Salty Souls

The Final, Take 3

michiel — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:14:14 +0000

We’ve made it to the final, again. “We” as in eleven (and some) guys from my home country playing football, and “the final’ referring to the very last 2010 World Cup match determining which team will be crowned the Champion of the World for the next four years. July 11 it is: The day of [...]

Online social networking and the reverse warp drive through spacetime

michiel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:57:13 +0000

Someone once said that life is like a box of chocolate. I think that analogy was as sweet as it is flat. Of course you don’t know what you’re going to get, but life must be larger than that. I picture it more like how the big bang created the universe – a forever expanding [...]

Pirates, of the Caribbean and elsewhere

michiel — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:46:53 +0000

I think we have a pretty promising new guy running the show right now, but if Walt Disney would ever return from his death to be President, this small world would be so full of peace that even pirates would be cool. Like Johnny Depp. That’s clearly not the case though. Pirates, of the Caribbean [...]

Sir Ouwersloot was an old school salty soul

michiel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:19:21 +0000

I vividly recall the Summers I spent as a kid at Sailing Institute Holland in Andel, a small village at the borders of a closed off stretch of the Maas river, in the middle of the Netherlands. Right there my passion for sailing got ignited, not to be extinguished ever since. The levee on which [...]

Time is very relative on the open waters

michiel — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:15:46 +0000

With the return of Daylight Saving Time last Sunday, my mind went wandering off to the meaning of time on the open waters. Time is very relative out there. On the one hand, time is taken pretty serious. Sailing a boat on the open waters is a 24 hour job, usually driven by a watch [...]