Aquadom
RIP to the beautiful Aquadom which ruptured recently, sending it’s contents into the hotel lobby below. I used to love hanging out there and working on my computer beneath the fish.
Xmas tree 2022
Strattic happy hour
Egg fried rice background show.
Celebration meal
Calculation of how much I ate in celebration once … 1683 kcal Milka Orea chocolate 1716 kcal Vienetta ice cream 2008 kcal Magnum Classics 990 kcal Lindt toffee bites 602 kcal Milka Alpinemilch chocolate ~7000 kcal https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160077318341789
New candle holder
Destroying Maia 5
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Why do we define sex at all?
Question from Jo Zayner on Facebook. So that we can better describe people. Just like we define objects like cars and bikes, even though there’s an obvious grey area between them. – answer from me
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Weed machine
Orchard in Potsdam
Julia and I went fruit picking in a little orchard in Potsdam.
Lions in a tree
We found these lions hanging out in a tree in the Serengeti. They appeared to give zero damns about us being there and seemed to totally ignore us.
Serengeti hyena
This little hyena was chilling out in a hole in the ground in the Serengeti. When we drove over, he popped out of his hole to check out what the loud metal thing was doing.
Giraffes in the Serengeti
We saw what felt like hundreds of giraffes all over the Serengeti. I feel they are somewhere between beautifully graceful and clumsily strange.
Cheetah in the Serengeti
This majestic beast caught a gazelle right in front of us (I didn’t catch it on camera unfortunately). Our friendly tour guide drove over to it so that we could have a good look. It seemed a bit grumpy at us for being there though. I think it thought we were going to take away […]
Ngorongoro Hippos
Some hippo’s we saw in Ngorongoro National Park.
Boys emotions
Borrowed from https://www.facebook.com/groups/SymposiumBerlin/posts/3249716391938130/. Original possibly from https://mobile.twitter.com/AssignedMale/status/1571159132991889415.
Driving in Ngorongoro National Park
Our super friendly tour guide allowed us to drive his Toyota Landcruiser on the final day. I wasn’t too keen on breaking his vehicle, so let Basia take over the driving duties. She did an awesome job and didn’t break the truck 🙂
Hot air balloon above the Serengeti
We didn’t fly in the balloon, but it was fun to see it whizzing over our heads.
Me at Tempelhofer feld
Mo took this slightly artsy photo of me during a walk around Tempelhofer feld in Berlin.
Rhino
This stunning piece of photography is of the only rhinoceros we saw in Tanzania. It was in Ngorongoro National Park and it was a really long way away. This photo was taken through binoculars and cropped into oblivion. The blur of dark grey pixels in middle, is the rhino 😉
Leopard
During our safari tour, we found all of the “big five” animals, lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and … not the last one, the leopard. We were still happy, but after exiting the park area our tour guide suddenly hit the brakes and told us to look out the right hand side. Sure enough, slowly meandering […]
Basia and I in Zanzibar
Shot from the beach in Zanzibar. The water there was incredible. I spent ages just floating about on my back. It was the perfect temperature to just relax in the water.
Giraffes in Tarangire National Park
A beautiful herd of giraffes we spotted meandering their way across Tarangire National Park.
Monkey in Tarangire National Park
This little rascal was running around a picnic area stealing bananas. Our tour guide said we could eat bananas when he was at the table, but that if he left or we walked away from him, that the moneys would attack. I was confused. Why would they avoid him, but not us? The answer was […]
Monkeys
Monkeys at Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary.
Domesticated zebra
This is one of the worlds only domesticated zebra’s. We saw it at the Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary.
Tiger
We got to see this stunningly beautiful tiger at the Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary. The first image was taken as close as it looks, and no, there was no cage protecting me! We had to sit with our butts firmly planted against the edge of his cage, while the sanctuary worker took this majestic beast […]
Lions
We saw this amazing lions at the Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary.
Puma
This amazing little puma was locked in a tiny little cage at Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary. This looked harsh, but his carers explained that he had been injured when sent from a zoo to their sanctuary as he didn’t cope well with being caged like that. So they were training him to be around humans […]
Lemur
We saw this adorable lemur at the Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary.
Hyena
Up close and personal with a hyena at the Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary in Zanzibar.
Blubber over time
Strattic ad
It’s weird seeing products you’ve worked on show up in Facebook ads. I had a similar experience with MitoQ too.
First attempt at sushi
My first attempt at making sushi. It tasted great ?
Cheetah’s at Cheetah Rock
Basia and I visited Cheetah Rock, an animal sanctuary in Zanzibar. Unsurprisingly, a cheetah is the main attraction. This particular Cheetah will never be able to return to the wild due to being too domesticated, but this thankfully meant that we were allowed to pet him. I took over camera duties rather than petting the […]
Coding in the park
Stuck in the Serengeti
One would think that when you’ve driven past a bunch of lions, cheetahs, hyena’s and other scary animals, that one would panic when your vehicle gets stuck in the mud. But our trusty driver had no hesitation in hopping out to assist another stricken vehicle. After a while, we got bored just sitting around, so […]
Undiecar, the final race …
The Undiecar Championship will be ending soon. Many little boys dream of becoming a racing driver. I had that dream, but I also dreamed of running my own race car series. I was always frustrated with how major racing series were run. I always felt they took themselves too seriously. Isn’t the point of sport […]
Tortoise’s
We got to see these cool little tortoises in the Cheetah Rock wildlife sanctuary in Zanzibar.
Zebra in the Serengeti
Relaxing in Tiergarten
Millipede
I stood on something in Zanzibar, and yelped when I saw I’d stomped on this little dude. Thankfully he seemed to take it pretty well and just kept on trucking.
Zanzibar insect
I have no idea what this little dude was, but he landed directly beside me while staying at a beach side hotel in Zanzibar.
Me at Factory coworking
Art
I assembled a pile for cushions to block the air conditioner from hitting Cassienne, and we decided it looked like an art exhibit ?
Greenery on way to Ngorongoro
View of the lush green hills surrounding Ngorongoro national park in Tanzania.
Shrimp fried rice
Magic potion evening
Zanzibar Spice Farm
We visited a spice farm in Zanzibar. If you ever go to Tanzania, then I highly recommend this for an afternoon activity. The people running the spice farm were super friendly and excited to share their knowledge of the spice industry. They also farmed a lot of fruit, which was a lot tastier and more […]
Termite mound
Check out this giant termite mound we found in Tarangire national park in Tanzania!