Head over to apple.com to see them tribute Rosa Parks instead of showing of their products.

On Friday Raphael and me we went to Anita’s birthday in Enschede (NL).
We had funny times over there; nice conversations and laughed a lot. I
took some pictures with my new K750i Mobilephone (which sports a 2mpx
camera).  Pictures follow..

Sorry for not posting anything in here right now, but while I have on
the one hand not enough time to really concentrate on this blog I have
on the other hand little to write, too. There’re some rants I’d like to
publish here but I lack the passion to refine their content right now. However, here’s something funny I found today on Business-opportunities:

so..
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Funny religional artifacts:
“Despite their reputation
as fierce warriors, Maasai culture revolves around their cattle. One of
their spiritual beliefs is that their rain god Ngai gave all cattle to
the Maasai people, and therefore anyone else who possesses cattle must
have stolen them from the Maasai.”

Why does it sound so utterly familiar?

Blender is a neat OpenSource (read: free) 3D modelling and rendering
tool which has gotten a lot of interesting features as of late.
The
absence of a 3DSMax Version for Mac OS X led me to discover this
software which I had already tried and dismissed years ago (Version
1.66 I think) again. Much time has passed since; Blender got
Open-Sourced and a really strong army of developers helped add new and
exciting features to it. Now, this is of course in no way a clear
winner or even a real contender to giants like 3DSMax or the (just
swallowed) Maya. But that’s not really necessary for the little 3D-Work
I need to do from time to time – I ain’t driving a Ferrari either
although I need to use a car from time to time.  I’m really happy
with
what I can achieve with Blender, and the actual modelling process
(which is way different to the 3dsmax way) is quite fast too, after one
gets used to it.

So: Over the past days I’ve been experimenting with it from time to
time, and here are my first results; they’re not in any way special but
I’m still quite proud that I got this far

Clicking on the images reveals a big version.

Sometimes normal conversations can reveal worldbreaking facts for
people, can shatter their whole horizon and make the world, if only for
a sudden moment, look a tad awkward.
I just experienced such a conversation yesterday. The conversation
itself could have been perfectly normal until it took a weird
transformation which I, first, misinterpreted as a logic failure in
dialog partners sentence, but let me just cite the interesting parts:

A really good friend of ours is currently living in our house again,
only for a month before she leaves for argentina.. So yesterday we were
sitting in our garden and she was reading a magazine. Then, after
reading a bit she said ‘ah, that Paris Hilton is marrying this Paris
Latsis” and I said “yeah” (of course in a lower tone being reminded of
this sad event again ). “Now, his name is actually Paris Kristofer
Latsis” she said and then added “which is only because of my brother”.
“Wait” I said, you mean your brothers name is Kristofer because this
Paris name is “Paris Kristofer”, thinking that she had a small logical
problem here. “No no” she said, “His mom liked my brother so much and
when she got her son, this paris here, she named him after my brother”.
This event then turned my world around. “You mean… you know this guy
like.. personally?” (Keep in mind, this guy who currently fucks paris
hilton) “Yeah, they were living next to our house in athens, and oh.. I
still remember when his dad  took him for ski-school once a week”
and then, as if she was talking about nothing special at all continued
with “ah yeah now does anyone here want to drink another cup of tea?”.
Yeah tea. sure. In that moment I’d have prefered a big cup of
pangalactic gargle blaster, suddently – if only for a moment – this
whole celebrity world came like a train, hit me, and dispappeared
again. Weird thing. I wanted to ask her if she could arrange and
invitation to their marriage for me, but I just read that the two of
them are no couple anymore. Well, so at least that’s back to good again