Reading Time: 2 minutesSummer vacations at Metsovo In the summer of 2016, I went with my wife, Depi, and my daughter, Helena, for summer vacation up in the mountains, to the beautiful Greek village of Metsovo. In the afternoon I always had about 3 hours free, during which I was surfing Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this post I update the earlier synopsis of the fame for 90 (as opposed to 78 in the earlier post) actresses and actors. Their fame levels ranged from 0.8 famons, for Emma Stone, to 60 famons for Bob Dylan (figure 1). Figure 1. Fame of 90 actresses Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo far I used Ngram to evaluate the fame of 72 actresses and actors. Their fame levels ranged from 0.8 famons, for George Macready, to 60 famons for Bob Dylan (figure 1). Most actresses/actors have fame levels between 0 and 10 famons and between 10 and 20 famons. Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe movie North by Northwest is a 1959 thriller movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The cast includes Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The film, which is a typical Hitchcock film of the 1950s, is listed among the greatest films of all time. The Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame levels of various actors and actresses In a previous post I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The Ngram tool produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudying at McGill In autumn 1981 I started my MSc in the Institute of Oceanography at McGill University. I flew from Athens to Montreal a few days before the release of the first IBM computer running MS Dos, on the 3rd of August. This day was marked by the famous Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCertainly, home cinema complements the cinema entertainment activity. Nothing replaces the experience of a movie theater. This is true both socially and in terms of entertainment satisfaction and immersiveness. Going to the cinema is magic. We enjoy the big screen, the loud sounds, the dialogues and the music coming from Read more