Well, the sun came out a few weeks ago and has (for the most part) continued to hang around. Jan-Jitze and I just had a study break and took a pot of coffee outside to the dock, and all the passing boats reminded me that I haven’t really uploaded all of the boat photos [...]
I copied all of the text from an earlier paper I wrote (which is now evolving into a thesis) into Wordle to generate a “word cloud”. It turned out pretty neat, actually.
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Could be fun to run this against future interview transcriptions to see what pops up.
Google just released Street View for Amsterdam, meaning that you can virtually walk/drive around the city and have full 360˚ panoramas at Google Maps, just like you can in most major U.S. cities.
Back in August I caught these “Streetview Cars” driving around my neighborhood, and I actually posed with my absentee ballot. Alas, they [...]
Things are a bit in flux at the moment. I’m rearraging stuff so bear with me, but I promise to maintain my journal again soon.
So last night we decided that we’d go check out the local movie theater, called The Movies. We’ve heard that the Dutch moviegoing experiance isn’t wonderful, with comments like “it’s expensive”, “there’s talking during the movies”, “getting a seat means you have to push and shove”, etc.
We figured it’d be exactly like seeing a [...]
This post is not really related to study abroad. I’m just putting this up here in the hopes that someone who has a similar problem can find the answer.
So I finally got internet access (a neighbor was nice enough to let me install a wireless access point), but I found that I could not [...]