10k

Look at that! I’ve had 10,000 hits to my blog! Amusingly (to me), I think the 10,000th hit came from someone in Auckland, New Zealand. I like to think it was one of the NZ musos I listen to so frequently.
Sadly, I’m feeling a lacking in topics to write about today. I could moan about [...]

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Early Expats

On this day in which Americans around the world celebrate Thanksgiving — a case of expats/immigrants trying to make friends with the natives of their new homeland — I thought I’d mention some news about some early expats here in the Utrecht region. It seems that some untouched Roman graves have been found near IJsselstein, [...]

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Politics and Presidents

If you’re in the US, you may not know that the Lisbon Treaty was recently — finally — adopted here in Europe, or that we finally have an EU president. The US news may have been focusing too much on Sarah Palin’s media tour. The whole EU thing was probably little more than a quick [...]

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Cow Dung

As my sore throat and cough have now progressed to sinus misery, I figure now is a good time to discuss something that I probably wouldn’t be able to smell at the moment!
G and I have noticed that on certain days, when the wind blows from a certain direction, there’s a faint smell of manure [...]

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A Horse Is A HHHorse

Yesterday, while going through my Google Reader listings (handy for keeping track of lots of websites without having to remember to visit each and every one) I saw a news story with the title: Horse genome unlocked by science.
I know the word genome; I know how to pronounce it. However, now that I’m trying [...]

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Rooms For Rent

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s made the BBC news website, as well, so I figured I’d mention it again. Plus, it never fails to amuse me. The Netherlands has a shortage of criminals — or at least a shortage of ones who are caught and sent to prison — so we’re [...]

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Let Loose The Kraken

There I was thinking I didn’t really have much to blog about these days when suddenly there arose such a clatter that I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter. (Or, you could say that I eventually got up off the sofa to see where the music and yelling was coming from [...]

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Ear Apparant

I couldn’t resist posting this:

Gauguin may have cut off Van Gogh’s ear
Tuesday 05 May 2009
Vincent van Gogh’s ear may have been cut off in a fight with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, British paper the Daily Telegraph reports on Tuesday, quoting German researchers.
Van Gogh is believed to have cut off his own ear as he struggled [...]

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Home Away From Home

Walking along 27th Street in Manhattan meant I passed through the garden district (different, though from the New Orleans Garden District), and I always passed one of the flower shops that had the name New Amsterdam. Now I live near the original flavor.
Although the original settlers wouldn’t recognize their Mana-Hatta today, the Dutch government is [...]

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In the News

Utrecht introduces cycle ambulance
Monday 28 July 2008
Utrecht is the first city in the Netherlands to get a cycle ambulance, reports Monday’s AD newspaper.
The city’s ambulance service RAVU tells the paper that it has been forced to introduce this unusual form of emergency medical aid because of the increasing difficulty of reaching city centre destinations with [...]

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