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House of Leaves. It's insane, often frustrating, always entertaining and genius

 

thankless in death

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As I understood it is the same for trams now. But they don't have trams in the northern part of the country so I rarely make use of them.
You should look it up to be certain but I think you can throw your strippencard in the bin. Maybe you can still use them because it is a transition period for awhile. You would have to buy a disposable chip card now, or if you're in the netherlands on holiday for a longer while and plan to use the public transportation system more often there's the anonymous chip card you could use for awhile... If you don't pay attention to how it works you're bound to screw up somewhere though. We have different (privatized) public transportation companies and you have to check out and in again if you go from one train/bus to a line of another company. Of course they fine you if they catch you being clueless. It's quite ridicilous. Old people have a hard time getting used to it too

 

Hello,

hm, in this case I will sell the strippencard on ebay. I'm quite sure someone will pay a premium price for it .

Sounds like a lot of fun. I guess it's not only hard for old people. I've spent hours in front of ticket machines figuring out what buttons to press get the right ticket for my target location...

Regards
Gyro

 

Haha yeah, it's only in dutch if I recall right? Stupid anyway in a little country like this (with lots of tourists). And hey, selling it on ebay is worth a try

 

I'm finishing up Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential right now.

 

Too hot to read today! Maybe I'm starting up GTA5 later on again (been awhile). Probably not until this evening...

 

Hello,

you mean the labels on the ticket machines? That's okay, I can handle that with a little bit of thinking. I was thinking about my experiences with a ticket machine in Germany recently. The machine had three columns of buttons. The columns started somewhere at the hight of my chest and went down below of my knees (remember I'm a tall guy). To get the ticket I had to press a button in the upper third, then one in knees high and then a commit button. To figure that out I had to read nearly every damn button, esp. the lower one was hard to find. WTF?

I just have to write statements like 'as new', 'worked last time I checked' etc .

Regards
Gyro

 

Consilience:The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson

 

The Laws of Thermodynamics by Peter Atkins

 

Don Quixote

 

Nice. Love it.

 

The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou.

 

It is one of the best.

 

A selection of pieces from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia",which seeks to challenge the orthodoxy of conventional psychoanalysis by the insertion of radical strategies of desire-making and constructive production.

 

A moveable feast

 

Hey I read A Moveable Feast a couple of months ago.Many imitators,but no one writes like Hemingway.

 

Teaching dog obedience Classes.

It's not what I was really looking for, I wanted a handbook on how to train the dog, not the class.

 

Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, biography of Coco Chanel, auto-biography of Salvador Dali, Drugs, Beatles biography, several art books......