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Lawrence van Rijn
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The faltering critique
There was a story I saw a few days ago and I have an issue with it. The story (at gives us ‘Snow White to The Smashing Machine: 10 of the biggest film flops of 2025’ I wondered about that and while…
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December 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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With media assistance
That is what I see and I might be wrong, but judge for yourself. There is plenty of evidence around. It all started with an article in Forbes (at where we were shown ‘Microsoft Updates Windows ‘To …
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December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Upgrade, next chapter
Yesterday I was thinking of a game I used to play and it left me a little underwhelmed. It was not the fault of the game maker, the game was awesome. It gave me the thought that I was in the deep w…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The wrong focus
Two messages passed me by today. The first one was given to us by CNBC (at with the headline ‘Oracle stock dips 5% as Blue Owl Capital pulls out of funding $10 billion data center’ and I wonder why…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Another cool new shirt from @brittlestar.com!
Perfect timing too since I was able to wear it to today's annual checkup with the eye surgeon, and because it's been just over a month since the pacemaker implant - all free because universal public healthcare is awesome.
A man wears a blue t-shirt with a Canadian maple leaf on it and the words "Proud member of the free health care club."
December 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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The neighbors have coffee
That is the setting, but that is not what this is about. We are given a setting (at where we see ‘’Act of war’: Trump orders blockade of ‘sanctioned’ Venezuela oil tankers’ …
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December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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If it’s not real
Yes the is something that we don’t really consider. At least I am not one of those people. You see, I get whatever medications  need from a pharmacy, as such It was never a consideration for m…
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December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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President Bully
Here I was, telling myself that the world is screwed up and behest and behold the world shows me I am right. So as a well known person (who I will not name) set the world on fire with his tweet (se…
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December 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The lie without lying
That is the conundrum we face on a daily basis. And in the marketing realm I was pleasantly surprised yesterday. I saw an engagement advertisement apparently in the Boston Globe. It was an image of…
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December 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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In opposition
I don’t go into ‘in opposition’ mode too often, because it tends to be an exercise of mopping the floor whilst the tap is spilling right on the floor. And you come to the conclusion that it is bett…
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December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Orchestration
That was on my mind when I was considering a few settings. Orchestration by the media no less. To get the full view to this, I need to explain a few items. The media has NO responsibility to print …
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December 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Then there is that
I saw an interesting piece in the Arab News (at we are given ‘Saudi firms sign agreements to develop Syrian oil and gas fields’ I see it as interesting as it is perhaps a first step to see funds en…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Dropped balls
There are several balls that have been dropped by a whole range of entities (cannot call them people) and there is a larger setting.  First there is Bioware with an at some point appearing Mas…
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December 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Really? One or the other?
That is the setting I find myself in. One is either a conspiracy theorist or a fake news provider. It is weirdly never both, or neither. Look at the news and the media is every bit as guilty on thi…
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December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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I have been slacking on the trotting front. I have just passed 1013 km 76% still have to go 319 km. Just passed a sign. Apparently only 70 cars are allowed on this road. I didn't even know that there were 70 cars on Iceland. Only 29 cars passed me, so there is space on Iceland for GM to franchise 😂
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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The lighting of a stage
That is what I am wondering about. You see, first we hear that Netflix is acquiring Warner Brothers and a few connected things too. A day later we hear “US president Donald Trump says the Netflix d…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Outside of my comfort zone
This morning I got news passing me by and it left me with questions. Now most of us have heard of the Muslim Brotherhood and as far as I can tell rightfully so, it is branded a terrorist organisati…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I'm at 998km now, 73% and 90 km ahead of schedule. Doing nicely so here.a all postcard.
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The increased revenue setting
That is what we look for and I found another setting in something called Airport technology. You see, we see ‘King Salman International Airport, Saudi Arabia’  (at and the facts are clear. An …
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December 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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A Peter Sellers world
That is what hit me when I saw ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble’ (source: Bloomberg) which comes from Dr Strangelove where we get “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bom…
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December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The stage was set
That is the setting I now engage. Yesterday I got an idea for a movie, a massively violent movie and I had it before I had the idea for a new game (see previous blog) and even as I had a few ideas …
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December 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The idea and a half
That is the setting, it started yesterday. To relax me I decided to listen to some Hogwarts ambiance music and I stumbled upon the 4 common rooms under Christmas and as I was relaxing, I suddenly n…
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December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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TBD CEO OpenAI
That is the thought I had, yesterday, 5 hours after I wrote my piece, I still saw the news all over the media, some on it was getting a ridiculous amount of attention, so I decided to take another …
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December 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The rockstar wannabe
There is a setting we at times ignore. When so called ‘important’ people hide behind movie settings like Sam Altman is when he calls for ‘Code Red’ (at I tend to get frisky and a little stir crazy,…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The bear loses
It was a setting that has been 1380 days in the making. Perhaps some will remember the publishing stunts by the Russians on how it would be over in 48 hours, now 1380 days later the Russians have s…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM