Thursday, June 07, 2018

Engineering disaster

Not sure what happened after the building phase ...

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Engineering disaster

Monday, January 01, 2018

Looking back at 2017


Somebody started walking, just in time to multiple visit the zoos and walk down the aisle with its parents... busy  year which flew so fast....Another busy year is gone

Today construction #duplo #animal #house



Pram nature walk and birdies

And a resolution for 2018 is: Do only One Thing At A Time.


PS: I would highly recommend this website: https://www.futureme.org/
to send yourself a reminder in a year time of your resolution / objective for the year.
I have been using myself for the past 6 years, a good reminder of sometime broken aspiration, and at other time fulfilled propheices.

Thursday, November 02, 2017

Lego nostalgia

Just discovered this on Youtube...

The LEGO classic space 6929 Star Fleet Voyager review! A 1981 set!



That was one the very first set I got as a kid, and that is still in my attic.

Links:
BrinkLink


Tuesday, October 24, 2017

An interesting girly reading challenge

I have a long time goal of reading over 1000 books, and this year I finally exceeded my Goodreads yearly challenge - so far 30 books over the initial goal of 24, with a little help from my daughter bedtime stories reading.

I also, re-kindled with the television show: Gilmore Girls, thanks to Netflix, so when I discovered the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, it turns to be the perfect way to enhance my initial dare and combine various interests of mine.


So thanks to Patrick Lenton for compiling this list of all 337 books:


