| My @ss hurts... |
[06 Apr 2008|07:52pm] |
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...and many other muscle groups, I didn't know I possessed, feel obliged to protest along...
I had a funny, wild, memorable weekend...which I definitely don't want to repeat soon again.
Not that it was bad...quite the opposite in fact...it was just too demanding!
I was kidnapped from work by sisters on Friday. And I use the term kidnapped because whoever knows my charming personality, knows that it takes lot of draging until I consent to my removal from my cave...
So I get this call from sister while on work.
-Anything planned for the weekend? she innocently asked...
-Doing my laundry and catching up on sleep. I guilelessly answered.
-Gee, that's really fun! Ok, I'm afraid you'll miss your laundry but sleep is still in the plan.
-What?
-Kaliroi and Dimitris are picking you after work...
-What?
-I know that you're too polite to say no to someone like Kaliroi. So they are assigned to drive you to my house where we're having a get together weekend...
And that's what happened!
I don't like 'get-together's but Kalliroi is this sweet person who doesn't like 'no'...unless it's followed by some strong argument, you'll have no luck with her...She knows every little trick and can move from logic to emotion in lightspeed...also, the fact I like her didn't help much my case...So I did an utterly hopeless job of arguing and that's how I found myself travelling a rainy 300kms away from Athens to my sister on Friday evening where I had a hell of weekend...
Now, after I was delivered safely back to my cave, I'm two days with almost no sleep, my ears are buzzing with all those beats, I've strained every muscle I own from all the dancing (<--jumping around fits better), I'm hung overed and stinky, embarassing bits keeps popping up, and I didn't do my laundry...
But it was fun and I got to unwind and I have this silly smile plastered on my face!
Off to a long bath soak and a visit to my missed bed with my bedpartner Huggles the Seal who I missed so much!
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| Decisions, Decisions... |
[31 Mar 2008|05:26am] |
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To go to bed or wait the sunrise?
Sorry lattemiele, I lied to you! I didn't go to bed yet! 
But then again thanks to Alek ( look here) my cloudy bed isn't empty...I have company to play with!
And furthermore I've watched sunrise last Sunday (or was it Monday?), when after a birthday party at a friend's house, the last guests who wasn't drunk drove the rest of us to a beach ( I got to ride on a Ducati motorbike! YAY!!! though my arms hurt for the rest of the week, as it seems I throttled the driver's waist!) where we did watch the sunrise...so no big mysteries there!
I'll go to bed!
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| south park on goths... |
[30 Mar 2008|11:01pm] |
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Goth kid 1: Look at that. Another tortured soul.
Goth kid 2: Another life of pain.
Goth kid 1: Hey 'Raven', check it out.
Stan ('Raven'): Butters?
Butters: *stops crying* Oh... *sniff* *sniff* Hey Stan.
Stan: What's the matter with you?
Butters: Well, my girl friend broke up with me.
Goth girl: Did she step on your heart, with stiletto shoes?
Butters: Yeah. Sure does hurt.
Goth kid 1: That's cool. I guess you can join up with us if you want.
Goth kid 2: Yeah. We're gonna go to the grave yard and write poems about death and how pointless life is.
Butters: Oh, no thanks. I love life.
Stan: Huh? But you just got dumped.
Butters: Well, yeah, and I'm sad. But at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like... it makes me feel alive, you know... it makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now, is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling, is like a beautiful sadness. I guess that sounds stupid.
Goth kid 2: Yeah.
Stan: No. No, Butters, that doesn't sound stupid at all.
Butters: Well thanks for offering to let me in your club guys. But to be honest, I'd rather be a crying little pussy than a faggy goth kid... Well, see ya Stan.
Stan: He's right! I don't even know who I am anymore. I like liking life a lot more than hating it. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
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| Who's f*cking Matt Damon? |
[23 Mar 2008|02:06am] |
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This is another proof that people who possess good sense of humor in USA don't hesitate to show it without fear of sullying their image. Even when these people are Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
The story goes like this: Jimmy Kimmel of the show "Jimmy Kimmel live" used to end his shows asking apologies from Matt Damon because due to time constraints the show couldn't feature Damon. But even when Matt finally appeared on the show things didn't go as well as possible:
Moreover, Kimmel managed to annoy Damon even more when he sent Mexican, security guard of parking space, Guillermo, not only to interview him in the premiere of "Ocean's 13", but also to snatch Damon's role on “The Bourne Ultimatum” movie:
However, Damon prepared his revenge with help from Kimmel's girlfriend, Sarah Silverman. So in one of Kimmel's shows Sarah asked him to play a video on air, in which she apologized to him for:
But Kimmel didn't waste time and soon answered back with help from Damon's best friend, Ben Affleck (and many other stars actually, like: Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Robin Williams, Perry Farrell, Huey Lewis, Christina Applegate, Rebecca Romijn, Dominic Monaghan, Meatloaf and various others.)
