Saturday, January 15, 2005

Family in Belgium

Mpo just pointed me to a local version of the earlier post. Seems like we are clearly spreading from the "Kempen" region to the rest of Belgium.
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To think of the fact that this German town is where we came from - quite interesting...
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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Estafette

Van Steven een muziekestafette doorgekregen:

1. Totale grootte muziekbestanden op mijn computer: 553MB. Een week geleden heb ik ongeveer 2GB moeten deleten wegens plaatsgebrek.


2. Laatst gekochte CD: de soundtrack van "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain", door Yann Tierssen. Gehoord als muzak in een juwelenwinkel op zoek naar kadootjes vorig jaar, en echt zot van.


3. Wat is het laatst beluisterde nummer voor je de stok doorkreeg? "This is Not a Love Song", in de recente mambo versie van Nouvelle Vague


4. 5 nummers die ik vaak beluister of veel voor me betekenen: The Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits), Born to run en Thunder Road (beide van Bruce Springsteen), Unlikely Lovers (Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach), Building a Mystery (Sarah McLachlan).


5. En ik geef de stok door aan: uiteraard, mpo.

Family in USA?

Fun to see. This genealogy site locates your family member locates your relatives graphically in the US. Here's mine:



Seems like our family name made it to ALASKA!!!

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

First school

Just read Steven's account of bringing his darling daughter to school this week. Very funny - especially the comments by his daughter herself ;-) ... Next monday, I have to go on a different assignment of my own: registering Mit at the local school, at 50 meters from our future house. She will only start going there in january 2006, but nevertheless we have to register NOW. And with the new system which stipulates first-come-first-serve registration procedures, it looks like I will be up very early on monday morning to get in line there. Seems silly when you think of it. But it would be even sillier to miss out on the opportunity to register Mit in that school. Everyone we've spoken to really likes it, and think of the convenience of having a school only 50 meters from your door ... So wish us luck!!!
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Washing Linux

Got this under the caption "Linux for Women", but maybe that's too sexist ;-) ... Anyway - quite funny ...
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Monday, January 10, 2005

Knee :(

Been diagnosed. The ache in my knee that has been bothering me for a couple of months now, is also known as RPCP. Huh? What is RetroPatellar Chondromalacia Patellae??? Also known as Chondropathy. Defined as

chondromalacia patelĒlae:pain and crepitus over the anterior aspect of the knee, particularly in flexion, with softening of the cartilage on the articular surface of the patella and, in later stages, effusion.