Chaos in the middle

Dear reader,

Last week I travelled back by plane from my business trip to Sweden. Since I was in the south of Sweden, Copenhagen was the most appropriate airport. The flight from Copenhagen to Amsterdam is short, just over 60 minutes.

While descending to Amsterdam I looked out of the window to catch a view from the Dutch landscape in springtime. What I saw was a well organized structure of fields, roads, water way’s, offices, greenhouses, houses, train tracks, etc.

At that point in time my thought was: “what a great order” But how come that once you as human being are in the ground again the order is gone for the most part. People are running around, cars are driving in all directions, small road in the county side are not smooth, no they are full of bumps and holes. In fact it’s complete chaos!!

The following though was, if magnifying all I see around me things get structured again. Everything is build up according the rules of molecules. And molecules are build of a very limited set of atoms. And atoms themselves are build out of only 3 elements, neutrons, protons and electrons.

So the conclusion is: that once you are on a much bigger level (in the sky) every thing looks organized, neat and in a way simple. When being on a very low level, things start to become organized and neat again. What remains in the middle is chaos….so on our personal level, when we are look at entities with a dimension close to your own dimension it’s chaos that rules. Interesting thought, because mankind lives and survives in the jungle of chaos….I find that a very positive idea.

Have a nice day and take care, Oculus

Sentiments.....

Dear reader,

Today a short post about how I feel....well kind of sentimental....the weather is great, finally after a long, I say too long winter ending. Outside it's finally more than 15 degrees Celsius. You might imagine that I don't long after work...instead my thought run away with me in fact all day.

The picture I took this afternoon visualizes want I really wanted to do. Let me tell you:

1. The bottle is a small plastic bottle with syrup. Soon, in 1,5 hour, I start a 90 minute jogging run.
2. The bottle is of the brand Perfekta, a Swedish company making bottle belts for runners. Sweden reminds me of my 3 yrs stay in Småland, lond and winding roads and endless forests..wow what a country........I would love to move there again...
3. The clear blue sky in the back of the picture shows how beautiful the weather is today, it's too much of a pity to stay inside
4. The phone on the right is an old GSM phone from 2001 or so.... as I work a lot with phones (telecom industry) it's museum part right now, however only 7 years old..

How about your thoughts?

Have a nice day, Oculus

View from my office

Dear reader,

I managed to connect my Sony Ericsson W710i phone to connect to Blog directly. Let me explain how it works. You take pictures with your camera phone and choose the option send to Blogger.
A new screen pops up where you can add post title and a more complete description. After you are done, you just push the poblish key and there it goes directly to you blog.
If you do this operation for the first time, you need to access the net and complete the setup of the blog. If you like you can choose to send you pictures to an existing blog. Easy, smart and for me a real wow factor. Finally something that works as a consumer likes to.

The picture than, it's a poor one, I agree and I promise to make better ones with another phone I have. You can see the reflection of the phone and even in the back some reflection of my office. What you can see, is that I have a great view from my office. A view over a new quater under construction. The rest is agriculture area, forest etc.

Finally my thoughts go back to my teenage time, the time only some main frame computers by IBM, Sun, HP and Digital exist. So the pre-PC time. Realizing how pictures were made, printed, distributed at that time, compared to the online publishing gof the above picture, makes me proud of the ability of mankind to be extremely innovative. My hope is that mankind uses this ability not only for technical stuff, but also to cope with today's world problem like ending wars, solve problems in the 3-rd world and take care of our environmental crisis.

Take care and have a nice weekend, Oculus

Jogging

Dear reader,

Like many others in the (Western) World, I like to keep in a good physical shape. So I care about my nutrition (healthy and too much), don't smoke, drink alcoholic only occasionally and try to do my exercises, mostly jogging.

When I was young I started with speed skating, later cycling and as a student (already 30 years ago) jogging/running. Upto 2003 I ran 1-2 time a week, for about 5 - 10 km (3,5 - 7 miles). During that year many things happened in my live and I looked for a way to not only stay healthy, but also stay mentally well. And from the past I knew that lond distance running felt good. So I increased the number of training sessions and the distance as well.

So from 2003 I train 3 times a week, steadily increasing from 7,5 (5) to 10-11 km (7,5 - 8 miles)per training. Summing up the total during 2006 I made over 1500 km. In 2007 I was not able to do so much, because of an injury. I have/had heel spurs and nowadays I can cope with that and I'm very glad about that fact.

At some occasions each year I like to run events. From 7 - half marathon distance. On Dec 31 there is always a run close to my home town called the “oliebollen race”. 7,2 km cross country running. I have been participating 4 times in a row now and due to the changing weather conditions this time of the year, each year was different. Snow and ice, wind (almost storm) and rain, frost and warm temperatures.

The Dutch landscape

At the start

Cross country

Oculus

Happy New Year

Dear reader,

I hope 2008 will be a successful and healthy year to all of you. And may bad things happen; I hope you have the courage, braveness and wisdom to overcome these.

Oculus