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A fantastic house designed by an incredibly creative person. It all started because a rich bloke, Steven B. Klinsky, wanted his house redesigned and asked an architect, Eric Clough, to embed a poem in his childrens bedroom. A year goes by and suddenly a new house has been made, with a complex series of puzzles waiting for the occupants to unlock the secrets within.
But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.
The apartment even comes with its own book, part of which is a fictional narrative that recalls “The Da Vinci Code” (without the funky religion or buckets of blood)
This …
February 17, 2008 | Travel
My girlfriend Jo and I have recently (actually… 2 weeks ago - I’ve been too busy to write it up :-S) gotten back from a holiday in California, which is last months excuse for the lack of posts on my blogs. The primary purpose of the trip was to go to a science conference for Jo’s PhD which was held in San Diego, but we decided to hang around for a few extra days and enjoy the sights.
Once the conference was over we went into Downtown San Diego, Little Italy to be precise, where we spent 4 days seeing the sights (highlights included Sea World and the San Diego zoo). Then for the last two days of the holiday we moved slightly north to Anaheim to spend a couple of days at Disneyland.
Based upon my own experience I would recommend that anyone interested in Disneyland (or world) would be advised …
January 5, 2007 | Travel
I’m a lucky person. Last year work took me to Estonia for our Christmas do. This year it was Istanbul, Turkey.
Unfortunately I have been really busy these last few weeks so this post is a little delayed.
We had a couple of great guides in the form of a colleague (and all round great bloke) and his wife - Thorsten, and Nilli; and I want to say how much I enjoyed my stay out there and how grateful I am that they showed us around. It wouldn’t have been as good without them!
We spent the weekend touring Istanbul and got a general feel for the different aspects of the city. We had a lot of wonderful meals (the Turkish REALLY like to eat) and even a drink or two. We went to a club (or three) and saw live Salsa music, went on a boat trip along the
A couple of weeks ago I took my girlfriend to Paris for a long weekend away. I would have written about it earlier but two days after returning I went to Turkey (Istanbul) for my Christmas party with work, so I haven’t had a chance until now.
Anyway, it was Jo’s (my girlfriends) birthday so I thought I would treat her to a visit abroad. Jo had never been on a plane before so I decided to fly us there rather than getting the Eurostar. It turned out to be a mistake since our plane was canceled and we had to get one that left 4 hours after hour initial flight was planned to depart.
We eventually got to the hotel to find that the only room left was on the ground floor, and we couldn’t have a key because the last guest had gone home with it. This was resolved pretty …
After the east coast we headed back to central Malaysia and Taman Negara. Taman Negara is Malaysia’s premiere National Park, and the largest rain forest in Malaysia covering 4343 square kilometers.
In our time in Taman Negara we went on a night walk in the jungle, walked through the treetops in a canopy walk, raced down the rapids in tiny little boat (huge fun), and went on a night time safari drive. Oh - and one evening we got attacked by literally thousands of huge bugs that seemed intent on flying into us… and then collapsing on the table in front of us… dead.
The photos
A panoramic view of the Malaysian National Forest
After the coolness of the Highlands we went over to the East coast for some more sea based action. We spent a day traveling from the highlands down to the coast, and stayed in a small place in Marang (or was it Merang?) and then took another day to travel down to Cherating where we spent a very pleasant afternoon soaking in the warm sea by our coastal hotel.
In order to see the sun rise we got up early on both of the days that we traveled, and on both days the sun was hidden behind clouds - but it still gave some very pretty skies. We also had one of my favorite meals of the holiday in a beach side restaurant in Cherating.
The hotel we stayed at was rather nice and had two pools that we could soak in, along with a wonderful buffet breakfast where I got …
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