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It is one of the oldest questions in the world; what came first, the chicken or the egg? A chicken and an egg (Kevin) took it to the test and found the answer…ROTFLMAO!!! 🙂

If you want to go through a more serious approach to ‘the’ answer, watch the 3.5 fast-talking minute animated Youtube video below in which Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown from AASP Science provide ‘the’ answer. They use use a quasi-scientific multi-angled approach to answer this nearly 2000-year-old question and teach a little about evolution, nice.

However, there is no one single answer in a world that apparently strives for complexity, so try this, this, this or this link if you want to get to the bottom of it! 🙂

Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: “There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.”

My mother turns 65 today, so it is PARTYYYY time! 🙂

Hehe, every time I mention that my mother turns 65, people tell me ‘wow, you have such a young mother’…I believe this has to do with her looking so young, not me looking old! 🙂

Happy Birthday Mom, I love you!

The traditional opening of ‘my’ festival season, the Parkfeest in Oosterhout, is today! I won’t be there for the full weekend as previous years as there is a different festival setup (just Saturday evening and the full Sunday) AND, my mother’s 65th Birthday tomorrow. 🙂 The bands playing today are less known, so instead of ‘moshpitting‘ in front of the stage 🙂 , it will be the winning combination of live music ‘in the background’, ‘some’ beers 🙂 and overall good friends; a guarantee for a great party!

Aaron Burr: “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

The long winter nights are replaced by even longer sunny summer days, and even though the Northern Light is hard to beat, it does require the sky to be dark in order to see it. In other words; the winterish magical Northern Lights header graphic has to go…

…and will be replaced by one supporting the dutch soccer team in pursuit of eternal fame during the FIFA World Cup Brazil. The first match for the Dutch Lions (against Spain) starts in about half an hour and the header graphic will be up for as long as ‘we’ are competing in the tournament! (which is July 13 according to optimists 🙂 )

James Joyce: “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

The FIFA World Cup Brazil starts today and kicks of a months of soccer madness and patriotisme. The best players of the world will hopefully entertain millions and millions of people with their fantastic skills. It turns out though that the best skilled players are found ‘on the streets’; see for yourself in YouTube video below…amaaaaaazing!! 🙂

Jane Goodall: “I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.”

Ernest Hemingway: “I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.”

Developments in various forms sustainable energy to power our modern world ‘needs’, the initiative of Solar (FREAKIN’) Roadways is one of the most interesting I have seen lately. Solar power in general rules as it has the opportunity to become one the least ‘disrupting’ forms of sustainable energy; in general I don’t understand why roofs are not build with solar panel instead of tiles…let the sun shine! 🙂

For now, enjoy the video below and keep in mind; the future is near! 🙂

Dorothy Sarnoff: “Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”

Sean O’Faolain: “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”

There haven’t been so many Songs of the Day lately, the last one has been 2.5 months ago (?!) though this all does not mean I lost my interest in music, haha far from that! 🙂

With the fantastic bright and sunny summer weather of these days, the following song makes a day even better (every day actually 🙂 ); the amount of energy packed in pumping beats and intermittent flow…I LOVE it!

Enjoy ‘Tsunami‘ by DVBBS & Borgeous, so get your ass from the couch and DANCEEEEEE! 🙂

Aboriginal Saying: “The more you know, the less you need.”

Just consider this the next time you are shopping for food/meat…and take YOUR responsibility!

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

Ha, who wouldn’t like to have inner peace? Below you will find the ultimate guide to just that…Njoy! 🙂

Fred Brooks: “How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”