------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on" -- Dean Martin. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough!" - Frank Sinatra (1915-98). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@nfra.nl) Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe Postbus 2 Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595256 7990 AA Dwingeloo (general): +31 (0)521 595100 The Netherlands Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares - Hebrews xiii. 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England" - Mary, Queen of Scots, before her judges, October 1586. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Sommigen hebben vlees maar kunnen eten, sommigen kunnen wel eten, maar hebben geen vlees. Wij hebben vlees en wij kunnen eten, dus dank zij de Heer" - Robert Burns, The Selkerk Grace (in Dutch!). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "What is time ? Time is everything and time is nothing" - Words of wisdom, to be found on the rear of every Grolsch beer bottle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "But what has come home to me more than anything else is the utter futility of Opposition. I did not join the Labour Party to protest. I joined it as a party of government and I will make sure that it is a party of government." Tony Blair's speech to the TUC, September 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old" - Neil Kinnock, June 1983. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him (King Edward I) no allegiance. He is not my Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he never shall receive it" - William Wallace, Scottish hero & patriot, on the day of his "trial", shortly before being hung, drawn and quartered (London, 23 Aug 1305). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@nfra.nl) Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe Postbus 2 Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595256 7990 AA Dwingeloo (general): +31 (0)521 595100 The Netherlands Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 " We won and we won on merit. To say I am proud of them is a complete understatement of the case" - Jock Stein, Lisbon, May 1967. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - A. Einstein. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Mooi is hier alles, waar men ook gaat, Drenthe is superbe!" - Vincent van Gogh, 1883. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "...the destiny had been revealed to her eyes, and there was suddenly no room for any hope" - Famous Last Words (notes by L. Stevens, anonymous). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 In searches for dark matter it may be well to remember that ``size does matter''. - Kolb et al. (xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/9810361) *********************** January 1999 *************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 O Lord, Thou kens what zeal I bear, When drinkers drink, an' swearers swear, An' singing here, an' dancin there, Wi' great and sma'; For I am keepit by Thy fear Free frae them a'. - Robert Burns, from Holy Willie's Prayer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "..but I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!" - The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Politics is a rough old trade. Sometimes you win and sometimes you don't ... tonight we have been comprehensively beaten" - John Major, May 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Maybe we were meant to win it. Maybe it was destiny" - Alex Ferguson, in Barcelona, May 26 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it!" -Groucho Marx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light" - John Milton, Paradise Lost. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker", Ogden Nash. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Give me chastity and continence - but not yet". Saint Augustine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Give me chastity and continence - but not yet". Saint Augustine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 595100 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable". -- Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (mag@jive.nfra.nl & http://www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle." - Alan B. Shepard (1924-98). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 We opened the hatch and Neil, with me as his navigator, began backing out of the tiny opening. It seemed like a small eternity before I heard Neil say, "That's one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind." - Buzz Aldrin, July 1969. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "WINSTON IS BACK !" - Board of Admiralty signal to the Fleet on the re-appointment of Winston Churchill as First Sea Lord, 3 September 1939. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I was economical with the actualiteit" - Alan Clark (1928-99) Tory maverick famous for his diaries, extravagant personal life and animal rights (RIP). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Our master Caesar is in the tent where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head, Like a long-legged fly upon the stream, His mind moves upon silence." - W.B. Yeats, extract from "Long-legged Fly", Last Poems (1939). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nfra.nl & www.nfra.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair" - Michael Heseltine --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The poor Emperor heard them and suddenly knew that they were right - he was the fool" - extract from the Emperor's New Clothes, a children's fairy tale, Hans Christian Anderson (1805-75). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "De zak van Sinterklaas, Sinterklaas, Sinterklaas, De zak van Sinterklaas, o jongens, jongens het is zo`n baas!" ************************** January 2000 ************************ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future" - Oscar Wilde. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing" - Thatcher. