Ok, trying to go to sleep around midnight. Hopefully I can wear of the jetlag a bit tomorrow.September 3, 2010 9:31
Rude awakening by some guys working at/around my apartment. Jetlag feels like I'm hit by a truck :-( Time for a coffee..September 3, 2010 6:22
Poeh! Bagage uitgepakt. Opgeruimd. Boodschappen gedaan. Gedouched. Ben nu toch wel toe aan een hazenslaapje met al die jetlag. 1 uurtje maarSeptember 2, 2010 2:11
Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am! Took me less than 20mins to get off the plane. Wow! Jetlag not jet kicking in so I'm taking advantage of that.September 2, 2010 11:21
Made it home in one piece. It was my quickest exit of Schiphol ever! I landed, got off the plane, passport check, luggage came first.September 2, 2010 11:20
Let me tell you something. I fly internationally frequently. And ‘flight attendants’ – or as we know ‘m: stewards or stewardesses - do not have the glamorous job people might think they have. Sure, if you look no further than the surface you see mostly young, attractive people flying all over the world to cool places. And people generally envy them for that.
Well, reality is that they are mostly playing babysitters to annoying people. People that don’t obey the safety rules on a plane. People who are rude and get abusive because they experienced a delay of simply because they had to much to drink. Or people that are just assholes in general. Also, they get underpaid a lot, just like pilots.
Let’s face it: if you are in the service industry – and that’s what I think flight attendants are in – you can have a hard time and your job may become just a modern variant on “cattle herding”.
Hunting pesky rodents can be more dangerous than most people would think.
If you choose the wrong tool for the job and couple that with bad decisions and poor judgement; it can end in a tragedy.
As was the case with a 52-year old dentist from Holland who tried to get rid of some mice in his vacation home in Jumilhac-le-Grandin, in the French Dordogne (July 26, 2010).
Aggravated by the noisy mice that inhabited his French home, he decided to take matters into his own hands and hunt ‘them pesky mice’ down.
However; instead of using the usual tools for such a task – traps, poison, a broom or maybe even a cat – he decided to use a rifle. Wrong decision number one.
Instead of trying to shoot the mice (which sounds logical when you grab a gun), he decided to try and club them to dead by holding the barrel of the gun and trying to hit them with the butt of the rifle: something you would more expect to see in a Tom & Jerry cartoon.
Wrong decision number two.
The third bad decision he made turned out to be his last and a fatal one: not checking if the rifle was loaded.
When the dentist swung the gun at one of the mice, it promptly went off hitting him in the abdomen and wounding him fatally.
A tragic event.
But also a perfect example of stupidity that deserves a Darwin Award.
Don’t you hate those those annoying, stupidinfomercials? Usually they are on TV during the day when no one only braindead housewives watch them, or in the late after hours, way past midnight.
I seriously think those infomercials should come with a warning, just like they put on cigarette packs:
“Warning. Watching these stupidinfomercials causes severe braindamage and/or mental retardation. No shit, Fool!”
Personally I think the only way they are bearable to watch, is when you’re stoned as a shrimp or someone just knocked your lights out with a hockeystick.
Since I am not into drugs (never even smoked a joint in my whole life – even though it’s perfectly legal here in Holland) – or into violence (well, only when it’s “functional”), I’d like to show you a fine example of how a stupid infomercial actually can become fun to watch
First watch the stupid original Slap Chop commercial down here:
Now check out the “Enhanced Trinidadian” version ……Ya ain’t hear meh or wa?”
Funny thing: there is actually a Spanish version of the Slap Chop infomercial as well:
First I thought it was dubbed too, but then I saw the part where the guy tosses the other chopping machine and it actually hits the window (at 1:05)! LOL
For more retarded products check out the following links:
Here is a little lesson in pure ’70′s pop-history that I came across and was fascinated with. As such I like to share this with you all.
The British pop-group 10cc (known mostly from their song “Dreadlock Holiday“) released a song called “I’m not in love” on May 31st 1975. A time when synthesizers where not that common – yet. When you listen to the song however, it sounds very much like a modern day synthesizer was used. But it wasn’t. The unique sound the song has, was completely conceived using the technology available in 1975 – which included a moog synthesizer – and pushing the technology to it limits. Mainly using so-called “tape-loops” (now we’d call that “sampling”). The idea was, to use just voices as backing track to the song. The end result is – as said – a milestone in recording. A lot of techniques used in the record were done for the very first time.
How, and what did they do exactly to create that unique sound?
In the podcast below, which is just a partial audio clip from a BBC radio documentary, some of the very special techniques are explained and discussed, and some other “special ingredients” are disclosed, including an unique alternative lead vocal that never made it to the record! It is also revealed who the sultry voice is, of the woman that speaks just a few simple lines during the song (“Be quiet. Big boys don’t cry”).
All in all very interesting and intriguing stuff, highly recommended to listen to if you’re into pop history or music in general! So click on the title below and listen for yourself. By the way: if anyone has access to the whole documentary: please let me know. I haven’t been able to find it (yet).
