Not so long ago I was complaining about lack of original ideas in the parliamentary election campaign here in Romania. When it comes to campaign strategy, nothing has changed and if none of the candidates are capable of showing original thinking when promoting their image, at least, what else could convince me, a voter, to put the stamp on their name? continue reading…
The city of Cluj is definitely one of the most dangerous cities in our beloved country, being not far behind the capital city of Bucharest when it comes to driving incidents. Just like about anywhere, the main reason for these incidents is reckless driving, failure to adjust to speed limits, drunk driving, failure to respect road signs and markings and failure to give appropriate priority to pedestrians and other drivers. continue reading…
Every year I set myself the goal of celebrating the birth and remember the death of some of the world’s greatest people and rarely I manage to do that. Another ‘problem’ is that every year I discover new names of people that are worth remembering, people who managed to change the world in a better way. continue reading…
The “Political Compass” project by the IEDPQ organization is quite interesting for a test and manages to do not only a qualitative appraisal of political ideas but also a quantitative one through measuring the importance of various subject versus the subject’s answer.
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(from www.geekoftheday.com )
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% rm God
rm: God nonexistent continue reading…
Q: How many Windows users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One, but she/he’ll swear up and down that it was TWICE as easy for him as it would be for a Linux user.
A: One to run the wizard , or call support if there is no wizard.
Q: How many Linux users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: sudo apt-get install lightbulb continue reading…
(I do not know who wrote it originally, since it wasn’t me, but must be a crazed genius, giving praise to Edgar Alan Poe’s “Raven”)
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more. continue reading…
The TV series CSI has made a theme of using songs of the world-famous band “The Who” as their intro songs. “Las Vegas” has “Who are you” of the same-name album, “New York” has “Baba O’Riley” (only God knows what this song has to do with the subject of the movie) while “Miami” has “We won’t get fooled again” (rather ironic since Horatio Caine never gets fooled, not even when he loses, which is also very rare). continue reading…
Since I’m on a few minutes break, I decided to present you a couple of movie ideas that were great but not pushed to the level set by their potential.
