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Fred Karger: the only republican I may like...

Watch Fred's first bid for the presidential race in 2012 in New Hampshire.
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A (museum) day in sunny London

The first gas turbine Rover: the JET1 in Science Museum

Millions of bottles with stuff in the Natural History Museum

The Cocoon

Escaped from Jurassic Park!

The (terrific) Ashburn Hotel
We were staying at the Ashburn hotel because of the raving TripAdvisor reviews and were not disappointed :-) The location is perfect in the heart of Kensington and so near all the nice museums (V&A, science and Natural History) which we visited all. They have brand new exhibitions, like the future wing in Science, the dinosaur hall in NH and the amazing new Cocoon building in which they collect the seeds (and many insects) from all over the world for the future generations.  Also Harrods and Harvey Nichols are around the corner which is always great for some shopping. Just watching people passing by is fun too in this (very) expensive neighborhood. The sun was shining and we had a awesome day in London.
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Stephen Fry: live in the Royal Albert Hall

We flew to London this afternoon to be at the live performance of Stephen Fry this evening. It was really funny full with witty remarks, funny stories and interesting memories. It reminded me of the late Peter Ustinov in his shows. Awesome was also that Stephen used the iPad and his (white!) iphone4 in his show. The house was fully booked.
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The longest kiss - ever.

Matty and Bobby will attempt to break the world record for longest recorded "Longest Continuous Kiss". The record currently stands @ 32 hours 7 minutes and 14 seconds...
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Hmmm...

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Two guys: two secrets


I received two (printed!) new books today from amazon:
1) Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade.
2) A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
Both biographies about (gay) writers I really like. I am not sure how to read these - being used to ebooks ;-) - but I will give them a try.
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Indeed a change that matters... - The Democrats new Civile Rights section.

According to the Democratic Party's new "Civil Rights" section of its website:
Democrats are committed to:
  • Strengthening the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to better protect voting rights;
  • Enacting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which includes measures prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity;
  • Ensuring full civil unions and federal rights for LGBT couples;
  • Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in a sensible way that strengthens our armed forces and our national security;
  • Ending racial, ethnic, and religious profiling; and
  • Building a fair and more equitable criminal justice system that provides non-violent offenders a second chance at a rehabilitated life.
The repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act however, one of Obama's campaign promises, is nowhere to be found.  Of note is the inclusion of "full civil unions" which of course, continues to define gay and lesbian Americans as second-class citizens.

By the way: the new logo looks very Obama...
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triple hmmm...

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Don Quixote - the ballet

I went to the ballet Don Quichot with Eddie and No and it was very nice. It's of course really old fashioned and yes (as usual) the wedding takes much to much time with all the guest having to perform. Don Quichot was played by Peter de Jong and Sancho Panza by Karel de Rooy who did a great job.
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MadMen yourself


Now that all the fashion designers are preparing MadMen autumn and winter collections - it's nice that AMC has a cute app that shows you who you could be in MadMen yourself.
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GLEE

I probably should like Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) but I must admit that my guy absolutely is Noah Puckerman (Mark Salling)
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Believe in Salavation

A nice new ad from Federici Ice cream ("Ice cream is our religion")
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A true "Modern Family"

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 :-)
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Google scribe

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:

All our wordpress templates come with their own unique style of musical composition and performance of their duties and responsibilities of their jobs and their proportion against the total number of page views delivered based on the seller and the listing broker as an agent of the present invention is to provide and maintain their own.
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chu' [opera] Daq tlhIngan

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.
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Halv åtta hos mig del 1

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...
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The charming quirks of others

 
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...
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Uncharted II - Among Thieves

 
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...
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Marriage of Ilse & Bart

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...
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