After driving more than 3800 miles and spending almost a week in the beautiful states of Utah and Arizona we are back in the Seattle area. Saw some extraordinary places (pictures to follow depending on time available to sort/upload them) and have a few funny stories about the experience. We’ve sampled summer as it should [...]
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21 Jun 10
Edward Weston
Does the name Edward Payson Weston say anything to you? I thought so. Well, this gentleman who lived between 1839-1929 is responsible for some feats that are simply remarkable. To make a long story short he is famous for… walking (The Father of Modern Pedestrianism as Wikipedia describes him). The one piece of information that [...]
11 May 10
Paper Soccer (Mind Jogging – 3)
When I was younger (way younger – somewhere at the start of high school) I used to love playing a game called paper soccer. Fortunately this passion was shared by most classmates As you might have guessed it involved using paper and playing something that remotely resembled a soccer game. We used to play it [...]
8 May 10
Average Speed (Mind Jogging – 2)
Distance between point A and point B is D. You jump into your Audi R8 and travel the distance D with a constant speed S. Considering that you want to return from B to A and you want your average speed (roundtrip) to be 2*S, what is speed you should have on the return trip? [...]
4 May 10
Mind Jogging
When I was younger I used to write on another blog. You can still find it here: http://weblogs.studentclub.ro/the_corner/ I used to post from time to time small puzzles [some programming related] and games that used to take your brain cells for jog. Believe it or not, they were quite catchy and some of them generated [...]
4 Apr 10
Lego Madness
I was watching a Rammstein video on Youtube the other day and under related videos I saw a “Lego version” of the song. Since I’m a Lego fan I watched that and even tweeted about it. The lengths of time needed to pull something like this off must be impressive. But the really impressive part [...]
1 Mar 10
Workaholics
Everybody knows (or should know) what a workaholic is. In short, a person who cannot seem to do anything besides work. Now, that might seem interesting and you may admire those persons for their dedication, but rest assured, there is nothing to admire here. A person that is obsessed with its work or is always [...]
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