Tron Double Feature

Movies

This Tuesday we finally managed to watch the new Tron movie! And since it’s a sequel we decided to watch the old Tron just before.

Actually we started the evening with some nice asian style dinner together with some friends (greetz) before starting the marathon ;)

Unfortunately the sun was still too bright at 20h00, that we did not manage to watch the first movie on the projector and had to evade to the TV screen.

Concerning the movies: I was reminded that the first part is actually quite neardy and very eighties, but still great for the time (it’s from 1982). Also I had to learn that the sequel did  add a lot to the music and the effects part but not too much to the story. It’s a nice movie, but maybe it was wrong to see the first part just before it :P

SplitBill

World Wide Web

It’s been some time since the laste update of SplitBill, but now it’s time for major one!
The new SplitBill version features (amongst other things):

  • short URLs to access your SplitBill
  • weights applied to certain people
  • exclusion of weighting for specific items
  • individual contributions to specific items
  • individual deposits for each person

Also, and probably most important, SplitBill has a new web location:

http://splitbill.mehlhase.info

Please try it and let me know if you have any problems …

Sankt Hans aften

Copenhagen

Yesterday we spent the evening celebrating “Sankt Hans aften”. The Danish way of celebrating midsummer, or the longest day in the year.

Typically they light up some large bonfire and sing the traditional midsummer hymn. Yesterday we also had a gospel choir and a funk band playing some tune by the harbour .
The old tradition of burning witched to send them to Bloksbjerg (Brocken in Germany) came a bit short though ;)

More Athens

Athens

After the workshop ended on Friday I had some more time to explore the city and its sights.
I walked more than 15 kilometers on Friday and only slightly less on Saturday … man my feet hurt now!
In general there are many nice things to see in Athens, though the city itself is not too beautiful. A lot of houses are semi-modern and in non-optimal conditions, though on average the inner city look slightly better (as usual).
I had some very nice dishes in various non-central places in town, typically as the only-non greek in the place.
And of course I saw almost all the ancient temples, markets and places along with the according museums …
If you ever considered to visit Athens and you are still a student, you should do it as long as you still have your student ID.
You and up paying half or nothing (if from within the EU). That aside, the prices for adults are still within reason!

Athens update

Athens

As some of you might have seen on the news, there is a few things going on in Athens these days ;)

As the Danish institute is quite close to the parliament we could here the demonstrations and such since they are quite focused on one square they did not really affect us.

What did affect us though was the fact that, after we had lunch on the roof terrace of the Acropolis Museum (which is quite reasonably priced), we wanted to go up and see the Acropolis itself and could not because of the strike :(

So we only had a little walk and went back to work …

In the evening we spent some time on the roof garden of the institute watching the lunar eclipse andhad a reasonably nice dinner in a small restaurant in town with loads of tzatziki :)

Today we plan to spent our lunch break in the National Archaeological Museum to have a look at the Antikythera mechanism amongst others …