Atheist, technopagan and vegan.

(English text further down.) Elk jaar tegen het eind van het jaar kies ik een goed doel en daar geef ik een mooi bedrag aan. Drie keer raden welk het dit jaar was. (Als je meer dan 1 keer nodig hebt moet je echt eens beter opletten.) Ik doe dit in plaats van kerstkaarten. Die zijn goedbedoeld maar komen uiteindelijk in dozen en bij het oud papier terecht. Zonde van het papier, de inkt en…

Living forever. The Pros and Cons. More and more I hear and read things about how scientists are getting closer to the genes that need to be changed to make people live longer. At this moment there are people who live to over 100 years, but that's clearly not enough. I wonder how many people want to live forever. Of course having the body and mind of a 30-or-so-year old. Cool, right? Of course this…

Yellow glasses for driving at night. Yes. I got them. Yellow glasses for night driving. And they seem to work, which surprises me as I'm colour blind. I also have very light-sensitive eyes. I drove with sunglasses a few early mornings and that helped a lot but they do make things quite dark. How many people that read this use these yellow glasses as well? And do you think they're a great idea? No. These…

Actually not this kind. I mean the Xiaomi Mi Fit Band. Wagon. Sort of. Well, you get the drift. An amazing friend of mine has such a thing. It's like a nice price Fitbit and it comes with an app. It measures all kinds of stuff like your heart beat (important; if that stops you should have a physician check you out), the number of steps you take each day (fitness related, health related and…

Phones. I'm intrigued by all the new phones that swamp the world. Nearly every day there's a new phone coming out, or so it seems. This is a world of communication. Being connected has become part of our life. Some people take it to extremes by being connected 24 hours every day. Modern smartphones, whether you're into Apple, Android, Windows, Tizen, the unfortunately (officially) deceased Ubuntu phone or any other platform, give you that option.

Purple is a figment of people's imagination. Really. Believe me. I know this. And why do I know this? I have never seen it. That is why I don't believe in purple. It's amazing how many people are convinced that it does though. Even when I ask Google to show me 'purple' it comes up with something: This can't be purple. I see 3 entirely different things but none of them is purple (apart from…

I got a new phone last week. An Asus Zenphone 3. Yes, I stepped off the Samsung train for a change. Samsung has really nice phones but they also have really nice price tags. I had my eye on the Zenphone for a while already. Read about it somewhere, liked the specifications and the way it was shown by Asus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW9JIOZ-IXM I also read lots of reviews. Many of them told me it's a great…

Do you want to live forever? Something tells me that many people will answer yes to this question. To live forever, to see how the world unfolds, perhaps travel to the moon and Mars someday. Yup, sounds great. Did you think about that? Suppose you can indeed live forever and be the person you were in the prime of your life. Be it 25, 30, 35, take your pick. You'd not only live forever, you'd…

Passwords. Keepass logo I'm a huge fan of Keepass. Keepass is a free program that will remember your passwords for you. It is very easy to use and it features 'auto-type' so you don't even have to copy your usernames and passwords, Keepass handles that for you. A little while ago I heard of Lastpass. It basically does the same thing and nicely integrates with your browser, Android and IOS devices. I installed it, imported…

I didn't watch the in-ogre-ation yesterday. That was a good decision, everything happened without me just as well. This morning I was curious. About the @potus twitter account that now is in the twitter-capable hands of one Donald Trump. (Interestingly his original twitter account, https://twitter.com/therealdonaldtrump) doesn't exist any more.) Something struck me. Let me show you: Does this man strike you as a kind man? As someone who is happy? As someone who... cares about you?…