These videos are a little long but tottaly worth it to watch them, especially the last 2 ones!
Best quote: Brad Pitt having to deliver this thing and asking: 'Excuse me is someone here f*cking Ben Affleck?' LOL
So much gay love in there, I'm melting!
I LUV Ben Affleck!!!
Source: http://giama.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/whos-fucking-matt-damon/
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| in need of... |
[19 Mar 2008|12:16am] |
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a haircut!
Dammit, being my lazy, untidy and amazingly cute self, I keep postponing cutting my hair for the last two months now but I don't think I can neglect it anymore...
I had my locks chewed (<--they're sneakily getting between me and food), taking dives in cups of coffee and what other liquids sit beside me, and now I scorched my bangs while lightening some smoke (<--thank god for those good reflexes or else platonios would be flambé by now).
So, time for sitting still on hairdresser's chair...
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| Hip-Hop for programmers... |
[17 Mar 2008|01:36am] |
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I'm stunned!
Check out a polish band with computer-science lyrics. Their name is MC++ (Tomek is one of the band members) and they have two albums out there: Algorythms and Chip Hop...
If you want to listen to the songs go here.
Check out the lyrics here.
Here's the lyrics from Bob and Alice to get an idea of what I'm talking about...
( lyrics )
Actually I think all their lyrics are worthy of checking out... LOL
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| shying away from work... |
[15 Mar 2008|06:21pm] |
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...to do more interesting things.
Though I shouldn't, because there's a deadline hovering over and the consequences of missing it will be ominous to my life span.
Nuh, life, whatever its length, is advised to be lived in its extremes, so here I am, bravely ditching work partners in the name of surfing the net for interesting bits and bytes...
Dammit, I feel a little guilt accumulating already...
Anyway, out of nowhere my old passion for fanfiction was reignited, so I'm spending whatever free time delving in some good or not so good fanish works.
Well, I'm amazed!
Some people do miracles with their keyboards and their imaginations, word goes to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fayding_fast and her series:
Name: Duped
Fandom: House, M.D.
Main Characters: House, Wilson
Genre: alternative universe, supernatular, angst, strong friendship with some light slashy overtones
Why I loved it: Because as I said when I commented to the story, reading it (as cheesy as it sounds) made me want to be a better a person.
Whoever is familiar with House fandom knows House's conviction about people don't change. Well in this fic House changed in a believable way...actually, I'm not sure if he changed or is overwhelmed by the situation, but anyway...The author knows their way with words and has a vibrant imagination so they could dish me anything and still make me believe it. Also nice grasp of House's character.
Warning: In the first chapter there's death. Don't let it discourage you, fluffy moments are following...
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| sweet melancholy... |
[21 Feb 2008|12:10am] |
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I'm updating, that's a miracle on itself...
Ok, I'm listening repeatedly to this song, (Midnight Choir-Don't turn out the light-can be found here) and surprise surprise the following verse has stuck on me.
"...Oh mama, don't turn out the light
There's a shadow on the moon outside
Keep it burning in the window to guide my way tonight
Don't lock the door, I'm coming home for sure
I've missed the old home place
I am never gonna leave anymore..."
Does this, by any means, bring in mind death or am I just searching a reason to cry my eyes out submitting to my humble, angsty side?
If you think it's the second, then you're right; but you don't win a prize, because the first part of the question was an obnoxiously obvious cue of my moody state...
Well, as the amazing Simon and Garfunkel so eloquently said, "Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again".
I feel it's going to be an emotionally interesting night and I have the appropriate music to accompany it! YAY!
DON'T DISTURB! (<-except if you want to contribute some music suggestions of melancholy on its finest)
Away to do some serious brooding...
