Pledges, season 2.
Last year, a Dutch public broadcasting network called BNN came with a new series called ‘Feuten’, or pledges. It was ‘based’ upon the dealings of Dutch fraternities. It featured ridiculously bad acting, plot-holes a country the size of Monaco could sink in, and the ‘facts’ it used where bullshit, those weren’t facts at all. Previously, the writers of ‘Feuten’, called each fraternity in Holland if they could try and capture the atmosphere of the ‘pledging’, called ‘ontgroening’ or ‘kmt’. Ofcourse, every fraternity declined. We liked to watch the first season...
Finally, a .com!
I’m now finalising the transition between a static wordpress.com blog and my own blog, be it powered by wordpress. It was a difficult process. Ups and downs. The layout, as you can see, has been changed. I can’t use my beloved black see-through layout anymore, because it’s only supported within wordpress itself. There is an external version, but that doesn’t let you choose your own background/header. So, I’ve settled for this one, although I like it less than my previous option. I’ve imported everything, there won’t be anything posted on...
Hey look! I’m a pro-photographer!
For the last few days, it has finally been freezing. Last night, the first snow of the year fell from the sky. I had to take a haircut, so I walked through the city to take some pictures. Using this simple android app called picplz (which you can download here) I made them look professional, even though they were cheaply shot with my old HTC, which has a crappy (colorwise) 5.0MP camera. Here are the results: The temperature will stay below 0 degrees celsius, but it’ll stay mostly dry. This...
‘A Dangerous Method’, reviewed.
I stumbled upon this movie by accident. It has a 7.0 rating on IMDb and features Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Aragorn. Because it’s a costume drama, I didn’t really feel the urge to watch it. I decided to watch it with the gf, girls generally like that sort of stuff. The story itself is about Carl Jung (Fassbender), a student of Freud’s then-new psycho-analytic-theory, not about Freud as the synopsis on IMDb suggested. Ah well, Fassbender get´s a new patient, Keira Knightley. Keira is, in this movie, sometimes brilliant,...
Today, I felt like I had succeeded as a big brother
I was sitting behind my PC, as always. I was bored. Instead of shutting down my PC and do something productive, I decided to check Steam if any of my ‘gaming’-friends was online, hoping they would play a game online. None of my (former) housemates was online, so I decided to scroll down and look for other people that might be online. One person in particular surprised me… … it was my little, 16-year old sister. I grew up playing Mario games on my Nintendo 64 with my little sister....
So I heard the internet likes Cats
Cats, cats, cats. The internet is full of cats. So, I’ll introduce you to mine. Well, he’s not actually my cat, he’s my studenthouse’s cat. He was adopted from the animal shelter about three years ago. He had been a stray cat for the first 2-3 years of his life, after which he was submitted to the shelter. When we got him, he had to go on a special diet because of the plastic still resting in his stomach. I think he still equates plastic with food. Whenever there’s something...
Finally, some Battlefield 3
January 15th, my birthday, I got Battlefield 3. It’s a great game, though I generally suck at first person shooters. It might’ve had something to do with the games I played while being a kid. While everybody was playing Counterstrike or Operation Delta Force, I was stuck playing innocent racing games like Infogrames’ GP2, due to parental control. It wasn’t that bad, I’m now able to kick almost anyones ass no matter which racing game. But, I didn’t develop the skill needed to play first person shooters on a higher...
The Rum Diary, and why today might not have been the best day to watch it
Before there was the Pirates trilogy, there was this film called “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. It didn’t do exceptionally well in the box office, but it did acquire a certain cult status. It was the first book by writer Hunter S. Thompson which was turned into a movie, featuring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro on a mad drunk/high rollercoaster-ride centered around Las Vegas. Now, Johnny Depp is back; not as Raoul Duke, the protagonist from “Fear and Loathing” and a pseudonym of Thompson, but as the 100%...
