah, they have started pampering me with vanity, put me on a pedestal.   And oh boy, I hadn't even started yet, this all just in bloody beta stage, and what is worse, kinda intentional too.   I mean my ideas are not moulded in bronze, I always prefer to present myself as jelly.


...But still, the idea of becoming a kind of rolemodel, me, jeez...  ...  I mean, instead of just bumming around,  pleading guilty, I excel in that too, suddenly it feels like the world wants me to live up to some sublime standard, and maintain on those glorious heights. 

...Is this is what they mean by growing up, the hard way? ...  Damn, it was meant to happen one day, 'being thirty' already chilling for a while on the beach of time. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/rapidweaver%20showcase.html#unique-entry-id-145</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Freelance Switch</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-07-19T18:48:07+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/7lBlzQRlMGs/Freelancers%20Unite.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Freelancers%20Unite.html#unique-entry-id-143</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ Last week I participated in the Freelancer Survey held by the excellent Freelance Switch site.   This survey (which is still going on, just click this or the logo to have your try) aims to compile the collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere, and gosh, as big as that sounds, they even give away some prices, like a  desksitter screengazer dream the wii. ...  After that I put the logo in my sidebar, and then sort of forgot about it.  


...Sipping coffee, doing my regular blogs, getting my brains to work, I also went through my Google Analytics, and wow, the visitor count had skyrocketed from an average of 10 to a stunning 84!   All of a sudden the Himalaya showed up in my usual Dutch mountain graphs. ...  Did I write something funny, remarkable, unique (all as in stupid)?   Well duh, brilliance as ever a faraway dream, as it turned out Freelance Switch had linked back to my site on it's blog.   I got a present, a reward for the effort so to speak, that's what happened.  


...And, as important, I finally had a not so beside the point subject for this blog. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Freelancers%20Unite.html#unique-entry-id-143</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Decider</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Gadgets</category><dc:date>2007-07-17T20:24:30+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/VdKrSW2rfhw/the%20decider.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/the%20decider.html#unique-entry-id-140</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Oh, oh, I want one of these things. 

...The Decider helps you to make decisions - think of the choice you need to make and the look at the watch to see whether it is displaying "YES" or "NO" (if you are inclined to cheat then you can pull the winding crown out which stops the mechanism giving you an answer with no ambiguity).    The watch can also answer a more complex question - when you receive it tell the watch what you want to know, then wait until the battery runs out - whatever the watch stops on YES or NO is your answer.


 *edit: too bad it's so ugly. check for yourself, here's the :link


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Stereogum has put up a covers compilation album called OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer where they asked various artists to record a song from the legendary OK Computer album.   Not all are great but there are some nice versions, and best thing is, it's a free download.   No complaining here.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/ok%20computer%20covers.html#unique-entry-id-138</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Play For Today</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2007-07-07T08:58:11+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/_gbtq5wRF5c/0a4eb1e9973ee1c28d07d5f134c1cb19-136.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/0a4eb1e9973ee1c28d07d5f134c1cb19-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember JD Salinger's 'The Catcher in The Rye' , that coming of age book that at least a zillion teens read in the old days? ...  You did like it? 


Anyway I just reread it and look now, another redesign of my website.   Is it what I had in mind?   Or more important do I like it?   Well, hate to say it, but no, in both ways I feel I let myself down.   So, guess I will start all over again in the next couple of days.   The reason I did publish it here is for some vain reason of showing of my non-skills, which is also the perfect description of my metal state of mind.   At best this is a work of progress, a pepertum mobile of right steps in the wrong direction, or the other way round, beats me.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/0a4eb1e9973ee1c28d07d5f134c1cb19-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Chemical Brothers</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2007-06-13T09:12:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/P8LLyDKkbP4/do%20it%20again.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/do%20it%20again.html#unique-entry-id-134</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xidZW3x8AGo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xidZW3x8AGo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></center>


So far the latest single "Do it again" from the Chemical Bothers.   Before you start bashing me for a bad musical taste, let me point out it's not exactly my fav kinda music, though the Chemical Brothers did make some good songs in the old days.   I am thinking about classics like "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" to which I once danced, late at night on the rooftop of a pension in downtown Istanbul, plugged into my discman, sorta happy and drunk on raki. 

...Anyway, thing is, as you smart globetrotters all must have noticed, the clip is set in Morocco, examining the footage, somewhere on the roads and mountains south of Marrakech .   And hey, it's been awhile I have been there, but seeing the images, the landscapes, the people, the goats, I think it's about time I go back there and break that silly (but oh so meant, so tired of that country, pretty much on the rebound after a true love at first sight) promise not to go the Maghreb for a long long time.   Also, jeez, I have been 6 times in Morocco and never ever visited Marrakech (or area), kinda stupid not? 

...Also it's good to see Allah/God loves  music.   I remember a movie where he once did send a bottle of coke. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/do%20it%20again.html#unique-entry-id-134</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>43 Things And More</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-06-11T10:06:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/p4Qgp187VqA/43%20things%20.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/43%20things%20.html#unique-entry-id-133</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The sun is slowly breaking through, another pleasant day is looming with a lazy shrug of recollection, 'almost summer, again...', and sure  Sir Bob Geldof was right, monday mornings are the worst  mornings, but then you also have to realize, this one hit wonder was sung by a bored teenager in his twenties, all babble without a sense of purpose, well before he started this celebrity crusade against poverty with his pal Bono.


So Bob is doing fine today I guess, having some great sir-hood lunch while gossiping over last non event G8 adventures, and I, despite the fine weather ahead, am again as clueless as  on those I don't like mondays days, just kinda pleased with my latest visit to 43 Things where 4 of the wishes exactly mirrored mine.   So yeah, tempted to squeak 'can you guess which ones?'  , but as things go, Bob and me know those wasted years are gone, and well sweet dreams, I don't believe in wishing trees.


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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/the%20evil%20explorer.html#unique-entry-id-130</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cold War 2.0</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-06-05T10:23:43+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/JJ1AgVdJDUM/cold%20war%202.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/cold%20war%202.html#unique-entry-id-129</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Russia has successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile featuring multiple warheads that Moscow said could pierce any missile defence system, including the planned US shield in Europe.


 President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will aim missiles at Europe if the US goes ahead with its planned defence system. ...  It's not even a problem, it's a real tragedy.   The thing is that I am the only one, there just aren't any others in the world.


 After the death of Mahatma Gandhi there's nobody to talk to," he concluded, referring to the Indian leader who championed civil rights and non-violent resistance to tyranny.


Well, here we have it, just a couple of the headlines this last week, the latter one mr. president Putin in an interview  last monday.    And gosh, this really sounds like the good old Breznjew days, the blind leading the blind.    Aw, that warm fuzzy feeling of global power politics, once more myself mesmerizing in the glow of total annihilation. ...  Guess it's time to re-release Frankie Goes To Hollywood's masterpiece "Two Tribes". ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/cold%20war%202.html#unique-entry-id-129</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Treehouse</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Architecture</category><dc:date>2007-06-03T11:17:23+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/9BB3LKh96Qs/treehouse.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/treehouse.html#unique-entry-id-128</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So maybe you don't want to spend your life always on dusty roads on to dusty places, eventually you might wanna find home.   You remember one of those treehouses on your trip through Thailand, waking up with a clear skies peeping  thru branches, the fresh cool air of last nights thunderstorm, or later on sitting at the veranda watching fireflies, thinking wouldn't it be awesome to have something like this back home?    Well, you can if you want to.   It's called the Fab Tree Hab.