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| Redicovering Dostoevsky... |
[16 Jan 2008|12:23pm] |
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Confessing past deeds of wisedom....gif)
One of the greatest novelists whose works had a lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature, was disregarded by my idiotic brain at the young age of 13-14. From then on, I spent almost 20 years of my life badmouthing Fyodor on every chance I got.
*sigh* I'm so ashamed as I'm typing this...
The reason for this unnamable grudge was Brothers karamazov...
What can I say...
At times I found it:
-boring,
-difficult to follow through because of the different POVs it was narrated,
-the many characters with their many names and even more dimunitives proved a real challenge for my weak memory...
To conclude, I believe my main fault which leaded to this riot act, was that I wasn't patient with it, so I wasn't able to appreciate it...(<--story of my life,hehe>
I was longing to reach the end, while the end was nothing comparing to what happened in betweens.
Fortunately, this Xmas gave me the chance to redeem myself from past mistakes...
I rediscovered my old copy when I visited my family house and just out of curiosity, to see if it would sparkle my old hatred, decided to try read it again.
Imagine what!
I couldn't let it go, I stayed up until early of next morning, Xmas Eve, when dear surprised father found a snoring me in the living room, glasses on and book still tightly gripped in hands.
It took me around 2 weeks to finish it and I still can't explain why I disliked it so strongly on first place.
An excellent book...excellent story, excellent characters, excellent study of human behavior...
I enjoyed immensely the sarcasm/irony (I'm not sure how to call it) of the writer. Here's an examble that had me rolling with laughter.
His explanation on Shakespeare's Ophellia tragic end:
"I knew a young lady of the
last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic
passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at
any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended
by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid
river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished,
entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's
Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favourite spot of
hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank
in its place, most likely the suicide would never have taken place.
This is a fact, and probably there have been not a few similar
instances in the last two or three generations."
Russians are weird, in a really good way, people. I don't know if it's my yaoi-corrupted self that receives mixed up yaoi signals or if they are indeed so unreserved...
It's just that they seem to be not afraid of showing emotion and affection between men and women. I mean when Alyosha kisses his brother on the lips and then Ivan asks him to do it again, my yaoi-soul was trembling with excitement. And that, my friends, wasn't the only instance of affection between male characters...I also enjoyed how beautifully he descibed males and females.
Hehe, as you imagine now I'm reading everything by Dostoevski...
At this precise moment I'm very excited with "the idiot". I think it's going to be my favorite, the main character is so YAOI!!! *blush*
The Brothers Karmazov e-text of Garnett's translation (1.9 MB).
The Brothers Karamazov text in Russian.
The idiot full text in English.
The idiot full text in Russian. |
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| How would a metalhead save a princess? |
[07 Dec 2007|08:12pm] |
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"High above in a castle, there's a princess who was kidnapped, locked in there and is now "guarded" by a terrible huge menacing dragon"...
HEAVY METAL:
The protagonist arrives on a Harley Davidson, kills the dragon, drinks some beers and fucks the princess
GRIND METAL:
The protagonist arrives, screams something completely undecipherable for about 2 minutes and then leaves...
POWER METAL:
The protagonist arrives riding a white unicorn, fights the dragon with his mythical emerald sword for 3 days and nights in an epic battle of good Vs. evil, saves the princess and they make love in an enchanted forest
THRASH METAL:
The protagonist arrives, fights the dragon, saves the princes and fucks her....... easy and quick
FOLK METAL:
The protagonist arrives with some friends playing accordions, violins, flutes and many more weird instruments, the dragon falls asleep (from all the dancing) protagonist leaves without the princess
VIKING METAL:
The protagonist arrives in a longboat, kills the dragon with his mighty axe, cooks and eats it, rapes the princess to death, steals the castle and burns the place before he leaves
DEATH METAL:
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the princess and kills her, then leaves
BLACK METAL:
The protagonist arrives at midnight, kills the dragon and impales it in the front of the castle.....then sodomizes the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual before sacrificing her to Satan.....then he impales the deflowered princess
GORE METAL:
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon and spreads his guts in the front of the castle, fucks the princess and kills her....then he fucks again her dead body, slashes her belly open and eats her guts, fucks the carcass for the third time, burns the corpse and fucks it for the last time
DOOM METAL:
The protagonist arrives, sees the size of the dragon and thinks that he never could beat him, gets depressed and commits suicide....the dragon eats his body and the princess as well
PROGRESSIVE METAL:
The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a solo for 26 minutes, the dragon kills himself out of boredom, the protagonist arrives to the princess's bedroom, plays another solo with all the techniques learned in the last year of the conservatory... the princess escapes, and is now looking for the "HEAVY METAL" protagonist
GLAM METAL:
The protagonist arrives, the dragon laughs himself to death at the guy's appearance, he then steals the princess's make-up and tries to paint the castle in a beautiful pink colour...
