Z1000 Recall: your brakes may ..uh...break!

14:55 mareku 0 Comments

Had to go to the garage today to check my Z1000 brakes. The left front brake hose on the 2010  Z1000 may come into contact with the brake rotor under hard braking. Such contact may damage the hose, potentially causing a brake fluid leak... OOPS! 
Well: they couldn't find a thing - so I will ride (carefully) on.

Carlos Acosta

14:47 mareku 0 Comments

Probably the best male ballet dancers at this moment - certainly the one who jumps highest - can now be seen returns this summer with a much-anticipated new show at the London Coliseum. Let's see if Eddie and I can get some tickets...

Cut your hair or go straight to jail!

11:34 mareku 0 Comments

The Iranian government introduced new hair style guidelines last week. For men only of course because women need to wear a scarf anyway. I guess I am in the safe zone with my "hair" - but the Iranian guys on the picture above could face prison for the western hairdo they are flaunting...

Number two and counting - my iPad 3G

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The days are over that Eddie and I had to "fight" each moment over whom was to use the iPad. My iPad 3G arrived today and so everything is back to peace and harmony at KP10.

A Dutch/Austrian evening in a French Bistro

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My good friend Marco (a Dutch guy living in Austria) visited Amsterdam for the World Cup final. Although we didn't see each other during that final - we had a great dinner at Bistro Neuf. As he is a member of the City Council in Vienna we spoke politics a lot. I am sure that he will re-elected in the upcoming October local elections.

Would you shower with a gay soldier? - I would!

15:36 mareku 0 Comments

The Pentagon's new survey on gays and lesbians in the military asks troops, among other things, how they would feel about taking showers with gay service members.... ;-)

The whole idea of the survey is rather strange? When Harry Truman wanted to integrate blacks into the U.S. military in 1948 or when the Navy wanted women on ships beginning in 1978 it simply told the army to do so - so why do we need a survey all of a sudden? I never knew that the US army is a democratic institution... And if the military where asked about their believes towards (let's say) African Americans  - the whole of the world would protest ("Would you mind having an African American as your Commander in Chief?")

If you are curious: Why don't you take the survey yourself?