Since 2009, I have been teaching at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. I teach mainly Psychology courses, with an emphasis on Methodology and Perception. My research focuses on understanding how speech perception is affected in less than optimal conditions, because of hearing impairment, ageing, communicating in a non-native language, or external noise. The Epicurean was a column I wrote for the newspaper of the University of Groningen. Three years and more than 70 recipes on one page.

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Monday, March 13, 2017. Working on a new chair design. I had the basic idea for a new dining chair design, but lots of things need to be worked out to finalize the concept before making anything that I would want someone to use. First I made a chair out of black and red painted cardboard to work out some basic proportions. I could sit in it to see how I liked the size. Monday, March 6, 2017. Dutch type door for a bicycle shop. Black Cherry and Cedar Siding Wood.

Just some drivel from a PhD student in 17th century English literature. Masoret is Hebrew for tradition; Masor is also the Hebrew word for saw. Before you ask, yes, i have a glamorous social life. Sunday, 26 December 2010. James I, Sport, and Unity. Tuesday, 30 November 2010. Pretty cool, eh? Links to this post.

An emerging enterprise in creating ecologically regenerative livelihoods. Devoted to building better homesites. September 12, 2012 in Forest Gardening. If we will have the wisdom to survive,. To stand like slow growing trees. On a ruined place, renewing, enriching it. Then a long time after we are dead. The lives our lives prepare will live. Here, their houses strongly placed.

Saturday, July 4, 2015. Cherry logs have started turning up at the log dump in droves over the past few years. Some are diseased, but others are in beautiful condition. The cherry street trees in Vancouver are not the well-known black cherry of eastern Canada and the US, or commercial cherries grown for fruit. Rather they are are almost entirely cultivars of Prunus serrulata, Japanese flowering cherries, grown for their outstanding blossoms.

From Japan, albeit very, very. I have been buying natural. In Japan since 1978, and I. Still have that first cherished. Narutaki that I use often. Stones that you will view on. This site represent only a. Small fraction of my inventory,. Which may be the largest of. Its kind outside of Japan. Family craft ties in Japan allow. Me access to many old. Caches of stone mined in the. 1800s up to the 1950s. And every individual stone is. Hand selected by myself, I do.