I always had a knack for ignoring my fuel indicator in the car. It has even become a sport to keep on driving when the light is flashing and getting the extra mile.
Wednesday evening the fuel indicator started flashing and I ignored it completely, so Thursday I drove to work and back home. Friday it was still flashing and being stuck in a traffic jam, I started to worry, so I left the traffic jam, drove to the nearest gas station and filled up the tank.
65,05 liters on a tank of 60 liters : this has to be a new record. Completely wasted my reserve.
Reminds me of the time when me and a friend drove to Luxembourg and on the way back you have exactly 2 gas stations, 97 kilometers apart. So, I was leaving Luxembourg and suddenly my fuel indicator started flashing and my friend told me to refuel at the first gas station. Being completely sure I could make it to the second one, I didn't had the slightest intention to leave the highway for the first gas station. So, with a pressing voice (and some more pressing gestures) he forced me to refuel the car at the first gas station. At the time I was driving a VW Golf with a tank of 50 litres and I filled it with almost 50 liter of diesel. Although my friend completely freaked out, seeing the counters, I'm sure if he hadn't make me refuel at the first gas station, I had managed to get to the second gas station on reserve. :D
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car....
Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route!
1h30 of stand-up comedian about the evil that houses in all of us. Entertaining stories followed by entire moments of schizophrenia and ultimate rage.
Stories of duct tape, ants being dismembered, the aboriginals, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil, the war on terror, the evil that lies in advertising, rats addicted to heroin, and how to make Brazilian trout.
Once again, Lebbis proves he belongs to the top of Dutch stand-up comedians.
Frozen in time
1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657 - Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: the siege of Boston begins, which followed the first battles at Lexington and Concord.
1792 - France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1810 - The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain.
1836 - U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1861 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1871 - Civil Rights Act of 1871
1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
1884 - Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical, Humanum Genus.
1889 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria
1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1908 - Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
1912 - Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1914 - Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
1928 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter in Timbouctou.
1945 - World War II: U.S. B-29 bombers destroy the Musashi Aircraft plants. Halting production of the Nakajima Ki-84 fighter planes.
1945 - World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1961 - Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba.
1964 - BBC Two launches with the power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Canada, killing 126.
1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122.
1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon.
1977 – Birth of the owner of this blog.
1978 - Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets.
1979 - Jimmy Carter's rabbit incident.
1980 - Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
1985 - ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
1986 - Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performed in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years. The concert was viewed by millions on television.
1986 - Professional basketball player Michael Jordan sets all-time record for points in a NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics.
1998 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1998 - TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.
1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre.
1999 - Largest bombing of Kosovo by the United States in the Kosovo War.
2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
2004 - In Utica, IL 9 people were killed when an F3 tornado hits downtown. The tornado was one of 30 spanning from northern Illinois to northern Indiana.
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
Imagine the following scenario : 5 years of Color Bar in Red & Blue Cafe. 100 chosen few. VIP tickets. Free long drinks. Tons of beautiful women. Total extravagance. An erotic S&M show on the slamming beats of Pragha Khan. Exchanging vodka orange for 2 cigarettes.
What does one needs more in life ? Life is beautiful, but more : life is primal
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
Information overload. Google Scholar has way too much information for one to read in one life time.
Enter some generic terms : Business, leadership, management, year of publication and you're received more hits than you can every handle.
And it doesn't matter from which source : Harvard Business Review, Journal of Economics, Journal of Marketing, you name it, they got it. Combine this with an access to an universities intranet, and you're set for life.
DOS Tip #17: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to CONFIG.SYS
Found myself another addiction : Second Life. I'll sleep when I'm retired
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce : Rez Enoch. A cyber goth and my avatar in the Second Life.
Isn't he pretty ?
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