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One Quarter of the Way: 100 Days of Coding Python Bootcamp
After having applied the object oriented programming paradigm in a few lessons building games like snake and pong with Turtle the course deviates to explain how to read and write csv files and introduces the pandas library. On day 26 list and dictionary comprehension are introduced as powerful and elegant ways to create a list or a dictionary on a single line of code. I had learned about list comprehension before but have so far not really used it in my own programs as I obviously didn’t feel comfortable enough to use them. The benefit of having gone through the…
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Dinner at Saporito in Livorno while staying in the Max Hotel
After having visited Pisa along the way we drove to Livorno to Max Hotel. This turned out to be situated at the outskirts of the city in a not too pedestrian friendly neighbourhood. Parking in front was limited but there was a large parking space next door catering to shoppers of some kind of supermarket. They also have an underground parking but we didn’t bother to park underground. So after checking in we decided to try and go for dinner in the city centre. Unfortunately there was some kind of event going on and we could not find a single…
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A Quantum of Solace
After the dramatic finale of Casino Royale, a Quantum of Solace is an appropriate title for this sequel. Bond gets his revenge but it brings him very little solace, so quantum is the right word to use. The movie begins where the previous one ended but then soon seems to diverge in a direction with very little obvious connection to what happened before. There is a lot of action and Olga Kurylenko has a nice role as Bond girl. There are good parts in the movie but to me personally the story arc lacks cohesion and as a result the…
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The Struggle to Stay Active: Running and Climbing Stairs
This year I have been struggling to systematically log my weekly running kms and I am way behind my year target. Yesterday I managed to go for another 7k run and then went for a 6k walk but in terms of running I haven’t even been reaching half of my 17k weekly ambition. In terms of running fitness it has not been too bad. Even though I am not running as much and as often as I had planned, I can still run the 7k without feeling stretched or exhausted. I do run a bit slower than I would normally…
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Melkzelen
I don’t know for 100% sure what melkezelen means exactly but one thing is for sure, it is not something you should do 😀. The internet gives some hints. Although the verb doesn’t exist there is a reference to the noun melkezel, literally translated into English as milk donkey. A melkezel is according to the source an especially stupid donkey. I conclude that melkezelen means to behave very foolishly. And to make sure we won’t forget it has been literally set in stone on a ‘kitchen’ tile.
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Exploring Free Dataset Resources: 2018 Squirrel Census
On day 25 of the 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp a dataset containing a 2018 census of squirrels in Central Park is used to practice working with Pandas. The data comes from New York Open Data. As the name suggests this is source of freely available data on many subjects in New York. If you look at the catalogue you will find more than 3000 different datasets which you can browse per category. I am always interested to find reliable data sources to back or refute claims people (mostly politicians) make. I haven’t explored this site yet but wanted…
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Casino Royale
This summer I decided to watch all the Daniel Craig James Bond movies again in sequence, starting with Casino Royale. The movie starts in black and white before the opening credits showing James Bond earning his 00 licence by killing 2 people. After the credits we switch to colour and the main story of the movie. The movie is an update of the James Bond character and the movie atmosphere to modern times, adding tension and grid a bit similar to what the Jason Bourne franchise brought to the spy movie genre. In my opinion this was very successful and…
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Exploring Pisa: Lunch and Landmarks on the Way to Corsica
On our second day driving to Corsica we had a short leg of a little over 300km between Milan and Livorno. The reason for this was that we had an early ferry on Sunday morning so we wanted to avoid getting to Livorno very late and having to get up early in the morning to get to the ferry. Along the way to Livorno we passed Pisa and decided to stop for a late lunch and a short city tour. On our way to the leaning tower we stopped for lunch at Ristorante Il Borgo 21. They had good focacia…
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Extending the Life of My Mac Pro Trash Can
Some time ago I wrote that I bought a new Mac Studio to replace my old 2013 Mac Pro. In reality I have ended up continuing to use the Mac Pro on a daily basis. The main reason being that other people in the family use the Mac Studio as well and I want access to a computer at any time I need one. Plus, for many tasks the Mac Pro is still more than capable enough, the only problem being the fact that Apple stopped updating the OS with OS Monterey for this model. No more security updates either…
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Bollate
This year we went on a vacation to Corsica again. We decided to drive and cover a lot of kilometres on our first day. We drove to just before Milan and booked a hotel in Bollate. This was a bit under 950km and driving was quite smooth, not so many traffic jams, those we saw mostly in the opposite direction which didn’t forbade well for the return journey. Even though there was not much traffic we did progress slowly through Switserland because of the many speed limits. We got through France and to the border of Switserland by 4pm but…
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