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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 obsessiveness of Ethan Hunt and certainly the ruthlessness of James Bond as portraid by Daniel Craig. This maniacal aspect of the lead spy is an essential part to trigger a sufficient amount of suspension of disbelief needed to be absorbed in such over the top…
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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 of negative criticism on the internet, partly because Pataki didn’t have the star quality to be lead actor. I have to admit I didn’t realise who she was until I looked her up but it didn’t bother me while watching the movie. I kind of…
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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 first movie with John Cena I saw and it was a positive surprise. He has screen presence and was somehow quite funny in a natural way. Besides an actor Cena is also a record holding professional wrestler, regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers…
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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 playing in Cinema Lumiere in Mechelen and we didn’t have to go to Brussel or Antwerp. Cinema Lumiere is more of an old style city cinema and not a modern megaplex type of cinema. Housed in the center of the city in a nice building…
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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 in the place is nice with wooden floors and elsewhere as you can see on the picture. Definitely better interior decoration compared to Wabi Sabi in Bonheiden or Isana in Haacht that have a cantine-like interior not very inviting to spend a lot of time…
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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 a # sign. 1 #for the largest heading#, 2 ##signs for a slightly smaller one## and so on. To start a new paragraph type 2 spaces followed by enter. Italic text is surround by * symbols like *italic*, bold text by 2 ** like **bold**…
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