gone ...

Bye bye blogger ...

It was a short but fierce relation, but I had to quit.
The grass is so much greener on the other side.

should i stay or should i go (2)

I think I'll go.
But first a list of tedious tasks to perform before I can move:

• export this set of posts
• format it to be able to upload it to WP (hopefully don't loose the posting dates)
• import into WP
• correct, edit images, ...

pffff ...

.not .notter. nottest

Bzzzt ... wrong!

Despite being laughed at by the whole world (squirting anyone?), you try making friends (well actually, buying friends) and they still screw you over.

too good to be true ?

Suppose these guys are right ...
Suppose they get the funding (Bill, this is were your truckloads of money would come in handy) ...
Suppose it turns out to work ...

Just imagine the revolution!

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

outside

Today is one of those days where the sunshine creates a special feeling and renders the day into an experience in itself, just to look around and see the colors.

The fact that the weather is more or less completely out of sync with the normal seasons makes it even more fairy-like.

So I took the opportunity to get out my camera and make some more pictures. I hope the quality has improved somewhat.

kids in the hall

In 1984 a bunch of then rather unknown Canadian comedians trooped together an formed Kids In The Hall.

By 1989 they managed to get a series on CBC untill 1994, which consequently aired all over the world which yielded them instant popularity.

To me they were Month Python new style. Their sketches ranging from utterly childish stupidity (like "The Magical Flying Pig" series, "Dr Seuss Bible" and "Bobby And The Devil") over witty sketches (like and "I Speak No English") to absolute brilliant portrayals of humankind's not so lovely characters (like " The King Of Empty Promises").
And then there is the "Pit Of Ultimate Darkness" ...

The intro tunes are surflike and sound great as do most of the songs they perform in their shows ("These Are The Dave's I Know")

Wel go ahead an loose an entire day watching these.

walter making friends

No need for a lot of explanation. Check out the whole series and the photographers site.
And the story here.

stupidoverload

While copying the link of the famous "Look at me I'm an attention whore" I noticed the main site this image resides on.
And off course as there is a collector of wisdom in the form of Wikipedia, there should be a counterpart or this would not be the internets.

Ladies and gentlemen ...
I present you ...
The Encyclopedia Of Stupid !
(which is exactly what it's name says, just look at the picture with this post which was the first one I got to see on this site ... need I say more ?)


Enjoy a good reading!

translucent

Sometimes it's fun just to just find a word which you feel sounds great and the look at the results in google image search (SafeSearch turned off).

I tried it with " translucent" and the resulting puctures vary from a crappy card with a translucent heart in it, to a stunning photo of greenish amber pills .

The most funny result were these translucent water sandals from www.artlex.com.


Oh, and these are the search results as they appeared to me.

married to the sea

Priceless !
Take an old print, preferable eighteenth on nineteenth century tech related, and add a new tagline to it.
Married To The Sea.

(via Sh3Ll4C's blog)

hüsker dü

While the storm rages and the wind howls outside, I started digging into my record collection to stumble upon one of the pearls of 80's hardcore : Hüsker Dü.

It was Candy Apple Grey (their 1986 album) that first introduced me to their music with songs like "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely".

This lead me to their 1987 " Warehouse: Songs and Stories" with "Could You Be The One?" and 1984 "Zen Arcade", probably their best album, which kicks off with a blazin' " Something I Learned Today".

Not only did they feature good rocking songs (mainly Bob Mould's songs) but also heartbreaking emo (courtesy of Grant Hart) like "Never Talking To You Again".

But their most famous song is probably "Diane" from their 1983 "Metal Circus" EP, with rather sinister lyrics about a murder victim. This songs is probably best known to most of you in the 1995 version by Therapy? on their "Infernal Love" album.

toys for boys

Finally I got myself so far as to purchase a digital photo camera.
A bit to my surprise my requirements for the machine pushed the boundaries of the compact cameras :

• a decent lens
• a decent optical zoom (a bit more then x3 or x4)
• flash override
• Lithium-Ion batteries in stead of the dreaded AA batteries
• USB connection and no proprietary memory sticks (like Sony)

I turned out the Samsung NV7 OPS was as good my type of camera as I could find.
On top of that it has a certain slick yet serious look.

The only drawback was the lens sticking out a bit, but the etui that comes with the camera covers this up nicely.

Now it sits here loading in it's dock. As soon as we have power you will suffer the first of my photo's.

armwrestling

I took the opportunity of this in-between-holidays-period to go shopping for some furniture.
As we all know our favorite Swedish shopping giant offers nice stuff.
Although not intended for that purpose, I got myself a set of bathroom furniture (the MOLGER series) to serve as storage in my hallway.
Now I come to think of it, the bench structure I could really use as a bench and only store shoes on the bottom ledge.

Oh, and I also managed to get hold of a "HUTTEN" winerack (expandable!).

daan live

Yesterday evening I went to see the sold out show of Daan.
Despite my lack of enthousiasm for his newest record 'The Player' all of the songs stand live.

As the Roma in itself is already an impressive hall (old cinema grandeur all over the place) with a good sound , this added to the overall atmosphere.


The thumbnail included is from a series of very nice photo's taken by Anna Vanaerschot on the earlier AB concert of the same tour.

update : dipfico posted 5 clips of the concert on youtube. Although under one minute, they give a good impression.
And for a small quiz : who matches the songs to the clips?

the hamster still speaks

After his spectacular crash earlier this year Richard Hammond gives his first TV interview.
The interview appear tonight on Jonathan Ross' show ('Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' on BBC One).

Apart from two weeks missing from his memory, the clash seemed to have caused no severe results.
On the contrary, Richard recovered in a few weeks in stead of the predicted 15 months.


(via news.bbc.co.uk)

war of the worlds (2)

Seems like I was not the only one thinking of Orson Welles.

kiwi !

Kiwi !

christmas song

The Knife has a christmas version of their Reindeer song duly titled " Christmas Reindeer" which you can download from their site.


or direct link (unzip & mp3)

war of the worlds

Today the be public broadcast service of the French (southern) speaking part of Belgium, RTBF, announced in a fake bulletin that the Flemish (northern) part of Belgium declared independence and split off, as such ending Belgium's existence.
Amongst others, they claimed King Albert II would have sought refuge abroad.

Even CNBC fell for it.

fighting migraine

And realizing this is really not the tune to get it out of your head.
But then again, ween absolutely rocks and "God Ween Satan" is one of their masterpieces.
(Other pieces of sheer genius are "Pure Guava" "Chocolate and Cheese" and " The Pod", full discography and stuff here )

featuring : WeenRadio.com where they broadcast their music

video gallore : Roses Are Free, The Molusk and Push The Little Daisies