Uit het maandarchief: juni 2006

24/5/2006

op 24 juni 2006 door

Is there life on Mars? Bowie springs to mind as I unwrap my Mars and discover a chocolate-eating ant.

that’s not true, but it sounds good.

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23/5/2006

op 23 juni 2006 door

We’ve become one of those people, Freya noted. Yes we have. One of those annoying neighbors who work on their apartment in the evening. We roughen doors with a loud Shiiiiii Shiiiiiiii, deskin wooden floors with a Wèèèèèwèèèwèèè and an orbital sander. We stop at 10 PM, that’s the least we can do. We’ll have [...]

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14/5/2006

op 14 juni 2006 door

Note to myself: must urgently start recollecting rubber bands. Months ago, Brown Ring overpopulation in my desk drawer was posing a serious thread to the important desk items, such as instant soup packages and origami models. I decided to take action and stretched them into a rubber band ball.

At the time, we ordered sandwiches [...]

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9/5/2006

op 9 juni 2006 door

I returned my rucksack to the store: zipper broke. It’s under warranty, so I’ll get a new one. The thing is: that bag already was a free replacement for the previous one that broke under warranty. Hedgren hands out a new 2-year warranty as you get a replacement bag, but cannot produce bags [...]

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6/5/2006

op 6 juni 2006 door

My feet hurt; it’s hard to find a rucksack that holds a laptop AND looks cool. Luckily this bar in the mall has unprotected wireless access

I settled for a blue greyish Samsonite with the inevitable earphones opening on the back. Try putting down a rucksack with headphones attached to the back. [...]

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3/5/2006

op 3 juni 2006 door

sharing a pack of french fries under an umbrella, we watched the zoo turn into an even more depressing sight than it was. We should have picked a sunny day. Perhaps it would have swung to “they’re so cute” instead of “you think they pace nervously like this in nature?”.

Granted, the city of Antwerp [...]

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