Archive for April, 2009
Zoo-tripping – Blijdorp
Yeah, we’ve been to this zoo before, and will very likely go there hereafter. We’ve got a year-pass ![]()
I’m considering it to be the nicest zoo in The Netherlands, closely followed by Burger’s Zoo. Blijdorp however rocks my boat.
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And today, I went again!
Zoo-tripping – Noorder Dierenpark
We did a road tour to a few Zoo’s: the first is Noorder Dierenpark in Emmen.
Lovely park, however strangely divided into two parts.
They feature a great set of animals, all held in pretty enclosures. Their speciality are the vast amount of baboons, elephants and Humboldt’s penguins. We’ve had a blast cruising the zoo, yet found it to be about a 5 hour trip all around it. Too bad that’s about the time it took us to get there in the first place.
Pics backpost
Remember me buying my new flashy hardware?
Well, I still like it a lot.
I also made a whole lot of pics with it attached to my camera, and as I promised: here’s an very small excerpt of those.
We had to wash our rabbits with special shampoo to cure a skin condition, which was troubling them and making one in particular very grumpy. Here’s them both undergoing ‘treatment’. I can safely assure you: bunnies don’t take lightly to water!
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make comparison-pictures to show the difference my external flash makes. You’ll have to do with the above, and trust me on the previous point.
The 100K milestone
Car abuse taken to the maximum: I drove around 42K in just under a year.
Coming from doing a mere 8000 kilometres per year, I’m now driving almost 4 times as much to and from my project location.
Nevertheless: it’s a funny sight, and here’s the proof.
A quick peek into my environment
Monday morning, 7:45 AM.
You step into your office to find nothing but a mere dysfunctional coffee-machine, a few co-workers and your empty desk.
Monday morning, 9:30 AM.
You step into the room next-door to do some chit-chatting with a colleague, and you find this:
Presents from Dell!
Yes, that’s 30 2208wfp’s.
I mean, 30 screens extra. Which crisis are we now part of?
BTW: we do need them. All 30. And they’re probably not even enough for the upcoming month.
But they do make for a nice view though.
