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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

Category Archives: Life

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Hakuna Matata

This is what total relax­ation looks like—atleast to me. I took a long walk with the dog into the back­coun­try, far from the city, traf­fic and stress. It was cold (~5C°) but oth­er­wise lovely weather. The only piece of tech­nol­ogy I took with me was my mobile phone with inte­grated camera—I decided to cap­ture this […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Sunday, March 28th, 2004.

Dan, You Need to Post!

Dan is a busy man. Yet I tell him to care more about his blog. He has valu­able stuff to say. I have near spir­i­tual con­ver­sa­tions with him on a daily basis (such as “Dude, that client is such an $%^#@*!&” and “Tables? Who said tables? Did he just say tables?” You know, the real […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Friday, March 19th, 2004.

Shaken, Not Stirred

Girl: “Do you want to check my fig­ures?” Bond: “Oh, I’m sure they’re per­fectly rounded.”

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Friday, March 19th, 2004.

Oh Canada! Oh Canada!

So this morn­ing I was in the liquor store to get, ermm… well, booze. Yeah, yeah, I know I said morn­ing. No, I’m not los­ing it, just that it hap­pened to be the most con­ve­nient time dur­ing the whole day. Any­way, so in front of me there was this guy pay­ing his drinks. The cashier […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Monday, March 15th, 2004.

Music and Creativity

To me music is an essen­tial part of the cre­ative flow. In short: no music, no cre­ativ­ity. But I won­der — do some gen­res of music lead to more cre­ativ­ity than oth­ers? I guess it all boils down to per­sonal pref­er­ence. A num­ber of peo­ple might go all cre­ative lis­ten­ing to clas­si­cal music or jazz, […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Friday, March 5th, 2004.

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