Spectre
Spectre is the penultimate James Bond movie with Daniel Craig playing James Bond. Together with the last one it forms one continuous storyline. In it we finally meet up with Spectre again, the ominous crime organisation we already know from older James Bond movies. We also meet Blofeld and discover a close connection between Blofeld…
Porto-Vecchio on Corsica
During our summer vacation on Corsica we visited a few villages and towns. One was Porto-Vecchio. This is a charming old fortified harbour town, typical for Corsica. Although it was less than a 100km away from where we were staying it turned out to be another day trip. Of course, we were taking it easy…
Willem Frederik Hermans Volledige Werken Volledig!
Ever since I had to read a few books from Willem Frederik Hermans in high school I have been a fan of his work. I bought and read a number of his books over the years but when the project to publish all his works started and the first volume came out in 2005 I…
The Creation of the Universe, George Gamow (ISBN 9780486438689, Dover)
I bought this book not so long ago when I found a reference to it in another book. It originally came out in 1952 but the Dover edition is a reprint from 2004. The dedication of the book reads ‘To fellow cosmogonists of all lands and ages’. Although the book contains little mathematics, it is…
Monte Renoso Trail on Corsica
On one of our first days on Corsica we decided to go for a walk and picked Monte Renoso as the target. We found this route on Komoot. The route from our apartment to the starting point took us along a narrow and tortuous but scenic road which managed to drain most of our battery.…
HP38G: Another addition to the calculator collection
I was recently surfing on eBay for an HP calculator and ended up buying 2. One is this HP38G. I didn’t do my research properly of course and only realised after it arrived that this is a traditional style calculator, not the typical HP RPN type I am used to. Apart from that it looks…
Finished the Intermediate Section: 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp
Today I finished the day 31 capstone project of the course concluding the intermediate section: Next are another 15 or so days at the intermediate+ level. The capstone project of day 31 was to build a flashcard app. This was a quite useful project for me because it ties in nicely with one of the…
HP48G: A New Addition to the Calculator Collection
A while ago I was browsing Ebay and came across a second hand HP48G which looked quite nice. Price was OK so I decided to buy it. It travelled quite a while coming from the US but it was in working order. The included batteries were apparently old because they died after a month or…
Musée d’archéologie d’Aleria
On our first real day on Corsica we did the necesary grocery shopping first so that we could have breakfast, lunch and dinner at our apartment when we wanted to. As we didn’t get up too early that took us to lunch after which we decided to go for a short afternoon visit to the…
Skyfall
The third James Bond movie with Daniel Craig and arguably the best one in my opinion. The movie introduces the new Q and Moneypenny characters and Javier Bardem is an excellent villain controlling events from behind a curtain. In that way this movie is also more a whodunnit in which the relationship between Bond and…
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