{"id":400,"date":"2007-04-11T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T22:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/rudy-and-r-u-in-amsterdam-tulips\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T16:57:18","slug":"rudy-and-r-u-in-amsterdam-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/rudy-and-r-u-in-amsterdam-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy and R. U. in Amsterdam. Tulips."},"content":{"rendered":"

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So R. U. Sirius <\/a>and I gave our big Amsterdam talk <\/a>is tonight. I was worried this morning, but it went well. We killed, as stand-up comedians say. And SF lives. Many thanks to the Waag Society, Cyberspace Salvations, and XS4ALL for organizing it.<\/p>\n

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We had a good crowd, and R. U. was brilliant. I put my own talk online last night, it\u2019s called Psipunk<\/a>. I think Menso Heus of our co-sponsor XS4ALL <\/a>might have video of our talks on YouTube in a few days.<\/p>\n

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I projected live realtime computer graphics from my Windows laptop, mainly psychedelic continuous-valued CAs from my CAPOW <\/a> program.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I went out to the offices of XS4ALL, they\u2019re a big ISP in the Netherlands. I had lunch with some friendly programmers and in fact worked my talk in the course of an informal conversation with them.<\/p>\n

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My contacts there were two nice women, Mieke and Margareth.<\/p>\n

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After supper I hooked up with Sala again. He showed me a great Art Nouveau movie theater, Theater Tushcinski. A friendly usher let me look around.<\/p>\n

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And then Luc took me to meet a guy called Soma. He\u2019s a pot breeder, and has perfected a seed called the Soma seed<\/a>. He had dreadlocks nearly to the floor. Hanging around his place was like being back in California—maybe even more so.<\/p>\n

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One of Soma\u2019s friends painted an Art Nouveau pot and mushroom frieze along his banister. He told me he saw a UFO before dawn on Easter morning. Sounded to me like it might have been Venus, the morning star. But I enjoyed discussing his vision with him, as I\u2019m working on a novel scene where a guy who\u2019s high on telepathic contact with Gaia sees the Peng UFO. It\u2019s always good to get transreal first-hand input on these things!<\/p>\n

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Today in the morning I met up with Luc again. He\u2019s a big talker, but that makes for good company when you\u2019re alone in a strange town.<\/p>\n

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He drove me down to see the tulip fields. They\u2019re near the seashore, as tulips like sandy soil. A lot of these fields are just for the bulbs, and the farmers pick off the tulips and just throw them in a heap.<\/p>\n

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There was an amazing, sweet smell coming off the fields. Tulips in stores don\u2019t seem to have much of a smell, at least not in the U. S., but these were sweet as honeysuckle.<\/p>\n

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Luc was on his cellphone the whole time, doing a business deal which, over the course of the day, worked out well for him. I told that was because he was with Het Magische Varken. That\u2019s me. The Magic Pig.<\/p>\n

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Happy in the tulips. Happy to have the talk over with. R. U. and I laid \u201d\u02dcem in the aisles. Tomorrow I\u2019m planning to take the train to visit Heironymus Bosch\u2019s house in a town called Den Bosch for short, and s\u2019Hertogenbosch for long..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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