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                      Best Friend Forever
                      • 3 min

                      Best Friend Forever

                      Kemal. He is a wily old geezer. A Kurd from Ağrı who has been around the block a few times. He owns a tiny tea counter in the marketplace...
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                      Isn’t it my job to fret?
                      • 3 min

                      Isn’t it my job to fret?

                      My nearest and dearest appear to be worried about me. “What difference does it make if you fret like this?” “You cannot change anything, ...
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                      The Selfie
                      • 2 min

                      The Selfie

                      Whenever I see a photo of myself taken by someone else I have a massive shock. This isn’t something new, or something that is age related...
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                      Internet cats
                      • 1 min

                      Internet cats

                      My twitter account is anonymous, I do not post, I only follow news. That is, this is how it was until recently. I have been adding more a...
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                      Why yet another blog?
                      • 1 min

                      Why yet another blog?

                      Given that there are so many that I started and then abandoned? There are sometimes little things that I want to note down or show some i...
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                      While transferring the blog…
                      • 1 min

                      While transferring the blog…

                      I encountered myself from years ago. There is even a photo that Lanfranco took in Singapore in 2008 where I look not just 10 years, but 2...
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                      After 6 years…
                      • 1 min

                      After 6 years…

                      I want to start blogging again. shorter posts this time around. Mostly, just jotting down ideas, really. But maybe sometimes a bit more. ...
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                      Reasons for staying around
                      • 1 min

                      Reasons for staying around

                      Animals are a good reason to stick around. And then I like walking in the streets and sitting in cafes, I guess. Watching the animal-lovi...
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                      Is the Internet making us crazy?
                      • 5 min

                      Is the Internet making us crazy?

                      I came across this on facebook (of all addictive places!) thanks to an old friend of mine, Nazif Topçuoğlu, who posted it there. And yes ...
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                      Smoking…
                      • 5 min

                      Smoking…

                      During my last trip I bought very little, which is not really usual behavior for me, normally I go crazy shopping whenever I travel (or w...
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                      There is a definite change
                      • 2 min

                      There is a definite change

                      I am noticing it from my favorites on Flickr, which are mostly RL things. And what I put on flickr myself, for that matter. I seem to sor...
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                      Full Circle
                      • 1 min

                      Full Circle

                      So here I am, back where I started. When I look at this blog I notice that it has 3 quite distinct phases. In the beginning there seems ...
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                      No Trust
                      • 3 min

                      No Trust

                      I am sitting here and thinking: How many people do I know that I can trust? In the true sense of the word? Who, in their turn, trust me a...
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                      A Eureka moment
                      • 3 min

                      A Eureka moment

                      I have been sitting here all weekend – reading, taking notes, even starting the draft of the draft of a draft of a paper. (Need to read a...
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                      Continued from the other day
                      • 5 min

                      Continued from the other day

                      I am still wondering here. The previous post, where this bit belongs to as well, is already way too long. So, I am starting a new one. … ...
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                      The definition of happiness
                      • 1 min

                      The definition of happiness

                      Bob Dorough. Again. For me, this is the exact definition. Exact! Verbatim. Every syllable of every word! And then the way he sings it… #E...
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                      Bob Dorough
                      • 3 min

                      Bob Dorough

                      If you talk about a musician who is special to you, are you (in the end) (again!) talking about yourself? Well, yes. I suppose you are. B...
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                      "This time I am alone. This time I will not leave"
                      • 2 min

                      "This time I am alone. This time I will not leave"

                      I think they call this low grade depression. It is not fatal, it will resolve itself eventually, I suppose. I do not sleep very well at n...
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                      A feeling of not belonging
                      • 2 min

                      A feeling of not belonging

                      Dedicated to the anonymous reader of this blog… … There is a woman playing the piano. You probably cannot hear the notes but you see her...
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                      a la guerre comme a la guerre…
                      • 4 min

                      a la guerre comme a la guerre…

                      (… except that I do seem to be meeting my Waterloo over here, aren’t I?!?) … To say that there is some considerable cause for concern is ...
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