The world according to Sven-S. Porst
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Public holiday today. My parents came over to look at the new flat. They brought and made some fresh asparagus which was nice.
- Just when you've come to think that people in your country are at least somewhat sane they blow it.
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Ever fancied using Zapfino in TeX? Sounds like a 'best of both worlds' thing. I may not have any actual use for it now, but being able to use Unicode and advances (non-TeX-specific) font gimmicks from within TeX is a good thing.
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This reminded me of the bit of advice lovely Dogbert gave last year:
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching.
It's one of the few sites where I consider the banner graphic at the top pretty enough to justify the waste of space, btw.
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I've said it before and I may say it again – The White Stripes' Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground video is absolutely brilliant.
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It may be an ad, and it may be old, but the subservient chicken still made me chuckle.
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I started reading Jonathan Franzen's essays in How to be alone and I am enjoying them very much so far. Very good observations eloquently presented – touching the topics of being alone and privacy. One essay is on Alzheimer, which very much reminded me of my grandmother.
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The whole 'being alone' in the sense of being distant from society thing reminded me of the topics of Michel Houllebecq's novels which Richard brought up recently. I really didn't like those, though.
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Why does my VPN connection get dropped when my flatmate opens his and vice versa?
May 20, 2004, 23:31
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