Wally Nes’ Blog

I’ve been back from holiday a week now. A 32 hour work-week.
Fun!

I spent my holiday with Raph in Lille. There was a plan to go south to her grandparents but unfortunately that didn’t work out.

Due to her having to stay close to the office (as well as spending some time there) we were never able to leave Lille for very long. While in Lille we got to celebrate Delphine(Raph’s younger sister)’s high school graduation. Visit an alternative museum. Hurt ourselves in new original ways. Spend time in the kitchen and of course subsequently eating all that food. Entertain friends. Lazing and photographic in the park. Shopping for a new, more spacious appartment. Entertaining other friends. Finding the best little café in Lille. Finding the home of the elfs and spending lots and lots of time in the zoo.
Besides all I photographed there was watching the quatorze julliet fireworks from a penthouse patio overlooking the city while enjoying a few drinks and talking with friends. More grassy lazy moments. More terasses, drink and food. Spending time together inside and outside (well, more inside. The weather was kinda crappy).

There was my progression in the French language

Me: “What is this?”
French person: “It is the first right, then when that avenue ends left.”
Me: No, WHAT is it?
French person: “Follow me, if you see this you take a right here and then at the end of the avenue go left”
Me (holding up the map indicating I was well aware of where it was): Yes, thank you, is it a kind of museum?”
French person: “Yes”

This was how we found Lille’s concert hall.

Also, Iguana imperionations.

Mimes

The parental meetup.

Discovery of art in unexpected places.

And other things I’ll keep within the privacy of Raph’s bedroom.

The complete album of pictures can be found here.

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And on a small side note:
Yesterday’s B-day party of Sjors and Kim

The Wild West edition

There’s a link on that picture btw.

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Quote of the day:

If you get thrown from a horse, you have to get up and get back on, unless you landed on a cactus; then you have to roll around and scream in pain.

- anon

The next LARP event is almost around the corner already. But I haven’t gotten around to posting pictures of the one earlier this year.

I will simply link some people’s photobooks through 1 picture of them.

I’ve downloaded a bunch of them from all different sites and my pick can be seen on my photopage. It’s not in any kind of order. Just random pictures.

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Quote of the day:

Keep flax from fire, keep youth from gaming

- Benjamin Franklin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8003067.stm

Eight police officers serving with Scotland’s largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged.

Strathclyde Police said the officers and two of its civilian staff claimed to follow the faith, which features in the Star Wars movies.

The details were obtained in a Freedom of Information request by Jane’s Police Review.

Strathclyde was the only force in the UK to admit it had Jedi officers.

In the Star Wars films, Jedi Knights such as Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda use the Force to battle the evil Darth Vader, who has strayed to the dark side.

Jane’s Police Review editor Chris Herbert, who requested the information, said: “The Force appears to be strong in Strathclyde Police with their Jedi police officers and staff.

“Far from living a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, some members of the noble Jedi order have now chosen Glasgow and its surrounding streets as their home.”

Provided voluntarily

A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police confirmed: “At the time of the request, 10 (eight police officers and two police staff) had recorded their religion as Jedi.”

She added that the force monitored “six strands of diversity” – age, disability, gender, race religion and belief, and sexual orientation.

The force said the information was provided voluntarily and securely stored.

About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.

The Office for National Statistics did not recognise it as a separate category, and incorporated followers of Jedi with atheists.

Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi – which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.

Strathclyde Police employs 8,200 police officers and 2,800 civilian staff.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon

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Quote of the Day:

Who is more Foolish, the fool? Or the fool who follows him?

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

I wasn’t in the country throughout most of the cold weather but I caught one day on ice-skates.
Here’s to it coming again this or next year.

Find additional pictures here.

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Quote of the day:

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

— Mark Twain

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Quote of the day:

Mathematical puns are the first sine of madness.

-ano

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Quote of the day:

Don’t worry my little readers. It will all make sense in the end

- Me

Post Script: MUHAHAHahahahahaha