Back and forth. Forever. 23:54

Joey Cape and Tony Sly are playing Belgium in March 2010.

"duck tape" + STD


Here's a Boston band playing a MLIW cover, hmmzmhmmz.

Awesome Lemur tattoo. More @ http://www.loltatz.com/


Hamster + wheel


Recent Google uppercuts:

• Google public DNS: point your DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 + 8.8.4.4 to enhance security, validity and speed of your domain name requests. No OpenDNS reaction so far. Privacy concerns 2009.
• Offline Gmail graduated from Labs.
  
• The Google Phone (Nexus One) will drop in January. HTC hardware, Android software, no carrier deals.
  

If you still think Google is nothing but a search engine, you're a fool.

Hello, Katy Perry.



An I.T. Christmas tree. Dell drivers and OS cd's, a 3COM hub, a batman logo, a memory module, UTP cable and Windows 2000 disk kit.
Is that a Cisco IP phone in the background by the way?


Here's Natalie Portman between Stella Artois logos.

Trailer for her new film, Brothers.


I've heard good things about the Mad Men series and planned on borrowing the box from the library but this seems too much to handle:


Eyes: Me and you and everyone we know, Paranormal Activity.


DON'T THINK I'M ASLEEP
WHILE YOU'RE ROLLING IN YOUR RICHES

The baddest thing around town 00:59

I will be missing out on (500) days of summer @ the 2009 Ghent film festival.
Pretty stoked for De Helaasheid Der Dingen.
Don't know if I can wait till I get my hands on Californication S02, might watch S01 again.
Z.Deschanel, "nothing you can compare to your neighbourhood whore".


Google Picasa 3.5 features face recognition and works surprisingly well. Attn Mark Zuckerberg.
Eagerly awaiting Google Wave invite.



iPhone 3G - stone comparison. Geek lolz.

A female sea leopard shows signs of frustration by blowing bubbles


"I'm trying to find a way to describe this girl without being disrespectful"


The Tiny Vipers session @ Duyster is amazing.

Dignity and teeth 14:22

It's been a while, update.

• The Tiny Vipers Ghent show was sweaty and dreamy. Some indie fag called "tweezie" or "tweedy" spilled beer on my pants while holding his cig in a vertical position.Other hipsters sat there listening with their eyes closed. They're either fools or drugged out.

• Tunes recently: The Suicide File, Deftones, Tigers Jaw, Saves The Day, Bat For Lashes, Weezer, Jason Molina.

• Tarantino underachieved with "Inglourious Basterds". Good characters, quotes and dialogues in a messy combination.
  Probably a late pass but I noticed the almighty Google rolled out their movie showtimes functionality to Belgium.

• Trix yesterday. The stage manager/sound guy is incredible. I laughed hard when he lit the hairy War Hungry guitar players cigarette with a flashlight.
  RZL DZL had line-up issues as expected. Played 6 songs or so, not one with a proper ending. People were eating pancakes in the pit.
  War Hungry played about the same amount of songs and featured a mixed bunch of band members and the don hoodrack haircut. The guitar players "belly/face/instrument-first" dive was wild.
  Moshpit was st00pid. Municipal Waste was ok. Fished me a Title Fight longsleeve out of the hoodrack shirt collection, picture proof in TOS#5.
  
  

• New Gmail themes, currently using the "High Score" theme despite its Nintendo feel.
  
  

• Amusing spam mail subjects this week: "clever method for bigger pole", "Monsters in de diepe zee?", "Durable woody in pants" and my favorite "Become her megadriller".
  

• Here's the out of print Jane's Detd 1996 ep, Dignity And Teeth.
  

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• VIP encounters: Urbanus has angel hair; Kabouter Lui looks like a regular adult when wearing regular clothes; M.Schoenaerts is a chick magnet; a César award winning actress stroked my hair, I had no idea what was happening.
  

