Archives for January, 2010
Food Rules
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
I just finished reading “Food Rules”, a book by Michael Pollan about how to eat healthily. He provides 64 simple rules that lead to a healthier diet, and through such a diet, to a healthier life. Most of these rules are common sense if you think about it, and taken all together they don’t really [...]
10-20mm
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
I bought a second-hand 10-20mm Sigma lens the other weekend, and last Tuesday I got my first real opportunity to use it while visiting a friend who was dog-sitting a friend’s dog for a few weeks. We got outside to walk the dog, and I took some pictures of Leiden as we went along. It [...]
Euler Problems
Friday, January 29th, 2010
A collegue showed me the Project Euler website, a site with interesting and challenging problems to solve using a programming language of your choice. The fun part in most of these problems is to find a smart way to solve it rather than brute-force your way to a solution.
Take this challenge: how many months in [...]
Cronensteijn
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Hooglandse kerk
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Looking up to see the angels
Enter freely, and of your own free will
Restaurant no. 2
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
I posted a picture of a restaurant near De Vliet not too long ago, and I came across this picture which may have been the source of the earlier one. I like this one much better than the overly-cropped first published picture. I can still see what I was trying to do (isolate the building [...]
Vlietlanden
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Got me a part!
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
I’ve auditioned at Imperium last Monday and Wednesday, for Eric Siebel’s play Sansevieria’s. I wasn’t a member of Imperium before, but since Marjolein told me it was a really friendly and young club and that there were semi-public auditions this week, I decided to take a look. Auditioning was very exciting, because I did not [...]
Bands I discovered in 2009
Monday, January 4th, 2010
As gathered from my iPod collection this morning:
Assemblage 23 (thanks to Combichrist)
Bat for Lashes (thanks to Remco)
Combichrist (thanks to Rammstein)
Dirty Projectors (thanks to top 10 album covers)
Klaus Schultze
La Roux (thanks to a Dutch article in the NRC)
Ladyhawke (thanks to another article in the NRC)
Little Boots (thanks to an article in the NRC)
Lotterboys (thanks to Nico Dijkshoorn [...]
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.