B: "Propeller!"
October 29, 2009
October 28, 2009
October 27, 2009
It's the season
A gripping
Advisory service
Sometimes the best way how to help the people who really do care about you is to be happy.
October 25, 2009
October 24, 2009
Guten Morgen
Everything Everything - My Keys, Your Boyfriend. The live record for BBC radio - it just completely distresses the joint in between my ears and brain. Or it's again all about that synthy and falseth combination :).
October 22, 2009
October 21, 2009
Vice versa but completely opposite
It's naive to think that screening the monitor is anything close to monitoring the screen.
P.S. Off-topic - ever seen this one (just recalled it while pondering upon the facets of monitoring and screening)? :)
P.S. Off-topic - ever seen this one (just recalled it while pondering upon the facets of monitoring and screening)? :)
October 20, 2009
October 19, 2009
October 18, 2009
October 17, 2009
It's very gut to become an e-mail
A: "Do you have anything with you?"
B: "Eeeem... nop"
A: "Then go to the end of the snake"
B: (blinks), (blinks)
B: (Goes to the next stop)
B: "Eeeem... nop"
A: "Then go to the end of the snake"
B: (blinks), (blinks)
B: (Goes to the next stop)
October 16, 2009
October 14, 2009
citadiena.lv
Liekas, ka tas ir pats labākais veids kā atbildēt uz visticamāk dažu neapmierinātu oligarhu caur ārzonām organizētajai "Dienas" torpedēšanai. Lai veicas partizāņiem!
October 12, 2009
Library revisited
As I just made it to the elevator to go up the 4th floor of the library, I saw two girls hurrily rushing from behind to make it to the same elevator, first I pressed the button 0, even though I wanted to press 4, but the display nevertheless showed 4 - nice. And thereafter the girls were almost there at the doors, so as a gentleman, I waved my foot at the sensor a couple of times as the doors were closing and the doors opened. Of course the said "paldies" and as a reflex I answered "lūdzu", not even noticing that we've just talked Latvian and afterwards we didn't say a word no more. Then I sat at the nearby desk from them and noticed that they talked Latvian (yeah, quite Estonian reaction from me) and of course started a conversation with them by saying that I must have known if there are 2 new students from Latvia and bla bla bla. Anyways and then happened something really unexpected - there were like dozen of unseen students talking Latvian at Bolzano's library. And another surprising thing was how they looked - guys with fancy but smart haircuts and the girls without boosted looks - very non-Latvian - if I haven't heard them talking, I would have never guessed that they're Latvians. Ok, there was as well a bit thick guy who I couldn't quite figure out whether he was a boy or a girl.
After recovering from the shock there was in general a quite curious thing going on - a guy was singing Enigma - "return to innocent", but with his own made up quite smart and funny lyrics in the instrumental gaps. But of course it's the library and you can't do like that there, so everybody was disturbed even though smiling and at last on the clock display it appeared "SHUT UP". Don't know how the library's administration achieved it, but they definately deserve credit for it.
And then there was some part that I don't remember, but in any case I'm here now, finally awake :).
After recovering from the shock there was in general a quite curious thing going on - a guy was singing Enigma - "return to innocent", but with his own made up quite smart and funny lyrics in the instrumental gaps. But of course it's the library and you can't do like that there, so everybody was disturbed even though smiling and at last on the clock display it appeared "SHUT UP". Don't know how the library's administration achieved it, but they definately deserve credit for it.
And then there was some part that I don't remember, but in any case I'm here now, finally awake :).
October 10, 2009
Science fiction
Maybe giving 7 billion loan to Latvia with a purpose "to make things right" was the same as giving all the needed tools to a pig and tell it to build a space ship.
October 09, 2009
A path to success
I'm no scientist, no theoretician. I'm a practician - just like Thomas Edison (in the sense of being no scientist :), who invented the Glühbirne. I beat my head against the wall till it breaks - the head or the wall.
