zondag, september 30, 2012
zaterdag, juli 28, 2012
Blessed holidays
The holidays in Garderen are a blessing. The simple cabin in the woods brings us exactly the peace and quiet to replenish our energy. Just sleeping, walking, reading and doing all simple trivial stuff that make our life feel normal again... This picture shows it well. It was taken at our first social event since months, the birthday party of our good friend Maria.Only now I am shaven again. It only took twoo words from Gerda: Lola borstel... Like always she was right. :-)
donderdag, juli 12, 2012
Pay Back Time
dinsdag, juni 26, 2012
Weer een tevreden klant
zondag, juni 24, 2012
The times they are change...
vrijdag, juni 15, 2012
Reality today
dinsdag, maart 13, 2012
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
zondag, maart 11, 2012
zondag, maart 04, 2012
Dit gegeven onsnapt aan elke redelijkheid

maandag, januari 16, 2012
It just won't fit
Then, if one would want a partner, there is the second dilemma. A soulmate or a sexmate? Biology forces the latter upon any healthy adult, but that will rarely fulfill the other urge at the same time. Although your hormones will make you believe so until it's mostly too late for change.
Dilemma number three waits in the group dynamics. Family life and tribal traditions ("culture") always will form your prefrence, habits and reactions for life. You can adapt yourself, fight to change it or leave.
ONE thing is sure: "It just won't fit". This imposibility to find rest is what we know as life...
woensdag, december 28, 2011
Niks is nieuw, behalve mijn inzicht..?

In april begin ik aan mijn 60e levensjaar. Een bizar gevoel dat me tot in elke vezel verwondert, al was ik er zelf de hele tijd bij.
Achterom kijkend - waar ik op deze grijze en stille decemberdag even tijd voor neem - dan valt me vooral op hoeveel er is veranderd en hoeveel hetzelfde is gebleven. Een normale waarneming op mijn leeftijd weet ik ook meteen. Dit heb ik al eerder gelezen. Maar nu is de waarneming uit de eerste hand en dat is een heel andere beleving kan ik je nu vertellen. ;-)
Vandaag ben ik bezig met alles waar ik dit jaar niet heb afgekregen. Regelmatig bloggen bijvoorbeeld. Te laag gezakt op mijn prioriteitenlijstje lijkt het dan. Maar als ik er over nadenk, dan heb ik het bloggen vooral verwaarloosd bij gebrek aan focus. Ik wist niet meer voor wie ik schreef en waarom en waartoe. Terwijl ik dat duidelijk boven aan mijn blog heb genoteerd. Het is een egodocument en een geheugensteuntje en jij mag naar wens meelezen. Maar omdat ik die notities publiceer via internet, heeft het een aantal effecten. Die heb ik niet geregeld. Eerst bewust maar later dacht ik dat ik daar misschien toch iets mee moest. Die twijfel heeft de terughoudendheid gecreëerd die op zijn beurt de stilte veroorzaakte. En daarnaast deed mijn groeiende achterdocht de openheid ook geen goed. Dat is een gevolg van mijn leven hier in Antwerpen. Ik weet niet of ik dit nu vooruitgang vind, maar soit. Volgend jaar beter besluit ik nu.
Wist jij dat het begrip 'motivatie' pas bestaat sinds de klokken drijfveren hebben? De mechanische klok liet zien hoe het apparaat in beweging kwam zodra de interne drijfveer voldoende spanning had. Die analogie veranderde de kijk op ons eigen apparaat. Tegenwoordig vragen we ons af of we wel voldoende energie hebben en praten we vaker over 'onze batterijen opladen'. En als je nu vindt dat je hersens even tijd nodig hebben om dat te 'processen' te verwerken is dat dankzij de computer...
dinsdag, november 29, 2011
Trend: The virtual world will be organised by topic
maandag, november 28, 2011
Lifestyle influences cancer risk
Heavy red meat diet poses colon cancer risk: research
A National Cancer Center team said it has found people who eat large amounts of red meat are at greater risk of colon cancer and is advising consumption of beef and pork be pared.
Read more at www.japantimes.co.jp
donderdag, november 17, 2011
Bomen kap Keyserlei in volle gang. MER procedure Masterplan ook.
En heb je dit gezien? Gewoon blind doorgaan met de schijnvertoning. Het volk vergeet snel, toch?
donderdag, oktober 20, 2011
Nothing new, but we need to get organised
It is already on the web elsewhere, but now Zurich scientists confirm our fears: Alle wealth is owned by a very small fraction of the people. This is a system risk.