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Op naar de sterren en daar voorbij!" - Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!! ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, __ / // / | | / / __/ The Netherlands / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Ambition never rests, not even for a man who has left his footsteps on the moon" - John Young, April 1981. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The Police got a bloody good hiding!" - Bernie Grant MP (1944-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Wars are not won by evacuations. But there was a victory inside this deliverance, which should be noted. It was gained by the Air Force". --- Winston Churchill June 1940. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Italianen kunnen niet van je winnen, maar je kan wel van ze verliezen" - Johan Cruijff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone in Zimbabwe to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen" - Robert Mugabe, Sunday Times 26 Feb 1984. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The early stage of the Universe is discussed and the time lengths of its first six days, as well as its age, are given. There seems to be no contradiction with the Bible's ascertain that the Universe was created in six days" - Moshe Carmeli (astro-ph/0008040). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Hey hey I saved the world today, everybody's happy now the bad things gone away. And everybody's happy now, the good thing's here to stay. Please let it stay" - Eurythmics (Lennox/Stewart) 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "242 Squadron operational as regards pilots but non-operational as regards equipment" - report to 12th Group HQ (June 1940), Douglas Bader [fighter pilot, sportsman, constant rule-breaker and incorrigible escaper, he spread exasperation and irritation wherever he went]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "It all makes sense after 14 pints. Everything makes sense after 14 pints. John Redwood looks sane. Michael Portillo looks loyal. After 14 pints, even William Hague looks like a Prime Minister" - Tony Blair, PM's address to the Labour Party conference 2000, Brighton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Donald Dewar's death has left an aching void in the hearts of his friends and the whole of Scotland. The country has lost one of its finest politicians this century and Scottish life is diminished as a result. It will be a long time before we see his like again." - Menzies Campbell's tribute to the First Minister for Scotland, DONALD DEWAR (1937-2000). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him ?" - Ronald Reagan, March 1986. Jock Stein: "There is not a prouder man on God's Earth than me at this moment. Winning was important, aye, but it was the way that we have won that has filled me with satisfaction. We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football. There was not a negative thought in our heads. Inter played right into our hands; it's so sad to see such gifted players shackled by a system that restricts their freedom to think and to act. Our fans would never accept that sort of sterile approach. Our objective is always to try to win with style." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Some talk of millimetres and some of kilograms, And some of decilitres to measure beer and drams, But I'm a British workman, too old to go to school, So by pounds I'll eat and by quarts I'll drink and I'll work by my 3 feet rule" - William Macquorn Rankine, Prof of Civil Eng, U of Glasgow (1820-72). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours" - HAL 9000; from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). ************************* January 2001 **************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "... and I see a star", Gus Grissom Cdr MR-4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1 (1926-67) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Even now, no inscription on Galileo's much visited tomb in Santa Croce announces the presence of Suor Maria Celeste. But still she is there." - the closing sentences of "Galileo's Daughter", Dava Sobel, 1999. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did." - Bill Clinton (42nd President of the U.S.A.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue. But moderation in principle is always a vice" - Thomas Paine 1792. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Cato! You imbecile! Not now!" - Insepctor Jacques Clouseau of the Surete ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I hope MI5 are still tapping my private telephone line, its my last remaining link to the British establishnment" - Tony Benn, Radio 4 (Feb 2001) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament" - Julius Caesar. Act III Scene 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Winning was important, aye, but it was the way that we have won that has filled me with satisfaction. We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football. There was not a negative thought in our heads. Inter played right into our hands; it's so sad to see such gifted players shackled by a system that restricts their freedom to think and to act. Our fans would never accept that sort of sterile approach. Our objective is always to try to win with style." - Jock Stein, Lisbon, 1967 - visit the "Year of Triumph" web site: www.jive.nl/~mag/celtic.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I do rather want to see the Tory party under Hague humiliated" - Lord Jenkins. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "In politics as in life, you have bad days as well as good days; and I think today has been a good day. I'm a fighter not a quitter" - Peter Mandelson, June 8 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "...that we want a society and a nation where not just a few people at the top, but every single person in our country gets the chance to be a success" - Tony Blair, Millbank, 8 June 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "What would we do if the sun didn't come ? We'd ask for the wind and the rain" Jennifer, 21 June 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The awful thing is I really don't like the Right Wing, and this enlightenment is, I fear, mutual". Alan Clark, Diaries (Into Politics). