Animal lover

Since today I'm apparently into a writing disposition, here is yet another post.
Earlier this year I was on a trip to visit my grandparents, in Oltenia, near Targu-Jiu. I made some pictures on the road, with my newly purchased Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTI (yes, that is EOS 400D for the American market - blame the marketing department :D). Here are some albums:
- animals
- nature
- on the road

I was still adjusting to the camera, some of the pictures may be of poor quality. Comments are welcome :D

A long walk a day keeps the doctor away

August started with a business trip in Belgium.

The location was the town called Louvain la Neuve, a university city, with good and bad parts.

First of all I didn't like the belgian weather. From the 6 days I was there, I had one day and a half of sunshine, the rest was cloudy/rainy weather. The highest temperature was on the first day, a Sunday, when the highest temperature was 29 degrees. That when in Romania the temperature was on average around 35 degrees, all day hot shiny weather. So my bags were half loaded with rainy clothes :(.

Second of all, the town is a pedestrian & bicycle one. There are no cars, no easy mean of transportation from a side to another. So from the flat to the company office we had to walk about 25 minutes, first going down a hill, then climbing on another (the centre of the town is the lowest part). which would have been quite fine if we had some sunshine, but instead we got lots of rain, and beside that, some bicycle guys almost run over us (several times, they don't seem to be very careful)

Third of all, on the first Sunday me and my work colleague made a trip to Brusseles, were we visited the center of town and in the afternoon we met some of my old colege buddies. Two of them actually work & live in Brusseles and the third one had just arrived from Bucharest on the same day as i did, but on a different flight.

Here are some pictures from the trip:
- some sights
- my old college buddies

I Got Married

Yes I did.

The action took place on 14 of July (I told you I was a lazy bastard :P). It was a beautiful yet very frustrating event for me and my wife, a lot of things had to go "wrong" (minor things, but at that time everything seemed such a big disaster).

After that we had our honey moon (more likely we can call it week, but hey, that is the term everybody uses :D), in the lovely city of Barcelona, Spain. I will make a post with some details about the trip, as well as some pictures from there.

Venus May Be Earth's Hellish Twin

So my last post was about Mars, long time ago. What can I say, I'm a lazy bastard. Much has changed since that post, but I'll let you know in another port.

Now it seems Venus also had water at a point in time. The Venus Express is sending new data about the cloudy hellish planet. Aparently it has already detected lightning activity, hydrogen and oxygen leaving the atmosphere.

Men are from Mars may get a new meaning

That is, women also may be from Mars. Who really know? It seem Mars had after all oceans, you can read all in here. Some major event seem to be the culprit in the disappearance of the surface water on Mars. That water may still be trapped underground, after 2 billion years, so Mars could harbor life (no, not the green martians you see in cartoons, but maybe microbs, spores or some other sort of primordial life). And maybe we are all martians, emigrated here after Mars began to lose the water.

Referendum is over!

So, as many of us expected, the Referendum reinstated the suspended president. With about 74% of the voters, but with an average of about 44% of the voters actually voting. This means on next elections probably less than 33% will actually vote. So one month was for nothing, only politics on TV, but now we can all relax until the next political scandal.

I failed to go the FIA GT event this weekend, mostly because of the rain and also due to the lack of time. But here are some movies from a friend:

Movie 1
Movie 2
Movie 3
Movie 4

The nerd in us

I found this link on Marc Fleury's blog. It's an article about nerds, and their position in high school. Well, it's American based, but probably applies elsewhere as well. Interesting reading, what can I say more.