October 08, 2009
October 02, 2009
An unsocial day
Change of environment often comes with some interesting sequences of happenings like today, when I moved (back?) to Vienna. The 1st Oct hurray! NOT! Ok anyways, so here it goes:
1) Sleep in a night train with almost maximal lighting on - luckily got through with only vorteilscard application not having paid. Fortunately my expectations fulfilled - I was able to sleep in the train for some good 4 hours - not close to enough but anyway..
2) A walk from the Westbahnhof to my new dorm - at around 1 hour on foot. Thought that it should be smthn like refreshening my Vienna insights, but at the end appeared to be damn tiring - especially those uphills with my 20kg bag and 10kg rucksack on my shoulders. Looks like I've lost not only 6kg but percentually more strength as well.
3) Of course I wasn't able to move into the dorm at 8.30 as it should have been possible to happen, cos of course they hadn't had checked the rooms, which postponed the whole procedure till 14.00... and I was damn tired already. At least there were some buckets of internet at faculty which is luckily 15 mins on foot from the dorm.
4) As the others were browsing along in the computer lab room, I was snoozing with some intervals of conscious browsing - working on thesis of course wasn't anything viable at such a state. I hope I didn't snore at least.
5) Ok once having had patiently stood through the queue for 1 hour and having listened to czech more than I've ever needed, I got at last in my room at 15.30... So next part - gotta check whether my bike and stuff are still there at my previous dorm... 45 mins walk, of course.
6) Nice downhill walk and guess what - I ran into 2 students that were speaking in some common language... -lithuanian-? NOT! latvian. I mean Latvian is no Russian - you can't just walk in a park and meet a Latvian in Vienna, running into latvian in Vienna is less probable than running into one in Sydney (which actually happened to me), the probability is about equal to seeing a speeding Estonian driver. Anyways, I gotta know about 50 euro Semesterkarte, I hope it's not a bad joke - gotta verify this one.
7) Some hospitable (ok not at the beginning as he asked me whether I'm a Czech (Which is only a bit less offensive than being asked whether I'm a Russian :) and was asking some questions to verify if i'm not just going there to steal a bike) finnish let me in to my bicycle and sacks of stuff. Afterwards I regreted that I didn't manage to demonstrate my finnish skills (terve, uksi, kaksi etc :).
8) A fun ride - having packed all my stuff in the big bag I rode bike with one hand and with other held the bag's handle whilst the bag was rolling on the streets on its trolleys. At first I got seriously unsure about the balance, but at the end I could even correct the trajectory of the bag so that it doesn't fall down and carry me with it :). In either case suddenly I felt popular... all eyes on a guy with a big bag disturbing the cars and other cyclists. Sometimes you have to be egoist... when it matters.
9) At last home, chunks of sleep, heaps of czechs (mostly czechitas :) in the neighbourhood, maybe I'll catch up czech to the level I did with Lithuanian. Probably not. It's not Bolzano and I'm getting more and more unsocial :(. Age and mentality takes its toll.
10) Yeah and then there was a locker game - I felt like in a tv show - you have 2 keys - one for the locker in the kitchen and one for the locker in the fridge. Of course it would be completely unnecassary to enumate those dozen smthn lockers... So the variance wasn't on my side - the last locker did unlock and in the fridge I had to retry to find mine.
11) And the last but not the least - I hope my room mate will be a monolingual germanophone. Probably not gonna happen....
And now it's just a lazy sloppy coding night, which will probably once again result in a ~30% expected effort and the sole excuse will be once again - too little constraints. At least the "we are scientists" album, I found on my pc, beat my expectations - song by song nothing special, but the whole album together as a monolite energizer - smthn like power indie :D.
P.S. It's not that I'm going to write every day or even every week such stuff that completely abuses my blah's format. No resolution either. And this one doesn't make much sense as a whole either, so better stick with the sloppy conciseness as unfolding tends to roll away from the sense (of course if there's any).
