The quest for the ultimate iPhone sleeve

The iPhone is great and I cannot image ever been without it... Always being connected to the internet is a dream come true. But its screen seems very vulnerably so I am looking for a nice sleeve. I found these: Sena orange leather (€ 20), Louis Vuitton (€180) and Dior (€300). I like the Vuitton most - but when I tried it it turned out to be only for the iPhone GEN I... :-( So the quest continues.


Milk again


Niek and Noor


At Le Restaurant we had a excellent dinner with our dear friends Niek and Noor. (photo by iPhone...)


Switch

I switched today from my BlackBerry Curve to the iPhone 3G. I am curious about the applications and the navigation. The first use experience was typical Apple:
1) everything works
2) everything works the way you expect it would work
3) everything works very nice...

Sundays' 10 best Cheeses...

I do not eat cheese so much anymore because of my diet (they contain mostly 48% fat) but I still like them...So here's my top 10:
1. Old Cumin Cheese from Leiden
2. Emmentaler
3. Gruyere
4. Roquefort
5. Reypenaer
6. Cottage cheese
7. Old clove cheese
8. Parmesan
9. Cheddar
10. Pecorino

Gaypride Amsterdam

This year Gayprise Amsterdam was a higly political (even hetrosexual) kind of affair. I saw all kinds of political boats (cities / ministeries / companies / parties) and a lot of (hetrosexual) women. Where's the old canal parade? They only thing that really saved the day where the guys from the Amsterdam police force ;-))

Stretching with Bob Cooley

Bob Cooley was in a car accident in 1976 and as a result needed to learn to move all over again. He found I new technique: stretching the muscle while contracting it. It turned out a huge success for himself and later also for others. He began practicing his Meridian Flexibility System and now teaches other instructors. My trainer JoJo is obsessed with this guy so when Bob was in Holland to train instructors I had to meet him. Within 30 minutes I improved my reach with 12 inches :-)) It is really amazing. While in Amsterdam Bob stretched Turner Epke Zonderland to help him overcome an injury so he is fit for Gold in Bejing.

Improved famous works of Art


In its weekly Photoshop challenge Gizmodo ask people to improve famous works of art with modern technology. The results were impressive.

Around the world in 28 days for just $1 million


In
celebration of our 80th anniversary and the 80th Academy Awards, The
Leading Hotels of the World brings us an epic voyage in homage to one
of Hollywood’s greatest spectacles, the Oscar®-winning sensation
“Around the World in 80 Days.” Traveling in a private jet all the way, you will see
everything in the world worth seeing and do everything in the world
worth doing. Best of all: it will cost you only  USD 1 million...

Why only 28 days? If you could afford to do something silly I would go for the whole 80 days and nothing less.

R U a real guy?

There is a new way to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate gender. My score was uh...
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 5%

Likelihood of you being MALE is 95%

:-)

Felix Petrol


Sarkozy is Funes

Same Nose, same eye brows, same gestures - it must be him!

Sundays' 10 best Comics

Because of Batman - here my favourite comics, and no: no Batman. don't like the comics at all (Like Robin Though...)
1) Blake and Mortimer
2) TinTin
3) Spirou
4) Storm
5) Gaston
6) Paul - Ralph Konig
7) LeFranc
8  Asterix
9) Lucky Luke
10) Michel Valliant

Wow! - a MUST see

A roller coaster movie: Batman Dark knight is a must see in IMAX. One of the best movies ever... Super story, excellent Acting (from everyone actually) awesome directing and great sound effects. (Even the music from Zimmerman was OK)

WWII Airplane crashes

 In the impressive museum for crashed airplanes in Heemskerk you see how brave the crew were during that times. More then 7.000 planes crashes in Holland (mostly on their way to Germany and back). I didn't know about this musem but passed it by chance during a little tour on my motor bike.

Chocolate stamps

Funny: chocolate stamps from Switserland: when you lick them it really tastes like chocolate!

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

Barack stood  a huge audience of more then 200.000 people in Berlin. Never before a president cadidate admitted that the US is always perfect:  "I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled
to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.
We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions
around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."
It is clear that the world wants Obama, needs Obama. It is now up to the americans to make that dream come true...

New features on Melk



Chevrolet Camaro

On pix these US muscle cars always look awesome - in reality it is usually made in a very bad finish...

Bloomingdale at Sea


Richard

Richard Eringfeld, a very good business contact from SNS Bank, died in a trike accident. For no apparent reason he clashed into a tree. Wearing no Helmet he injured his head so severly that he was in coma instantly. He was only 43 years old... I will miss him deeply because of his vision, passion and warmth.


Sundays' Best ABBA songs

I am not a huge fan, but because of the Mama Mia Movie I remembered some ABBA tunes from my early childhood :-)
1) Knowing Me, Knowing You
2) Lay all your love on me
3) Thank you for the Music
4) The Day Before you came
5) One of Us
6) Eagle
7) Under Attack
8) Voulez Vous
9) Take a chance on Me
10) Dancing Queen

Just Different

A great exhibition about other kinds of Sexuality in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen with e.g. this new version of David.

Jump by Herb Ritts

Yet an other famous picture was added to our collection. This time via Swann auctions in New York.

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

I ordered weeks ago some stuff at the German Motor Bike shop Louis. They sent it of via Deutsche Post so it got here in Amsterdam in the hands of Select Vracht. Which is a disastrous courier. They came unannounced and did came when they promised to come. The package was sent back to Germany and then back again. Finally eddie picked it up for me. I wrote a complaint to the Management whom - I must admit - reacted promptly and correct.

A party at Zomoto and our first company cars

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The office warming of Zomoto today was well visited and we got all kinds of nice presents like this Carrera race track - with two cars. It took Steven and Me at least an hour to put it all together. :-)

Hmmm...


Lisa 6 years

While I used to play with Lego and Fisher Technic, kids nowaday have their first digital videocamera when they are 6.
I am still waiting for the first movies of Lisa Riefenstahl...

On the Road with Milk


I drove to Antwerp today with my Bike (Milk) and took the long way straight to the (green) heart of Holland. It was a beautiful day sunny - no wind and a nice temperature...

Taner Ceylan

At the Scheringa Museum of Realism a nice painting of the German/Turkish painter Taner Ceylan.

Iranian Photoshopping

Oops their missile launch went wrong and one rocket got stuck: but hey: that's why they sell Photoshop in Iran!

Sundays' Best Gay authors


1. David Sedaris
2. David Leavitt
3. Thomas Mann
4. Armistead Maupin
5. E.M. Forster
6. Oscar Wilde
7. Christopher Bram
8. Joe Keenan
9. E.Lynn Harris
10. Michael Cunningham