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The Power of Belief
‘The power of belief resides in its ability to do four things: belief creates vision; belief creates strength of will; belief creates resilience; belief ignites and activates.’― Eva de Goede
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Ter Helme 2022
To keep up the good traditions we went and spent a few days at Ter Helme again this year with the family. This year was a the 10th time we went. As in most editions we arrived on Saturday and left on Wednesday. We have often discussed going somewhere else but there is no big need. After the place was renovated years ago the apartments and restaurant got a quality injection. We always have our dinner in the self service restaurant and that is good enough. The same cook makes the food here as in the a la carte restaurant.…
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Hard Target
Hard Target is an action movie from 1993 starring Jean Claude Van Damme and directed by John Woo. It was the first movie by John Woo after migrating from Hong Kong to the US. It contains many signature style elements like the white dove flying into the room in action sequences. Hard Target ‘introduced’ the West to other visual themes like the use of slow motion sections in the middle of an action sequence and the extremely violent bullet operas. Muscles from Brussels was probably never taken very seriously as an actor and if you ask Steven Seagal then Jean…
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Top Gun
A few weeks ago I read a review of the new Top Gun, Maverick. Originally I wasn’t planning to go and watch it any time soon but from the review it became evident that would benefit visually from watching it on a large screen. And the reviewer didn’t write it was complete crap. So, with the summer school vacation coming up I thought it would be a nice excuse to go to the cinema with them. To prepare we watched the old Top Gun on tv so that they would recognise some of the references in the new movie. Watching…
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Hockey Women’s World Cup in Amstelveen
On Sunday July 3rd we went to watch 2 games in Amstelveen. As it was only a 2 hour drive it was an opportunity to watch the Dutch team play against Germany. As a bonus we could watch England play India as well. With Maddie Hinch in the goal for England this was a bonus to see her play again after having seen her play in Rotterdam with Tilburg not so long ago. The game of England against India was interesting and exiting. India was playing quick and technically beautiful hockey to watch. They had more possession and so called…
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Men of Mathematics, Eric Temple Bell (ISBN 978-0-6716-2818-5, Simon & Schuster)
A ‘classic’ from 1937. The subtitle is ‘The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré’. This is not completely correct as the last chapter is dedicated to Cantor and not to Poincaré. The penultimate chapter is for Poincaré. The first chapter is as usual an introduction and Zeno is tackled in chapter 2. From that point of view the title makes sense again. Technically from Zeno to Cantor would have made more sense as both tackled the problems associated with the infinite. Not that Poincaré had nothing to say about the matter but the mans study…
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Koga Signature (aka Newtonian Motion)
About 20 years ago I bought myself a Koga Signature. I was working in The Netherlands at the time and the government still subsidised the purchase of bicycles. You could trade in some of your vacation days for money to buy a bike. I cannot remember the exact amount you could trade in but as I had too many holidays anyway and me and my wife liked to go on biking trips during our holidays I decided to make use of this government plan and splash out on an expensive Koga trekking bike. Not just the standard configuration but a…
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Back Saver
As mentioned in an earlier post I try to commute as much as possible on my speed pedelec. Unfortunately I don’t live in The Netherlands where they have quality bike paths. I am already happy if there is a bike path that I have to share with pedestrians. Not ideal on a speed pedelec but I have found a way around it that works for me : get out of bed half an hour late and start biking when school has begun, no more need to share with pedestrians. Worse is the fact that many bike paths are actually foot…
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