Architects Mitchell Joachim and Javier Arbona, teamed up with environmental engineer Lara Greden, have come up with a concept home made of trees and plants.   I hope you are not in a hurry (should you?)   cause it takes about 5 years (natures pace) to grow, over a plywood frame, into the right shape.   You also might reconsider this if you have bug phobia.   Anyway, be the first nature boy/girl back home, wake up as Tarzan, sleep as Jane. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/treehouse.html#unique-entry-id-128</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Art Thou a Pirate Johnny?</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Movies</category><dc:date>2007-06-03T10:12:09+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/xKJ3LonjtAc/pirate.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/pirate.html#unique-entry-id-127</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So now I finally have seen the 'At Worlds End', the latest Pirates of the Caribbean, I might as well say, or should I say confess, I still prefer The Crimson Pirate (1952), that classic swashbuckler with Burt Lancaster  as the tongue in cheek hero (who did all the stunts himself being a trapeze guy before), and Nick Cravat as his mute sidekick. 


Hmm... why?    Maybe it's my childhood 'making things bigger then it was' emo taste.   But hey, all I remember is that i rarely saw that movie in its original language, always dubbed in German and still, as tiny me with wooden sword hitting tinier brothers, I totally loved it.   That must mean something, not?   I wanna bet Johnny sounds awful in German. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/pirate.html#unique-entry-id-127</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Daydreaming</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><dc:date>2007-05-31T10:12:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/M3Fpi6pmBKo/Krabi%20dreams.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Krabi%20dreams.html#unique-entry-id-124</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Google Earth shot of Krabi Area
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Krabi%20dreams.html#unique-entry-id-124</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Future Foes</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Movies</category><dc:date>2007-05-30T10:58:25+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/utsUJGH1BLc/7b56df58287f7589b27a9b5a65721bab-123.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/7b56df58287f7589b27a9b5a65721bab-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><object width="400" height="244"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/v/hfNdxbaFiX/aus=false/"></param><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/v/hfNdxbaFiX/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="244"></embed></object></center>


I am not a fan of The Strokes, they're ok though, but hey I am big sucker for doomsday scenarios.   Born in the same year of the Cuba crisis (does anyone remember?)  , getting into teen adulthood in the 'No Nukes' Eighties (aw... volatile pity, soddy character me, always prone to expect the inevitable in the very soon future with the grandeur  of instant annihilation, so why bother to study, so why getting a career, why grow up, all that no future crap that still makes me kinda nostalgic for firm what's the point, lets get over with it believes, the 'better be red then dead' mumbles, the easy new wave shrug of nothing matters that for some reason made me quite attractive on friday 'no way I am dancing' evenings) so yeah, what else to expect? 


Ah well, of course this video is heavily based on Kubrick's  2001: A Space Odyssey ('68), which is kinda the only nice SciFi film (the original Solaris ('68) and Soylent Green ('73) as a nice backup) they ever made. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/7b56df58287f7589b27a9b5a65721bab-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Does China Love Me?</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-05-27T08:48:56+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/0CM1wanoNwo/Does%20China%20.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Does%20China%20.html#unique-entry-id-119</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[No, it doesn't.   Thought so.   But then I read in the disclaimer: 'this version 1.0 may report sites as being &lsquo;blocked&rsquo;, while there are only technical reasons for their unavailability'.   Now I am really worried.   Sure I can live with rejection cause my of my twisted personality babble, but of technical reasons?   Ough, that hurts.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Does%20China%20.html#unique-entry-id-119</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>In Control</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Movies</category><dc:date>2007-05-26T12:06:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ruGs4iV7ZQ8/In%20Control.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/In%20Control.html#unique-entry-id-118</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, of course I know a girl who listens to Joy Division when she is kinda down.   She shouldn't be too alarmed by that, and I am sure she isn't,  cause where I come from listening to yesterdays soundtrack (the feverish fridays and destroyer mondays of doomed eighties teenhood) is  actually a quite adorable thing to do, even now.   Also I think she is in good company, Anton Corbijn must have those same moments over and over.   But not now,  since his first feature film 'Control' , his portrayal of the troubled singer Ian Curtis (of Joy Division), won the title of Best European Film at the festival of Cannes.   Based on 'Touching from a Distance' by Ian's wive Deborah (and now co-producer), shot in moody black and white, the film received a standing ovation at its premiere. 


Nice detail, Sam Riley (born in 1980), who plays Ian (died in 1980), appeared also in  '24 Hour Party People' (the film of Manchester in late seventies into the eighties) where he played Mark E Smith.   Mark E Smith of the Fall still lives.   Well, sort of, since he makes the same album over and over and over for the last 25 years. 


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...And  then later on I read this: 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life.   It's a lotta blah but I quite enjoyed the last point of the list: 'Don&rsquo;t worry about about your personality.   You don&rsquo;t really have one'. 


Life is bliss.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/music%20paint%20site.html#unique-entry-id-117</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>iMaps </title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-05-21T21:18:23+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/CDHa1Ol51MM/imaps.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/imaps.html#unique-entry-id-116</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/imaps.html#unique-entry-id-116</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>In My Shoes</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-05-20T09:35:22+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/SAtemItr168/in%20my%20shoes.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/in%20my%20shoes.html#unique-entry-id-115</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&copy; CZ 2007
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/in%20my%20shoes.html#unique-entry-id-115</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Explodingdog</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-19T12:19:10+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/gXSx2oXA0Hk/exploding%20dog.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/exploding%20dog.html#unique-entry-id-113</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA['all my friends are dead' by Explodingdog


It's already been awhile since i found Explodingdog, rarely visited cause sometimes it's good to take in things in small doses, but hey the drawings are still quite good, really catchy at times, or as often leave you with that sweet and wry smile of instant recognition (bla bla bla).


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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/exploding%20dog.html#unique-entry-id-113</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Robots &amp; Monsters</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-17T09:53:31+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/rPoX-65lz5A/965cee2f0776f3aea8d94c1d190da13b-112.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/965cee2f0776f3aea8d94c1d190da13b-112.html#unique-entry-id-112</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Neaopoleviathan (the icecreammonster)


Jesus gone to heaven (tuned by the Pixies) and yeah its raining again, another public holiday imprisoned to the living room - well i am, not a fan of raincoats and gusty winds, sorry - watching old dvd's, reading yesterdays papers, eating apple pie for breakfast.   Anyway, a perfect day to work on something of me own but also realizing, consumed by leisure, I only come up with other ones idea.   Pitiful, uhu. 


So yeah, I don't believe in charity but this time an exception.   Good cause, good monsters (Neaopoleviathan: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, my least favorite tastes so it does the trick really well), ok, yeah, the monster bit did it for me.


