Monday, December 13, 2010

15-18-54 - Rocking Birthday Party @ Rockcafe De Wurft

It is now a bit over two weeks ago, so perhaps to somewhat late for this post but who cares.

26 November 2010 we celebrated Leon's 18th and Martijn's 15th birthday (and mine 54th) at Rockcafe De Wurft in Noordwijk. With two bands: Nevermind Us and Flock of Angels. Needless to say it was an excellent great and superb party with friends, family and some stray dogs.

Many thanks to the De Wurft for helping making this happen, both bands for their great performances and all guests for their presence, good wishes and presents.

Pictures! Pictures have been uploaded to Picasa. To view follow this link.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Stralingsbelasting

Atlanta, GA Nov 21 - Nov 23, 2010: Farewell

Barcelona, Spain Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2010: EBF 3rd Open Symposium

Paris, France Dec 12 - Dec 14, 2010: SoFAQ meeting

Dijon, France Dec 15 - Dec 17, 2010: C'est bon

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Flock of Angels @JobPop 2010

Donderdag 2 september is het weer zover. De Oranje feesten van Noordwijk Binnen zullen spetterend afgesloten worden met het Job-PoP festival. Vanaf 17.00 uur zal er op twee podia non-stop live muziek geserveerd worden. Een ander zal plaats vinden in de Heilige Geestweg ter hoogte van Café Thomas. De toegang is geheel gratis.


Om ongeveer 17.00 uur zal de Amerikaanse rock-a-billy act The Saddle Tramps met een weergaloze rock and roll show het festival openen. Naast muziek valt er ook veel te zien. Laat u verrassen door de go-go act van Suzy Switchblade.

Op podium 2 zal vanaf 18.15 uur de Noordwijkse rockband Flock of Angels de meute eens flink wakker schudden waarna het op podium 1 vanaf 19.45 uur een waar feest der herkenning zal worden met de vrolijke Ierse noten van het welbekende Noordwijkse ensemble Proost. (tekst gecopieerd van http://www.poppodiumnoordwijk.nl/)

Meer over Flock of Angels op Hyves

Flock of Angels @JobPop 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010

USA 2010 - San Francisco

Man man man. Took some time this time to recover from a bit less then one week San Francisco. As I said to my sons the last time we went to an Iron Maiden concert: "I am getting to old for this shit". It sort of all adds up together: the nine hours time difference, the long flights, the short nights, the long days with a busy program, everything in another language then my mother tongue, food and drinks.

But it was well worth it. Going to the AAPS National Biotechnology Conference 2010, that is. Very nice always to meet a bunch of friends/colleagues, see a couple of interesting presentions, join some good discussions, but above all our own symposium. Without any hesitation I can say we, is Margarete + Marian + Michaela + Jan and me, had the best symposium during the entire NBC 2010. We scored big time with our EMA draft Bioanalytical Method Validation guideline.

It was not 24/7 conference activities, we also went outside a few times for a couple of hours and I have uploaded the pics taken with my cell phone (a bit crappy quality, sorry) to my space on Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/Peteronium/USA2010SanFrancisco

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Aardbevingen en ander ongemak

Altijd al gedacht: het zijn onzedig geklede vrouwen die aardbevingen veroorzaken. En deze week werd het bevestigd door de Iraanse schriftgeleerde Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi: "Veel vrouwen die niet bescheiden te kleden ... leiden jonge mannen op een dwaalspoor, corrupt hun kuisheid en verspreiding overspel in de samenleving, die (dus) verhoogt de aardbevingen" (of woorden van die strekking). Hij schoof hiermee in een preek ook even alle verzamelde en onbetwiste wetenschapelijke kennis over aardschollen aan de kant, maar alla een kniesoor die daar op let.
De gebedsleider reageerde hiermee op eerder gedane waarschuwing van president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dat de Iraanse hoofdstad Teheran zeer waarschijnlijk door een aardbeveing getroffen zal worden in de volgende twintig jaar. Dat de president zich daarbij wel op de gegevens van seismologen baseerde was de schriftgeleerde ontgaan of te ver gezocht geacht.

Vrouwen zijn tot grootse en schokkende dingen in staat, maar aardbevingen veroorzaken zie ik ze toch niet 1, 2, 3 doen. Hoewel als ze allen, 3 miljard, nu eens obese zouden worden en dan met zijn allen tegelijk ritmisch gaan springen? Zou dan niet ergens een heel klein bevinkje onstaan?

Wie/wat zou nu vulkanen veroorzaken?

