Posted on Wednesday 25 January 2012 at 2:33 pm in category: Whatever
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"Ik hou zoveel van jou", zei ze zacht
Hij keek verbaasd, had dat niet verwacht
"Waarom dan?" vroeg hij haar
"Mijn eerste man sloeg me veel vaker in elkaar"
Posted on Friday 06 January 2012 at 10:35 am in category: Whatever
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Zoals iedere 2 jaar als er een EK of WK is, heb ik dit keer ook weer een voetbalpool gemaakt. Deze keer ben ik helemaal opnieuw begonnen met programmeren, dus oude bugs zijn er zeker uit. Er zijn natuurlijk wel veel nieuwe bugs bijgekomen, maar dat mag de pret niet drukken.
Om het allemaa nog leuker te maken heb ik ook het domein http://voetbalpool2012.nl geregistreerd, en iedereen kan zich daar inschrijven en meedoen. Het kost niks, en je kunt ook niks winnen, behalve dan de eer. Je hoefdt er ook helemaal niks van te snappen, want met de 'randomizer' kun je alle uitslagen lekker door de computer in laten vullen.
Posted on Wednesday 31 August 2011 at 7:56 pm in category: Whatever
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A while ago I wrote something about how hard it can be sometimes to be left handed in a right handed world.
That was before I visited the Nashville, Tennessee office of the company I work for. This office has all the necessary office equipment, including a popcorn maker. Unfortunately, the scoop to put the popcorn in the little paper bags is the worst example of a tool that is only for right handed people that I've ever seen:
Are there left handed popcorn scoopers?
Posted on Monday 29 August 2011 at 10:55 am in category: Whatever, Nerds
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Do you have a Google+ account? I do. Of course I had to get in on the hype, and made sure I had an invitation, just like I did with Google Wave, a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, Google Wave died pretty quick, but that really had some revolutionary stuff in it. It was cool.
Google+ is actually not that cool, I think. It looks good, there is some awesome ideas in it that Facebook will undoubtedly copy without any shame (they've already copied the best feature), and then it will die too. Over the past few years, I've joined just about any social network out there as soon as it was available. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare, Orkut (which is Google too, by the way), StumbleUpon (I still use that), ICQ, MySpace, and of course Hyves, which was (or is) very popular in The Netherlands, but is now losing it to Facebook as well.
Posted on Monday 22 August 2011 at 11:51 am in category: USA, Whatever
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Here's something that has been bothering me for a while now. I've been to the parking garage of Akron General Hospital quite a few times, and everytime I drive in there, I see this sign:
As you can see, the parking deck has nice color coded floors, so you can remember where you parked easily. The buttons in the elevator inside do not have these color codes, which is stupid in itself, but I can live with that. Somebody has given the basement floor the color green, the ground floor the color blue, first floor is orange, and the second floor is red. A committee has probably looked at it and approved it.
The real problem is this: wouldn't it make way more sense to give the 'Basement Floor' the color blue, so you can remember Blue - B - Basement, and the 'Ground Floor' the color green (Green - G - Ground)? Of course, I'm not even talking about people that are colorblind, but they probably should use the handicapped parking spots anyway. I do not know if everyone has this problem, but I do. When I get in the elevator, I always push the 'G' button, because I remember being on the green floor, and then I end up looking for my car on the wrong floor...
