Almer S. Tigelaar
A Little Bit of Everything
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Puzzle #3: Boys and Girls
Assume a country where every family wants to have a boy and continues having babies until they actually have one. We consider only one generation. The probability of having a boy or a girl is always...
Housing Woes: Part II
"Hello, is this Almer?", a female voice. "Yes, who's this?" "You mailed me about housing?" "I mailed a lot of people, what specific housing option is this about?" ...
Housing Woes: Part I
I stood on a brown front porch, rang the doorbell, and waited for the door to open. Nothing. I decided to simply call the guy I was supposed to meet. "Hi, this is Almer, I am...
Nostalgia
The fuzz of you leaving is beginning to die down as the people back home become caught up again in their own lives: you're here, they're there. Thus, as is usual after a week or two,...
The Bike
"Can I help you, sir?", the man behind the counter asked. "Uhm, yes, so, I need a bike," I uttered, "I guess I've come to the right place." He smiled and showed me around the huge...
Apples and Oranges
People are often surprised that I do not own a single Apple branded product: how can someone that holds a degree in Human Media Interaction not have at least an iPod?
Crossing Lives
Seven hours before the previous post I was waiting at the end of a long security check line right before the gate. An elderly American couple joined behind me. We briefly exchanged looks. "Are the lines...
32 000 feet
roughly 10 kilometers above the ground, that's where I am now as you are reading this. So, you must be wondering: that's all nice, but why are you on a transatlantic flight anyway?
Super 8
Among all the 3D super hero blockbuster violence of late, there is: Super 8. Good science fiction does not revolve around using impossible physics and technology just for the sake of it, but rather: using these...
Big Brother: Why Not?
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, remarked: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place". Connected to this: a friend recently asked...
Green Lantern
A film with a budget of 200 million and lots of gifted people at the helm, but does all this creative talent lead to a good movie?
The Event
I recently finished viewing the first season of NBC Television Series "The Event". I'll try not to give too much away, but its twenty-two episode run reminded me of 24, although: it does not share the...