Saturday, 18 November 2017

The mystery of the ‘W’

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An eyewitness report from an hour of Speak-dating In the adventure comedy classic It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), a dozen treasur...
Thursday, 7 July 2016

The underdue final

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-Eight Portugal and France will play out the final. This concludes my blogpost series ...
Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Den levende collage

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»[D]et gik op for mig at teater og scenekunst ikke er en låst ting, men i virkeligheden en levende collage bestående af lys, lyde, rum, menn...
Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Five more days

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-Six
Monday, 4 July 2016

Bye Iceland — Go Wales!

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-Five We have reached the semi-finals of EURO 2016. Six days till the final. Meaning a ...
Sunday, 3 July 2016

Forget EURO 2016 — Here’s the Craymachine

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-Four OK, Iceland down 1:5 against les bleus. Let’s not talk about it. Instead, have s...
Saturday, 2 July 2016

Hector the Humble Hero

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-Three The first good news: Turns out the Welsh Wizards actually did beat the Belgian D...
Friday, 1 July 2016

An then there were seven

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-Two I know it. I know now which the famous eighth team in the quarter-finals is. Wales...
Thursday, 30 June 2016

Physical art

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty-One Another quiet day, although I know there was at least one match today: Poland vs P...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Two thirds into the tournament, and still a team missing

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twenty Incredibly, today I have learned nothing new about the EURO 2016! Nada, nothing, zilch...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016

The mysterious eighth team

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Nineteen Belgium thrashed Hungary. I don’t know by how much but I saw headlines such as ‘Belg...
Monday, 27 June 2016

Forget EURO 2016 — Chile has won the Copa América!

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Eighteen
Sunday, 26 June 2016

Goliath usually wins

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Seventeen ‘Mom! Ireland has a penalty!’. Half a minute later: ‘They scored!’ It is not easy...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

Eighth-final snippets

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Sixteen Today was an eighth-final day, and I have no idea of the outcome. Isn’t that great? ...
Friday, 24 June 2016

The Union that does not want to be part of a Union

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Fifteen Today does not call for a blogpost about football, after 51.9% of the UK voters chose...
Thursday, 23 June 2016

Baby zillionaires and brave Black Eagles

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Fourteen It seems that Sweden is out. And that Zlatan is angry. The super-duper-megastar has ...
Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Too much information?

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Thirteen Oh dear, now I’ve done it. First, in my afternoon coffee break — which was not eve...
Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Those snippets that make it harder

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Twelve The local cinema chain is running a promotional campaign, which is a classical example...
Monday, 20 June 2016

How many out of twenty-four?

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Eleven Time for a self-test. Yesterday when chatting to a couple of friends who had read my b...
Sunday, 19 June 2016

10 Days: 1:0 and 1:0

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Ten We are on Day Ten of this year’s European football championships for national teams, play...
Saturday, 18 June 2016

Colours of football

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Nine A trip to Germany. The occasional schwarz-rot-gold flag hanging from on a balcony, but ...
Friday, 17 June 2016

The story so far

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Eight Wow! It has been a week since the opening match already! And what I know for sure about...
Thursday, 16 June 2016

PoL-Di — and the paradox of a possible Brexit

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Seven An English friend told me that the England’s last group match — to be played three days...
Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Atlantic rift

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Six I now learned that Iceland ‘only’ drew against Portugal but of course celebrated it as a ...
Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Footballitical wonder(ing)s

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Five In a meeting about a team event that I am co-organising for another department at my wor...
Monday, 13 June 2016

Memorable moments from 2012 and 2014

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Four It had to happen rather sooner than later: Some friends asked me who I support at EURO 2...
Sunday, 12 June 2016

Switzerland has scored! But what else do I know?

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Three In a newspaper heading somewhere, probably online, I caught that Albania’s team was red...
Saturday, 11 June 2016

Who played? Who won? Who cares…

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day Two I heard no honking yesterday, no cheering whatsoever. I live in a multinational city wher...
Friday, 10 June 2016

From football virginity to football celibacy

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Avoiding EURO 2016: A self-experiment — Day One Today is a big day for many. They will spend a big part of the next month watching overpa...
Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Linguistic pet peeves

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Working in a multinational environment in which English is the pre-dominant working language, I have noticed how non-native speakers pick up...
Monday, 8 December 2014

Antabus i plasterform?

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Hvad de dog ikke finder på! En pakke med antidrukpatches! Sprog er nu en herlig ting.
Monday, 19 May 2014

Nature, Our Mother

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‘[N]ature is motherly, and [there is] no reason to improve or educate it, as it voluntarily gives everything [you] need.’ Carsten Jensen
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Selve skuespillet i centrum

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»På teatret kan og bør æstetikken kun blive et hjælpemiddel og iscenesætteren den tjener, der får et skuespil til at leve på scenen.« Jens ...
Monday, 20 January 2014

Onsdag, den 20. januar 2099

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I dag ville min oldefar, Christian, være blevet 226 år. Hvis han levede endnu, ville han hedder “Krajsjan”. Så sent som i 1998, for hundrede...
Saturday, 14 December 2013

Cher Monsieur Caccioppoli

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Cette carte a été faite à la main par des aveugles au Bangladesh. Ce sont des braves êtres humains qui, malgré des difficultés inimaginab...
Friday, 29 November 2013

Looking for an answer…

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On the last day of the European HIV Testing Week, someone very dear to me who is also an amazing journalist and a remarkable human being, a...
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013

La connaissance de soi-même de l’administration communale…

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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Honey, there is a man in my egg!

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A funny breakfast surprise!   Both Eggman photos are of course copyrighted and may be used only by written permission.
Friday, 24 May 2013

Unintentionally amusing advert?

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This woman does look happy…
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Life’s Three Phases So Far

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A beer, a dark one Not very tasty, not very sophisticated I let its fading foam foam on my tongue And think about its fake complexity It’s t...
Monday, 11 March 2013

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‘It's good to be me  who else would I be.’ Bjørn Clasen
Friday, 15 February 2013

Kritzelart

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Mein Beitrag zur „Kritzelei der Woche“ in Die Zeit … Entstanden ist diese Kritzelei bei einem internationalen Workshop in Berlin zum Th...
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Thursday, 14 February 2013

The Astral Bigamist

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…that’s right! That is what the successful, slightly alcoholic, or at least thought-to-be delusive writer Charles Condomine is called in fam...
Thursday, 31 January 2013

Dystopia on the big screen — How man closes his own circle

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So… I have signed up for this online course at the University of Edinburgh, on eLearning and digital cultures. It is the second Internet-ba...
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Stop smoking in Luxembourg bars

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Actually, it should not be necessary to still discuss this in 2013 in a Western European Country. But apparently it is: The issue of smoking...
Friday, 28 December 2012

Crazy Crazy

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I was already crazy But you, you drive me crazy crazy With your ups, your downs, your lefts and rights It’s never just spot on It’s a r...
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

The (digital) right to pretend

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‘Let’s throw some sand into the cogs of the machine-readable life and just pretend now and then. Life without creative friction is an ideal ...
Monday, 17 December 2012

The Erasmus Experience — 25 portraits from 25 years of success

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This autumn, I was commissioned by the association ANEFORE , via Luxembourg’s coolest publishing house Maison Moderne , to interview 25 ...
Friday, 7 December 2012

Culinary Adventure: Spinach à la Cosovare

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This dish is colourful and healthy — and takes only little time to prepare. serves 2-3 persons 1 onion 4 normal-sized mushrooms ...