Must get me one of these babies so I can go back to using my ITM flat wing handlebar. I find flat wings far more comfortable than traditional round bars but they do not translate well to clip-on aerobars. Must get this sorted before my two big race goals: Bruges and Aarschot.
Written and originally recorded by the venerable Curtis Mayfield, Patti Jo’s version of “Make me believe in you” packs a mean punch. At the tender age of 16 (!), Patti layed down some dramatic and tense vocals that drive the song’s message of distrust home. Just listen to that groove.
Patti Jo – Make me believe in you (1973, Scepter Records)
Buy on Dusty Groove or sample on zshare.
Congratulations to all IM Lanzarote finishers. You rock. What Bert Jammaer (first overall) and Dirk Van Gossum (8th overall at age 45) did today defies belief. To celebrate their otherworldly athletic performance, I would like to plug a fine, fine mix by Laid Back’s Luigi. Dig in and unwind.
Tracklist:
Yellow Sunshine – Happiness (Gamble)
Osmar Milito – América Latina (Soma records)
Blu & Exile – Simply Amazin’ (Sound in color)
Louis Bordeaux – Few words (Appletree records)
Comfort Fit – In simple words feat. Nicole Hadfield (Swedish brand)
Sister Sledge – Easier to love (Cotillion)
Milton Wright – Keep it up (Alston)
Afta 1 – Believe (Aftathoughts)
Eric Lau feat Meshach Brown – Hope (Ubiquity)
Flyamsam – The offbeat (White)
Otis Gayle – I’ll be there (Souljazz)
The blackbyrds – Mysterious vibes (Fantasy)
Kurious- I’m Kurious (Sony)
J-88 – Get it together (madlib RMX)
Ummah – 4 moms (slum village rmx -Barak)
Heralds of Change feat Oddisee – Show you (Allcity records)
Loleatta Holloway – Casanova (Black Horse)
Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson – Guerillia (Arista)
Erykah Badu – Me (Motown)
Sa-Ra – Forever (Jazzy sport)
I drive an Audi A4 2.5 TDI on weekends. During weekdays, I take the train to work or work at home – ah, the perks of working in academia. The car is a joy to ride: smooth, economical, responsive, comfortable. The best thing about it is its automatic gearbox: a continuous variable transmission, or ‘multitronic’ as Audi calls it. Shifting gears becomes effortless and even imperceptible. Unfortunately, it’s also a pretty costly piece of technology. Mine is malfunctioning at the moment to the tune of 4800 euro.
“Typically, in many sciences, results that yield p
.05 are considered borderline statistically significant but remember that this level of significance still involves a pretty high probability of error (5%). Results that are significant at the p .01 level are commonly considered statistically significant, and p .005 or p .001 levels are often called “highly” significant. But remember that those classifications represent nothing else but arbitrary conventions that are only informally based on general research experience.”
(source)
Am dipping my feet in correlational statistics for a poster on language teaching. A hoot and a holler are never far away when conducting t-tests for dependent samples.
If only I had followed my budding financial instincts and one visionary analyst report, I could have bought myself some Zipp toys by now with the cash my Agfa Gevaert stock has generated of late. And something tells me the share price is only starting to climb. Alas, I didn’t have the stomach to buy stocks. I will now light myself on fire.
One of my favorite workouts is an open water swim in Hazewinkel’s 2000m rowing course. Sure, getting in and out of a wetsuit sucks, but the sensation of swimming in open water is pure bliss. The water is clear, there’s a rope at 1m depth that runs the entire course and you can shower afterwards. Sa-weet.
Picture by Koen Handekyn
Every so often, I get friendly – and sometimes not so friendly – advice from friends and family about scientific research. The ivory tower view of academic research (“it’s all intellectual mumbo jumbo” or “sure, but how does that help you in real life?”) is one of the most persistent ideologies I come across. A recent 6minutes.be column (in Dutch) played the same card; I responded by arguing that (applied/social) science deals with real-life issues.
“The problem is that social scientists too often alternate between hubris – each of them dream to be the Newton of social science as well as the Lenin of social change – or desperation – they despise themselves for merely piling on more reports, stories and statistics that no one will read.”
Bruno Latour (via Flyss)
Belgian Olympic hopeful Griet Buelens – who gives meaning to the phrase fishlike swimming – broke her own national record in the 200m butterfly this weekend. With a time of 2:09:16, Griet shaved off a full two seconds from her previous best time. Impressive.
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