@Arnons assistant

That wasnt too hard, with a little creativity you will look just perfect:
http://www.islamproducten.nl/textiel_dameskleding.html

@Arnons clothing advisor

Stimulates creativity in a way you have never experienced before:
http://www.islamproducten.nl/quff-leren-sok.html

@ Joep

There isn't a burqa in that list. FYI a burqa also covers the face , is mostly blue and the woman have to look through a kind of net.

http://alhannah.com/cgi-bin/guide.cgi?a;niqab

Okay, this one definately is (last link i promise) :In sexy black
http://cgi.ebay.nl/Burka-Burqa-Chador-Niqab-Khimar-Abaya-Hijab-Kleider_W0QQitemZ140202180248QQihZ004QQcategoryZ23526QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Joep

Please keep in mind that we need this item in New York and we need it this weekend.

Bayridge

Hey Arnon,
I'm 99% sure you'll find one in Bay Ridge where I used to live. If you fear they might not sell it to your assistant for fear she'd wear it on halloween's, let me know; I'll ask an algerian friend of mine to buy for you.
Take care.
PS: I can't get used to the new website, make me feel utterly drunk and g-d knows i don't need that...

Plans

Having Plans A-H and beyond will do no good. Two is a good number; having an alternative is always a good thing. But from Plan C and on, one must rely on external resources because no system is so resourceful as to provide for all eventualities.

More important, however, is that it won't help anyway. Your adversary will not only wait for Plan H, but it will know that having so many plans is the chosen method of defense, and arrange things so that your defense will be your downfall--quite similar to what is described in PN van Eycks famous poem, "De tuinman en de dood":

The Gardener and Death

A Persian Nobleman:

This morning, with a face turned pale from fright,
My gardener rushed in, "Sir, if I might!

"At work, just now, I stopped to take a breath,
And looked up from the roses. There stood Death.

"Startled, I quickly left the work I'd planned,
But saw full well the menace of his hand.

"Lend me a horse and I will make it run.
Before night falls I'll be in Ispahan!"

This afternoon (I'd long since watched him flee),
I chanced on Death beneath a cedar tree.

When he just stood there in his cloak of grey,
I asked about the threat he'd made that day.

He smiled, "It was not threat as he surmised.
I raised my hand because I was surprised,

"To find a man here working in the sun,
Whom I must fetch tonight in Ispahan."

Translation: © David Colmer, 2007
http://www.subtexttranslations.com/drptp/eyck/eyck.html

Rutger

Thanks for pointing this translation out.
You can always try.

Oscar

My mother knows. She has bigger things to worry about, but she herself? Never.

Yesterday I finally saw 'Heat'. I must say, it is a very good movie, though the conversation sometimes is too well written (and therefor a bit badly), but What a movie!
De Niro supposedly needed 8 hours for another 'out', so he didn't plan ahead and (almost) got away with it.

A burqa nowadays is part of a modern interpretation of Islam. (read all about it in the delicious works of John Gray).
By the way, as RH CdG says, it always ends with plan D (Death).

Assistance

I applied for a job as a personal assistant this week.
Years ago, I found out that I'm good at being a slave. It takes time and effort, but I think I've mastered the skill.

if she has enough money, she could give a assignment to one of the dressmakers (in... Brooklyn? ) (those ones who work for Broadway must be bloody expensieve compering to the ordinary ones who still might be capable of making such a piece of clothe in a couple of days...)
but when it comes to the budget of short films...it happens to be quite limiteted

Arnon

You are right, I could have been a lot more succinct. But, yesterday was National Poetry Day in Holland, and also I think the poem points out that whatever plans you may have, they amount up to nothing compared to the bigger plan. I think Jan Thys reads me well, because he takes pleasure in understanding.

Rutger

You misunderstood me I'm afraid.
I enjoyed reading this particular poem in translation.
But you can always try, meaning you can try even if you know that the odds are against you.
Who would have thought a few monthts ago that McCain's campaign would come back to life?

Arnon

I see! Well, I am very sensitive as you must have found out by now.
As for the poem, I think it loses in translation, but that's probably because the original has sunken in too much--like a well known melody that cannot bear a new interpretation.

Rutger

I know you are very sensitive.