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Steve Jobs: “Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

You might have seen the movie Tron…well, or not, it *is* pretty old… 🙂 What matters here are the suits used in the movie (you remember? Or not? Check ‘m out! 🙂 ).

The Japanese dance group Wrecking Crew Orchestra (Facebook) is wearing Tron-like specially-designed glow-suits with wireless, light-emitting ribbons and tapes that can be controlled remotely and they built a dance performance with those suits which makes it then uhhhh ‘Tron Dance’ 🙂 , supercool!

The technology was first introduced to the mainstream public by Team iLuminate (Facebook), a group of glow-suit dancers from Los Angeles, who competed in the sixth season of ‘America’s Got Talent’. The Wrecking Crew Orchestra is taking this dance to a whole different level though…FAN-FRIGGIN-TASTIC, check it out below!!

Below a clip with all Team illuminate’s ‘America’s Got Talent’ performances, he he, they are not so bad either! 🙂

Barack Obama: “The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what’s truly important.”

So, I was about to go skiing tonight, first time this season (down hill that is, as I went cross-country last Sunday)…well, that didn’t happen! 🙁 All  because of my electric car facing a battery challenge…did the car fail on me?? Really? For the first time?? Nah, not so much…human error, as always; I forgot to charge it overnight so the milage was by far not enough to make it to the slopes and back….grrrrrr. Better luck next time, or actually; better planning/thinking! 🙂

Henry David Thoreau: “What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”

Salma Hayek: “People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”

Check out the conversation below; David, an Ozzie, has a dispute with his neighbor Justin over the placement of a floodlight and settles it, well at least he tries to settle it, the Ozzie way…HILARIOUS!!!

ROTFLMAO! 🙂

Kurt Cobain: “Wanting to be someone you’re not is a waste of the person you are.”

So, today is Blue Monday; the day which is declared to be the most depressing day of the year. Last year I spent it in sunny Curaçao and didn’t feel as blue as Blue is (apparently) supposed to be, this year I am surrounded by the magic white stuff and well, if *this* is the most depressing day of the year then this year will be FANTASTIC, coz I feel happy!

Just so you know, Blue Monday is calculated (pseudoscience though) according to the following formula:

W = weather, d=debt, T=time since Christmas, Q=time since failing our new year’s resolutions, M=low motivational levels, N_a=the feeling of a need to take action and ’D’ is not defined.

(so, it ‘must’ be true?!?)

To counter the Blue Monday depression, bluemonday.org is suggesting to make someone happy on this day. They’ll be highlighting many of your happy moments on their site, so if you are feeling blue, check it out! 😉

J. K. Rowling: “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.”

Wow! Quite an animation, hilarious!! LoL

These are creatures from some common wildlife scenes in the world of “Rollin`Wild”, check out more inflated animals on www.rollin-wild.com.

Claudia Jewett Jarrett: “It is the caring and sharing that count—-love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.”

Jean-Paul Sartre: “In love, one and one are one.”

A few days ago Adam Curry tweeted that he was looking for a full archive of mp3’s from the Daily Source Code Podcast (aka ‘DSC’ or Delta Sierra Charlie). It got me to dust off some DVDs on which I burned all (yes, ALL 😉 ) of them! Adam created a BitTorrent Sync Archive and currently all ‘my’ mp3’s are being downloaded and shared by 15-20 DSC fans (if you want in, the BTSync key is B5XIHOVFXGSA2QXS7ED6ONN4KG5JTH6T6). Mind you, the archive is in total well over 31GB (!!), Adam’s dedicated DSC server still has about 1.5GB to go…he he

BitTorrent Sync is THE sharing tool for geeks (and soon for the ‘masses’) these days, it is a private and secure Dropbox alternative (/-killer) which is not only faster, it also doesn’t have the 2GB ‘free’ limitation, no limits on file-sizes or bandwidth and it does not rely on penetrable servers (/NSA spying or other threats), me like! Ha, my upload pipe is smoking hot as it has never been used so intensely as in the past days! 🙂

Oh, and thx for the kindly note Adam…no question that after this early pre-DSC encounter we are DSC-buddies for life! 🙂

Hugh Macleod: “Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it’s primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it’s a primal calling.”

Lawana Blackwell: “Age is no guarantee of maturity.”

L. M. Montgomery: “One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.”

A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

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1. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour,’ ‘favour,’ ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise.’ Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’).

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2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ”like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter ‘u” and the elimination of ‘-ize.’

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3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

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4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.

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5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

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6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

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7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.

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8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

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9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth – see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

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10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.

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11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).

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12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

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13.. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.

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14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

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15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.

God Save the Queen!

PS: Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!

(via Adam & Steve..hilarious!!)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”

I am driving my electric car (Nissan LEAF) for two years now and am still a happy camper (well, not so much camping, the car never failed on me 😉 ). By now there are many more car brands with a 100% electric model in their portfolio and though the LEAF is still a frontrunner, I would go for the BMW i3 today, costing about the same. ‘Obviously’ the Tesla Model S would be THE one for me, a stunning design combined with nifty features AND a driving range of 370km or 480km (!) depending on the model. It is unfortunately slightly above my budget…oh well, who knows what future brings; I have a dream… 😉