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Today’s exploration: Beauty

2009-11-08T09:42:13Z

“In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one’s own existence.” [article, video]

Quote: On Teams

2009-10-29T07:57:23Z

“I enjoy a working environment where the word ‘team’ is uttered in derision, and view the process of team or community as a result of mutual respect and enlightened self interest as opposed to a management method where fuzzy feelings are elicited to get the benefits and delegate the blame.” (comment by dkite on LWN article)

Skype wows

2009-10-14T08:33:40Z

Calling to Greek landline phones (both in-town and country-wide) is cheaper with Skype than Forthnet. Yay for N900 handling all my local calls then.

Greetings.

2009-09-21T22:44:41Z

“To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man… greetings.” (1984)

Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard

2009-09-21T13:27:02Z

“Scissors cuts Paper covers Rock crushes Lizard poisons Spock smashes Scissors decapitates Lizard eats Paper disproves Spock vaporizes Rock crushes Scissors.” (via @mperedim)

Maemo Summit

2009-09-18T23:56:57Z

Yeehaa! I’m going to the Maemo Summit baby! Amsterdam, long time no see! #maesum

Life colors

2009-09-18T22:59:28Z

“The friends of mine paint with a black color. Because you wasted their red.” (magic de spell)

Django Conference!

2009-09-04T01:31:55Z

Getting ready for DjangoCon baby. Portland, here I come.

Coffee bean tanning

2009-08-21T11:51:51Z

It seems my coffee beans are getting sour more quickly in the summer. More quickly than what I expected, I guess.

Shutter awesomeness

2009-08-04T11:42:26Z

“Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux.” — These guys really mean what they’re saying. This program is simply fantastic.

Περί θερμίδων ερωτήσεις

2009-08-03T21:35:46Z

Σήμερα στο www.thermides.net, στις “τυχαίες αναζητήσεις”: Πανάνες Κοφλεξ Συροπιαστα Πασατεμπος Ξυλάγγουρο Γιερμαδες Μιλσεηκ Σεξ Μάφιν Βαζανια Φακητες Μπακλαβαδακι Πυραυλος Βοδιν Ψωμιά Κοκάκι Πιτογυρο Ραηςκρίσπις Βρώμικο Πετσα Κινέζικο

Rubik’s cube

2009-07-31T21:37:22Z

A friend just gave me a Rubik’s cube. Great. Just what I needed right now, an exciting puzzle to solve with endless possibilities for improvement.