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  • Wielrijdersrust Het dorstige hart

    Like most years we spent a few days with the family in Nieuwpoort at the Belgian coast again. One of the things we do traditionally during these vacations is to go for a bike ride. Our bike path often leads along the conterdijk along the canal Nieuwpoort-Duinkerke and past a cyclist friendly brasserie : Wielrijdersrust Het dorstige Hart. It is also a B&B but we only needed some refreshment. They have a terrace in front of the Brasserie right next to the canal and also one in the garden at the back. When we arrived the terrace in front was…

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  • Relaxing Lunch at Brasserie Beukenhof: Quality Food & Service

    After visiting the Navigo museum in Nieuwpoort we planned to have lunch and the Peerdevisscher next door but unfortunately the place was completely full. Google Maps came to the rescue and directed us to Brasserie Beukenhof. This was almost full but we could still get 2 tables for 4 people each next to each other on the terrace outside. We had a bit of shade so we ended up having a relaxing lunch with a few beers and a scampi salad for me. Food quality was very good and service super friendly. We came by bike and together with the…

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  • Exploring the Navigo Museum: A Fisherman’s History

    Last week we visited the Navigo museum in Nieuwpoort. We last visited it a number of years ago when they had a photo expo from Stephan Vanfleteren. Since then the museum has modernised the presentation of its collection and is well worth a visit even if you visited in the past like us. The museum tells the history of fishing at the Belgian coast since roughly the Renaissance until today. Besides displays with text there a many paintings depicting fishing and scale models of fishing boats. Some portraits of fishermen from Stephan Vanfleteren are also on display. Many exhibits illustrate…

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  • Easy Indoor Gardening with Auk Mini: My Experience

    I have been thinking about growing vegetables for a while but never really committed to the idea. We have a lot of snails in our garden and the few vegetables we have planted have been eaten by the snails more often than not. Two years ago we managed to gets some courgettes which was nice. We had a steady supply of courgettes all summer and they tasted good. Last year we didn’t have any harvest to speak of. To experiment with the options in an easy to control environment I spent some cash and bought an Auk Mini indoor garden.…

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  • Goodbye to my Old Mac Pro trash can

    A little while ago I decided it finally was time to replace my old Mac Pro from 2013, also known as the trash can. The model got a lot of negative criticism because of the radical design which limited ‘upgrade’ options severely compared to previous and subsequent Mac Pro models. As I can hardly be called a power user I never had problems with these limits. It is small, fits behind my screen on my desk and is absolutely silent. I upgraded the RAM to 64Gb and installed a larger Aura Pro X2 SSD from OWC, 500Gb was definitely not…

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  • Vanity and the Rise of the Web

    ‘I’m so vain. I probably think this page is about me.‘― Dr Chuck Severance in Web Applications for Everybody

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  • Einstein’s Wife. The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Allen Chesterton & David Cassidy (ISBN 9780262538978, MIT Press)

    I read about this book in the paper when it came out in 2020 but didn’t buy it immediately. Then, not so long ago I decided to buy and read the Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson and I also got this book about Mileva Maric which I read first. Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife was forgotten by history for a long time until new letters between her and Einstein from their student days were discovered in 1986. Some claimed that Maric made key contributions to Einstein’s papers from 1905, even going so far as to state that she did all…

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    Einstein’s Wife. The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Allen Chesterton & David Cassidy (ISBN 9780262538978, MIT Press)

  • The Purpose of Reading

    ‘Why are we reading, if not in the hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatise our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?‘― Annie Dillard

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  • Clarice Lispector reflecting about The Instant

    ‘The instant is this one. The instant is of an imminence that takes my breath away. The instant is in itself imminent. At the same time that I live it, I burst into its passage into another instant.‘― Clarice Lispector

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson on Productivity

    ‘If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know! We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us. All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that ’tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.‘― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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