LATE-NIGHT POOL

Saturday, March 24, 2001

00:19 What lucky guys we are to be both looking for a new house exactly when we're creating the new AT5 identity. Think.
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Friday, March 23, 2001

00:03 Happy birthday
Jerry Seinfeld was on The Late Show tonight (last week). A new father, he said he can't get enough of the baby "but let's make no mistake about why these babies are here. They are here to replace us." "They're cute, they're cuddly, they're sweet," he said, "and they want you out of the way."

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Tuesday, March 20, 2001

23:50 A wank.
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22:48 Unsettling dream last night. I was visiting relatives. There were many of them, and it seemed like a reunion or a birthday party. I noticed how they looked and they looked like me. My blood. That felt strange - I don't have any of my relatives around; at least not in the flesh. The unsettling part was that one of my aunts was present. She wore a big strange head ornament or hat, maybe something prosthetic/orthopedic. I was going down a curved staircase and saying bye to everybody. She was in the middle of the stairs, and when I approached to kiss her goodbye she held my head with both hers hands and started french-kissing me. I woke up.

I was stunned, groggy and wanted to write about what just happened but had no paper or pen next to the bed. I picked my mobile phone and blabbered in some sleepy voicenotes. Listening now to those notes I hear, half in Portuguese and half in English, that the dream is a warning. There's also the mention of a kitten in a washing machine (?!?).

- Yesterday, many hours before the dream, I learned that a woman who has the same family name as I do is also looking for an apartment in Amsterdam (according to a real-estate agent we both hired). She's supposed to be Italian.

- Today, many hours after the dream, I received an official letter about the status of my Brazilian citizenship .
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00:47 Very pleased about new communication channels with Rotterdam (RT), Rio (MN), Amsterdam (HH).
Thank you.

Considering ways of translating the scale of Amsterdam into video.
How big is it / how big does it feel?
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Monday, March 19, 2001

12:05 Back from a feverish, delicious, groggy weekend full of flu, bed and e-mail. Feeling really rested now.
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Friday, March 16, 2001

09:12 From some napkins gathered in Austin by Caterina:

constraints are the reason that design is a job; you are paid for your creativity operating within a limited possibility space. Cordy: Art is swimming in an ocean, design is swimming in a pool.

Now the interesting question is: does that apply to designing in The Netherlands as well (where designers are treated as artists and, I guess, vice-versa)? And aren't many artists producing site-specific work, of pieces that 'fit' within a context or exhibition?

Maybe the thing I really would like to know is where do the individuals in question feel they are swimming (ie their own mental constraints).
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Thursday, March 15, 2001

23:58 I do
Promise me you will write less of these easy, list-like entries and more of those heartfelt, meaningful ones.
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22:44 01

Interesting turbulence surrounding the first anniversary of the latenightpool. Today! Altogether good turbulence, but a bit too intense. The kind that is there for you to remember that everything is moving, inevitably, all at once and in all directions.

Like what? International arrivals (check) - knee weakening discussions (check) - intriguing e-mail messages (check) - great health news added by the first symptoms of a bigbig flu (check) - heavy-duty work getting done, and taram, it's all so smooth (check) - tree house revolution (check)

Yes I just said it was all good. See the point ? And all the while Ms. Spring pokes, sends her pretty signs though every possible breach. The tension.

Add-ons
I have many improvements planned for the site and aimed to have them all ready by now. It didn't quite work that way, but yes I managed to add easier access to the archives (< look left) and a half-full version of the pool of people (top of the page). The depth indicator is finished. Topic summary and incestuous links should be with us anytime soon.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2001

12:57 Meanwhile in Africa things just keep getting better. Check out the high-bandwidth luxury of the Daily African Online. Go go now.

the new Diesel site

the new Diesel site

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01:38 Now you know wht yhe time stamps are relevant
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01:36 Oskar is a jolly good fella
Oskar is a jolly good fella
Oskar is a joolly good fella
and my m, k, j keys aresplashed withg milkk
and weetabix!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Monday, March 12, 2001

14:49 Meanwhile on the home front I had no choice but to bother quite a few fellow Amsterdammers about my apartment search. I went as far as offering dinners and shoulder massages in exchange for a helpful hint. Oh jee, what is this city doing to my principles ;-)

No, seriously, things are getting sort of urgent. I am taking tougher measures: I did the friendly spam thing, placed four newspaper advertisements and called some more agents. I wonder how tough will these measures seem to me in a month from now.

