A true "Modern Family"

14:26 mareku 0 Comments

The mockumentary Modern Family follows Mitchell Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) as they struggle with their adopted daughter Lily. O, yeh and Mitchell's sister and his father family too. The characters are very recognizable - the situations they get into not (fortunately). It's fun :-)

Google scribe

09:46 mareku 0 Comments

Although the news this week was all about Google Instant. The most fun you can have is with Google Scribe, which predicts what you want to write.
(Like this post e.g.) It really can be helpful with english expressions.
Only when you leave it completely free you can end up with nonsense like:

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chu' [opera] Daq tlhIngan

08:13 mareku 0 Comments

The first opera in Klingon went in premiere today in The Hague. If the singing and the libretto is as any other opera - the audience will not even notice it is in Klingon... Although the makers invited Klingons to come to the opening by radio waves in space - none of them turned up.

Halv åtta hos mig del 1

13:53 mareku 0 Comments

Halv åtta hos mig är tillbaka!
Jag väntade hell sommar för min favorit TV program och slutligen kan jag se det igen. 

Säsongsstart börjar i Stockholm, dem bor de fyra första deltagarna som ska turas om att lag mat till varandra. Först ut är Daniel och hans gäster är Lasse, Lillemor och Irina. Daniel bjuder på räkcocktail, kalvfilé med mandelpotatispuré och hemlagad hallonglass. Lycklig lager Svenskar fortfarande samma mat...

The charming quirks of others

11:20 mareku 0 Comments

A new novel in the Isabel Dalhousie series of Alexander McCall Smith is out now. If I don't take care I would read it from cover to cover in just one evening - so I have rationed myself to max 20 pages a day...

Uncharted II - Among Thieves

13:37 mareku 0 Comments

I am not sure how many times I let Nathan Drake die - but it must be dozens...  The Uncharted franchise for PS3 is really cool and with Dolby 5.1 you are right in the middle of the adventure. (which takes you from Istanbul, Borneo, Tibet and even Shambhala (Shangri-La). The artwork of UC II is absolutely stunning - especially the vistas of the Himalayas and Shambhala are great.  If only I could kill  the evil Zoran Lazarevic...

Marriage of Ilse & Bart

11:25 mareku 0 Comments

Ilse & Bart married in Rijswijk yesterday and it was an excellent chance to try the HD video of my new iphone4. The stability feature of iMovie9 helped as well...