Brixen, here we finally come
This afternoon, we will leave on our skiing trip to Brixen im Thale, Austria.
We are very much looking forward to it! According to the website, there’s two meters of snow in the mountains, so that’s good. Now let’s hope for some nice weather.
Check out the live webcams on the site now and again, maybe you’ll see us slide by.
So, this weblog will be rather quiet next week, but you will definitely hear more about Brixen when we’re back! See you in 10 days!
Carless no more
well… at least not for long.
Last Saturday I bought a new car. A new second-hand, that is.
I bought a Seat Cordoba 1.6 GLX from November 1995.
Still have to wait a few weeks though, I’ll get it by the end of this month.
Digital television
Last week I was called by someone from KPN, telling me that I could try out digital television for free, for eight days.
With digital television, of course, the image quality should be better than with normal, old-fashioned, analog tv. It also includes digital radio, providing superior sound quality. And all that for less than what I pay to my (analog) cable company!
So I said yes. Why not try it for free?
Carless
This morning I said farewell to my car.
It didn’t pass the inspection (APK). There was too much rust! 
It’s a shame, it was a nice little old car, a Nissan Micra (automatic!), which I bought from my grandfather three and a half years ago. But we saw it coming. It was more than 15 years old and we had already put tape over al the rusty parts. Nevertheless, it’s a pity.
So… as of today, I am car-less. 
Does anyone happen to have a car for sale?
Lapidation (2)
Continuing on the lapidation story, I would like to vote for introduction of the death penalty. And I don’t mean some “civilised” death penalty like a lethal injection, the electric chair, or hanging… I think lapidation is a good idea. I think the convicted should suffer a slow and painful death.
Of course I’m not talking about people who have committed minor offences, small delicts, or even larger crimes, like thieves and murderers… No, I am talking about the real scum-of-the-earth, the utter lowest life-form possible.
Yes, I am talking about the SPAMMERS!
Lapidation
In the past few days I’ve read a couple of news items about death sentences in Iran. But I’m not going to comment on that.
I mean, what can you say about a teenage girl being sentenced to death, because she was forced into prostitution since she was eight years old. What can you say about the fact that this 19-year old girl, who is mentally disabled, and has been raped and molested since she was 8, has been charged with “acts contrary to chastity” and giving birth to an illegitimate child. So, according to the Sharia, the girl, Leyla M., is sentenced to death by hanging. But of course, hanging is not enough, so she will first receive 95 lashes with a steel cable whip! What can you say…?
(Sources: the Dutch news item from FOK! and the press release by Amnesty.)
Cha cha cha
It’s been a long time since I’ve taken any sort of exam. And it’s been even longer since I’ve been really nervous before an exam. But yesterday evening I was pretty nervous; because yesterday evening we had to do our dancing “exam”.
Although you probably cannot really fail unless you’re seriously motorically impaired, it’s probably the performing before an audience that is quite scary!
It was our first joint (and my very first) dancing test. We started taking (beginner) lessons in September, because we will have to do the opening dance on our wedding party, next May.
So, it was pretty nerve-wrecking, but it went (reasonably) well, and we passed! In January, we will continue with the next (advanced 1) course.
Jesus died in Japan aged 106
This article‘s title drew my attention just now. The article (in Dutch) states that Jesus did not die at the cross. It was his younger brother that switched places with him, allowing Jesus to get away safely, to Japan no less, where he married, got three children, and died at the age of 106 years old!
In the Japanese town of Shingo, they found a document in 1935, containing supposedly the will of Jesus. Unfortunately, the original was destroyed in WWII and all that is left of it is a copy in the local museum.
By the way, a quick search on google reveals that this is not really new news; one of the first search results, telling the same story is dated April 2000. But it was new for me, and it’s certainly entertaining to read!
The Independent has a more elaborate story about this, dated two days ago.
Zandvoort
Again, we went away for the weekend, this time to Zandvoort. Together with a couple of friends, we went to Center Parcs Park Zandvoort. Close to the racing circuit at Zandvoort, where we heard and saw people racing and skidding.
We didn’t do anything special, we went shopping in Haarlem on Saturday and walked along the beach on Sunday, but it was a nice and relaxing weekend.
Yet Another Google Bomb
Oh well, I’ll join in the Google bombing. An ignorant asshole has written a column about The Netherlands.
This ignorant asshole works as a columnist for FoxNews, but apparently doesn’t really care to do some research before writing his nonsense.
Apart from The Netherlands being “the land of wooden shoes, windmills, Rembrandt and wonderful breakfasts”, he’s saying that “a Dutch hospital is (…) killing newborn babies who don’t measure up to an arbitrary standard”. Also, Holland has “no governing moral standard”, and “people smoke dope openly”. Finally, “all of this in a country where the Nazis murdered Ann Frank just because she was Jewish and therefore less than human.”
So, here is the link: ignorant asshole.
(Via: wildkamperen.nl, l-rs.org and sargasso.)
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