9:15: 2013 doesn’t bring bring the ability to sleep longer
10:00: downloading the last part of Phish New Year’s Eve concerts. Really quick, considering that New York is six time zones away and the concert probably finished only hours ago.
11:00: it seems as if it was a relatively quiet New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands. That is a problem for the police commanders who traditionally abuse the fact that 16 million people have a party to complain about the increased number of incidents and demand more power and harsher punishments.
11:15: violence against emergency workers is of course very wrong, but so is trashing civil liberties
13:00: pizza lunch
14:00: watching the traditional New Year’s Eve cabaret show. Not very enthusiastic about it.
15:30: unsurprisingly, people found some incidents to complain about.
15:45: the indignation of some politicians would carry more weight if they were equally tough about corruption of political friends (there were some incidents recently)
16:00: I put the photos of the fireworks yesterday and of the Christmas Lecture online. Unfortunately the photo site is barely usable on iPads, so I spend most of the day making a new website. It is work in progress (not done yet).