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Something else … today Memorial Day

Memorial Day in the Netherlands.

Something related, and maybe interesting for people to read.

Maus often published as Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs respectively. Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Oak island

I was about 16 when i first read about Oak Island, it was the first book posted below (it’s from 1979 and i still got it, it already was a few years old before i got it.). It was mysterious and about a place that still existed and i never forgot about it in all those years.

I even wanted to build a model to understand how it could have worked, with the drain system and the ‘boobystraps’.

In 2014 a series started on History Canada about trying to solve this mystery.
I still watch it whenever a new episode is posted.

A few years back i’ve been playing with Unity and Unreal. I’m really a beginner, but it would be nice if some community effort was made to get a Oak Island in a game engine where you can explore some of the things they found.

Another book i got some years later.

Books read / to read (Paper and Calibre)

  • Je hebt wel iets te verbergen
  • Missing microbe’s
  • John Cleese
  • Michael McIntyre
  • Komt een vrouw bij de hacker
  • The cathedral and the bazaar
  • Ons feilbare denken
  • Singularity is near
  • Randall Munro books
  • Dat wordt niets met Bert Visscher (read, see other post)
  • Ultimate Cigar Book
  • Oak Island

But most of the times manuals/howto books about beer, fermenting, computers .. reference guides.

We used to have a lot of books, but when Monique moved out she took a lot with her. And i’ve got a lot of digital versions of books now. We needed the space, so i got rid of the paper ones.

I’m using Calibre and Calibre in server mode, to access my ebooks and comics.

I use fbreader a lot and sometimes the calibre webreader.
My tunebooks are in there also, and i’m using my DIY bluetooth pageflipper to flip though the pages. (Other post)

Calibre in server mode

 ./calibre-server --userdb /home/fash/calibreusers.sqlite  /tank/Calibre/library /tank/Calibre/adult /tank/Calibre/sortedlibrary /tank/Calibre/comics /tank/Calibre/computer /tank/Calibre/manuals /tank/Calibre/PdfMusic /tank/Calibre/Nasla
g --port=8008 --enable-auth --auth-mode 'basic'

# To manage users
# calibre-server --userdb /srv/calibre/users.sqlite --manage-users

# Server is behind a reverse proxy

Some comics i’ve collected are:

  • Stamgasten
  • Dirkjan
  • Storm
  • Kuifje (TinTin)
  • Klepzeiker
  • Koen Hottentot
  • Guust Flater
  • Maus
  • Metal Hurlant

Read a book as a kid, and found some information about it again.

It is older as I thought.
But it made a lasting impression.
This is one of the books i remember, and could find again.

I don’t know the correct cover any more, but one of the above.
Weirdly they all look familiar.
It was written in 1928.

It took a long time finding this book again.

Het Geheim van het Oude Horloge – Leonard Roggeveen (1928)

Nederlands
Jeugdboek
Avontuur

246 pagina’s
Eerste druk: Van Goor, Gouda (Nederland)

Bram Vingerling is bezig met het uitvinden van een algemene tijdaanwijzer. Hier voor heeft hij een wekker of horloge nodig. In een klein winkeltje koopt hij een groot koperen zakhorloge, waar echter iets vreemds mee aan de hand is. Het bevat geheimzinnige krachten, want het laat alle dingen in zijn omgeving bewegen. Aan de binnenkant staan de initialen J. C. S. gegraveerd en ook de vreemde cijfers , letters en tekentjes: 183Z z oo N xxx ! Na lang speurwerk, komt Bram er achter wat dit te betekenen heeft, en wie de vorige eigenaar van het oude horloge was.
Namelijk professor Stuyvesant, die reeds in 1916 bezig was om de verborgen krachten der natuur, stoffelijk te maken. Bram komt in het bezit van de uitvinding van de professor, ondanks dat hij wordt tegengewerkt door een man met een valse baard, die het ook op de uitvinding voorzien heeft. Hij vindt het loden kistje verstopt in de duinen en dit blijkt na opening een enorme kracht te bevatten. Later als de Rotonde op de Wandelpier van Scheveningen plotseling gaat verzakken en in zee dreigt te storten, komt Bram te hulp met de uitvinding van de professor.
Hij wordt zo de held van de dag en de redder van de Rotonde, maar het mooiste voor hem was dat hij de laatste wens van de professor vervuld had, door iets goeds te doen met zijn uitvinding.

(google translated)

The Secret of the Old Watch – Leonard Roggeveen (1928) Dutch Children’s book Adventure 246 pages First edition: Van Goor, Gouda (Netherlands) Bram Vingerling is inventing a general time indicator. He needs an alarm clock or watch for this. In a small shop he buys a large copper pocket watch, but something strange is going on with it. It contains mysterious powers, for it makes all things around it move. The initials J.C.S. are engraved on the inside as well as the strange numbers, letters and signs: 183Z z oo N xxx! After much research, Bram finds out what this means and who the previous owner of the old watch was. Namely Professor Stuyvesant, who was already working in 1916 to make the hidden forces of nature material. Bram comes into possession of the professor’s invention, despite being thwarted by a man with a false beard, who also has his eye on the invention. He finds the lead box hidden in the dunes and after opening it turns out to contain enormous power. Later, when the Roundabout on the Scheveningen Walking Pier suddenly subsides and threatens to collapse into the sea, Bram comes to the rescue with the professor’s invention. He thus becomes the hero of the day and the savior of the Rotunda, but the best thing for him was that he had fulfilled the professor’s last wish by doing something good with his invention.