Category: General
Workouts Added in the Sidebar; an Explanation.
The last week has been a very hot one, with temperatures reaching ~35 degrees celsius. My room is on the top floor, so it got even hotter inside my room. I wanted to work out, but it was way too hot to sit inside on the rowing ergometer. Instead, I went out on my shoddy old mountainbike and just rode it, nowhere in particular, and back. Being the statistics nerd I’ve always been, I used my phone’s GPS to track speed, distance, etc. with the Sports Tracker app. However, my...
New Books, or, How To Look Smug While At The Pool
In a month’s time, I’ll be travelling to Italy with (probably) my brother-in-law-to-be to where my parents are supposed to be (a campsite just south of Florence, Tuscany). I’ll bring my electronic toys (tablet, phone, etc), but I will finally have some peace and quiet time to read some books. I’ve had a few on my list already, but I’ve just added these on there as well. Some of these have to do with my current assignment (I’m writing a paper on Anonymous as a social movement), some are purely...
A Silent Reminder of Yesterday’s Dealings
Yesterday, a Sunday, saw the Leiden Marathon take place. There are multiple reasons why this interested me, running itself isn’t one of them. The first reason is that my sister took part in the half marathon, 21 kilometer. The second is, of course, that Leiden is my proud hometown. The third reason, and the reason I was able to take the picture pictured above, is that the start/finish-line was about 200 meter from the place I work. I think this picture is somewhat poetic. Somewhere, a (presumably) female runner is...
The Leiden High School-Shooting Hoax?
On saturday, some nutcase posted this on 4chan. Because I live in Leiden, this sparked my interest. Not only mine, but also that of the police. Every high school is closed today, as the local police is working together with the FBI, as they have experience with dealing with this kind of threat/d (see what I did there?). However, I think this is just some fool trying to look cool. And I have some proof to back it up, after the jump.
Putin is visiting Amsterdam, Amnesty jumps on the Bandwagen
I noticed these pictures on my facebook-feed, made an Imgur-album of them and they are currently featuring on the frontpage of Reddit, just below the news of Thatcher’s death. All credit on these pictures are to Steven for making them, and bringing them to my attention – and subsequently to the attention of the world.
A Eulogy for Chavez
Our good friend, the great leader of the magnificent people of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has passed away. A day of mourning for all of us, but if you’re one of those pesky American pigs, you’ll probably be out in the street celebrating, unshackled of the fear brought upon you by the defiance that was symbolized in this great person, who will be remembered eternally.
Sunshine of your Love
12th of March, 2012. The first real day of spring. In order to celebrate, I wrote a post about it. The theme-song of that day was The Beatles’ ‘Here Comes the Sun’. Today, the 4th of March, I will celebrate the exact same thing – the victory of the sun over dreary, cold and cloudy weather. I booted up iTunes to find a theme song to this joyous day. Searching for ‘sun’, I eventually came up with Cream’s ‘Sunshine of your Love’, which I put up above. Enjoy!
THE Best Compilation. Ever.
Forget all those generic fail-compilations. This is the real work. It’s got everything: action, drama, comedy, thrills and chills. Watch it, I promise it’ll be more than worth the ten minutes it takes.