Previous entries related to the apartment problem:

Feb 8, 2001 The Molenpad apartment
Feb 7, 2001 High hopes
Nov. 26, 2001 Wondering where
Oct. 28, 2000 Unexpected flatmates
Oct 22, 2000 Marvelling at the quality of life in Montréal
Sept 27, 2000 The 'don't panic' horrorscope advice (yeah, right)
Sept 27, 2000 Invisible flatmates (dream, ca. 1990)
Sept 24, 2000 A bad dream in London
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08:27 Hiphip
last Saturday: time-travel party at Chez la-la-Mut: PP celebrating three years of log with three nice letters. Go go now.
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Saturday, March 10, 2001

16:16 Ha!

The Sun is in Pisces and the Moon is going from Virgo into Libra. You're making a tidy profit with your skills and everybody appreciates what you're doing. Some of your reward may come in the form of compliments, but getting steadily wealthier doesn't hurt.

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01:45 I don't know jack shit.
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00:56 The day I expected to be so gloomy* started with me noticing the properties of the Spanish girl that works at my daily coffee place - and ID-ing with her completely.
It has also been the day I received an SMS referring to me as 'latino from hell', as a compliment, and the day when I was heavily approached by a boobsy girl from Slovakia (het was niet per se zo aangenaam, nee) at the Cafe Jaren.
And the day I bumped into a fat man in my kitchen.
*See yesterday, 8:32:32 am.
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00:48 Look at the NL restaurant note (the second previous entry). That was Richard. That and tons of other things. It suddenly occurs to me: after all these years, I have no idea what it is to be Richard. To have attention to all those zillions of things he has attention for. I don't know even a small fraction of his universe, of how it may feel to be the utterly outstanding, unique, singular guy he is. Yes I have always contemplated the idea that his brain works like no one else's. I have always marvelled at it, complaining or not. I acquired, engulfed some of it. By friction. I am close to it now.
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00:37 H E L Y X H E L Y X
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Friday, March 09, 2001

11:01 Niet waar

The Netherlands is one of those countries north of the Protestant fault line that doesn't have a cuisine. It has food. For an exquisite meal, you drive to Brussels.

From a review of NL, a Dutch restaurant recently open in New York (via Richard).
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10:33 Quick-and-dirty explanation
How to solve the Netscape line-height problem

Your line-height class should never be applied to areas where the images are. That means you must close the class that defines the line-height, insert the image and then open it again.

Until now I had defined a class for the whole page (p, td, tr) with a bigger line-height. The whole page was affected by it and that's why the images were all fucked up.

Now I have another class called .entry that starts at the beginning of each entry and ends when teh entry ends. It is part of my blogger template. So, before each image I close that class, apply the image, and re-open it.

That means I'll have to add these closing and opening div tags before and after each of the images I've posted so far - thank nature for the blogger little search line (in the 'posts' frame) that allows me to select and edit all the entries that contain img src a bit easier.

I am not sure the method is 100% effective (Netscape being the shit browser it is) but so far it seems to be working ok.
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08:32 Goeiemorgen
This is how it starts - how will it end?
The day to face unfaceable things.
See you later.
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Thursday, March 08, 2001

00:36 Boo-hoo-hoo no more. I finally found a solution for the stylesheet conflict between images and line spacing. That means that the latenightpool is again Netscape-friendly. I will have to change a bit of code around each of the images though, and that will take some time (so far I managed to fix all images posted this year).
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Monday, March 05, 2001

13:12 What wasn't?
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Sunday, March 04, 2001

16:11 It's happening again

he asked for it.

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Saturday, March 03, 2001

19:21 Description
needy - genuine - cute - sincere
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19:05 Very inspired by Caterina's thoughts about love:

But then once the embryonic love is found, it must be chosen, and made by both people. Love must be made. I sound like John Lennon here, but it's true. It's a kind of mutual cultivation or creation that requires a lot of things that people don't have much of these days: attention and time, openness and unguardedness. Flexibility. And of course the inevitable Timing. Ripeness is all.

Hmm what a nice thing to read. I feel full of love these days, widespread love, temporary love, good old homey love, love for friends and colleagues, love for strangers (a real important one), love-that-lasts-one-hour-or-so.

Let the people
call me naive.
I believe.

And still, I remember myself a week ago, hating everything and and behaving very bad towards strangers while biking my way through overcrowded Amsterdam.
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Friday, March 02, 2001

11:40 O friend
We are emmiting (multi directional) fast-recovery-vibes
to you and your cute little lungs
across all the oceans
all the way through to Seattle.
May you enjoy what the meanwhile has to offer
and write much about it.
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11:24 Excellent news - it was confirmed yesterday that I'll be restyling AT5 (the very popular Amsterdam TV channel) in collaboration with Oskar Luyer. We're both very very happy indeed.
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