INDUSTRIAL METAL:
The protagonist arrives wearing greasy overcoat, makes an obscene gestures towards dragon, and gets escorted out of fairy tale land by security guards...
CHRISTIAN METAL:
the protagonist returns from church and sings to the dragon a christian ballad about gods' love. the dragon is now a believer and leaves his post. the princess is trying to "thank" him for saving her but our protagonist is against sex before marrige.
TECH METAL:
the protagonist plays a tonical riff with changes between 11/16 and 13/16. the dragon has a severe brain damage and dies.the princess goes to a music school to find out what the hell was that that she heard.
SPEED METAL:
the protagonist arrives on his bike, driving at unbelievable speed, hits the brakes and crushes on the castles' wall. the dragon dies from laughing.
EMOCORE:
The protagonists’ mother drives the protagonist and his friends to the castle. He kills the dragon with some awesome armspinning and spinkicking while his friends observing the scene with their arms crossed; then the princess laughes at the protagonists ridiculous hairstyle and the boys leave weeping and cut themselves
PUNK:
The protagonist hitchhikes to the castle, asks the dragon for some bucks, buys some cans of beer, gets pissed, insults the princess as “monarchist cunt” and “commerce bitch” and leaves the castle in a black maria.
POP ROCK:
The protagonist is gay. End of story.
The last 3 aren't exactly metalheads but anyway...
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| Ah, hacker insight laid out in laymens terms... |
[07 Dec 2007|03:33am] |
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Ok this isn't mine I found it at one of my walks around the net and liked it so here it is...
I found it at this post of ibneko and the whole document can be found here.
The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here. If you give us an interesting question to chew on we'll be grateful to you; good questions are a stimulus and a gift. Good questions help us develop our understanding, and often reveal problems we might not have noticed or thought about otherwise. Among hackers, “Good question!” is a strong and sincere compliment.
Despite this, hackers have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or arrogance. It sometimes looks like we're reflexively rude to newbies and the ignorant. But this isn't really true.
What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this “losers” (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it “lusers”).
We realize that there are many people who just want to use the software we write, and who have no interest in learning technical details. For most people, a computer is merely a tool, a means to an end; they have more important things to do and lives to live. We acknowledge that, and don't expect everyone to take an interest in the technical matters that fascinate us. Nevertheless, our style of answering questions is tuned for people who do take such an interest and are willing to be active participants in problem-solving. That's not going to change. Nor should it; if it did, we would become less effective at the things we do best.
We're (largely) volunteers. We take time out of busy lives to answer questions, and at times we're overwhelmed with them. So we filter ruthlessly. In particular, we throw away questions from people who appear to be losers in order to spend our question-answering time more efficiently, on winners.
If you find this attitude obnoxious, condescending, or arrogant, check your assumptions. We're not asking you to genuflect to us — in fact, most of us would love nothing more than to deal with you as an equal and welcome you into our culture, if you put in the effort required to make that possible. But it's simply not efficient for us to try to help people who are not willing to help themselves. It's OK to be ignorant; it's not OK to play stupid.
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| playing with my background... |
[03 Dec 2007|09:33pm] |
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hehe I played a little with css code...and here I am with a new background...
don't pay me attention...
I'll probably update in a couple of years again, hehe! |
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| Still getting used!!! |
[12 Oct 2004|10:35am] |
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I think that there is going to be lots of time before I'll be able to update more frequemtly! I promise to my pet dragon that I'll be more active in the near future! Maybe I'll start with some recs in my favorite fandoms, but who knows! Until next time! |
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| second testing |
[21 Sep 2004|02:56am] |
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| Testing |
[21 Sep 2004|12:32am] |
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Finally, after an eternity of lurking around I decided to create my own acount! HOORAY! Welcome me and let's hope that there isn't going to be any mishaps!
Good luck!!! |
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