The world's ugliest statues

When bad art and bad politics meet. Eleven photo's of rather grotesque statues can be found on Foreign Policy. My 2 favorites:

The first one is truely extremely ugly. It shows Peter the Great at Moskva River and it is hard to imagine that no one not even someone from Chechenia (out of pity) blew up this thing.

The second one I like because it makes me so much think of epic movies like 'Conan the Barbarian'. And indeed it is Genghis Khan overlooking the great Mongolian steppes.

Thanks to @legalnomads

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Silent spring

Check out EU airspace on Thursday afternoon - evening using this pretty cool tool: http://casper.frontier.nl/eham/

That is Thrusday 14 April 2010; the day the EU skies went silent

Thanks to @PastoorPoncke

Cataclysm RL

Excellent picture of the erupting vulcano on Iceland.


From Skapi's photostream
Thanks to @dutchcowboys

Ragnarok
















Bron: http://www.swisseduc.ch/. Met dank aan: @teylers & @govertschilling

A world without airplanes

Coming Tuesday I need to fly to Montreal...
Two years ago an eruption of the same vulcano lasted 2 years...

In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea

Read more: BBC news Saturday 17 April 2010

Octopus steals video camera

Monday, April 12, 2010

... and some are more equal


Zoek de verschillen! Had Obama ook niet een poster die errug veel leek
op omslag Labourmanifest? Met dank aan Lia van Bekhoven

Sunday, April 11, 2010

One Sandwich To Kill You All

Behold, the KFC Double Down sandwich. It is, if you really want to know, two slabs of fried chicken intersliced with two pieces of bacon, two slabs of cheese, and the Colonel's "special sauce." It comes in the form of a sandwich, with the fried chicken where the bread used to be. It's sort of hilarious. It's sort of perfect. And then it'll probably make you vomit....

Did you notice? How in one pseudo-food item, you are consuming not one, not two, but the mutated, chemically injected flesh/byproducts of fully three different distended, liquefied, industrially tortured creatures? Feel the love, pitiable animal kingdom.

You got your chicken-like creature, your pig-like creature, your dairy cow-like creature, all wrapped in a $5 fistful of nausea, ready to strangle your heart and benumb your brain. God knows what's in the "special sauce." Maybe some sort of fish byproduct, just to round it all out. It's like a wild kingdom in your mouth! It's like a toxic zoo in your colon! It's like a suicide note from what's left of your brain! "If you eat this, you are a complete and total idiot, and we're through. Signed, You."

Special deal! Eat two of these nausea bombs in a row and receive a coupon for a free surgical stent for your coronary artery, and 10% off an XXL casket at CoffinTown! Or eat three and die almost instantly and save us the postage. While supplies last!

Read the full article: San Francisco Chronicle

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Google Hits

Sometimes people use google's number of hits stats to illustrate to what extent a topic is relevant or discussed. Recently a colleague did it on Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and I did it as well. We came up with totally different numbers of hits!

Strange and after some playing around I discovered that apperently the 'interface language' setting (under preferences) has some major impact.

Good laboratory practice hits in google. Interface language:
- english: 3270k
- dutch: 9820k
- german: 9760k
- chinese: 9930k

Weird is it not? And on top of that "Good laboratory practice" (with the quotes) gives 191k hits regardsless the language........

Testing something completely different: lovely dress. Googling on these two words gives about 35M hits regardless the interface language.

So what do we learn form this?
  1. lovely dresses are more important then GLP
  2. far more people do GLP in some random order (3 - 10M hits) then in the correct order (191k hits)
  3. google seems to be censoring google for the anglosaxon world; at least as far as GLP is concerned

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Epilogue

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks

Lees verder: Pastoor Ponckes slotakkoord http://spapens.blogspot.com/2010/04/pastoor-ponckes-slotakkoord_05.html

Collateral Murder

Zet even een koptelefoon op, zodat je in alle rust kunt kijken en luisteren.

Lees verder: http://spapens.blogspot.com/2010/04/collateral-murder.html

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Satire op het celibaat

Een monnik en een non aan het vrijen op een rieten mand met stro in een tent bij het licht van een kaars. De paus bespiedt met een lantaarn het paar. Het vrijend paar broedt op een nest van eieren waaruit monnikjes kruipen, onder een stoel zit een kat met een mijter op de kop.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Nationaal Museum voor Kunst en Geschiedenis

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Uncopyrightable

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is "uncopyrightable".
#trendfacts

http://twitter.com/trendfacts/status/11312113172