Atheist, technopagan and vegan.

Today I visited an optician who can supply Enchroma glasses. It was an interesting experience. For that you need to know what is colour blindness. Most people probably know what it is. A colour blind person has a visual defect or deficiency that makes it hard to distinguish some or many colours. The above image comes from colourblindness.com. If you see six numbers in the above circles, you're probably not colour blind. I see 25…

I've been thinking about this funny tidbit in the bible called Noah's Ark again. I'm sure most of you have heard of it. According to the old testament (Genesis 6-9), there was this old man called Noah (he was 600 years old, apparently) who has chats with the Christian god. The god tells Noah to build a big boat, load his family on it and also collect pairs of all the animals in the world.

If you've ever been around computers, you probably know what this is. A flash-drive. USB-stick. Name it what you want. It used to be my Dad's. There is music on it. Music I put on it for him, because in his last days he couldn't do much more than listen to it. The music on it isn't my kind of music, but I will never be able to wipe it off this USB-drive because the…

Yep, I read an interesting article. It asked why aeroplane flights (which are quite polluting) were so cheap compared to train travel which takes long and is definitely expensive. They compared a flight from Amsterdam to Prague for €40 to a train journey of 11 hours, costing €180. (This can be reduced to €100 but that is still 2.5 times the price of a plane ticket.) To make a change, trains should become MUCH faster.

You may think I'm crazy for saying that, because the USA sends things into space. Japan sends things into space. Russia, China and India are doing the same thing. Europe is also in the game. So why aren't we going to space soon? Because of exactly that. Each country does the same thing, invents the same thing, spends time and resources on the same thing. What a friggin' waste! Imagine what progress could be made…

I'm sure you've all noticed how people want to have things faster and faster. You go on the Internet, hit your favourite outlet website, you click buy, and by the time the confirmation mail has reached you, you want it in your hand. Companies are catering to that. Amazon, for instance, is using drones to get stuff to the eager customer as soon as possible. After couriers for same day delivery, they now aim for…

Yesterday I ended the year with a film. I don't watch many films, so this is kind of special. The film I watched was "Lucy", with Scarlett Johansson. I accidentally came across this film as I was paging through the Google Play store and discovered it. The comments for the film were quite mixed and also intriguing enough for me to decide to rent it and see it for myself. I'm glad I found this…

I've tried this new editor a few times. It has advantages. It also has serious issues for me. I'm once more trying it in this post, since 'lots of changes have been made', so I heard. Do you use Wordpress? Do you use (and like) Gutenberg? How easy was the switch for you? Right. I see one of my main issues with Gutenberg is still there. It's a mystery to me how to add an…

Naturism. The internet is loaded with it... ...but it's not naturism. According to the internet at large, naturism is sex, porn, bad stuff, naked people doing 'the unmentionable' (whatever that is, because there are plenty of words - check any dictionary). The internet is quite clever, but the people filling it often aren't using the right words for what they're spreading. Unfortunately, using the 'wrong' words is the best way to attract lots of visitors.

Yes. All of you. Ugly. Unworthy. The health and beauty industry is probably amazed that you have the nerve to show yourselves in broad daylight. The health and beauty industry keeps telling you to shape up a little, invest a bit more in your looks, because you have to be young forever. Right? You have to! And do you know how many people believe that? How many people chase those impossible goals? Too many. Even…