Note from 28 August 2016, moron

I make the loose notes in my iPhone Notes app. Digging through old notes, I found this one. No clue why I saved this. Must have been in some weird or vicious mood.

moron  stupid, cool 

8    dummy stupid, fool 

8    lowbrow  stupid, fool 

8    philistine  person, fool 

7    dunce , stupid, cool 

7    fathead n.stupid, person, fool 

7    nitwit  stupid, fool 

7    slacker  stupid, fool 

6    dolt n.stupid, person, fool 

6    goldbrick n.stupid, person, fool 

6    half-wit  stupid, fool 

6    pinhead n.stupid, person, fool 

6    simpleton n.stupid, person, fool 

5    dumbbell  stupid, fool 

5    anti-intellectual  person, fool 

5    blockhead  stupid, fool 

5    dope n.stupid, person, fool 

4    goof-off n.stupid, person, fool 

4    underachiever n.stupid, person, fool 

4    extravert  active 

4    extrovert  active 

4    gregarious adj.talking, feature, which 

3    imbecile n.stupid, person, fool 

3    klutz  active 

2    hunk n.fool, stupid, person 

2    friendly adj.talking, feature, which 

2    outgoing adj.talking, feature, which 

2    sociable adj.talking, feature, which 

2    energize v.action, active, doing 

2    pretty boy  fool, charismatic 

1    anti-nerd n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    au courant adj.cool, person, fashionable 

1    ball player n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    beefcake n.fool, stupid, person 

1    benighted adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    bonehead  cool, charismatic 

1    cannon folder n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    charisma n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    cheerleader n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    chowderhead  cool, charismatic 

1    cool adj.person, fashionable 

1    def adj.person, fashionable, cool 

1    downtown adj.person, fashionable, cool 

1    drop-out n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    dumb adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    dumb jock n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    fashion plate n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    foolish adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    geek n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    groovy adj.person, fashionable, cool 

1    idiotic adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    ignorant adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    illiterate adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    jock n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    mod adj.person, fashionable, cool 

1    moronic adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    mundane n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    nonintellectual adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    now adj.person, fashionable, cool 

1    pimp n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    player n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    retard  cool, charismatic 

1    slick n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    slow adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    socialite n.charismatic, cool, person 

1    stud n.fool, stupid, person 

1    stupid adj.fool, idiot, person 

1    superstud n.fool, stupid, person 

1    trendy adj.person, fashionable, cool 

1    turned on adj.cool, person, fashionable 

1    uncultivated adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    uncultured adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    uneducated adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    unenlightened adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    unintelligent adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    unlettered adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    unread adj.fool, idiot, stupid 

1    with-it adj.person, fashionable, cool 

A surreal hotel landscape in Miami

Otherworldy green. Found in Miami.

Private property

Can’t help myself finding this a funny a anthropological manifestation.

Frog / toad

Frog in windows till at Key Largo. Probably a Cuban tree frog.

Notice

I cannot get used to seeing this in a civilized country.

Sitting and watching like having punishment duties

Rijssenhout. The residents of the houses on Aalsmeerderdijk sit in their front yards with faces as if they are doing punishment duties. Then again, they look out on capital villas on the other side.

The ferry across is free; the pay machine is out of order.

Pumping and damming work on the Uiterweg. Water must have been on the road here for weeks this spring.

Neon suit

On a bench sits a man in a neon-colored suit and black boots. His hair is long, blond, and blow-dried. A traffic controller who has put on his work clothes?

People wear coats again. Summer coats, but the coats are out again, shifting the seasons.

Seagulls and crows scream from the rooftops. The sound reminds me of the raven in Japan.

A man in a t-shirt too tight around his waist, accentuating hefty love handles.

Nice nerdy weaving

Beautiful artwork from chip design and a vice nerdy story about this Navajo weaving from Marilou Schultz.

Raymond Carver’s wrinkle

I am rereading Raymond Carver’s short stories. Nothing happens in these stories, nothing in terms of real-life events—suggestions of events only. A man and a woman are lying in bed. Nothing happens. Only the woman can not sleep. We follow her restlessness. A postman welcomes a new family in town. He observes them while they settle and leave town again.

There is no twist at the end of the stories—just a little wrinkle, at best.

Walking West aan Zee – Hoorn – Formerum, watching fractals

Yesterday, I walked from our cottage at West aan Zee to Hoorn along the beach, an 8—or 9 km walk. There was a fierce wind in the back and some threatening rain.

I was impressed by the fractal-like figures in the sand, which formed 3D maps of unidentified countries (Which made me think about the barren landscapes of South America and Africa).

I had a great lunch at Kaap-Hoorn, roasted vegetables folded in Lebanese flatbread.

Continued to walk through the dunes and the woods to Formerum. Then, the rain washed me from the street, and I was picked up and brought home by car.

You can always find something unexpected. People dancing on the beach, this time.