"RobotsAndMonsters.org is a charitable art project which matches goodwill and charitable giving with custom-made commissioned cartoon and pop art.   Giving just a little bit gets an original drawing of a robot or a monster of your specification sent to your door - and in the process, you get to sleep better at night, because you know you've just helped out a great cause.   C'mon in, and wipe your feet, stranger."
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/965cee2f0776f3aea8d94c1d190da13b-112.html#unique-entry-id-112</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Flickr Flunks</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-05-16T12:58:22+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/YUPrFTs_uss/Flickr%20Flunks.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Flickr%20Flunks.html#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the perks of my lazy nature is that second thoughts don't ask for some boring (and sometimes embarrassing) turn arounds when i actually sort of do change my mind.   Take for example this.   For a while I was thinking to post some of my pictures on Flickr  but then this topic  to my attention that makes me rather think twice.   Not going into the story itself (you can read it much better here) I just wanna say 'censorship' makes me always feel a bit quirky. 


To see what the fuzz is all about here the censored page (from the yahoo web cache) and then start thinking why would Flickr react by this, and ok ok, censorship may be a too bold statement, but it's def  a blunt act of self-interest.    Very Yahoo like (the owner of Flickr nowadays) in fact too think of it. 


Anyway, whatever happened, lets not forget Rebekka Gu&eth;leifsd&oacute;ttir makes some really excellent pictures.


...Flickr have acknowledged that it made a 'mistake', and have restored Rebekka's blog.   There is a nice discussion going on about what happened on the Flickr forum]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Flickr%20Flunks.html#unique-entry-id-111</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Rolemodel #1</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2007-05-15T12:07:36+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/dfqilSx2yoM/65ee84a7612323ff9f0759cc4dfb4805-108.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/65ee84a7612323ff9f0759cc4dfb4805-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[	&copy; CZ 2007


*ps.   Just realized i wanted to make a remark or two, some kinda explanation of sorts, but can't seem to bother really.   Next post perhaps.   We'll see.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/65ee84a7612323ff9f0759cc4dfb4805-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Drawing Words</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-14T13:11:58+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/107WGY7xIMo/Drawing%20Words.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Drawing%20Words.html#unique-entry-id-107</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA['Loft' by THOMAS BROOM&Eacute;]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Drawing%20Words.html#unique-entry-id-107</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>More Rain</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2007-05-13T13:14:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/_Cd7jKJvN78/8c90b5b0f2dc4e3c2ff319653bd02a25-106.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/8c90b5b0f2dc4e3c2ff319653bd02a25-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dXihdFhcJBs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dXihdFhcJBs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></center>


Unofficial music video to "And it rained all night" from Thom Yorke's the Eraser.   Produced at the distinguished Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts.   Directed by Raul Gonzo with help from his students.   Nicely done eh?]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/8c90b5b0f2dc4e3c2ff319653bd02a25-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mothersday</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-05-13T09:47:07+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/5n7zcfHOk7Y/f138e26f3fcb111777dd71a73f335779-105.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/f138e26f3fcb111777dd71a73f335779-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well lacking any inspiration lately (and the discipline to make the most remarkable entries) I might as well point you to some of the sites I regularly/so now and then visit.   One of my favorites is  Foundmagazine, 'a collection of love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists (love those, makes me feel less of a lost island of stagnancy knowing there is a whole archipelago out there!)  , ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life', many of them found on the street, an elevator, in a library book, your wallet, anywhere where it ended up, gotten lost or forgotten. 


The picture above is the Find Of The Day, how appropriate, all sweet mummy words.   Did she write back?   I guess she did, some nice words of appreciation, posted or send with some fresh apple cake, and then neatly folded up, locked up in a plated box, thrown in a drawer or accidently (or not so, she could be a bitch after all) in the bin, still out there, perhaps...


*ps.   Of course here is a whole past of making little notes by myself but thank god for a decade long  lack of vivid thoughts and flamboyant expression i think i am quite safe.   Still, may you find a small green notebook somewhere in Krabi Thailand (lost in a bar, where else), please be the gentleman/lady you are, have a sneak peep (random things anyway, email swaps) and return to sender, me.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/f138e26f3fcb111777dd71a73f335779-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Raincloud nr.9</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-05-07T08:49:26+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/70JRi8AUcKg/Raincloud%20nr.9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Raincloud%20nr.9#unique-entry-id-103</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[	&copy; CZ 2007]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Raincloud%20nr.9#unique-entry-id-103</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Towel</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2007-05-04T14:09:22+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/FgalDw9HIPU/towel.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/towel.html#unique-entry-id-102</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Girls (can't help it, its a fact, f/m ratio in this brand is 99 to 1, and even the 1 is a guess still having meet one guy) in shirts and skirts (it might be fancy logo jeans, but those desk-girls never show there legs for no reason) that act as small town miss Corporate  ruling the world with a look of breezy contempt ( 'Don't dare to think you are anything here boy!   I break you or make you, so better be a good sweet-mouthed loser' ) always, within secs, followed with that bleak glance of boredom, as if realizing she made already a too big investment, showed too much effort, and perhaps, if lucky, someone goes as far to an effortless moment of  scanning the resume ('why so many gaps?' 

...And why do all these girls talk like that french teacher at high school, resulting in the instant  drop of that course the moment I was able to?  ...  Questions that popped up in my mind - at one agency I was 8 minutes late on my second visit (first one: 'come back later, the system has crashed, bye') and all I got was "I thought you wouldn't come anymore.   This is a job-interview you must know... - while examining my clothes (camouflage shorts, hat, and 'Geek Clothing' imprinted T) wondering what I would make of that, would I also yawn, even just mentally, secretly but oh so obvious?


...After all someone was impressed with the perfect layout of my resume (no words on the content, of course, and I had to offer myself a chair while the conversation took off, but hey she was right, it looked good).   And yeah, 2 years of idleness, despite my splendid excuses, it's only the happy few that are impressed, and still I got offered (only once) a cup of coffee. 


...The weathermen claim the end of this exceptional sunny weather as soon as next monday, so better carpe diem of what's left, not?   Graveyard skies and solid shoes (first time in 2 month, amazing) splashing in puddles, watching the reflection of blue-collar me? ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/towel.html#unique-entry-id-102</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Digit revolt</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><dc:date>2007-05-02T14:09:22+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/xHZkBIvuniw/digit%20revolt.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/digit%20revolt.html#unique-entry-id-101</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0


The problem: link


The result: link and link and link and link and...


The answer: link


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The aftermath: link and link]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/digit%20revolt.html#unique-entry-id-101</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Garden</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Photography</category><category>Books</category><dc:date>2007-04-29T12:17:49+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/xvdyaVPS70Q/the%20garden.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/the%20garden.html#unique-entry-id-100</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[												


&copy; CZ 2007


Once again the quiet heat of a 'new  april' garden.   I have set two simple goals.   There are books to be read - The Burning by Thomas Legendre, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - and there is skin to be burned.   Both can be done at the same time and I love the synergy of it: cuddled up in  physical as mental warmth.   Smarter and smoother, it sounds like an ad for the easy approach and, well, I am not planning to zap away from this one. 


