tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48275134945749684922024-03-05T20:33:09.753-08:00RikajaRikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4827513494574968492.post-11894051490993305202011-02-02T12:24:00.000-08:002011-02-02T12:28:27.422-08:00Upcoming Darwin Day!Hey everybody,<br /><br />I have just realised that February 12th is the Darwin Day....yaaay!<br /><br />On skepchick is some contest if you would like to participate and celebrate the day.<br /><a href="http://skepchick.org/blog/2011/02/darwin-day-contest-on-the-origin-of-quiches/">http://skepchick.org/blog/2011/02/darwin-day-contest-on-the-origin-of-quiches/</a>Rikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4827513494574968492.post-57942631844872871532010-09-14T08:39:00.001-07:002010-09-15T03:20:09.481-07:00International rock flipping day 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpXLZxUwmwtdng6Pgq9O7SxtmqulQbP4UnQLgM3mgnUr9iu74MLmI_UgSs78Q7AuVdhoN8C25rA0a63WNw_4DEXM2uPHn0595sft9OIiXCgj4a6OQcohbp27UcbxeLw_0ZA51rgEzIhKF/s1600/irfd.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpXLZxUwmwtdng6Pgq9O7SxtmqulQbP4UnQLgM3mgnUr9iu74MLmI_UgSs78Q7AuVdhoN8C25rA0a63WNw_4DEXM2uPHn0595sft9OIiXCgj4a6OQcohbp27UcbxeLw_0ZA51rgEzIhKF/s200/irfd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516794698902838754" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Just walking through the f</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >orest, searching rocks and</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> enjoying the nature. Here are some animals i have captured with my camera.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Some little slug was hiding underneath</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGXnWTYbxkUiaX5NsyDHM-1TRHxjtoUOj5z72diPDF7wpl7WdDlPn95Irr3LiT3u_fpj8E4h1uPgZRHQMttqe3ym7avUuj2xfk2Tx8SAo5Vlqcy8DpYZ7eYD-Aa-n84SXB-Hx7KDjxqJYX/s1600/P1040365.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGXnWTYbxkUiaX5NsyDHM-1TRHxjtoUOj5z72diPDF7wpl7WdDlPn95Irr3LiT3u_fpj8E4h1uPgZRHQMttqe3ym7avUuj2xfk2Tx8SAo5Vlqcy8DpYZ7eYD-Aa-n84SXB-Hx7KDjxqJYX/s400/P1040365.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516799480398716354" border="0" /></a><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Earthworm</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3hIa8xPvrDTh7A0TQVilvGoClnfvIV4RFdccZc1cmwm1Bs8t4oLIZTQbgFhfgrJUNEYNYvZ0LjyZaIN5wjLyO5TpwfKTfkSo6ylwC-cNWq6B6ndgyGP55FdmZAd6_1Hr9K2rh79KaU6Fk/s1600/P1040371.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3hIa8xPvrDTh7A0TQVilvGoClnfvIV4RFdccZc1cmwm1Bs8t4oLIZTQbgFhfgrJUNEYNYvZ0LjyZaIN5wjLyO5TpwfKTfkSo6ylwC-cNWq6B6ndgyGP55FdmZAd6_1Hr9K2rh79KaU6Fk/s400/P1040371.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516800442787406466" border="0" /></a></span></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bigger earthworm</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0foUdRQ2BRcjkO5loBjTkACQtPoCvAet9w9rYvkjusMznUC1ku1nUiJeFTjA3ZBlhrgPQ86-7p7bKM1BIFsfv45JOz3lazNU7AR0gdLN_0XRJBI_iHepM23X5Fz0xWvpQCoJdE1eoQXO/s1600/P1040365.JPG"><br /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijX_3QDtn8kCA4N_QbRKqLfIpPiuXnXhaOqcgvlvTM-3GBsf24E59CptBLD12J4cs7cLHqHpcVPWD572ROBDsgSWJ8LW68QdeA5bWRGcHqAbCucPbMr8kYFKGGdajlKE2RQcTKYZNKj8Zr/s1600/P1040373.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijX_3QDtn8kCA4N_QbRKqLfIpPiuXnXhaOqcgvlvTM-3GBsf24E59CptBLD12J4cs7cLHqHpcVPWD572ROBDsgSWJ8LW68QdeA5bWRGcHqAbCucPbMr8kYFKGGdajlKE2RQcTKYZNKj8Zr/s400/P1040373.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516800741468468226" border="0" /></a><br /></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Aaand lots of them</span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdgQUnZS0UER1GGGbVVI6JDAWPwUO1btk4Q-SWCZgKP-8MyivcmAOBvCnArf3wqzBsRLaInQ1zcqwhEwyR3dH8rYVvwoSw9zRoYv8p2a7RgejwwIw9G7swzbZBA_q6d5_C7fx7FbZ6epU/s1600/P1040375.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdgQUnZS0UER1GGGbVVI6JDAWPwUO1btk4Q-SWCZgKP-8MyivcmAOBvCnArf3wqzBsRLaInQ1zcqwhEwyR3dH8rYVvwoSw9zRoYv8p2a7RgejwwIw9G7swzbZBA_q6d5_C7fx7FbZ6epU/s400/P1040375.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516802424262383826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Thats all i have found. I hope next year there will be wider range of animals.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normálna tabuľka"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normálna tabuľka"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10pt;" >Update: Thanks Wanderin' Weeta for adding me, on her site there are all works of fellow rock flippers<br /><a href="http://www.wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/">http://www.wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Cant wait till next year ^ ^</span></p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Rikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4827513494574968492.post-85118693014312737942008-09-09T12:44:00.000-07:002008-09-09T13:11:46.230-07:00The international rock flipping day September 7Well, as I spotted this <a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/08/10/september-7-is-international-rock-flipping-day/">http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/08/10/september-7-is-international-rock-flipping-day/</a><br />I couldn't resist to go outside and try for myself. It was a beautiful shiny day anyway.