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Breaking an egg in Japan

Willow — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:16:39 +0000

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

Zó

Willow — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:07:22 +0000

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

Willow — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:04:02 +0000

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 Netherlands. Originally it was a Trium, and this took me ages to find out. On this picture the logo above the screen says Trium, on mine it said KPN. It was brilliant, it worked well and what I remember best were the sounds the buttons made (which I recall were impossible to turn off).

I also found all the other phones I ever owned. In a nutshell:
Number two: a KPN Pocketline Swing, which was my mom’s phone when I still had my first phone. I didn’t have this one for long, I only got it because my first phone broke and I handed it back when I bought the Siemens.
Number three: a Siemens A55. Dreadful thing, it unlocked in my pocket because unlocking only required holding one button, and it’d call people. Sorry everyone who ever received a phone call from me around 5 years ago! I took care of this one: I accidentally left it in my pants, which I then washed.
Number four: a Nokia 6230, which was easily the best phone I’ve ever had. It was easy to figure out, the buttons worked well and never broke, and it was a really sturdy phone overall. I bought a new frame for it once, and it was as new again. Drawback: the battery went dead in several hours at the end. Also, I was kinda bummed out about the fact that I didn’t have a 6230i, which had an extra button in the middle and more features/more storage etc.
Number five: an MDA Vario (HTC Wizard). I was tired of T9, and I’d decided that a phone with a keyboard was what I needed. I also found that Windows Mobile is quite versatile, even if it’s buggy and slow. Even if I had to reboot my phone every once in a while, I was happy.
Number six: an MDA Vario III (HTC TyTN II). So I figured, why not another one? This one was (a little) faster, had extra internet options, etc. Also, I got PocketScumm on it and I played Monkey Island ;)
Number seven: an iPhone 3G. This one pretty much speaks for itself. I went along with the big hype and got it too. Ny next phone won’t be an iPhone though; this one has WAY too little battery life and Apple is being an ass on certain things any other decent phone does offer these days, like tethering. But it’s cute none the less.

So there we go! I wonder which one my next phone will be ;)

Oôs dialekt

Willow — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:45:28 +0000

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 niet ‘te bed’ ken gaan, of as mense me lillek ankoike wanneer ik zeg ‘woi benne deer weest’ in plaas van ‘wij zijn daar geweest’.

En nou ben ik verhuisd en hew ik geniesse mense meer om me heen die ok een woordje West-Fries prate. Deer heb ik een oplossing veur krege: een kelender!

Da’s toch nag ‘n stukkie West-Friesland in m’n huissie.

RMB – Spring

Willow — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:05:30 +0000

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 mood (imo), check Darude – Sandstorm.

In Alk Maar kunnen ze ook niet spellen

Willow — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:45:40 +0000

Mario 3 in Java

Willow — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:52:39 +0000

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 app. Now you can play the game without needing to bother with emulators or the NES. Of course you can also buy it for the Wii if you have one, but this is a cute alternative. And another asset remains intact: you cannot save and quit the game, just like on the old NES ^_^

Annual hobby: setting stuff on fire

Willow — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:52:51 +0000

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 look like a ‘fuck the system’ kind of move. Here is what happened when we lit the sparkler on the top…

And of course, here is the BEFORE:

And AFTER:

Nothing makes a new year as good as a nice, warm, fun fire ;)

YMCA

Willow — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:15:27 +0000

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?

Willow — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:21:44 +0000

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 totaal…