Browsing the blog archives for January, 2009

Cheap hallucination

It is well known that the brain can be tricked optically, by looking at strange patterns et cetera. I’ve seen quite some examples of that on the Internet already, but once in a while a real good one comes along. I found one where you have to look at for at least twenty seconds, longer [...]

Vechtplassen ice skating tour

Today I did an ice skating tour together with Nina’s father and sister on the Vechtplassen.The weather was perfect (again), it was freezing about two or three degrees Celcius and there was little wind, and a clear sky with the sun shining. The ice itself was quite good, but there were many snowy spots on [...]

Testing my new ice skates

Since it started freezing two weeks ago, the moment came closer that it was possible to skate on real ice. The last time I skated on ice was already a few years ago and the skates didn’t fit me anymore. So last weekend I bought a new pair of ice skates (Combi I) from the [...]

My Kronan bike

First, I wish my readers a happy and healthy 2009. And now let’s talk about my Kronan bike. Especially about how much I like the bike, although many other people think different about my bike. The “real” Kronans from World War II were known to be sturdy and somewhere in the end of the 90′s [...]