<br />So I met my friend and we both began our hunting. We went to the woods and searched almost every rock, except...there werent many rocks, so then we started flipping little chunks.<br />We saw a few bugs, but they always managed to run away before I could even touch my camera :(<br /><br />So heres just some remnants after some animal, which seems to be a spider. Eeew.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiYw_DdIESTGt_JsiELbDsi3e50xEMNH9M4bygZ-ZUYX_FLrtY12K2fayOtI4SklnBTAFQVrF2NEoJRkXlPwyCtGFM7IGzvDyjlTO10Yl-TrY7yJZTZbSZ4DLJ-kCY3cR2aCUXa9AspRZ/s1600-h/rock.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiYw_DdIESTGt_JsiELbDsi3e50xEMNH9M4bygZ-ZUYX_FLrtY12K2fayOtI4SklnBTAFQVrF2NEoJRkXlPwyCtGFM7IGzvDyjlTO10Yl-TrY7yJZTZbSZ4DLJ-kCY3cR2aCUXa9AspRZ/s320/rock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244112138285270914" border="0" /></a><br />But we did see a squirrel, which didn't want to pose for a picture :( So heres one not so good<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Sdtm9p0y4jfmYohX73hXAktyaRotmaYsiZdZnk0ta2SVVQDazUH0gR2jDYizqGbXG4z5PYxR1hooNgDPmSmqNVN-OE-C5s8t4ly8AKmp08ZoQQqA4zywbJ8U2ANkg613ruAyaXbY2ygy/s1600-h/veverica.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Sdtm9p0y4jfmYohX73hXAktyaRotmaYsiZdZnk0ta2SVVQDazUH0gR2jDYizqGbXG4z5PYxR1hooNgDPmSmqNVN-OE-C5s8t4ly8AKmp08ZoQQqA4zywbJ8U2ANkg613ruAyaXbY2ygy/s320/veverica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244113735665858610" border="0" /></a>On the way back home I found some little mouse on the ground. It must have been only a day old. So I took it home, I wanted to save her/him...despite the fact I have cats at home....<br />Well I should have made better precaution...it lasted only for a few hours. I think I will never know whether it was eaten by my cat or just ran away.....<br />Anyway, I hope you are in good hands now. I am really sorry, I tried, I failed.... I won't forget you....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRodj9Lse1zy5uzHp_PyjXfk-owKqhE3PnoqWBFc7TN6juXwIbVom8fxmNa4POtybP-YBEKAfsAnKOD-HSfsKIX3IrGPGjll-0Z8_t440s862U0or98k5XXoORR1yWzIDICv8V3l0ln8Ls/s1600-h/mouse.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRodj9Lse1zy5uzHp_PyjXfk-owKqhE3PnoqWBFc7TN6juXwIbVom8fxmNa4POtybP-YBEKAfsAnKOD-HSfsKIX3IrGPGjll-0Z8_t440s862U0or98k5XXoORR1yWzIDICv8V3l0ln8Ls/s320/mouse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244116009514197266" border="0" /></a>Rikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4827513494574968492.post-69986510044754516512007-10-16T13:26:00.000-07:002007-10-16T13:47:34.112-07:001997-2007Time is running so fast. Cliche? Just the truth. <p class="MsoNormal">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<span style="" lang="EN-US"> sum up of 1997:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Games</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>Microprose released the X-COM: Apocalypse - which I didn’</span>t get to play then</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Fallout released by Interplay - which I started to play 10 years later</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Carmageddon - much criticized game</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Grand Theft Auto – the first of revolutionary series</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Age Of Empires</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Curse Of Monkey Island</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Postal</p> <p class="MsoNormal">CAC: Red Alert</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Destruction Derby 2 – my uncle was always better in this one and it drove me mad</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Duke Nukem 3D – yeah, ten years and we are still waiting for the next title to be never <span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>released</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Hexen_II<span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">LBA2</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Outlaws</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Qake I, II – I was never a quake person. I don<span style="" lang="EN-US">’</span>t know why.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Redneck Rampage - best game with chickens ever</p> <p class="MsoNormal">SimCity 2000 – I loved to build my own city</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tomb Raider 2</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ultima Online - without the internet spread in our country? No wai!