- relaxing after another long day at school #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-02-11
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Why I hate coffee (and other warm beverages)
Although coffee has (and other warm beverages have) a particular value, there is also a downside to them. Therefore my relationship with them can be described as a love-hate relationship, moreso than a purely mutual hate-hate relationship.
Why do I hate it? I call it The Coffee (and other warm beverages) paradox.
When you are consuming something, your desire for consumption will decrease (unless you’re female and consuming ice cream while watching Desperate Housewives or Grey’s Anatomy). The problem with coffee (and other warm beverages) is that although your desire for consumption decreases while consuming, the need for increasing the consumption speed increases due to the fact that the less coffee (or other warm beverages) is contained in the cup, the faster it will cool down… and coffee (and other warm beverages) are usually not so nice when cold.
The coffee (and other warm beverages) paradox provides modern-day society with a substantial problem, which (completely coincidentally) can only be seen as a problem in modern-day western society. Based on this concept, the most logical solution seems to be to revert to a less modern (more ancient) and poorer society in which scarcity is not just an economical force, but something you can actually witness during dinner (or anti-dinner).
If anyone can think of a better solution, please let me know. By commenting.
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BasBasBas.com!
Hello everybody!Welcome to the new blog. The main idea behind this blog is that it will just be easier for people to stay up to date with what I’m doing, but also highlighting particularly interesting things regarding arts and street art, marketing and advertising, web 2.0, activism, current events, music, et cetera.
The blog is ‘ready’, although I’m still tweaking around a bit. Expect features to be added over the course of the next days or weeks.
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Twitter Updates for 2008-02-09
- busy working on a new website! #
- Currently Browsing: http://tinyurl.com/37v4l9 Messed up bad. Became a nerd and fixed my website. #
- Currently Browsing: http://basbasbas.com/blog About done with the new blog. Cool! #
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Wow Czech Airlines, wow!
DEAR MS -last name spelled wrong even though it was at the bottom of the email they’re replying to-
YOU HAVE TO DECLARE EXTRA LUGGAGE AT CHECK-IN DESK AT THE TIME OF DEPARTURE.
PLEASE BE INFORMED 1/ONE/ EXTRA KILO COASTS EUR 16,-
BEST REGARDS
CSA CZECH AIRLINES SOFIA-D.SKENDEROVACaps Lock + misspelling my name + calling me Ms. while I’m sure I’m a Mr. = a forward to the main desk of Czech Airlines + blog post 🙂
Seriously, if they weren’t sure if I was a Ms. or Mr., there must have been a way around having to address me as either one. I signed my email with my first and last name. Couldn’t they have just made it “Dear first + last name”?
I wonder if Czech Airlines is like this everywhere or whether it’s just Bulgaria. Not that I really care. My question got answered, but I can’t help but wonder how much they’re paying employees like this.
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Money, money, money
Two days before I finish my work here, I decided to calculate how much I actually make per day. I work full-time in a decent paying job, I’m around the national average.
Make a guess in your mind.
Any guess.
Don’t read on until you have made a guess.
Okay, ready? How about less than sixteen per day, but that’s in the Bulgarian currency… Converted to euro’s that’s less than eight. Is it more or less than what you guessed?
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Conversion rates
When going to Bulgaria, don’t just take financial conversion rates into account. If you’re used to a rather punctual society, or culture, there’s another conversion rate into account.
When someone says “I’ll call you at 7.30”, that means they’ll call you somewhere between 8 and 8.30 in Bulgarian time.
Just a note for if you ever go here… or plan on dealing with me when I come back to Holland 😉
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EvilAngle – NoPastNoFuture
Decided it’s time for me to blast out some progressive tunes! Some microhouse, progressive house, minitech, Neo-trance, some breakbeats, electrohouse… A solid and refreshing drop! Check this out! It’s going to be the sound of 2008!
