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Sopranos ….

 

I am a big fan of the Sopranos. However, Dutch television fails to broadcast the show on prime time so it never made it really popular in the NL. That leaves me nothing but SOBT (Stealing over BitTorrent) or waiting for the DVD series to come and pay 60 Euro.

Anyway, I am watching series 6 and the first episode started with a long scene, with a William S. Burroughs track accompagnying the images, that introduced in what state of life the family and their friends are. The William S. Burroughs track I didn't know but it sounded remarkably like the work he did with the "The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy" (Michael Franti's old band). A plesant goosebump experience.

I try to understand why I like the Sopranos so much, one of the reasons is that the show is pure commedy. For instance, I couldn't stop laughing when one therapist, Eliot, was talking to the other, Melfi, and said, without a trace of cynicism: "This Omerta concept comes from a pre-therapeutic culture".

I fail to understand why the broadcast of the last episode made the Dutch news. They had to first explain that the Sopranos is a popular series in the US and then broadcasted the plot spoiler! 

TPS Reports


Remember the stapler… That and those damned TPS reports lead to the fire that destroyed Initech.

It seems that Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton might have inspired the developer of the Corporate Ipsum Dashboard widget.

What would life be without TPS reports filled with paragraphs of texts, see below, that can only be found on those callendars with pictures with big black frames and ‘Big Words’ in big white fonts. Now… there is an idea for a Dashboard Widget. If only  Despair wouldn’t have had a “parody generator” of their own.

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Wonder goo

We recently bought a house and we are now in the proces of painting it. Some walls need a little more than just a bit of paint. They need patching and fixing and, and that is really bad, removal of texture. I bought myself a grinder to perform the first step. The second step is where ARDEX commes in.

ARDEX is a plaster/synthetic material  that you apply to your walls or ceilings. I am completely unexperienced in plastering but this stuff works like a charm.

Its hard to get though. I had to call 5 hardware stores to find an ‘obscure’ specialized store that carried it.

I didn’t know I could be so enthousiastic about a bag of powder.