A wish for things that work 20:57

• Google Wave
  

• One Eight Seven demo
  I don't know too much about this band. They were a short-lived deathmetal band from the H8000 area in Belgium around 1998-1999. Their singer was this small, cute, nice girl called Kathy 187 who was at pretty much all the H8000 shows at the time. I saw them once, at this show in Eeklo where on the day of the show they persuaded the organizer to let them do a short set. We'd only heard rumors about 187 and were curious what Kathy sounded like live... Well, we quickly learned she had a massive grunt, something we did not expect. Not too long after I picked up this demo, and I've not seen or heard 187 since. Members went on to other H8000 bands such as Edge Of Life and All My Sins. Anyways, this is a pretty decent demo, so check it out!
  One Path For Me Through Destiny: One Eight Seven demo
  
  

• Pepsi & Coca-Cola logo time line.
  
  

• The Mackenzie feat. Jessy - All I Need, will be featured on the next car mix cd. Night-inspired, nightly-listening only.
  Different versions exist though. Gotta make a choice.
  This guy had no problem choosing at all:"BEST Version. I listened to it for 10 hours non stop. SUPERB Song !!!!!!!"
  
  
  
  

• Garden State was a pretty cool movie.
  
  

Just a warm and distant dream 22:48

Polar Bear Club covering The Get Up Kids - 10 Minutes.
I'm a fool for missing out on them + The Gaslight Anthem earlier this year.



Dirty Money @ Rosswein.



Breaking stuff in Afghanistan. (src)




<3 google geekiness.


"Een schrijnende mislukking" : 37:00


Americana > Conspiracy Of One.

Not cut from the same mold 00:48

• Gmail and the other Google Apps finally are no longer in beta!

However, beta lovers can turn on the Back to Beta labs feature.

• Other exciting tech news: Google ruined every Microsoft employee's vacation by announcing an open-source, lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks called Google Chrome OS.

Release date: Q3-Q4 2010. Confirmed partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba.
Adobe lightweight?

• VLC media player version has finally reached version 1.0. Current downloads/second=9.

Btw, Flickr has approx. 6.000 image uploads/minute.

• Enough nerd talk, Mary-Louise Parker/Nancy Hotwin (Weeds) @ Esquire
  

• Car tunes: Pennywise - About Time, The Killbots s/t.
  

Infrared 21:43

• Internet censorship in Belgium became reality today. Belgian authorities asked providers to redirect DNS requests for a (.com) website that links to privacy-violating content (pedophile names).

Privacy violation sucks but censorship sucks even more.
Adds to the story: kiddy porn found on Marc Dutroux' prison computer.

• 3 times @ Ghent in 6 days = A+

• Nike Owl (via)

• Mad bike skillz

• Hearing:

Hey Mercedes
Penfold
Municipal Waste
New Found Glory
Tegan & Sara

• Sega chick. Whoever she is posing for is one lucky dude.
  

• Yesterday, I saw two rats and two rabbits on my way to work.
• Today, I saw the Google Street View camera car. Google fanboy I am.
  

Android 20:47

One of my co-workers is a tech/gadget freak, sporting a Nokia N95. We have the nerdiest conversations about smartphones & firmware updates.
Recently I convinced him to use the Nokia Sports Tracker for the noble purpose of contributing to the OpenStreetMap project.
So we took off for a ride through Bruges and uploaded the GPS trace to the OSM website. Registering on websites sucks so my BugMeNot Firefox extension came in handy again.

Anyway, Google announced the first phone running the Android OS but forgot about the details in the promo pics:

How Many Google Engineers Does It Take To Tell The Time?: How Many Google Phone Engineers Does It Take to Tell the Time?

On the outside 21:57

Google decided to release their very own browser, called Chrome. Tech details: Webkit based (just like Safari), auto-completion (using the insane Google search database), one process for each tab,...



Will be testing this piece of software soon.



The august/september transition in public transportation life hits like a sledgehammer to the face. Noticed this week:
- a 14-year old girl showing off a pair of fluffy handcuffs
- a black man nearly snoring his nose off (actually thought it was a candid camera prank, hilarious!)



Ipod plays: Staind, By A Thread, Ten Foot Pole, City And Colour.

New google favicon 18:27

I liked the previous one.

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