“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Non-practice
There is no such thing as an attention span – Jerry Seinfeld
“There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.” — Jerry Seinfeld
Agua de channel
There’s a famous murphysm:
If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage. (Wisdom and Humor: The Suslick Research Group)
This happens with food a lot: if you put something of poor quality (even a small quantity) in a big bowl of food, you ruin the food.
But if you try to do the reverse, to put something of good quality in a large bowl of low-quality food, the food is still low quality.
Don’t try to fix what’s unfixable.
Murphy was right all along.
Fire wall magic în Heroes of Might & Magic III
In Heroes of Might & Magic III sometimes there are bugs, such as: Fire Wall magic.
I treat it as a bug, as the computer tends to behave strangely when it is cast.
Sometimes, the computer loses battles because it focuses so much at not losing small battles, that it loses the big battle.
Should you use this bug? Most likely, yes, but I would treat it as a cheat.
I tend not to use such shortcuts, as they are at the border between cheating and finding a bug.
In life, people tend do focus a lot on bugs, sometimes ignoring the big battles.
Different ethics
If I go to the beach and use a machine that is legal to use (Ski jets on water), but I do disturb others, so it might not be ethical.
If I go to an ice cream shop and I buy a product, even if my purchase helps keeping that company alive, I think it’s rather ethical, as I don’t disturb others. It’s a vice for which I pay myself.
Close and far in a room
Sometimes, I go to events. I recently went to a concert at Cazino Constanța.
We couldn’t go early enough to get some good places, so we stayed outside the event area.
I noticed that if I stay close enough to the event, two things happen:
#1 The music is louder, and easier to follow;
#2 People, by respect, get quieter, and, again, the event is easier to follow.
There are only good parts in getting closer to the stage.
PS: This means I found out that sitting in the front at an event helps. :)
Elevii români au obţinut patru medalii de aur la Olimpiada Internaţională de Informatică
Elevii români au obţinut patru medalii de aur la Olimpiada Internaţională de Informatică, desfășurată la Sucre, în Bolivia, anunță sâmbătă Ministerul Educației, care numește rezultatul ca fiind „istoric”.
„Este cel mai bun rezultat obținut de România la această competiție, aflată la cea de-a 37-a ediție. IOI s-a desfășurat la Sucre, în Bolivia, cu participarea a peste 90 de țări”, a transmis Ministerul Educației.
Notă Olivian – Uitați-vă pe lista de țări, e absolut uluitoare performanța.
Cum văd eu postirea cu sufletul?
Pentru mine – A posti cu sufletul = a posti. Postirea cu trupul pentru mine e legată tot de suflet. Altfel, e regim vegan, și nu despre asta e vorba, ci tot despre suflet.
(nu înseamnă că o și reușesc, dar asta înseamnă pentru mine.
Final nailstination
In a Final Destination movie, there’s a scene in which a person steps on a nail.
This is a horror movie. Attention – very graphical scene!!!: Final Destination 5 | Gymnastics Gone Wrong | ClipZone: Horrorscapes – YouTube.
I go to the beach in Năvodari only to find that there are wooden surfaces.
The boards of wood are put into place with nails.
Some of these nails are out of the boards, and one could easily step on them.
They are not the pointed parts of the nail, but the head, but still, I would not want to step on a nail on a wooden board.
I saw this multiple times.
Yesterday, I was at a different beach, 20-minute walk from mine, and I told a friend about this, and he told me that I picked some cheap beaches, as he has seen no nails at the beach he was at (again, wooden pathways).
I looked carefully and found a nail out of its place; it could have easily been stepped on.
I remembered the scene from Final Destination because the nail is on my mind.
Yet, the people at the beach did nothing about the nails.
Only finding one such nail would give me shivers.
I now have a phobia of trusting places like this.
What’s the most outrageous thing? The beaches are privately administered, you would expect more care for this.
This is the final nailstination.