So I’m trying out flickr to share London pictures with those who don’t have facebook…
It’s still kind of scary.
OK, trying the slideshow out, so bear with me now.
Anyway, I never thought I would do that “buy before you fly” stuff, but I decided to invest in a point-and-shoot. It paid off, I think. I’m definitely glad to have gotten to see Sungyon. It was also like 50 euros cheaper at the airport with the coupon from my ticket than the camera store in Delft. I hope I didn’t look too suspicious unwrapping parts and throwing the box away at the airport moments after purchase.
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This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
I have a nerd crush on my hand drawing teacher, Koos Eissen. He has a book coming out on sketching for product designers. I took a picture this morning during class because while he has always drawn rather well on the chalkboard, I started geeking out when he was teaching us rounded surfaces.
Below includes my hairdryer assignment that I muddled with my lack of knowledge on how to apply color (I know more now). Our assignment for next week is a hand-held vacuum cleaner.
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- hairdryer assignment
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- koos
Filed under: Delft, mini-adventures | Tags: biking, graffiti, henri, pool, robin, yoshi
1) New graffiti on the way to the city center. I may start paying more attention to the walls to see how often it changes.
2) Henri, Yoshi, and I took the scenic route to Burger King today, that is by the highway. The area was surrounded by a canal, so we had to lift a gate to get on to the exit ramp with our bikes. The inside was decked out more than any real Burger King would be too.
3) Robin and I checked out a pool hall that was down the street from Poptahof. Felt a little like a hotel lounge, and it almost played some decent music.
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- cool graffiti
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- burger king
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- pool hall
The New York Times has a nifty interactive video of the debate. Not only does it have a transcript, it also has a fact checker in another tab!
After having watched the debate, I can see why people have their doubts about Obama having empty promises and about his military inexperience. However I am not convinced on McCain, and I have to say I really dislike his campaign tactics.
But I am very curious to see how the VP debate goes. Mostly because I haven’t heard much on Biden. Palin is still a joke, though. While I think a lot of social liberties shouldn’t be decided by the government, I can’t support someone going into office who is pro-life, anti-gay rights, and who made women pay for their rape kits. If she were not charming and were not a woman, would she even be in the running as a candidate due to her inexperience? At least Obama forms intelligent responses and picked a VP candidate that makes sense.
So for class I need to figure out what people think healthy is and how (or whether) they try to keep healthy. In attempts to get an “international” answer, I’m posting the questionnaire here…
Thank you, France 24, for having a live broadcast of the American debates.
[edit] … But it’s a shame I passed out for most of it anyway.
I realized that the photo interface of my blog is not ideal, and that it has to do with what theme I picked from WordPress. (So some themes have gallery navigation, while mine and several others that I like don’t.) One solution is to use Flickr.
But I don’t know how to use Flickr. I’ve only been on it maybe 7 times, ever.
I don’t know what del.icio.us is, but the address looks trendy.
I’ve only just started to listen to podcasts. I still don’t know about that internet radio thing or other bling features that iTunes has, nor have I really acknowledged the superpowers of an Apple product.
I’m getting more comfortable with tagging, but don’t really know how it works for a blog. Even less so for categories. Sooner or later I will learn that it doesn’t matter.
I have seen the twitter website once and it felt a little chaotic to read a bunch of broadcasts.
I don’t visit sites like digg.com, because I can’t tell what’s actually important to look at.
And I still haven’t touched RSS feeds. It feels like evil, uncontrollable email.
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There, I said it. I feel better now.
Today I finally got to the asian supermarket and carried back several kg of rice and a couple liters of soy sauce, vinegar, and sesame oil. What Tsigereda said about missing food is pretty true -my mouth was watering even though the market wasn’t really much bigger than a baby Super 88 in Boston. I made sushi rice, chicken katsu, and spinach with mushrooms for dinner. And I had some green tea afterwards with a stroopkoekje (like the stroopwafel, except the syrup is sandwiched with cookies). Yum.
The day was more typically Delft-gray with the random shower. I took a few pictures of the road by the highway, a canal that had a lock (though perhaps there isn’t enough reference in the frame), and this strange mural that appeared on the side of my flat building’s garage.
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- along the highway
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- orient market!
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- canal lock?
Since I have no TV, I’ve started listening to podcasts to give my eyes a break. Aside from NPR and some NYT, here are two that I find noteworthy:
The Horror! by Relic Radio airs stuff I would have done with WMBR had I not been so lazy. I guess I’m a sucker for old school sound effects and voice acting. I haven’t listened to all of them, but I thought “The Tell Tale Heart” was rather nice.
Simply Ming just has awesome videos of Ming Tsai performing some basic culinary skills and some super ones like his breaking down a chicken.
Apologies for the sudden deluge of posts, I try to separate these by subject. (There are still things to add, but I should do some work…)