NumberBook TitleRead (Y/N)
1 1984 by George OrwellY
2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain-
3 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollY
4 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon-
5 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser-
6 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt-
7 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy-
8 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank-
9 Archidamian War by Donald Kagan-
10 The Art of Fiction by Henry James-
11 The Art of War by Sun Tzu-
12 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner-
13 Atonement by Ian McEwan-
14 Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy-
15 The Awakening by Kate Chopin-
16 Babe by Dick King-Smith-
17 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi-
18 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie-
19 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett-
20 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath-
21 Beloved by Toni Morrison-
22 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney-
23 The Bhagava Gita-
24 The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy-
25 Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel-
26 A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy-
27 Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyY
28 Brick Lane by Monica Ali-
29 Candide by Voltaire-
30 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer-
31 Carrie by Stephen King?
32 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller-
33 Charlotte’s Web by E. B. WhiteY
34 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. SalingerY
35 The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman-
36 Christine by Stephen KingY
37 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens-
38 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess-
39 The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse-
40 The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty-
41 The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare-
42 Complete Novels by Dawn Powell-
43 The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton-
44 Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker-
45 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleY
46 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas-
47 Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac-
48 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky-
49 The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber-
50 The Crucible by Arthur Miller-
51 Cujo by Stephen King-
52 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon-
53 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende-
54 David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D-
55 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens-
56 The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownY
57 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol-
58 Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
59 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller-
60 Deenie by Judy Blume-
61 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson-
62 The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx-
63 The Divine Comedy by Dante-
64 The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells-
65 Don Quixote by Cervantes-
66 Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv-
67 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonY
68 Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan PoeY
69 Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook-
70 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe-
71 Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn-
72 Eloise by Kay Thompson-
73 Emily the Strange by Roger Reger-
74 Emma by Jane Austen-
75 Empire Falls by Richard Russo-
76 Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol-
77 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton-
78 Ethics by Spinoza-
79 Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves-
80 Eva Luna by Isabel Allende-
81 Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer-
82 Extravagance by Gary Krist-
83 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyY
84 Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore-
85 The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan-
86 Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser-
87 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson-
88 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien-
89 Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein-
90 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom-
91 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce-
92 Fletch by Gregory McDonald-
93 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes-
94 The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem-
95 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand-
96 Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyY
97 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger-
98 Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers-
99 Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut-
100 Gender Trouble by Judith Butler-
101 George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg-
102 Gidget by Fredrick Kohner-
103 Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen-
104 The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels-
105 The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo-
106 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy-
107 Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky-
108 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell-
109 The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford-
110 The Graduate by Charles Webb-
111 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck-
112 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldY
113 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens-
114 The Group by Mary McCarthy-
115 Hamlet by William ShakespeareY
116 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. RowlingY
117 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. RowlingY
118 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers-
119 Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradY
120 Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry-
121 Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare-
122 Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare-
123 Henry V by William Shakespeare-
124 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby?
125 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon-
126 Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris-
127 The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton-
128 House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III-
129 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende-
130 How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer-
131 How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss-
132 How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland-
133 Howl by Allen Ginsberg-
134 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo-
135 The Iliad by Homer-
136 I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres-
137 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote-
138 Inferno by Dante-
139 Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee-
140 Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy-
141 It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton-
142 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte-
143 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan-
144 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare-
145 The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain-
146 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair-
147 Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito-
148 The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander-
149 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain-
150 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini-
151 Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence-
152 The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal-
153 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman-
154 The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield-
155 Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis-
156 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke-
157 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken-
158 Life of Pi by Yann MartelY
159 Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens-
160 The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway-
161 The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen-
162 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott-
163 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton-
164 Lord of the Flies by William Golding-
165 The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson-
166 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold-
167 The Love Story by Erich Segal-
168 Macbeth by William ShakespeareY
169 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert-
170 The Manticore by Robertson Davies-
171 Marathon Man by William Goldman-
172 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov-
173 Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir-
174 Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman-
175 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris-
176 The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer-
177 Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken-
178 The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare-
179 The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaY
180 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides-
181 The Miracle Worker by William Gibson-
182 Moby Dick by Herman Melville-
183 The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin-
184 Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor-
185 A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman-
186 Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret-
187 A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars-
188 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway-
189 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf-
190 Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall-
191 My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh-
192 My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken-
193 My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest-
194 Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo-
195 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult-
196 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer-
197 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco-
198 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri-
199 The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin-
200 Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen-
201 New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson-
202 The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay-
203 Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich-
204 Night by Elie Wiesel-
205 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen-
206 The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan-
207 Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell-
208 Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski-
209 Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckY
210 Old School by Tobias Wolff-
211 On the Road by Jack Kerouac-
212 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey-
213 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
214 The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan-
215 Oracle Night by Paul Auster-
216 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood-
217 Othello by ShakespeareY
218 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens-
219 The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan-
220 Out of Africa by Isac Dineson-
221 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton-
222 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster-
223 The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan-
224 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky-
225 Peyton Place by Grace Metalious-
226 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeY
227 Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington-
228 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi-
229 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain-
230 The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby-
231 The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker-
232 The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche-
233 The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind-
234 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen-
235 Property by Valerie Martin-
236 Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon-
237 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw-
238 Quattrocento by James Mckean-
239 A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall-
240 Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers-
241 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe-
242 The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham-
243 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi-
244 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier-
245 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin-
246 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant-
247 Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman-
248 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien-
249 R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton-
250 Rita Hayworth by Stephen King-
251 Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert-
252 Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton-
253 Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareY
254 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf-
255 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster-
256 Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin-
257 The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition-
258 Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi-
259 Sanctuary by William Faulkner-
260 Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford-
261 Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James-
262 The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum-
263 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne-
264 Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand-
265 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir-
266 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd-
267 Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman-
268 Selected Hotels of Europe-
269 Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell-
270 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen-
271 A Separate Peace by John Knowles-
272 Several Biographies of Winston Churchill-
273 Sexus by Henry Miller-
274 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon-
275 Shane by Jack Shaefer-
276 The Shining by Stephen King-
277 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse-
278 S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton-
279 Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut-
280 Small Island by Andrea Levy-
281 Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway-
282 Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers-
283 Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore-
284 The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht-
285 Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos-
286 The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker-
287 Songbook by Nick Hornby-
288 The Sonnets by William Shakespeare-
289 Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning-
290 Sophie’s Choice by William Styron-
291 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner-
292 Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov-
293 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach-
294 The Story of My Life by Helen Keller-
295 A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams-
296 Stuart Little by E. B. White-
297 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway-
298 Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust-
299 Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett-
300 Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber-
301 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens-
302 Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald-
303 Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry-
304 Time and Again by Jack Finney-
305 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger-
306 To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway-
307 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee-
308 The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare-
309 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith-
310 The Trial by Franz KafkaY
311 The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson-
312 Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett-
313 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom-
314 Ulysses by James Joyce-
315 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath-
316 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe-
317 Unless by Carol Shields-
318 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann-
319 The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers-
320 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray-
321 Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard-
322 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides-
323 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett-
324 Walden by Henry David Thoreau-
325 Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten-
326 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy-
327 We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker-
328 What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles-
329 What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell-
330 When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka-
331 Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson-
332 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee-
333 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire-
334 The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum-
335 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte-
336 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings-
337 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion-

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Garden view ... an old stop motion

Garden view ... an old stop motion made with the Gopro.... basically cat and cloud spying.

 
Gopro-garden-bike from Tof (CG) on Vimeo.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

October/Novermber reading List

Finally manage this year, to finish ( ahead of time ) my reading challenge, the target was 24 and I am already at 26. Now I have been quite helped by bedtime reading of children books to my daughter.

In order to continue on this good track here's my October/November reading list
First, it will consist of finishing up books I have started a long time ago:
  • Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline by Charlie Brooker
  • How Language Works by David Crystal
  • The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Then more light reading:
  • Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

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