12:20 am, Delft

Cairo taxi

Egypt was nothing but a bunch of taxi rides for me. The famous "black and white taxi" plunging into horrific, ambling traffic jams, using their horns as foghorns or shoehorns to make their way through. The air was dirty, the haggling over price tiresome. Make sure you have the right change.

The Dutch Bike

It is not widely known that all Dutch bicycles were made sometime between 1942 and 1958. A lot of them must have been made during those years, because, apparently, no new models have ever been constructed since then. From this enormous original stock Dutch bicycles are recycled in various states of repair.

All Dutch bicycles are black.* If they are some other color now, it is because some, ahem, creative type bought some cheap variety store spray paint and drippily covered over the black with some other color, like white zebra stripes or golden-puke or some godawful shade of green. But their essential blackness returns eventually, that and the rust.

Dutch bicycles weigh 200 Kilograms. They are ready for any collision, so watch out.

* Except for the rear fender, which is always white.

Mother in "Amsterdarn"

Christmas stockings (1962 or 1961)

Hanging at St. Martins, Paris

These scenes actually took place in late June, just did't get time to post it until now. The second pic is the PIR (.org registry) event at the Fun Fair museum in Paris.

The E-Gov students

A lively bunch of personalities, these Executive Master's students from the Swiss Federal Technological Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) spent a week in New York and Washington and another week in Syracuse under my tutelage and that of other faculty colleagues.

The Political Economy Seminar

Still life with human

New Year

Amsterdam Cheese and the Royal Swan

Oude Jan in Delft