Archive for July, 2006

Mongol Rally

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Fancy a different holidays this time? Enough of all those turists spreading like ants around the beach where YOU’ve chosen how to spend YOUR FEW ONLY HOLY DAYS of peace… this time there’s the ultimate solution to, let’s say, put your head and body on something different. You’ll be back a different person, guaranteed!
I’m talking […]

How’s this for a thesis topic?

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Games are racist
How does a chap persuade a school to fund a study or award a degree wherein the primary research is playing a videogame and following the storyline?  After getting over the ridiculousness of it all you have to consider, who would consider a sample size of 4 games, and a total playing time […]

Heatwave? What heatwave?

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

See, while you southerners roast away, and moan about the lack of aircon - us northerners are actually enjoying a warm summer. Its been almost a whole week now that I’ve been able to wear shorts!
The Northern Sites gallery is up and running

Our new mascotte

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

May I introduce you the funniest and cutest animal around here? From now on he’ll be our new mascotte… but how could we name him? Leave your suggestions in the comment!

The Mentos Experiment

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Well, I’m working in R&D, you know, but this time I wish my PhD project would been so much fun!
I’m proud to link you to the Mentos Experiment (and Diet Coke!).
Enjoy! Click here.
ps: don’t try it at home…

Man, you’re thinking like a woman…

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

…sometimes you wanted to say, or somebody told to you exactly the opposite? Well, now you can find out the thruth! Taking the Brain Sex ID Test
And maybe, next time your wife tells you can’t understand women, you’ll have some arguments to show instead…

Italia Campione del Mondo!

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

I think there’s no need for a post, right? The title here it’s enough…

Forza Azzurri!

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

This night is the World Cup final: Italy VS. France in Berlin.
We’ll all be glued to the tv screens with our (b) in hand and our flags ready. Just to feel like in Rome, around the Colosseum, doing the carosello…

Cavity Sam

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Bzzz… bzzz. And his red nose was lighting up! Do you remember it? or I’m so old you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about?
Cavity Sam was that little man with whom many of us got their first ER training when we were kids. Of course, after a while the bones where getting missed […]

Why?

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

This post opens a new section on Albazilla, being the first of many ‘why?’ I encounter during my everyday life…
1) why the sugar bags in Portugal contain 6/8 g. of sugar, while in the Netherlands only 5 g.?