Last month was the driest March on record and it looks like it could stay dry
for a long time. See this map with the values per weather station. Around where we live, it
was about 3mm, where the average over the years 1991-2020 was around 60mm. It
was also a very sunny month. See
this map with the number of hours sunshine. Around where we live, it was
about 227 hours, where the average over the years 1991-2020 is 135.7 hours. It
was also about 3.5°C warmer than compared those years. This is due to a
rather persistant high-pressure area, which is also causing exsessive amount of rain in the
mediterranean sea area like today on the Greek tourist islands of Mykonos and
Paros.
I went to see the exhibitionSharing
Together, Playing Together at Concordia, which is a collaboration between
Chimène Wiersma and
Sofie Reijerman, two
third year students at the AKI who worked together in this exhibition as the
title also expresses. I feel that they did a much better job at this than the
two artists of the Doublet #7 exhibition. The
exhibition is the first of four that are part of what is called AKI
Paviljoen.
I have long argued that the weakness of democracy is that it that it generally
does not take the most intelligent decisions, because you only have to
convice the dumbest half of the voters to get your way. This is also true for
a representative democracy, where you are often able to select your
representatives on being loyal to you. For that reason, representative democracies have an inherent weakness to change into facism
and/or another autocrative political system, often through oligarchy or
particracy. Today, I realized that it is almost inevitable based on
evolutionary principles and that it is just a matter of time for a power to
arrive that will be able to pervert democracy. We are clearly seeing happening
this in the United States of America, as it has happened in other countries
before and is also happening in some countries in the rest of the world at the
moment. People are inherently racist and it's pretty easy to fuel and exploit
that. Even a strong constitution does not prevent a democracy to disintergrate
as we are now seeing in the USA. Once the congress and senate are no longer
holding the president accountable and allowing him to act like an autocratic
ruler that no longer regards the judicial powers, that president can simply
overrule the consitutions without being impeached.
This afternoon, I went to Rijksmuseum Twenthe to
see the exhibition with Peter Struycken. I
learned a lot about colour usage in medieval paintings. The light in the
exhibition was rather yellow, due to which the blue colour appear very dull,
not like the original were intended when the paintings were made by day light.
We looked at the following painting:
Gregoriusmis, Master of the Well of Life, ca.1510.
I went into the city and at Fotogalerie Objektief, I saw the
exhibitionForget Me Not with
photographs by Roland Icking. The
exhibition had photographs from the following projects:
After this, I went to Concordia where I attended the opening of the
exhibition AKI Paviljoen #2 with works by Meijke de Jong and Caroline Schot. From Meijke I liked the work Village best and from
Caroline the work Antropoceen.
Together with a colleague, I visited the Design Automation & Embedded
Systems event organized by FHI in 's-Hertogenbosch. I attended a number of presentations and visited the
various stands of participating companies. Several talks were about the
Cyber Resilience
Act that will come into effect next year. At the stand of Dekimo, I was
given a resistor decade
gadget made from a single PCB.
I recieved the book Prospects & Concepts edited by Noor Mertens,
written in Dutch and published by Mondriaan Fonds in February 2016, which I had
bought on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:53 from Osdorpse Boekenman for € 6.00.
In the past half year, I have been working on a C preprocessor for the Tiny C Compiler using iterators. This evening, I pushed the commit 8084af1c, with implements the C preprocessor (it seems). I
already created a partial implementation almost two years ago on Tuesday, April 25. In the past week, I finished the macro expanding part
including support for '##' and '#' operators.
At 12:50, I recieved the book Prospects & Concepts edited by Mirjam Beerman and Stijn Huijts, written in Dutch and published by
Mondriaan Fonds in February 2017, which I had bought on Friday, April 18, 2025
at 15:32 from Mayflower for € 6.00.
I went to the book fair in Glanerbrug. There we about thirty people waiting outside when the doors
opened at ten. There were not many interesting books in the art section like
in previous years. At 12:51, I bought the following books and magazines:
Verweven kunst with poems by Willem Andries Wilmink, written in Dutch and published by Van Heek-Ten
Cate N.V. in 2004 for € 2.00.
Rijksmuseum Gids written by Erik Spaans in Dutch and published by
Nai010 on Monday, April 1, 2013, ISBN:9789071450655, for € 2.00. Including map of the
Rijksmuseum and
two tickets sold on August 10, 2013 at 14:15.
50 Ways of Installing an Exhibition: (and Random Stories)
written by Kit Lee in English and published by West Den Haag in 2021 for € 2.00.
Tic Tac Terror written by Willy Yonkers in Dutch, translated from Tic Tac Tome, and
published by BBNC uitgevers in 2014, ISBN:9789045317052, for € 2.00.
