Archives for April, 2009
Efteling
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
For Bente’s birthday party, Manuela, Bibi, Bente and me visited De Efteling yesterday. It is 20 years ago since I last visited the park, and by God, I only recognized the sleeping knight at the castle of Doornroosje, and the Python rollercoaster. The park has grown so much! There is so much to see in [...]
Itsy bitsy spider
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Spinnetje, originally uploaded by makoho.
Strawberries and cream
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Aardbeien, originally uploaded by makoho.
Goodbye, Capgemini
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Today was the day I said goodbye to all of my colleagues at Capgemini, some of whom I have been working with for three years. I treated the project team I’ve been a member of since May 2006 to cake, and had my last lunch at the Capgemini canteen. Soup, bread, and milk—the usual. I [...]
More boring than watching paint dry…
Monday, April 20th, 2009
… could perhaps be watching ice melt. In a glass. 120 minutes of it.
I thought it’d be more fun to watch, frankly. But there isn’t much dynamics to be found in a glass filled with ice cubes. Oh sure, thermo dynamics, this raging war between cold bits and warm bits, but those bits are really [...]
Neighbourhood at night
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Last night I went out with my camera after watching Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill O’Reilly on YouTube for two hours. Those pundits are funny, even Bill, although not many people would see Bill as a clown like Stephen or Jon.
For my photographic adventure in the middle of the night I did not travel [...]
Alternative chicken run
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
I wouldn’t normally copy a cartoon from somebody else, but this one is actually very good, from the files of wulffmorgenthaler:
Playing with dice
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Computerized dice, to be exact. And I’ve made an animation of it!
For want of useful work I’ve made a Processing application roll 6 dice 10,000 times, and have it keep track of the scores. In the dice game that I’ve sometimes played with Aleksandra the score of six dice is as follows: for each group [...]
Vlietlanden in the sun
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
I’ve visited the Vlietlanden recreational area today with my camera and tripod. I wanted to make some shots while the sun was out.
There weren’t too many colours around to work with, though. In fact, apart from some yellow dandelions everything was green. Very green. So I got to work with dandelions for a change, and [...]
A Friday in Leiden
Friday, April 10th, 2009
With reading Anne Frank’s diary:
and having dinner at BurgerZaken (red onion soup followed by a bloody entrecote), with this magnificent view of the setting sun on the Gemeentehuis Leiden:
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.