He is the first guy to receive the highest military honor of the Netherlands - The William Knighthood Cross - in 55 years. Marco Kroon truly is a hero - saving soldiers in Afghanistan. This was really a big thing here: live tv coverage, Queen, cabinet, prime minister the lot - and that is how it should be: someone who defends our freedom, sacrifice himself and who is outmost couragous deserves our utmost respect.
As much as I like Ruben, it seems that I really liked his Ducati 748 more... ;-)
It seems like a new craze: hugging. People are hugging all the time. Some sociologists pointed out that African-American boys and men have been hugging as part of their greeting for decades, using the word “dap” to describe a ritual involving handshakes, slaps on the shoulders and, more recently, a hug, also sometimes called the gangsta hug. It could have some sexual menaing but pro-hugging students say it is not a romantic or sexual gesture, simply the new “hello”. The high-five is, like, boring. So "Hugg" ! :-)
Today I was elected member of the board of supervisors of WoningNet, an IT and marketing data company for housing societies. I hope I can contribute to make this great company even better. :-)
What is it with Detectives that they are almost always single elderly men? Most of them have problems with their (ex) wives. Hardly any of them have children. And most of the times the seem very unhappy in their private lives. Maybe that is necessary to fully concentrate on the job (or it makes a better story ;-) ). While watching the Dalziel & Pascoe series, I was wondering what the best Detective TV shows were:
- Foyle's War - because of the stories and settings.
- Dalziel & Pascoe - This is one show where it is difficult to guess who done it right from the start (it takes me about 10 minutes :-)) )
- Wallander - because it is swedish...
- Morse - Because of John Thaw, and his car of course
- Columbo - Nice stories
- McCloud - Who doesn't want to be Sam McCloud?
- Frost - Nice social settings
- Midsommer Murders - Because of its English county sides and festivals
- Tatort - still going strong after almost 40 years. I like especially Hansjörg Felmy as
Kommissar Haferkamp - Poirot - Little outdated, but nice Art Deco settings
The first NatM was sometimes amusing. Unfortunately the makers made an exact copy full with clichés. The film is boring, not funny and way to long...
On of my favorite games on my Apple MacIntosh II was Crystal Quest. It started very simple, but Oh boy: it really was tough a couple of waves later. The sound FX were great too. And now it is on my iPhone :-)
Now that The Netherlands lost again - you wonder whether it makes sense to compete at the EuroVison Song festival
at all. The televote system doesn't seem to help our candidates. I myself haven't watched the show for 10 years or so, so I can only remember the good old days... These are my favorite entries:
- Teddy Scholten - Een Beetje
- Ruth Jacott – Vrede
- Edsilia Rombly - Hemel en
aarde - Maggie MacNeal - Amsterdam
- Marcha - Rechtop in de wind
- Teach In - Ding-a-Dong
- Greetje Kauffeld - Wat
een dag - Lenny Kuhr - De
troubadour - Therese Steinmetz -
Ring Dinge - Ronnie Tober - Morgen
A funny report in Volkskrant Magazine about the collection of Frank Schallmaier of similar profile pictures on gay social websites. It seems that everybody thinks the same.