Any engineer or programmer knows the hazards of a tightly-coupled large system. Economists should have seen the same problem when the Soviet empire collapsed, but they didn't because economists are frauds.
The solution is simple in concept. Decouple as much as possible. Break up the EU, eliminate multinational trade organizations. Return to the pre-1970 condition of sovereign nations making bilateral trade arrangements. Eliminate every incentive that favors cross-border flows of goods, capital and jobs; those should only happen when they give a real advantage to the PEOPLE of BOTH nations in the transaction.
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
Read more at www.newscientist.comNewcomers to any network connect preferentially to highly connected members. TNCs buy shares in each other for business reasons, not for world domination. If connectedness clusters, so does wealth, says Dan Braha of NECSI: in similar models, money flows towards the most highly connected members. The Zurich study, says Sugihara, "is strong evidence that simple rules governing TNCs give rise spontaneously to highly connected groups". Or as Braha puts it: "The Occupy Wall Street claim that 1 per cent of people have most of the wealth reflects a logical phase of the self-organising economy."
woensdag, oktober 19, 2011
We use our brain NOT to think
Since I read Stuart Sutherlands 1992 (!)book "Irrationality" I felt incomfortable about how we ineffectively we use our intelligence.
Well... It got worse since. There seems no hope for improvement. Biology forbids. Just maybe we can build machines smarter then us to make the right decisions for us. Because we fail. Terribly.
(Ah we already have them. But we do not like using them, do we)
The Science of Irrationality
A Nobelist explains our fondness for not thinking
When people face an uncertain situation, they don't carefully evaluate the information or look up relevant statistics. Instead, their decisions depend on mental short cuts, which often lead them to make foolish decisions. The short cuts aren't a faster way of doing the math; they're a way of skipping the math altogether.
In Mr. Kahneman's important new book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," his first work for a popular audience, he outlines the implications of this new model of cognition. What are the most important mental errors that we all make? And can they be overcome?
This shouldn't be too surprising. The stock market is a case study in randomness, a system so complex that it's impossible to predict. Nevertheless, professional investors routinely believe that they can see what others can't. The end result is that they make far too many trades, with costly consequences.
Read more at www.wallstreetjournal.comWhat's even more upsetting is that these habits are virtually impossible to fix. As Mr. Kahneman himself admits, "My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues."
maandag, oktober 17, 2011
vrijdag, oktober 14, 2011
Taking response ability
Complaining is waning your way out of real cooperation. You join in howling to the moon but you leave real change to the bolder ones. This way you try to have it both ways: Be part of the 'coalition' of the willing without leaving your comfort zone... I feel I am talking to myself right now!
Read more at www.imd.orgIf everyone is complaining all the time, we may mistake the resulting chatter for a genuine culture of constructive dissent. When the purpose of complaining is primarily social, the amount of new information contained in each complaint typically approaches zero. Spending all day listening to people moaning in well-worn ways may make you think that your ideas have been tested in the fires of disputation when in fact they have only been lightly toasted over the warm glow of comforting complaint."
Weeks observed that, to be heard over the chattering din of social complaint, those wanting to complain in a bid actually to improve things must work hard and speak loudly. They must break the cultural norms of polite social complaint and raise their voice in a way that will seem rude, illegitimate and out of bounds.
"We have a name for people who are willing to take this risk: leaders. We have other names for them too, though: cranks, loudmouths, loose cannons and troublemakers.
donderdag, oktober 13, 2011
This is the (r)evolution
This will be the big change. Not from the technology, but from cocreation. The consiensness of all those separate individuals that they ar IN power just as log as they autonomously handle the balance between their own interest and the wellbeing of the whole community of man.
Read more at www.barrypopik.comEntry from October 03, 2011People’s Microphone or People’s Mike (using voices for amplified sound)The September 2011 “Occupy Wall Street” protests didn’t have a permit to have amplified sound (such as a bullhorn). Instead, a speaker would speak a few words and the crowd woud act as a “microphone” by repeating them. The name “people’s microphone” (or “people’s mike") has been cited in print since at least September 21, 2011.
ABC News Protesters Vow to Camp Near Wall St. Indefinitely
By MEGHAN BARR Associated Press NEW YORK September 21, 2011 (AP)
In a small granite plaza a block from the New York Stock Exchange, a group of 20-somethings in flannel pajama pants and tie-dyed T-shirts are plotting the demise of Wall Street as we know it. Forbidden from using a microphone — they don’t have the proper permits — the group got creative. “What we do is a people’s microphone,” Reed said. “So the person who’s speaking says a couple of words and then the whole crowd repeats it so everyone can hear. It’s actually beautiful.”







