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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

• Butterflies, 2006.
• Cyclamen, 2022.
• Leaf Landscape, 2022.
• Dark Light, 2022.
• Rain Leaf, 2022.
• Morning Glory, 2021.
• Camino, 2022.
• Tulips, 2022.
• Montropa, 2022.
• Flame Flower, 2009.
• Woods, 2022.
• Fritillaria & Enphorbia, 2022.

Next we went to see the gold and silver coins from the sixth century that were found in Springendal, a valey near Tubbergen. We also paid a short visit to Tolerance Test by Charlotte Schleiffert, because one of the voices was very hard to hear.

Next we saw the exhibition So Future (RMT x GOGBOT), which is going to be part of the GOGBOT festival this September. There we saw the following exhibits:

• SO FUTURE ... WOW! by ViaOral.
• Habitat by Ivar Veermäe.
• Shadow Growth 2022 by DISNOVATION.ORG. (We took one of the posters that were there to take.)
• Portrait of an unknown man by Joos van Cleve, circa 1515.
• Valentino in Things City, 2018 by Viviane Komati.
• Physical Impossibility of Death in the MetaVerse, 2022 by Jermey Bailey. (NTF)
• Heroic Makers vs. Heroic Land by Isabelle Arvers. (YouTube)
• Living Landscape by Stanza.
• New Babylon, 1963 by Constant Nieuwenhuys
• Corrupted Air, 2018 by Femke Herregraven. (It has a negative reproduction of the Table of Casualties from Bills of Mortality by John Graunt.
• Floralia by Sabrina Ratté.

At 15:22, I bought the book A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands written by Marga van Mechelen and Sanneke Huisman in English and published by Jap Sam Books in November 2019, ISBN:9789492852144, from the museum bookshop for € 39.95. Conny also bought a book and we bought two Lovi wooden creations: the Lovi Star and the pink Lovi Dragongly.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Books

• De Beste Verzorgde Boeken 2006 | The Best Dutch Book Design 2006 written in Dutch and English and published by CPNB Collectieve in 2007, ISBN:9789059650640, for € 4.90.
• Open 18, 2030: Oorlogszone Amsterdam written by Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis, edited by J. Seijdel, written in Dutch, and published by nai010 uitgevers in January 9999, ISBN:9789056627096, for € 4.90. One reason why I bought the book is that it has a reproduction of a map of Amsterdam from 1945.

Ancillary Justice

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Links

• Viabundus map 1.1
• OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner
• Vici.org map

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Folding a circle into a triangle

Link

• Human and Machine Consciousnes

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Het Zwaard van Radch

Link

• Klipper is a 3d-Printer firmware

Friday, July 29, 2022

Wind direction graph

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Summer sale: 3 for 10€

• ”Zenschede” boekje met Haiku's written by Robin Pater in Dutch and published by De Walvisch in 2020, ISBN:9789081788434.
• Miro Švolík - Homage to all my inspirations written by Miro Švolík and Eric Min in English and Czech, and published by Voetnoot Publishers in July 2019, ISBN:9789491738548
• Het Zwaard van Radch written by Ann Leckie in Dutch, translated by Mariëtte van Gelder from Ancillary Sword written in English, and published by Luitingh-Sijthoff in July 2016, ISBN:9789024571543.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

MCH2022: Day five

• hack your brain
• A Smart Light Hacking Journey
• How do GPS/Galileo really work & how the galmon.eu monitors all navigation satellites
• May Contain Hackers 2022 Closing

Wind direction graph

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Monday, July 25, 2022

MCH2022: Day four

• How I made the municipality pay a 600.000 euro fine for invading your privacy
• drand: publicly verifiable randomness explained
• Threat modeling mechanical locking systems, by analyzing puzzles?
• PolyCoin - A game played across MCH - How it works and what is inside it
• The War in Ukraine: Cyberfront
• Plotting the Pandemic... or Any Other Catastrophe-Movie
• Lightning Talks Monday
• Nuggets of Shannon Information Theory
• Ethics does not belong on the wall! Ethical framework for the use of location data
• Rocking the Web Bloat: Modern Gopher, Gemini and the Small Internet
• Successfully building and programming sound field control systems
• Reproducible Builds for Trustworthy Binaries

Wind direction graph

Sunday, July 24, 2022

MCH2022: Day three

At 10:00, I attended the talk Running a mainframe on your laptop for fun and profit by Jeroen Baten.

At 11:00, I attended the talk Heuristic Park (why we can fake it until we make it). This talk made me think about the possible causes of the fake news. I felt that the speaker did not address all the why questions but primarily talked about the mechanism that are at work. I wonder if these mechanism can be countered if you do not address the why questions. But then I also realized that the answers to the why questions are hard to grasp for people especially when they are already trapped in fake news which in a way are similar to religious believe systems.

