October 2002 | Guus Bosman.nl

Minority Report

Sat, 10/12/2002 - 4:42am

We went to see Minority Report yesterday. It's a nice movie - liked it a lot.

In a few minutes we'll be leaving for a demo in Den Haag.

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There's a nice website on Kolonisten that I visit regularly. There's also a Forum, something like a chat-box where people talk about Kolonisten van Catan. I'm interested in discussions on the rules of the game, so it's worth visiting often.

Today I looked at the most recent messages when I saw this one: "Guus Bosman geeft een Feestje" ("Guus Bosman gives a Party"). People were congratulating me on my birthday (!). Turned out I filled in my birthday wrongly: 10-11-1978 in Dutch means the 10th of November (as it really is), 10-11-1978 in the American system... is today.

See here to see all the congratulations.

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Speelgoed van het Jaar

Wed, 10/09/2002 - 6:17pm

Speelgoed van het Jaar The 'toy of the year 2002' has been announced today. One of the candidates was Medina, a game of 999 Games. The price went to a toy-car. It's an election for general toys, not only for boardgames.

In the past Isis & Osiris and Carcassonne have been candidates too. Kolonisten van Catan and Elfenland were even choosen Speelgoed van het Jaar.

Another game award is the Spellenprijs (where Medina is a candidate as well) and which was won by Machiavelli in 2001. The winner of this year's Spellenprijs will be announced on the Spellenspektakel in Eindhoven. I'm curious if Medina will be the winner. I haven't played it yet but many people like it. Perhaps this Saturday in Den Haag I'll have a chance to play it.

Carcassonne (again), Eufraat & Tigris, El Grande, 6 Nimmt and Tadsch Mahal have all be choosen in the past by German game players and jury to be Spiel des Jahres (or to receive the Deutsche SpielePreis).

The Spellenstapel has a lot of information on different game awards.

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Student Strike

Wed, 10/09/2002 - 7:13am

Today the National Student Union announced that they want to organize a student-strike the 12th of November. After some thoughts I decided not to participate :)

There is even an official website about the strike.

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Mourning

Tue, 10/08/2002 - 1:56pm

All Dutch and most foreign visitors will know that Sunday HRH Prince Claus passed away.

Vereniging De Hollandsche Molen has put its 12 windmills into mourning position, to pay respect to their former patron.