Archive for February, 2006



USPS loves Futurama

You gotta love the US Postal Services. The picture below shows envelope in which my official Master’s diploma arrived last week. Notice the big ass letters: DO NOT BEND. Ah, the irony. PS. Sorry for the cryptic post title.

Oops

The guy who tells his story in anonymous article in The Washington Post will be sorry he did so. The staff of the paper made the guy irrecognizable the pictures, but apparently there was still lots of metadata to be found. Slashdot readers found out pretty quickly: he lives in a little place with 3,000 inhabitants, is a 21-year old computer hacker, living close to a strip joint and a used car garage. Oops. [via: Standaard]

Stoofvlees (Carbonades a la Flamande)

I made this typical Belgian stew last saturday for some friends, pretty much from memory. For this dish, the beef is slowly simmered in a tasty dark Belgian beer. I particularily liked how it turned out this time, that’s why I’ll write out the recipe here today, for my own records, but also for [...]

Where have I lived

Following a meme that several people in CS have posted on their blogs lately, here’s my list of ‘lived there, worked there’. In order of appearance: Leuven, Belgium (1 year) Baal, Belgium (3 years) Tremelo, Belgium (14 years) Leuven, Belgium (3 years) Grenoble, France (10 months) Leuven, Belgium (1.2 years) Zurich, Switzerland (9 months) Brussels, Belgium (4 months) Chapel Hill, NC, USA (2 years [...]