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Jeffrey really is a great story teller. The only problem is, it takes us about 12 months to turn the manuscript into English!" - old comment from Lord Archer's former publisher. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "De beste Nederlander was Bobby Petta, maar hij speelde voor Celtic!" - Hans Kraay (Ned 2 expert opinion), shortly after Celtic's 3-1 victory over Ajax in Amsterdam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You have to take me as I come...." Jimmy Knapp (1941-2001) - RMT Union leader & Kilmarnock man, at the very forefront of the bitter industrial disputes that characterised the Thatcher years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example" - Fred Hoyle (1915-2001). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "My telescope has dashed your hope; Your tenets are refuted, Let me be terse: Our Universe Grows daily more diluted!" - from "Mr Tompkins in Wonderland" - part of the poem written by George Gamow and his wife, describing Hoyle's aversion to the big-bang theory (Fred Hoyle 1915-2001) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You make me boil! Exploded Hoyle, His statement rearranging, New matter is born Each night and morn. The picture is unchanging!" - Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) often the proponent of unconventional ideas he made an enormous contribution to modern astro-physics (part of the poem reproduced here that Gamow and his wife wrote, describing Hoyle's aversion to the big-bang theory in - Mr Tompkins in Wonderland) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You make me boil! Exploded Hoyle, His statement rearranging, New matter is born Each night and morn. The picture is unchanging!" - Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) often the proponent of unconventional ideas he made an enormous contribution to modern astro-physics (part of the poem reproduced here that Gamow and his wife wrote, describing Hoyle's aversion to the big-bang theory in - Mr Tompkins in Wonderland) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I desire to go to hell and not to heaven. in the former place I shall enjoy the company of Popes, Kings and Princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles" - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue. But moderation in principle is always a vice" - Thomas Paine 1792. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Just after the election, an old colleague of mine said 'Come on Tony, now we've won can't we drop all this New Labour and do what we believe in ?' I said: 'Its worse than you think, I really do believe in it!'. - Tony Blair, British PM, Labour Party Conference, October 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire" - Churchill (1874-1965) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 Then Bob proposed: "A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all his family re-echoed. "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all - Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol). ********************** January 2002 *********************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "As a central banker I've never had any problem getting rid of my product" - Wim Duisenberg, ECB president, September 2001 - on the prospects of introducing the Euro across Europe (BBC interview). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever" - Ae Fond Kiss, Robert Burns (1759-96) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "In Dutch, the English word 'yes' and the Spanish word 'si', are pronounced as 'ja', so it should not be too difficult for you to understand the most important part of this ceremony" - Job Cohen, Amsterdam, 2/2/02. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams" - Hamlet, Act II/ii. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "You have captured the imagination of the whole UK!" -Tony Blair congratulates Rhona Martin and the ladies Curling Team on bagging a Olympic Gold for Britain (Feb 22, 2002). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken, not stirred" - James Bond, Dr. No (1962) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "On the Ning Nang Nong Where the cows go Bong! And the monkeys all say Boo! There's a Nong Nang Ning, Where the trees go Ping, And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo" - Spike Miligan (1919-2002), shell-shocked soldier, manic depressive, animal rights campaigner, Ireland supporter & comic genius. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "...a queer thought came to her there in the drooked fields, that nothing endured at all, nothing but the land she passed across, tossed and turned and perpetually changed below the hands of the crofter folk since the oldest of them had set the Standing Stones by the loch of Blawearie..." Lewis Grassic Gibbon, from "Sunset Song". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever" Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 And then she'd say:'It's ok, I got lost on the way but I'm a supergirl and supergirls don't cry', And then she'd say: 'It's alright, I got home late last night but I'm a supergirl and supergirls just fly' - Reamonn. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "At your service!" - maverick Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "In radio astronomy, for example, UK scientists at Jodrell Bank collaborate in a network of antennae spreading across Europe, China, Australia and the US. This is truly an example of global science, with free access to the facilities and to the science". - PM Tony Blair, Royal Society, 23 May 2002. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "We didn't deserve an end like that - we deserved to win in normal time" - Mick McCarthy, Ireland Manager, 16 June 2002. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down and wait for the moment to pass" - Al Pacino. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "... not only will we never be defeated but in the process we will roll back the years of Thatcherism" - Arthur Scargill 1981 (recently retired president of the NUM) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "So we have confirmation of what was said in prophecies; and you will be right to depend on prophecy and take it as a lamp for lighting a way through the dark until the dawn comes and the morning star rises in your minds" - Peter 1:16-19. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "So we have confirmation of what was said in prophecies; and you will be right to depend on prophecy and take it as a lamp for lighting a way through the dark until the dawn comes and the morning star rises in your minds" - Peter 1:16-19. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you." - Yasser Arafat ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty!" - Imelda Marcos. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "May the road rise to meet you; May the wind always be at your back, The sunshine warm upon your face, The rainfall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand." - Gaelic blessing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Let's Roll" - Todd Beamer, U.A. Flight 93 passenger, 9 September 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Laughter is the most civilised sound in the Universe" - Peter Ustinov. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable" - Oscar Wilde on Fox Hunting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Slechte Duitser, goede Duitser, echte Nederlander" - NL headline, Prins Claus (1926-2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before." - Mae West, American actress. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The Queen is aware of her constitutional duty and has a strong sense of justice. As ever, the Queen is blameless and emerges with utmost credit" - Lord St John of Fawsley, November 2, 2002. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Can we play you every week ?" - Celtic Support, Ewood Park, Blackburn. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) EVN Support Group _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!" - Santa Claus is coming to town. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in, Engines stop running & the wheat is growing thin, A nuclear error, but I have no fear, London is drowning and I live by the river!" - Joe Strummer, The Clash (1952-2002). *********************** January 2003 *************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "...but pleasures are like poppies spread, you seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed, or like the snow-falls in the river - a moment white, then melts forever..." - Rabbie Burns, from Tam O' Shanter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "What a way to come to California!" - Bob Crippen, 14 April 1981. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "We have a new and rather exciting leader, Mrs Thatcher will make the Tory Party distinctive" - Edward du Cann, 11 Fevruary 1975. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "This is the time...to give a lead, to show that we will stand up for what we know to be right, to show that we will confront the tyrannies and dictatorships and terrorists who put our way of life at risk, to show at the moment of decision that we have the courage to do the right thing." - Tony Blair, House of Commons, 18 March 2003. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Being Prime Minister is a lonely job..., you cannot lead from the crowd" - Margaret Thatcher. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Interim Director _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Britain is not worth an old shoe... ....We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels" - Mohammed Saeed al-sahhaf (former Iraqi Information Minister), April 2003. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Opt for the radical, not the quiet life" Tony Blair, 27 April 2003. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "In the 7 years of this glorious decade (the 1930s), all the great classic chocolates were invented: the Crunchie, the Whole-Nut Bar, the Mars Bar, the Black Magic Assortment, Tiffin, Caramello, Aero, Malteser, Quality Street Assortment, Kit-Kat, Rolo & Smarties" - Roald Dahl (on the history of chocolate). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things" - Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "I'm half British, half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its beak!" Bob Hope 1903-2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 597332 "... but she doesnt know who I am, and she doesnt give a damn about me, Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby" Brendan Brown, 2002. I think the reason I'm popular again is that because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be differnt - Tony Beennet 1995 I think one of the reasons ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "When I was younger, I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast" - Churchill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "... when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual - Free at Last, free at last! thank God Almighty we are free at last!" - Martin Luther King, Jr, (Washington D.C., August 28 1963). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "That's some electric flying machine" - John Young, 14 April 1981. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see" - Winston Churchill. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "This labour party - best when we are boldest, best when we are united, best when we are labour!" - Gordon Brown, 29 Sep 2003, Bournemouth. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I feel good" - Yang Liwei, Shenzhou 5, 15 October 2003. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Born from dreams, built with vision, operated with pride" - Capt. Mike Bannister, Chief Concorde Pilot, 24 Oct 2004. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The quiet man is here to stay and he's turning up the volume!" - Iain Duncan Smith (former Tory Party leader), October 9, 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!" - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Rice U. speech, September 12, 1962. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Een, twee, drie, vier, vijf, zeven" - Zes, van K. Schippers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Yes, well, I mean, you know, look......." - Tony Blair, Hutton Inq., 28 August 2003. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Give me a go or no go for launch" - Mike McKay, December 20, 2003. **************************** January 2004 **************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Brutal and repressive states... are developing weapons of distraction" - Tony Blair, PM. Basra, Iraq; January 4, 2004. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" - George Best. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I'm for anything that gets you through the night - whether it be prayer, tranquilisers or a bottle of Jack Daniels" - Frank Sinatra. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I think now would be a good time for a beer" Franklin Roosevelt, 5 Dec 1933. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Seven nays and one aye - the ayes have it" - Abraham Lincoln. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Don't Assume. It makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me'", David Brent, The Office. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact." - Harold Macmillan, South Africa, 1960. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections - a mere heart of stone." Charles Darwin, The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist, 1994, p.457 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "It is like confessing a murder" - Charles Darwin, 14 Janaury 1844. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "We discuss the $n$-point lens system as a two-dimensional harmonic flow of an inviscid fluid, count the caustics topologically, recognize the significance of the limit points and discuss the notion of image domains". Sun Hong Rhie http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103463. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy!" - Pres. Bill Clinton, referring to "Junita" an Inca mummy - Time Magazine, 17 June 1996. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Basta ya" - Madrid, 12 March 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "We live, as we dream, -alone." Joseph Conrad, from Heart of Darkness. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." - Alexander Graham Bell. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Please come to L.A. to live forever, the California life alone is just too hard to bear." - Dave Loggins, "Please come to Boston". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The surest cure for vanity is loneliness" - Thomas Wolfe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever" Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." -Peter Ustinov, famed raconteur, actor, director, comic, writer... (1922-2004) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "It is time to resolve once and for all whether this country, Britain, wants to be at the centre and heart of European decision-making or not; time to decide whether our destiny lies as a leading partner and ally of Europe or on its margins. Let the Eurosceptics whose true agenda we will expose, make their case. Let those of us who believe in Britain in Europe not because we believe in Europe alone but because, above all we believe in Britain, make ours. Let the issue be put. Let the battle be joined." - Tony Blair, PM, on his decision to hold a referendum on the EU constitution (20-4-04). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember"- Lucius Annaeus Seneca. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "A great flame follows a little spark" - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 After winning the League on Sunday, We now mourn a loss today, As the Lisbon Lions Faither has suddenly passed away, Ronnie Simpson, the legend Of the famous .67 team, Now stands beside Bobby Murdoch And the immortal, big Jock Stein. - Daniel McDonagh (on the death of Ronnie Simpson [1931-2004]- Celtic Keeper and Lisbon Lion Legend, 20 April 2004. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "For every five pounds Celtic spend, we will spend ten..." David Murray, 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams..." - Sir Compton MacKenzie, writing in 1907. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Thirty million, mostly fools." - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned." - W. Somerset Maugham. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I'm looking for a place, Searching for a face, Is anybody here I know, 'Cause nothing's going right, And everything's a mess, And no one likes to be alone". - Avril Lavigne - I'm with You. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack." - Winston Churchill (1874-1965). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 There will be no other [transit of Venus] till the twenty-first century of our era has dawned upon the earth, and the June flowers are blooming in 2004. When the last [18th century] transit occurred the intellectual world was awakening from the slumber of ages, and that wondrous scientific activity which has led to our present advanced knowledge was just beginning. What will be the state of science when the next transit season arrives God only knows - W. Harkness, Dir. US Naval Obs., 1882 (b. Ecclefechan, Scotland 1837). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair." - J. Conrad, 1857-1923. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Gentlemen, when do we go? ...Pray tell me gentlemen, when did William [the conqueror] go ?" - Sir Winston Churchill, Chequers, early 1944. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The immense cross-channel enterprise for the liberation of France had begun. All the ships were at sea. We had the mastery of the oceans and of the air. The Hitler tyranny was doomed." - Winston Churchill, 1944. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting" - Ronald Reagan (1911-2004). Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I've developed a new philosophy...only dread one day at a time." - Charlie Brown. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I've developed a new philosophy...only dread one day at a time." - Charlie Brown. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I've developed a new philosophy...only dread one day at a time." - Charlie Brown. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Football should always be played beautifully, you should play in an attacking way, it must be a spectacle." - Johan Cruyff. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." - P. G. Wodehouse, (1881 - 1975) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Maybe this was just the rehersal for the final" - Gary Linekar's expert comment, 13 June 2004 (France vs England). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Maybe this was just the rehersal for the final" - Gary Linekar's expert comment, 13 June 2004 (France vs England). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 Lineker: So Gordon, if you were English, what formation would you play ? Strachan: If I was English I'd top myself! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it." - Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "May the road rise to meet you; May the wind always be at your back, The sunshine warm upon your face, The rainfall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand." - Gaelic Blessing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more" - Anne Frank, July 1944. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I'm an optimist, You couldn't be a socialist in this country if you weren't optimistic." - Paul Foot (1937-2004) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon... we have the stars." - Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager (1942). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart" - Helen Keller, 1891. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I shall not dance with you for three reasons. First because you are drunk, second, because this is not a waltz but the Peruvian national anthem and third, because I am not a beautiful lady in red; I am the Cardinal Bishop of Lima." - Response to George Brown, Labour Foreign Secretary during a diplomatic reception in Peru (1966-68). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Moderation is a fatal thing... Nothing succeeds like excess!" Oscar Wilde. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "We computer guys think we're geeky, but these stargazers make us look like a bunch of high school jocks" - response on "slashdot" to e-VLBI PR. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless" - Mother Theresa. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "And I'll sail her up the west coast, Through villages and towns, I'll be on my holidays, They'll be doing their rounds, They'll ask me how I got her, I'll say I saved my money, They'll say isn't she pretty, That ship called Dignity....." - Deacon Blue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "You're Looking At Him!" - Gordon Cooper (1927-2004), when asked which of the Mercury astronauts was the best pilot. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons" - Alex Ferguson. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I have chosen this path and if I fall, one day a Palestinian child will raise the Palestinian flag above our mosques and churches" - Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), under seige in Ramallah HQ, March 2002. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Beauty adorns virtue" - Leonardo da Vinci. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Clark, that there's an RV" - Cousin Eddie, Nat. Lampoon's Xmas vacation. ****************************** Jan 2005 ********************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The world is my country, science my religion" - Christiaan Huygens. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read, Ilk man and mother's son, take heed: Whene'er to Drink you are inclin'd, Or Cutty-sarks rin in your mind, Think ye may buy the joys o'er dear; Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare" - Tam o' Shanter (1790) by Robert Burns. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "God knows everything, but Anne knows everything better", Hanneli Pick-Goslar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done" - Peter Ustinov. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done" - Marie Curie (1867-1934). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!" - Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "All at once, he sent me round a note, this is what he wrote, 'Can't get away to marry you today, my wife wont let me!'" - Lord (James) Callaghan of Cardiff, 1912-2005, (PM sings his address to the TUC Conference, 1978). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "John Paul II we love you!" - Bellahouston Park, 1 June 1982. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Being a princess isn't all its cracked up to be" - Princess Diana. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning" - Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Them that honour me, I will honour..." (1 Sam. 2:30) - note handed to Eric Liddell (by Jackson Scholtz), Paris 1924. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Mr Blair, this is for Iraq!" - George Galloway MP, 6 May 2005. