Warren Buffett’s op-ed is a thoughtful treatise on the advantages the super-wealthy currently enjoy at the hands of the tax code, or to put it another way, “class warfare.”

Jon Stewart in topvorm!

Om mee te zingen:

I kiss my mom goodbye in the drizzling rain
“Thanks for doing my laundry” – I get on the train
Groningen welcomes me; I say hi to Ome Loeks
Then I buy a magazine from the homeless clown
See the sun come out as I walk into town

Oh Groningen I love you
Can’t stop thinking of you
No matter what I do
Grunnen on my mind

Trying to park my bike near the library
But 3.000 others were there before me…
At last I open my notebook, in my favourite reading room
I sit down, I look around me and I like what I see
Four hundred years, my university!

I’m in my room with a book in my lap, I try to concentrate…
then a knock at the door, and in comes my friend
yet another day in Groningen that will have no end:

Sunny afternoon, let’s make an early start
First, have a couple of beers at the Grote Markt
We drink a toast to the alumni, our ambassadors all over the world
Then paint the town red until the early morning
Till we see the sun light up the Martinitoren

Een weinig subtiele, maar wel heel kunstige manier om roken op de werkvloer te ontmoedigen.

Iets minder kunstig is dit verhaal.

Santé!

Ongeloveloos goede cover van dit origineel. Hulde!
_{(Extragratis tip: met wat tovertabak full screen genieten)}

Check ook deze briljante Aphex Twin cover.

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

– Charles Bukowski

Bijna klaar voor de oogst!

De meesten van ons kennen Panini van de voetbalplaatjes uit de jaren ’70 en ’80. Tegenwoordig lijkt Panini van het toneel verdwenen en zijn de plaatjes alleen nog maar interessant voor verzamelaars.

Nou, Panini is nog springlevend, ook in Nederland 🙄

Een leuk weetje: onder de verzamelaars wereldwijd is de voetballer Abe zeer veel geld waard.

– Abe Lenstra? Maar die is toch van ver vóór Panini?

Dat klopt, maar ik doel hier op Abe van den Ban. De afbeelding hieronder toont waarom.

^{Semiprof, kapper en voetballer, groot geworden bij FC Haarlem als ‘dynamische middenvelder’.}

Voor we hem vergeten… David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards is dood.

Deze legendarische bluesmuzikant is een van de founding fathers van de Mississippi Delta blues.

Op 14-jarige leeftijd verliet hij Mississippi om als rondreizende muzikant zijn brood te verdienen. Over die periode zijn de volgende woorden van hem opgetekend:

On Saturday, somebody like me or Robert Johnson would go into one of these little towns, play for nickels and dimes. And sometimes, you know, you could be playin’ and have such a big crowd that it would block the whole street. Then the police would come around, and then I’d go to another town and where I could play at. But most of the time, they would let you play. Then sometimes the man who owned a country store would give us something like a couple of dollars to play on a Saturday afternoon. We could hitchhike, transfer from truck to truck, or if we couldn’t catch one of them, we’d go to the train yard, ‘cause the railroad was all through that part of the country then…we might hop a freight, go to St. Louis or Chicago. Or we might hear about where a job was paying off – a highway crew, a railroad job, a levee camp there along the river, or some place in the country where a lot of people were workin’ on a farm. You could go there and play and everybody would hand you some money. I didn’t have a special place then. Anywhere was home. Where I do good, I stay. When it gets bad and dull, I’m gone.

^{Bron: wikipedia}

A micro camera is installed onboard an r/c plane F-16. The camera transmit live the video to ground and I wear video goggle to fly the plane in real time like if I was in the cockpit. The camera replace the head of the pilot and the movement of the cam is control by the movement of my head on ground via a head mount gyroscope (head tracker)

The whole system cost me around $1500 including the plane. But it is many hours of hand made modifcation. You can start with simpler video system that cost around $500 and install it on your own r/c plane. Search for FPV on the web for more info about my hobby. I’m am the founder of FPV.

Aldus hobby Bob.

Vergeet midgetgolf op de computer.
Vergeet high scores.
Dit is midgetgolf kunst.
Speel en geniet.

Doe mij ook één!