Technology is cool. Even if you don’t see how it would be useful at first. Such is the case with this invention by Philips: LumaLive. Pimp My T-Shirt, by Philips This technology looks better: I can see some use in bars like they say, or even on board of cruiseships and airplanes or trains. Entertaible, by Philips Last but not least: remember that movie “Paycheck” (2003) with Ben Affleck playing a hacker that reverse-engineers technology and then sells it to competitors? The movie starts with him doing a hack on a 3D screen. Well, low and behold: the technology now […]
The real crocodile Dundee dies
Crikey, mate! This morning I woke up with the RTL4 morning news as usual and learned that the famous “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin (44) had died. Now of course one should not gloat over a persons death, but to me it wasn’ a shock or big surpirise. My first thought was: “well, that’s what you get from messing with dangerous animals”. I mean: with all due respect, it’s like learning that a firefighter died in a fire.So I kind of excpected him to have died from a fatal ‘croc’ bite, or by some snake bite. But it turns out he […]
Let it rain
Wet, wet, wet Folks, I have to confess: I’m getting sick and tired of the weather here. It is like nature is taking a piss on us. First we had an absolutely record breaking July: the hottest July in Holland in 300 years! That is since 1706 when we started to keep track of the weather here in Holland. We had two heatwaves back to back and it was just too much. As a result we had more old folks dying than normally is the case and farmers where complaining about their crops getting wasted. In short: everyone was bitching […]
“Gentlemen, we have boat drinks”
Jewel of the Seas Popquiz: from what movie is the quote: “When life is over, all you can hope is, that you’re sitting on a boat with all the pleasant people from your life, having boat drinks.” Well, you will have to look for the answer at the rest of this blog; otherwise it would be too easy. The reason I brought it up though, is because in December I will be having “boat drinks”: my girlfriend and me booked a carribean cruise. That’s right folks. Most people take a cruise after they retire and are in their sixties, but […]