As we both know…
A friend of mine had an argument with his girlfriend about who should do what in the house. She told him she was doing all the laundry and that maybe he should help out with that. He replied that he always took care of dinner. He bought groceries, prepared the meal, served it and then cleaned the dishes. She replied “Yeah, but that’s not fair. You ‘like’ cooking”. They were both right, of course. It is easy to discard anything you are good at as nothing special. You make something and when someone praises you it...
read moreAshes Meeting Obama!
In 1997 I shook hands with someone who had just shaken hands with Hilary Clinton. That is as close as I ever got to meeting a president. Yeah, not very close indeed. You can imagine how extremely jealous I am of my best friend Daniel J. Ashes who traveled to the US a few weeks ago with a few friends (Joey Elgersma, Achmed Akkabi, Jim Aasgier and Nasrdin Dchar) to meet with Obama. I begged him to take me with him but that just wasn’t possible. The only thing left for me to do is watch these photos and dream: All the...
read moreGURUS #4 with… my mother!
Yes, you can now watch GURUS episode number 4 on BlueShots.TV. Want to know how I learned how to read, how ‘older’ people deal with technology and why my mother has a blog and uses Twitter and a a few other things you didn’t know about me? Watch it...
read moreShower Interview
I did an interview for a Dutch student association while taking a shower. Yeah, that is not a typo. Check out the result (Interview in Dutch, sorry) here: This frame shows Tessa leading the interviewer to our bathroom…
read moreDon’t Hang Up Boris!
Just heard an internet entrepreneur complain about his parents’ use of their mobile phones. They switch them off when they are at home and often forget to turn them on when they leave the house. Our generation carries a mobile phone at all times and sometimes doesn’t even have a home phone. This is hard to explain to our parents and other older people. The entrepreneur urged them to simply keep the phone on at all times which they warily refused. They told him they didn’t like the prospect of people calling them everywhere...
read moreLoïs in Paris
This weekend Loïs (my daughter) visited Paris together with my parents. They visited the Centre Pompidou, the Eiffel Tower and went to a church to attend the first communion of my nephew. I stayed in bed most of the weekend and even yesterday with an upset stomach. But I feel much better...
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