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Rejoice! Rejoice!" - Ted Heath (1916-2005) - on hearing the news of Margaret Thatcher's resignation, November, 1990. When asked later if it was true that he had issued such a joyful declaration on his rival's political demise, Heath said no. He hadn't said rejoice twice, he had said it three times! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the back benches - I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here." - Robin Cook MP (1946-2005). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "She was unshockable. She liked a good laugh. She was a breath of fresh air!" - David Trimble, former Ulster Unionist leader on Mo Mowlam (1949-2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I was middle of the road, and the middle of the road is where you get knocked down, and I was.", Lord Gerry Fitt, N. Ireland Socialist (1926-2005). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I don't know what to say" -John Motson, Windsor Park, Belfast, Sep 7 2005. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "As usual the liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound - Harold MacMillan (1894-1986). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "No, fork 'andles! 'Andles for forks!" - Ronnie Barker (1929-2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "All I was doing was trying to get to work" - Rosa Parks (1913-2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life." - Bill Shankly (1913-1981). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day" - Sinatra. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever." - Deng Ming-Dao. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I have found a genius" - telegram from Manchester United Scout, Bob Bishop on his discovery of Geoerge Best (1949-2005). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I'm sacked, but I'm turning up...I'm sacked but I'm turning up. I'm sacked from, well, I'm not sacked. End of day, I run the club, I run the club. I don't own it but I still do. Regardless, I said I would never walk away...from the next club I take on I won't walk away." - Paul Gascoigne, Sky Sport News, 6 December 2005. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The fire is slowly dying, And my dear, we're still good-bying, But as long as you love me so, Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! - Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne (1945). ********************* January 2006 ***************************************** I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. Alastair McLean --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 For last year's words belong to last year's language, And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning... - T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "FIDO, trajectories....." - Jay Greene, Houston, 28 Januray 1986. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "But the flower leaned aside and thought of naught to say, and morning found the breeze a hundred miles away." - Robert Frost, Wind and Window flower. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay". - Robert Frost --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "It's a great day for rugby, unless you're English..." - Jonathan Davies, BBC1, 25 February 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Well, he would, wouldn't he ? - Mandy Rice-Davies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "I have found the paradox, that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love" - Mother Teresa. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "So they [the goverment] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent" - W. Churchill, 1936. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Looking at the stars always make me dream, As simple as I dream of black dots representing cities on a map. Why, I wonder, should not the shining dots in the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France ?" - Vincent van Gogh. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "If there's a choice between getting my words wrong and getting my judgement wrong, I would sooner have my problem than his!" - John Prescott to William Hague, HP 29 March 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "At Madrid we all kiss each other before we go out. Against Jamaica, Aaron Lennon was waiting to replace me and as I approached I reached forward to kiss him, but then thought 'no, better not'." - David Beckham on the difference between English and Spanish customs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain" - Thomas Hardy, last line of the Mayor of Casterbridge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty" - Rudyard Kipling --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Talk does not cook rice" - Chinese proverb. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "You can never go too far!" - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 Crikey means gee whiz, wow! - Steve Irwin (1962-2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "The Trades Union Congress (TUC) next week will be my last TUC, probably to the relief of both of us" - Tony Blair, 7 Sept. 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Freedom lies in being bold" - Robert Frost. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, "It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune!". - Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science (Cambridge 1939). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston churchill. January 2007 ***************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "Courage is grace under pressure" - Ernest Hemmingway. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Garrett (garrett@jive.nl & www.jive.nl/~mag) Director JIVE _______ ________ Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / / _/ | / / ____/ Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, NL. __ / // / | | / / __/ Phone (office): +31 (0)521 596511 / /_/ // / | |/ / /___ Mobile: +31 (0)621 201417 \____/___/ |___/_____/ Fax: +31 (0)521 596539 "It is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong" - Sir Winston Churchill.