At 13:00, I gave my workshop A practical approach to parsing using . There were about 20 to 25 people attending the workshop of which most stayed till the end. Just the right amount. I was happy that so many people showed up also because it was already getting hot. When we came to the exersize part, people really got into it. Some people thanked me afterwards. I hope that some of them are able to put it to practical use or that it at least has been of some help thinking about issues related to parsing, abstract syntax tree, and interpreting. With one of the attendees I talked about the problem of writing a interpreter in JavaScript that can be interrupted when getting into an infinite loop. While driving home, I thought about the possibility of using an array to store the stack for solving the problem with recursive functions and being able to continue the execution after some user interaction. This would also allow you to implement a debugger.

Saturday, July 23, 2022

MCH2022: Day two

At 11:00, I attended the Reverse engineering for beginners workshop. The first piece of reverse engineering was using procyon Java decompiler to reverse engineer a jar file. There was something to figure out and I wrote a piece of JavaScript, to produce: . Next we looked at some machine code and installed radare2. I did not get to use it because I decided that I wanted to visit some other talk.

At 12:30, I went to the self organized session Solid, Linked Data and Decentralized Web Meetup, where I attended the talks Funding 101: NLnet and NGI and Solid: Vlaanderen, Nederland, Europe. It was getting hot. I decided to have a warm lunch at Heaven.

At 15:17, I walked into the talk What have you done against covid (a personal retrospective).

At 16:12, I arrived at the Badge Workshop. It was quite busy, so, I sat on the ground and left about a quarter of an hour. I went to my tent and stayed there some time. I noticed that I have some problem with the heat, which makes it hard to think clear. As tomorrow it is even getting hotter and I feel kind of lost, realizing again that these kind of hacker camps are not really my kind of thing, I decided to leave tomorrow after I gave my workshop. I already brought some of my belongings back to my car.

At 22:00, I attended the talk Cryptography is easy, but no magic. Use it. Wisely. The talk was interrupted several times due to problems with the audio system.

At 22:48, I joined the (already ungoing) talk Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159….

Friday, July 22, 2022

MCH2022: Day one

At 17:00, I attended the opening at Abacus. At 18:00, I attended The Silicon Passion also at Abacus. I left before the end of the show. I went back to mmy tent, talked a bit there, and then walked around the campground. At 19:54, I arrived at Heaven, where dinner was served for the angles. It was a simple but teastfull meal that I shared with another man who I met in the queue. At 20:40, I attended the talk Hacking the genome: how does it work, and should we? by Bert Hubert. Afterwards, I went to the Unlock the City village, where I just saw the end of the Wardriver UK talk. This is about tracking the location of open WiFi access points. I walked around the bar area where there people playing with flam throwers and watched the music stage a bit and decided to go to the Silent Lounge where I completed writing this.

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

37.7° Celsius

Wind direction graphs

Links

• hextile-demo
• MarkovJunior

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Aldo van Eyck

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Links

• The acoustic of PVC pipes - Nicolas Bras
• Beginning a journey across the universe: the discovery of extragalactic neutrino factories

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Quechua MH100 2P Fresh & Black

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Link

• Relativistic Bohmian trajectories of photons via weak measurements

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Links

• Mathematical Marbling
• marbled-paper.glitch.me

Monday, July 11, 2022

Irregular grids

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Links

• A Draft Human Pangenome Reference
• Joseph Weizenbaum's Original ELIZA

Saturday, July 9, 2022

Summer sale

Street tile pattern

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Gerrit Rietveld Academie Finals

• Marie Diamant
• Jiyan Düyü with Birds Fly Back
• Marie Lagrand with Walking in a Difficult Manner Around the Perimeter of The Room
• Jan Cornelissen
• Vivian Cintra with Via Cura
• Marie Jacquet with The Trench Kit
• Aino Lehtonen.
• Romina Koopman.
• Anton Shebetko with It's (not) your problem
• Aurélia Noudelmann with At a rate of Knots
• Laëtitia Delauney (Instagram)
• Fernanda Barhumi Martínez with Spells
• Sveske / Amalia Ourø