*ps.   The smell of my deckchair, a mix of cushioned dusty sun and woody dried winterrain, occasionaly overruled by a breeze of fresh laundry, made me a bit nostalgic but i could handle it with a couple of sigarets (no oldtime nicotine memories yet, though the smell of burning grass accidently set in fire by a careless sway of a tub triggered some real vivid ones), so... anyway, a perfect day.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/the%20garden.html#unique-entry-id-100</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mayday</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2007-05-01T20:04:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/p9d_hDhxFT8/mayday.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/mayday.html#unique-entry-id-99</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It really seemed like a great idea, always enjoying some kinda symmetry in personal as public life, to start to apply for a temp job on May 1, Labour Day, until I realized that almost everywhere, except this country of course, it is a holiday of sorts.   Cheap excuses are one thing, but seriously I ask you why go against  international folklore and enjoy one more day of ignorant bliss.   Also, the weather was bril again, easy choice.


*ps.   Temp job boy posts will be recurring as I plan (till I get bored or feel to spaced out to care) to give full account of the dreading and, oh could it be, brio adventures of temporary work. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/mayday.html#unique-entry-id-99</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Queensday</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-30T13:02:40+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ZrkeDv3duYA/queensday.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/queensday.html#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center>Woudrichem -  'sHertogenbosch &copy; CZ 2007</center>]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/queensday.html#unique-entry-id-98</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Heat Island April</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-04-26T08:44:24+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/alWKo_M2cRk/Heat%20Island%20April.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Heat%20Island%20April.html#unique-entry-id-97</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&copy; CZ 2007


Happiness equals consumption divided by desire.   So yes, here i sit once again in shorts and shirt enjoying another perfect sunny April day.   The weather is both foreign and familiar, tropical climates still in my system as the imprint of a hat just put off.   Also i realize this is The Netherlands, that this is april, not late july or august.   It hasn't rained since 23 march, thats more then a month... temps are at least 10 degrees celsius higher then normal (14c˚), for weeks.   Still, sipping my icy cool aid, i, as all too many, prefer to indulge a few more minutes of denial before slowly acknowledging the possibility, and finally the undeniability of that this juicy orange may be filled with razor-blades.   Not now, but in the end.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Heat%20Island%20April.html#unique-entry-id-97</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Accidental Babies</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-04-22T09:43:45+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/jxkfr8f_eO8/Accidental%20Babies.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Accidental%20Babies.html#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Time is a subjective thing, talking about things we all know.   A week of boy loves greener grass and already feel familiar drained, spend more quirky thoughts and random money then before.   Dates are set and little futures agendad.   Not that long ago consumer me was limited to handpalm bits and sizes (anything bigger wouldn't fit in backpack and mindset) and now even a 26" lcd-tv is heading my way.   A tiny sense of guilt ( I never felt guilty in the land of green bumming my days away ), that accidental baby of dwindling resources, is forcing me to more lifetime decisions: the first of May my labour day too, no holidays the next (it's new! ...  It's ok i guess.   Real men thrive with Real decisions.   Wasn't that always one of the perks of the traveling man, bravery, cutting knots by a change of perspective and perception?   Also, the weather is fine, my mental meteorological pendulum rock solid, no complaints about this global shift, uhu, still wearing shorts and slippers. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Accidental%20Babies.html#unique-entry-id-93</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Rebound</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-03-14T10:50:40+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/cRejIi6eFnA/rebound.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/rebound.html#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&copy; CZ 2007


The epic ending of a short  trip.   So yeah disappearance is all about returning, the table set for another empty stomach.   Being a habitual man, lacking imagination, my pulse an old tune, Thailand it was, and telling such, this solo venture ended.   So to all that were aware of the gap, hello; to all else that weren't, a nice little shrug; too all a timid smile in a tanned face.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/rebound.html#unique-entry-id-92</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Stepping Out</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Travel</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-03-12T08:57:47+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/c2CC9l1fBSk/stepping%20out.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/stepping%20out.html#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&copy; CZ 2007


Seems like i will be gone for the next month.   Is that bad, not necessarily; is that good, I think so.   For sure it's something else, if only for cutting down on choices.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/stepping%20out.html#unique-entry-id-91</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Star Infant</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-03-07T09:22:58+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Ua7WkK3vvVI/star%20infant.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/star%20infant.html#unique-entry-id-88</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ah well,  just live on in that bubble of self-importance, of perpetual romantic delusion; through Hubble's eyes were nothing really.   So -2⅓ vision me, despite that excuse,  stop watching loose shoelaces, stop thinking of everything in 'quotes'; believe me, there is no career in careering your childhood. 


:link to super hi-res image, still smaller then the real thing though.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/star%20infant.html#unique-entry-id-88</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Indecision</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Books</category><dc:date>2007-03-05T00:00:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/e4ZVPlkLrvg/Indecision.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Indecision.html#unique-entry-id-87</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As it is, nothing new to tell, sundays are best for digesting some left ounces of that kilo saturday newspaper, rereading (answering best left for later, sipping wine, the day already old, mining from adventures, brilliant thoughts to recall) last weeks emails, or for browsing through that pile of unread, halve read, totally absorbed or neglected books.   Watching some pigeons grazing from thursdays cornbread i picked up one (read), that when i bought it made me say to S....  ― will have the answers; bet finishing it i will be complete transformed and know how to change, at last". 


"Other people might feel I stayed the same from place to place; but to myself I always seemed totally steeped in my environment, or dyed in local color, and now because in transit I felt suffused with utter nowhereness, and therefor like i might turn out to be anyone."


Anyway, this is what Dwight Wilmerding, the 28-year-old protagonist of Benjamin Kunkel's latest novel 'Indecision', thinks just before he lands in Ecuador, a visit started with the flip of a coin.   And no I am not going into the story itself, you can read a review here or here or here, but i might as well tell you i enjoyed the book, well, as books do that make me smile and fill me head with thoughts at the same time; not brilliant insights but you know, a little sizzle of recognition, a sullen nod of approval, knowing a bit more and less at the same time, that sweet sensation  -hurrah-  which  doesn't feel as a complete waste of time ― but i am digressing.. 


..."Everyone always moves so insouciantly into the future, one foot in front of the next, that it seems as if they've already been there and liked it enough to go back for more. 

...It wasn't very unusual for me to lie awake at night feeling like a scrap of sociology blown into its designated corner of the world. 

...The uncanny  similarities between Dwight and me, i dunno, its funny, or as we all know fiction is just mimicking live in a sorta gentler way, and does a horoscope not reflect some facts too; in the end i have no idea how or what, the comfort-zone of lazy sunday afternoons, thoughts bubbling towards  blue skies, watching i awe.. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Indecision.html#unique-entry-id-87</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Sauerkids</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-03-04T12:21:24+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/COSCdKvgd_g/Sauerkids.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Sauerkids.html#unique-entry-id-86</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[check this :link for more of those goodies]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Sauerkids.html#unique-entry-id-86</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Eclipse</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-03-03T21:46:50+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/qSTzATKlWfk/moon%20eclipse.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/moon%20eclipse.html#unique-entry-id-84</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For all of you romantics and skygazers, a total lunar eclipse is on its way.   The eclipse began at 2018 GMT, with the Moon totally immersed in the shadow of the Earth between 2244 and 2358 GMT.   The eclipse is visible from the whole of Europe, Africa, South America, and eastern parts of the US and Canada.   It is set to be 'best in years'. 


