iPad: designed 10 years later as supposed to be?

I’ve discovered article in an old journal yesterday. This article about future computers was written in 1988. There was a competition organised by “Apple” about what will be a PC in 2000. Following description won: it will have the size of an exercise book with only “Power” button, touch-screen display, build-in GPS, wireless interface and an option to find location of the lost computer. Definitely it is a portrait of the iPad. And “Apple” definitely was sure that it was possible to have it in 2000 (otherwise this version wouldn’t be rewarded). So the next time you will be at the Apple store, point at the iPad and ask: “What took you so long, guys? I was expecting this shit like ten years ago!”

UPD: This picture above (original picture, actually) has an interesting history. I shoot it 22 of January, the next day I showed to the friend of mine, he copied it and on the next day showed it to his friend, who posted it at his death LiveJournal, and then it appeared there at habrahabr.ru. I suppose I should think about leaving watermarks at my pictures before showing to anyone 😉

Winter puzzle

There are sooooo many snow in St. Petersburg this winter. Here is a little puzzle for your amusement. How many vehicles can you see at this picture?

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A world without religion

Here you are a nice demotivator.

I believe if we’ll keep the caption and replace the picture with the following one the demotivator will be much deeper…

Blocking LJTiMES

Annoying shit

This new Life Journal’s frame drives me crazy. If someone wants to get rid of this stuff (and I do know that there are a lot of people who do not even think about blocking ads and other unnecessary stuff), here is an option for the Firefox. I have the Adblock Plus addon (and Element Hiding Helper for it) installed. Unfortunately, right clicking on the frame and choosing option to disable the frame will work only for the current journal and this frame will reappear at another one. So you should chose an own filter option (after right click -> block the frame) and type: http://*/__rpc_lj_times_string.

I’m counted

Russia needs everyone slave – it is important to know whom to milk.

 

Now they can sale the database with some information about me. The inventory-guy was a student from the culinary technical secondary school situated in front of my windows across the street. He provided me with information that it is quite safe to eat at “Dve Palochki” restorations (he is working in one of them), but it is better to abstain from ordering soups: they add an MSG (which cause an addiction and an impotence) in it. Now I know why I liked their spicy soups so much ((( It is good that my visits to these restorations were not frequent.

Despite the youth, the guy has a clear view on the impotence of our government, our people… I told him to learn foreign languages and leave damn country. He answered that Sweden is his goal.  Good choice. Farewell, comrade…

Dreadful green ad

“Recycling owns the future!”

I’m scared for future…

Lithic age or how to prove your working place on Linkedin.com

I’ve decided to update my profile on the Linkedin. They asked for my corporate e-mail to get a conformation that I do work there. That’s meanly to require such things! Why in the hell should I provide Linkedin with my corporate e-mail?! (or a password for my own e-mail “to search for contacts”?!)

It is on the one hand… On the other… I do not have a corporate e-mail just because there are no corporate e-mails in my Scientific-Research Centre of wounds. We’re still in lithic age here…

Ok, damn Linked in wants a conformation… Let’s search for official e-mail of the Centre… There is no official e-mail… Providing own e-mail of the director (that is actually used as official e-mail) is not a good idea… Ok, I will feed you with own e-mail (domain name is mail.ru) of the head of laboratory… After entering that e-mail, Linkedin killed me with a warning:

Drop the curtain…

How to get a heart attak at 27?

That is the first question in my head after the 1st minute of the “When You’re Strange” documentary. The recipe is simple: one just have to drink hard, take LCD and cocaine at least for 54 months (exact terms and results may vary).

Actually, the film is very good and definitely you should see it. And not a censured version as I did.  That is a stupid idea to censor an archived tapes, especially when it is about “The Doors” rock band and its singer – Jim Morrison. Unfortunately uncensored version is very hard to find and in a downloaded file you can find something different to the desired. – Consider yourself warned!

Despite the answer for the first question was simple, the answers for the others remained a mystery to me. Why does Jim Morrison was so wasted during this period of his life? Why does no one was able to help him to get rid of alcohol and drug addiction, especially when the profits of the band depended on him? Or may be it is just some kind of poet’s curse – to die prematurely?

BP rebranding

It is hard to find some one who is not aware about one of th biggest crime against environment that was done by infamous British Petroleum. They loosing so much money with that oil spill every day that no one of us would be able to gain even in ten honest lives. The stain on the company name is irremovable. But… it’s face is rebrandable! I bet in a three years they will re-brand the enterprise. But some good fellows already did this hard job for BP… for free! Rebranding competition organized by Greenpeace is almost over and I want to put here the works which are on the top of my list.

Here we go:

Best rebranded logo:

That’s it!

Best illustration:

1-st place

2-nd place

Best wildlife:

It’s leading anyway

Best slogan:

1-st place

2-nd place

3-rd place

Best “WTF?!”:

Double hit

But is it satisfying enough? NO! Until the lust BP’s toilet seat will be sold from auction to remediate (if it only would be possible!) destroyed environment, until every last motherfuker director and owner of the company will be drowned in the oil – there won’t be any satisfaction 😡

Associations

So there is one forum’s game called “Associations”. What do you associate word “grass” with? If you are GIS-specialist than association would be “GIS” because of GRASS open-sourced and very powerful GIS, that was originally developed by US military forces and then given to the community when corruption ESRI took the upper hand in US army. But if you are just common jerk then it is possible that your association would be “weed”, isn’t it? Understandable. Actually it was a Russian forum and Russian word “трава” – grass that looks like “травка” – weed (and if you think that I’m talking about marijuana, then you’re wright completely wrong!).

But that was your’s associations, not mine. I associate this word with a “космодром” – space launching site. Why? Because there is one song (“Трава у дома” – Grass Near Home) from 1983 and there are lines about spacers who dreams not about space launching site or deep space, but about grass near their home. By the way it was my first movement inside my mom’s belly in 1983 when she was at the concert and this song played…

I have a strong nostalgia feeling when I hear this song or think about it. It was easy to find a video on YouTube (there are a lot of different videos for song). And I watched a modern version and… there was a comment…

“Great song! POLAND and RUSSIA brothers forever! Grettings from Poland. Fuck politician! Normal people in poland and in russian is OK. POLITICIAN is bad in all world. Politician begin War. Religion and piliticion is very bad because begin war, Example:  JEWISH vs ISLAM this is very stupid conflict. NO POLITICAN and NO RELIGION = NO WAR! sorry, i speak english little…” 

Such words are priceless… And it is difficult to understand this fact when you are too young and too proud of your country. So don’t listen to the fuckers in the TV when they tell you to hate someone from another country or that people from another country hates you. Politicians and priests are lying to take control over you and made you obey their will so they can gain more power and money. Just talk to aliens a bit more.

That was my thoughts on associations and grass… I want to prevent you from get completely bored and let you enjoy the “Трава у дома” song. Say “hello!” to 1983!