Tracklist
DJ Pippi vs. Willie Graff – Hyper Space [Space Dub Mix] (00:00 – 08:34)
Michael & Levan – Distant Closeness (06:32 – 15:20)
Moonbeam – Cocoon (12:56 – 19:19)
Purple Code – The Rising [Deadmau5 RMX] (18:51 – 24:04)
Faithless – Insomnia [Tommy Trash Private Bootleg] (23:34 – 28:29)
Liquid – Sweet Harmony [Dave Spoon & James Talk Mix] (27:13 – 33:08)
Bigwigs – Snack La Vista (32:08 – 39:00)
Hustle Athletics – Feel For You (38:19 – 43:35)
Sasha – Who Killed Sparky? (41:04 – 50:12)
Green Velvet – Land of the Lost (48:42 – 52:40)
Chris Lake – To The Point (51:12 – 57:57)
Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso – 555 (56:27 – 63:54)
Noir – Super Skunk [Deadmau5 RMX] (62:25 – 69:54)
Sasha – Coma (67:35 – 74:53)
S.U.N. Project – Frisco Machines [S.U.N. Project RMX] (73:36 – 79:19)
Daft Punk – Human After All [Alter Ego RMX] (78:34 – 87:52)
Coburn – We Interupt This Program (86:16 – 91:52)
Hustle Athletics – Fearless Funk (91:08 – 94:20)
Hardfloor – Lost in the Silver Box (92:07 – 99:08)
Adam Freeland – We Want Your Soul (96:46 – 101:59)
Aquasky & Meat Katie – Overneath (99:01 – 102:01)
Detroit Grand Pubahs – Sandwiches [Krafty Kuts Toasted Mix] (101:40 – 103:45)
Nick Muir – G Platz (102:30 – 111:47)
Alter Ego – Rocker [Stanton Warriors RMX] (109:33 – 115:33)
Dubfire – Roadkill [EDX’s Acapulco At Night RMX] (113:31 – 119:12)Download
http://uploaded.to/?id=k8xgtb
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XZETS4GVIf you like a certain record… Please consider supporting the artists by buying it or at the very least go check ’em out live next time you have a chance!
Enjoy and leave a comment!
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Is it too late to say Happy New Year?
Okay, it’s been a while. Actually, it’s been three weeks. The longer I waited with posting, the more I had to tell, the less I felt like making time to tell all of it. This kept looping and looping, until now. I present to you…
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Three weeks of Bas – in bullet points
self-indulgence- Bouwe & Roos arrived at the airport only 45 minutes late. I say only because a lot of flights were canceled or had 4 or 5 hour delays. On Christmas eve! How cliché!
- Needless to say, there was a lot of partying and playing around. On the second day of Christmas we went to a restaurant and as we were walking home I said “I have to show you guys a really, really bad club. It will be funny.” We all had a beer… then we decided to have another and move to the dancefloor. Two or three beers later we were talking to some Bulgarian guy who invited us to some party on New Year’s Eve. As we were getting our coats, ready to go home… a friend of him came up and said there was a drum ‘n bass party going on in some club and if we wanted to come. Fuck yes. We get to the club, club closed. We go to another, club closing. The Bulgarian guys and girl knew one more place that was open… it was called Kama Sutra and it was a stripclub (original name though). We decided that Christmas is a good time to visit a stripclub for the first time in your life so we went there. It was rather boring. We never spoke to those Bulgarian guys after that.
- The next day, completely hung-over, we went to mount Vitosha. Took some great pictures, check it out.
- We celebrated New Years Eve at a club where they didn’t bother stopping the music for a countdown. I left the club at 7 though, so apparently the party was not so bad… after all.. there was drum ‘n bass (and hardtechno… oh, and friends).
- Then I decided to show Bouwe & Roos Plovdiv. This time around, it was snowy!
Okay, so what else?
- I have stopped using MSN Messenger. See you on Skype!
- I have started updating my Photoblog again.
- I have installed PeerGuardian and found out everyone’s watching me.
- I’m still a vegetarian.
- I’m getting more serious about DJing. I’m playing in Utrecht on the 24th of February. Details to be announced!
- I’m looking for a place to live in Amsterdam. If someone knows a really good deal in Utrecht, tell me.
- Radio Bulgaria interviewed me. Check it out here!
- A Bulgarian national newspaper named Trud interviewed me. I’ll put the article up when it’s published.
- Radio Sofia interviewed me. I have no record of this.
Expect updates to be more regular from now on. I’ll be busy here though since it’s my last weeks in Bulgaria and I mostly want to spend time with the people I’ve met here.