Well, enjoying the miracle of a clear night (it was raining all day),  all i say is count me in, lets rock this rock.


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*edit: It was crap, hazy skies after all, well duh..]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/moon%20eclipse.html#unique-entry-id-84</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Uniform</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-02-28T12:22:54+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/v44MfNEHswU/uniform.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/uniform.html#unique-entry-id-81</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&copy; CZ 2007, Thailand 2006


:link]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/uniform.html#unique-entry-id-81</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Iceberg</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-02-27T09:48:58+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/W7l_L0Bdm1E/iceberg.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/iceberg.html#unique-entry-id-79</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[*edit: The picture is not mine, or are related to me in any way.   My excuses if you did think so.   I only was in the mood for something blue, that's all.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/iceberg.html#unique-entry-id-79</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Fade To Grey</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2007-02-26T15:42:42+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ccs7uTGC680/fade%20to%20grey.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/fade%20to%20grey.html#unique-entry-id-76</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Staring over my shoulder, grey clouds may have to do with it.   Also there is a myopic song by Visage, some "who?"   eighties band, that sings along with these lines.   Maybe it started with another creation by Graig Robinson, The Enchanted Forrest, but i am pretty sure i saw it later, definitely, like a day later, at least.   For a moment i am tempted to think its prob something i ate or drank yesterday, but nah,  face it, I never had the stomach to blame my creations, not to mention love,  on any food consumption. 


Anyway, for whatever reason then to be, Gingerbread Man is falling (flying for the optimistic ones), the background color remains 3b3b3b, at least for a while, and while i was cutting webshapes, I enhanced the visual comfortzone, yes i still love to please, so pictures with a border of 3px are expandable (it looks neat, not?)  , the 1px ones do not. 


Further, well its obvious, all changes do not guarantee anything for the future. ...  Ok.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/fade%20to%20grey.html#unique-entry-id-76</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Green UFO</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-02-23T16:08:11+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/-DZjgpXHZPk/green%20ufo.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/green%20ufo.html#unique-entry-id-73</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Spring is in the air. ...  The compass of the sun has finally gained that magnetic pulse, that Captain Sparrow momentum that makes birds fly and knobs knot.   It's there, reluctantly, premature, kinda annoyed even -yes maybe that too, freak weather not the nicest of personal titles- but winter really never got a hold this year so yeah, why would it start bothering now?   Defeat should be taken with a little shrug.   A tiny smile with snow white teeth.   So yeah,  Britney got a clean shave (and no I am not going into that) and I did got a new pair of working jeans.  ...  And whatever sense of urge, "see me falling" or "see me rise", i wonder, is there always more to it then what meets the eye?   Can't i just take it for granted?


Spring is in the air. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/green%20ufo.html#unique-entry-id-73</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Future #2</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-02-21T10:18:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ua7DOVEWaG0/A%20Future%202.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A%20Future%202.html#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A%20Future%202.html#unique-entry-id-72</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Robert Adler</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-02-18T08:59:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ZN514VJjJ3I/Robert%20Adler.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Robert%20Adler.html#unique-entry-id-70</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a name="test">Robert Adler</a>


The man who made the life of the couch potato possible, Dr.   Robert Adler, has died at the age of 93.   Adler has been widely recognized as the co-inventor (with Eugene Polley while both were working for Zenith) of the wireless TV remote control.   The "Space Command" ultrasonic remote control was introduced by Zenith in 1956 but was later supplanted by remote controls using infrared technology.


The consumer electronics world of today would not have been the same without him.   Anyone who picks up a remote control and enjoys a movie at home owes Dr.   Adler a debt of gratitude loss.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Robert%20Adler.html#unique-entry-id-70</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Second life</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-02-17T10:02:05+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/s3d9xWKUj3s/Second%20life.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Second%20life.html#unique-entry-id-67</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Hmmm... seems like virtual worlds are neither the answer or option, your pixel alt more likely ending up as the angel in "Der Himmel &uuml;ber Berlin" (1987), that Wim Wenders movie (not the American "City of Angels" remake, please, that so totally sucks) tired of its godlike existence, as bewitched at the top but no way to express themselves beyond digi-fashion and sms-kinda verbal emotio(con)s.   Staring at the mortals, one day or another,  you must realize a fake apple has an empty bite. 

...*edit: the placing of the picture of miss A. is violating copy-law, in real as imaginary life.


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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Second%20life.html#unique-entry-id-67</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Future #1</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2007-02-15T17:22:51+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/BIkM5EcksOY/A%20Future%201.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A%20Future%201.html#unique-entry-id-66</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[by Porous Walker]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A%20Future%201.html#unique-entry-id-66</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Judgement</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-02-15T12:19:14+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/kWcL0BeU6S8/ff0830fff1cad051dd16ce25ead97ecb-65.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/ff0830fff1cad051dd16ce25ead97ecb-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Another rainy day.   Graveyard skies, a constant drizzle, shiny pavements, a dripping tree.   Puddles are filling, streets are empty, the muffled tinkle in the swoosh of cars passing by.   The grass in the backyard looks beaten down, as after a picnic in the park tramped by children's feet.


It is a sunny day after all.


Gosh..]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/ff0830fff1cad051dd16ce25ead97ecb-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>From A Balance Beam </title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2007-02-13T08:41:38+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/AqB9_WiGCdc/From%20A%20Balance%20Beam%20.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/From%20A%20Balance%20Beam%20.html#unique-entry-id-64</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Damn those amateur orators!   Blah blah..... blogs.


...Anyway, finally got part of my FAQ's posted, the mini one.   Also put on this neat hover effect over the blog entry titles, making restless mouse movements so much more rewarding.   In short, its all about cosmetics today.   All about looking good..


So, yes,  do i have to remind you to get rid of Explorer 6.0?   Coz really, that browser puts this all thru a grinder; why settle down for mashed potatoes while you could have a mouth drooling dinner?   Get Firefox, or if you still wanna remain a Microsoft affiendo, update it to 7.0. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/From%20A%20Balance%20Beam%20.html#unique-entry-id-64</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Worldpressphoto 2007</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2007-02-10T11:03:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/4Svuvq8uKLM/Worldpressphoto%202007.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Worldpressphoto%202007.html#unique-entry-id-61</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA['The picture ( Spencer Platt, USA, Getty Images ) shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombings.   The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.'


Death is there, no dead bodies though, so guess the jury's taste is changing towards subtlety.   Nice capture of the moment anyway. 

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]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Worldpressphoto%202007.html#unique-entry-id-61</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tuned: The Prayer</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2007-02-09T15:10:17+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ojgBHWoBmwg/The%20Prayer.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/The%20Prayer.html#unique-entry-id-60</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Uhu, music makes the world go round, so a cute mini flashplayer in the sidebar is all it takes to bring that part of my world into your ears.   So, take it as it is, perhaps to lift up those dull moments when reading, or see as a token of commitment to your curiosity about the tunes in me head, a first 'look' at my private Idaho soundtrack, my number one in my iPod... 