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Four bookshops

Kunstmuseum Den Haag

• Costume design for Hamlet, 1899.
• Hamlet, 1899
• Full scale design for Hamlet, 1899.
• Lorenzaccio, 1896.
• La Dame aux Camélias, 1896.
• Médée (Medea), 1898.
• Gismonde, 1894.
• Sarah Bernhardt weeping, circa 1896.
• Sarah Bernhardt dinning off a chair, circa 1986.
• Ilsée, Princess de Tripoli, 1897.
• Princesse lointaine-lamp, circa 1900.
• Sarah Bernhardt as Ka Princesse Lointaine.
• Théâtre de la Renaissance, circa 1895.
• La Samaritaine, circa 1897.
• Quai du Louvre, circa 1867 by Claude Monet.
• Bières de la Meuse, 1897.
• Five photographic studies with models posing in Mucha's studio, circa 1900-1901.
• Four photographic studies with dancing nude in Mucha's studio, circa 1900.
• Photographic study with woman posing in Mucha's studio, circa 1899.
• Fleur de cerisier (Cherry Blossom), 1898.
• Salon de Cent, 1897.
• Cycles Perfecta, 1902.
• Waverley Cycles, 1898.
• La Trappistine, 1897.
• Monaco - Monte Carlo, 1897.
• Les Heures du Jour (The times of the Day), 1899.
• Woman holding flowers, circa 1900.
• Les Saisons (The Seasons), 1896.
• La Primevére (Primrose) & La Plume (Feather), 1899.
• Rêverie (Daydream), 1898.
• Imprimerie Cassan Fils, 1896.
• F. Guillot Pelletier-Orleans 1838-1898 Calendar, 1897.
• Studie for the poster Société Populaire des Beaux-Arts, 1897.
• Biscuits Lefévre-Utile, 1896.
• Design for a fan, 1899.
• Lance Parfum 'Rodo', circa 1896.
• Box for Lefèvre-Utile Biscuits, 1899.
• Figures décoratives: drawing for plate 2, 1904.
• Decorative plate: Autum, 1897.
• Les Arts (The Arts), 1898.
• Printemps (Spring) & Automme (Autumn), 1900.
• L'Automatique, circa 1900.
• Aurora (Dawn), 1899.
• Crépuscule (Dusk), 1899.
• Salon de Cent, 20th Exhibition, 1896.
• Czechoslovak Freemason's Certificate, circa 1925.
• L'Année quivient (The coming year), 1897.
• Study for zodiac, circa 1896.
• Le Pater, circa 1900.
• Song of Bohemia, 1918.
• Princezna Hyacinta (Princess Hyacinth), 1911.
• Lottery of the National Unity for Southwestern Moravia, 1912.
• 8th Sokal Festival in Prague, 1925.
• Job, 1898.
• The Collectors: Fisherwoman, 1967 by Bob Masse.
• Vanilla Fudge, Charles Lloyd Quartet, North American Ibis Alchemical Co. Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967 by Anton Kelley.
• The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1969 by David Byrd.
• Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman, 1971 by Frank Carson.

Then walked through (parts of) the exhibition Discover the Modern. We saw, among others, the following works:

• Old Neighbourhood with Small Gardens, 1809 by Egbert van Driest.
• Beach and Ships at Scheveningen, circa 1840 by Andreas Schelfhout.
• Portrait of Paul Gabriël by Jacob Ritsema.
• Polder Landscape, 1880-1882, Paul Gabriës.
• Girl in a red Kimono (Geesje Kwak), circa 1893 by George Hendrik Breitner.
• Beach scene, 1887 by Hendrik Johannes Weissenburch.
• Cassis. caplombard, opus 196, 1889 by Paul Signac.
• Self-portrait, 1887 by Vincent van Gogh.
• Autumn tree, 1911 by Leo Gestel.
• Labour (the woodcutter), 1905 by Jan Toorop.
• Czardasdancers, 1908-1920 by Ernst Ludwig.
• Kircher, 1976-1923 by Jacoba van Heemskerck.
• Self-portrait (Standing with palette), 1932-1933 by Charley Toorop.
• Wisteria, 1917-1920 by Claude Monet.
• Woman with a mustard pot, 1910 by Pablo Picasso.
• Two dead rooks, 1907 by Floris Vester.

After a short break, we went to see the exhibition Mondrian Moves with works by Piet Mondrian and others. We saw, among others, the following works:

