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Monday, August 2, 2021

Kröller Müller Museum

This afternoon, Conny and I visited the Kröller-Müller Museum. We first saw the temporary exhibition with works by Corenlius Rogge. Next we saw the long term exhibition. I found the following works worth mentioning:

After this we visited the exhibition Marinus Boezem. All Shows, where say and/or experienced the following works:

At last we saw:

At 16:46:56, I bought the book following two books from the museum bookshop:


Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Wedding

At noon, Conny and I got married. We had the official wedding ceremony at the townhall of Harderwijk (a small city, with a long history). Annabel and her boyfriend where the only guests present. We exchanged rings (made from palladium) during the ceremony and started wearing a similar Rebelz & Angelz wristband after the ceremony. Afterwards we walked into the city and had lunch. We walked through the city hortus (botanical garden), which was part of the university that was in the city from 1648 till 1794. Next we visited the Marius van Dokkum Museum, which is the only official museum in the Netherlands from a living artist. He is a painter who paints figurative paintings with a twist of humor. He is also very good at painting photorealistic still lifes. He was present in the attic working on a larger version of one of his earlier paintings. There was an audio tour where he explained some of his paintings, which was quite interesting. We all enjoyed it very much. Next we walked through the city and visited an old church known as Grote Kerk. We walked along the water front. Harderwijk used to be on the sea side (Zuiderzee) before it was a dam was created IJsselmeer. We had a dinner at Walhalla on the beach.


Thursday, August 5, 2021

Elburg

Conny and I visited the city of Elburg. We first visited the city musuem where we saw the Kunst & corona exhibition and next we saw the exhibition about the history of the city. We walked around the city and after having some lunch, we walked some more. We visited the De Groene Kruidhof herb garden and bought some seeds for herbs. We visited the church called Sint-Nicolaaskerk and climbed the tower.


Friday, August 6, 2021

Walking

Today, Conny and I went walking in three locations. First we visited a forest where there was a hidden village from April 1943 till its discovery in October 1944. There were about eighty people living in the village, which consisted of nine huts.

Next we visited an area where there are eight burial mounds close together. We found seven of them. In the area they also found celtic fields. We also walked to a small hill that is called Galgenberg, suggesting that there were gallows on the hill during the middle ages.

In the evening, we walked around a sand drift are called Beekhuizerzand and watched the sun set.


Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Het Bolwerk

This evening, I visited the bar Het Bolwerk to see some friends that I have not seen for over a year. Actually, we were sitting outside. It was good to talk with them. We used to see eachother every second Wednesday of the month and now that it is possible again, we will continue doing so. I went inside and saw the exhibtion Tussen hemel en aarde with portrets by Marianne Stoevenbeld (on Instagram).


Thursday, August 12, 2021

Vaccination pass

In countries around the Netherlands, such as France and Germany, restrictions are imposed on citizens who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. Although, I am not against vaccinations, I do find this a troubling development. In the Netherlands, medical conditions are a private matter. For this reason, an employer is not allowed to ask if an employee has been vaccinated. A company doctor has the same professional secrecy as any other doctor and is not allowed to inform the employer about any medical details. Of course, a government is allowed to take action with respect to public health. I also have no problem with having to prove that I am not infectious when wanting to attend a certain event or visit a certain location, because I do not have to reveal that I have been vaccinated or not, because such a proof could also have come from recent test. I also have no problem with the fact that vaccinations are provided for free and that people have to pay for tests. Our government have said in the past that they are not going to force people to become vaccinated, but I am afraid that they too will start requiring proof of vaccination in the future. The paper Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam in The Lancet, seems to indicate that vaccination is not a guard against becoming infected with a (variant of) COVID-19 and spreading it to others. Governments are motivating the decision to put restrictions on people who are not vaccinated with the argument that a small majority of anti-vaxsers is keeping society from returning to normal. This seems to implies that everyone who is not vaccinated against COVID-19 is an anti-vaxxer, which I think does not need to be the case. Also, if the vaccination degree is so high, one would expect that herd immunity has been reached and that the risk for large outbreaks have been minimized. If that is not the case, it could be that vaccination is not such an effective method for preventing large outbreaks as it has been claimed to be. Also, I am afraid that people who are still doubting whether they should be vaccinated against COVID-19, could decided against it now that governments are putting pressure on them to be vaccinated. It has become clear that governments have made very profitable deals with pharmaceutical companies that have caused those companies to make very large profits without any further risk, because there is no form of compensation for possible negative side (short or long-term) effects of a vaccination. Pharmaceutical companies waive all resposibilities and also governments do not take that responsibility. This makes you wonder on which side governments are: on the side of large and powerfull companies or on the side of their citizens.