And since it a first time wonder (my personal Web 2.0 idea) I give you the lyrics too.   So maybe, only maybe, one day we will sing along. 

..."Lord, give me grace and dancing feet


...Lord, give me grace and dancing feet


...Is it so wrong to want rewarding?


...And I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle them with my wit


...And I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle, I will outshine them all
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/The%20Prayer.html#unique-entry-id-60</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Snow</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-08T09:36:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/jkLYTvJp1T4/snow%20landscape.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/snow%20landscape.html#unique-entry-id-59</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[click for larger view]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/snow%20landscape.html#unique-entry-id-59</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Bonsai Rainforrest</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-02-07T11:10:25+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/AUk94e8Dgcg/Bonsai%20Rainforrest.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Bonsai%20Rainforrest.html#unique-entry-id-57</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Endowed in my morning rituals of hot coffee and cigarettes (ah the wonderful world of perpetual demand : coffee to sooth a throbbing throat, which makes me yearn for a smoke, which hurts my...etc etc) so yeah,  sipping/coughing, my twin mood,  I sorta realized, well gosh, yes, oh dear... 

...Anyway i was reading about the flooding in Djakarta, Indonesia, and in a smaller article about the near depletion of the rainforrest in Sumatra and Borneo, and as the mind goes when confronted with things too big to handle, it cuts it down to tiny personal visuals and words, or well, suddenly i was thinking about Soylent Green I saw as a kid, especially that scene where Charles Heston visits this dome under gloomy skies, where the last living tree was standing.   And then somehow, maybe because it was a rich guy who had that tree and maybe cause today our new government presented their plans for the future, I thought of Bonsai trees, free Bonsai Trees for everyone, with just one obligation: Keep it alive.   I already could see the slogans: Nurture a bit of Nature.


Bonsai, dont you love it already, dont you love the ring of it? 

...And then I found this picture (see above) and lost direction and went like this:


...In the eighties I had a haircut like that (tree),  a less profiled one now (the guy).


...It is any tree or shrub species actively growing but kept small through a combination of pot confinement, and crown and root pruning', and thus there is still hope for me I guess, escaping this little contained and hairless life.


...Also contemplated that Bonsai sounds really like Banzai, that Japanese battle cry during the war (II) before storming into a certain death, suicidal in their adoration for their emperor. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Bonsai%20Rainforrest.html#unique-entry-id-57</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Symmetry/Nightswimming</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-03T10:46:09+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/NM333xYIV4g/Nightswimming.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Symmetry/Nightswimming.html#unique-entry-id-56</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[*the Dutch best prepared for climate change


According to a recent study by the Universities of Princeton and Munich, The Dutch are the longest people in the world, at an average of 4,7 cm more then The Americans.   This week the UN (IPCC) also published his rapport on global warming, saying sealevels may rise by 28-43cm this century.   Gorilla saw the symmetry in all this.


Its makes you think, wondering how I get in the sum of things, only 1.78 tall.   Its the small that fall first.   Another inconvenient truth....?]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Symmetry/Nightswimming.html#unique-entry-id-56</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Capturing The Tick Tock In The Clock</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Internet</category><category>Music</category><dc:date>2007-01-31T09:28:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/DtbZLtKZqs8/Capturing%20The%20Tick%20Tock%20In%20The%20Clock.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Capturing%20The%20Tick%20Tock%20In%20The%20Clock.html#unique-entry-id-53</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, there was a sense of disappointment when i woke up today, a little itch, a kinda not that unpleasant shiver that went down my spine, but then, only minutes later, with a hint of nicotine, a drop of caffeine in the early morning cold, birds flying, a smudge of blue skies, I straightened my back, realizing that the former post was all about nothing, nothing at all besides a slight suggestion to move in a different direction, one that i am still unwilling to take, only until something really gets pearshaped, a life unpleasant not only looming but with those slimy tentacles on places where there weren't before, the slippery road not down on the horizon but under my feet, only then I take action.   "Soon" I often say, and yes I do it again, soft voiced, a pensive but innocent frown, the soon word a little universe without a star gone supernova yet.   I stand firm.   Duh... 


So instead a musical intermezzo, Bright Eyes, a fav fab.


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I could have a look at the ducks in the pond and feed them weekend leftovers, also untouched today, still curious about the hint of mouldy green in the centre of a slice of bread, and what color comes next.


...Actually i could even send them and wow-factor the other side...


Also I could try reading that pile of pristine newspapers yellowing in the sun, for instance to gain knowledge (yes, the dirty k. word) of why i prefer Barrack Obama over Hillary Clinton and what to think if, gawd please, The Republicans still win.   This of course cause i dont wanna sound like a that big dumbass if i one day have a conversation, yip,  a dialoge instead of those daily monologues.


I could think twice before doing anything and decide its not worth the effort after all.


Further I could delete that former remark coz i should be tired of one more excuse to do nothing at all.


But since i am not, well guess that could mean I could go on and on....... 

...*dear reader, in case you are my future boss and might frown at this remark, well dont judge merely by appearance or verbal eloquency ( or the lack of it ), or maybe should I say: "come on, you know i can do it!"?
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Tomorrow%20When%20I%20Wake%20Up.html#unique-entry-id-51</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>One...</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2007-01-17T20:02:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Hgc5BYximxc/b7d986280f9c3c0511fb9c78400f7836-50.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/b7d986280f9c3c0511fb9c78400f7836-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe i should start with this.... and maybe not, but do i really care, or have another option?


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To my dad, who died today at the age of 80.


Bye.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/b7d986280f9c3c0511fb9c78400f7836-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Efforts For A New Year To Come...</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><dc:subject>bloga</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-29T10:15:05+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/zjtstEKng2c/29828c6fd195af582b157d1d90f96cc1-48.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/29828c6fd195af582b157d1d90f96cc1-48.html#unique-entry-id-48</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[click for a larger view.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/29828c6fd195af582b157d1d90f96cc1-48.html#unique-entry-id-48</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Tsunami 2004</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><category>Photography</category><dc:date>2006-12-26T12:26:32+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/zs_szkjbYaw/Tsunami%202004.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Tsunami%202004.html#unique-entry-id-47</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Saw the thin white line approaching,  thought wow, but what did I know? 


You read it in books of past wars, the smell of it, and well, thats the thing you still miss watching tv, the stench of post Tsunami water. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Tsunami%202004.html#unique-entry-id-47</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Return Of The Dead</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-12-14T12:29:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/hOrydr9rbW8/9c4c1490498f73d9cdf28c24247b6404-46.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/9c4c1490498f73d9cdf28c24247b6404-46.html#unique-entry-id-46</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And hey, maybe even alive.   Just imagine the possibilties... again.


edit: too little text, too little...
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/9c4c1490498f73d9cdf28c24247b6404-46.html#unique-entry-id-46</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Crossing Borders</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-09-26T21:07:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/GwI_odoY98o/Crossing%20Borders.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Crossing%20Borders.html#unique-entry-id-45</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So far this year bout 25.000 (illegal) migrants from North Africa have tried to reach Europe by boat.   Many died doing so.   Yesterday, in the Street of Gibraltar, three of those refugees were picked up by Spanish authorities.   They tried to reach the mainland by waterbike.   Dunno about you, but hey lets welcome those cool heroes, give them a hat and medal.   Clap clap.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Crossing%20Borders.html#unique-entry-id-45</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Summer Autumn </title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-09-19T09:08:48+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/sJZc84oWZ9w/Summer%20Autumn%20.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Summer%20Autumn%20.html#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The start of autumn is a summer day.   Whats happening with the world? ...  I'm rejuvenating my tan in a sunny yard instead of crawling in some dark corner, drizzle outside and in me head, its insane.   I'ts never meant to be this boy contented this time of year.   There will be a counterstrike soon.   There must be. 


Anyway.   Back to the past this weekend.   They promise some rain too...
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Summer%20Autumn%20.html#unique-entry-id-44</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Nomad World (1)</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2006-09-15T22:40:59+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/KheFCFFmid8/A%20Nomad%20World.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A%20Nomad%20World.html#unique-entry-id-43</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Some are wondering what's this new thing in Zoo world? ...  And above all, will he not get bored with it, drift away again?


...First Conrad is not alone in his, uhm... dreams. ...  For instance,  lets call her Emma, a pleasant name to go around.   Don't know her, but I guess she's in the same league: independence on own terms, money (income, flatscreen tv, ipod, fancy clothes) not the goal but  just a means  to go around pleasantly.   Maybe she likes to travel just as much as Conrad?   Maybe she likes to share her knowledge while doing so with others - and get a living with that too?   Check her website (about Cypress, lovely place) and you know what Conrad is doing. 


...Luxury is doing what's in your system. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/A%20Nomad%20World.html#unique-entry-id-43</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Music In Head</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2006-09-14T10:56:21+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/0_y3vBLdx78/Music%20In%20Head.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Music%20In%20Head.html#unique-entry-id-42</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So yeah, finally got my new 2nd gen Nano.   It's a beauty. 


 Nice, but it also means I will be able to drag to me to work again, the soundtrack of lost days in my head.   No more excuses eh?   Next Monday?


Time to kick ass.


Right....
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Music%20In%20Head.html#unique-entry-id-42</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Empty Box</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-09-06T23:50:17+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/DiZVlSf5Sec/293312e0168599926d54c054b7501fa6-40.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/293312e0168599926d54c054b7501fa6-40.html#unique-entry-id-40</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ I didn't do anything remarkably today.   Thinking of all my life saving plans I should be worried, but I am not.   It was a beautiful sunny day, the first in weeks, so why not spent it in leisure?   My shorts still did fit well.   My skin needed that extra pigment boost.   The breeze in me backyard was lush with a hint of Bangkok (thanks to my neighbours, prime collectors of garbage).   It was nice to see my toes again, and trim them, indeed, under clear blue skies. 

...But over a glass of wine, well, tranquility me be nice, failure may be a good lesson, but time is running out.   Soon I will be a kinda drone again, wishing I took more effort at  times as these, plentiful and promissing. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/293312e0168599926d54c054b7501fa6-40.html#unique-entry-id-40</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Always New Depths</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-09-04T13:37:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/eT2Y3M6g--A/7349988d7eecf1b159df777d6a4c2bd4-38.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/7349988d7eecf1b159df777d6a4c2bd4-38.html#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["If it ain't broke, it can't be fixed".


Anyway, it was a nice day.   Progress, no progress - it's not half as bad as it sounds.   Didn't I say 'almost'?   So almost is another week away, or always finding new excuses, when I got me a new musical input device (brainwasher in a good sense), a flashy, updated Apple Nano.   Next tuesday they say. 
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/7349988d7eecf1b159df777d6a4c2bd4-38.html#unique-entry-id-38</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>When Autumn Arrives...</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-09-03T00:46:31+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/PpoBb17mUwI/3d77fdf0da63bb9d8dfa06d35ad9f6a5-37.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/3d77fdf0da63bb9d8dfa06d35ad9f6a5-37.html#unique-entry-id-37</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So September did make it again. 


Ok, it's almost time to move on, get a clean shave, put on a nice tee, perfecting that corporate smile that will bring me back into 'a thou shall work' society.   For now I won't settle for anything more then a temp job, a steady job still out of the question.


 I need the money, yes, but no, I am not that willing, not that desperate to sacrifice what I am doing best.   The idea is still there: work (as in a dreary job) as little as possible, have a good life nevertheless, well, because of that.   It will be tough enough, the alarmclock settings, that early cup of coffee over a quick smoke, that pace in chains towards a 5 o'clock relief.


It shouldn't be but here I go.   Meh.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/3d77fdf0da63bb9d8dfa06d35ad9f6a5-37.html#unique-entry-id-37</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Intermezzo (almost the end)</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2006-08-25T01:06:21+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/cprFWzfKfKU/4ad4c266b9102901451e4ebab2065f37-33.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4ad4c266b9102901451e4ebab2065f37-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Restyling is an act of Escapism....
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4ad4c266b9102901451e4ebab2065f37-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>A Smoke?</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-08-07T22:07:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/4L7blPvq4uc/39152c183c104bc94ab6e920db874305-31.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/39152c183c104bc94ab6e920db874305-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Nothing is really happening.   Anyway the weather is not that bad, I am working on a total re-design (again, yes...) of this site, and plan to start working on a nxt one, the one that maybe will bring in some money, and yeah, already making plans for my nxt trip to warmer climates.   So, yes, I am busy. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/39152c183c104bc94ab6e920db874305-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>"Nice Holiday? But What About A Job?"</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Temp job boy</category><dc:date>2006-08-01T10:58:53+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/eDFGw9DIShk/e69a9a82aa59589db7d13774f91567fb-30.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/e69a9a82aa59589db7d13774f91567fb-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And then I read this article and everything seemed clearer, or at least I had something to linger on, another (verbal whenever anyone would ask and I would remember the right kinda lines) excuse to stay put. 


Less then a week back home now and The Heatwave has turned into a cold drizzle clouding all the memories of clear blue skies.   I need a break.
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/e69a9a82aa59589db7d13774f91567fb-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Waiting Room aka Lounge</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2006-07-31T20:36:10+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/TjEsZW90bHE/e4ce963c78b713e1d1d80de38d009235-29.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/e4ce963c78b713e1d1d80de38d009235-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It seems that I have changed the link 'Travels' into 'Lounge'.   Anyway, eventually this part of my site will be the main part of this website.   In time I will split it further into 'Arrival' and 'Departure' (which will be part of the entry page as well).   It seems like a logical thing to do thinking of all the possibilities to make this effort going on with The Airport analogy, which is in the visuals already, as stated yesterday.   Ah well, see what happens.   Probably it will turn out to be something completely different, losing interest, or that other personal weakness, boredom.


So what do ya think. ...  You will be the first.   It's nice to be the first one, isn't it? ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/e4ce963c78b713e1d1d80de38d009235-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Black box</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2006-07-30T16:59:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/Ss7Cz-NGBtI/9b762aef7247393291ea0bde8e1b5f76-28.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/9b762aef7247393291ea0bde8e1b5f76-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Somebody asked me what is it this airplane stuff goodies.   It's getting more and more eh? ...  I survived once more a flight.   It went smooth as a papaya fruit shake, but still. 

