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Wabi Sabi Bonheiden
I don’t remember how I discovered sushi but I think I first ate it in the nineties. Since then I have been a fan and with me the family, kids included (when they finally arrived). Nowadays sushi restaurants are quite common and every now and then we go for sushi. One restaurant we go to relatively often is Wabi Sabi in Bonheiden. The first time we went it was actually for the teppanyaki but they don’t have that anymore. I believe the place closed during covid and then re opened but without teppanyaki. The sushi is decent and priced OK.…
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Is there no price limit for high end speed pedelecs ?
A while ago I got myself the Stromer ST3 Pinion. With a price of around 8700 euro before ‘discount’ I found this already painly expensive. I was long thinking to shave off 1200 euro by sticking to good old Shimano gears and a chain but the absolute maintenance free belt drive and Pinion gears are worth the extra money if you can afford it. Anyway, if I had been living in a good weather country like Spain I would probably not have gone for the Pinion because of the price. If money was no object and I would have traded…
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Lego Batman Tumbler
For Christmas I gave the kids a Lego Batman Tumbler to build. You can get it from many places like for example on the lego site but I managed to grab a nice discount from Bol.com at the time. It was fun building at a leisurely pace with the 3 of us. The set consists of just over 2000 pieces so it took us a while piecing it together on weekday evenings when there were no other obligations. It is not as spectacular as the tumbler from the movies but still quite impressive. The 4 wheels at the back and…
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Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace
The first movie of the prequel trilogy finally arrived in 1999, 16 years after the release of Return of the Jedi. Expectations were high but reviews were mixed. Certainly compared to the original trilogy the visual effects are stunning. And with Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman there are excellent actors in the leading roles. The only exception is Jake Lloyd who plays the young Anakin Skywalker. Certainly compared with the others his acting isn’t excellent. Luckily there is the silly Jar Jar Binks character that draws all negative attention towards him. I watched the movie again a while…
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Looking for a book ?
Ever looked for a book or some details about one ? I had just the other day a book without an ISBN number on the cover which was messing up my digital library system. Luckily the internet came to the rescue. Everything you need is ISBN Search. You can search based on ISBN, title and/or author. You get back edition, author, publisher and even links to places where you can buy a copy.
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50 books a year
I read an article in De Standaard yesterday from their journalist Jan-Frederik Abbeloos about how he finally managed to read 50 books in 2022. Like me he uses goodreads to keep track of his progress and almost apologises for it (but not really) as it is part of the Amazon evil empire. JF lists some other qualitative and literary gripes people seem to have with goodreads but for him the app is mainly a a means to keep track of his reading progress. I started using Goodreads for the same reason before it became part of Amazon and never left.…
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Mathematical Scandals
Short little book by an American math teacher for people (teenagers) who think mathematics is dull. The idea is to do this by bringing the human side of mathematicians to the forefront. 21 mathematicians are covered in 136 pages. Each chapter starts with a fictitious dialogue to outline the ‘scandal’. If you are interested in the lives and work of mathematicians this book is not for you as it barely scratches the surface. Not surprising considering there are only about 6 pages available for each mathematician and almost haf of that is used for the fictitious dialogue. If you believe…
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La Royale
Today we went looking for a student room in Leuven for our daughter and we had time to lunch between visiting 2 rooms. As the second place was not far from Leuven central station we decided to eat at La Royale. This is part of The Lodge group but it is definitely better than the original Lodge in Heverlee from this group. It was a gender separation lunch with the women going for a Greek salad and a salad with scampi and the men going for a burger. We arrived around 12:30 which was early so we could. pick a…
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Bowling Berkerijs
Since the beginning of 2023 we were saying we should go bowling with the family. Now with the easter holidays and no hockey training or matches going on we finally managed to find an evening to go and play a few games among the four of us. We went to bowling Berkerijs as it is nearby. We know the owners but this doesn’t play a big role as this is simply a very nice bowling alley. We went early Friday evening which was a good idea as it was not completely crowded and there were no birthday parties going on.…
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No Ordinary Genius. The Illustrated Richard Feynman, Christopher Sykes (ISBN 978-039331393-2, W. W. Norton)
I came across a reference to this book in another book I read about Feynman and it ended up on my list. I bought it last year and then decided end of 2022 to start reading it while I was also reading The Discoverers to add a bit of light reading in the mix. Christopher Sykes is a documentary film maker and he made 2 documentary films about Feynman. For these documentaries he interviewed Feynman, his family and friends and colleagues. The book has the structure of a biography and is similar to Genius by James Gleick but content wise…
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