1) Sleep in a night train with almost maximal lighting on - luckily got through with only vorteilscard application not having paid. Fortunately my expectations fulfilled - I was able to sleep in the train for some good 4 hours - not close to enough but anyway..
2) A walk from the Westbahnhof to my new dorm - at around 1 hour on foot. Thought that it should be smthn like refreshening my Vienna insights, but at the end appeared to be damn tiring - especially those uphills with my 20kg bag and 10kg rucksack on my shoulders. Looks like I've lost not only 6kg but percentually more strength as well.
3) Of course I wasn't able to move into the dorm at 8.30 as it should have been possible to happen, cos of course they hadn't had checked the rooms, which postponed the whole procedure till 14.00... and I was damn tired already. At least there were some buckets of internet at faculty which is luckily 15 mins on foot from the dorm.
4) As the others were browsing along in the computer lab room, I was snoozing with some intervals of conscious browsing - working on thesis of course wasn't anything viable at such a state. I hope I didn't snore at least.
5) Ok once having had patiently stood through the queue for 1 hour and having listened to czech more than I've ever needed, I got at last in my room at 15.30... So next part - gotta check whether my bike and stuff are still there at my previous dorm... 45 mins walk, of course.
6) Nice downhill walk and guess what - I ran into 2 students that were speaking in some common language... -lithuanian-? NOT! latvian. I mean Latvian is no Russian - you can't just walk in a park and meet a Latvian in Vienna, running into latvian in Vienna is less probable than running into one in Sydney (which actually happened to me), the probability is about equal to seeing a speeding Estonian driver. Anyways, I gotta know about 50 euro Semesterkarte, I hope it's not a bad joke - gotta verify this one.
7) Some hospitable (ok not at the beginning as he asked me whether I'm a Czech (Which is only a bit less offensive than being asked whether I'm a Russian :) and was asking some questions to verify if i'm not just going there to steal a bike) finnish let me in to my bicycle and sacks of stuff. Afterwards I regreted that I didn't manage to demonstrate my finnish skills (terve, uksi, kaksi etc :).
8) A fun ride - having packed all my stuff in the big bag I rode bike with one hand and with other held the bag's handle whilst the bag was rolling on the streets on its trolleys. At first I got seriously unsure about the balance, but at the end I could even correct the trajectory of the bag so that it doesn't fall down and carry me with it :). In either case suddenly I felt popular... all eyes on a guy with a big bag disturbing the cars and other cyclists. Sometimes you have to be egoist... when it matters.
9) At last home, chunks of sleep, heaps of czechs (mostly czechitas :) in the neighbourhood, maybe I'll catch up czech to the level I did with Lithuanian. Probably not. It's not Bolzano and I'm getting more and more unsocial :(. Age and mentality takes its toll.
10) Yeah and then there was a locker game - I felt like in a tv show - you have 2 keys - one for the locker in the kitchen and one for the locker in the fridge. Of course it would be completely unnecassary to enumate those dozen smthn lockers... So the variance wasn't on my side - the last locker did unlock and in the fridge I had to retry to find mine.
11) And the last but not the least - I hope my room mate will be a monolingual germanophone. Probably not gonna happen....
And now it's just a lazy sloppy coding night, which will probably once again result in a ~30% expected effort and the sole excuse will be once again - too little constraints. At least the "we are scientists" album, I found on my pc, beat my expectations - song by song nothing special, but the whole album together as a monolite energizer - smthn like power indie :D.
P.S. It's not that I'm going to write every day or even every week such stuff that completely abuses my blah's format. No resolution either. And this one doesn't make much sense as a whole either, so better stick with the sloppy conciseness as unfolding tends to roll away from the sense (of course if there's any).
October 01, 2009
shell: tourist
When in Italy you immidiately start to speak in English, then it means smthn like "mercy, please"!
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