1997-2007

Time is running so fast. Cliche? Just the truth.

We have already lived through most of the year 2007. Almost nothing is as it used to be in the past. It came to my mind that many good things has started/been released right 10 years ago – in 1997, so I made myself a little sum up of 1997:

Games

In this year it was still quite easy to develop a game. Not many people were needed and if somebody told you he is working on a game for four years, you would laugh.

Microprose released the X-COM: Apocalypse - which I didn’t get to play then

Fallout released by Interplay - which I started to play 10 years later

Carmageddon - much criticized game

Grand Theft Auto – the first of revolutionary series

Age Of Empires

The Curse Of Monkey Island

Postal

CAC: Red Alert

Destruction Derby 2 – my uncle was always better in this one and it drove me mad

Duke Nukem 3D – yeah, ten years and we are still waiting for the next title to be never

released

Hexen_II

LBA2

Outlaws

Qake I, II – I was never a quake person. I don’t know why.

Redneck Rampage - best game with chickens ever

SimCity 2000 – I loved to build my own city

Tomb Raider 2

Ultima Online - without the internet spread in our country? No wai!

Music

Album Homogenic from Icelandic singer Bjork was released

Death Cab for Cutie started their career

Madonna recorded album Ray of Light – the best album so far in my opinion

Muse formed

Coldplay formed

Eisley formed

Depeche Mode reformed

Spice Girls released their album Spice :D

Backstreet Boys released album Backstreet Boys :D

Portishead released also an album

Biggest hit singles

No Doubt – Don’t speak – on the 2nd place

Another hits: Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve, Eye - Smashing Pumpkins, Firestarter - The Prodigy,...

Films

Titanic – I have seen it in the cinema. Does it need any comment?

Jurassic Park – I think this meet my temporary obsession with dinosaurs :p

Men In Black – this was great movie…back then

Tomorrow never dies – wha..? It’s so old?

As good as it gets – Jack Nicholson, splendid. I remember watching this in the cinema with

my mom

The 5th Element – the best film ever

And many many others: Alien: Ressurection, Con Air, Cube, The End Of Evangelion, Event Horizon, The Game, Gattaca, Lost Highway, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Playing God, Scream 2, ...

Concerning me

Yeah I was just 10 years old. I remember my mom doing a party with balloons for me. Then I was still attending my drawing course. The teacher said I was a talent. I didn’t think so, but I have drawn tons of pictures. Some won the competitions, some were appreciated. But all are forgotten now.

I got my first PC. It was 486 and I ran Win 95 under that :P It kept crushing… what a surprise.

There was no sign of internet. No mobile phones. The only way how to communicate was an ordinary phone. I remember trying to speak with my uncle through 2 rooms by using a wire and two cups XD. It didn’t work.

At that time I was introduced to computer games. Ever since I saw Prince of Persia, I fell in love with games and couldn’t stop myself thinking of them.

I am not sure whether it was at that time, but I used to read comics Donald Duck. I had tons of those. I just used to sit on my bed and read them again, again and again. My mother in background, doing the ironing and listening to Madonna – Ray of Light. And me, stupid, reading that bullshit over and over again. Where are the comics now? Far lost somewhere. I threw them away. What a relief.

Now I remember it was right in 1997 when I transferred to other basic school. The former one was absolute disaster. For the instance there was a nun who threatened 7 years old children that they would go to the hell. We had also a teacher who beated slower kids with a blackjack. There were crazy teachers. Yeah, and speak of the advantage, when you have your school 50 metres away from home.

Anyway, new school, new teachers. New children. Oh god, I still remember what it is like to walk like stranger to the class and sit there with all eyes lied on you. I got used to it, but one girl (who later became my “friend”) didn’t miss the chance to hit me in the face the very first day. I am still wondering why the hell I didn’t return back. But honestly, later I was fighting my male classmates. I have never hesitated to punch them between legs. It was a tough year. Oh yeah, and I got my first B mark on the school report. Math of course. I have realized we won’t be friends.

It seems for me now unbelievable, that I was once 10 years old. It won’t ever happen again, I can’t go back in time. Sometimes I wish it would be possible. Well, but anyway, I am 20 now and in another ten years I’ll be.... hush ^^;;

Russell's Teapot

I always find some interesting reading on Wikipedia. I am glad I came across this little theory of which I haven't heard until now.
I was also pleased to see that Richard Dawkins extended Russell's theory.
Since I like this stuff, check it out, for me, will you? :P

Russell's teapot, sometimes called the Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of religions. In an article entitled "Is There a God?",^[1] commissioned (but never published) by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell said the following:

“

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

”

In his book A Devil's Chaplain, Richard Dawkins developed the teapot theme a little further:

“

The reason organized religion merits outright hostility is that, unlike belief in Russell's teapot, religion is powerful, influential, tax-exempt and systematically passed on to children too young to defend themselves. Children are not compelled to spend their formative years memorizing loony books about teapots. Government-subsidized schools don't exclude children whose parents prefer the wrong shape of teapot. Teapot-believers don't stone teapot-unbelievers, teapot-apostates, teapot-heretics and teapot-blasphemers to death. Mothers don't warn their sons off marrying teapot-shiksas whose parents believe in three teapots rather than one. People who put the milk in first don't kneecap those who put the tea in first.

---The source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

I wasn't lead to this article from nowhere else than Spaghetti Monster. It was rather amusing reading. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who worships Spaghetti Monster himself.
I think it may be more profound to be a Pastafarian than to be an atheist. By acknowleding this religion you make yourself clear, that all religions are just as riddiculous as FSM only in exception that they take themselves seriously.

I pray thee, Spaghetti Monster

The Beginning

So here it is. My first blog. Hope you enjoy it in the future.