This is the private site of Machiel Vincent van Mechelen. Those who recognize the alliteration in my full name and in the initials MVVM and who like the sound of it are referred to the Vocabulary of Alliteration, a new aid for writing poems and songs, among which my own poems. (Someone gave MVVM the other meaning of Model View ViewModel when this acronym had been used by me on the internet for ten years, on sites giving publicity to the in particular.) You may also or first wish to read some informal personal information about me or to pay my deceased cat, immortalized in many words and two pictures, a virtual visit.

The 'note' at the top of this document is being replaced once a month, in line with a truly global and globally relevant chronology. If you have missed out on some of the previous aphorisms or statements, or want to see them again, you may go to the collected Notes of the Metric Months. These are only short notes. For novel ideas which require more (two-dimensional) space you should have a look at Notes and Papers, among which Mathematical Notes and Papers. (Did you know √1000=20?)

Perhaps, you are more interested in sparrows, which is, of course, your every right. If A Sparrow in Northumbria is not enough (or too much), you can always try one of the real short stories, of which one is really short. Should you find me a rather puzzling personality, you might be right in one respect and wrong in another, for i prefer making puzzles (interactive crosswords and sliding puzzles) to solving those of others.

	Yours truly, painted by Papa a few years ago (or was it a few years old?)

While you seem to be able to read documents in This Language, you may not be able to read them in Deze Taal or in Zhezhong Yuyan. Fortunately, pictures surpass the bounds of national language, if not of all language. To enjoy the oil paintings by my late father and those by my late mother, to see my own photographs of Brazil and China or to listen to symmetrical music your native tongue suffices. (This does not apply to the other sound files, but the speakers of This Language are so lucky as not to have to miss out on a recording like The Two That Will Always Be New. Not for one day, not for one night.)

This site was started in the Amsterdam Digital City in the 51st year after the end of the Second World War, in the nongraphic text-browser era. (See what it looked like then!) Five years later, when TRINPsite abandoned its xs4all.nl address, MVVM took over. Another five years later this multilingual site became accessible via its own, transnational domain name: mvvm.net.

I am also the 'site planner' of , a denominational Web site with philosophical, literary and other texts, pictures and sound files. A large part of it consists of documents of the . You can find a number of Model links at this site too. TRINPsite is a home for people who believe in, or want to know more about, the primacy of norms and values in general, and truth, relevance, inclusiveness, neutrality and personhood in particular. People like me ... and like you, perhaps?

Good day 'n' night,