{"id":3637,"date":"2011-12-21T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:12:17","slug":"moving-to-charlies-diary-one-last-post-from-bruges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/moving-to-charlies-diary-one-last-post-from-bruges\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Charlie’s Diary. One Last Post From Bruges."},"content":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas, ya\u2019ll! I\u2019ll be posting on Charles Stross\u2019s Charlie\u2019s Diary <\/em><\/a>for a week or two. I\u2019ll probably put my first post on Charlie\u2019s Diary<\/em> today.<\/p>\n

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Where am I? Inside which reflection?<\/p>\n

Before I go off into Christmas and Charlie\u2019s Diary<\/em>, here\u2019s a Rudy’s Blog<\/em> post with images of Bruges.<\/p>\n

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Cool wires on the electric train lines in Belgium. Ambient abstract art.<\/p>\n

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One of the big things in Bruges is the canals. At one time, the town was linked to the North Sea via a river which then silted up, leaving the town as a literal backwater. And, ah, that early winter sunset over a canal.<\/p>\n

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I lover pictures of reflections. Imagine walking down these old stone stairs into the wobbly mirrorworld inside the ancient canal.<\/p>\n

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The upside of being a backwater is that Bruges was spared the brutal and destructive waves of war and redevelopment that convulsed the second half of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n

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The have a local beer called the Zot, or the Fool. Love it. Zot is like sot.<\/p>\n

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Lace is still big there, although one suspects that these days a lot of the Belgian lace is made in China.<\/p>\n

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Cool old Gothic banister that looks like a dog. <\/p>\n

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I love the God\u2019s eye icons you see. The eye in a triangle in a set of rays. I think I described one of these in Hylozoic<\/em>. The point at infinity.<\/p>\n

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Great old fountains with lion\u2019s mouths. I like the medieval notion of turning everything into an animal. It\u2019s all alive. Our future form of computation. No chips, no biotech, just quantum computing things.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be back on Rudy\u2019s Blog <\/em>in early January. Until then I\u2019ll be posting on Charles Stross\u2019s Charlie\u2019s Diary <\/em><\/a>. And if you want more Rudy, don\u2019t forget about my new autobiography, Nested Scrolls<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas, ya\u2019ll! I\u2019ll be posting on Charles Stross\u2019s Charlie\u2019s Diary for a week or two. I\u2019ll probably put my first post on Charlie\u2019s Diary today. Where am I? Inside which reflection? Before I go off into Christmas and Charlie\u2019s Diary, here\u2019s a Rudy’s Blog post with images of Bruges. Cool wires on the electric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}