Sociological items

I rarely read fiction. Well, Philip K. Dick is an exception, but I guess all rules need several exceptions to become proper rules, don't they? So it's not a wonder that a book I was given as a present remained on my shelf for a full year before I opened it. But when I did open it I literally fell into it. And in love with it. It looks like there ARE good writers in contemporary Europe, after all.

So we are back. It's been a long trip through unexpectedly different climates, a lot of people met and our first experience of pregnant travel, so also the first trip for our small Maria Catlin-a, although during the trip we did not know whether she was going to be born as a male or a female, she's only 4 months old now, and she'll see her first ray of light in February.

So we have grown up to the size of a small provincial town. According to this request for translation there are now some ~50K eligible voters (I'd say a good 60% of them should be native English speakers). This is good news.

I admit not having heard anything about Greg Maxwell and his emails until I read this. It seems to have driven lots of people mad, although I would not bet that this was his original aim.

The dialog goes on... pfctdayelise answered to my answer, and once again it would be unfair manipulation if I hid the fact that I admit she has the main point over me. So here we go in public, again.

The comments I get on my blog are among the best sources of thought I had in a lifetime. This morning, in particular, I woke up to read a very short comment that really hits the point. At first I thought to write a quick answer, then I realized that the basic misunderstanding in what I wrote originated exactly from the fact that I had been too quick. So I'll better put it here, to make sure this time I can express exactly what I mean.

pfctdayelise wrote on 2007-06-28 10:25:43 +0200

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Just a quick note on elections. I guess translating all candidate statements made me read and think about it much more than I did 6 months ago, when I first cast my vote.

My position is quite clear: Eloquence, Yann, Kim Bruning.