Archive for the ‘EN’ Category
I has a jay oh bee!
Saturday, April 26th, 2008I haven't had the time to write a post about it before since the whole thing went so incredibly fast, but by now I've had my first working week as a junior translator at IBM. Last week I got an e-mail on tuesday, in which my boss at TechText told ...
Kitten for life
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Recently my father and I took our youngest cat, Katja, to the vet for her castration. By that time she was still a slightly oversized kitten, so we were wondering if it would be ok. However, she was old enough and spring is here, so we took her there anyway. ...
YouTube Inventiveness
Monday, April 7th, 2008Someone on YouTube doesn't like the Rolling Stones, so the person figured several video replies were needed... When I clicked on the user, I found that not only do his videoreplies feature the word 'FUCK', but also the word 'ASS'. Perhaps I need to make a video reply in which I ...
Review: John Irving - Until I Find You
Sunday, April 6th, 2008John Irving - Until I find you. Random House Inc., 820 pages. ISBN: 1-4000-6383-3 ***** (5/5) How a childhood was lost Jack Burns is a little kid who has a twisted childhood. His father, William Burns, is an organ player who has left Jack's mother Alice Stronach, a well-known tattoo artist. Together Jack and ...
When you wake up and feel like deleting stuff, stay in bed
Saturday, March 29th, 2008So I felt like deleting lots of stuff, or something. Or I just didn't think about it when I accidentally deleted wilgje.net from my domains list on GoDaddy (thank heavens that they fixed that fast for me, or I would have been unable to blog this!). Or when I deleted ...
Heads I win, tails you lose
Thursday, February 21st, 2008I'm currently doing research into a topic for my thesis, and I found this article about fallacies in arguments. Even though I'm not going to discuss this subject, it's a really interesting read. It is also a sad story about Sam who loses his job because Todd rejects all his ...
Speech therapy
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008It's been a bit quiet here, but no worries: two book reviews are on their way. I just need to refine them somewhat. In the mean time life has been a bit chaotic for me. My former speech therapist, whom I'd been seeing since I was eleven, referred me to ...
The Straight Story
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Today I was reminded of a movie that I really need to see again because of a million reasons. The story is brilliant because of it's simplicity and complications at the same time, the setting is beautiful and the music... wow. The Straight Story is one of the best movies ...