We played another new game, Fist of Dragonstones. It's a short bidding game, I liked it a lot. (See a picture of the game online).

Jerry won again. Albert also arrived and now we're playing "Razende Roboters".

Jerry just won. His strategy with the 'steengroeves' (stonemines) turned out to be a winning one. The result:

Daniel came back Tuesday evening and we made an appointment to play a few boardgames tonight with Jerry and Marjolein.


First I went to Jerry's, but there was nobody there to open the door. Then I remember that we agreed on Zoltan's place... luckily enough their houses are close to each other.


We looked at Sterrenschiff, a new Catan game. Quite interesting. Later Ronald arrived, and now we'll play Puerto Rico. Let's see how it will work out this time...

Some people are afraid that a war in Iraq would be a disaster... a very nice Flash movie demonstrates what could happen.

The Economist this week:


"The name is Wouter Bos. He's a miracle-worker. He brings political parties back from the (almost) dead. [...]


The Fortuynists' disarray has cut their own throats (they may get half a dozen seats, say pollsters). But Mr Bos has twisted the knife. When he went on the stump in one of Rotterdam's most Fortuynist areas, it was plain that working-class voters were swinging back to Labour in droves."

"Why do ducks have webbed feet? To stamp out fires.

Why do elephants have flat feet? To stamp out burning ducks."

For those who don't know what to vote, Wouter sent me the perfect solution.

Tools - the sequel:

It would be great if it is true that Job Cohen is the candidate prime minister of the Labour party. Yesterday he said:

,,We hebben vreemdelingen hier gehaald om werk op te knappen waar we zelf geen trek meer in hadden. We hebben ze daarvoor nog nodig. [...] Vergis je niet: bij veel allochtonen is er een enorme gretigheid om het in Nederland te gaan maken, een gretigheid die ik bij autochtonen wel eens mis.''

(,,We took foreigners to do the jobs we don't feel like doing. We still need them for that. [...] Don't be mistaken: many foreigners are very eager to go for it in Holland, an eagerness I don't always see in the natives.")