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On Friday night Alexander and I visited Discovery 2008. We had a really good time and saw some amazing things. Like the Philips 3D TV that you can watch and see the 3D effects of without special glasses! We also had some great fun with the Shamestation. And we saw a flying device that flew by flapping its wings. Now also possible in theory!

I discovered a photo of myself from last year’s Discovery on their website, completely by accident. I’m so photogenic! :-)

http://uk.youtube.com/experiencewii

Brought to my attention by my mate Alexander.

Reminds me of this Hema site.

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

It sucks that BBC-HD is not being broadcast by UPC. And that the iPlayer doesn’t work here. Please, please, let me pay for a television license and give me access!

Guess I’m stuck with watching the Tudors in inferior resolution. Alas, poor, poor me.

Unless I get satellite and catch a stray signal of course. But then I’d need a DVR that can record the signal as well. I almost never watch TV as they broadcast it.

Check here:

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

The world’s gonna end today (in one hour!), so I’m not sure if I should go to work.

If, by some amazing piece of luck, the world doesn’t end, I’ll watch the new The Restaurant series that supposedly starts this evening.

On Sunday, when rollerbasketball fell in the water, I visited G & his little family. Poor G broke his collarbone on a bad fall during rollerbasketball last week. He’s in quite a bit of pain. We watched a movie together. I was up for something serious, like The Diving Bell and The Butterfly or The Mist, but horror or serious stuff was out of the question, so we went for a kids movie, The Golden Compass. Pretty boring (especially on small TV), although the anti-religious theme should resonate with me.

I fed G’s son and amazed his parents by feeding him loads of vegetables. He seems to like me: must be my cold and distant demeanour.

Yesterday I watched another amazing episode of The Long Way Round and had some icecream at Haagen-Daz’s with the departing Mario. Tanya said she had an amazing time, but Mario lamented the fact that he did not have enough time. Time… it is a problem.

Oh, and our website familii.nl is finally out of invite-only: anybody can register now.

And now, for a commercial break:

Boom de yada! I should note: I never even watch that channel.

The Artis lecture last night was pretty good. Dr. Kattenberg is a really good speaker. Very interesting to hear about how the IPCC works, what it does etc. Among the audience there were quite a few climate change skeptics, most notably the geologist Harry Priem, curator of the Artis Geological Museum. The counter-argument seems to be that climatology is not an exact science and that the models IPCC refers to are not accurate enough to make any kind of predictions. I’ve been convinced by what I read that the models are the best we have and might even be overly optimistic.

The Artis planetarium is not the best place for a lecture: there is no real place for the lecturer to stand. Dr. Kattenberg had to walk around the projector in the centre. The slides were projected on two sides of the domed ceiling, but he could only use his laser pointer on one wall, which was invisible to those seated right underneath that wall. Still, the seats are pretty comfortable and I had a good view.