Category: Life
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(belated) thoughts from a new city
Alright, I’m a lazy globber blogger. i’ll admit it readily. below is a message that was distributed a while ago. don’t hate me for publishing it. ===== hello far flung friends, relatives and people that I might have met at a party somewhere.. excuse the mass email format – just think of it as your…
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In the space of a heartbeat on late tuesday afternoon my life went from idling in neutral to 3000 km/h in 10th gear.
last year i applied to a master’s program at New York University in Interactive Telecommunications. this week i finally received my letter of acceptance after four months of nail biting, caffeine abuse and playing computer games in my pyjamas. I’m IN!!! Yay!!! whooohooo!! okay so extreme euphoria was instantly replaced by extreme shock and nervousness…
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sand. sea. seals. mike’s holiday adventures
Namibia… ah… Namibiaaaah… land of dust devils, wide open spaces and a gazillion fisherman. Not to mention the sand, the sand dunes, the largest sand dunes in the world and a couple of snakes. And that’s still leaving out some rather hermitic (or is that hermetic) scorpions, entire coastlines full of writhing seals and the…
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REPORT: Aimlessly skipping past David Hasselhoff and some rather casual strippers
yesterday. a day glorified by artists as far apart as the beatles and guns’n’roses. a day celebrated by historians for providing them with a raison d’etre. a day universally excised from the memory by those who are rudely excreted into the present through the crusty detritus of eyeballs that refuse to open due to the…
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Satire in the USA
Yet another example why freedom of speech is such a potent force in America: The Onion | 31 October 2001 Gore Delivers Emergency Presidential Address Into Bathroom Mirror