Adobe just made available the Photoshop CS3 beta preview. It has some very pretty amazing features like auto align and auto blending which I used to put Noelle and me finally right with the VCV statue at Nijenrode. A trick that would have been almost impossible and very time consuming with CS2. Look at the details and you will not be able to see that I blended Noelle into my picture... scary stuff! :-)))
With the new HP xw4400 Workstation with dualcore processor, two 21"screens and a wacom tablet (work)life is getting a lot easier - and faster!
The famous Dutch gay singer/composer Robert Long died yesterday. I immediately thought back of the time that I was 15 and a couple of friends and I went to Amsterdam for the night. Kees (Long's boyfriend of 18) was the driver and the car was a huge Mercedes (Longs')
I had to eat in three restaurants at a row today. First a perfect lunch at Henk Savelberg with Marianne whom I had worked with 15 years ago and who is now responsible for KPN communications. Then a light meal in the CasaBlanco then on a boat through the Amsterdam channels and last dinner at The Waag. When I crawled home (to) late that evening I could see any food anymore...
A new movie went in roulation today: Een beetje verliefd. (A little in Love)This is a sort of a sequal to "the schnitzel paradise" It could be a funny movie.
The Jabra bluetooth headset so I can listen to my Mp3s at work at pick up the phone when necessary.
Today I received the movie box of Louis de Funes which contains his best films other then Le gendarme de St. Tropez.
There were some pretty strange buildings being build in the Soviet period....
Thanks to emule I got my hand to the new Splintercell game Double agent. Luckely I have no social obligations this weekend so I can play as much as I want.
At the reception of my niece Henriette to celebrate her new company van der Pal Recruitment I came across my nephew Hans and Ruud. Here you see me in a picture with Ruud.
Today, as always Santa Claus was visiting the funda Amsterdam office. Everyone got a present, a surprise and a poem. The black Peters were not that black at all this year... strange...
Jan Smit, Hollands favorite torch song singer started his own underwear line with C&A. He's on posters all over town. Dear Jan: please leave that sort of stuff to the professionals, like Troy (hmm...)
On December 4th the yearly Teddy Bear Auction will be held at Christies, London. Some of these guys have an estimated price of more then 20.000 pounds...
Trough the photo service of good old Albert Heijn I am trying to arrange cards to wish our friends and family a happy New Year. I am using this picture of Eddie and Me at Disney World, Magical Kingdom. I am anxious to see what they can make out of it....
Went to the new James Bond this morning with Eddie and Ingo. It is one of the best Bonds ever!
Our old neighbors were visiting us and during dinner it was just like the old days and if we still live next door.
After Rupert III lost his clothes in an unfortunately string of events he had to go through life "Au Natural". Luckily in New Orleans they have specialty stores fro Bears like Rupert III and so I was happy to buy him two sets of new cloths. One more informal one more for the more exciting part of times.
Today Funda Records released its new CD in the fundamentally series: Meeting Friends. It was agreat party at the house of tomorrow with "our" DJ Maestro.
At Bubb Kuyper book auctioneers this photo of Thom Hoffman as Frits van Egters in the movie of De Avonden, after the famous dutch novel of Gerard Reve. The photo is made by Erwin Olaf but was never published. Unfortunately it is not really a good quality print.
Still a bit jet lagged, after 3 opera's on a row (DNO: Mozart Cosi , DonGiovani and Figaro) and having a cold (as usual after a long flight) I felt like a dog this afternoon. I had to go to the ministry of housing this morning for an important meeting with the general director, but after that I went home and straight to bed. It helped because I feel much better now. :-)
A week ago I lost contact with the (300 Gig) Maxtor One Touch hard disk. Filled with my favorite movies and all of y -back up- pictures it was vital to recover communication.
In the Volkskrant of today an interview with Jasper Rosier (26) from Rotterdam. His wish list for Santa Claus this year is rather forward: he needs sox and new underwear... He hopes his danish lover Ander will get the message... :-)
This is the time of the year where Christies and Sothebys have their sculpture auctions. I am interested in The Boucher (Au But!), Pompon (Ours) and the Meunier (The docker).
Due to a power failure in our office most of our tropical fish died of cold. We have now only 4 left... We are planning to set up an emergency text message system to avoid such a disaster to happen ever again.
KLM advertised today in all mayor dutch newspaper with an announcement about their cabin services upgrade program for the coming years... Conclusion: NO flat lie beds on board intercontinental flight- Thanks for the warning guys, we continue to fly BA or Lufthansa instead.
Today Marijn and I helped to rebuild the botanical garden of New Orleans. This garden which is part of the huge city park was under water for more then 90%. Lots of vegetation was lost because of the (salt) water and everything has to be rebuild. This park is solely dependent of gifts and the staff was reduced from 360 to 17 people. So they can use all the help there is . We helped out with the planning of the big Xmas celebration which hopefully will raise enough cash to continue.
The NAR Expo is one big madness of thousands of booths offering everything from computer software, leads to massages and jewelry...
Ghost Town - The Specials
