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Total Recall Double Bill Part 2
After watching the 1990 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger I also watched the remake from 2012 starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel. The immediately obvious difference is that the remake is visually technically far superior and makes the future look convincingly like the future and not some failed cardboard attempt. This obviously helps the movie but another big plus is that at least for me Colin Farrell is more convincing as the hunted prey on the run. Reflecting on why the 1990 version was not completely satisfying I think part of it maybe that for me Arnold is so…
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Total Recall Double Bill Part 1
I recently watched the movie from 1990 with Arnold Schwarzenegger again. The real revelation then and still now is Sharon Stone. One moment she is the harmless, loving, young and innocent extremely good looking wife, the next one she is a ruthless killer, still extremely good looking but with all the innocence evaporated into thin air. Really world class. The movie is based on a story by Philip K. Dick and one of its biggest qualities is that it keeps you doubting what is real and what is dream. It was directed by Paul Verhoeven and has some explicit, campy…
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Amsterdam
In the last week of July our daughter went on a Drijver elite prep hockey goalie training camp in Amsterdam organised by Sportways. This year the camp was at Xenios. It is amazing how many hockey clubs there are in Amsterdam alone. Xenios has about 1300 members, 5 water fields and they completed the building of a new large club house just before summer. Their first teams are not playing in the highest division but 2 levels below and still they are bigger than Dragons in Belgium. After dropping her off we went to the Botanical garden. We parked the…
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Old Club – Keerbergen D1
Last season the young Dames 1 team of Keerbergen Hockey Tigers promoted to the Belgian Nationale 2 league. On September 4th they kicked off their season at Old Club de Liege. The nervousness was visible in their game and in a tense match they finally lost the season opener 3-2. But the game was close and really a draw would have been a more representative result of the game. Unfortunately a couple of open chances were missed and no advantage was taken of the fact that the goalie of Old Club had to be replaced due to an injury in…
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Boekhandel Dominicanen
Een tijdje geleden bezochten we Maastricht en een bezoek aan Boekhandel Dominicanen kon dan niet ontbreken. Deze boekhandel vestigde zich in 2006 in een oude Dominicanenkerk. Het gebouw alleen al is een bezoek waard zelfs als je geen interesse hebt in boeken. Voor wie wel op zoek naar boeken kan ik deze boekhandel ook aanraden. Qua schaal komt dit nog het dichtste bij Angelsaksische boekhandels in de UK of USA. Zeker voor de meer gangbare onderwerpen is er een ruime keuze, enkel in de exacte wetenschappen en dan vooral in het Engels is de keuze eerder beperkt. Maar dan nog…
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Maastricht
With the youngest on scouts camp we went for a short overnight trip to Maastricht. We stayed in the Kaboom Hotel next to the central station. We travelled by car and could stay in the car park next to the station. From the car park to the hotel was a simple matter of crossing the street. The hotel is a bit trendy but the rooms were nice and spacy with all comfort to be expected. Even though situated right across the station we didn’t hear any noise from the trains. Breakfast was OK but a bit pricey. I can recommend…
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The Musketeers
After visiting the Verbeke Foundation discussed in another post we went for dinner at a nearby pub called The Musketeers in Sint-Gillis-Waas. They brew their own special beers and serve traditional dishes. The beer is apparently quite famous but I must confess I hadn’t heard of it before. No matter, we had a few amongst us that could advise on what to try so we started out on the terrace drinking and tasting. As an IPA fan I tried their Jack’s Precious IPA which is quite nice. For dinner we moved inside as it was getting a bit chilly. The…
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Verbeke Foundation
In July we managed to get in touch with family while doing an activity. This year we went to visit the Verbeke Foundation. It is celebration its 15th anniversary this year but personally I never visited it before. It is a bit an eclectic collection of art and objects placed in a park. Don’t expect traditional art like in a museum setting but for example a strip of highway including lamp post and crash barrier. Other objects are for example a giant Russian helicopter or small bungalows made out of a type of plastic. Some of it is industrial waste…
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The Grand Aim of Science
‘The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.’― Albert Einstein
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