Friday, August 13, 2021

Kunstmuseum Den Haag

This afternoon, Conny and I visited Kunstmuseum Den Haag on invitation by Peter Struycken. With him we visited the exhibition Bob Bonies and Mondrian & De Stijl. From the last exhibition, I found the following works worth mentioning: And then we discovered it was near closing time and that we did not have time to see the other exhibitions. In the evening, we also took a look at his installation De Vlam (The Flame) at The Royal Academy of Art and took some pictures of it.


Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Book

I recieved the book Rijksaankopen 1984 written by Evelyn Beer in Dutch and published by Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst in May 1985, which I had bought on Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 01:32:03 from indenolifant.nl for € 11.00.


Thursday, August 19, 2021

Pump not working

The pump of the self watering plant is no longer working as it seems. I am not sure if the problem is with the pump itself or the transistor switching it on.


Friday, August 20, 2021

Rijksmuseum Twenthe

This afternoon, I visited Rijksmuseum Twenthe where I saw a number of exhibitions. The first exhibition I visited is Na de Jacht! | After the Hunt!. I found the following works worth mentioning: The next exhibition I encountered is Sheer seeds and monochrome instability by Christiaan Zwanikken. It consists of the works: Then, I saw the exhibition Paradox of the Danish Golden Age. I found the following works worth mentioning:

I also walked through the garden within the museum and smelled the lavender plants and looked at the plants that the artist Claudy Jongstra uses for colouring the wool used in her carpets. At 16:35, I bought the catalogue Na de Jacht: Tien jaar verzamelen in 100 kunstwerken written by Josien Beltman in Dutch published by the museum in 2021 from the museum shop for € 4.95.

On my way home, I visited some of the locations of the Allée Rentrée tour. I saw:


Sunday, August 22, 2021

Allée Rentrée

This afternoon, I visited some of the Allée Rentrée locations:


Thursday, August 26, 2021

Book

At 14:19, I bought the book The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel written by David Levithan in English and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2011, ISBN:9781429994309, from charity shop Het Goed for € 2.25. I bought the book because of the concept of naming the sections with words from a dictionary.

stage2

This afternoon, I spend some time looking at the code in stage2 of stage0 repository, which contains a minimal C compiler, which can compile (a slightly modified version of) Tiny C Compiler, which can be used to compile GCC 4.7.4. In the past week, I have been thinking about a minimal programming language that could be used to implement a minimal C compiler to compile Tiny C. I have been thinking about some extensions of BrainFuck that would be easy to implement in assembly. The extensions I was thinking about was to add instructions to address memory location (where each memory cell contains a 32-bit unsigned value) and some mechanism to define routines that could be called recursively.

The Zen of R2-D2

In the evening, I finshed reading The Zen of R2-D2: Ancient Wisdom from a Galaxy Far, Far Away written by Matthew Bortolin, which I started reading on August 2 after I bought it on Friday, July 9. I did not find the book very interesting with respect to zen. This is primarily because I no longer believe in some of the assumptions on which zen is based. I did find the book interesting with respect to what the author writes about the Star Wars films, in particular episodes VII, VIII, and IX.


Saturday, August 28, 2021

A bit more complicated

The things a bit more complicated than I thought with bootstrapping a C compiler. Yesterday, I found live-bootstrap, which automates all the steps to bootstrap a minimal number of binary seeds to a supported fully functional operating system. The steps are described in the parts.rst file. The file points to the oriansj/stage0-posix repository. (I understand that a fork of the Tiny C Compiler, Bootstrappable TCC/TinyCC, is used.) I decided to study the stage0-posix/x86/mescc-tools-mini-kaem.kaem script. This script asumes the presence of hex0, an executable that transforms a text file with hexadecimal numbers to a binary file. (A high-level representation of the hex0 is the C program hex0.c.) The steps related to the first six phases of the script, with links to the source files, are:

If I understand correctly, the M2 executable is a C cross compiler for multiple platforms, where the cc_X86 is limited C compiler for the X86 platform.


Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Book

At 17:00, I bought the book Beelden in de Berm: vijf-en-tachtig, kunstobjecten, vanuit de auto written by Karin van Munster in Dutch and published by ANWB in 2003, ISBN:9789018016982, from charity shop Het Goed for € 1.75.


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