Reid, Geleijnse & Van Tol – Fokke & Sukke zijn weer thuis (03-030)

Reid, Geleijnse & Van Tol – Fokke & Sukke zijn weer thuis (03-030)

It is difficult to do a review of a book of cartoons. Perhaps I just shan’t. For those of you who want to see : http://www.foksuk.nl

Invite codes

As an early adopter, nowadays even paid member, I do get quite a few invitation codes. So I decided to join the codesharing community and give away 5 codes. Gave them a few questions to answer, then had quite a few very fast responses. So within 12 hours I had given away 5 codes. Now, nearly a week later, I noticed that only 3 of them have been used. Strange, first you are very eager to get one, do an effort to answer my questions, then forget to start your own LJ?

http://www.livejournal.com/community/codesharing/822091.html

Strange world.

User info

Once in a while I like to change my user info. Especially the opportunity to live in exotic places tempts me to much. So since yesterday I live in Mayotte. And even though I have been travelling quite a bit and even teach geography in school, I really don't know where it is. It seems that there is only one other active member from there. I guess I'd rather not know yet where it is, gives me the chance to fantasize a bit more.

Mart Smeets – 100 mannen (03-031)

Mart Smeets – 100 mannen (03-031)

Smeets writes columns, many of them. With the Tour de France coming up, it is time for the annual ‘milk the punter’-collection of columns. This time at least he has done the effort to write something especially for the occasion. This occasion obviously being 100 years of Tour de France. Hence Smeets writes 100 chapters on 100 cyclists. Mostly nice little portraits with some defining anecdote. I just think that he had 47 nice characters, then had to find 53 others as well to make sure the book fits. Some stories are therefore not up to scratch. Which is a shame, as he does have so much experience after following the Tour for 3 decades, that he must be able to tell more than he does here.

Best bit of the book is the last chapter in which his alter ego Stijn Miller dreams of the Tour in which all these 100 stars drive 3 stages of a special celebratory Tour. Smeets’ way of trying to answer the question everyone wants to know: Who was the best cyclist in 100 years of Tour de France.