Monthly Archives: October 2003

Weird spaceflight

Posted on October 15, 2003 by Arthur

I find it a kind of weird: the first Chinese manned spaceflight was a great succes when the Chinese astronaut was proudly shown to the media after touchdown. However, most media only have a handful of pictures and a just … Continue reading →

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China and their first man in space

Posted on October 14, 2003 by Arthur

I see that it’s making headlines, but all newsagencies are reporting that China has started its manned spaceflight project. Right now at this very moment. There’s hardly any news coming through, since the official Chinese news agency appears to be … Continue reading →

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Enterprise, Enterprise and Enterprise

Posted on October 14, 2003 by Arthur

Last night, the SpaceChannel had their Star Trek Marathon, which essentially ended up in a non-stop exercise of viewing Star Trek movies. Only movies I to VI were shown ordered by popularity. If I recall correctly, the best one was … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving

Posted on October 13, 2003 by Arthur

This year’s Thanksgiving, we think of Mom. Additionally, we were visited by two stranded visitors from Mars. Imagine the scene! Happy Thanksgiving! And drive careful. It’s a jungle in space.

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I can hear the heart beating as one

Posted on October 12, 2003 by Arthur

An entry over at Corsac reminds me of the CD collection I used to have before I decided that it was time to chase my love. Most of them are mentioned over here (recovered from an old Excel file). During … Continue reading →

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Audiotapes

Posted on October 11, 2003 by Arthur

Audiotapes. Walkmans. Do they still exist? Yes, apparently they do . For some kind of reason, I think that’s pretty amazing. As a seventies kid, I was one of those who had a ‘Walkman’ and went through puberty buying too … Continue reading →

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Edith Piaf

Posted on October 11, 2003 by Arthur

Is this coincidence, I wonder, when Alfons recalls veering up when he hears Piaf during the Dutch movie ‘Phileine zegt sorry’, while at the same time the BBC was commemorating the singer (October 10th, it was the 40th anniversary of … Continue reading →

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NS Power

Posted on October 11, 2003 by Arthur

The Nova Scotian Utility and Review Board has given Nova Scotia Power two weeks to file a report about its handling in the aftermath of Hurricane Juan (earlier and more earlier). The Board says that public deserves a review of … Continue reading →

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Dutch prince renounces throne

Posted on October 10, 2003 by Arthur

During last week’s power outage I frequently phoned ‘home’. During one of those conversations with relatives oversea, someone mentioned something about the troubled state of the Dutch monarchy: apparantly one of the sons of the queen was intending to marry … Continue reading →

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Diana coin

Posted on October 10, 2003 by Arthur

And another simple reminder to a tale that has to be told, thanks to the ever surprising Gothamist. At the end of 1999, probably around this time, Alf and I stayed in London for a couple of days: Kurt Weill’s … Continue reading →

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Hold shift key. Get sued.

Posted on October 9, 2003 by Arthur

Holding the shift key while restarting our old MSX home computer made sure that all disk based initialization routines were skipped or ignored, leaving us with that extra bit more of memory needed to execute BASIC or assembler programs. I … Continue reading →

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Ouch. That hurts. A Lot.

Posted on October 9, 2003 by Arthur

Being rejected hurts a lot. A team of researchers at the UCLA say so. In the October 10th issue of ‘Science’ (Imagine captain Picard saying ‘Science. The next frontier’) they report that two key areas in the brain respond to … Continue reading →

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Et voila!! (that’s swedish for ‘oil dumplings’)

Posted on October 9, 2003 by Arthur

Science is so exciting so once in a while. It’s so exciting sometimes that even poor programmers like me don’t know what to do with amazing breakthroughs. Take a look at that pretty image for a change. Apparantly it’s a … Continue reading →

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