Haha, ja dat is inderdaad wel een hele erge faal, lol.
Die muziek maakt het wel mooi af.
Maar wat zou er gebeuren als je een enorme afstand achteruit zou lopen met constant je blik op hem gericht? Zou hij dan ineens 'verspringen'? Want dat zie ik niet gebeuren.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip.

After a good meal and a bottle of wine, they lay down for the night and went to sleep.

Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend. "Watson, look up and tell me what you see."

Watson replied, "I see millions and millions of stars."

"What does that tell you?"

Watson pondered for a minute. "Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Why, what does it tell YOU."

Holmes was silent for a minute, then spoke: "Watson, Someone has stolen our tent."

Dear Howie,

Last week I received a “you probably don’t remember me” note from a man I went to a school dance with nineteen years ago. He is married and has three kids, but states he is not happy. What should I do?

Concerned Lady

Dear Concerned Lady: –

Although humankind has a yearning toward whatever is redolent of mystery and allurement, it is well that certain lacunae in our knowledge should remain forever unfilled. Your shadowy correspondent’s mention of the ill-regarded numbers nineteen and three recalls an unutterable experiment performed on sticklebacks by the Swedish icthyologist Dalgaard. I dare not describe his observations, but he concluded that, the longer we can remain innocent of our place in the cosmos, the better it must augur for our mental integrity. He came to understand there was more meaning than is commonly supposed in the nebulous half-inscriptions found on abandoned wharves — while who knows what malign significance underlies the latest findings on the growth of angiosperms, or the cycle of the solar spots? What of the transgalactic pulsings that have cost more than one astronomer his powers of reasoning? I have heard it whispered that the imprints found on Dalgaard’s pillow, toward the end, resembled the fronds of a kind of bracken previously unknown to botany. The muffled clattering sounds from my roof impel me hastily to conclude,

Yrs most cordially & sincerely, – HPL.

After winning a massive write-in campaign, Stephen Colbert has found himself on Maxim‘s “Definitive List of the World’s Most Beautiful Women,” the Hot 100. You might be asking yourself why Colbert, who is part of the male species, and, therefore, not a woman, is being listed on such a list. Well, you have to ask yourself something else: When you look at Stephen Colbert, is his gender all you see? Is your mind that closed?

For the first time, Maxim gave voting rights to the public, letting the masses choose this year’s 100 hottest women. (I guess anyone who makes the list in previous years and then is left off is no longer hot. That’s upsetting.) But what was also part of the voting was the opportunity to include a write-in candidate. And that’s what put Stephen Colbert on the Hot 100 list, at number 69.

And we should be happy for him. Not because now a man can also be honored as women are for their looks alone — because this is a sign of how far we’ve come. This is equality, America. Why should we limit a list of hot women to only those of the female gender? That’s sexist. If people think Stephen Colbert is sexy, then he should be on the country’s “definitive” list of people who are sexy! Why limit the list to women? Are we trying to send a message that men cannot be sexy? That we can’t gaze upon men as if they were pampered, scrutinized dogs at the Westminster Dog Show and pick them apart until they’re barely an organic life form anymore and just a thrown-together collection of body parts that we have decided is somehow still pleasing to our eyes?

As we know, Colbert does not see gender. Nor race. We are all just human beings, making our way in this crazy, crazy world. Maybe you look at him and see a man. Maybe you look at him and see a woman. But I’ll tell you something: I see a person, America. A sexy person. And if Stephen Colbert makes a list of the sexiest women in the world, then I accept it. And I am proud of the inclusiveness.

And I am so glad he beat out Amanda Knox.

Het had niet veel gescheeld of de Utrechtse Universiteit Utrecht had in Amersfoort gestaan. In de zeventiende eeuw wilden namelijk zowel Utrecht als Amersfoort een universiteit. Het provinciale bestuur steunde Amersfoort, omdat Utrecht 'te veel afleyding aan de studeerende jeugd' zou verschaffen. In 1634 besloot de Utrechtse vroedschap daarom zelf een Illustre School voor hoger onderwijs op te richten. Deze Illustre School van Utrecht had drie faculteiten - theologie, rechten en filosofie - en vier hoogleraren.

The modern meaning of Weltschmerz in the German language is the psychological pain caused by sadness that can occur when realizing that someone's own weaknesses are caused by the inappropriateness and cruelty of the world and (physical and social) circumstances.

The word Nirvana literally means "blown out" (as in a candle) and refers, in the Buddhist context, to the imperturbable stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion have been finally extinguished.

The word Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It refers to "a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves."

Saudade is a unique Portuguese word that has no immediate translation in English. Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return.

The word Naz means “pride/arrogance”, but of a special sort. A quote from Salt and Saffron by Kamila Shamsie describes it perfectly. Naz is “the pride, the assurance that arises from knowing you are loved. From knowing that no matter what you do, you will always be loved”.

Razbliuto is the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do.