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The relative meaning of words
Trump is regularly in the news to promote his current and future MAGA achievements. One of them is to bring jobs and industry back to America and what better prize than to have an iPhone made in the USA. According to economists this is not realistic unless Americans would be suddenly willing to pay at…
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Wielrijdersrust Het dorstige hart
Like most years we spent a few days with the family in Nieuwpoort at the Belgian coast again. One of the things we do traditionally during these vacations is to go for a bike ride. Our bike path often leads along the conterdijk along the canal Nieuwpoort-Duinkerke and past a cyclist friendly brasserie : Wielrijdersrust…
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Relaxing Lunch at Brasserie Beukenhof: Quality Food & Service
After visiting the Navigo museum in Nieuwpoort we planned to have lunch and the Peerdevisscher next door but unfortunately the place was completely full. Google Maps came to the rescue and directed us to Brasserie Beukenhof. This was almost full but we could still get 2 tables for 4 people each next to each other…
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Exploring the Navigo Museum: A Fisherman’s History
Last week we visited the Navigo museum in Nieuwpoort. We last visited it a number of years ago when they had a photo expo from Stephan Vanfleteren. Since then the museum has modernised the presentation of its collection and is well worth a visit even if you visited in the past like us. The museum…
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Easy Indoor Gardening with Auk Mini: My Experience
I have been thinking about growing vegetables for a while but never really committed to the idea. We have a lot of snails in our garden and the few vegetables we have planted have been eaten by the snails more often than not. Two years ago we managed to gets some courgettes which was nice.…
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Goodbye to my Old Mac Pro trash can
A little while ago I decided it finally was time to replace my old Mac Pro from 2013, also known as the trash can. The model got a lot of negative criticism because of the radical design which limited ‘upgrade’ options severely compared to previous and subsequent Mac Pro models. As I can hardly be…
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Vanity and the Rise of the Web
‘I’m so vain. I probably think this page is about me.‘― Dr Chuck Severance in Web Applications for Everybody
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Einstein’s Wife. The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Allen Chesterton & David Cassidy (ISBN 9780262538978, MIT Press)
I read about this book in the paper when it came out in 2020 but didn’t buy it immediately. Then, not so long ago I decided to buy and read the Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson and I also got this book about Mileva Maric which I read first. Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife was…
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The Purpose of Reading
‘Why are we reading, if not in the hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatise our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our…
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Clarice Lispector reflecting about The Instant
‘The instant is this one. The instant is of an imminence that takes my breath away. The instant is in itself imminent. At the same time that I live it, I burst into its passage into another instant.‘― Clarice Lispector
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