Last week, I spent three days in Amsterdam and Haarlem. Debby had organised the trip, and together with her friend Mirjam we were three travellers. It was a wonderful time! Visits to the city we enjoyed along with a trip to the beach, nice evenings watching stars, and we had a great time with our hosts, the Linder Family (thanks a lot, should you read this post!)
Amsterdam: famous for canals, tulips, cannabis, bicicles, brick houses…
Some years ago, at a nice dinner with some geeks after a programming contest, somebody presented to me the following problem: Given the numbers 1, 3, 4 and 6, find an expression that yields 24. The expression can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, parentheses as much as you want. You have to use all the numbers exactly once. Don’t concatenate them: 1, 3 is not 13… As an example, 4 * (6 — 1) + 3 would be a valid expression. The only bad thing about that one is that it’s result is only 23, one short of 24. Can you find a better one?
It’s been a while that I wanted to write about jungle trekking in Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra. Together with Quentin and Francesco, I spent four days in this wonderful place. We saw huge trees with Orang Utan climbing them, met great people and had fun sleeping in the forest… but let’s tell everything in order. Read on…
Bridge Over the Bohorok, in Bukit Lawang
Is Ignorance Bliss? The question didn’t arise over a juicy and delicious beef steak1, but the parallels are remarkable. Read on…
Le dernier weekend était tranquille, même très tranquille. Mais pour être honnète, ceci était exactement ce qu’il me fallait… après les nombreuses découvertes et évènements ces derniers jours, je suis allé pour un après-midi à Yunnan Garden.
Une chose est sûre: si on va en étranger, on rencontrera des personnages exotiques, intéressants, fantastiques… aujourd’hui j’ai fais la connaissance de Ben et son hobby, la danse de feu. Voici quelques images.Utilisez votre imagination pour y ajouter de la musique tribale, le son “whooosh” du feu qui orbite les mains de l’artiste, et le mouvement.
