Life is a permanent culture shock.
I'm a bit of a grumpy old man, rather like Statler and Waldorf
My Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is INTJ
The origin of 'Superput' and the 'sput.nl'
domainname.
Weird stuff from my Fidonet days (Dutch).
Me, ca 1979:
A cartoon by President Tune;
A photo by Latie;
As you can see I'm either psychotic with stress or dreaming.
The pictures below, by Frenzy, might give you some idea you what I tend to
dream about, and what I actually do (I don't drive them. I only know what makes
them tick);
A painting he made for my 50th birthday;
An other photo by Latie;
At an official function;
Pictures of my younger brother Hans and me;
In the 2nd half of the 1970's;
At my mum's 93rd birthday party;
With Albert-Jan Pool at my 60th birthday dinner at Surakarta;
A song
(3244 kB; (dutch) about me by
Repperdepep (dutch)
An old interview;
Beursgang World Online (Dutch)
My Father's kite
Some of the stuff I did and really enjoyed:
To me, all science and technology is in fact art.
I also like Surrealism.
Lifestyle is when your life has become a logo.
My favourite sculptures are bridges;
Cats are my favourite animals.
I absolutely loathe dogs.
Somewhere in the blue - violet range. Colour definitions vary a lot, so
it's hard to tell (cobalt blue glass, for instance, has a shade of blue
which is much deeper than what usually is referred to as cobalt blue).
Web safe colour 60F and
Electric Indigo (6F00FF) are pretty
close.
Philémon by Fred Othon Artistidès.
I have been running (Debian) Linux since the mid 1990's.
I do a bit of C programming. Some stuff here.
I also do a bit of hardware design. Both analogue and digital.
My internet setup here.
I'm definitely continental European and I have a dislike of most (not all!)
things Anglo-Saxon. I consider Main-stream Anglo-Saxon culture to be
intrinsically predatory and, in a symbolic way, cannibalistic.
I absolutely love British TV though. I think it's the best TV in the
world.
Whisky and Gin and tonic
I also like Indonesian drinks, which in NL are referred to as
ijs tjampoer and
tjendol.
And I like tea:
Betjeman &
Barton.
I also like some scifi and film noir. Esp scifi noir and Nordic noir.
My favourite food is
Indonesian.
It's the French cuisine of the east.
My favourite Indonesian restaurant is
Surakarta (Dutch).
I live in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands. I live near central station and the Morspoort.
Enlightenment values.
I consider music to be the most brilliant invention ever.
Besides 1970's Berlin School
(Klaus Schulze,
Tangerine Dream)
and 70's prog
(Brand X,
Bill Bruford,
Camel,
Genesis,
Gong,
Pink Floyd,
UK,
Yes,
Frank Zappa), I like;
I'm completely fanatic about analogue modular synthesizers
An absolute classic Berlin school album is Ricochet by Tangerine Dream;
TANGERINE DREAM - Ricochet (Live at
Coventry Cathedral-1975)
Contemporary bands who play Berlin School are ARC and Redshift;
Animals that sound like synthesizers;
Other synth like sounds;
If you know any others, let me know.
I also like a bit of minimal,
Satie and
Debussy.
In particular
Steve Reich's
Music for 18
Musicians
(Youtube).
There is a nice two part BBC 4 documentary called
'Tones,
Drones and Arpeggios, The Magic of Minimal' on the subject;
I consider homo sapiens to be more than one species.
Renaissance men, lateral thinkers, out of the box thinkers, creatives.
Anglo-Saxon style managers,
ESFJ
Myers-Briggs personality type, pigeon-hole thinkers.
These managers are like Soviet apparatchiks. So in a way communism won after
all.
Think before you act (which is like look before you leap).
Don't just think, think hard.
The use of perfume is intrinsically violent.
Assumption is the mother of most fuck-ups.
Race is mostly a social construct.
Identity politics is like pigeon holing. Pigeon holing is like fitting
a square peg into a round hole. Fitting a square peg into a round hole
is intrinsically violent.
Cliches are delusions (Gay stereotypes for instance, apply to 2% of the
gay population. The other 98% aren't like that at all!).
Stupidity is the root of most evil; Good intentions do not necessarily
lead to good results. Which is why the road to hell is paved with good
intentions.
A lot of innovation is rooted in cultural appropriation (I like
crossover stuff).
A Nice Oscar Wilde quote: The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Nothing is more surreal than reality.
Narrative journalism sux.
Some of my stuff.
A couple of decades ago, the idea of owning an air conditioner (Dutch: airco) seemed completely ridiculous. Now, due to climate change, you really need one!
Denon DA-500, Quad 405 and 2 x Quad ESL 57.
I have set-top boxes for both satellite
and cable. The audio is sent to my stereo. The video to the RGB-SCART input
of an old TV.
I intent to replace the TV by an HDMI monitor. Which I can also use in
combination with my PC and therefore VLC.
Both set-top boxes record on local hard-disks. So there is no storage in a
cloud.
Some vehicles are nice to;
I drive a an old town bike.
An excellent bike site:
Fietsersbond.nl (Dutch).
Wikipedia is my favourite
website.
I absolutely LOATHE websites that look like advertising brochures! Their
pointless drivel airbrushed way beyond a polished turd!
I don't like most social media either. The invention of the internet is often
compared with the invention of book printing. And just like the the
Witches Hammer
is the dark side of book printing, a lot of social media is the dark side
of the internet.
Wikipedia is what the web was invented for. It is in fact, what the internet
was invented for.
They shouldn't have merged 'Berlin School of electronic music' with
'Krautrock' though. These are distinctly different styles of music.
On webarchive the most recent (20 Feb 2017) pre-merge page on
Berlin
School of electronic music.
One of the first records I bought was Berlin school.
