PeeCleemens

  • Heart of Stone

    Watched this on Netflix during the Xmas break. I categorise it under light entertainment. A spy movie that borrows from James Bond and Mission Impossible but without an attractive story. All the typical ingredients are there (except for the obligatory Bond sexcapades) and Gal Gadot is an appropriately attractive lead actor but she lacks the…

    Heart of Stone
  • Interceptor

    Watched this movie on Netflix during the Xmas break. It stars Elsa Pataki in the lead role of a disillusioned army captain who is promoted away to an isolated missile interceptor base after a #MeToo incident. She soon finds herself in charge of defending the base against a terrorist attack. The movie got a lot…

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    Interceptor
  • Hidden Strike

    Watched this movie from 2023 with Jackie Chan and John Cena recently on Netflix. I found it a run of the mill action movie. Not bad but also not great. It lacked a bit of dramatic tension but the typical Jackie Chan slap stick humor works well in combination with John Cena. This was the…

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    Hidden Strike
  • Interview with Richard Rhodes about The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    I was surfing the web for some information about the Oppenheimer movie and came across this interview with author Richard Rhodes on YouTube in May 2023. Really interesting to hear Rhodes talk about the many people he talked to in the course of writing this book and others. Well addition to reading the actual book.

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Last week we had an unexpected opportunity to go to the cinema and watch Killers of the Flower Moon as both kids were not at home. Even though the movie was only released mid October we had to look for a theatre that was still playing it. We were in luck that it was still…

    Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Mosaic

    Even though Netscape was the first really widespread browser it really started with Mosaic. Marc Andreessen was involved in both products. There is s a short Computing Conversations interview about the origins of Mosaic.

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  • Netscape

    If you are old enough you may remember Netscape and their browser that made the World Wide Web accessible for everyone. There is a nice documentary about these early beginnings of the www, Netscape and the ‘war’ between Microsoft to bring out the most popular web browser.

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  • Saisaki

    Went for dinner at Saisaki in Werchter some time ago. We had seen it passing by in the car a few times and planned to try it out some time. We had ‘our’ typical menu with Edamame and Gyoza for starters and then a sushi boat. Quality was good but not exceptional, but the atmosphere…

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  • Markdown Basics

    In my search for a good way to digitise my notes with equations I have come across Markdown as an option. Jupyter Notebooks support it so this may be a promising solution. It is another ‘language’ to learn but at least the basics not related to equations are extremely simple. Headings in Mardown start with…

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  • Bombs

    ‘You drop a bomb and it falls on the just and the unjust. The prudent man can’t escape it, nor the honest man.‘― Isidor Rabi