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Politics… the local variety

The honeymoon is over, there is work to do. I am at this point dealing with my own administrative breakdowns and my strong wish that it would be really easy to deal with this city. After all my bank has managed to make it possible for me to log-in to my account [...]

Me loves you all, you all know that, or sorta know that. But now imagine all the films that I have missed while writing up my own. Writing up? It is a long story as usual.
Recently I told somebody very dear to me who was stuck in a certain dearly and tightly held position to [...]

Floris, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.
Schmap London Fourth Edition

There is an observation that I keep making again and again, and each and every time in between, I tend to forget that emergent phenomena is not necessarily predictable beyond the fact of its very existence. Those like me who delve in what reality and existence are, are then quick to question that [...]

Achilles: Is it tears that I see in your eyes?
Tortoise: I would have killed you long ago, if only I could live without you.
Achilles: Is it tears that I see in your eyes?
Tortoise: Tears? Remember that I danced the night away just to escape your insanity…
Achilles: You have changed. I can’t [...]

Lifters @ CERN in Geneva, originally uploaded by Charles Nouÿrit.
I like blue. I like scaffolding. I like the ties that bind us. I like the myriad cables behind instruments. I like theory. I like it when my communities connect. I like anonymity. I like silence. I like distance. I like solitude.
Why, oh why [...]

One look at my calendar for the next months and I am wondering where the 52 hour day is, and when will they find a cure for the need to sleep!
To air out my intoxicated brain I went for a walk today after I caught up with sleep. Just left the house and started walking [...]

It is Friday morning and LIFT has one more day and night to go according to the plans. I just woke up at one of the nicest addresses in town in a flat where one can easily get lost and am all happy that on my third year attending this conference I finally made it [...]

DSC_0558, originally uploaded by kusito.
Was there!
sorta of a blog

There is nothing that gets people more excited about politics than a good scandal. In Berne it has been my own party that in the past days has provided the script of scandal. This being a nice provincial little town, of course the scandal is not about sex, and this being Switzerland, it ain’t about [...]

It is my third LIFT conference and I feel like a little kid! All the people, all the ideas, unfortunately also the bloody fondue! Now back to life…
The Creativity Utopia Workshop is something that has me all excited at this late hour. However due to my own inaccessibility - not answering phone, out of skype [...]