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Everything I write here, newest first. Pieces by others are under Guest contributions.
2026
About week 2049: Waking up, and it's fall again
The week when Autumn, or Fall, or Autumn is truly upon us.
2024
About week 1933, or 1991
So, four years and some months ago I last did week notes. I thought it would be fun to pick those up again. Since I'm a lazy person, I went to a site to calculate the current week number of…
I use Raycast for my almost auto-connecting my Bluetooth headphones
So I got some new nice new wireless headphones. I mostly used some basic AirPods over the past two years, but I work in a big office with lots of people around me. So I started to miss noise cancellation…
2023
Going Green [6]: greener living ideas
It’s a constant struggle for me. I think we need a whole lot of policy change to meet our climate goals and save our planet from climate change, deforestation, and pollution. But then again, while…
2022
FLEE: Not escapism, but essential viewing
Danish animated documentary FLEE has been collecting quite a few awards and nominations since its premiere in January 2021. And rightly so, it works both as a wonderful animation and a personal, moving documentary of…
Stuck.
I am stuck. People in my life are stuck. Society is stuck. The world is stuck. Once I’m stuck and I haven’t found a way to get unstuck, it’s hard not to notice more stuckness…
2021
Song&Art: ‘Sunblind’ by Fleet Foxes
After spending so much time indoors, it’s a joy to be outside and see Spring unfold around me.
SSE: the anatomy of feelings
The title track Only Skin of this new album by songwriters Lowri Evans and Tom McRae is a thing of beauty.
Going Green [5]: cheese is heaven, cheese is hell
In the Summer of 2019, after attending barbecue with way too much meat on the grill that can possibly be safe, moral and responsible, I decided to become a vegetarian. I had been eating less…
2020
Almost every letter changed: Netflix’s The Letter For The King
The last time I’ve read The Letter for the King (De Brief voor de Koning) by Tonke Dragt before writing this article, was over ten years ago when I was still studying. I disappointingly discovered…
Going green [4]: Voting with your wallet
It’s a problem environment friendly folks run into frequently. Green companies taking money from companies that aren’t green. Recently,oat drink company Oatly made the news for taking private equity money from an investment firm called…
SSE: a voice of understanding
Only want to get to work, but every morning I’m too sick to drive.Suffering whiteout conditions, forget the mission just get out alive Whiteout Conditions – The New Pornographers The song Whiteout Conditions is one…
Going green [3]: train holidays
On #FridaysforFuture, Stefan Meeuws publishes a blog on going green. He has recently become a vegetarian, is switching to a greener bank and in general tries to reduce his impact on the environment. This blog…