Tomorrow morning I’m flying to Valencia for La Tomatina,the world’s biggest food fight. This isn’t really related to my project, but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and I figured this would likely be my best chance for long time. The festival is on Wednesday, but the cheapest Ryanair flight was tomorrow, so I’m […]
Entries Tagged as 'Netherlands'
Spore Launches!
September 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Netherlands, Technology
Spore, the highly anticipated new game from Will Wright (the creator of SimCity, SimAnt and The Sims) launched on Friday here in Europe and tomorrow in North America. I was/am incredibly tempted to buy it. I saw it at the store here on Friday, but it’s €49.95 and the menus are all in Dutch. I […]
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So long and thanks for all the fish
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Netherlands, Science, Travel
CERN’s new high-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), went live yesterday. The $10 billion, 17-mile long particle accelerator has been 15 years in the making. Obviously, this is a major achievement for particle physics, and represents a serious commitment to “Big Science” and pure research. However, looking at the media coverage of the […]
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Hackers…or ninjas?
September 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Hacker culture, Netherlands
So the Amsterdam hackers have proven to be both wily and elusive. In email correspondence, they said that they’d be at their squatted hacklab anytime from 6 pm to midnight tonight. I went on the later end because I figured things would be more active (and because it takes a fairly complicated series of busses, […]
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I need to get out of here
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Netherlands, Travel
Don’t get me wrong, the Netherlands is awesome, but it’s cold, grey, rainy and depressing here. I’m really looking forward to going someplace with sun. Furthermore, I feel like I’ve been here too long. I’ve gotten to know Utrecht well enough that I can find my way around without a map (at least in the […]
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