My kid (a bit over 3 now) is always fascinated when I shave my beard off. I have an electric shaver and he likes the noise it makes and how the hair just vanishes. I always have to place it though where he cannot reach as he’s always on the look […]
I still remember that most of my school colleagues that had trouble with Math and other exact sciences were saying that Math won’t help them at all, ‘what good does it do to know complex equations?’. My belief was, and still is, that Math (and other exact sciences) sharpen your mind. […]
There’s a saying in my country that basically says the most important thing in feeling better is being surrounded by nice people, not by living in a nice place. It’s the people, not the place that make a good impression on you when you visit something, be it a local pub […]
From the first college years me and my friends kept telling each other we have to start jogging to keep in shape. Yet every time going out for a beer and a pizza or a movie sounded better and the jogging part got voted out. Then another motivational speech the next […]
Tasers are electroshock devices used to immobilize those individuals that pose a threat (supposedly) to a law enforcement or military personnel. A taser uses electrical current (pulsating) to interfere between signals sent from the brain to the muscles, thus immobilizing the culprit. If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Hangover’, I recommend […]
Everyone has an appetite for alien stories, games and movies as it is the only thing that tickle our brains with the question ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’. A question I hope to get an answer before I meet my end. I’m pretty sure that given the billions of planets […]
I like short movies because the ideas are concentrated and you don’t have to watch some fill-up content that a Hollywood director decided to add to get the movie up to 2 hours. For some ‘blockbusters’ is enough to watch the trailer to know everything about. The ‘IMDB Top 250’ list […]
You work a full year up to the point where vacation time comes. Then you go to Ibiza and decide to go for a swim in the water with your friends leaving most of your belongings on the shore. You come back 15 minutes later and see that everything is gone, […]
James Blinn is a computer scientist that worked for NASA and created some amazing computer graphics animations for the Voyager project back in 1977. Those animations depicted the encounter of Voyager with various planets, for instance the Saturn fly-by. He did similar animations for Carl Sagan’s documentaries and invented the techniques […]
Board games are one of the oldest methods of recreation ever invented. ‘Senet’ was the name of a surprisingly complex board game invented by the Egyptians and archaeologists place it around 3500 BC. That’s well over 5000 years ago and board games are here to stay, even with the advancement of […]