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04:22 pm:




Tags: comic, picture

12:40 pm: My oh my holiday...




The pictures from my holiday this year in Wiltshire/Somerset and London.
As my niece happily pointed out at every boat we passed, out boat was longer.

Here be pictures

Tags: family, picture

12:34 pm: Flowchart of teh daeth




(from www.xkcd.com)


Tags: picture, rant

12:43 pm:


Tags: computer games, picture, rant

12:49 pm: Aglami / Livejournal Postcard thing thingy

In some random foreseeable future, I am off on my summerholiday to England.

In response to the overwhelming disappointing response of me not sending any postcards to Aglamian-like people last year, you've persuaded me to collect address again this year.

So, if you like a holiday-card, send me your address and I'll see what I can do.

I know that, with my overly active life *cough*, I am not the regular Aglami regular I'd like to be, but I'll try posting this to Aglami too tonight.

I am not sure if I still have any addresses stored somewhere, so be on the safe side, and just mail me your address to jwerf[at]biabv[dot]com.

Tags: aglami, postcards

12:46 pm: Earache!

Went to see Nine Inch Nails on Wednesday. Soo cool!

Well, more like very hot, with the amount of lights they brought along. Probably the most environment-unfriendly concert I ever went to, I suppose. When all the spots were on (which were on every possible side of the stage), you started to sweat even if you were doing nothing at all.

Also, my ears still haven't fully recoverd yet. It feels like I have cotton stuffed in my left ear, and sound doesn't sound completely right yet. A bit annoying, actually, I hope it'll clear up tomorrow.

Anyway, I fail to find words to express how cool and impressive the concert was, so I'll stop and get back to work now...



( Setlist )

Tags: music, picture

10:11 pm: Public Annoucement

" 2009-07-01 04:54:04 Motzarella servers shut down

As of today, Motzarella.org servers have been replaced by eternal-september.org servers. "

source: www.motzarella.org / www.eternal-september.org

Or in simple words, if you used Motzarella as your newserver, change it to news.eternal-september.org

If this doesn't make sense to you, please ignore.

Thank you. Goodbye.

Tags: aglami

10:55 am: NOOOOOOOOOO0oooooooooo!!!!!

It's all my worst nightmares folded in one come true. A life-size SpongeBob SquarePants.



Aaaaargh!!!!

Tags: picture, scouting

04:24 pm: Ye ye finally Aarr

Foto's van PKD 2009 Aaaarrrr



Klicky teh pictuere, yesse sirre.

Tags: dutch, picture, scouting

07:44 pm: *faints*



+ MORE!:

03:09 pm: I'll be here. ThankyouGoodbye.

Tags: scouting

12:52 am: u s e r p i c s
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons that I want to hear about.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee...

trishtrash choose these for me:



( Here we go... )

Tags: aglami, livejournal, meme, picture

01:58 pm: Rhenen naar Doorn in twee dagen



(foto's)

Tags: dutch, hiking, picture

12:52 pm: Swine Flu / Financial Crisis


Tags: comic, dutch, picture

12:33 pm: Where have the memes been?

Book survey via the book_memes-community of trishtrash:
"rattle off the first 15 books you can think of that will always stick with you".

• God-Emperor on Dune - Frank Herbert
  
• The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  
• The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  
• Grendel - John Gardner
  
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  
• Sophie's World - Jostein Gaardner
  
• Orphans of the Sky - RAH Heinlein
  
• Snowcrash - Neil Stephenson
  
• The Mind's I - ed. Daniel Dennett / Douglas Hofstadter
  
• Through a Glass, Darkly - Jostein Gaarder
  
• Brief aan de Koning - Tonke Dragt
  
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  
• Koning van Katoren - Jan Terlouw
  
• De Kellner en de Levenden - Simon Vestdijk
  

(yes, I still need to do that userpic meme. I will, I will...)

Tags: books, meme

12:27 pm: Why is it...

... that after I lay down the phone I always think of loads of stuff I should have asked and checked. I just called a campsite, and only now do I remember all sorts of stuff I wanted to ask, and also I hope for god sake's she understood I was talking about the friday next week, not this coming friday.

I hate telephones. Oh well...

Tags: hiking, life, rant, stupidity

08:06 pm: Right...

And this would be why we don't keep anything of value in the car, and why you shouldn't either.




...I think I have a glass in my thumb.

Tags: life, picture, vianen

12:44 pm: Uurrrr...



Tags: aglami, computer games, picture, stupidity

12:46 pm: There is a glowing dot hovering near you.

Go here, it is the best thing ever...

Tags: computer games

12:21 pm: Stripthingy



Tags: comic, picture

01:08 pm: Oh my God!

I forgot my annual fraudulent Happy New Year post! What is this world coming to???

Tags: new year, stupidity

08:44 am: The Dutch are Doomed! [1]

According to an American documentary on the Dutch waterworks on National Geographic, which I watched last night, I've been living in mortal danger all my life. I am now afraid even to go to sleep. Apparently the whole country is constantly at risk of flooding, and, despite all our gallant efforts, it's a miracle we are still here.

Exaggerating is a profession too, as a Dutch proverb goes. While floods are rare, of course they do happen - two mayor ones in the last one and half century or so, but even then areas affected were small parts of the Netherlands. And it is not as if we are a large country: according to the NatGeo doc the size of New Jersey (and a population of 16 million). Really the main cause of floods over here, is just the same as everywhere in the world that is above sea-level: rivers overflowing in combination with people building houses in places they really shouldn't. The sea doesn't really come into it.

Anyway the thought of the Netherlands flooding crosses my mind, what, about a single time every five years or so. It just isn't an issue. I wish the rest of the world would get over it too. NatGeo: Go dramatize something else.

On a final note: they did get one thing right, this is one of the greatest sights on earth:



Tags: picture, rant, stupidity, weather

06:37 pm: Eons.

Apparently it's been eons since I updated my journal...

I could claim I was on holiday, but then again, I've been back for over a month now. Trying to grasp for other excuses, I could claim that I have just been waiting for us to finish sorting out the pictures I took on my holiday... - but that could still take several months...

Anyway, I put some selected photos of our holiday in Switzerland on Flickr, so I might as well post that instead. Just so you know I am not dead. Just click on below picture.



PS. just that nobody feels left out, I didn't sent postcards to aglamians this year, I am sorry.

Tags: life, picture, postcards, rant

03:44 pm: I was the Mob

Today I came across below video, which made me think of the weekend.

Last weekend we went to the annual family camp of my scoutinggroup up north. This year the theme of the camp was Mafia. Played Blackjack in an open-air casino till 2 in the morning, after which we had a major thunderstorm and then I went to bed. Everybody was nice and positive this year, so I had a good time.

Anyway, the video yes, "I am the Mob" by Catatonia, great song. Also, great video, just watch it ;-) (oh, the volume is a bit crap, btw, just turn up the sound)



In other news, I am ill today - having the tendency to throw up, which is frowned upon... :-(

(Also: to catch people complaining: photographs of last weekend will be online as soon as I have filter them through - which will happen soon... really)

Tags: movie, music, scouting, sick

12:34 pm: PKD 2008



Photos of this year's Pinksterkamp in Dwingeloo (that's in the Netherlands... somewhere in the north).
The theme this year was horror (Villa Zeldenrust) and the weather was very hot.

Tags: hot, picture, scouting