• Summer Night, 1906-1907.
• Landzicht Farm, circa 1905.
• Oostzijdse Mill in Moonlight, circa 1907.
• A Farm Shed behind a Fence, circa 1902-1904.
• Haystack behind a Row of Willows, circa 1905.
• Oostzijdse Mill, circa 1907.
• Fishermen on the waterside, circa 1878 by Paul Joseph Constatin Gabriël.
• Seascape, 1909.
• Landschap, 2003 by Bettie van Haaster.
• Large Landscape, 1907-1908.
• Moon Night II, Laren, 1911 by Jan Sluiters.
• Spring, 1972 by Edgar Fernhout.
• Zeeland Farmer, 1909.
• Dune III, 1909.
• Dune I, 1909.
• Evolution, 1911.
• Study for 'The Day', 1899 by Fredinand Hodler.
• Viola in Quarantaine, 2020 by Esther Bruggink.
• Lily, circa 1917.
• Chrysanthemyms, 1908.
• Young Child, 1900-1901.
• Composition with red, blue, black, yellow and grey, 1921.
• Hammer and saw (Still life composition), circa 1917 by Vilmos Huszár.
• 1.000.000mm (=1Km), 1975 by Stanley Brown.
• Bantieu, 2003 by Tjebbe Beekman.
• Composition with red, yellow, black, blue and grey, 1921.
• Lighthouse at Westkapelle, 1909.
• Counter-Composition of Dissonants XVI, 1925 by Theo van Doesburg.
• Vicotry Boogie Woogie, 1942-1944.
• Untitled, 2018 by Rob van Koningsbruggen.
• Uzlany II, 1973 by Frank Stella.
• Black and White, 1932 by Marlow Moss.
• Composition with Grid 9: Checkerboard.
• Composition XVII, 1919.
• Arleguin (Harlequin), 1913 by Pablo Picasso.
• Composition Trees 2, 1912-1913.
• The Grey Tree, 1911.
• Composition in Oval with Colour Planes 2, 1914.
• Cercle Disk Relief, 1966 by Jan Schoonhoven.
• Synthetic Construction w 4, 1958 by Joost Baljeu.
• Composition with yellow lines, 1933.
• Two Yellows, Composition with Circles 7, 2011 by Bridget Riley.
• Relief Néo-plastique no 10, 1930 by César Domela.
• Counter-Shadow, 2008 by Germaine Kruip.

Then in some other part of the museum, we saw (amongh other works):

• Self-Portrait, 1922 by Charley Toorop.
• Christ and Buddha, circa 1890 by Paul-Elie Ransom.

North-East Chinese Eatery 东北小吃

• Steamed Siu Kau dumpings: Pork with bakchoi (as a starter)
• Seabass with fresh chili
• Baked duck row
• Beef with garlic stems
• Stir fried bell peppers, potato & eggplants
• Fried eggs with tomatoes

We walked with Peter to Den Haag HS railway station. Along the way we came across the house of Baruch Spinoza, the house where he used to live for some years, and The Grey Space. On the way back to the hotel, we also show the electronic parst shop Radio Twenthe.

Too 'smart'

Monday, July 4, 2022

KABK Finals

• Emilija Povilanskaitė with Carbon (C)
• Alexander Koch with Fragile fictious
• Kwadwo Amfo-Akonnor with Silhouette
• Sarah Hoogman with Vibrant Matter
• Obbe van der Weide with A Scattered Body (2022)
• Aya Koné with House of Words
• Daan kamerman
• Amy Opstal with The Parent Act
• Brand Kurpershoek with A Fool's Dream
• Hannah Aletta Jacobs. (I read the text in the order: "in the rain", "still singing", and "Yet the birds".)
• Kay Fahner with Daughter of Many
• Emma Grima with Vulva Monologues
• Sarang Han with Nomadic Pavilion
• Hyemi Lee with Broken Face
• Zhao Zhou with Forced Switch and Signal, Not Working
• Chloe Snoeks. (Had an overhead projector.)
• Sofia De Benedictis with The unforeseen death of predictability
• Zela Odessa Palmer
• Kyara van Meel with Behind my eyes
• Nurul Ain Binti Nor Halim with Retelling: I am sleepy. I'll think some n tell u tomorrow
• Marcos Kueh (Marcoslan) with Keyalang Circus
• Maya Bahner with Syntropy
• Matilde Bellomo with Venus in Rubedo
• Tugay Adem with Welcome to the Buffer Zone
• Tjitske Hartstra with Hacking the City
• Niels Otterman with To Stim
• Jan Johan Draaistra with Hydroradio
• Emilia Martin with The Blue of the Far Distance
• Jakov Hebjan with Cycleship
• Wies Mobach with More Than One
• Gaetan Langlois-Meurinne with Pursuit of Ilinx
• Rising Lai with Crafting Desire
• Tara Tara van Geut
• Noor Johanna Remmen with Tender like... String like... Hold me like...
• Boom-Promphan Suksumekk with Crushual
• Paul Mielke
• Jeroen Alexander Meijer with Ouroboros

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Woerden and The Hague

After we had checked in with our hotel, we went to the most North part of the beach in Scheveningen. I walked into the sea some distance. (Picture.) The water was not really cold, about 16.5° Celsius according to some website. I got some spash of water in my hair when a wave hit me from the back when I walked back to the beach. We went over to beach bar Naturel were we had some drinks and dinner with a piece of cake as desert. Conny had a Kapsalon and I had a Tlacoyo Maduro. We hoped to see a nice sunset as the sky was clear, but at the horizon there were some clouds. We left the bar around ten and took some pictures of the sea while walking back to the parking place.

Street tile pattern

At first, I thought that it was not very regular, but when I entered the data to create the above representation, I recognized many repeating patterns.

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Hatchery

Link

• Wandelroute make (Make your own walking route in Overijssel.)

Friday, July 1, 2022