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPS6ppYb-qCiHjU1xQqcRk6KHHuHCRwquCtgmOZ0MY53xkLsrlUOqGdQ4moLJZAem7E6Jm7aD28MEiMaCxyTnHxFGN8YFh1FkyPqu8CaR9rZsCeMHGVPV1-Prw71NG0y0pgSunaqXtgMs7/s1600-h/gta.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPS6ppYb-qCiHjU1xQqcRk6KHHuHCRwquCtgmOZ0MY53xkLsrlUOqGdQ4moLJZAem7E6Jm7aD28MEiMaCxyTnHxFGN8YFh1FkyPqu8CaR9rZsCeMHGVPV1-Prw71NG0y0pgSunaqXtgMs7/s320/gta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122035596456706450" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Music<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Album Homogenic from Icelandic singer Bjork was released</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Death Cab for Cutie started their career<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Madonna recorded album Ray of Light – the best album so far in my opinion<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Muse formed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Col</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="" lang="EN-US">dplay formed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Eisley formed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Depeche</span></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <st1:state st="on">Mo</st1:state></span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">de reformed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Spice Girls released their album Spice :D<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Backstreet Boys released album Backstreet Boys :D<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Po</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">rtishead released also an album<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="mw-headline"><b style="">Biggest hit singles</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">No Doubt – Don’</span>t speak – on the 2nd place</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Another hits: Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve, Eye - Smashing Pumpkins, Firestarter - The Prodigy,...<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Girls" title="Spice Girls"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1VnBBMAVi9l5okdxx6qoWOtLgQ3OJuSndrnLeobwda-QYIlT3ONs6_3yQh24qHcOtK59P7gsTZgsHmUvoNRDydp6SilC5NvbdfU3r29chnzfSvdwXMToq8W_pE-dEh7loxg62SyyjsLZj/s1600-h/madonna.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1VnBBMAVi9l5okdxx6qoWOtLgQ3OJuSndrnLeobwda-QYIlT3ONs6_3yQh24qHcOtK59P7gsTZgsHmUvoNRDydp6SilC5NvbdfU3r29chnzfSvdwXMToq8W_pE-dEh7loxg62SyyjsLZj/s320/madonna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122036305126310306" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Films</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Titanic – I have seen it in the cinema. Does it need any comment?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Jurassic</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <st1:placetype st="on">Park</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> – I think this meet my temporary obsession with dinosaurs :p<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Men In Black – this was great movie…back then<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tomorrow <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">nev</st1:place></st1:state>er dies – wha..? It’</span>s so old?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As good as it gets – Jack Nicholson, splendid. I remember watching this in the cinema with </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>my mom</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The 5th Element – the best film ever</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">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, ...</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRkJb9jwTE82lc_YPct81pVOUid9P0d35eYevJuhr5DmoFs8vN_iZLZenWRo9LdFP_8bX1mHBJfqxlbIkCsKD_VulRTOgdyuJhosd_djfj4Gw4zQK2VjE8EVF1lhnxHwpuHw0f4JP5B5I/s1600-h/element.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRkJb9jwTE82lc_YPct81pVOUid9P0d35eYevJuhr5DmoFs8vN_iZLZenWRo9LdFP_8bX1mHBJfqxlbIkCsKD_VulRTOgdyuJhosd_djfj4Gw4zQK2VjE8EVF1lhnxHwpuHw0f4JP5B5I/s320/element.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122036588594151858" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Concerning me<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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’</span>t think so, but I have drawn tons of pictures. Some won the competitions, some were appreciated. But all are forgotten now.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I got my first PC. It was 486 and I ran Win 95 under that :P It kept crushing… what a surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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’</span>t work. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>At that time I was introduced to computer games. Ever since I saw Prince of Persia, I fell in love with games and couldn<span style="" lang="EN-US">’</span>t stop m<span style="" lang="EN-US">yself thinking of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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 <st1:metricconverter productid="50 metres" st="on">50 metres</st1:metricconverter> away from home.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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’</span>t miss the chance to hit me in the face the very first day. I am still wondering why the hell I didn<span style="" lang="EN-US">’</span>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<span style="" lang="EN-US">’</span>t be friends.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It seems for me now unbelievable, that I was once 10 years old. It wo<span style="" lang="EN-US">n’</span>t ever happen again, I can<span style="" lang="EN-US">’</span>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<span style="" lang="EN-US">’</span>ll be.... hush <span style="" lang="EN-US">^^;;</span></p>Rikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4827513494574968492.post-70324084201443603982007-09-06T11:29:00.000-07:002007-09-06T11:59:46.128-07:00Russell's TeapotI always find some interesting reading on Wikipedia. I am glad I came across this little theory of which I haven't heard until now.<br />I was also pleased to see that Richard Dawkins extended Russell's theory.<br />Since I like this stuff, check it out, for me, will you? :P<br /><b><br />Russell's teapot</b>, sometimes called the <b>Celestial Teapot</b>, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> (1872-1970), intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">sceptic</a> to disprove <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability" title="Falsifiability">unfalsifiable</a> claims of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religions</a>. In an article entitled "Is There a God?",<sup id="_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot#_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> commissioned (but never published) by <i>Illustrated</i> magazine in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a>, Russell said the following: <table style="border-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;" class="cquote" align="center"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20">“</td> <td style="padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">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.</td> <td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 36px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="20">”</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>In his book <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Devil%27s_Chaplain" title="A Devil's Chaplain">A Devil's Chaplain</a></i>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a> developed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot" title="Teapot">teapot</a> theme a little further:</p> <table style="border-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;" class="cquote" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20">“</td> <td style="padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">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-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiksa" title="Shiksa">shiksas</a> whose parents believe in three teapots rather than one. People who put the milk in first don't <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee-capping" title="Knee-capping">kneecap</a> those who put the tea in first.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />---The source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot<br /><br />I wasn't lead to this article from nowhere else than Spaghetti Monster. It was rather amusing reading. <b>The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monst</b><b>er</b>, who worships Spaghetti Monster himself.<br />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.<br /><br />I pray thee, Spaghetti Monster<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0Y6p9xQ-BPWW3Y4PrPC-49Cu4blLXoLPJMMwQ0SXHQF-DtWyJwS-wIS7HYxmyPHpIfYEplLkGFsPS8ZC4kYLbNz5O2j0KBMk3fWNy2H2uTJne0J4aaGO8MRLPumL1FDWDEZ-cC_mmhNO/s1600-h/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster-tm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0Y6p9xQ-BPWW3Y4PrPC-49Cu4blLXoLPJMMwQ0SXHQF-DtWyJwS-wIS7HYxmyPHpIfYEplLkGFsPS8ZC4kYLbNz5O2j0KBMk3fWNy2H2uTJne0J4aaGO8MRLPumL1FDWDEZ-cC_mmhNO/s320/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster-tm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107166923057551442" border="0" /></a>Rikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4827513494574968492.post-26514138828702963952007-08-01T03:48:00.000-07:002007-08-01T03:50:04.947-07:00The BeginningSo here it is. My first blog. Hope you enjoy it in the future.Rikajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872458471587843005noreply@blogger.com0