Omdat een 10 meter lange HDMI kabel vanaf m’n computer ook na vervanging onbetrouwbaar bleek heb ik besloten de kabel te vervangen door een dedicated media speler met ruimte voor een harde schijf. Na enig rondneuzen viel mijn ook op de betaalbare en goed gewaardeerde Eminent EM7285.
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After Saeco became part of the Philips family I worked on IT integration projects for three years. All this time I managed to fight my urge to buy one of these beautiful Espresso machines. Last month I gave up the fight and bought a Saeco Intuita.
The reasons why I wanted to watch Garden State were simple. First of all, it starred Natalie Portman. Second, it got a decent IMDB rating. Some guy left his home town when he was young, only to return a decade later for his mother’s funeral.
Following up on the magical quote from Alice in the movie Closer, on a bigger scale, this is why I believe that life is what you make of the chances you are given. You need a lot of luck, but given that context it asks for discipline to make the right choices. The dark side can be tempting as Yoda already new:
Woody Allen is making easy money by visiting big European cities and shooting a movie about the beauty of the city, the local culture and about people getting connected. After Paris and Barcelona, this time it was Rome that was visited by American tourists.
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Apparently quite some artists get wonderful inspiration out of their urge to “Live Forever”. Or did the inspiration come from their reason to do so?
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Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There’s a moment, there’s always a moment, “I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it”, and I don’t know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.
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Naar aanleiding van een triathlon in Karlovy Vary besloten we deze zomer op vakantie te gaan naar Tsjechië. Via Google maps kwamen we terecht op Camping Bucek. Bucek ligt ruim een uur rijden van Karlovy Vary en op 3 kwartier van Praag. Voor de volledigheid: het ligt op 781 km van Groningen. Bijna allemaal Autobahn kilometers waardoor het nog geen 8 uur reizen is.