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Breaking an egg in Japan

This will never cease to crack me up… see that pun I did there? ;)

Ik was vergeten hoe geniaal, hoe goed, hoe briljant Brigitte Kaandorp is. Ik heb dan ook al heel lang niets van haar gezien. Maar (onder andere) dit stukje greep me.

Mobile phones, a history

Following a gajillion discussions on IRC over a long time, I started thinking about my history with mobile phones. This led to me googling for about 2 hours straight, because I couldn’t find my first phone ever. Until I did! It was the KPN Pocketline Wave 200, but almost none were sold in the [...]

Oôs dialekt

Zoas de meiste ve jullie wel zulle wete, ken ik oftig bar vreemd prate. Vezelf doen ik dut niet altoid zo overdreve, maar ik ken het West-Fries woord veur woord leze en begroipe as ik het hoor, en ok skroive as ik m’n best d’r veur doen. En toch is ‘t zonde as ik [...]

RMB – Spring

My mind and my iPhone are in the nineties, and it’s spring time. This is where it’s taking me…

I can’t believe we were into that kind of sunglasses back then, although I can imagine this video would still do well today. The nineties are very underrated in that sense. In a related [...]

In Alk Maar kunnen ze ook niet spellen

Mario 3 in Java

One of the greatest old-skool games I remember is Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES. I bet my mother remembers it even better as she actually beat the game before I ever got to :>

MacTijn stumbled upon the coolest thing since Mario on the NES: Super Mario Bros 3 in a Java [...]

Annual hobby: setting stuff on fire

Last year my friend and me set loads of sparklers on fire. Of course we needed to top that last fire, so we decided to attach the sparklers to something this year. The thing turned out to be a toy police car, mostly because it was only 2 euros. Afterwards we figured it did [...]

YMCA

Sometimes my friends can be rather weird. My friend Sim has dedicated her time to positioning her kid’s male Barbie dolls in the YMCA-positions and taking a picture of that. I wonder what other strange hobbies she has ;)

Woordenboek? Wat is dat?

Tja, dit gebeurt er als je scrabble speelt, heel melig bent en graag wilt winnen. Wat nou woordenboek, wij willen punten! Bij deze hebben Bram en ik bijvoorbeeld ook besloten dat ‘wenponydagkuren’ een woord is, al is het maar omdat het een geniale woordwaarde opleverde: 117 punten in [...]