Today it’s April 4, 4 days after the latest issue of Dapper , and I have no idea in what state we all will be the end of April, when we re...

As you may have noticed I do like (some) military SF, and it’s fine if that borders on not all too realistic Space Opera. However, regardl...

How a distant disease became our closest friend… Two months ago Wuhan was a remote place, and nobody was paying all too much attention t...

Review. Well... I dunno. Typical conscripted lonesome soldier fights on some remote world, then becomes hero against all odds, then lead...

Let's face it. Social distancing has nothing to do with protecting YOU. We're all going to be sick. Some of us are going to die....

The Dutch government has given the advice to limit social interaction to a minimum, keep 1.5 meters of distance, and only go to work if ab...

Corona is here. I made a quick estimate when the impact of the Corona virus would be largest, and that would have to be in 42 days. Th...

Thanks, Microsoft. For... for... for everything! But especially for cheating me out of all the hours I could have spend more productive....

Review. My first Stross novel deals with the Singularity, a 'hypothetical moment in time when any physically conceivable level of te...

Several webpages have a copy protection, ie. you cannot copy texts and / or objects by marking a section, then copy it by pressing the Rig...

Review. Netflix doesn't get it right all the time. In fact, there's lots of rubbish, and Netflix added their fair share to it. ...

Review. Not well known, and certainly harder to get over here (that is: Europe) it tells the tale of a young girl ended up in another mo...

Review. Marines in space. 'Nuff said. Will appeal to some, but I found it a little flat. His work under the alias 'William H Kei...

Review. Most of the times I remember a book, movie or series. Perhaps not in details, but at least in some way. Browsing through my ol...

Review. One. Very. Bad. Movie.

Review. Lalonde continues, but I think the last two or three books in the Spinward Fringe series haven't been as good as the earlie...

DIY. Dutch. WD40 is raar spul. Het helpt om tandwielen en schroefdraad te smeren, werkt als kruipolie, en je kunt er zelfs lijmresten me...

Review. Kung Fu Panda . I've seen this movie now... what? Four? Five? Six times? Once in the cinema, couple of times on DVD and NetF...

Review. I should change the title of this blog to 'reviews of old novels everyone already read'... I was never a big fan of Ne...

Review. We're at books 17, 18 and 19 of the Foreigner series. It looks like Cherryh isn't giving up. And, to be honest, these ar...

Hobbies are great. Combining hobbies is even better. After fixing up my 'rollsnijder' (papercutter) I found a new use for the 3D p...

Review. Netflix does bring a lot of Anime lately. Some of it awful, some of it not that bad. Some of it... euh... incomplete. To quote...

Although many products from China are great, their documentation is often... lacking. Here's the MiLight (FutLight) FUT014W. It'...

Review. I have a reasonable 😅 collection of RPG stuff, much of it never used, and lots of it completely useless. I wonder why I even bo...

DIY. Dutch. Staples verkoopt een betaalbare rolsnijder. Niet de beste ter wereld, maar zoveel hoefde ik er nou ook weer niet mee te doen...

In hindsight the behavior of the different FUT LED strip controllers was to be expected... but I just wanted to be sure, so tried the FUT3...

Review. Even before The Force Awakens heralded the return of Star Wars I decided to dip in and refresh and improve my knowledge of the &...

Define 'nerd'... If it's a person who enjoys an overly complex technical solution for a problem that doesn't need to be ...

I still have some issues printing large objects on my (unheated) printer bed, but the final product is taking shape. We're slowly ge...

Review. Ptolus is a setting for D&D 3e, developed by Monte Cook of Malhavoc Press. There was a limited edition hardcover printing in...

I've got a bunch of MiLight / Futlight / MiBoxer LED lamps of different types and versions. Unfortunately the original design of the...

In 2011 I was working on my 'classics' I guess... 😅 Let's see, Star Wars books ... what did I think of them  then ? And now...

Review. Seis Manos is nothing but glorious grindhouse anime. Let's go back to the 70's, and throw every exploitation / reven...

This isn't about the actual accuracy of the printer itself (which depends on build quality, design, components etcetera) but about the...

Dutch. Ik herinner me deze kaartjes nog van vroeger uit de AD&D tijd (ik wordt oud 😅)... en ze zijn er nog steeds. Ideaal voor hen ...

I've been listening to some Star Wars audio books over the years... Some good. Most bad. The first two were so bad, it was almost f...

So, if you're not superhero tired, you may have seen something outside the Marvel Universe. Such as Wonder Woman . In general, I'...

Review. As every fan knows: the episode numbers don’t match the sequence in which these were made… we made it to episode VIII thus far. ...

In civilized Europe 😇 we (tend to) have more reasonable presidents / prime ministers / monarchs, and we use the metric system. Which make...

Long ago 😅 I said I was planning to design my own enclosure for a led driver and led controller. Of course, reality interfered and lots o...

Review. I've read some Cloak & Dagger comics in the past. With the current superhero craze there was no way Cloak & Dagger ...

Review. Time to check out Vlad Taltos... I'm reading the books in chronological order, not the sequence Brust wrote them. At least t...

Review. The Halcyone Space  series now contains 4, no wait, 5 books. I noticed them earlier, but didn't pay much attention to them...

The Dremel 3d20 (and the FlashForge Dreamer) both have a small, very noisy fan at the bottom of the assembly. Very noisy... I saw a few ...

Review. Netflix added a number of Anime series last year, and one of those is the 12 episode Sirius the Jaeger . Vampires and werewolves...

My house is using a centralized ventilation system (a  WHR950 ) with three operating modes. You're supposed (!) to switch to mode 1, 2...

Well, actually they mess up diagrams , but this title sounds better 😅 My Homematic CCU2 collects data and displays them in a diagram. I...

Review. Shadow Captain is book two in the Revenger  series. The sequel to  Revenger . If the monniker YA (Young Adult)  applies to Reve...

Dutch. In D&D 5e zijn er twee soorten wapens: melee wapens (hand-to-hand combat, zwaarden, hamers en dergelijke) en ranged weapons (...

Review. Another book in another series. YA, which is fine, but it suffers from an overdose of naivety. Unfortunately.