...Anyway, life without symbols is kinda boring aint it?   Think of Leonardo Di Caprio in Spielbergs 'Catch me if you can'.   I am my own captain over here. 


...Lifting off or chrashing down, it's all a orange and blue frenzy, a visual blast.


ps. the contact form (About-Contact) doesn't seem to work cause of a bug in the app I am using. ]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/9b762aef7247393291ea0bde8e1b5f76-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Homeland</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-07-30T00:55:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/ha_Tu0gSHQc/06180620acc712d3bfa9397665644212-27.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/06180620acc712d3bfa9397665644212-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So there is a heatwave. ...  Where I just came from its called a nice day. ...  Yes, but I shouldn't.   Life is tougher elsewhere.   Name a country thats making headlines and I nod in silence.   I'm still aware of the discrepancy of what is and what seems.   I am not really a bad guy. ...  Hello all of you.   I am back.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/06180620acc712d3bfa9397665644212-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>More Tropics On The Wrong Continent?

</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-07-26T19:28:04+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/IPaVdParU9Y/e98f4dee1ccaa2fa11f4be90bcdffb98-26.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/e98f4dee1ccaa2fa11f4be90bcdffb98-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Back home and still sweaty.   Weird.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/e98f4dee1ccaa2fa11f4be90bcdffb98-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The Tropics</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-06-28T13:03:05+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/fEkhSI1oLKQ/42120e97849314321082e17244a8be43-25.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/42120e97849314321082e17244a8be43-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yip, gonna find me a secret map.   See ya in a couple of weeks...]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/42120e97849314321082e17244a8be43-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Clowns</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-06-26T14:03:52+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/PQnhRu6ga7U/Clowns%20the%20cure.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Clowns%20the%20cure.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Greys skies and then I stumbled into this.   Nostalgia...


<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mWmdt4Zn0-o"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mWmdt4Zn0-o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Clowns%20the%20cure.html#unique-entry-id-24</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Satellites</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-06-21T11:42:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/5wqFcWmGYG8/ed44c2ce2df791c3299278fbcc894db1-23.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/ed44c2ce2df791c3299278fbcc894db1-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[21 of June.   Midsummer.   View on clouds over this and there.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/ed44c2ce2df791c3299278fbcc894db1-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>New Look</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2006-06-16T19:59:30+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/3xH4ppWvrKE/63c08b47489cfa78169c321d7244e02f-22.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/63c08b47489cfa78169c321d7244e02f-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Again a new restyled look (in construction).   Some people liked the old one, thanks for that, but as I always stated, it was something temporarily.   Anyway, read the magazines, new looks are the new cool.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/63c08b47489cfa78169c321d7244e02f-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>World United</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-06-15T09:03:32+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/qf7bRc05d7Y/World%20United.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/World%20United.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[According to the BBC a cumulative audience of more than 32 billion viewers around the world are expected to have watched the 64 World Cup matches on TV or other media by the time the final is played on Sunday 9 July.   Thats a lot of people.   I almost feel isolated, inhuman, since I haven't watched or will watch a bloody single game.   Am I normal?   Will my act of denial, as in 'the butterfly theory', cause the delay, or worse, the missing last chance to world peace?   Questions, questions....
]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/World%20United.html#unique-entry-id-21</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The New Borders</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-06-12T17:22:25+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/-Yu3qgM8s_g/The%20New%20Borders.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/The%20New%20Borders.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So (once again) you made it to this website.   Big deal eh?   You googled at bit and there you were.    But what if my goverment, or yours,  has decided that you shouldn't read what I have to say.     We all heard about this kinda censorship, think of China (The Great Firewall by Cisco blocking every unwelcome word about Tibet) or Iran.   You think that is not possible in your country?   Think again.   Reporters sans frontiers is warning a less free internet is becoming more and more a threat.     Also, in the follow up of Googles sell out in China Amnesty International has recently started a new  campaign against censorship.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/The%20New%20Borders.html#unique-entry-id-20</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Summer 2</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>At home</category><dc:date>2006-06-12T16:46:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/lsfV18sMmig/4e83467915d3fe57dcde6b32a79f0e09-19.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4e83467915d3fe57dcde6b32a79f0e09-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week I got an invitation to a reunion of the early eighties, the splinter of my younger years revisited?   Last week Leon Weil, the last French who was a soldier in The Great war died at the age of 109.   Last week the suicide of three prisoners in Guantanamo Bay is called by commander of the bas admiral harry Harris 'a deed of asymmetric warfare'.   Finally, last week I downloaded (yet not released so...illegal) version of Thom Yorkes brilliant solo album, The Eraser , the soundtrack of this all.   Anyway I keep wondering what  it all means.   Maybe I should watching the  Eternal sunset a bit more often


Three weeks to go before a plane ride puts me out of  context again.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4e83467915d3fe57dcde6b32a79f0e09-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Virtual Adventurers</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-06-06T08:45:55+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/A13DlBJiPFY/Virtual%20Adventurers.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Virtual%20Adventurers.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Is this the answer?


What if you can't go on exotic  holidays but wanna tell the greatest travel tales on monday mornings at work to watch your colleagues listen in awe and envy your luck?


Don't worry anymore, a Moscow travel agency is filling the gap, selling you the ultimate  virtual travel experience.   Wanna climb the Great Wall of China, join the Rio Carnival, or dance all night the tango in Argentina, the Moscow travel agency Perseus makes it happen.    For a fraction of the real costs they provide you with real (fake) tickets, manipulated snapshots, hotel receipts, museum cards, souvenirs and 'realtime' stories.   All you have to do yourself is stay put at your house (or some Datsja) for a while.   And don't forget to get yourself a tan in case you 'went' for that Kenyan wildlife trip.


"We sell the dream - and with that comes the social standard," says Mr Popov, the 26-year-old head of Perseus Tours.


Right.]]></content:encoded><feedburner:origLink>http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/Virtual%20Adventurers.html#unique-entry-id-15</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Cars and the weather</title><dc:creator>Conradzoo</dc:creator><category>World</category><dc:date>2006-06-04T17:56:19+02:00</dc:date><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Zooadventurer/~3/pjvaQ0YdH5I/4db9f3f48c788e2a6cc3999682d757fc-13.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://zooadventurer.com/words/blog_files/4db9f3f48c788e2a6cc3999682d757fc-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Today, as in one day, Joan of Arc is burned as a witch by the English at Rouen at the age of 19 (05/30/1431).   Also Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America (05/30/1498).   Finally,


Voltaire, the French writer (Candide), dies at 42 (05/30/1778).


Anyway, somebody just bought the Back To The Future DeLorean at eBay.   So yeah, see ya in a bit.    
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Some 7,000 migrants have reached the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean this year alone, but many die while attempting to make the perilous journey."(  BBC).


And these poor bastards even 'went' for the wrong continent... 


It's the sea that takes, yes, but it's the world in its cruelty that rules.
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